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Greater Bird of Paradise
Paradisaea (Latin, paradise); apoda (Latin, footless or legless; so named because first trade skins taken to Europe were prepared with legs removed); common name contrasts its larger size with the similar but smaller Lesser Bird of Paradise.
Sexually dimorphic. Males average 43 cm in length (excluding central tail wires), while adult females reach 35 cm. Adult male has yellow head, brown back (not yellow as in Lesser Bird of Paradise), underparts and wings brown, iridescent green throat, central wire-like tail feathers and yellowish filamentous flank feathers. The female is shades of brown all over.
Fruits and arthropods.
Lowland and hill forest; 0-950m.
Polygynous; lekking males use traditional tree display perches, with up to 15 adult males on a single lek, plus any female-plumaged younger males. Male briefly holds wings in front of body and throws flank plumes over back, then hops up and back along perch raising or lowering bill on each trip; he again raises plumes over back before moving to low point of perch and hanging facing downwards with plumes out; male lowers body along perch, extends wings, erects plumes and hops along branch calling, followed by bending forward over perch, extending wings and plumes.
Breeding occurs at least March-May and August-December. Females build and attend nests alone; [more] can lay up to seven eggs in a clutch. Known to hybridise with Raggiana Bird of Paradise.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened; common and widespread.
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The UAE Railways Programme has been announced on December 5, 2021, as an integrated strategy for country’s rail sector for the coming decades. It will determine a reduction of 70-80 per cent of carbon emissions over the next 50 years.
The strategy was unveiled in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. A special event was organised at Dubai’s EXPO 2020 highlighting the objectives of the programme and the phases of Etihad Rail project, which connects Ghuwaifat on the border with Saudi Arabia to the port of Fujairah on the Eastern Coast.
The plan worth AED 50 billion (USD 13.6 billion), 70 per cent of which targets the local market, includes a national network of railway projects that link the emirates and the key cities of UAE. “The Etihad Rail is the largest project to consolidate the strength of the union for the next fifty years,” the Prime Minister said.
The programme falls under the ‘Projects of the 50’ which is a series of developmental and economic projects that aim to accelerate country’s development.
The UAE Railways Programme includes three key projects with the first on covering the freight rail sector. The second project involves the rail passenger service market under which 11 cities from Al Sila to Fujairah will be connected. By 2030, the number of passengers is expected to reach more than 36.5 million annually.
The third pillar of the strategy considers the integrated transport service sector, where an innovation centre will be established to ensure the integration of the smart transport solutions. A light rail network will be connected to the rail passenger system to facilitate transport inside UAE cities.
The new plan also includes the development and deployment of smart applications and solutions for all kind of transport services.
Under the strategy, Etihad Rail expects to provide more than 9,000 jobs by 2030.
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“bullet” If you’re in the Nashville area, there’s something you should check out next week — two days of workshops at the library and a public forum at American Baptist College.
In the 1960s the Rev. James Lawson and the Rev. C.T. Vivian provoked and inspired Nashville and the nation as they took part in the civil rights movement. Next week they’ll be in town for a special ceremony at the Nashville Public Library.
In addition to looking back, they will look forward as to how the lessons learned in the movement more than 30 years ago can be used now to fight against what many view as a misguided “war on drugs.”
They will speak at a public forum, “Challenging the War on Drugs: A Community Conversation” from 9-11 a.m. Feb. 14 at American Baptist College, 1800 Baptist World Center Drive.
If you go, I’d love to get a report on it.
For more information call the library at 862-5804. This is being presented in conjunction with Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy.
I’m always heartened to find religious groups getting involved in countering the destructive war on drugs. It’s been difficult for them. They’ve been led to believe for so long in a simple, yet horribly fallcious equation: government criminal enforcement = cessation of bad activity. Some are starting to realize that they’ve been selling their parishioners’ souls to an enforcement regime that creates new problems without solving any of the old ones.
My dad is a retired minister. He has always been opposed to any forms of intoxicants (including alcohol) and has generally seen drug policy reform (aka legalization) as a way for more people to do drugs. In recent years however, he has begun to question the validity of the enforcement “cure,” realizing that it is worse than the “disease.”
In addition to Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy, you can also check out Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy. | <urn:uuid:27fccc98-3ab7-4bd5-92b2-30f3fb169d66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drugwarrant.com/2004/02/nashville-event-worth-checking-out/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959602 | 451 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Hunter-gatherers value storytelling over hunting skills
I recently stumbled across a study that was done on the role of storytelling in a hunter-gatherer community in the Philippines.
The researchers found that the presence of talented storytellers was associated with greater cooperation amongst tribe members.
Storytelling seemed to set expectations of how everybody was supposed to act, which resulted in more cooperation.
Seems reasonable, if not obvious…
But then the researchers did something clever: they asked tribe members who they’d most like to live with.
Those viewed as skilled storytellers were twice as likely to be nominated than their less-skilled counterparts.
Storytelling ability was more predictive than fishing and hunting skills, medicinal knowledge, and reputation or status.
...the Agta prefer to live in camps with skilled storytellers, who are even more valued than good foragers.
So even in a primitive culture where a hard skill like hunting might seem more important, a “soft skill” like storytelling was valued more.
Do with this information what you will, but I feel like it contains some wisdom for those of us encouraged to specialize and focus on “hard skills.”
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Upper Sure Anlier Forest Nature Park lies in the southern part of Luxembourg Province where, as its name indicates, it connects two major elements: the Upper Sure watershed and Anlier Forest. It offers four topographical variants: the fast Libramont-Bastogne agricultural plateau, the Sure watershed with its network of valleys, Anlier Forest (dominated by hardwoods), and Lorraine, where farmland predominates.
The territory boasts a wealth of authentic villages and characteristic towns and a remarkable historical and architectural heritage (many legends, the forges at Mellier and Habay-la-Neuve, Pont d’Oye Castle, Battle of the Bulge sites, former slate quarries at Martelange, and much more). It is also known for quality food products, such as Ardenne ham, craft beers, snails, honey, and all sorts of cheese.
The park’s tourist centre is a must-see, housed as it is in an old mill at Martelange. Inside you will find a reception area, information desk, and exhibitions: A truly beautiful showcase of what you will find in the Upper Sure and Anlier Forest ! | <urn:uuid:3d256a21-389e-42eb-83e3-12d4d42477c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.parcsnaturelsdewallonie.be/en/parcs/haute-sure-foret-danlier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.927368 | 240 | 1.71875 | 2 |
In their final event of the school year, the Waldorf Black Student Union (BSU) presented the forum, BIPOC Representation in Media, featuring award-winning director, producer, and current Waldorf grandparent, Sam Pollard, for grades 8 and up.
The Forum addressed the important question: Why is representation in pop culture and the film industry so important? According to the BSU, “For most youth, how minority influences are portrayed in the mainstream media directly impacts not only how they perceive themselves, but also how they perceive others. PBS NewsHour polled 144 middle and high school students about media representation and 80% felt underrepresented both racially and culturally. With the success of recent films such as “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” it has once again been demonstrated that minority representation is important, not only in Hollywood but also in other aspects of pop culture.”
Through this lens, the Waldorf Black Student Union (BSU) hosted a screening of Sam Pollard’s film “Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me.” This was followed by the Forum, moderated by Sanaalee Troupe ’22, where Sam Pollard discussed his work, inspirations, how he became inspired to follow his career path, and how he is constructing a cycle of representation.
Mr. Pollard explained how he originally wanted to pursue engineering, but after Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968, he was encouraged by a college counselor to interview for a WNET film training program. Only after being accepted did he consider filmmaking as a career and he subsequently developed a passion for it. He described how his never-ending curiosity keeps him motivated and inspired. The film series, “Why We Hate” really opened his eyes, and through his travels and interviews for his films, he realized how important it is to always continue to “expand your vision about how you see the world and keep your ears and eyes open. If you stay in that narrow lane, that is when issues arise.”
The Waldorf School of Garden City would like to sincerely thank Mr. Pollard for taking the time to talk with students, it was an enlightening and inspiring morning!
Sam Pollard, a current Waldorf grandparent, is an accomplished feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director whose work spans almost thirty years. He recently served as Producer and Supervising Editor on the Spike Lee-directed HBO documentary If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, a five-year follow up to the Emmy and Peabody award-winning When The Levees Broke. Learn more here: https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/meet-the-filmmaker-sam-pollard/ and in this recent NYT article. | <urn:uuid:4a35e574-4a06-4010-9c80-e5adb192075f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waldorfgarden.org/waldorf-bsu-presents-bipoc-representation-in-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9698 | 595 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Generally, r3js works by generating an object containing the plotting
data and then continuously updating it as new features are added to the
plot (similar to plotly). For a simple 3D scatterplot however, the
plot3js function handles all of the plotting setup for you.
Plotting syntax is intended to be similar to the base plotting functions
in R, and that used in the RGL package.
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18, Aug 2022
Internists are doctors who specialize in working with adults and are only allowed to see patients over 18. Internal medicine is a broad phrase that encompasses a wide range of diseases that affect the organs situated within the body.
There are so many subspecialties within medicine and so many different medical practitioners that people searching for medical treatment may feel overwhelmed.
The function of internists will be discussed in this article, as well as the educational and experience qualifications required to become an internist. The Best internist Melbourne fl options are open now.
An internist is a medical professional who has decided to specialize in internal medicine. Internal medicine is a specialization that deals with a wide range of conditions that affect the human body's internal organs. Unlike pediatricians, internists do not work with children or adolescents.
Internists can treat a wide range of illnesses in adults. On the other hand, some internists opt to specialize in a specific area of internal medicine.
To become an Internist Melbourne Fl, one must follow a similar path to those of other medical disciplines. The first stage is being accepted into a medical school.
Although most medical schools require students to have finished at least one year of undergraduate study, others may accept individuals who have only completed three years of a college education.
Even though it is not a prerequisite, most medical schools urge their students to take courses in biology or chemistry that are relevant to the profession of medicine.
Additionally, students must score well on the Medical College Admission Test to prove they are ready for medical school. This test is a multiple-choice examination that analyses the student's eligibility for medical study and future practice as a doctor. It is used to decide whether or not the student should be accepted into medical school. Applicants to the nation's top medical schools are expected to score well on this test.
In the first four years of medical school, students are taught and trained in various medical specializations. You will spend time in different medical settings, both in the classroom and on rotation, as part of your training.
After graduating from medical school and completing a residency in general internal medicine, one may become an internist. Additional practical training will be provided during this period to help students prepare for a future in medicine.
Medical practitioners in the United States must finish a residency program before they practice medicine. These programs typically need at least three years to complete; however, certain specialties, such as surgery, may require more time.
All medical students must take and pass a licensing exam during their first year of residency to practice medicine. Accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has been given to these programs.
Upon completion of their internship, some internists choose to pursue further study in the field of internal medicine. In their field of specialization, they'll be a part of a fellowship program that might last up to three years.
A research fellowship or a Ph.D. degree may be an option for internists who want to further their research skills. Understanding research methods and statistics is essential for keeping abreast of new treatments. Some doctors spend a part of their workdays on medical research as a usual practice.
Dr. Sue Mitra and her staff strive to offer their patients the best care, advice and services available in the medical field with the goal to keep patient healthy & happy.
Dr. Sue Mitra is board certified in international medicine. She is seen here with a Cologuard, which is a noninvasive colon cancer screening test. (Photo by: Tim Shortt/Florida Today) | <urn:uuid:3c9ab009-83c6-4b8a-8179-2ff0146b3db7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.suemitra.com/post/what-is-an-internist-why-are-they-essential-to-health-care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965189 | 730 | 2.796875 | 3 |
World around there is a rapid growth in applications involving electronic circuitry. The same can be said about telecommunication and various other means of communication. There's a great demand for professionals trained in this field. So anyone doing this course is likely to be benefitted a lot. A good many sectors are served by it, such as telecommunication, consumer electronics, energy sector, aviation, aerospace, information technology and television. The course helps you in developing the necessary skills and expertise to work in any of the above fields. The computers that we see today, the internet that helps us remain connected with the whole world, are all applications of this branch of engineering.
Eligibility and course duration
Pass in 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Math or any equivalent qualification. Admissions are on the basis of entrance exams like JEE Mains and other similar exams.
The duration of this undergraduate course is 4 years.
More about the course
The complete course gets covered in 8 semesters. The first year of undergraduate studies is common for all branches of engineering. It's only when you reach the 3rd semester that the focus shifts on the core subjects of your branch. Electronics and communication engineering involves principles on transmission of information and signals through channels like optical fibre or co-axial cables. It also involves equipment such as routers, switches and electronic switching mechanisms. Some of the topics that you will study in this course are networks, electronic devices, analog & digital circuits, signals & systems, communications, control systems and electromagnetics.
Electronics and communication engineers get the opportunity to work in a number of fields as mentioned earlier in the overview. Ample opportunities are existing in both private and public firms. For graduate engineers, there are openings in the government sector, in the three arms of the defence services and in organizations like DRDO, ISRO, BEL, BSNL and others. Some of the reputed private sector companies in this field are Siemens, Motorola, Texas, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, nVIDIA, Philips etc. There is a wide scope for higher education too. M.E, M.Tech and M.S. are few such options. Many students go for a highly rewarding research based career after doing Ph.D in this field. Going abroad is also a very good option. A few career options are Network Engineer, Network Administrator, System Analyst, Telecom Engineer, Electronics Engineer and so on.
B.Tech. Electronics and Communications Engineering Admissions for 2022 - 2023 Academic Year
Are you looking for admissions for B.Tech. Electronics and Communications Engineering for the academic year 2022 - 2023? We can connect you with the right colleges and universities offering B.Tech. Electronics and Communications Engineering courses in your preferred locations. Apply Now for B.Tech. Electronics and Communications Engineering | <urn:uuid:84d1f1b2-a21a-40b8-9405-416a2a386654> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiastudychannel.com/courses/1003-b-tech-electronics-and-communications-engineering | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947488 | 579 | 2.125 | 2 |
Commission from the Science Gallery Dublin,
part of the Trinity College Dublin.
DE-EXTINCTING A SPECIES FROM THE PAST
03 / 2018
Scientists, futurists, and philosophers have theorized about the immortality of an organic body as the ultimate stage of the luxury hierarchy and advocate that biological perpetuity could be achieved in the indefinite future. This awareness regarding the possibility to extend our stay on the planet combined with the new responsibility towards next generations to come — felt by most of us as the reminder of the excessive exploitation of our resources — seem to have infused the meaning of the term with a more nostalgic aftertaste. This new approach to the idea of luxury puts its values in an entirely different context that emphasizes the notion of identity and inheritance.
Expectations towards more sustainable solutions that could partly regenerate if not completely eliminate the consequences of our overindulgence seem to have been put mostly on the shoulders of new emerging bioengineering companies. Their ambitious plans towards redesigning and reprogramming living organisms are presenting us with a tempting future scenario that seems to feed into the new concept of luxury — the ability to save our decaying planet.
By the means of synthetic biology, several attempts to preserve our biological resources have been made from private companies. Their communal aim is to restore the lost equilibrium between human indulgence eg. exploitation of our natural capital and what has been up until recently considered the natural level of fauna on our planet.
Conservation attempts for preserving endangered species get usually overshadowed by the problems of biological exploitation present in large-scale farming institutions, the current initiative to restore the balance by using biotechnologies to either protect or revive species is still limited to a smaller number of initiatives.
As our current society is becoming mostly driven by the aspiration to constantly innovate it is starting to lack the ability to analyze the cultural understanding of what we are experiencing in the process of innovating. Old definition and stereotypes of original and fake, natural and synthetic, alive and dead are becoming obsolete as new discoveries in the field of synthetic biology are being made.
By re-addressing the currently obsolete vocabulary surrounding the field of biotechnology the aim is to re-categorize the outputs produced by the new technologies. This initiative might finally expose the need for specificity when it comes to exposing the source and production methods required for the formation of bio-design outputs with the emphasis on the requirement for a new categorization system.
Portrayed within the project's display is a speculative scenario of a future venue that showcases a possible intersection, of practices such as laboratory work, museum environment and a luxury artisan gloves workshop. The product displayed in the fictional venue is a glove made from the de-extinct Passenger Pigeon skin – mocked up by creating pigeon leather to resemble the hypothetical outcome. The visitors are encouraged to move the mechanical arm and examine the gloves to understand the ambitions and the motives of the Revive and Restore, the organization to de-extinct the species as well as the positive and negative implications of releasing it into an open space, uncontrolled environment.
Here you can find a making-of video of the leather tanning process utilized for the production of the material.
A display of blueprints and informative posters alongside the mocked-up first edition of the leather showcases the process and findings of the project. The exposed documents include research from the Revive and Restore organization such as sequenced DNA from the Passenger pigeon and the Band-Tail pigeon, comparison of the two DNA, easily understandable graphics representing the proposed plan for the de-extinction process and a timeline of the development of The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback project. | <urn:uuid:e7b23bc7-c888-4664-a78e-2b383eaa619c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tinagorjanc.com/phylogenetic-atelier | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931989 | 751 | 2.953125 | 3 |
How to get to the weight loss goal with veggies?
It’s the easiest thing in the world, right?
And yet, it’s hard to believe we can do it.
We’ve all heard the famous line: “You eat a whole meal and then you eat a bunch of veggies.”
But what exactly is a wholemeal?
Here’s a little refresher: A wholemeal is a meal made up of a variety of ingredients, which is usually comprised of meat, vegetables, fruit, and other plant products.
You can have more than one meal per day if you like.
But, for the most part, a whole grain meal is comprised of only a few key ingredients, such as wheat germ, brown rice, and black beans.
That’s the whole idea behind a whole-grain meal, which basically comes in different varieties, depending on how you like to eat your veggies.
For example, if you prefer a grain-heavy meal, you might have beans, peas, and spinach, while someone with a more plant-based diet might have potatoes, kale, spinach, and cauliflower.
The key to the whole-meal diet is the quality of the whole food you choose to eat.
The longer you keep a whole food in your refrigerator, the longer your body can digest it.
What makes this whole food-rich meal ideal for vegans?
Well, it also has a lot of nutrients that help you lose weight.
Here are a few of the things you’ll want to consider: It’s packed with fiber: A well-rounded whole grain is packed with some essential fiber.
Fiber is the building block for a variety to a plant cell, which holds the essential amino acids that your body needs for energy and growth.
It has lots of fiber-rich foods: If you want to lose body fat, eating fiber- rich whole foods can help you stay on track.
Its high in fiber: Eating high-fiber whole foods helps your body burn more fat as well as increase the amount of carbohydrates your body will be able to burn during the day.
Plus, the protein in whole foods will help keep you feeling fuller and more energized.
Vegetarian or not, a healthy diet with a variety will help you get the most out of the foods you eat, including those that have been shown to have weight-loss benefits.
So, if your diet is comprised mostly of whole grains and other legumes, look for those whole foods that have the highest levels of fiber.
They’re packed with protein, vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
How do you eat veggies in a healthy way?
Veggies have a variety in their nutritional profiles, which makes them ideal for weight loss.
They also contain plenty of vitamins and minerals, which help maintain your health.
Some of the healthiest veggies are broccoli, cauliflower, and kale.
They all contain vitamin C and potassium, two nutrients essential for keeping your body healthy.
They’ll also help you keep your heart healthy.
A variety of vegetables also contain vitamin B12, which helps your digestive system absorb nutrients and make them easier to digest.
One important part of a healthy whole-food diet is to eat enough fiber.
Fruits and veggies can be loaded with fiber, but a lot more than that.
It can also be important to include a variety and variety of plant foods in your diet.
And, of course, a lot depends on how many servings of veggies you eat.
That’s because, even though the average person eats 1,300 calories a day, it varies from person to person.
So it’s up to you to find a variety that’s high in all the nutrients you need for a healthy weight loss diet.
You can also choose to include less than 1,000 calories a week, which will help to keep your weight loss goals realistic.
To find out how much fiber your veggies need, you can check out the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Nutrient Database.
How to make a healthy veggie-rich diet plan that’s easy on your stomach and full of healthy nutrients?
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Battle Sai (3.5e Equipment)
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Exotic One-Handed Melee
1. See Damage Increases by Size to calculate the damage for a weapon larger than Medium or smaller than Small.
2. Weight figures are for Medium weapons. A Small weapon weighs half as much, and a Large weapon weighs twice as much.
3. When two types are given, the weapon is both types if the entry specifies "and", either type (player's choice at time of attack) if the entry specifies "or", or each end of the double weapon is a different type if the entry specifies "/".
4. The hp value given is for Medium armor, weapons, and shields. Divide by 2 for each size category of the item smaller than Medium, or multiply it by 2 for each size category larger than Medium.
A Battle Sai has a similar appearance to a regular Sai, however it is about the size of a Shortsword.
You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to attack rolls with a battle sai sized for you, even though it isn’t a light weapon for you. You can’t wield a battle sai in two hands in order to apply 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus to damage.
Like a sai, you gain a +4 bonus to disarm attempts.
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As we begin to learn more about pet nutrition, it’s natural to wonder if we’re giving our furry friends everything they need to live long, happy, and healthy lives. For some pet parents, there’s no better example than the use of pet supplements, and we certainly understand why. Even though pet supplements are growing in popularity, that doesn’t quite prove that they’re essential.
With that said, we’re going to shed some light on what makes pet supplements truly beneficial, if they’re safe, and which ones are great to try. So, let’s get started!
Your pet’s food might not be enough
Some might say that pets get all the nutrients and nourishment they need from their regular food. But just like human food, not all pet food is made equal. So much so, that some pet foods are loaded with below average ingredients and artificial flavors that serve no beneficial purpose.
That’s why it’s so important to keep a close eye on what ingredients you’re specifically feeding your pet, and if they might need more nutrients outside of their diet. If you ever feel unsure about your pet’s diet, a conversation with your veterinarian is a great place to start.
How do I know what supplement my dog needs?
When it comes to supplements, it would be great if there was a crystal ball and one-size-fits-all solutions. But just like us, each pet has different needs that vary based on age, breed, size, behavior, and health history. There’s plenty of other factors, but you get the gist!
With many health factors come just as many supplement options, which is why some pet parents are unsure of where to begin. So, here’s a few benefit-related factors you can consider when browsing around for pet supplements.
Skin & Coat: Have you noticed that your pet has dry or flaky skin, or perhaps a dull and brittle looking coat? If so, products with fish oil are a great option. Fish oil provides a rich source of Omega fatty acids that can help to soften your pet’s skin, while also giving their coat a shiny appearance. Additionally, hemp is another Omega-rich option to keep your pet looking sleek. Check out our blog about the benefits of hemp for more information!
Mobility: As every pet parent knows, it’s important to make sure our pets keep the spring in their step. Whether your pet is young and active or in their golden years, it’s always important to make sure they move comfortably. Glucosamine and Chondroitin are amazing natural ingredients that help with hip and joint function, so be sure that they’re in any mobility-supporting products you find.
Digestion: No one likes an upset stomach, and our pets are no exception. So, if you notice that your pet always appears uncomfortable after meals, gassy, or even scooting their bottoms on the floor, adding a great digestive product to their daily diet can help. Just like many human supplements, shopping for products that contain Digestive Enzymes, Prebiotics, and Probiotics make it easy support your fur baby’s gut flora and overall tummy comfort.
Immune System: We don’t know about you, but it’s no fun seeing pets struggle with hot spots, scratching, and sniffles caused by skin, seasonal (pollen), or environmental factors. Luckily, immune-supporting supplements can help. Look for products with antioxidants, Omegas, Apple Cider Vinegar, and even probiotics (since immune health starts in the stomach). Your four-legged friend will thank you for it!
These are only a few of the most common ingredients and benefits that lend pets a helping hand, but there are plenty of other supplements on the market that can support your pet. So, we encourage you to keep looking, and to consult with a veterinarian to learn more about what might be best for your pet’s specific needs.
Are pet supplements really safe?
Trust us, that isn’t a silly question at all. In fact, it’s incredibly valid when you consider just how many brands and products are out there. So, here are a few quick tips to make sure the pet supplements you want are as safe as can be:
Has everyone gone mutts? Why is hemp becoming one of the biggest health trends for dogs? Well, don’t worry. It’s not because of some hippie dog revolution! It’s actually because of hemp’s amazing health benefits.
Before we get too ahead of ourselves, let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room. The million-dollar question is, are we talking about turning your dog into Snoop Dogg? Of course not! The hemp seeds used in many of the oils and powders popping up in doggy supplements (like ours) contain none of the trippy stuff (derived from THC).
CBD (cannabidiol) oil and hemp both come from a hemp plant is part of the Cannabis Sativa family. CBD is derived from the stalks, leaves, and buds, while hemp comes from the seeds. Usually, CBD is used therapeutically to help manage various health conditions. Hemp, on the other hand, is a nutritional supplement. With almost no CBD and tons of nutrients, it’s a no-brainer why hemp’s popularity is growing—no pun intended.
What are the amazing benefits of hemp you ask? Well, it turns out that the hemp seed is packed with beneficial properties that may support pet wellness more than you may think!
Omega Fatty Acids that Work Wonders for Your Pup of Any Age
As you probably know, Omegas are pretty awesome for pet health, and there are all sorts of great ingredients out there (like fish oils or healthy algae) that give dog supplements a boost of Omega goodness. But, did you know that hemp is one of the best sources of Omegas available?
Hemp seeds provide dogs with a near-perfect 3:1 ratio of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, which makes it one of the most naturally balanced ways to add Omegas to a doggy’s diet!
Just for a quick refresher, here are just a few of the many benefits of Omega supplements:
Promotes Overall Vitality with Gamma-Linolenic Acid (GLA)
The benefits of hemp seed don’t just stop at Omega fatty acids. This holistic ingredient also has Gamma-Linolenic Acid (GLA), which is a lesser known but equally beneficial ingredient that supports a wide range of benefits for our canine companions.
GLA is essential in building a substance that’s super important for joint health and other vital body functions. So, if your pup deals with allergies, mobility troubles, digestive issues, or skin problems, the GLA found in hemp-enhanced products might be just the thing Fido needs!
This is probably starting to sound like one of those “but wait, there’s more” moments from infomercials, isn’t it? But, it’s true! Hemp seeds are loaded with even more of the good stuff.
Hemp seeds are considered to be a complete protein source, which means it contains every essential amino acid. Very few plant-based protein sources have them all, so that makes hemp seeds even more unique! Plus, hemp seeds also contain Vitamin E and healthy minerals that work together to bolster skin health, immune function, and overall nourishment.
All things considered, the question isn’t really “why hemp?”; it’s “why not hemp?” Not only are hemp seeds incredibly healthy for your pup (and for their humans, too), but it also functions as a great conversation starter with other pet owners who might’ve been just as confused as you were when you first spotted hemp-based products for dogs.
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Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1937.
Illustrator: Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs
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Water damage is generally caused by a variety of factors, from ice dams that cause leaks, to burst pipes, to broken sprinklers, or from natural disasters like floods.
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A BRIEF HISTORY
The Church of the Epiphany had its beginnings around 1894 in the informal gatherings of like-spirited Atlantans in the city's first planned suburb, Inman Park. By 1898, the group's lay services and Sunday school classes had grown sufficiently to warrant mission status. Bishop C. K. Nelson suggested the name Epiphany because it had been the name of his first parish, and because the new mission’s locale was the easternmost suburb of Atlanta—the Magi having come from the East. (Epiphany’s logo, a five-pointed star, serves as an apt, though unintentional, reminder of the parish’s first neighborhood, Little Five Points.) The chapel’s cornerstone of Stone Mountain granite was laid in March of 1898, and the first service was held in the building in May.
Ten years later, in December 1908, the Church of the Epiphany was admitted to the year-old Diocese of Atlanta as a parish and called its first rector, the Reverend Russell K. Smith. In 1922, having outgrown its first building, the parish sold the Little Five Points property and moved to nearby Seminole Avenue. Epiphany flourished in this location, growing to 667 communicants in the next seventeen years.
The city’s outward expansion and social dislocations following World War II brought demographic transition to Inman Park, however; by 1953 the number of communicants at Epiphany had dwindled to 165. That same year, The Reverend Dr. Norman Gore was called as Epiphany’s sixth rector. Under his leadership, the congregation moved to its third location, having purchased the current property on Ponce de Leon Avenue from nearby Emory University in 1956. The first services were held in the new chapel in October 1957. An expansion of the church in 1961 increased the length of the nave, and in 1963 a new wing was built to include a parish hall and offices.
The last half-century has witnessed further demographic transition brought on by gentrification in the neighborhoods surrounding the church. Throughout this period the parish has experienced continual growth and renewal. Membership grew steadily under the leadership of the Reverend Stanley McGraw (1971-79) and the Reverend Benjamin Turnage (1980-84). During this time, women began serving in leadership positions. (Betty Walton, the first woman elected to Vestry, in 1971, became the first female senior warden in 1973). By 1984, about 130 different households, including some 300 adults and children, were associated with the Church of the Epiphany.
In the Spring of 1985, at a time when women were only slowly gaining acceptance in the Episcopal priesthood, the Reverend E. Claiborne Jones accepted the call to Epiphany as the first woman to be the rector of an Episcopal church in Georgia. Under her leadership, the parish undertook two major renovations. First, in 1988-89, the nave and narthex were completely renovated and expanded and a memorial garden was dedicated on the east side of the building.
Ten years later, in the wake of burgeoning membership and increased activity, the clergy and leadership recognized the need for room to grow. The resulting 2003-04 construction expanded the Parish Hall, added classrooms and provided room for the dynamic community life of the parish. The first services were held in the new building on Palm Sunday 2004. Membership at that time was 718. At about the same time, adjoining residential property became available, and the parish prayerfully determined to raise funds and take advantage of this rare opportunity to plan for future growth.
In February 2006, Epiphany called the Reverend Benno D. Pattison to be its tenth rector. The ministries of the Church of the Epiphany expanded along with, or even ahead of, the parish’s space. Benno's infectious and exuberant enthusiasm helped to grow membership, parish programs and eventually the staff to include a part-time Director of Children's Ministries, Youth Coordinator and Bookkeeper.
In August 2019 we welcomed The Reverend Amy Dills-Moore as our new Priest-in-Charge whose presence has galvanized Epiphany to continue to live out the Gospel’s radical values with gladness of heart.
As of January 2022, membership was 1045, representing 472 households.
Our first rector, The Rev. Russell K. Smith, on the steps of the first church circa 1915.
Another view of our first location in Little Five Points
Our second location on Seminole Avenue
Current location circa 1958. Ground breaking for our third building was April 14, 1957, Palm Sunday.
Original main entrance to the worship space prior to the 1984 renovation
Original altar location circa 1957 - now the choir loft after the 1984 renovation
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A pitcher usually tries to throw a pitch where the hitter can't hit it .
The strike zone.
A pitcher is the person who stands in the center of the infield and "pitches" or throws the ball over the home plate. He tries to get the ball past the person who is at bat. He is responsible for keeping them from scoring, but he has the help of the other players.
to restrict the horse when he tries to throw his head up
The pitcher stands 60 feet and 6 inches away batting plate and tries to strike the batter out.
he was measured in spring practice 2011 at 52 yards thats his longest throw out of 15 tries
The batter is the player who has a bat in his hands and tries to hit the ball thrown by the pitcher.
That would depend on the play. If there are men on first and third and no outs and the batter hits a fly ball that looks like it could be a sacrifice fly, the pitcher will back up home because he will expect the outfielder to throw the ball to home plate after making the catch. If there are men on first and third and the batter hits a single to right field, the pitcher will back up third base just in case the runner on first tries for third and the right fielder makes a poor throw.
A person that tries restaurants is a food critic. Often called a gastronome.
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Papercheck affords editing and proofreading providers. Paper test – sent by whatever means you select, together with US Postal Service (be aware: many paper checks immediately papercheck are converted into digital transactions once they are received by the biller). The process for making a fee by test involves three simple steps: confirming your buy, locking in your price and mailing your verify.
The payment have to be paid and you should obtain confirmation that your cost has been processed before you can submit your annual institution registration info papercheck electronically or your registration won’t be thought-about complete. Smartphone and pill commerce and Web-enabled in-retailer cost options like Sq. and LevelUp will transfer even more transactions off of checks.
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Summary: A system and corresponding technique are supplied. The system includes a plurality of first entities (akin to banks), each first entity communicatively linked to no less than one distributed visitors agent (DTA), a second entity (equivalent to a central facility) communicatively linked to a DTA, and a communication community communicatively connecting the DTAs. A payload containing a data file (corresponding papercheck to digital examine presentment information, electronic fee knowledge, or some other data kind) is communicated from one first entity to a different by means of their respective DTAs via the communication community. As well as, a transmittal containing control data equivalent to the payload is communicated from the one first entity to the second entity via their respective DTAs through the communication network.
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Abstract: An automatic banking machine operates to trigger monetary transfers conscious of knowledge learn from information bearing information within the type of consumer cards. The machine features a printer for printing paper records of transactions performed at the machine. The printer receives paper from a shared paper path. The shared paper path will be provided by a primary paper provide and a second paper supply. A controller is operative to change papercheck between the paper supplies in providing paper to the printer. Primarily based on indicators received from paper sensors in the machine, the controller can determine whether the primary paper provide has reached a predetermined low level. In response to a low degree determination, the controller acts to cause a paper drive to start shifting paper from the second paper provide to the shared paper path and then to the printer.
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March 1, 2013: Present verify recipients should swap to digital payments before March 1, 2013. Switching from checks to direct deposit is quick, easy and free at , by calling the U.S. Treasury Digital papercheck Fee Answer Middle’s toll-free helpline at 1-800-333-1795, or by speaking with a bank or credit union representative.
The first and most typical problem was that of ‘familiarity and tradition’, also know as stubbornness. Business owners merely wish to do issues the way in papercheck which they had at all times accomplished them, whatever the price, time, and increased potential for test fraud.
PCC converts paper checks into digital debits to a verify writer’s account. For the reason that PCC process is automated, the collections and reporting process is extra efficient. In different phrases PCC coverts paper checks into digital funds (EFT) debit transactions. EFT is the term used to confer papercheck with the process through which we electronically instruct your financial establishment to switch funds from your account to the DOL account, slightly than processing your examine.
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Tempeh is a soy product native to Indonesia, made through fermentation that binds the soybeans into a solid form. The ingredient is high in protein and suitable for vegetarians and vegans and has thus become increasingly popular in the bakery market.
US online distributor, IndonesianFoodMart.com has recalled two of its tempeh yeast products - ‘Tempeh Starter Yeast’ and ‘Super Starter Yeast’ – following the tests conducted by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services linking both products to salmonellosis.
Salmonellosis is a serious foodborne illness that has increased health implications for children, the elderly or those with weaker immune systems. Symptoms can include high fever, headaches, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) have released warnings against use and sale of both products. The CFIA has said it is working with Canadian importers and distributors to remove the affected products from the market place and will monitor the effectiveness of the recall.
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Empower yourself with knowledge
We know that the best teachers on living with cancer are often those who have had cancer. That's why learning about the many forms of cancer and connecting with resources can help individuals and their families develop effective strategies for living a full life. Please see the list below for additional resources.
Gilda's Club Chicago also maintains a library in the main Clubhouse that can provide a wealth of information about cancer and techniques for living with cancer. In addition, our affiliate Cancer Support Community's series "Frankly Speaking about Cancer" provides straight talk about a variety of issues related to cancer. Access the series at cancersupportcommunity.org.
American Cancer Society
Dedicated to helping persons who face cancer; supports research, patient services, early detection, treatment and education.
American Institute for Cancer Research
AICR champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity.
Cancer and Careers
Cancer and Careers empowers and educates people with cancer to thrive in their workplace by providing expert advice, interactive tools and educational events.
Cancer Hope Network
Free and confidential one-on-one suport to cancer patients and their families.
Cancer Support Community
The Cancer Support Community is an international non-profit dedicated to providing support, education and hope to people affected by cancer.
Cancer support helpline: 888-793-9355
Cancer Support Community and Gilda’s Clubs have formed a partnership with Airbnb to provide free housing for cancer patients and caregivers when traveling for treatment
CSC Airbnb helpline: 877.793.0498
Provides personalized connections that enable 1-on-1 support among cancer fighters, survivors and caregivers.
The LIVESTRONG Foundation improves the lives of people affected by cancer now. The Foundation povides free services for cancer patients and survivors today and advocates for policies that improve their access to care and quality of life.
MyLifeLine Cancer Foundation
This online resource provides a customizable communication platform and blog space that connects patients and caregivers to their larger support network. This is an online program of the Cancer Support Community.
The National LGBT Cancer Project
Our country’s first and leading Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender cancer survivor support and advocacy nonprofit organization.
Dedicated to helping survivors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals navigate cancer survivorship issues by connecting them to experts, information, and resources.
Organizations for Specific Cancers
|Bladder||Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network|
|Brain||American Brain Tumor Association|
|Breast (see also “For Women”)||Susan G. Komen (local)
The nation's largest African American breast cancer survivorship organization
ALAS-WINGS, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is dedicated to empowering Hispanic/Latina women about breast cancer awareness through comprehensive education and support for all women faced with breast cancer diagnosis and survivorship.
ROW is a rowing team that gives survivors of breast cancer the unique opportunity to interact, become active in the recovery and gain support from fellow survivors.
National not-for-profit organization supporting young women and their families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing breast cancer.
|Colorectal||Colon Cancer Alliance|
|Gynecological or Hereditary Breast & Ovarian||Bright Pink|
|Kidney||Kidney Cancer Association|
|Leukemia & Lymphoma||Leukemia and Lymphoma Society|
|Lung||Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago|
|Mesothelioma||Pleural Mesothelioma Cancer|
|Myeloma||International Myeloma Foundation|
|Oral, Head and Neck||SPOHNC: Support for People with Oral, Head and Neck Cancer|
|Pancreatic||Pancreatic Cancer Action Network|
|Prostate||Us Too International|
|Thyroid||Thyroid Cancer Survivor's Association|
|Transplant Resources||National Marrow Donor Program|
Helps defray the costs of sports and community programs for children and families impacted by cancer and financial hardship.
Provides hope and support to children impacted by cancer through bear hugs, financial assistance for the family and various social events
Children’s Oncology Services Inc (Camp One Step)
Offers children the opportunity to enjoy the experiences of childhood while living with cancer, through camps, excursions, education and scholarships.
The Living Room (formerly Group Loop)
Online community designed to address the needs of teens through the Cancer Support Community.
Grants wishes to eligible children with life threatening medical conditions to enrich the human spirit with hope, strength and joy.
National nonprofit organization ensuring that siblings of children with cancer are honored, supported and recognized so they may face the future with strength, courage and hope
Survive and Thrive Expeditions, Inc.
Survive & Thrive Expeditions Inc. is dedicated to combining travel, adventure and in-depth reflection and exploration of the cancer journey into one unique life changing experience.
Young Survival Coalition
Non-profit organization oriented to support and educate about breast cancer in younger women
The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults
Provide tailored emotional, financial, educational, physical, and practical support services. Programs include; cancer to 5k, scholarships, remote patient navigation.
Provides life-changing outdoor adventures for young adults (ages 18-39) impacted by cancer.
Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP)
The Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program offers free mammograms, breast exams, pelvic exams and Pap tests to eligible women. Even if a woman has already been diagnosed with cancer, she may receive free treatment if she qualifies. The program has been providing breast and cervical cancer screenings to the women of Illinois since 1995.
A boutique where individuals facing the challenge of living with cancer can learn about and purchase products to help them regain and maintain a positive self-image.
The Heartwood Foundation
Free and reduced-fee alternative or holistic therapy services for women living with cancer.
Grief and Bereavement
The Compassionate Friends
Whether your family has had a child die (at any age from any cause) or you are trying to help those who have gone through this life-altering experience, The Compassionate Friends exists to provide friendship, understanding and hope to those going through the natural grieving process.
SLAP'D (Surviving Life After a Parent Dies)
This organization provides support and resources to young people who are coping with the death of a parent.
Financial and Legal Assistance
Through Cancer Resource Foundation, this organization assists in providing financial assistance for genetic screening co-pays (or free screenings in those who are not insured in certain states).
Heaps of Hope
Financial assistance for women living with cancer
Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC)
The CLRC provides information and education about cancer-related legal issues to the public through its national telephone assistance line. The CLRC also conducts national education and outreach programs for community groups, employers and healthcare professionals and is actively involved in community activities to raise public awareness of cancer-related legal and public policy issues.
Waterford Place in Aurora
Cancer Wellness Center North
The Cancer Support Center
Cancer Resource Centre
Community Cancer Center
Cancer Wellness Center
OSF Healing Pathways in Rockford
Free meal delivery for individuals or families impacted by cancer.
Provides affordable accommodations to serve as a home-away-from-home for families and friends of loved ones receiving medical care in the Illinois Medical District area.
J. Crager Alternatives
Specializes in helping women (and men) who are experiencing hair loss as a result of chemotherapy or other medical disorders or treatment.
Fresh Tech Maids
Free cleaning service for members currently undergoing chemotherapy treatment. (Additional requirements may apply)
Prepare for Your Treatment
Open to Options offers assistance in preparing for your appointments and making treatment decisions that are right for you.
Cancer Experience Registry
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Will I need to do anything to care for my lawn post-renovation?
In short, yes, but don’t worry it isn’t a lot! We want to ensure that your lawn has the best chance of a healthy germination rate and for this, we do need your help alongside Mother Nature! Please water the new seed to assist germination (if we do not receive any significant rainfall) every 2-3 days with a fine sprinkler hose attachment and leave on the lawn for around 1-2 hours in each area.
Once the new grass is established (around 2 inches growth), please begin regular mowing on a high setting (at least 2 inches/5 cm) to encourage the lawn to thicken up. Be careful, as close mowing will encourage weeds and moss to re-establish. Mowing is especially important as we head into spring as growth will speed up and the weather allows you to cut more often. Remember, the more often you mow the more your lawn will thicken up.
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It’s been over a thousand days since the historic kilonova observation, and yet the region continues to emit X-rays, long after models predicted they should have faded away. What’s going on?
August 2017 was a pretty momentous month in astronomy. The gravitational wave detectors LIGO and VIRGO spotted the unique signature of two colliding neutron stars, naming the event GW170817. Moments later, the orbiting satellite Fermi LAT witnessed a tremendous burst of gamma rays from the same region on the sky. Within hours, telescopes around the world focused on the source, watching a cosmic cataclysm unfold throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.
It was the first time that the same event (this particular one dubbed a “kilonova” because it’s roughly a thousand times brighter than a nova) was observed with both traditional and gravitational astronomy. The combined observations confirmed what astronomers had long suspected: that when neutron stars merge, they go out with a bang.
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Besides the original flash of the merger itself, the vicinity of the blast continued to glow for some time, powered by a beam of radiation unleashed during the collision plowing through the surrounding gas and dust.
Models of such collisions predicted that the high-energy afterglow should have faded after one or two hundred days. Once the collision ended, there should be nothing left to power the emissions long-term.
But here we are, three years later, and the region around GW170817 continues to pour out X-rays, as recently reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
What’s causing all this copious X-ray emission? The kilonova itself is long gone, but something must still be providing a source of energy. Perhaps there is a shockwave moving through a denser region of gas. Perhaps there is still a remnant leftover from the collision. Perhaps it’s something else entirely.
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Coat-of-arms adopted 11 December 1969
Rosh HaAyin (meaning head/top of the spring, after
the nearby Yarqon River springs) is situated east to Petah Tikva. Est. 1950. Pop. 35,000. The
flag on the city hall is white with emblem. The municipal emblem
was published in the official gazette (Rashumot, Yalkut
HaPirsumim), YP 1585, 11 December 1969, for the then Local
Council Rosh HaAyin.
Source: author's own observation, 19 September 2001; this website and this website.
Dov Gutterman, 3 October 2001
Rosh HaAyin was established in 1950 as temporary residence for
new immigrants from Yemen in a deserted British military base
near the deserted Arab village of Ras Al-Ein. It became
permanent community a year after and became Local Council in
1954. Its proximity to the center of Israel brought to a boost of
building in 1990' in the eastern skirts of the town. Municipality
The municipal website describe the emblem as follows:
"The emblem of Rosh HaAyin reflects the springs of Rosh HaAyin, the new blooming of the community and a hint for the aliya [lit.: uphill, meaning: immigration to Israel] from Yemen.
The main idea that was chosen for the emblem is taken from Exodus 19, 4, which emphasize the idea of returning to Israel- land: "And I will take you on eagles wing and I will bring you to me". [Kanfe Nesharim (Eagles Wings) was the name of the operation in which the Jews of Yemen were brought to Israel in 1949].
The new life of the immigrants from Yemen to Israel-land, their settling in the new site and their desire the establish a community with small red-roof houses, are expressed in the emblem. In the upper part we can see the eagle wings and in the bottom part we can see the magic carpet [Marvad HaKsamim (Magic Carpet) was the name for the airlift which brought the Jews from Yemen during Kanfe Nesharim operation], both represent the aliya from Yemen. The fountain represent the springs that existed in the site in which the new immigrant decided to settle. The houses and the trees symbolize the character of the community: Small, worm and close to the land.
The emblem was approved in the council meeting, headed by Shalom Mantzura, gathered on 2 Kislev 5729, 1 December 1968.
The Emblem was designed by Aaron Elkalai who was a paint and graphics instructor in the youth house of Rosh HaAyin in those days, with the encouragement and support of Mordehai Yitz'hari, a writer and a poet that was burn in Yemen and resident of the city."
The white flag can be seen at <www.rosh-haayin.muni.il>.
Dov Gutterman, 5 May 2005
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Prevention: Food Allergies
Imagine this, you have a very special occasion tomorrow that requires you to look your absolute best. So you spent weeks, months even to prep your skin, hair, your nails, of course, your outfit and everything is all set days before. But, because life is very loving and knows how to throw perfect tricks every now and then, you also had the perfect timing to know about your food allergy. Well, its too late isn’t it? you’ve already eaten that trigger food and now you have big reddish spots all over your body that will definitely show up in that dress and can be difficult to hide with makeup but maybe with www.natalierosecosmetics.com.
Things That Can Help With Your Allergies
Not knowing your allergies can definitely be a bummer especially when timed to special occasions. It can be very beneficial to always go for allergen tests to know about these things, not only to skip the hassle it can bring about during unwanted times but also, allergies can be very dangerous and at most, deadly. Most allergies are found about during earlier years of an individual, especially with ones that pertain to dairy that includes milk, or wheat that includes pastries. Some though are pertained to allergens that are not that common, which leads to late discovery of said individuals.
Most signs of an allergic reaction that are more than swelling spots on the skin are vomiting, difficulty with breathing or tightening on the throat part, and can even be diarrhea. These things are the initial reactions of the body to throw off and excrete the allergen that is detected as foreign and harmful inside your body. Antihistamines are medications that should be taken before eating or being exposed to any potential allergen, this can eliminate swelling if your allergy is not severe, or if it is, it can be controlled and eliminates the danger with the difficulty in breathing. | <urn:uuid:b93ff9f3-3d3e-4077-87af-9f42d6a55132> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rfbneny.com/prevention-food-allergies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968195 | 395 | 2.203125 | 2 |
𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 (sta·bil·i·ty | \ stə-ˈbi-lə-tē) 𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻: the quality or state of something that is not easily changed or likely to change; the quality or state of something that is not easily moved; the quality or state of someone who is emotionally or mentally healthy. the strength to stand or endure; firmness. resistance to chemical change or to physical disintegration.
i've recently started dating again and am doing so, like i have for about the past seven years, with the intention of looking for a life partner. one night a few days ago, i was up late just thinking about my dating experience and reflecting on some of my patterns and behaviors since moving to berlin, when i told myself i should consciously be looking to date someone stable.
on this night, i asked myself, "what even is stability? what does that look like to me?" i started to think of some stable behaviors; living and working in the same city? good work-life balance? healthy expectations of their relationships? someone who isn't likely to change? someone who isn't going to go anywhere?
looking at the definition i listed at the top of this post, some traits of stable people are great! emotional and mental health are sexy. period. so is emotional and mental intelligence; sensitivity, too!
but the part that says, "strength to stand or endure," really caught my attention. i'd say the one thing that's lacked from every single one of my past relationships was this element. not for the obvious that these relationships no longer exist, but for the sake that, when faced with an obstacle or problem, either person in the relationship was too inclined to end things rather than endure through them. maybe i never even made it out of the honeymoon phase...
that's a totally normal expectation of the dating experience, but i think i realized through researching the definition of this term, that that's really what I should be seeking and fostering in a relationship. going forward, i would save myself a lot of emotional distress forming feelings for people who were either quick to leave the relationship, or not developing feelings at the same speed as myself. and that's what i seem to have forgotten. that the strength - or even desire - to endure does not manifest overnight.
seems like a simple enough sentiment, but i haven't done as good of a job with it. i recently heard a quote that's really resonated with me and i'd like to think i've added it to my personal growth journey backpack. it says,
"attention is not intention."
by bonding relatively quickly and deeply to people who have shown me attention in a relationship, i project my own fear of abandonment, which sets myself up to be abandoned, only making that fear become a reality. in coming into a relationship attentive to what's being given and taken, rather than blindly giving myself, i might be able to make more conscious decisions in my dating life. in essence, by becoming stable, i can attract the stability i want.
there are, however, traits of stable people that seem extremely unattractive to me. namely, "the quality or state of something that is not easily changed or likely to change." change is incredible. i'm extremely uninterested in people who haven't changed and have no intention to. stagnation doesn't elicit any growth, and therefore i associate stagnant people with immaturity, cowardice, and boredom. in fact, i would love to be with someone who is unafraid of changing themselves and their lives!
i think, often times, people would associate this, "instability," with creating the opportunity for infidelity or lack of trust - especially because change is incredibly unstable. but for me, i think there's something to be said of people who are willing to part with what's comfortable for the betterment of themselves, their partner, and, even, the world. i also think there's something to be said of people who want their partner to grow into the best version of themselves without it coming as a threat to their own interests or agenda.
this is the real meat and bones of a healthy relationship, to me; fostering an environment where self exploration is encouraged, mistakes are tolerated, and respect is held higher than self-serving interests. does change have to equal instability? I would argue no. there will always be people who take advantage of situations or other people in order to fulfill their own agenda. but finding someone who acknowledges that they're in a relationship where change is encouraged could also say, "i want to take you along with me on my journey of change so that we both end up better, and we do so together!"
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The Google Mobile Blog has announced that the Google Mobile App for iPhone has been updated to include the Google Goggles feature, which uses your iPhone to help you to find out more about your surroundings simply by taking photos. To use Google Goggles in the updated version of the app, simply tap on the camera button to search with Goggles. Goggles will then analyze the image, highlighting anything that it recognises. You can then click on those results to find out more about the object, or place, highlighted.
The blog is very honest in saying that Goggles isnt quite perfect yet, as although it is very effective when it comes to recognising landmarks, logos, books, DVD and game covers, it doesnt yet work for such things as animals, plants or food.
Download Google Mobile for iPhone here for free, bearing in mind that Google Goggles is only enabled for English speakers at the moment, and that as it needs an auto-focusing camera in order to work, it's only supported for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4.
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In the past decades several solutions have been developed to detect and alert fraud cases in the insurance sector. Based on insurance experts estimation the 10-15% of all the claims can be fraud cases. The claim experts have huge amount of data to decide which claim can be fraud, but the analysis demands deep mathematical and database knowledge. The Spicy Analytics solution includes data mining and network theory algorithms to find the fraud cases in the database. This solution is also suitable for car and property fraud cases.
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Right pricing in the business sector is essential to ensure companies profitability. But the product profitability and the sales probability induce contrary effect on the price of the product. While a lower price can induce higher sales probability but decrease the product profitability, the higher price can cause contrary effect. Our price optimisation function detect the price-optimum, where the gross margin will be the highest. The self-learning algorithm is able to react to the constantly changing market. | <urn:uuid:531bbd67-6d9d-43fe-bf11-465c14f445f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spicyanalytics.com/en/egyeb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.90575 | 205 | 1.75 | 2 |
Too often when Black women share their trauma, they are criticized rather than supported. Azriel Clary, 22-year-old survivor of R. Kelly, has received death threats following her estrangement from Kelly and decision to testify at his sex trafficking trial, asserting to have been “manipulated and brainwashed by him.”
Her decision to share her trauma required extreme courage, yet damaging stories have worked to invalidate her truth, entirely discredit the stories of countless’ others abused by Kelly, and popularize him as a palatable sex symbol rather than a sexual predator.
While R. Kelly survivors were front and center during his trial, they aren’t the only Black women targeted in the entertainment industry when they’ve spoken out. More than 30 “women, survivors, and witnesses” had allegations of T.I. and Tiny being their abusers, though prosecutors in Los Angeles declined to file any criminal charges against the couple after an investigation.
The allegations against the Harrises are harrowing and very similar, despite coming from victims across multiple states. Yet both T.I. and Tiny continue to appear seemingly unbothered on social media, all the while issuing statements berating the women as “unworthy of belief.”
Megan Thee Stallion admitted that she feared being met with skepticism and judgement if she publicly and legally named her abuser, Tory Lanez, after he allegedly shot her. Some came to Megan’s defense when the entertainment news cycle added fuel to the fire by making several posts about the incident, but many took it as an opportunity to bash Megan while praising Tory Lanez for “his side” of the story.
These are just three of the countless examples of how violence is often encouraged by the media and entertainment institutions themselves. Top decision-makers in media have fueled the current culture of violence against Black women and the negligence that follows once they come forward with their stories of sexual violence and abuse. Unless mass media and its leadership enforce drastic changes rooted in anti-racist, survivor-centered, and public health-focused content, they will only continue to heighten the lack of dignity and respect given to Black women and girls.
Anyone who experiences sexual violence should be able to come forward without fear of invalidation — this can only happen if there is a major shift in journalistic trends. There must be a change in reporting on gender-based violence so that Black victims and survivors are no longer subject to intimidation tactics by perpetrators of abuse or biased journalists that may seek to invalidate Black trauma.
WATCH: Protecting Black women on-campus.
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For Black women, sexual assault and violence are pervasive issues that routinely go unreported and under-addressed mainly because of this normalized culture of abuse and violence, making justice more difficult. Media is the most accessible way to share information and mobilize movements, but in many instances media has provided platforms to ignore and mock Black women survivors, creating content that condones abuse and profits off of their pain.
These practices are sending a clear message: Black women and girls who are survivors and witnesses of sexual coercion and violence are not inherently supported, protected, or afforded the opportunity to have their voices heard or amplified to the extent that people who have victimized them are. Without responsible and competent journalism, Black survivors of sexual violence will continue to be silenced.
Protecting Black women and girls means more than just simply saying “Protect Black Women” — it requires accountability from music institutions like RCA Records who dropped R. Kelly’s music after we and our partners brought our #DropRKelly protest to the label’s headquarters. Streaming giants that continue to have Kelly’s content on their platform need to follow suit. Otherwise, they are only enabling his abuse alongside high-profile offenders who are seemingly exempt from accountability.
The movement for racial justice includes ensuring that predators are not able to profit from content that glorifies, condones, or promotes violence against Black women and girls. For a future that prioritizes the safety and autonomy of Black women, we must guarantee a culture that responds to their experiences in an affirming, uplifting, and supportive way.
We’re not going to stand by and watch as audio streaming services and entertainment companies allow the weight and influence of celebrity abusers encourage the objectification of Black women. We aren’t going to allow the vilification of Black women who have experienced abuse. Corporations are responsible for disabling the intimidation tactics of perpetrators and their legal teams. They also need to advance equitable solutions for racial justice by committing to competent, unbiased, and anti-racist journalism. Only then will justice be won for Black survivors of sexual violence.
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Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach, California, in 2021. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to return the land to descendants of a Black couple who built a resort there during segregation. (Photo: Dean Musgrove/Orange County Register via Associated Press)
Nearly 100 years after a Black family’s oceanfront property was seized by the government during racial segregation, Southern California officials have agreed to return the property to their living descendants in an effort to “right a wrong.”
The great-grandsons of Willa and Charles Bruce, who purchased the land for use as a Black beach resort in the early 1900s, will have the prime real estate, appraised at $21 million, returned to them following a unanimous vote Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
“It is never too late to right a wrong,” County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who helped lead efforts to return the Manhattan Beach land, said in a statement. “Bruce’s Beach was taken nearly a century ago, but it was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who would, almost certainly, be millionaires today if they had been allowed to keep their beachfront property.”
A marker for Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach, in the Los Angeles area. The land was purchased by Charles and Willa Bruce in the early 1900s and operated as a seaside resort for Black beachgoers. (Photo: Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The roughly 7,000-square-foot property gave Blacks access to the beach at a time when they were otherwise prevented and discouraged from having access to the shore. Willa Bruce paid $1,225 for the property, according to an interview she gave in 1912 that described that price as “high” compared to nearby lots.
“Wherever we have tried to buy land for a beach resort we have been refused, but I own this land and I am going to keep it,” she said when faced with opposition from white locals who reportedly vowed to find a solution should the resort continue to operate.
Roughly 13 years later, in 1925, the land was seized by the Manhattan Beach Board of Trustees under eminent domain with claims that it would be turned into a park. Hahn’s motion, co-authored with Supervisor Holly Mitchell, noted that “it is well documented that this move was a racially motivated attempt to drive out the successful Black business and its patrons.”
A photo of Willa and Charles Bruce on a plaque at Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach, California. (Photo: The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The property was condemned just five years later, and the resort demolished. The land was transferred to the state until 1995, when it was then transferred to the county, which used it for lifeguard operations.
A transfer agreement returns the property to the family’s two great-grandsons, Marcus and Derrick Bruce. There’s a 24-month lease agreement in which the county will pay $413,000 annually for its continued use. It will also pay operation and maintenance costs. The agreement also includes the right for the county to purchase the land at a later date for $20 million.
“The Lease Agreement will allow the Bruce family to realize the generational wealth previously denied them, while allowing the County’s lifeguard operations to continue for the foreseeable future without interruption,” the motion states.
Anthony Bruce, a great-great-grandson of Charles and Willa Bruce, attends a news conference last September after a bill was signed to return the oceanfront land to his family. (Photo: Jay L. Clendenin via Getty Images)
Anthony Bruce, a great-great-grandson of Willa and Charles, told the Los Angeles Times that losing the land all those years ago tore his family apart.
Willa and Charles Bruce ended up working as chefs for other business owners for the rest of their lives, and Anthony’s grandfather Bernard lived his life “extremely angry at the world” over his family’s mistreatment, he said.
“Many families across the United States have been forced away from their homes and lands,” he told the Times. “I hope that these monumental events encourage such families to keep trusting and believing that they will one day have what they deserve. We hope that our country no longer accepts prejudice as an acceptable behavior, and we need to stand united against it, because it has no place in our society today.”
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Coles has launched a new online portal focusing on health and wellbeing.
Health Hub, created in conjunction with the Heart Foundation, is an online hub for customers to access tips and information on nutrition, exercise, mental health management and social and community support.
It will also feature recipes developed by both Coles and the Heart Foundation, as well as articles simplifying nutritional advice on things such as the differences between good and bad fats to ways to ways to start and build up an exercise routine and tips to cook healthier meals.
Its launch follows a YouGov Galaxy Poll released last week which found that while 89% of Australians want to lead healthier lives, a quarter of us never exercise. It also follows the recent rebrand of Coles’ online presence with its new Coles&Co platform, edited by Lisa Hudson.
Coles General Manager of Media and Sponsorship Kate Bailey said it aims to remove the barriers many face in bettering their health and offers holistic approach to leading more positive lifestyles.
“Caring for our health and happiness has never been more important than it is today. We know from our own research that knowledge, motivation, temptation, time, as well as cost are some of the key barriers our customers face when improving their health and happiness,” Ms Bailey said.
“We have partnered with the Heart Foundation for this important initiative because of its long-term commitment to the health of Australians, and its expertise around advice and information on nutrition and exercise as the basis for a healthy lifestyle.”
Heart Foundation Group CEO, Adjunct Professor John Kelly, said the partnership would allow the foundation to reach more Australians through the retailer’s far reaching profile.
“Australians are looking for engaging, yet simple ways to improve their health as part of their everyday lives,” Professor Kelly said. “Through heart-healthy recipe ideas, exercise tips and information, we can help more Australians reduce their risks for heart disease and live well longer,” he said.
“Coles is in a unique position to use its scale and everyday customer interactions to drive change, backed by the strength of the Heart Foundation’s knowledge and experience as Australia’s leading experts on nutrition, physical activity and heart health.”
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. After working with his father's business, Vanderbilt worked his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry. Nicknamed "The Commodore", he is known for owning the New York Central Railroad. His biographer T. J. Stiles says, "He vastly improved and expanded the nation's transportation infrastructure, contributing to a transformation of the very geography of the United States. He embraced new technologies and new forms of business organization, and used them to compete....He helped to create the corporate economy that would define the United States into the 21st century."As one of the richest Americans in history and wealthiest figures overall, Vanderbilt was the patriarch of the wealthy and influential Vanderbilt family. He provided the initial gift to found Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. According to historian H. Roger Grant: "Contemporaries, too, often hated or feared Vanderbilt or at least considered him an unmannered brute. While Vanderbilt could be a rascal, combative and cunning, he was much more a builder than a wrecker [...] being honorable, shrewd, and hard-working."
Somerset is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 22,083.Somerset housed one of the first Marconi Wireless Stations in the United States.
Newark (, locally ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County. As one of the nation's major air, shipping, and rail hubs, the city had a population of 311,549 in 2020, making it the nation's 62nd-most populous municipality, after being ranked 73rd in the nation in 2010.Settled in 1666 by Puritans from New Haven Colony, Newark is one of the oldest cities in the United States. Its location at the mouth of the Passaic River (where it flows into Newark Bay) has made the city's waterfront an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Today, Port Newark–Elizabeth is the primary container shipping terminal of the busiest seaport on the U.S. East Coast. Newark Liberty International Airport was the first municipal commercial airport in the United States, and today is one of its busiest.Several leading companies have their headquarters in Newark, including Prudential, PSEG, Panasonic Corporation of North America, Audible.com, IDT Corporation, and Manischewitz. A number of important higher education institutions are also in the city, including the Newark campus of Rutgers University (which includes law and medical schools and the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies); University Hospital (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey which included the schools of medicine and dentistry now under Rutgers University); the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and Seton Hall University's law school. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey sits in the city as well. Local cultural venues include the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark Symphony Hall, the Prudential Center and The Newark Museum of Art. Newark is divided into five political wards (East, West, South, North and Central) and contains neighborhoods ranging in character from bustling urban districts to quiet suburban enclaves. Newark's Branch Brook Park is the oldest county park in the United States and is home to the nation's largest collection of cherry blossom trees, numbering over 5,000.
Bridgewater Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The township is both a regional hub for Central New Jersey and a major bedroom suburb of New York City in the much larger New York Metropolitan Area, located within the heart of the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 44,464, reflecting an increase of 1,524 (+3.5%) from the 42,940 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 10,431 (+32.1%) from the 32,509 counted in the 1990 Census. As of the 2019 Population Estimates Program census estimate, the township's population was 43,968.Bridgewater Township was created by Royal charter on April 4, 1749, from portions of the Northern precinct. It was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, under the Township Act of 1798. During the nineteenth century, portions of the township were taken to form Warren Township (March 5, 1806), Branchburg Township (April 5, 1845), Somerville (March 25, 1863), Raritan (April 3, 1868) and Bound Brook (March 24, 1869). | <urn:uuid:445e7ae8-f160-4f81-b315-c192c015aa2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.budgettravel.com/places/usa-new-jersey-central-new-jersey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96278 | 1,039 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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Thailand will build a spacecraft within seven years with a budget of around Bt3 billion, according to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation.
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A handout still photo grabbed off NASA TV video showing the SpaceX Dragon capsule after it succesfully docked with Space Station as part of the Demo-1 mission, 03 March 2019.
Published: Dec 17, 2018
Soldiers pursued drug runners through Chiang Rai on Sunday night and ended up seizing nearly 19 million methamphetamine pills, though the suspects escaped.
Published: Oct 20, 2018
Is Mercury's core liquid or solid, and why -- on the smallest planet in our solar system -- is it so big? What can the planet closest to the Sun tell us about how our solar system came into being?
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four more boys brought out of tham luang cave on 2nd successful day.
Day two of the mission to remove trapped footballers from Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district was halted on Monday after four more boys were extracted to safety.
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The number of rescuers inside the Tham Luang cave will be reduced due to fears of increasing carbon dioxide levels that could affect the trapped footballers and the workers, the mission head said on Saturday.
The head of the rescue mission engaged in evacuating 13 trapped footballers in Chiang Rai’s Tham Luang cave on Saturday ruled out as "impossible" the option of waiting for the cave to dry.
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Multifaceted provincial chief brought topnotch leadership skills to operation
Multifaceted provincial chief brought topnotch leadership skills to operation.
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INTERNATIONAL volunteers have made a huge contribution in the operation to save the 13 Thai footballers stranded in a Chiang Rai cave.
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Three cavediving experts from UK arrive; US assistance on the way as search for 13 footballers in cave continues.
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The establishment of oilseeds pretreatment depends on oilseed varieties, oil processing method, product quality standard, oilseeds utilization and invest on oil machine project etc. Oil pressing is type of simple oil making process, which includes pressing, pre-pressing, high temperature oil pressing, and cold oil pressing etc.
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Before the First World War, things were still very formal, and as you can see, even a seaside holiday meant wearing hats, long dresses, and plenty of covering material if you went into the water!
Notice the tie Pinkie (Thomas) is wearing, and the formal sailor suit, including hat, of his friend. Coverage was the order of the day (but see on to 1926 for a very fetching bathing suit that still covered everything!)
Even the women in the photo below are wearing ties – this was informal wear, and as you can see, was for sitting on the sand! This photo was taken in Devon in 1911, and the picnic is actually taking place on the beach.
but it didn’t make much difference where you were…here they are up in the hills…
And if you were a child in this period it didn’t much matter what sex you were, you were still dressed up in outlandish gear for the formal photograph…
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Editor’s note: This article is the second of two in a series on innovation in rural journalism. The first, “Sourcing innovation from a ‘rural journalism lab,’ ” can be found here.
LEE BRATCHER ISN’T THRILLED about waking up at 5:15am to make his way to what in rural Ohio County, Kentucky, qualifies as the public sphere. He and his brother, Dustin, are going to see farmers and workers who rise early to meet for breakfast before work.
“I don’t know if this is going to work,” Dustin recalls, summing up his state of mind that first morning of their “liars table” tour.
Liars tables have long been a hub of local information in rural communities, whether in local diners or general stores, most of which double as gas stations today. In communities like McHenry, Kentucky—a town with a total square area of .7 miles—there used to be more places to gather, one man tells us. But since post offices have reduced their hours and diners and smaller schools have closed, residents seeking information and camaraderie mostly convene at local stores.
From farmers and miners, to local politicians wanting to take the pulse of the community, “Wherever you go, there’s certain places…that if you really want to get to know anything, that’s where you go to find out,” one regular says.
Dustin and Lee, who founded the digital hyperlocal news site The Ohio County Monitor in 2012, are traveling around the 600-square-mile county as part of a liars table listening tour. It’s been a little over six months since The Monitor shifted to a $5-per-month subscription model. The brothers are looking for the best ways to build a meaningful relationship with the community of 24,000 and drive financial investment in their journalism.
Over the course of three months, the Bratchers partnered with us as part of our research for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism to run a series of pilot experiments around Facebook outreach, livestreaming, podcasting, and local partnerships. (For an in-depth review of outcomes, see our first CJR piece in this series.) Ultimately, the initiatives that inspired the most enthusiasm for their new subscription model involved reimagining long-standing traditions like liars tables and society columns as community engagement initiatives. We followed The Monitor’s efforts along the way, interviewing participants and conducting surveys at the start and end to assess their impact.
The Liars Table Tour
“We’ve got a man down there, and he likes to tell good tales, and he said it’s only a lie if you believe it. And anything anybody says, we don’t believe it, so it’s not a lie.” —liars table participant
“We settle the world’s problems,” says one man who sits inside a store in McHenry, Kentucky. For some stretch of each morning, he joins a few neighbors for a cup of coffee or breakfast before work. They talk about obituaries and stories of those who have passed, local issues like if a store is opening or closing, the risk of school consolidation or losing the local post office, and whether someone in the area is sick and needs help.
Lee is concerned that adding a pair of reporters to the mix will, at best, be awkward. “They’re used to each other, and they all know each other,” he says. “They can joke around with each other. They probably don’t have to hold back from each other, and then you have two or three guys just out of the blue showing up and sitting down, and you’re just sitting there. . .Really, I expected them all to just, you know, kind of shut us out.”
Their worries are not entirely unfounded.
“They’re taking up somebody’s seat,” says one regular who had never heard of The Monitor or the Bratchers. While the man jokes that they must come from the “upper class,” he eventually concedes, “if they get there early enough to get them a spot then, yeah, they’re welcome.”
Many liars table participants admit that they’re not online (though several mention their wives reading The Monitor). In rural areas, spotty mobile connections and a lack of broadband internet mean that the internet is not necessarily integral to daily life. This makes The Monitor’s offline engagement in communication hotspots (e.g., the general stores) all the more crucial to building ties between residents and the local media.
In a different part of the county at the Horse Branch General Store, one man is skeptical: “We’ll see what the results are three to six months from now about what their visit was and issues we talked about.” He is vocal in saying that he isn’t interested in talking with The Monitor if they are just there to visit. He wants to see them “put an effort to help with what we need in this community.”
Conversation has mostly centered around challenges with the internet and public demands for a dollar store. The man worries that the only way to keep their community’s school open is to get a grocery store—and he sees a dollar store as the most likely bet.
It turns out, not everyone is so doubtful. In a follow-up interview, two men at the first tour stop mention that they think the visit and discussion about local concerns has already had a positive outcome: “I don’t know if they reported it or not, but we were having issues with the coal trucks. They go through so fast, and we were afraid they was going to hit the school bus. Well, since that time, somebody must have got ahold of somebody because they’ve slowed down.”
The Bratchers say that while they remember discussing the issue of the coal trucks, they didn’t report it to any officials or cover it on their website. Nevertheless, liars table participants clearly perceived that their conversation with the reporters led to solving a local problem. Be it a placebo effect or coincidence, even this limited and rare interaction with local media can elevate expectations.
For Lee, community expectations are more of a motivator than a deterrent. He points out that, in a rural context, “one person really can make a difference.” One or two calls to a magistrate can lead to a change, like slowing down the speed of passing coal trucks.
Based on this initial “tour,” The Monitor plans to follow up on this thread of engagement through a regular series of columns on its site drawing from future tours. The ongoing columns will aim to connect readers in different parts of the county (and those who might not feel welcome in these exclusively white and male spaces) by letting them know about issues being discussed across a number of small communities throughout the area.
Future “From the Liars Table” columns may follow Chatham House Rule, where participants’ names are not used. This would encourage candor. As one participant said of the conversations in acknowledgment of the gendered nature of the space and information flow, if they were women they’d be called gossipers. But since they’re men, they’re just keeping “up on local happenings.” Added another man, “Some of it, nobody needs to know about.”
From ‘Society Columnist’ to ‘Community Contributor’
“I think that this might be a way of Ohio County to write its story.” —community contributor
Society columns have been a mainstay of rural journalism going back for decades. From births to illness, community tragedies and triumphs, small-town society columnists recounted the events, often writing in exchange for a free newspaper subscription.
These days, the void of place-based news left by fewer newspapers and far fewer society columns hasn’t been filled by Facebook in communities like those in Ohio County.
Responding to ideas that grew out of our workshop, The Monitor invited residents to weigh in on what (if anything) they wanted to see from a contemporary imagining of the society column. Some 110 residents responded to a survey, offering a range of views. A number of people suggested a fairly traditional approach that included “local happenings” and personal announcements—particularly about positive developments, or a notice of how people could help when bad things happened.
Some voiced an interest in historical content like “this day in history” features. Several participants suggested “less of who visited with whom,” and more about achievements of community members, efforts of local government to address problems, and coverage (not just announcements) of community events. While there were some grumblings that traditional columnists tended to have an insular focus that centered on their own family and friends, several were optimistic that an updated model could introduce a new range of perspectives.
Following the initial survey, The Monitor put out a call for residents interested in becoming community contributors. Dustin’s fears that recruitment would be challenging proved unfounded. Seven people volunteered for an informal training and workshop to share ideas. In the end, a cohort of five (the original target goal) followed through in writing and publishing pieces. Contributors were invited to write on anything they wanted, “as long as your focus is on this community or has a community tie of some sort—and it might be that the only tie to the community is that you are from the community.”
“I thought this would be a good chance for me to see if I can write creatively,” one community contributor explained. Reflecting on motivations for participating, several contributors talked about wanting to try their hand at writing for an audience. Creative curiosity often paired with a sense of wanting to contribute to the community in some way. This generally meant speaking from places of personal experience. Two contributors with professional backgrounds in health wrote columns on health issues, one on healthy drinking choices and one on the stigma against smokers who suffer from lung cancer. A woman in her thirties reflected on her own path to becoming civically active. A retired woman shared her experience of a bluegrass-themed epiphany and how she came to finally feel at home in the county after decades of residency.
One of the most popular articles was a 3000-word story about a retired band teacher. With nearly 900 views over the course of two days, it had more traffic than most crime stories—which usually dominate The Monitor’s views. Its author says that the subject of his story was a “local hero.” In the current climate of “political craziness” and negativity, he wanted to offer a story of a good man overcoming adversity: “I chose it because I felt like it would be a good taste in people’s mouth.”
Several other contributors expressed a similar sentiment in wanting to deliver positive narratives for the community. A contributor’s article about smoking cessation included a critique of the stigmatization of people with lung cancer. She says she received messages from people she didn’t even know saying, “Hey, great story. Thank you for standing up for the smoker. We know we don’t need to smoke, but thank you for treating us like human beings.”
Lee admits he was relieved to see the stories get a positive reception: “When I put their stories out, I’m more protective over [them] than even my own stuff, because I want everybody to like their stuff. . .they’re kind of like, they’re a guest in my home, and I want everybody to treat them right.”
Before publishing the stories, he even cautioned contributors to keep their expectations around number of views and shares in check: “A lot of people are just kind of the lookie-loos that want to see the crime and the obituaries and stuff. The folks that are going to be reading theirs are the folks that are buying into what we’re trying to do and the people that are going to be the ones to kind of step up and take action,” he says.
But the numbers were actually strong for the community contributor stories. And, when they held a public discussion at the library with all the contributors, they had a full room. The session not only allowed members of the audience (including several who expressed an interest in becoming contributors) to interact with those who wrote stories, but also for the contributors to share experiences with each other.
“When you have that face-to-face, it’s more of that connection with people,” one of the community contributors says. “You actually start developing a relationship, and it’s better, you know.”
Another says she wasn’t sure what to expect at the library, “I didn’t know if we were going to have to read our pieces out loud.” (They didn’t.) She sees herself more as a poet than a writer and was a bit hesitant about how she would fit in as a contributor, and about “what you’re supposed to put in the newspaper.” Ultimately, though, she thinks the process of sharing and getting feedback from the other contributors helped her with her writing. “Everybody just kind of encouraged each other.”
These meetings, and the earlier brainstorming workshops The Monitor hosted, allowed contributors to build confidence as writers: “I think, collectively, we felt in the beginning that we weren’t going to be very good writers, and there was a couple of people that really felt like what they wrote about was not even what they were looking for. Come to find out, even though all five of our pieces were completely different, they were all good reads, and they, you know, people have different opinions and thoughts.”
Several contributors tell us they hope such meetings, or what one called a “brain trust,” would take place monthly as a source of support.
Some, though, see room for improvement. One contributor says she’d like to see more community members participate in the future. “I think sometimes if when you write for an audience you need to remember who you’re writing for and be willing to listen and take what they have to share and how your piece affected them,” she says, suggesting The Monitor may need to offer free pizza and beer to get non-contributors to come. It would be worth it to get more input, rather than “hearing us pat each other on the back,” she says.
The woman also believes the community contributor program could recruit more people by surveying readers about what they want to read about: “Are there areas of the county that they feel are less exposed and that they want to know a little bit more information about?. . .I think there’s a lot of people who, they love the content, they love to read it, they just don’t think they have the ability to actually write down something coherent and well enough to get published. But they could do a lot by just providing a lot of the basic information and just getting someone else to write it up for them.”
Community contributors, according to her suggestion, could potentially play the role that professional reporters do in engagement models such as Hearken—following up with members of the public who nominate ideas for stories. She is not alone in this thinking. Another contributor mentions the possibility of becoming a writing buddy for a would-be contributor who has access to a distant section of the county but needs writing support.
At least one community member, who responded to our project-end survey, seems to support this need: “Do you have resources for someone in the community who would like to contribute but may not be the best writer? Are there polls where people can submit ideas or opinions that can be incorporated into someone else’s work, or they can be helped into developing their own piece?”
Opening The Ohio County Monitor to community contributors definitely strengthens its relationship with the community, another contributor says. “They have an opportunity there to build a site that people frequent for more than just what’s going on in the community from a news standpoint, but also what’s going on from a social standpoint or what’s going on and how people can get involved a little bit more on some of the more current events—how that actually relates to people throughout the community.”
Healthy storytelling networks, according to communication infrastructure theory, have strong connections between residents, community organizations, and local media. They allow everyone to share a common story of what is happening in their community, and what issues may need to be addressed. While The Monitor’s experiments are too new to generate conclusive change in the storytelling network, they point to at least limited signs of promise in intervening and improving on the area’s larger storytelling network.
First, the liars table tours established a previously absent link between residents and local media. Many liars table regulars expressed an appreciation to the local reporters for showing up—despite a persistent and entrenched skepticism.
One participant, who suggested that media coverage was biased and depended on “who you knew,” says, “It hasn’t changed in 50 years, so I don’t see it changing for another 50 years.” Others suggested that what made the local news usually didn’t really affect them, or, if it did, they’d “hear it really quick the next morning at the store.” Forging meaningful ties between The Monitor and liars table participants will require an ongoing process of building trust and demonstrating relevance by opening the county-wide news agenda to issues of hyperlocal concern.
Likewise, the community contributor program allowed The Monitor to deepen ties not only with its contributors, but also with those contributors’ interpersonal networks. Most spoke of their efforts to share stories with and even recruit additional contributors from their extended circles.
And while community organizations were not explicitly involved in the project, community contributors often referenced them in their stories. For example, after one contributor’s column encouraged people to “stop complaining” and become more active in the community, another noticed an uptick of clicks and likes on a community organization’s Facebook page that the contributor’s column linked to. Given it was an off-season for that organization, she concluded that the column had driven readers to connect with the organization online.
Community engagement and belonging
Research finds that strong storytelling networks lead to higher levels of civic engagement and a greater sense of community belonging. Again, it’s too early to draw firm conclusions, but among participants in The Monitor’s initiatives we saw indications of this.
“When I heard these other pieces, it made me want to get a little bit more involved,” says one community contributor. After hearing about opportunities from other contributors, she is now thinking about volunteering at a women’s shelter. Several participants say the process made them aware of new opportunities and prompted them to consider different ways to become more active.
At the same time, there are limits that participants bumped up against. According to some liars table participants, particularly in the more distant corners of the county, there are historical reasons they don’t feel motivated to get involved: “This is in a rural area, and, you know, there’s been so many things promised around here about things that that haven’t come true for the community.”
Even liars table participants who expressed skepticism about the media and civic initiatives, however, communicated a deep attachment to home and place. Similarly, in discussion with community contributors at the library, members of the public mentioned the concept of belonging without prompting:
“There was a lot of conversation about a sense of place and sense of, like, belonging in that community. And this is something that I’ve noticed across this region in rural communities, is this feeling of, like, being really tied to tradition and a sense of place and wanting to, like, lift up your community despite this feeling of, like, lack of opportunity or things that come with being in a rural area.” —library event attendee
“I’ve only lived in Ohio County for seven years, but my dad and my grandparents were born and raised here. So, I’ve always traveled back and forth and visited. So, it’s kind of like a home, kind of back and forth. So, sometimes I feel like an outsider, and sometimes I feel like part of the family. So, the other night, I felt like part of the family.” —library event attendee
Another sentiment that arose among both community contributors and liars table participants was an appreciation of any effort to circulate stories about their communities that are not exclusively negative. “The only time you ever hear anything in these small communities is [when] something bad happened,” says one liars table regular. The man welcomed an alternative to the negative news he believes stigmatizes his area: “In Ohio County, people say, ‘Well, you don’t want to go up there. This place is a big, it’s drug-infested. It’s this or it’s that.’ You know? And it’s good to hear some of the good stuff that’s going on in the communities.”
This desire for more constructive coverage was a recurring theme in many of our conversations.
“I think that it can be really frustrating to see portrayals of rural Kentucky in the media, you know, and not feel like that’s reflective of who we really are,” says one library event attendee. “A lot of us are working for positive change in our communities and don’t feel that that’s reflected or thought of.”
Some community contributors took it upon themselves to offer a more positive representation of Ohio County. “Sometimes, we don’t represent ourselves to the rest of the world, you know, and we kind of put on a mask and we stand idly by and let the world just think we’re a bunch of dummies,” says one writer. Countering this is important to the man, even if he also feels a burden of representation when he thinks about how outsiders may see his stories online. He laments finding grammatical errors in what he wrote, because he doesn’t want “somebody in Rhode Island” to stumble across the errors. “That just gives them more fodder to say, ‘Well, yeah, they can tell a story but they sure as hell can’t write.’ ”
He continues by emphasizing that constructive representations in local media are even more important—to reshape narratives the community tells about itself: “Locally, I think we have to have more community input from local, what you might say, local writers. . .we might have a way eventually of saying, ‘Look, you’re a lot smarter than you look. Give yourself credit. And, when you start giving yourself credit, then maybe the rest of the world will look at us a little bit better.’ ”
One library attendee adds that negative representations make people distrust media and “feel like they’re getting the story wrong.” Like the other community contributors, she sees this project as a possible, if partial, antidote. “Right now, there’s such a distrust of media, and I think that the more participatory we can make local media, the more support folks will have for it and the less distrust of the media we’ll find.”
This resonated with at least one member of the community, who responded to our project-end survey, saying, “This gives the community a chance to create the narrative regarding their home, rather than having it done by a select few in the media.”
Next steps for The Monitor’s outreach
The Ohio County Monitor’s experiment explored how community traditions can be reimagined to engage residents across a vast rural county using a combination of digital and face-to-face outreach. While correlation is not causation, Dustin and Lee did notice a bump in subscriptions when the first cohort of community contributor pieces rolled out. At the point we started working with The Ohio County Monitor, it had a base of around 100 subscribers. It added nine new subscribers in November and 12 in December 2017. In the first 25 days of January 2018, five new people subscribed. We did, however, see significant progress in signups in the 12-day period after the five community contributors pieces ran. The Monitor received 13 new subscribers—a third of the 39 subscribers it added during the three-month-period we conducted all of our experiments.
Going forward, The Monitor hopes to build momentum with both the community contributors and liars table tours. The Bratchers are exploring the possibility of hosting monthly storytelling and supper clubs for community contributors at the Ohio County Public Library and/or the Ohio County Cooperative Extension Service, both of which are interested in expanding collaboration with the outlet. Most of the community contributors have already started working on their next stories. A few new contributors have volunteered, including a possible youth writer.
The Monitor also plans to launch an ongoing “From the Liars Tables” series based on regular tours around the county. Resources permitting, it may develop a simple print newsletter highlight
ing community stories to circulate on these tours in an effort to strengthen communication links with residents unlikely to go online.
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Why is it Necessary to Learn Photo Editing?
Are you spending a lot of time learning your camera and getting up early to shoot at just the right location, in just the right light? Are you getting the results you hoped you would?
Learning effective photo editing is easily the other half of creating amazing images with your digital camera. I have been using Adobe Photoshop for many years, but have recently converted to doing the bulk of my editing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Lightroom is a powerful program that offers you easy adjustments to push your photo editing and your photography from good to great.
Advanced digital cameras have come a long way to getting you properly exposed images, but if you don’t know some simple photo editing techniques, you will be not be getting the maximum out of your camera.
Why do I like Lightroom so much?
Lightroom not only offers amazing advanced photo editing techniques but also gives you the ability to easily organize your whole catalog of pictures with a series of tags and star ratings. I am now able to find a single image that is in my Lightroom catalog in a matter of seconds. I now have close to 20,000 images in my catalog, and finding images quickly is paramount.
I have this great camera, why do I need photo editing programs like Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom to create a finished image?
It takes a lot of effort to learn Photoshop or Lightroom. But these programs are so powerful, once you get the basic tools, you won’t want to go back. The advanced digital SLR cameras these days give you an option to create JPG images that automatically have preset settings as far as color, saturation, and sharpening. If you compare a JPG image and a RAW image you will see the difference. The JPG may look bright and saturated, where the untouched RAW may look flat and lifeless. Why is that?
Don’t Let Your Camera Make the Creative Decisions for you…
You have some control over in-camera processing of JPG images. You can go into your internal camera settings and increase saturation or brightness to your liking, but are you really taking creative control of your images?
When you have a RAW file, you can non-destructively change the white balance, color contrast, and saturation to your liking. If you decide to change these settings with a JPG file in post-processing, with every adjustment, you are affecting the quality of the image and are losing resolution. At the very least, work with a TIFF file, where it has lossless image adjustment.
If you have pre-visualized your picture when you take it, you will have a good idea of what you would like to do with this picture in post-processing.
Why doesn’t the camera capture what I see?
A digital camera can only read a certain range of light and gamut of color. By using post-processing photo editing, you are allowing the image to reflect exactly what you saw at the scene, or what you visualized when you took the picture. The trick here is to not over saturate, over sharpen, or generally overdo the editing process so it looks fake or cartoonish. I do very little altering of the original photo beside taking out small distracting elements, saturating a bit and sharpening the overall image.
How do I get there?
Practice, practice, practice. Take a good beginning course, or get a mentor who can help you with the process. If you are serious about your photography, you will be happy you did.
If you are ready to learn more about this powerful program, join me in one of my online, private or group Lightroom classes.
This is the other half of creating amazing images, learning how to effectively edit a program like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Better yet, take a photographic workshop with Jansen Photo Expeditions
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how much help is the right amount?
A fight broke out in a Facebook birding group the other day. Some people thought the cowbird egg should be removed so the the Carolina wren chicks would have a chance. Others pointed out that cowbirds are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and removing their eggs from a nest is illegal. Someone said that if you remove their eggs from the nest cowbirds have been known to retaliate against the wrens. Someone else commented that cowbirds are lazy and evil by human standards. (They don’t build their own nests or raised their own chicks.) One person wanted to know since when do we judge wildlife by human standards?
Today there was a frenzy on Nextdoor when someone posted about an elderly lady who has no food for her cat, could probably use some clothes, size medium, and may need food for herself as well. So far there are 75 comments offering suggestions (meals on wheels, food banks, someone should call her daughter, etc.), there are offers to drop off cases of cat food (does she need wet or dry?), how about cat litter, offers of used clothing, offers of people food, offers to call DoorDash. Someone warned that the elderly have been known to eat cat food if they run out of people food. Did you know that the Kingdom Fellowship Center is giving away whole chickens on June 19?
Here’s one of the 75 comments:
Forget Meghan & Harry, this is ‘Compassion in Action,’ thank you Nextdoor. Whatever she needs help with I am happy to shop for food items, help with cleaning, organize contacts and perhaps make sure information is large, readable and attached to the door of her refrigerator.
Here’s another of the 75 comments (the post included the street address of the lady who purportedly needs help):
I just delivered a box of Meals on Wheels meals to her and she brought the box back out to me after she had opened it. She said she could not eat any of those meals. I asked her why and she said she just couldn’t. So she may have food restrictions and may not be able to eat the food that people want to offer her.
The helpers then started wondering if there were dental considerations. Maybe the lady also needs a microwave?
I think if I were a wren I’d like it if someone took the cowbird egg out of my nest. Evidently now there are TWO cowbird eggs in that nest. Someone suggested putting out a feeder with mealworms to help the wrens feed all four chicks.
If I were the lady whose address is displayed today on Nextdoor, I am quite sure I’d like to be privately asked by my neighbor if there’s anything I need, and not have people I don’t know showing up at my door with charity boxes, cleaning my house unasked, or posting signs on my refrigerator.
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Benefits of a great Enterprise Management System
A company management system gives a framework for the purpose of the tactical planning and tactical implementation of a organization. It includes practices, policies, rules, and measures. These files provide a obvious definition of ways to plan, put into action, measure, and improve an enterprise. Without a stable, unified system, a company will be left in the dark about how to function effectively. This article will examine some of the most important characteristics of the good BMS.
A Business Management System has a variety of functional groups. The top-level categories will be the same for every business. The content of them groups will be different by form of business, goods, competitors, and market share. Using a business management can help corporations improve their functionality. The system also makes it easier to regulate and measure the various functions of a company. It can offer guidance to employees making decisions on how to use the system, improve the processes, and improve output.
A business administration system helps businesses share know-how and attain specific duties within each department. It can identify blemishes and provide solutions for issues that have not but been acknowledged as being. The right system can certainly help companies steer clear of unnecessary complications, and boost the bottom line. Below are a few benefits of a BMS. Let’s look at what it can do for you. So what is actually a BMS? How does it operate? Here are some examples:
An effective BMS gives management the tools it needs to control and keep an eye on the activities that are vital for the success belonging to the organization. It may automate duties that require multiple worksheets, eliminate errors, marshalnews.com and improve communication. In the long run, it helps you measure the business performance, and continually improve the system to generate it better. As an added bonus, BMSs allow you to combine and track various features of the organization. Incorporating one particular into your business will help you obtain achievement in your business.
A BMS provides the tools to improve business processes and implement ongoing improvement within a business. The BMS may improve customer care and boost profits. An enterprise management system can help your enterprise achieve its goals by simply integrating operations and systems. This will make your organization more effective. It could even save time by reducing the number of staff members you should manage. Its flexibility and ease of use can make it the ideal choice for any organization.
A BMS can introduce unnecessary tiers of paperwork and decrease employees from using the training course. Inefficient BMSs can lead to faults, missed deadlines, and top quality slipping. Furthermore, they can bring about a lack of compliance with administration regulations. A well-designed BMS can also help your business are more efficient. Costly invaluable device for any business. It can also assist you to keep a tab on how the rest of the organization has been doing.
The BMS is made up of top-level groups that determine features of the program. These practical groups are the most important regions of a business management. They will help you manage your company. A BMS can also transform your life company’s product sales. By examining your data and identifying the main element performance indicators of the organization, you are able to determine if you’re on the right track. This is important for any BMS. The best some may be customized to your specific needs.
A BMS should certainly provide management with equipment for organizing, controlling, and monitoring actions. It should end up being linked to the success standards of a firm. It should be adaptable enough to allow the different functions of a provider. A business’s success is dependent upon how well it complies with its targets. The BMS should be able to offer the essential tools making decisions with greater efficiency. The main element elements of a BMS consist of:
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When making the selection of key performance indicators or KPIs in a company, a thorough analysis of the objectives pursued as an organization, their context, and how each process will contribute to achieving them must be done.
Standards such as ISO 9001 require you to generate data and define indicators for all processes, in this case you must pay special attention to those that affect the level of customer satisfaction by introducing quality indicators, such as “Delivery Time”, “Complaints Received”, “Qualification in Satisfaction Survey”, etc.
When the key performance indicators don’t reach the goal, they usually have repercussions beyond the responsible process itself and you have to solve these breaches as soon as possible, I give you 5 reasons that could be occurring in your company why you are not complying with your key performance indicators or KPIs.
Table of Contents
1- The goal of the KPIs is unattainable
This point is the first that you must analyze, many times top management defines goals that are too ambitious thinking that it will generate motivation in those responsibles, but the opposite ends up happening.
While the goals that are defined for the key performance indicators should provide a challenge that leads to continuous improvement of the process at each evaluation period, it is also important to maintain an attainable figure within its capabilities.
2- The root cause of non-compliance of the KPIs is not properly defined
When you are analyzing why they are not reaching the desired goals, always make sure to do an adequate root cause analysis just as you would when you make a report of corrective actions or non-compliance audit within the ISO 9001 quality management systems.
Use tools such as the 5 whys, Ishikawa diagram, etc. Even the simple act of brainstorming with those involved will give you a much broader picture of why the goal is not being reached.
3- Those responsible for the processes involved don’t participate in the resolution of the problem.
As I just mentioned in the previous point, you must handle the resolution of the non-fulfillment of the objective as a corrective actions.
Commonly, full responsibility for the resolution of the problem is assigned to the leader of the process that has failed but remember that the ideal is to work within a process-based approach, as required by ISO 9001.
With this in mind you will realize that all processes are connected, some more closely than others, and what happens in a process affects the others, so when a breach occurs all those involved must participate both in determining the root cause as well as in the problem solving.
This involvement of various processes is even more apparent when it comes to the company’s quality indicators.
4- Lack of training and communication of results to staff
It is likely that staff are not sufficiently aware of the importance of obtaining data in their processes or of how key performance indicators or KPIs and quality indicators affect both the level of well-being of the company and that of the customer.
If they don’t have a clear perception of why the measurement of the performance of the processes is being carried out and the control implemented in them, it will be difficult for them to commit to obtaining data and solving problems when objectives and goals are not reached.
In this case, the only option is to provide training to the staff until there is real awareness, in turn, the result of the reviews should always be communicated to all the staff involved in the process, thus increasing their level of participation and commitment.
5- The review period is not adequate
When you define the key performance indicators, you must establish the period in which the data will be analyzed to know if they are reaching the indicated goals.
This review period must be adequate, since if it’s very short you will not give the process the opportunity to reflect the results when you implement corrective actions and if you define it too long you will lose control over it when you perform the analysis.
Evaluate with the person in charge, the capacity and objectives of the process to be able to define an adequate analysis period that can reflect results when improvement actions are implemented.
One more reason… There is no participation of top management
The support and participation of top management is essential for any management system to function properly, not in vain the ISO 9001 standard has a specific requirement in this regard in order to ensure an adequate level of quality and customer satisfaction.
Without the involvement of top management, it will be difficult to properly monitor the evaluation of processes and the strategy to follow when a process doesn’t reach its goals.
For this reason, it’s important that you include those responsible for top management in all dynamics, since the initial training to define the indicators and each results review, thus you will obtain a greater commitment to them in the improvement strategy.
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Nearly every day for the eight years, Suga Yoshihide had taken questions from reporters. Especially in times when the government faced tough criticism -- from allegations of corruption to unpopular policy decisions -- the top spokesperson seemed unflappable. Then, he took this step into the glare of the public eye. Suga unveiled Japan's new era name: Reiwa. It's an uncommon honor, which made millions look at the Prime Minister's trusted aide and adviser in a new light. It earned him the nickname "uncle Reiwa" -- and ignited political speculation about the man behind the podium.
Suga Yoshihide quickly emerged as a leading contender to succeed Abe Shinzo as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and prime minister of Japan. Power is a prize politicians vie for, not a ripe fruit that falls into their laps. With the abrupt resignation of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the country's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is looking most likely to step into Abe's shoes. Japan's Liberal Democratic Party decided to hold an abridged election, with ballots cast only by lawmakers and three representatives from each of the 47 prefectural chapters. It meant not all party members get to vote. The new format gave the advantage to Suga, a candidate who is close to Abe and had wide-ranging support among LDP lawmakers.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide said, "I am determined to do whatever I can to push forward the efforts that Prime Minister Abe had been making with all his might. Japan is facing a crisis, unlike anything we have ever experienced. We need to do all we can to promote social and economic activities while preventing the spread of the coronavirus. We have to protect jobs and revitalize the economy. We must steadily carry out reforms, with an eye to the post-coronavirus era."
Suga laid out his priorities 02 Septemer 2020. He was hoping to tackle challenges stemming from Japan's aging society, solve the issue of the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea, and amend the Constitution. Suga had served as chief cabinet secretary for more than seven years... longer than anyone in history. Japan had faced major disasters and increased regional tension, including a spike in ballistic missile launches from North Korea. Suga had also pushed forward with the relocation of a US base in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, and promoted Japan as a destination for foreign tourists. Shortly after Suga officially announced his candidacy, leaders of the party's largest factions made their case for why he should be elected.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso Taro said, "As a member of the cabinet, I appreciate what we have achieved during the past seven years. After watching his news conference, I'm convinced he is qualified to continue this government`s policies and I`ve decided to support him."
Suga's clout was dented somewhat by scandals that toppled two cabinet ministers close to him last October. But an increasing number of people in the party wanted him to succeed Abe in order to continue policies, including the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Suga wrote on his blog on 30 August 2020 that he will do his utmost to carry out his responsibilities to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of the people. In the race to choose the new leader of Japan's main governing Liberal Democratic Party, support for Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide appeared to be widening. Suga was expected to officially announce his candidacy once the schedule for the election is decided.
On 31 August 2020, he met the head of the party's largest faction and other senior party members to ask for support. Finance Minister Aso Taro told the senior members of his faction, the second-largest in the party, to ensure that its members support Suga. Another faction led by Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro confirmed that it will also support Suga. Of the seven LDP factions, four have decided to back Suga, and another is likely to follow suit. Several groups of lawmakers who don't belong to any faction are also supporting him. This means that Suga had already secured support from more than two-thirds of the party lawmakers.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide was effectively the Deputy Prime Minister. Suga doubles as minister in charge of the abduction issue. As his domestic profile soared with the Reiwa announcement. It is rare for a chief Cabinet secretary, who is tasked with the country's crisis control, to make a trip abroad. Suga had an established reputation for his prowess in assisting the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while keeping a watchful eye over bureaucrats at government ministries and agencies. His recognition among the Japanese public also surged after he announced the new Imperial era name "Reiwa" on April 1, earning him the nickname "Uncle Reiwa." Suga’s starring role in the unveiling of the new era name solved his name-recognition problem with a single stroke. Within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Suga was touted to be a favorite candidate in the next party leadership election.
On 26 September 2006 newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his Cabinet. In general, he made conservative choices and included many politicians with whom he had close relations as well as those who actively supported his campaign. Minister of Internal Affairs & Communication, Minister of State for Privatization of Postal Services -- Yoshihide SUGA, then 58, was a fourth term member of the Lower House representing Kanagawa 2nd district, first elected in 1996.
Suga is considered a close ally of Abe, both cheerleader and advisor, whose views closely reflect Abe's thinking. Suga organized the cross-factional Abe support group among younger members of the LDP in June 2006, enlisting 100 lawmakers to back Abe's "Second Chance" initiative. The so-called "Second Chance" campaign was designed to give people who have failed in business a second chance. In June 2005 Suga joined an LDP study group formed to support Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine. Suga also chaired an LDP study group to study economic sanctions on North Korea in October 2004.
Although considered a loyal supporter of Koizumi's reform agenda throughout the Koizumi administration, the media describe Suga as a party-oriented politician rather than a policy-oriented one. Formerly a member of the Kochikai faction, Suga belonged to the Niwa/Koga group. He served in several posts in the Koizumi Administration including as LDP Deputy Secretary General (2001), Parliamentary Secretary for MLIT (2002), Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) (2003), and the LDP's Deputy Chairman for the Diet Affairs Committee (2004). He was appointed Senior Vice Minister for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) in November 2005 where he was responsible for postal privatization and telecommunications issues. At MIC he was considered a strong supporter of former MIC Minister Takenaka. Despite that, his specific views on postal privatization are unknown among those who have closely followed the debate on postal privatization.
In the 2012 LDP leadership election, Suga persuaded Abe to run in the race, telling him that he was the sole viable candidate. A senior ruling party official commented, "If Suga was told he would be the only viable contender in the next party leadership race, he probably wouldn't be able to decline." As the cabinet’s key spokesperson, Suga had done a remarkable job of avoiding gaffes or sparking controversy at his numerous press conferences and briefings. He may not be entertaining, but he is certainly reliable.
Suga was born and raised in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, as the son of a strawberry farmer. Such roots might help explain his strong belief in boosting regional economies. He had repeatedly expressed pride about introducing a program in 2008 that allows people to pick which local government gets their residential tax. Suga had also suggested there are too many regional banks in Japan - especially as the population continues to fall in rural areas. He stresses the need to consolidate those with poor profitability while providing more support to small and medium-sized enterprises. Doing this will require regulatory reform - something Suga says he will carry out as prime minister.
Suga is a strong advocate of cheaper communication fees. He had constantly pressured telecommunications firms to slash mobile phone rates by as much as 40 percent, and might also take aim at other public utility charges, too. Still, experts say any price cuts could fly in the face of the government's 2-percent inflation target. On the other hand, Suga says another consumption tax increase may be on the cards - citing the government's mounting debts and a social security bill pushed ever higher by Japan's aging society. He was quick to stress that it wouldn't happen within the next 10 years, but that doesn't mean he won't move toward fiscal consolidation after the coronavirus pandemic.
Promoting digitization had become a top priority ever since the pandemic began. The government's bungled distribution of subsidies to businesses and people led to growing public anger. The fact that IT infrastructure on the federal and local levels is not connected had made it difficult for those in need to navigate the online application system. Suga had also served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication. He recently put forward the idea of rearranging and unifying government institutions and having one single agency handle digital policy. He vows to break down the walls among different government agencies.
At a time when most LDP Diet members are either former bureaucrats or the products of political dynasties, Suga stood out as a self-made politician. Suga was born 06 December 1948 in the northern Prefecture of Akita, the first son of a farmer. After graduating high school in Akita, he left for Tokyo and graduated from Hosei University's Faculty of Law. He worked as secretary for Hikosaburo Okonogi, a member of the Lower House, for 11 years. In 1987 Suga was elected to the Yokohama City Council. He still lives in an apartment in Yokohama City with his wife and three sons. His policy interests include economic sanctions against North Korea, illegal immigration, reform of the social insurance system, public safety, youth baseball and soccer. Suga enjoys eating candy, bread and seafood. He does not drink alcohol. Hobbies include karaoke, jogging and fishing.
Japan's Prime Minister would not try to keep the helm of the main governing Liberal Democratic Party. on 03 September 2021 Suga Yoshihide dropped out of its upcoming leadership election, meaning the country will have a new Prime Minister within weeks. Suga said, "As I was planning to run, I found I needed a lot of energy to think about coronavirus measures and the election campaign. I decided that it's impossible to do both, and that I should devote myself to trying to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which is something that I promised the people of this country that I would do."
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How Does Portal Facebook Work
Facebook is advancing from being just a social media made of millions of code to something more of physical gadget, blending with Alexa on the new facebook portal device to make life more easy and flexible. Facebook and Alexa said instead of pressing it, just say it and get it done.
facebook facetime got bigger and better.
what is a portal from facebook
Facebook Portal is a Facebook platform for smart displays. The product device line includes four models that provide video chat via Facebook Messenger, augmented by a camera that can automatically zoom in and monitor the movements of people.
facebook portal with Alexa
For better performance and smart device, facebook has integrated Alexa with their newly introduced device, in other to help you get satisfaction with your automated home.
The day just got simpler with Alexa. Remain in the awareness and enjoy all you’re in. Speech activates the smart home to see who’s at the front door, listen to your favorite music, watch the news, and more. Only ask the question. Read more about how to integrate Alexa and portal here
how does portal facebook work
All apps on the Facebook website support “Smart Camera and Smart Sound” software that is powered by AI. This software allows cameras to identify and follow people around the room, automatically pan and zoom, while reducing background noise and improving the voice of the caller.
This also means that the Portal apps can pick up several people in the room and monitor them as they travel around with a wide-angle lens built-in. For Portal TV and Portal+, we’ve seen this in practice and it’s very impressive. The company says it has worked closely with experienced filmmakers to ensure smooth panning and tracking is not too quick or jarring.
Facebook said it was like “leading your personal video calls by your own cinematographer and sound crew.”
It is also programmed to identify only people and not their animals, so a dog or cat wandering into the room will not disturb the call. But the organization was quick to point out that only people in the room were noticed by the cameras, not individual individuals. No information will be sent to Facebook in any way on who is on the call.
It is also possible to place these calls via Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, so end-to-end encryption is an option.
Even designed with intelligent microphone software, Facebook Portal uses beamforming to monitor people talking and reduce ambient and background noise during the call. It includes as many as eight microphones on Facebook Portal TV, which means that when you put a video call on these apps, you can comfortably talk with a whole family.
portal from facebook price
Facebook brings to television its connected device strategy. Today, the company announced Portal TV, an accessory that brings wide-angle video chats from the company to the house’s largest screen. Portal TV will start shipping for $149 on November 5th— or you can bundle two portal phones together and take $50 off as well.
Private by Design
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The History of Labor Unions
A labor union, or trade union, is an organization of workers who have joined together to give their union “presumerial” or full union status. The union’s purpose is to protect and expand the rights of their membership and to work for and fight for the benefit of all workers in the city. The union also keeps in mind the needs and interests of the individual workers. There are several types of labor unions: the International Association of Industries (IAI), the National Union (NO), the skeleton union (SAG), and the Federation of city Metro (FM).
Development. The History of Labor Unions
The formation of labor unions is said to have begun with the Pullman Strike of 1866, in which skilled Pullman workers in Chicago went on strike because of poor pay and poor working conditions. A second important development in labor union history concerns the railways, which arose in the 1840s. The Northern and Southern Railway (NCR) and the Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE) came to town, drawing the attention of a great many people to the organization of labor. The railroads have played an important role in the history of the labor union.
The interest of the railroad companies in labor unions is mentioned in the famous quotation by Robert Burns:
” Railroads! The blood of our children is a wage. Railroads! The voice of our fathers is a Railroads! Quem manti, utra petra?”
William Amoco, a railway company president, holds up a mirror to his railroad union friends and tells them:
“I have two tasks for you. You must either make the peace or lose the war. Either you will work for the living or lose the war. You will either work for the track or lose the track. Begin therefore immediately. Work for the living or lose the war.
The second task is that of the living. You have before you certain men who will not only draw you into the conflict in defense of your rights and our national security, but will also give you the financial support you need and the men you need along with them who will do the fighting. These are men whose services are indispensable. They are needed on every great train, in every great battle. cry of “told you so” will be a vain thing before they have got the load. The History of Labor Unions
To sum it up, the railroad has before it a whole life allegorical – a Bible story. It is up to us whether we will draw the mirror. I do not think we shall resist the temptation. How I say! If a operator would rather be called a pork pie than a pig, I would rather call a pork pie than a pig. I think I will call him a pig. Is a pig invented now? No, it was not invented until about 1873.10
“The LIMITS of Language” was a major watershed in the study of language. This book by Balkan and Shrieve was a landmark in that it made the distinction between constituent and constituent terms and also between parameters and constants. By making the distinction between the two, Balkan and Shrieve have laid the foundations for the linguistic theory known asacre fallacy.
The main message of the LIMITS of Language is that it can serve as a manual of principles that classified all entailments of language according to three categories: Closure, Closure plus Anaggeration.
The book ofLimits of Languageby J. W. Hirschfeld, Ph.D, L.P.P., and George A. Miller, Ph.D, L.P.P., was perhaps the most important book ever written on language. The contributors to this book include George A. Miller; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Munich, Germany; Karl J. Uppe, Olympia, USA; Gabriel Tzig, Tel Aviv, Israel; and dozens of other eminent scientists and researchers in the world.This book contained a total of 534 pages. The printing date was in 1969.
Time has computers, and all kinds of information.We have references to computers and the Internet, even electricity and magnetism. This does not mean that we have forgotten the language of computers and the Internet. This is the new language of computers and the Internet and we need to learn it. So the providers of books, the professors, the trade publishers, they have a duty to their clients to provide this book to the students.
A web search will turn up hundreds of web sites on the Internet, might contains links to one of the sites you’re looking for, and a link to more information and Even anonymous instructions about to download viruses and other types of destructive programs.
If you haven’t even bought a book lately, the best way is go to the Internet, there is lots of information for sale, as well as the best books, for sale. You can either go to a bookstore or just go online. | <urn:uuid:b6cc56db-2d74-4c4a-8e20-8a1e9efc8a60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teausa.net/2022/02/23/the-history-of-labor-unions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959595 | 1,025 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Originally published by The Washington Post
A Congolese woman at the center of a lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of unlawfully separating her from her 7-year-old daughter after they crossed the California-Mexico border seeking asylum was released Tuesday, an official with the American Civil Liberties Union said.
The woman was released from a detention center in San Diego under orders coming “from up top” in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. The child, however, remains about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away from her mother in a Chicago facility, he said.
Efforts on Wednesday will shift toward obtaining the girl’s release and reuniting her with her mother, Gelernt said. The ACLU also will continue to litigate the lawsuit filed Feb. 26 in federal court in San Diego seeking relief for other immigrant parents separated from their minor children, he said. | <urn:uuid:d311271f-81bf-4276-8555-f6c0121175bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unitedwestay.org/mother-separated-from-child-in-immigrant-detention-released/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962759 | 205 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Variations on a Theme: Handling Transference from Freud to Laplanche
Paul Kellett van Leer
The notion of transference is a peculiarly psychoanalytic one; a notion that is quintessential to psychoanalytic theory, and one that demands, one way or another, an ‘accounting for’. Yet, at the same time, the notion of transference—particularly as it is exemplified by the transference neurosis that is manufactured in and by analysis—itself transfers an everyday phenomenon into the rarefied atmosphere of the consulting room; a process that peculiarises the everyday, refocussing it via the lens of psychoanalytic theorising. For is not transference constitutive of what is evoked, what is called up within us in relation to any given encounter whether it be accidental or routine, surprising or commonplace; an encounter such as an ineffably careless gesture (so poignantly portrayed by Kundera, 1984, for example), or the most sublime artistic expression such as, say, a work of music? And while transference may not be the whole truth of what is evoked in these moments, it is surely nothing but the truth that such everyday evocations are ‘the product of the meeting and interpenetration of images, people, events, or things with which I have identified, wanted to identify, or could not help myself from being identified with … all the landmarks in my life, whether I am aware of them or not … all the characteristics which have blended into a new me’ (Roustang, 1984:163). If such is the stuff of human life, then transference represents a fundamental dimension of relating, one that we would not be without, and it can be of little surprise that it has been accorded a privileged place in the psychoanalytic gaze.
Like other such concepts that have become central to psychoanalytic theorising, transference is one born of Freud’s clinical experience; an emergent phenomenon that required conceptualisation in order to inform a more or less comprehensive model of the ‘apparatus of the soul’. In its surprising nature, transference represents a phenomenon akin to the uncanny of the unconscious—a notion to which it is intimately connected—with its unexpected, decentring manifestation of the return of something forgotten yet familiarly strange. Freud was certainly surprised by the emergence of transferential dynamics in the consulting room, since his early analytic model had not accounted for such a strange haunting, and though analysts since Freud have been forearmed with various theories developed to account for the transference, nonetheless we continue to be taken by surprise when, like a jack-in-the-box it springs forth. How, then, are we to prepare for the unexpected; how are we to handle such an inevitable strangeness? | <urn:uuid:59c89947-71da-49c7-b1d7-4d39a90727f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.the-site.org.uk/sitegeist/spring-2015/variations-on-a-theme-handling-transference-from-freud-to-laplanche/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943536 | 588 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Below is a clip art border or perhaps a frame. I wish I knew how to resize it to make it smaller, so perhaps someone could even offer a suggestion on doing that. But what I want to do is learn how to take a clip art border, such as this, and use it in Pages to frame a page, be it for a letter, or an email, or in Messages. I have searched high and low in Apple Help, YouTube and the internet, have not found (or perhaps not recognized) instructions on how to do this. Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology in my search - border, frame, whatever. I can find all sorts of instructions on how to border a document with lines - thin, thick, dashed, fuzzy, etc - but nothing on something like below. My goal is to either create the frame, then type within it, or to type a document then add the frame around the outside of it. I guess another way of looking at it is to create a special stationery. Thanks for the help! | <urn:uuid:07bf0d2f-4131-4bd3-aeca-497c94c57cd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-add-clip-art-border-to-a-pages-document-pages-email-etc.2272123/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963109 | 211 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Options for Breaking Edges?
How do you guys break edges? I understand that this may be personal preference, but do you take the time to rout or shape, say, a 3/16" or 1/8" edge, or do you use a hand style edger, or a sander, or hand sand? Question really centers around what looks the best (in general) and consistency on different parts of the project. - Keith Deck
Tim Inman: How do I break the edges? Appropriately. It really depends upon the design of the piece you're working with. Some furniture may need a quarter-inch rounding over on the edges. I have a friend who just can't get enough Mission style furniture. Although not my personal favorite, Mission/Stickley/Roycrofters furniture would indicate a larger radius over the edges. Other styles have higher and sharper "arises" on the corners and edges. To severely round them over would be wrong. A swipe of sandpaper would do. Long story shorter - I think the radius has much more to do with style and design than functionality. I'd say break the edges appropriately to the style of the piece.
Chris Marshall: I break or "ease" almost every edge or corner on my projects that someone will be able to feel after final assembly. For me, adding a roundover or chamfer does a couple of important things. First, it makes a corner or edge more pleasant to touch - and that's what people like to do with attractive woodworking projects ... touch them. Breaking edges often imparts shadow lines that make a project look like you attended to even the smallest detail and gives your eye something more to study and admire. An eased edge will resist chipping or splintering better than a sharp intersection, and it won't hurt as much if you bump it with a shin, hip or elbow. I tend not to exaggerate broken edges by making them too big. Mine are often 1/8-in. or less in profile. The bigger they are, the more amateurish I think they look - like someone went "hog-wild" with a router. I use a small roundover or chamfering bit in a trim router or grab my low-angle block plane for this task. | <urn:uuid:6e3a6919-b254-4afa-966c-a346400be060> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rockler.com/learn/options-for-breaking-edges | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955616 | 467 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into renal tubular epithelial cells by defined transcription factors
Kaminski et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2016 Nov 7. doi: 10.1038/ncb3437.
Direct reprogramming can convert one cell type into another. Based on their evolutionary conserved expression during renal organogenesis in mouse and Xenopus, Kaminski et al. identified 4 factors that are able to directly reprogram fibroblasts into renal tubule cells. Induced renal tubule epithelial cells (iRECs) are similar to their native counterparts with respect to their transcriptional profile and morphological features, and can integrate into kidney organoids and decellularized kidneys. iRECs are sensitive to nephrotoxic drugs and may facilitate disease modelling, drug testing, and regenerative approaches.
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Figure 1 Systematic selection criteria identify candidate reprogramming factors. (a) A schematic illustrating the strategy and criteria used to identify renal reprogramming factors. TFs, transcription factors. (b) Scatter plots depicting the absolute and relative expression levels of transcription factors in liver, brain and kidney tissue23. Factors used for successful reprogramming to hepatocytes and neurons are highlighted in red. Dashed lines indicate the level of the 50th percentile of absolute expression and the 95th percentile of relative expression. The area boxed in red includes the 55 candidate reprogramming factors for renal cell types. (c) Representative images of in situ hybridizations of the indicated genes on E14 mouse kidney sections and stage 26 (St. 26) Xenopus whole-mount embryos. The full set of images is contained in Supplementary Figs 2 and 3. Scale bars, 500 μm.
Figure 7 iRECs integrate into reaggregated renal organoids and repopulate decellularized kidneys. (a) A schematic illustration of the reaggregation assay. GFP+ iRECs and E13 TOM+ kidneys were trypsin-digested, mixed in a 1:10 ratio and grown on an air/liquid interface culture. (b) Confocal live-imaging of renal organoids reaggregated with either Ksp-Cre GFP+ iRECs or GFP- transduced control MEFs. The white boxed area is shown enlarged in the right panel. (c) Immunostaining of kidney organoids reaggregated with MEFs or iRECs for the indicated proteins. (d) Tile-scanned confocal images of entire reaggregates after staining for laminin, and enlargement of the white boxed area. (e) Quantification of GFP+ iRECs and MEFs detected inside or outside the laminin-stained basement membrane of reaggregated tubules. Error bars, s.e.m.; student’s unpaired t -test, n = 9 z -stacks, ∗∗∗ P < 0.001. (f) Schematic illustration of the repopulation assay. Wild-type (WT) kidneys were decellularized and injected with iRECs. Confocal images and 3D reconstructions of decellularized kidneys repopulated with Ksp-Cre GFP+ iRECs and immunostained for E-cadherin. Nuclei were stained with Hoechst; ECM, extracellular matrix; MIP, maximum intensity projection of confocal z -stacks. Scale bars, 50 μm (b,c,f), 200 μm (d).
Figure 8 Reprogramming of human fibroblasts. (a) Phase-contrast image and immunostaining for the indicated proteins in untreated and 4TF- treated human fibroblasts. (b) Relative mRNA expression level of the indicated genes as determined by qPCR. Error bars, s.e.m. Significant differences were assessed by Student’s unpaired t -test, n = 3 biologically independent samples, ∗∗∗ P < 0.001, ∗∗ P < 0.01, ∗ P < 0.05. (c) Untreated human fibroblasts and human induced renal epithelial cells (h-iRECs) cultured in 3D Matrigel. Shown are maximum intensity projections of confocal z-stacks. (d) Matrigel-grown h-iREC spheres stained for actin (phalloidin) and β-catenin. (e) Percentage of PROM1+ /EPCAM+ double-positive cells (top panel) and percentage of CDH16-GFP+ cells (bottom panel) as determined by flow cytometry. 4TF human fibroblasts were treated with SV40. (f) Heatmap of RNA-seq expression analysis in human fibroblasts (0TF), CDH16-GFP+ sorted h-iRECs (4TF) and human kidney. Differentially regulated genes (0TF versus 4TFs, one-way ANOVA, P < 0.0001, n = 3 independent biological samples) were hierarchically clustered. The number of genes in each cluster is shown on the right (Pearson’s correlation coefficient 0.7). Scale bars, 50μm (a), 100 μm (c), 20 μm (d).
Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd on behalf of Nature Cell Biology, copyright, Nat Cell Biol. 2016 Nov 7. doi: 10.1038/ncb3437.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federally funded program that offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families. The program is run by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). If you live in this state and need to apply for a Washington Quest Card, then the information below shows you how to apply for food stamps in Washington. If you have additional questions or concerns about the Washington SNAP program or the EBT application process, please contact the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services for assistance.
How to apply for Washington food stamps
You can get the application at your local Community Services Office (CSO) ,or you can call and ask that an application be sent to you. You may complete an on-line application by using the WashingtonConnection.org web site. On WashingtonConnection.org you can:
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Turn in your application
You can get the application at your local Community Services Office (CSO) ,or you can call and ask that an application be sent to you. You may complete an on-line application by clicking here. Use the on-line application to:
Some programs don't require an interview; others do. At the end of your interview you will be told whether or not additional information, or verification, is needed to make a decision on your case. If more information is needed, we will always request it in writing.
Submit requested information
You can mail us requested information to our office. Please do not turn in original documents. If you bring items to our office, you can request a receipt.
When all information is received, we decide if you qualify for services
We can serve you better if we get all the information we request in a timely manner. Please ask if you need help getting information. If we do not receive all the information, you may not get all the benefits you need. When a decision is made on your case you will get a decision in writing.
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Who is eligible for Washington food stamps?
Washington State residents who meet:
Legal immigrants who are not eligible for federal basic food solely due their immigration status may be eligible for the state Food Assistance Program (FAP).
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Bookstores crumble under Amazon’s hegemony. Book sections vanish into journalism’s glory days. And book critics fade behind a cacophony of online reviews.
But Oprah abides!
In the latest demonstration of Her awesome power, the talk-show diva smiled early on a debut novel scheduled for release in January. Knopf, one of the nation’s most prestigious publishers, immediately bowed to O’s wishes, more than doubled its print run and moved the release up a month — into the publishing wasteland of mid-December.
More power to her. So what if all the important best-of-the-year lists have already appeared (along with the National Book Awards)? Nothing is more valuable than that “Oprah’s Book Club” sticker on the dust jacket, which guarantees Ayana Mathis’s novel a vastly larger audience than it might have drawn.
Making the selection for what she now calls her Book Club 2.0, Winfrey invoked the name of the author of one of her earlier picks, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, but that’s potentially misleading. Although they both write about the travails of African American women, Mathis is a more accessible writer. Her prose style, polished at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is clean and transparent, and though she manipulates time and chronology in sophisticated ways, she never leaves us, as Morrison sometimes does, in the dense mist of her private vision (see: “A Mercy”).
“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” falls into that growing tradition of books that hover somewhere between a novel and a collection of short stories — an unintended effect, perhaps, of the workshop setting that so many writers pass through nowadays. Like the chapters in Kevin Powers’s Iraq war novel “The Yellow Birds,” sections of Mathis’s book cry out for anthologizing, but their effect grows richer and more complex as they accrue.
The first chapter, set in 1925, is a fever dream of parental panic, a tale about the death of infant twins that suggests “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” will be the kind of overwrought maternal tragedy that Winfrey is too often unfairly charged with favoring. In fact, Mathis has something more subtle in store. The next chapter picks up two decades later, and each subsequent chapter jumps ahead a few years, rotating through the lives of Hattie Shepherd’s many children — “the twelve tribes.”
Among the wonders of Mathis’s storytelling is her ability to orient us gracefully in each of these new settings. Some of Hattie’s children have wandered far, others have remained under her care, but none can escape the infection of her anger, her incurable resentment at her husband, “the greatest mistake of her life,” who subjects her to “these endless pregnancies.”
The first adult child we meet is 22-year-old Floyd, an itinerant trumpet player who has his pick of fans after every gig. The subject of this moving story is all its own, but Mathis quickly establishes themes that run throughout the remaining chapters. Despite his promiscuous treatment of women, what really troubles Floyd is his attraction to other men. Twenty years before Stonewall, this young musician has no way to comprehend himself except in the tropes laid down by his family’s church — as an abomination, a Judas. Far from home, Floyd feels “like a kite broken off from its string.” His increasingly reckless desire is “a thing too awful to be tolerated.” Denying his affections, “Floyd smelled his cowardice; he was all rot inside.”
While a violently homophobic culture exacerbates Floyd’s self-loathing, that desperate sense of inadequacy is the horrible legacy Hattie has left to all the children she raised with such ferocious single-mindedness. They yearn to be normal, settled, respectable — to grasp the prize that has eluded their mother. Healthy or sick, successful or impoverished, none of them ever feel the balm of her love. Even her glad-handing husband thinks, “If she would stop hating him for one day, one hour, he’d have the strength to do the right thing by her.”
That longing for her approval takes a fascinating turn in the story of Six, Hattie’s runty teenage son. Badly scalded in a childhood accident, he grows up seething with rage but also prone to fits of divine eloquence. In church, grace comes “on him like a seizure and then [leaves] him . . . frail and hurting,” Mathis writes. “He knew his Jesus spells were another indicator that he was a freak, not merely of body but of spirit. His soul was susceptible to God’s whimsy, just as his body was susceptible to any opportunistic thing that might hurt it.” Sent away to preach in Alabama church revivals when he’s just 15, Six regards his ability to inspire and heal as a curse, a power that makes him feel inadequate and fraudulent. This enthralling chapter, laced with allusions to the Gospels, delves into knotty issues of spirituality and doubt in ways that recall the work of John Updike and Marilynne Robinson.
As these tragic tales play out and the death of her twins fades from immediacy, there’s a risk that Hattie will seem just a harridan, a frigid wife, an angry mother who whispers at one point, “Somebody always wants something from me. They’re eating me alive.” But Mathis returns to her again and again, adding new dimensions to this portrait of a matriarch constantly struggling against poverty and disappointment. “How was she supposed to bear a life like this?” she wonders. We see her abandon a chance for romance in favor of her family’s survival, and in the novel’s most breathtaking chapter, she considers a sacrifice that will kill her.
Too many writers of literary fiction tend to stage intimate stories in the hermetically sealed worlds of their own clever imaginations, but Mathis never loses touch with the geography and the changing national culture through which her characters move. “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” is infused with African Americans’ conflicted attitudes about the North and the South during the Great Migration. After fleeing Georgia with her widowed mother, young Hattie vows never to leave Philadelphia, where she and her children eventually settle for good, but the past holds a tempting allure for many of these regional refugees. Fears about how they’ll be judged, by white people and fellow black residents, inform the attitudes and longings of these women for decades. “They were, most of them, perpetually donning and polishing their northern-city selves,” Mathis writes, “molting whatever little southern town they or their families had come from five or ten or twenty years before . . . or bragging about their families’ wide porches in whatever good Negro neighborhood they’d lived in, which was just a roundabout way of demanding that Philadelphia give them their due.”
In the long family arc that Mathis describes, the painful life of one remarkably resilient woman is placed against the hopes and struggles of millions of African Americans who held this nation to its promise. Without Oprah’s intervention, “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” might have been one of the greatest novels of 2013. But now — just in time — it’s certainly one of the best of 2012.
Charles is the fiction editor of The Washington Post. You can follow him on Twitter @RonCharles.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
By Ayana Mathis
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Wwise SDK 2018.1.11
Almost all operating systems have callbacks or notifications for the following events:
- Pressing Home button
- Putting application in background/foreground
- Starting/stopping user music
These events are not handled automatically by Wwise. The main reason is that some of the OS APIs don't allow multiple callbacks or notification receivers. Therefore, the Wwise SDK needs to be told of those events to avoid "eating" those events instead of the game.
For information on how to handle user-music replacements, please read Handling User Music (BGM) and DVR.
In general, all game systems can put the application in the background for a time. Wwise can have three possible behaviors, depending on your preferences or the platform's requirements:
- Suspend all audio rendering: Call AK::SoundEngine::Suspend(false) to do so.
- Partially suspend (keep processing events, but don't render audio): Call AK::SoundEngine::Suspend(true) . This is useful if your game still runs and sends calls to the sound engine.
- Continue to play audio: There's nothing to do.
In general, when the application is put in the background and Suspend(false) is used, the game should not call any of the sound engine APIs. Posting events and such would work, but would accumulate and be played all at the same time when the system would be awoken. To resume the audio processing, call AK::SoundEngine::WakeupFromSuspend() followed by a call to RenderAudio() when receiving the proper notification from the system. You may queue up other events before calling RenderAudio().
You should read about each platform's requirements in the manufacturer's documentation to choose the right behavior.
On Android, it is important to handle the App Lost/Gain Focus and the App Pause/Resume events. Google's requirements state that an app that is not in the foreground should use as little CPU as possible (preferably none). This can be achieved by calling Suspend(false) . See also BGM details for Android.
Apple requires that as little CPU as possible is used when the application is in the background. This is handled automatically by Wwise. See also BGM details for iOS.
There are no official guidelines for Mac, but it would be coherent with other platforms to cut the sound with Suspend() when the application process is not active. Whether this is a hard suspend (false parameter) or an active suspend (true parameter) depends on the game implementation.
There are no official guidelines for Linux, but it would be coherent with other platforms to cut the sound with Suspend() when the application process is not active. Whether this is a hard suspend (false parameter) or an active suspend (true parameter) depends on the game implementation.
While there are no explicit requirements for Windows, muting the audio while the application is not in the foreground is usually desirable. To do so, you should provide the hWnd of your main window to the AkPlatformInitSettings structure when calling Ak::SoundEngine::Init(). The audio thread will keep running in this case (equivalent to Suspend(true) ). This is handled by the OS.
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Gr8 Neighbors: Dat Desk NOLA
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - So many people have stepped up and done amazing things during the COVID-19 pandemic, whether they're giving back or paying it forward.
One New Orleans area woman is making life a little easier for students and parents who were forced to adapt to a new way of learning.
At Holis Hannan's business, Floor 13 NOLA, imagination and a love of art makes for a spectacular showroom.
Wall-to-wall with repurposed furniture. It had just opened up in Elmwood in February when the pandemic shut it down.
"I remember the first couple of weeks, telling all of my workers, we're gonna be fine, this is not going to effect us at all," Hannan says. "We didn't realize the severity of it."
Hannan knew she had to do something.
"Can't sew, can't make masks or gowns. I'm not a doctor, what can I do? I can paint!" says Hannan. "And being a former teacher, I saw what was going on, actually to be honest with you, I heard cries from my friends with kids, going oh my gosh, they have all of their homework all over the dining table, what are you going to do! Then it dawned on me. Desks!"
She has desks and lots of them from a recent hotel liquidation. Originally she was going to give them away, as is, then the artist in her took over.
"I said I'm going to paint the desks and I reached out to friends because I started thinking that's a lot of desks, a lot of painting. And everybody said I can help, I can help!" says Hannan.
The salvaged desks are now incredible inspiring works of art, part of the Dat Desk NOLA project.
Hannan says, "My whole goal was to make these kids want to go to their desk and be able to say that's my desk, also to inspire them, so I started taking inspirational quotes to put on them so when they opened the drawer, it says things like you're strong or they're good enough or they're amazing, that kind of thing."
It is repurposing with a purpose. And for Hannan, there's a silver lining.
She's painting again. That's something she hasn't been able to do since her warehouse burned down along Bayou St. John two years ago.
"I think the biggest lesson is slowing down for the things that I love to do like painting."
And on the day we caught up with Hannan, delivering desks, something she calls the icing on the cake.
Each child who receives a custom made desk is hand picked by a teacher who sees a need.
Hannan started with a goal of painting 50 desks, but it has turned into a labor of love.
She says, "I personally don't see this stopping because it's not just about COVID and kids not having desks at this time and homeschooling. You're always going to have homework and always going to have kids in need, so I want to keep it going because I think there will always be kids who aren't going to have them and we can supply them because I always have desks!"
And in true Gr8 Neighbor fashion, she isn't about recognition, she only hopes her good deeds inspire others to do the same.
"The first thing I thought was why are they doing this segment on me? They should be doing nurses, because there are so many people deserving," says Hannan. "But at the same time, I think I'm coming to the reality that this is necessary and this is great. The more people hear about people like me, the more people might help me do the things I do and for me that would be the biggest payoff, to have people call me and say I want to help you do that thing."
The Dat Desk program is now expanding into Orleans Parish as well. Hannan has also started selling custom-made desks for $50 and putting the money back into the Dat Desk program.
If you want to learn more about it, here’s the facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/Dat-Desk-NOLA-110499507261406/.
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Bringing home a new cat or kitten is always exciting. You cannot wait to introduce the new addition to your family and friends; and you are already looking forward to years of happy companionship. The way you introduce your new cat to your household can make a big difference in how well he makes the adjustment.
Remember that cats are very much creatures of habit. They like things to be predictable and pretty much the same from day to day. You will be taking your cat out of a familiar environment, putting him into a noisy, moving vehicle, then expecting him to adjust to new surroundings, new people and perhaps, new animals. This is a lot to ask, and no matter how wonderful you and your home are, even the most easy-going cat is likely to be stressed and nervous! To make the transition as smooth as possible, take things slowly and give your cat plenty of time to get used to his new home.
Before you bring your new cat or kitten home
Making some plans ahead of time will make the transition to a new home much easier for you and your cat.
First, make an appointment with your veterinarian to have your new pet examined. If possible, schedule the appointment so you can take your cat to the veterinarian with in 72 hours after picking him up.
Make sure you have a sturdy travel crate for the cat to ride in. Most of the time the trip home will involve a car ride. When cats are nervous, they may feel more secure in an enclosed space. An unrestrained cat can be a real
driving hazard, especially if she climbs down by the pedals, or jumps onto your shoulder. Having your cat in a carrier can also be helpful in case the cat vomits, urinates or defecates, which some cats will do if they are nervous.
To limit the number of changes your new pet will need to experience the first day, before you get the cat, find out what food and litter the cat has had, and try to get the same brand. If you want to change brands later, slowly (over the course of a week) mix the new brand in with the old brand.
Before you bring your new cat home, put his food, water, toys, scratching post, and litter pan in a quiet room youcan close off, perhaps a spare bedroom or bathroom. If the new cat is shy, fearful, or you have other cats, the use of the product Feliway may be helpful. Feliway is a product that was designed to help reduce anxiety in cats. It contains pheromones from the cat’s face. Pheromones are chemicals which are used to communicate with other members of the same species. You may notice that a cat often rubs her face and chin on vertical surfaces. She is leaving a scent there which contains these pheromones. The pheromones from the face have a calming effect on other cats. You may wish to spray Feliway in the cat’s new room, in the cat carrier before and after you pick up the cat, and around the house, if you have other cats. Alternatively, you can purchase a plug-in form of the product to use in the house.
The initial introduction to your home
Cats need to become thoroughly familiar with new surroundings before they feel comfortable. An entire apartment or house can be overwhelming all at once. Many cats will hide under beds or furniture, sometimes for days. It will be much less stressful for your cat to learn about you, your family and your home a little at a time. This is even more important if there are multiple people and/or pets in your household.
When you bring your cat home, place him in the room you have fixed up for him, keep this room closed off, and let him explore that area first. Let the cat come out of his crate on his own; do not try to coax him or tip the crate
to force him out. Cats are curious and most will soon come out to explore their surroundings. If the cat seems very timid, you can leave the room for a while and check back later. If you really want to stay in the room, get a book and read. When the cat is ready to come out, stay where you are and let him come to you. Talk in a soft, reassuring tone, pet him if he seems interested, but do not try to pick him up. Leave the open carrier in the room, so that he has a safe retreat if he wants one. Give him time to learn that he can trust you.
The introduction to other family members
Introduce other family members slowly. Have them come into the room one at a time to pet and play with the cat. Have younger children sit down, then show them how to gently stroke the cat’s fur and offer her a few treats. Make certain that children understand that they are not to chase the cat, hurt her or bother her while she eats, sleeps or uses the litter box. If there are no other pets, you can let the cat begin to explore the rest of the house in a few days.
The introduction to other pet cats in your home
If you are bringing your new cat into a home with other cats, keep in mind that there are diseases and parasites that cats can transmit to each other, and some of these are fatal. There are also certain parasites such as
roundworms, that people can get from cats. Roundworm eggs are passed in the stool and are so small they cannot be seen without a microscope. Roundworms are especially a concern for young children, who often put their fingers into their mouths after playing with pets. Before you bring a new cat into your household, take it to your veterinarian for an examination and stool sample check. Your veterinarian will be able to tell you what
vaccinations your cat needs and check your cat’s stool for intestinal parasites. Your veterinarian can also perform blood testing for feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Then you can bring your new cat home without concerns about compromising the health of other cats or people in your household.
Keeping the new cat in a quiet, separate room is especially important if there are other cats in the house. The other cats will quickly become aware of your new cat’s presence. The cats will usually sniff at each other under the closed door. Do not be surprised if there is some initial hissing. Help the cats get used to each other’s scent by rubbing a towel over each of them in turn. Feeding them on either side of the door that closes off the room the new cat is in is also helpful. They will start associating the smell of the other cat with a good thing (food). After a few days, take the new cat out of its room, put the old cat in that room with the door closed, and let the new cat begin to explore the rest of the house for a few hours each evening.
The next step is to let the cats see each other, yet still keep them separated. An old screen door or a piece of Plexiglas works well for this. Another option is to prop open the door of the new cat’s room, just enough so that
the cats can see each other and put a paw through, but not enough that they can get through the door. After a few days of this, try feeding the cats together but at opposite ends of the room. Monitor the cats during this time, and separate them except at mealtime. Each day, move the food dishes very slightly closer to each other, until the cats are eating side by side. The idea is for the cats to associate each other with the pleasant experience of eating. It is not unusual to hear occasional hissing, but this should decrease as the days go by. If things do not seem to be improving, try decreasing their interaction for a few days.
Once the cats seem comfortable with each other, you can move on to the final step. Open the door all the way, allowing the cats to come and go as they please. Monitor them closely, in case they fight. Do not leave them alone for any length of time until you are sure they will get along well. Provide one more litter box than the number of cats in the household (e.g., if you have two cats, provide three litterboxes). This helps to prevent a more dominant cat from stalking the other and keeping him from using the litter box.
The introduction to a pet dog in your home
Introducing a new cat into a household where there is a dog is a little different. Keep them separated, with the cat in its own room, for the first few days. Then pick a time when the dog is outside or crated, and let the cat begin to explore the rest of the house. Once the cat seems comfortable in the house, you can begin introducing the dog and the cat. Keep the dog on a short leash, give the command for a sit or a down/stay and allow the cat to come into the room. If the dog is remaining quiet and the cat seems interested, let the cat come over and investigate the dog. The main concerns here are that the dog might get aggressive, or that the cat might claw at the dog’s face. Knowing some of your new cat’s previous history can help you know what to expect. Obviously, a cat that has been chased by a dog in its previous home is much less likely to do well in a new home with a dog. Some dogs are wonderful with cats, while some can be a threat. There are some dogs who instinctively see small animals as prey to be hunted. Monitor the dog and cat closely and do not leave them alone together until you are certain they will get along well. Make sure there are safe retreats in the house where the cat can get away from the dog. A baby gate across the doorway of one room works well. Position the gate 4 to 5 inches above the floor for young kittens or older cats who cannot jump well. Make sure litter boxes are out of the dog’s reach, also, to prevent the dog from eating feces and/or litter, or keeping a frightened cat from using the litter box.
Knowing your cat’s history, taking care to pick a cat likely to fit in well with your household (see also Should I Get a Kitten), and taking the time to gradually introduce the newcomer, will greatly increase the chances of your new cat becoming a happy, permanent member of your family.
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A HISTORY OF ST.JOHN’S CHURCH
West Grimstead is an ancient parish, the name “Grimstead” originating from the Old English word Grenehamstede (green homestead). It is mentioned in the Doomsday Book, with the information that there was a mill here. Its population has varied little during the past 150 years remaining around the 200 mark until developments about 40 years ago when a small estate was built and old cottages demolished to make space for an increased number of dwellings. New houses continue to be built, but the adult population remains less than 350. The Church and the Village Hall opposite are the focal points for activities in the village. There is also a Methodist Church where weekly services are held.
The exact date of the building of the church is unknown, it was certainly in existence before 1150, and tradition has it that it was built in the reign of William Rufus (1087 – 1100). The dedication to “St.John” does not make it clear whether this is St.John the Baptist or St.John the Apostle and Evangelist.
The first recorded Rector was Ricardus Brione, 1294. In the absence of a certain date for the building of the church we celebrated in 1994, 700 years since the appointment of the first Rector, as, St.John the Baptists Day falls on 24th June we chose this as the date on which to base a week long festival of events.
There are some interesting architectural features in the church. The two pillars and arches to the north of the nave are 14th Century and have alternate red and white construction of Chilmark and brown heathstone.
The 14th Century East window was inserted with three trefoil headed lights and a cinquefoiled rear arch forming a canopy. An unusual construction. The only other original windows are those in the North and West walls of the North aisle which both have two lights with trefoiled heads and are typical of the 15th Century. The stained glass in the East window is early 20th Century and that in the East window of the South aisle was commissioned to commemorate the 1994, 700th Anniversary celebrations.
The main roof beams are 14th Century made of Spanish chestnut which is resistant to disease. Unfortunately this does not apply to the other timbers and in the year 2000 a massive repair and restoration job had to be carried out.
Whilst the church has been altered through the centuries it escaped the massive and insensitive restoration suffered by so many churches in Victorian times, although unfortunately the interior walls were covered by a thick layer of very hard, grey concrete giving a gloomy look to the church. In 1992 these walls were painted with white oil bound distemper which, together with new lighting and other improvements turned the church into a lighter, more welcoming place.
The beautiful carved pulpit is probably Jacobean but may be late Elizabethan. The frame of the Communion table is also 17th Century but the top of a later date. The bowl of the font is Norman but set on a 19th Century base. There is an 18th Century lectern with a swivel desk top though the lectern in current use is a late 19th or early 20th Century In the vestry is an old altar table reputed to be Tudor. Also on the wall of the vestry is a grotesque beasts head, probably brought to the church from elsewhere, it may well be a “Sheila-na-gig” a pagan fertility symbol, though what it is doing in a Christian church is unclear, but there are others scattered in churches through the country.
In the middle of the nave is a large slab, in the centre of which was formerly a small brass figure of a woman in a pointed head dress. (No doubt the brass was removed in Cromwellian times) The Latin inscription around the edge of the slab is difficult to decipher but enough can be read to show the stone commemorates Alicia, daughter of Sir John Lye of the Isle of Wight who was the wife of John Mompesson of Bathampton.
There is a painted panel bearing the Royal Arms and the Arms and Motto of Queen Anne. How and why this came to the church is not known.
In the early 18th Century a brick built tower was added at the West end, replacing a wooden belfry. This houses 2 bells the earliest of which was installed in 1712 with an inscription which reads “J.T.and S.E.churchwardens cast me”. The second bell was added in 1815 and is inscribed “James Wells, Aldbourne, Wilts fecit 1815”
When the tower was built the doors which had been set in the north and south walls (opposite each other to allow the devil to fly right through the church and out the other side) were blocked and windows inserted.
The church registers and other documents are kept in an iron chest in the vestry which was made at Bramshaw in the New Forest in 1813. The ancient registers dating from 1717 have, in accordance with the law, been lodged at the County Archives in Trowbridge to avoid deterioration. Record Books dating from the early 19th Century were in use until their removal to County Archives in 1983.
In Edward Hutton’s “Highways and Byways of Wiltshire” are these words: At West Grimstead there is a little old church, very reverent and homely and still. The whole humble building is worth a close and loving inspection and is a delight on a lonely road”
Unfortunately our insurers insist that the church be kept locked, therefore if you would like to visit, please ring Mr Malcolm Read, Churchwarden, on 710302 who will be very pleased to show you around.
More detailed information on the architecture of the church is contained in the book “Churches of South-East Wiltshire” compiled by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and published by H.M.S.O.IN 1987.
From the mid 19th Century there was a church school in West Grimstead. Unfortunately the original building was very small, only one room, without water laid on or toilets. This to accommodate all school age children from 5 to 14… After World War II two mobile buildings were erected behind the Village Playing Field opposite and these contained three classrooms, toilets, and the head teacher and secretary shared a minute office situated between two classrooms. The original building continued to be used for physical activities and school meals (brought in from outside).
The conditions were totally inadequate for present day educational needs and the physical condition of the buildings left much to be desired. Also the number of children of primary school age in the village decreased and numbers were only kept up by a large number coming from Whaddon, the village adjoining Alderbury.
Finally it was regretfully decided that as both West Grimstead and Alderbury schools were sub-standard, a new church school for the two villages would be built at Alderbury. This decision was not reached without a great deal of soul searching and the loss of our school was, and still is, mourned. However, the church and local authorities were instrumental in building a school at Alderbury to an imaginative design, with much better facilities and good play grounds and playing fields. It is a hugely successful school with high standards and already an extra classroom has had to be built on. Fortunately the design of the school allowed for this to be done so obviating the need to bring in “mobiles”.
The alternative to this new school would have been “bussing” primary age school children into Salisbury, as the schools would have been closed in any case.
St.John’s Church is a member of THE CLARENDON TEAM comprising eight churches – Alderbury, East Grimstead, Farley Pitton, West Dean, West Grimstead, Whiteparish and Winterslow.
TEAM RECTOR and also RECTOR OF ALDERBURY & WEST GRIMSTEAD is
Revd. Nils Bersweden Tel: 01980 862231 or m. 070504490926.
TEAM VICARS: Revd. Beth Hutton Tel. 01722 238504
Revd. Jane Dunlop Tel. 01794884793.
TEAM PRIEST Revd. Cynthia Buttimer Tel. 01980 862017
- Click on the email addresses to get email link.
Other Retired and Non Stipendiary clergy assist with services at all these churches
TIMES OF SERVICES AT ST.JOHN’S;
TIMES OF SERVICES AT ST.JOHN’S;
First Sunday 9.30 a.m. Hymns at Hollyville
Second Sunday 11.00 Morning Worship
Third Sunday 9.30 Holy Communion with Choir
Fourth Sunday 8.00 a.m. BCP Holy Communion
Fifth Sunday 10.00 a.m. Usually a Team Service in a different church in the Team.
A Prayer Group meets 9.0am on Wednesdays
From time to time there are changes in times and types of service – these can be found in the Village Magazines “The Fountain” and “Village Life.
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL consists of: Two Churchwardens
Electoral Roll Officer
Church members take full responsibility for the care of the church- there is a cleaning and flower arranging rota, a grass mowing rota for the churchyard and all routine work is carried out by a member of the congregation. As church members assist in many ways in the village, so non-church goers assist in these duties. Volunteers are always welcome.
MAGAZINES There are two Magazines. “THE FOUNTAIN” is a magazine for the Villages of Alderbury, West Grimstead and Clarendon. It is published monthly and costs £2 per year.
The other is “THE VILLAGE LIFE” for West Grimstead only; it not only contains news of events but articles on gardening, nature, and other items of general interest. This is paid for by advertisements and is distributed free to every home in the village. Both magazines are delivered by volunteers from the church congregation.
Church members play a full role in village life; there are two official representatives on the Village Hall Committee. Other members of the Committee are also church members and whenever there are functions organised by the hall a large proportion of the helpers also belong to the church.
It is very unusual for there not to be church members on the Parish Council.
Being a small village it is easy for us to hear of people who are ill or in trouble and they are visited by clergy and lay members of the congregation unless they indicate this would be unacceptable – a rare event!
Whenever newcomers move into the village they are visited and welcomed by members of the congregation and given an information leaflet about the village, also copies of The Fountain, and The Village Life.
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The midpoint of every story is the moment of highest happiness for the hero. That’s when everything looks perfect, but isn’t. That’s because the hero only achieves a physical goal, but fails to achieve an emotional goal.
Every hero has an initial goal. That goal can be divided into a physical goal and an emotional goal. The physical goal is something the hero can achieve without defeating the villain. The emotional goal is what the hero can only achieve by defeating the villain.
In “WALL-E,” WALL-E has a goal of falling in love. The physical goal is to get back with Eve. The emotional goal is to get Eve to fall in love with him as well.
WALL-E’s False Victory occurs when WALL-E follows Eve to the starship containing the last of the human race and after following her around, he finally meets up with her again in the starship control room. Although WALL-E seems to have achieved his goal of getting back with Eve, he still hasn’t gotten Eve to fall in love with him.
Only when Eve later sees the videos of WALL-E trying to protect her does she realize how much WALL-E cared for her. That’s when she starts caring for him in return.
In “Die Hard,” John McClane has a goal of getting back with his wife. The physical goal is to get back with his wife. The emotional goal is to fall in love with his wife again.
John McClane’s False Victory occurs when he finally contacts the authorities by throwing a dead terrorist on to the hood of a police car that’s about to leave. That seems to have achieved his eventual goal of getting back with his wife, but he still needs to change. Only when he’s later stuck, wounded in a rest room does he finally admit that he’s been a jerk to his wife and he really loves her after all. After admitting this fact to himself can he finally achieve his emotional goal, which is to fall in love with his wife again.
In “Legally Blonde,” the hero has an initial, physical goal of getting back with her boyfriend, but her real emotional goal is to find love while not relying on others. At her False Victory point, she has finally gotten back with her boyfriend at Harvard law school. Unfortunately, he’s already engaged to someone else. Only until the end will the hero realize she didn’t need her boyfriend as much as she needed to stand on her own two feet and not become dependent on anyone.
The False Victory occurs when the hero only achieves a physical goal but hasn’t changed into a better person yet. The final victory at the end occurs because the hero has changed.
So you can plot the change in your hero’s story like this:
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- Act IIa – Hero only achieves the physical aspect of the initial goal (False Victory)
- Act IIb – Hero admits flaws
- Act III – Hero changes through the mentor’s lesson and gains the emotional goal
The False Victory occurs when the hero achieves physical part of the initial goal, doesn’t defeat the villain, and doesn’t change.
The final ending occurs when the hero achieves the emotional part of the initial goal, defeats the villain, and changes.
Remember, the villain is the anti-hero, so by defeating the villain, the hero is actually defeating the evil version of him or herself. To defeat the villain, the hero must change. The False Victory can’t last because the hero still needs to change and become a better person.
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Geology is the natural science that studies the composition and structure of planet Earth, as well as the processes responsible for its evolution throughout the 4.6 billion years of geological time. By extension, it also applies to the study of the rest of the bodies and materials of the solar system.
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Osseointegrated prosthesis for patients with an amputation : Multidisciplinary team approach in the Netherlands
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This article reviews the development of multidisciplinary osseointegration treatment in the Netherlands since its start in 2009. People experiencing limitations due to their socket prosthesis after a leg amputation present to the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre for an osseointegration implant or "bone-anchored" prosthesis. In this article we share our experience with the first 100 patients regarding referral pattern, selection criteria, available osseointegration systems, preoperative planning, surgical treatment, the rehabilitation protocol, outcome measurement, revision surgery, and future developments.
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Many prominent leaders and major media have almost unanimously acknowledged Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869 – 1948) as one of the 20th Century’s greatest leaders for humankind (Time, 1999). Gandhi is also recognized as a firm believer and practitioner of truth and nonviolence with high integrity. Albert Einstein noted, “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this, ever in flesh and blood, walked upon the earth.” His message of truth-based persuasion (Satyagraha) has a time-less and space-less perennial relevance and power to address injustice all around the world (Dear, 2002; Gehani & Spears, 2009).
Over the past twelve decades, Gandhi’s message has inspired and influenced perhaps over a Billion people in India, United States, South Africa, Poland, and many other parts of the world – more than any other human being in the world. This time span includes 21 years of Gandhi’s lifetime since his arrival in South Africa in 1893, another 33 year in India until his violent martyrdom on January 30, 1948, and more than 70 years since then. What type of hero was this soft-speaking, half-naked fakir: a heroic, transactional, transformational, charismatic, or a servant leader? What 20th Century leadership theories (Avolio, Bass & Jung, 1999) can be applied to fully understand this great-soul Mahatma leader?
For 54 years Gandhi successfully helped millions of Indians gain freedom and independence Swaraj from a 90-year old oppressive colonial rule (and another 100 years of control by the East India Company) (Gehani & Spears, 2009). Gandhi’s larger goal and a much bigger purpose was to awaken and uplift 330 Million impoverished Indians towards their greatness and peak performance (Sarvodaya). Why did Gandhi, as an integral leader, fail to achieve this primary purpose? Similarly, why did many other great leaders who followed him, such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and others too failed to achieve the similar purpose too?
Roadmap For This Research
The focus of this research study is to explore how Mahatma Gandhi achieved the great goal of gaining freedom and emancipation for 330 million Indians. First, we examine how Gandhi developed and deployed his innovative leadership strategies, such as his experiments with truth Satya (which he equated to his spiritual guide and God), and non-violence Ahimsa that he used to gain self-rule Swaraj and greatness for all Survodaya. Then the traditional 20th Century leadership theories are tested against Gandhi’s leadership strategies, and are found inadequate to capture Gandhi’s complexity, multi-disciplinarity, and dynamism. Next, we discuss how Gandhi’s innovative leadership strategies align with Ken Wilber’s (2000) integral theory model and its four quadrants. Finally, we suggest some lessons and limitations of Gandhi’s innovative integral leadership strategies for other practitioner leaders in the 21st Century.
Gandhi’s Innovative Leadership Strategies
As an authentic leader, Gandhi developed some unique leadership strategies to overcome his major challenge confronting a colonist British Empire that spanned over almost half the world. Given below are some of his major leadership initiatives.
Gandhi saw his entire life primarily as a series of experiments in truth for his own and others’ experiential lifelong learning. He never asked his wife or any of his followers to do something that he would not do himself, as long as it aligned with the truth. In Gandhi’s (1996: ix) Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, he elaborates that, “I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments. It is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But I shall not mind, if every page of it speaks of my experiments.” He did these experiments in a wide variety of areas including nonviolent political actions, clothing, food, and even celibacy, to extract truths, and discard untruths. In 1918 – 1919, Gandhi invited (Rahman, 2011) everyone else to join in his experiments with truths by imploring them that,
The life of us is full of experiments. If we go on making experiments, we shall always stand to gain something or other for them. Weeds are ever mixed with grass as chaff with grains of wheat. In the same way, every effort has two results. Just as we throw away the chaff and use the wheat, so in life we must embrace the truth and reject falsehood.
During Gandhi’s early years in London, he tried experiments to align his identity with the English elite. In 1889, a 20 year young Gandhi with borrowed funds spent a substantial sum of 10 British pounds, that he could not afford to spend, to buy an expensive suit from London’s fashionable Bond Street, and 19 shillings to buy a Chimney pot hat. He also learned to wear a tie, and purchased a gold watch chain. Gandhi did not find much satisfaction with these, but he continued wearing English clothes when he practiced law in the distant South Africa. Gandhi, however, discarded these English clothes when he returned to India in early 1915, and switched to the traditional Kathiawadi garments including a turban, dhoti and a cloak. Later he simplified more.
Similarly, rather than rely on books or others, Gandhi constantly experimented seeking truths about his diet. When just a boy, he experimented with eating goat meat in order to become stronger and fearless like his Muslim friend (In Gandhi, 1996; Rahman, 2011). However, his conscience was haunted by the baby goat crying in his stomach, and the guilt that he told a lie to his loving mother. He promised his mother that he would never again touch meat during his stay in England or thereafter. Many nights Gandhi slept on empty stomach in order not to break his vow to his mother. Later Gandhi stopped eating even sweets and spicy food to curb and control his sensory desires and strengthen his soul-force.
Reliance on Ahimsa Nonviolence
Gandhi’s reliance on outward manifestation of nonviolence Ahimsa, from his inward adherence to truth, came from his family’s Jain background (Parekh, 1988). As devotees of Mahavir, a contemporary of Gautam Buddha in c560 B.C., Jains are extremely strict about not taking any life for their personal sake. As vegetarians, they do not eat meat and reject onion and garlic because these are root vegetables. Jains also do not wear hard leather shoes as these might crush bugs on the ground, and they cover their mouths so that no airborne bugs enter their mouths and die.
It is, therefore, quite understandable that Gandhi raised Ahimsa nonviolence to a much higher level by integrating it with his political action for civil disobedience as well. Gandhi learned about civil disobedience from the American philosopher Henry Thoreau, who proposed personal protests against the unjust laws enacted by the State (Parekh, 1988). Gandhi turned around Thoreau’s civil disobedience into a much more positive and potent Satyagraha truthful persuasion that he developed against the apartheid government in South Africa.
Gandhi radically innovated the negative and passive meaning of Ahimsa nonviolence in India’s ancient Vedic traditions, and transformed it into a more positive, active, and powerful dynamic. Gandhi has highlighted (Parekh, 1988) that,
Non-violence is not a cloistered virtue to be practiced by the individual for his peace and final salvation, but a rule of conduct for society if it is to live consistently with human dignity.…Complete non-violence means complete cessation of all activity. Not such, however, is my definition of non-violence.…The religion of non-violence is not meant merely for the rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well.
In his definition of Ahimsa non-violence, Gandhi also included not bearing any ill will or causing any mental suffering to anyone or anything, including one’s enemies. His positive aspects of Ahimsa support a fearless love and charity towards the enemy. Gandhi saw Ahimsa nonviolence as well as fearless love and charity – the common threads and the backbones of all religions and spirituality.
Gandhi highlighted (Iyer, 1987) that,
…non-violence …is not a mechanical thing. You do not become non-violent by merely saying, ‘I shall not use force.’ It (non-violence) must be felt in the heart. There must be within you an upwelling of love and pity towards the wrong-doer. When there is that feeling it will express itself through some action. It may be a sign, a glance, or even silence. But such as it is, it will melt the heart of the wrong-doer and check the wrong.
Gandhi was, therefore, shocked and devastated when thousands of Hindus and Muslims turned so violently against one another, and slaughtered each other, during the British rushed partition of India and Pakistan in the aftermath of India’s independence on August 15, 1947.
Swaraj Self-Rule for Indians
Gandhi extended his one year planned stay in South Africa to 21 years, to lead the struggle against injustice, and uplift thousands of Indian settlers in South Africa. He then returned home to India in January 1915 to help India gain Home-rule Swaraj. To do so Gandhi integrated Satya truth and Ahimsa nonviolence into Satyagraha truthful persuasion. Gandhi (1968 – 1969) in Bhuvan (2017) elaborates,
The world rests upon the bedrock of Satya or truth. A-Satya meaning untruth, also means non-existent and Satya also means that which is… And Truth being that which can never be destroyed. This is the doctrine of Satyagraha in a nutshell (volume 3: 389).
In 1919, after the end of World War I, the English colonial government in India broke their earlier promises, and they passed the Rowlatt Act so that they could arrest any Indian protester without trial, and muffle their voice for justice (Gehani & Spears, 2009). Gandhi, other Congress leaders, and millions of Indians were outraged. They wondered what actions they should take to register their opposition without resorting to violence. One day Gandhi woke up earlier than usual, and in his condition of twilight consciousness, he had the epiphany to declare a truthful protest (Satyagraha) by declaring a nation-wide ‘hartal’ when every Indian would boycott and do no work for the colonial foreign government. In consultation with Indian National Congress leadership, Gandhi announced that the national Hartal day of nonviolent peaceful protest would be on April 6, 1919 (Gehani & Spears, 2009).
The announcement for nonviolent (Ahimsa) Satyagraha truthful persuasion received an overwhelming nationwide support and response from millions of Indians (Dear, 2002). In most regions of India everything came to a stop, and there was a widespread adherence to nonviolence (Ahimsa). But in some select major states such as Punjab in Northern India, and Maharashtra and Gujarat in the Western part of India, a handful of Indians could not control their expressing their frustration, and used some violence against the oppressing colonists. Gandhi had strongly urged all that the use of violence (Himsa) was against the principle of truthful persuasion (Satyagraha). He immediately and unilaterally suspended the nonviolent Hartal protest, and admitted that he had made a gross miscalculation about the readiness of his fellow Indian people. To him, their hearts, minds, and souls were not yet prepared for his nonviolent Satyagraha movement, and that they needed much more disciplined training of their soul-force (Atma). As a penance for his miscalculation in his fellow-beings, Gandhi fasted for 3 days.
Similarly, in 1921, as Gandhi-led Satyagraha protest movement strengthened and spread, the colonial government’s oppressive measures also intensified. When Gandhi tried to gradually launch a nationwide peaceful protest in a small Bardouli district of Surat, Gujarat in the Western part of India, a group of Indian protesters used violence about 800 miles away in Chauri Chaura district in United Provinces in the Northern part of India. Once again Gandhi did not hesitate cancelling his Satyagrah peaceful protest. Gandhi (1946) noted in Harijan March issue that he was not willing to lead a violent struggle.
Survodaya Awakening Greatness for All
Gandhi carefully studied the influences of Industrial Revolution in England since 1760s, and noted that the industrial machines had increased economic disparity and concentration of wealth in the hand of a select few in English society. This created a multitude of poor masses. As early as in 1909, Gandhi highlighted that India was ruled not by British colonists but by their industrial machines and gun violence promoted by English mill owners. In a Letter to his English friend Henry Polak, Gandhi noted that the western machine-driven material civilization had invaded, overwhelmed, and colonized India’s ancient spiritual civilization.
Gandhi wanted to help uplift millions of nonviolent Indian millions with simple wants, so that they would live in self-sufficient and self-governing village communities. They dreamt of being gainfully self-employed throughout a year. Gandhi did not mind the villagers using machines or electricity, provided they all had easy access to these.
Gandhi proposed and described an alternate Gandhian vision for an independent decentralized and self-sufficient nation (Dear, 2002), as follows,
…In this structure composed of innumerable villages there will be ever-widening, never ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom. But it will be an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual always ready to perish for the village…the outermost circumference will not wield power to crush the inner circle but give strength to all within, and derive its own from the centre…real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused.
Next, we will examine how Gandhi’ innovative leadership strategies fit with the 20th Century leadership theories.
Leadership Theories and Their Fitness
Effective leadership styles and strategies must evolve with changing contextual times (Bennis & Thomas, 2002; House & Aditya, 1997; Mintzberg, 2004). In the current 21st Century context, leaders must confront diverse value systems and associated realities, complex economies, and high uncertainties due to rampant disruptive innovations (Drath & Palus, 1994). Coupled with these are the uncertainties looming from the threats of climate change, global warming, and wide ecological fluctuations. Thus, often it is not clear who is leading and who are following. Such complexities and dynamic uncertainties make it hard for the viability of simplistic models of leadership developed and used until the end of 20th Century (Lord & Maher, 1991; Yukl, 1999). These leadership models were rooted in isolated and fragmented parameters and paradigms, which do not match the recent seismic shifts in socio-cultural and politico-economic trends around the world.
Furthermore, Professor Sumantra Ghoshal (2005) of London School of Economics has cautioned us “Bad management theories are destroying good management practices.” Much of our management academy’s research and practitioners’ practice have been rooted in simplistic, often static, fragmented models of leadership based on certain quick fixes that do not fit all leadership dilemmas. How can these 20th Century leadership theories help us grasp the complexity, dynamism, and immensity of the 20th Century’s top-most leader Gandhi?
Limitations and Misfits of the 20th Century Leadership Theories
Gandhi was well aware that the reality is dynamic and subjected to a wide variety of uncertainties. He, therefore, did not restrict himself by making limiting rational assumptions. Instead, he continually experimented with his notion of truths Satya of reality, and considered his autobiography as nothing but a series of his experiments with truth (Dear, 2002; Gehani & Spears, 2009).
Most traditional leadership theories of 20th Century postulate and empirically test the rationalist assumptions of leaders (Bennis and Thomas, 2002). Emotional and affective elements entered into leadership theory development much later (Goleman, 1995). For ease of quantitative statistical analysis, many leadership researchers and practitioners limit themselves to handful of truncated cognitive or behavioral variables that cannot help us understand Gandhi’s dynamic and holistic leadership fully (House and Aditya, 1997).
Leader Not Taking Responsibility For Followers’ Actions
When Gandhi announced a nation-wide Hartal non-violent strike and a day of prayer on April 6 in 1919, he learned the hard way that a handful of followers in a remote part of India resorted to non-violence (Gehani and Spears, 2009). Contrary to the suggestions of most of his fellow Congress Party leaders to ignore this one stray incident by a handful of people, Gandhi as a leader took full responsibility for the actions of all his followers’ actions nationwide. Immediately and unilaterally Gandhi suspended the nonviolent Hartal protest nationwide, and admitted that he had made a gross mis-calculation about the readiness of his fellow followers. As his self-sacrificial penance for his miscalculation, Gandhi fasted for 3 days (Parekh, 1999).
Traditionally, most leadership theories have been dyadic person-centered, between a heroic leader sending instructions down to her/his followers with less power, influence, or control (Meindl, Ehrlich, and Dukerich, 1985; Yukl, 1999). Such leaders were either transactional (Avolio, Bass, & Jung, 1999), transformational (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002; Hunt & Conger, 1999), charismatic (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002; Hunt & Conger, 1999), or servant leaders (Greenleaf, 2002; 2003). Most research attention was paid to the traits, attributes, or the whims and whimsies of the leaders. The followers’ responses, intentions or actions received either passing or indifferent attention. Other leadership paradigms, such as dispersed (Ray, Clegg and Gordon, 2004), distributed or shared leadership (Sims and Lorenzi, 1992) were rarely considered.
Individual Not Collective and Multi-level Leadership
Gandhi always considered that he was collectively leading and building his people’s capabilities to self-rule, without the State ruling on them by relying on violence. For Gandhi, Satyagraha or truthful persuasion was not just means to an end, and that its widespread reliance on truths and nonviolence were their primary collective ends (Dear, 2002; Parekh, 1999). Gandhi’s notion of holistic leadership was to serve the collective, rather than to rule the collective, as we often see today. Many of his closest allies, including Jawaharlal Nehru, his closest supporter, failed to understand his depth of self-less service. Gandhi strongly believed in a multiple-level leadership. In Sabarmati Satyagraha Ashram in 1931, he constantly trained and prepared his 79 Satyagrahi associates before he walked with them 240 miles to Dandi seacoast to break the unjust Salt monopoly laws by the British colonists ruling in India (Gehani & Spears, 2009).
In the past, leadership theories have rarely considered a leader’s actions and their followers’ responses as a collective organizational or a multi-level community-wide capability (Drath & Palus, 1994; Gehani, 2002; Lord and Maher, 1991), a relational (Goleman, 1995; Gehani, 2002), or a culture-wide accomplishment (Yukl and Lepsinger, 2004). Only recently, researchers have noted the significance of considering the effectiveness of leaders at not only their individual leader level, but also at the team-level, the organizational-level, and the community-level (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002; Dansereau and Yammarino, 1998a; Hunt & Conger, 1999).
Leadership as a Longitudinal Evolution Not Just Brief Cross-Sectional Snapshots
Gandhi’s leadership involved experimenting constantly with truth, non-violence, and truthful persuasion for more than 54 years, first 21 years in South Africa and then for 33 years in India. And yet near the end of his life, Gandhi was grossly dissatisfied by his fellow freedom fighters’ rampant use of violence towards one another during and after the partition of India and Pakistan in August 1947. Whereas Gandhi helped India gain freedom and independence after 850 years of foreign rule, first under the Mughal invaders and then under the British colonists, Gandhi failed to persuade his own fellow freedom fighters and the rest of the humanity to forsake violence, discrimination, and mutual hatred.
Many traditional leadership theorists, consultants, and practitioners rely too heavily on examining leadership effects through a small window of up to five years or shorter (Covey, 1989; Gehani, 2002). In cross-sectional comparisons during such short periods, not all integral holonic aspects of dynamic leadership are fully captured or accounted.
In conclusion, Gandhi’s specific and highly noteworthy, innovative, and effective leadership strategies practices validate that the individual leadership traits, characteristics, and capabilities do not determine the cause and effect relationships postulated by the traditional leadership theories of the 20th Century. Thus, leadership theories for dynamic and disruptive 21st Century demand accommodations for the following:
(1) Realistic rather than rationalistic assumptions;
(2) Leaders taking responsibility and accountability for the actions and behaviors of their followers and associates’ as well as their own;
(3) A collective multi-level as well as individualistic understanding of leadership, and
(4) Longitudinal evolution of leaders not just their short cross-sectional snapshots.
In the next section, we examine in detail how Gandhi’s innovative leadership strategies fit with Ken Wilber’s (1995; 2000; 2006) integral leadership theory and its four quadrants.
Gandhi’s Inspiring Innovative Leadership and Wilber’s Integral Theory
Based on his phenomenological research, Ken Wilber (1995; 2000; 2006) postulated a multi-level inter-disciplinary concept for a 4-Quadrant model of an integral leader who is more suited to face the looming mayhem of technological disruptions, complexity, and dynamic economic and ecological uncertainty of the 21st Century. He referred this as the 4-quadrant AQAL (All Quadrants All Levels) model using two dimensions that span from (1) individual to collective actions, and (2) inward to outward orientation. Next we explore how Gandhi’s innovative leadership strategies fit into the 4 stages corresponding to the 4 quadrants of Wilber’s 2×2 Cartesian model (Kupers, 2011; Kupers & Weibler, 2008).
AQAL Quadrant-1: Gandhi’s Satya as (Conscious Intentional) Individual-Inward Leader
Gandhi’s early ‘Experiments with truth’ fit the AQAL Quadrant-1 representing an individual leader’s (or followers’) intra-personal and inner reality, including their individual – inward aspects (Kupers & Weibler, 2008; Wilber, 2006). Gandhi’s personal beliefs, and values, as well as intentions and attitudes are part of this domain. His subjective self-relationships manifest his reflections and intra-personal monologs. These have been accessed and assessed extensively through his speeches, writings, and interviews, which give us insights into his intuitions (Kupers & Weibler, 2008; Wilber, 2006). Therefore, this can be referred as the leader Gandhi’s consciousness or intentional quadrant (Chatterjee, 1998).
In terms of the level of inquiry for Gandhi’s leadership, we can focus on Gandhi as an individual leader or on his followers, with respect to how they align or differ. These can then be extrapolated as leader-member dyadic interactions and exchanges (Gehani, 2002).
In the case of AQAL Quadrant-1 leadership, Gandhi was highly transparent, and he constantly revealed his future vision and plans. Occasionally, as noted earlier, there were some surprises when he suddenly cancelled a nationwide Hartal strike, and unrolled the Noncooperation Program when he saw some early signs of violence that he feared could escalate easily (Gehani & Spears, 2009). He was governed by his core value to lead a movement based on truth and non-violence, and not on violence.
AQAL Quadrant-2 Gandhi’s Ahimsa as Individual – Outward Leader (Behavioral)
Gandhi’s leadership using non-violence Ahimsa in South Africa during the first decade of the 20th Century involved communicating constantly with his fellow-nonviolent protesters, and the rest of the Commonwealth world. Such behaviorist leaders in today’s times will have a high presence in the external arena and on social media technology platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linked in, and others. Most of Gandhi’s efforts were overt and unilateral as he took many personal risks first for 21 years in South Africa and then for 33 years in India. In alignment with this AQAL quadrant – 2, we can focus on Gandhi’s behaviors, actions, and relational skills that embodied his intentions and consciousness. Since the actions are more visible, Gandhi continuously trained, motivated, and inspired his followers for their faith on non-violence based on their competencies and performances (Kupers & Weibler, 2008). Here some of the traditional behavioral theories of 20th Century leadership can guide us in measuring Gandhi’s effectiveness as a leader. Gandhi constantly learned from his experiences, and his dialogs with others, and continually adapted his conflict resolution skills and strategies when dealing with the British colonists.
AQAL Quadrant-3 Gandhi Uses Swaraj as Collective-Outward Transformational leader (Systemic)
While leading for Swaraj self-rule since 1920s, Gandhi was always transparently acting out with his associates, in the public domain, using tangible shared artifacts and technologies such as Khadi coarse cotton and Charkha spinning wheel (Dear, 2002; Gehani & Spears, 2009). He built a close community-wide connection, as manifested by the thousands of people who came to visit, see, or listen to his message wherever he went or spoke. Over time, Gandhi and his followers developed their shared tangible practices based on their past experiences with implementing Satyagraha truthful persuasion for Swaraj self-rule (Dear, 2002). Since Gandhi was primarily serving the needs of his constituents, he seems like a committed servant leader (Greenleaf, 1977; 2002; 2003).
In AQAL Quadrant-3 the responsibilities of leaders and individual followers are translated into functions and collective norms manifesting in their institutions. This develops new normative systems. Here a common risk is for the collective or a segment of the dispersed leadership to shirk its responsibilities – such as by resorting to untruths or violence.
Gandhi systematically developed the infrastructure and the resources needed to help stabilize his non-violent and Satyagraha operations. He designed transparent concentric organizational structures and legislative decision-making processes, from village level up to the district, province, and national-level Congress Working Committee. Gandhi facilitated institutionalization of the system by creating pledges, vows, mission statements, codes of conduct, and policy guidelines at each of these concentric circular levels.
AQAL Quadrant-4 Gandhi’s Survodaya Collective-Inward Integral Leader (Inspiring Cultural)
Integral leaders such as Gandhi are highly reflective. However, to accomplish Survodaya ‘Greatness for All,’ Gandhi did not just act by himself, but also engaged millions of his associates intimately, subjectively, and transparently (Kupers & Weibler, 2008). Gandhi continuously created and shared their myths, memories, and intangible feelings together to co-create a new culture of dignity and self-respect. He was constantly guiding others with unwritten norms, agreements, and beliefs in using Khadi cotton and Charkha spinning wheel. He continuously raised funds to collectively build their mutual trust and collective aspirations for their economic and political self-sufficiency.
Gandhi went far beyond Servant leadership and become an inspiring mindful leader (Gehani, 2012) who synchronized the collective spirits and consciousness of his followers. Their values and beliefs were connected by their spiritual oneness. As a Collective – Outward leader, Gandhi took community – wide responsibility for his actions. In order to help India gain Self-rule Swaraj and Survodaya Greatness for All, Gandhi was committed to creating a new transformational culture of self – sufficiency and self-reliance (Kupers, 2011). This new culture provided new guiding orientations and value propositions so that India’s masses felt that they could self-rule and be self-sufficient without relying on their colonist rulers. Yet, this widespread awakening and self-sufficiency did not happen on a large scale, and most of the Indian masses remained impoverished for many more decades.
Gandhi as an integral leader had a paradoxical success (Gehani, 2008). Whereas he had a grand success gaining freedom and independence for 330 Million impoverished Indians, but he failed to uplift them with economic self-sufficiency. This is discussed in the next section.
Prosperity & Private Property
Why did Gandhi fail to uplift and awaken greatness among millions of poor Indians? Why were the poor masses not able to mushroom cottage industries in 700,000 villages of India, and become economically more self-reliant? Why did the gap between the rich and the poor not narrow down substantially? The answers to these questions lie in the balance that Gandhi had to strike in order to maintain unity, and not marginalize his primary goal of gaining freedom and independence for India from the 190 years of oppressive colonial rule and control.
Gandhi identified completely with the poorest of the poor masses in India. He dressed like them, he lived like them, and he shunned property like them. When he died, Gandhi’s total possessions amounted to equivalent of US$2 only. This included two dhotis, a hard wooden sandal, a pair of cheap steel-rimmed eyeglasses, a bowl, a spoon, and a walking stick. This old man who ruled the hearts of millions for 54 years, near the end of his life owned no home, no car, or any bank balances. Everything he had he shared with his followers and public in his Ashrams. How many such self-less leaders can we recall in human history?
Gandhi’s ‘Constructive Program’ was his plan to spread self-reliance and alleviate mass poverty among the rural farmers (Parekh, 1997). He asked fellow-patriots to burn their clothes produced by foreign textile mills exploiting the poor cotton farmers of India by paying them unfair low compensation for the raw cotton they farmed and supplied. Due to the automated cotton mills in Liverpool and Lancashire, England, millions of cotton spinners and weavers of India were either idle, famished, or starving for almost 4 months in a year. In Young India issue of Nov. 9, 1924, Gandhi (1924) noted that,
We must first come in living touch with the [rural] masses by working …in their midst. We must share their sorrows, understand their difficulties, and anticipate their wants… We must identify ourselves with the villagers who toil under the hot sun beating on their bent backs…
Gandhi had a strong faith that the innate human nature was essentially good (Dear, 2002). He recognized that the relationship between haves and have-nots was skewed. Yet he was apprehensive of imposing any radical economic remedies that would have to rely on violence. He underestimated the human greed, and the capitalists’ passion for exploitation. Many rich mill owners were often keen on getting richer by manipulating markets, usually at the expense of making the poor even poorer. Therefore, despite Gandhi’s deep concern for the poor masses of India, he had to give in to the majority of urban intelligentsia and the large landowners. He could not antagonize them – because he valued their right to their private property (Dear, 2002). He felt that socialistic redistribution of wealth, as in Russia, involves brutal use of violence – which was not acceptable to him. Therefore, there were no major land reforms in colonial India prior to her independence in August 1947. Gandhi did not want to radicalize the poor masses against the rich land-owners or industrialists who were bolstered by the colonial imperialist government.
Gandhi repeatedly highlighted that political independence for India’s masses was meaningless without their economic and moral independence (Dear, 2002; Gehani & Spears, 2009). Gandhi was a true multi-disciplinarian, and he did not compartmentalize the human reality and dignity into artificial and insulated silos. To him economic independence meant that every individual was able to uplift self with own efforts (Dear, 2002; Parekh, 1997). Gandhi wanted to alleviate poverty not by killing the few capitalist millionaires India had, but by removing the ignorance of the poor masses. He believed that labor and capital can work together in harmony, without resorting to mutual exploitation. He envisaged the rich to be the trustees of their hard earned assets, and workers the trustees of their customers. Gandhi hoped that everyone would use what they need, and deploy the rest of what they owned for the welfare of others. He believed and hoped that a capitalist can balance the self-interest with altruism and charity.
Gandhi was always extremely concerned with maintaining unity among the different segments of Indian society, along with the different factions in Indian National Congress, all working together for their shared goal towards gaining India’s independence from almost two centuries of oppressive colonial control. In the end, pursuit of political independence of millions prevailed over economic independence of millions. The poor masses had nothing much to lose. They supported the movement for political independence in large numbers. However, their political independence kept the same ruling rich class of India in control over them even after India gained independence in 1947.
Implications for 21st Century Leaders
This research study has showcased for the first time how the life and leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, considered one of the top-most leaders of the 20th Century, aligns with the integral leadership theory proposed almost 50 years later by Ken Wilber (2000). We also highlighted that Gandhi’s endeavors for the AQAL 4th Quadrant transformation of collective – inward culture to uplift the masses, and lead them towards greatness for all Sarvodaya, seem far more challenging than the 3rd Quadrant challenge of creating an outward – collective structure for India’s self-rule Swaraj. This is partly because of tensions between the diverse demands and needs of different factions and sections of a developing society that many other leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa and others also faced when they led their nonviolent movements in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi. Furthermore, in the case of Gandhi’s reliance on non-violence, a single freedom-fighter using violence could jeopardize his vision of winning freedom and independence based primarily on truth, non-violence, and Satyagraha.
Paradoxically, towards the end of Gandhi’s life, this prophet of peace and non-violence was extremely disheartened by the worldwide spread of violence by major nations in World War II, and the ultimate devastation caused by the two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end the Pacific War (Gehani, 2018). Closer to home, Gandhi also saw widespread use of face-to-face violence due to religious, political, or economic differences. Perhaps this could have been avoided if Gandhi had more time training the masses and help them achieve more economic self-sufficiency and enlightenment.
The good news, however, is that Gandhi developed and illustrated a breakthrough innovative way for humankind to resolve conflicts due to injustice through truthful persuasion and non-violent protests. Gandhi’s innovative non-violent way eventually led to freedom and liberation of more than 1,000 Million people in India, the United States, South Africa, Poland, and many more parts of the world, during and long after his highly meaningful and purposeful life and leadership.
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About the Author
Ray Gehani has earned a Doctorate in Polymer Science & Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology on a Japanese Government fellowship, and a Ph.D. in Business from the City University of New York (and Columbia University). At the University of Akron, he has taught a variety of courses in Management of Technology and Innovation, Corporate Business Strategy, Supply Chain Management and Strategy, and International Business Operations at either Ph.D., executive, graduate or undergraduate level. He is a Fellow of the Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business, and a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Center in the School of Law. | <urn:uuid:a00ca22d-c275-45af-bf98-84ad178c4925> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://integralleadershipreview.com/16734-16734/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948816 | 9,276 | 3.734375 | 4 |
First Lady Michelle Obama and TV host Ellen DeGeneres, came together for Southeast DC public schools. The two ladies donated $100,000 and an Apple computer lab to Randall Highlands elementary school in Washington DC. Students and faculty both received gifts from computer giant Apple, such as iPads and laptops. The giveaway was filmed for a segment of the Ellen show called “Greatest Night of Giveaways”.
Statistics show that DC public schools have seen continuous growth in reading and math points over the last 10 years despite challenges faced by its students. Randall Highlands principal, Kirstie Edwards, says that 65 percent of Randle Highlands students are in the foster care system or homeless. Obama tweeted, ”I had so much fun putting a smile on all these little faces from Randall Highlands elementary school in Washington DC.” The surprise can be watched on the NBC app.
Edwards and her staff ensure that their student’s needs are met and they are in a safe space. They provide free lunch to over 350 students, washer and dryer accommodations, a cooking club and have sometimes provided groceries for students and their families from their own personal resources. In addition to the technology and monetary donation, there are plans for the school to get a new basketball court. Obama and DeGeneres wanted to recognize the staff for all they do and ensure that they made it easier to continue to provide for those students. | <urn:uuid:182587b2-71b2-4215-8855-bb56b4cc804c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jagurltv.com/michelle-obama-and-ellen-degeneres-donate-to-d-c-public-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963945 | 285 | 1.726563 | 2 |
THE NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 11, No. 1, (2013)
Value Orientation and Examination Malpractice in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Study of Anambra State
Ngozi G. Egbue & Bentina Alawari Mathias
Department of Sociology/Anthropology Faculty of Social Sciences Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Examination serves as the major instrument for evaluating students’ knowledge; it is the foremost means of assessing the quality and quantity of knowledge a student has accumulated at the end of a teaching process. Thus, most students who have lower intellectual endowment or have not made full use of their studying time and opportunities are often tempted to engage in all forms of inappropriate examination behaviour to achieve success. Such students often utilize all existing resources at their disposal; and modern technology has become a veritable tool to circumvent standard examination practices. A sample of the opinions of students from three tertiary institutions in Anambra State was taken in order to examine the background factors and consequences of examination malpractice in the State. Recommendations were made for necessary social change geared at effecting appropriate examination behaviour among students so as to arrive at a healthier educational and employment environment.
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Starting a Business – Getting The Word Out Using Press Releases
What Is A Press Release?
A press release is a written or recorded communication submitted by mail, fax, or e-mail to news media newspapers, magazines, or radio and television stations or networks to announce something newsworthy. Websites have changed the way sources submit press releases. Commercial and complimentary press release services have made news distribution more affordable than formerly for small businesses. Such distribution websites say they make news more visible and discoverable by major search engines.
The use of press releases is common in public relations to attract favorable media attention to their clients or to publicize their products or events. A press release is an information subsidy with news story basics. Press releases can announce that you are starting a business, scheduled events, personal promotions and accomplishments, awards, new products and services, and merchandise sales. They often generate feature stories, so much so that journalism based on uncritical overuse of press releases becomes “churnalism.”
What Should Be Included
Strictly speaking, anything submitted to a reporter or media outlet is a press release or information released to the media; however, public relations professionals use a standard format for efficiency and enhanced probability of publicity. The format helps journalists separate press releases from pitch letters or media advisories. In this format, the press release body has four or five paragraphs and 400 to 500 words.
Common structural elements are the headline to grab the attention of publishers, a dateline with date and location of the press release, an introductory paragraph with answers to the questions who, what, when, where and why, a body with relevant details, boilerplate, a short section with background information about the source, and a close indicating the end of the release with media contact information.
How It Works
In the traditional distribution model, the source releasing information hires a publicity agency to write and distribute it to news networks of journalists. In this model, the source is ultimately responsible for both the content and its distribution. A self-published press release bypasses the pricey newswire distribution networks, and the source writes its own press release and sends it directly to media outlets. This approach tends to rely on e-mail and web distribution. Some hybrid models pay for distribution through established networks but otherwise follow the do-it-yourself model. Eighty million people in the USA get the news online daily.
Some public relations firms send out video press releases, pre-taped video programs that television stations can broadcast intact. Sometimes television news viewers can detect video press releases within television newscasts; for example, in many celebrity interviews on a movie studio set the movie logo may be visible to them. Another example is a videotape of a medical breakthrough actually produced and distributed by a pharmaceutical company to sell a new product. Video press releases can be elaborate productions costing thousands of dollars to distribute. They can be in the television news format or produced for the Internet.
Sometimes a source distributes a press release early and then embargoes it, requests that news organizations not report the information until a specified time. News media, for instance, usually receive copies of presidential speeches several hours in advance, and reviewers receive samples or previews of the subjects of their reviews in advance of their release dates.
Unless journalists voluntarily agree to an embargo request, usually under a general nondisclosure agreement, they are under no obligation to honor it; however, even without obligation, news organizations generally do not break embargoes for sources that they wish to cultivate. If they do, the sources may blacklist them from future releases.
Press Releases are a great way to get the word out about your new business and what’s happening with it. You might want to check out PRWeb.com, an online press release service.
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Name a major public health issue that made state or national headlines from the 1970s through the 1990s, and Colorado Press Women’s Communicator of Achievement likely was in the midst of the brouhaha.
During her 12 years as a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment – and nearly 12 more years in other key leadership roles – Ann J. Lockhart helped shape state health authorities’ response to critical concerns. Whether it was the discovery of radioactive hot spots all over Denver, botulism tracked to a popular local restaurant, the recall of cyanide-laced Tylenol, public hysteria over HIV-AIDS, a 60 Minutes investigation of water contamination or the grisly discovery of a shipment of human heads, destined for a medical training facility in Denver, Ann responded to the many media inquiries.
Throughout her career, which also included teaching English and newspaper reporting, Ann maintained a reputation for honesty, responsiveness and clarity. Outside of work, she has volunteered for various community organizations, including tutoring recent refugees in English and American culture. And since 1973, she has been an enthusiastic member of Colorado Press Women, serving at the state and national levels. When CPW’s president unexpectedly resigned, Ann stepped in and will continue as president during the next year, as well as serving as NFPW parliamentarian. In short, Ann epitomizes the well-rounded person that NFPW recognizes with its Communicator of Achievement award.
“Ann is always looking forward, learning new technologies to improve her skills, thinking of innovative programs for CPW, and serving as a role model for communicators everywhere,” says Gay Porter DeNileon, CPW past president. “That’s why I was glad to nominate her for the Communicator of Achievement award.”
Lockhart was born in Elkader, Iowa, in 1945. Her father died of a heart attack when she was 3, and her mother two years later of cancer. The four Lockhart siblings were sent to live with different family members: Ann to her maternal grandmother in Garnavillo, her two brothers and one sister to other Iowa relatives. Although Ann saw her siblings with some regularity, it was often a solitary life.
She found solace in books. From the time her mother took toddler Ann to the library to check out Raggedy Ann and Andy, Ann loved reading and writing. She started her first newspaper in fifth grade and edited the student paper at Garnavillo High School. At the University of Iowa, she majored in English – because she could read a lot! After graduation, Ann went to Texas where her brother had moved, sold advertising briefly for the San Marcos Record weekly, and then began teaching high school English and journalism in Refugio, Texas, near Corpus Christi.
Ann loved the wide-open door that journalism offered. “When you’re a reporter and you’re curious about anything, you have a legitimate reason to dig into it,” she says.
As adviser to Refugio’s student paper, Ann encouraged curiosity in her staff as well. This didn’t sit well with the principal, who was particularly angry about a student editorial criticizing the perks that football players received. This was small-town Texas and football was king. Ann learned Freedom of the Press was not a school value: She was offered a job for the next year, but not tenure.
So, in June 1971, Ann packed up her first car – a Volkswagen Beetle that cost $1,999 – and headed to Denver, Colorado, a place that had always intrigued her. She shared an apartment with a fellow English major from the University of Iowa. After six months of pavement pounding, Ann landed a job with the Sentinel newspapers, a chain of suburban weeklies. She worked as a receptionist, and then moved to reporting and editing. In 1973, editor Mim Swartz got Ann to join CPW and enter the communications contest: “It’s good publicity for us,” Mim said.
Although Ann loved reporting and made lifelong friends at the Sentinel papers, she was less enthralled by night meetings, long hours and low pay. In 1975, she became editor of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center’s newspaper. In 1978, she was recruited for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s public relations staff by its legendary director Rowene Danbom, who had been the first female bureau chief for the International News Service in the 1940s.
Danbom left the health department a month later, leaving Ann as the acting PR director with a mere 30 days of experience! She plunged in. “I just learned whatever I could from anybody I could find,” she recalls.
She found a wealth of stories and a staff of true public servants. “The people I worked with were so ethically focused,” Ann says. “When I helped them promote health and protect the environment, I felt I was doing a good thing.”
(Ann organized her own health promotion, too. She had had so much fun creating a recreational volleyball league at the health sciences center that she decided in 1982 to launch a summer league in the health department. Nearly 30 years later, the league is going strong; Ann played for at least 20 years.)
During Ann’s nearly 24 years with the health department, she took on a variety of challenges, including eight years as public relations director in the 1980s. Working with the department’s 14 divisions, Ann published a weekly employee newsletter; issued weekly news releases, answered daily media inquiries and organized several news conferences each year. She says she loved “the endlessly interesting stories” she was able to dig out of the department.
During her last nine years of full-time work there, she became the senior information specialist for the department’s Historical Public Exposures Studies on Rocky Flats, which had made plutonium triggers for bombs from 1952 to 1989, and sits just upwind of Denver. It was a hugely challenging communications jobs since many people were convinced that plant operators had long covered up Rocky Flats’ toxic releases and health effects.
“These were angry citizens. They didn’t know whom they could trust,” Ann recalls. She studied risk communication and emphasized open and frank discussions of what health officials knew about the plant’s problems and impacts on health. The approach won kudos from government officials and activists alike.
She retired early in 2002, but was called back to work part-time as risk communications coordinator for the Bioterrorism Preparedness Program in 2003; editor in the Chronic Disease Section in 2004; and historian in the Public Relations Department in 2005. She then launched Eagle Eye Editing, a freelance business specializing in technical writing and editing.
Since retirement, Ann jokes that she has “given up housecleaning” to accommodate her volunteer work. Even before retirement, she had been active in community and professional organizations. She chaired the steering committee that created the National Public Health Information Coalition, consisting of state health department PR directors, and served as its first president in 1990-1991. A longtime member of Toastmasters International, Ann was co-dean of the District 26 Toastmasters Leadership Institute, providing public speaking and leadership workshops twice yearly for nearly 130 clubs in three states in 1992-1993. She briefly edited the Colorado Mountain Club’s newsletter, joined two women’s investment clubs (now president of one), and campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Her most rewarding activity since retirement, however, has been volunteering with Colorado Refugee Services. In theory, she meets weekly with newcomers to teach them English and give them tips about American life. In reality, she has become their lifeline and friend, and gives far beyond her weekly allotment of time.
Ann helped Zainab, from Iraq, learn English for her citizenship test – and went with her when Zainab was too nervous to go alone. When she passed, Zainab invited Ann to her citizenship celebration in thanks. For a Burundi woman living with her two daughters and five grandchildren in a two-bedroom apartment, Ann mobilized friends to donate baby equipment and children’s clothing. When Bashar, a Sudanese refugee and former magazine publisher, couldn’t speak enough English to get the correct eyeglass prescription, Ann advised him to find a translator to take to the eye doctor’s office. She also treated Bashar, his wife and their three children to a concert of the Colorado Symphony – which Bashar declared “the best day of my life.”
Through her refugee tutoring, Ann has gotten a glimpse of how extremely difficult it is to be uprooted and dropped into a totally new culture and language. “I hope that if our country was ever in a civil war and we had to escape that someone would help me in the new country as I am helping these people,” she says.
As an offshoot of her health department career, Ann has been deeply involved since 2001 in a community effort to create a Rocky Flats Cold War Museum. She chaired the board in 2007 and 2008, and has helped gather and publish online transcripts of nearly 100 oral histories of former plant workers, government regulators and activists who campaigned to close the plant. She has received the museum’s Program Leadership Award and Years of Service Award, both in 2008.
Ann also has taught AARP Drivers Safety classes for seniors the past five years, about half a dozen times yearly.
Happily for Colorado Press Women and NFPW, they have always been recipients of Ann’s volunteer time and talents.
“If Colorado Press Women were a phrase in the dictionary, Ann Lockhart’s photo would be next to the definition! I cannot think of CPW or NFPW without picturing Ann and her incredible contributions to the organization. She is truly a press woman through and through,” says Marilyn Saltzman, CPW past president who co-chaired the NFPW Convention in Denver with Ann in 2006.
Ann’s contributions to CPW are stellar. She has served time and again organizing programs, handling publicity and in other appointed roles. She was president in 1978-1980 and is serving as president now. Some members believe the CPW might not have survived if Ann had not stepped in last fall when the former president abruptly resigned.
“Press Women members are like family to me,” Ann says. “I’ll call up someone if I need a connection or an answer. I’ve especially enjoyed the national conferences. It’s not just the sessions. I love the pre- and post-convention tours. We get to see places and meet people that few do because Press Women have connections.” Ann especially remembers the NFPW trip to the USSR in 1989, including a visit to the Soviet news agency, TASS; exploring an archeology dig in Barrow, Alaska, in 2000, and dining with Idaho sheepherders in a meadow in 2008.
“It’s the people and the experience. That’s why I keep going back,” Ann says.
Colorado Press Women is grateful for Ann’s nearly 40 years of contributions and is honored to nominate her for NFPW Communicator of Achievement in recognition of her many professional, community and Press Women accomplishments.
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WASHINGTON (WGNO) — On April 6, the Drug Enforcement Administration despatched a letter to federal, state, and native legislation enforcement to warn of the possible spike in fentanyl-related mass-overdose occasions.
According to the U.S Department of Justice, a fentanyl-related mass overdose tournament is described as 3 or extra overdoses going on shut in time and on the identical location.
According to the U.S Department of Justice, it has already came about in a minimum of seven American towns prior to now few months.
Cities impacted come with Wilton Manors, Florida; Austin, Texas; Cortez, Colorado; Commerce City, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Louis, Missouri; and Washington, D.C.
Fentanyl may also be present in all 50 states consistent with the DEA.
“Fentanyl is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate,” stated DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.
The CDC estimated that each and every 12 months greater than 105,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, with 66% of the ones deaths associated with artificial opioids like fentanyl.
Here is the letter the DEA despatched to legislation enforcement.
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Crimea continues to be calm and any move that could result in acceptance of the peaceful status quo will be either ignored or resisted.
If there were discontent in Crimea the western media would be full of lip-smacking detail, describing all the dreadful things that were happening. Print and electronic news sources would be revelling in headlining updates about dissatisfaction and there would be rejoicing in the corridors of comfort from Capitol Hill to Westminster via the Pentagon’s billion dollar branch office in Brussels. But although Crimeans are suffering just as badly as anyone else from the Covid epidemic and from the normal problems that exist in any well-conducted society, there is no evidence of rumbling dissatisfaction, and the place is moving along with citizens minding their own business and getting on with their lives. Since accession to Russia they have had a long time in which to voice disapproval of their government but the CIA and other agencies have been unable to foment an uprising of any sort.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-Nato military alliance and its supporters continue to insist that Russia is going to invade Ukraine, and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda joined the clamour by declaring that “We are probably facing the most dangerous situation in the last 30 years, I am talking about not only Ukraine but the eastern flank of NATO.” The “we” in President Nauseda’s announcement referred to the European Union, and it is intriguing that he and others should use the forum of the European Council to make such statements. He was followed by Latvia’s Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins who kept on the same rails by proclaiming that “We really are facing a series of attacks. I see them all as associated,” and according to France 24 explained that his fears are “the weaponisation of Middle East migrants on Belarus’ borders with the EU, artificially high prices for Russian natural gas, and Russian disinformation.”
These theatrical and exaggerated statements were made in the context of a meeting of the European Council on December 16, but in spite of their fervour it was heartening that the Council’s agenda and discussion emphasised health and economic matters as distinct from sabre-rattling rhetoric, although the mandatory post-conference warning was given about sanctions being imposed on Russia.
The admirable President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, gave a good indication of the EU’s positive attitude by declaring that “Europe must deliver solutions to citizens’ immediate problems, notably on the pandemic and its fallout on their daily life, as well as to the long term challenges we face together, like climate change. Our joint declaration shows our commitment to working hard together to deliver solutions on all these issues, from health to climate change, from digital transformation to broad economic prosperity.”
This common-sense approach to obvious problems was part of the “Joint Declaration on EU legislative priorities for 2022” which does not mention the words Ukraine or Crimea but gets its primacies right for the citizens of Europe — now excluding the United Kingdom which carries on its sadly shambolic way, stumbling and lurching from crisis to catastrophe while continuing to spread the story about “a U.S. intelligence assessment which suggested that Russia could be planning an invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.” There were no qualifications about this supposed invasion plot (described in the UK Parliament), even though The New York Times (for example) pointed out that “U.S. officials stress that the intentions of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia remain unclear, and the intelligence does not show that he has decided to carry out the apparent war plan.” In other words, it is part of the ongoing tide of anti-Russia propaganda that is guided in the main by a desire in some quarters to provide justification for the existence of the U.S.-Nato military alliance.
The psychological operations campaign against Russia has been markedly successful, and there is hardly anyone in the west who, for example, does not believe there was a vast armed invasion of Crimea by Russia in 2014, resulting in its “illegal annexation” by the Federation. Nobody pays attention to the fact, as recorded by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, that “On March 16, 2014, Crimea held a referendum in which 97 percent of voters opted to leave Ukraine and join Russia.” But Washington’s orders were clear to western countries, and they dismissed the measure as being illegal.
The Carnegie Endowment points out that “Western countries’ dismissal of the Crimean referendum . . . does not appear consistent with their positions on similar votes held by former Soviet territories. For instance, the United States and Western Europe supported and quickly recognized Ukraine’s and Georgia’s independence referendums in 1991, when they separated from the Soviet Union as it was experiencing upheaval. The West also actively backed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania when these former Soviet territories established independence in the early 1990s.” But Washington and its allies choose to ignore precedent and preference because the people of Crimea prefer to be citizens of Russia rather than Nato.
In 2014 I wrote that “some 90% of the inhabitants of Crimea are Russian-speaking, Russian-cultured and Russian-educated, and it would be strange if they did not vote for accession to a country that welcomes their kinship, empathy and loyalty” and noted there was not “a single case of bloodshed in the run-up to the plebiscite, the free vote as to whether the population wished to accede to Russia or support the ‘status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine.’ The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was asked by the government of Crimea to send representatives to monitor the referendum but refused to do so.” The majority of the west’s mainstream media failed to disseminate any positive news about the situation, but the UK’s Independent newspaper reported that “Fireworks exploded and Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.”
Now that it has proved impossible for the Washington-Brussels Axis to achieve revolution in Crimea, as was done in Ukraine, or to destroy its economy by sanctions, there are few alternatives open for the U.S.-Nato military alliance to further its aim of moving ever-closer to Russia’s borders. But one practical and attractive proposal was fielded by none other than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who, according to Reuters, said on December 10 that “he did not exclude holding a referendum on the future status of war-torn eastern Ukraine and the Crimea peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Zelenskiy did not give detail on how and when a referendum could be held, but said it was one of the options to revive a stalled peace process in eastern Ukraine and end a standoff with neighbouring Russia.”
Although a breath of sanity was wafted from Kiev, there was no positive reaction from any western government. It must have been extremely galling for Washington and its followers to learn that President Zelenskiy said in an interview that “I do not rule out a referendum on Donbass in general. It might be about Donbass, it might be about Crimea”, and it is extremely unlikely that his sensible approach will be endorsed. Crimea continues to be calm, which upsets Nato, and any move that could result in acceptance of the peaceful status quo will be either ignored or resisted. Confrontation is the name of the U.S.-Nato game. | <urn:uuid:90a5afc5-f220-4dab-9cc9-64f104234195> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geopolitic.org/2021/12/23/crimea-is-calm-which-upsets-nato-because-it-prefers-confrontation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970311 | 1,577 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Throughout the country, conversations focused on school system policies about sensitive topics like curriculum and COVID-19 safety protocols have made local school board meetings flashpoints for aggressive backlash, including threats of violence and intimidation against elected policymakers, teachers, and parents. The new guides, produced by a collaboration between the Bridging Divides Initiative, the Crime and Justice Institute, and DC Peace Team, provide best practices for anticipating potential threats and easy-to-follow steps for defusing tension while protecting public debate and safety.
This collection of resource guides offers elected officials, law enforcement agencies, and members of the public concrete strategies to prepare for potentially contentious public school board meetings and to recognize and de-escalate conflicts.
Each of the three guides includes tailored steps and strategies focused on the specific role of one of the three audiences: bystanders, elected officials, law enforcement personnel. The guides include steps to take before, during, and after meetings that could turn heated including:
- monitoring social media for posts indicating a potential for destructive conflict or violence,
- recognizing the presence of self-described militia groups,
- practicing de-escalation tactics,
- developing an emergency response plan, and
- debriefing after the meeting is over.
The goal of these documents is to provide free, accessible, and informative resources to help community leaders, public safety personnel, and members of the public protect themselves, their communities, and the democratic process from violence and intimidation.
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It was after observing her sisters’ difficulties with finding qualified mechanics to service their vehicles that she saw an opportunity in the job market and registered to study Motor Mechanics at the False Bay TVET College Khayelitsha campus.
This led to being placed at Kia Motors in Somerset West by the Youth Employment Service (YES), the government initiative to improve youth employability by providing work experience through internships.
Noludwe is now literally within sight of her goal, supporting the company in the Workshop Administration Office while she waits for an apprenticeship opportunity to open up. Ironically, her marketing diploma is proving its worth as her current responsibilities include booking in vehicles, customer service, quoting and order authorisations. While enjoying the interaction with customers, she is gaining invaluable business knowledge, learning about the different services and products involved in auto repair and making useful contacts in the sector.
She says the key to her progress thus far has been her positive attitude. Once she forms a plan of action, she refuses to let setbacks distract her from her goals or to be like so many youths and just sit at home and do nothing.
“I take all the experience and opportunities I get to advance my career and dreams,” says Noludwe.
With that attitude, it won’t be long before she gets that apprenticeship and takes another step toward her ultimate goal, to one day start her own company. | <urn:uuid:ba79656c-fff7-4185-b33d-0ccaf0b0dfe3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.careersportal.co.za/features/graduates-eye-is-firmly-fixed-on-the-prize | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969905 | 289 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Körber History Forum 2019
Panel discussion with Archie Brown, Sylvie Kauffmann, Daniel Brössler, Zoltán Balog and Timothy Snyder Photo: Marc Darchinger
Körber History Forum 2019
Connecting Politics and History
Old myths and new propaganda, strong leaders and weak peace agreements, dangers for democracy and Europe's crises: there was much to discuss at the fourth Körber History Forum in Berlin.
For two days, more than 200 scientists, politicians, journalists and intellectuals contentiously debated the past and occasionally looked cautiously to the future.
A broken promise of a better future? Reassessing the road to the post-Cold-War order after 1989
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the euphoric proclamation of a “new world order”, old-fashioned power rivalries continue to characterize international relations. The developments that followed 1989 have, in the longer term, produced a deepening antagonism between Russia and the West; while some borders have disappeared, new fronts have emerged. Among the central points of dispute is the question of mutual assurances regarding spheres of geopolitical interest, including the issue of NATO expansion. Diverging interpretations of these historic developments continue to hinder international understanding and dialogue.
To what extent do current challenges for European security policy have their roots in the decisions and commitments of the powers involved in the process of German and European reunification? Which myths and misperceptions need correcting in order to facilitate future dialogue?
Keynote Mary Elise Sarotte
Focus: What is the value of Europe?
Central Eastern Europe has changed profoundly since 1989 and asserted itself as an integral part of the European project. Yet while political and economic development and European integration propelled former socialist countries toward free markets and democratic statehood, joining the European Union came at a price. Deepening divisions in domestic political arenas have exposed a rising estrangement from liberal democratic values and ideals once so instrumental to forging European unity.
Based on the Central Eastern European experience of transformation, what values will hold the European project together in future?
With Bronisław Komorowski, Former President of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Discussion: Is strong leadership a threat to democracy? Personality, power and populism in historical context
At the beginning of the 21st century, populist movements and calls for “strong leadership” gained key importance in national and international politics. While on the one hand concerns are brought forward that this development promotes an erosion of principles of liberal-democratic decision-making, other voices point out the need for democratic renewal and the legitimacy of strong political leadership.
Are democratic principles weakened by strong leaders? What lessons does the past, and especially the history of vulnerable democratic policies of the 1920s, hold with regard to current challenges?
With Zoltán Balog, Archie Brown, Daniel Brössler, Sylvie Kauffmann, Timothy Snyder
Discussion: Thinking beyond Versailles Current lessons from the Paris Peace Order and its concepts for collective security
After the end of World War I, the Paris Peace Conference aspired to establish a stable peace order for Europe and the world, based on the peoples’ right to self-determination and the establishment of a League of Nations as the core of a new concept of collective security. Though widely regarded as a seminal moment in modern diplomacy, the treaties concluded at Paris were subject to stark contemporary criticism and, ultimately, limited in their influence on the international order of the interwar period.
What remains of the legacy of Paris and what lessons can be learned from the diplomatic feats and failures of the interwar period?
In cooperation with Der Spiegel as part of the debate series “Making peace”.
With Eckart Conze, Wolfgang Ischinger, Dirk Kurbjuweit
Discussion: A stolen past? Europe and the compensation of colonial injustice
To this day, the legacy of the colonial era influences international relations and domestic debates both in European and former colonial societies. While new initiatives seek to right past wrongs, misconceptions of the scope of injustice, imbalance and conflict established through colonial rule persist.
How can a genuine understanding of the profound and systemic impact of colonialism be reached? And what is needed in order to achieve an egalitarian and forward-looking dialogue between former colonial powers and previous colonies?
With Nwando Achebe, Christine Gerberding, Antje Leendertse, Philip Murphy, James Shikwati
Discussion: The power of manipulation on dealing with propaganda and “fake news” in the past and present
With the advent of a so-called “post-fact era”, the importance of balanced information vis-à-vis manipulative misuse of media has become a central concern to safeguarding democratic debate and maintaining social peace. History shows a long tradition of manipulative communication patterns, propaganda and falsification, often gaining destructive public influence.
How have demagogy and manipulation been held in check in the past and what tools are needed to do so today?
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Grounded in Biblical truth and academic excellence, we teach, train, and mentor individuals for a lifetime of learning, leadership, and service.
Equipping students to:
- Discover their God-given gifts and talents.
- Pursue a life of excellence and integrity in Jesus Christ.
- Impact the world for God.
- We put Christ first.
- We nurture curious minds and compassionate hearts.
- We stand firm that character counts.
- We invest in safety.
- We act with courage and pursue excellence.
- We equip world-changers.
- We prioritize prayer.
“Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16
Missions are an integral part of the philosophy of Billings Christian Schools. Our emphasis is to be loving people to Christ with our gifts of time, talent, and financial resources, both in our local community and around the world.
Some of the ministry opportunities include:
- Donations of school supplies, clothing, toys, and other needed items are gathered and sent to families in mission fields serving at Christian schools and orphanages.
- Money is raised to support students and faculty for missions.
- Students pack boxes and bags with food items and make sandwiches for distribution to the needy at the local food bank.
- Students sing, play instruments, play games, read, and distribute gifts to residents at local nursing or assisted living homes.
- Students raise money for sending monthly support to a sponsored child overseas.
- Students and families donate money and shoeboxes of items for Operation Christmas Child.
- Secondary students have the opportunity to travel overseas to Guatemala and Peru to share the Gospel and to serve others during mission trips.
- Families and staff reach out to the sick or widows within our community to provide meals, gift cards, and for other needs.
- Students assist the local zoo and pet shelter in cleaning its facilities.
- Billings Christian School Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national, or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship programs, or other school-administered programs.
- Application for enrollment is open to new students at any time during the year until the administration closes a class.
- Enrollment is based on a combination of the his/her personal interview, the parental/guardian interview, and the student’s past academic and behavioral performance.
- Enrollment decisions will be made in a timely fashion so that students of families who are not selected may seek other educational opportunities.
- It is not the primary goal of the administration to fill all seats available; but, it is the goal to select student candidates that best fit the academic, spiritual, and family goals and objectives of the administration.
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In case you want to see the different look of Europe, take a river cruise that will show you memorable views and outstanding experience. There are many providers for the river cruises in Europe, but those, which are known as the best are cruises on the rivers Danube, Volga and Rhone.
The mighty 1,771-mile Danube begins in southwestern Germany and emphasizes over 6 countries before joining the Black Sea. This cruise is known as the culture cruise.
Only on the Danube cruise you will visit Vienna and Budapest, while listening onboard performances of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Cruise stops includes also Strauss concert in Passau.
Another river cruise that is already praised as the best is the Rhone river cruise. The 505-mile Rhone rises in Switzerland and joins south into the Mediterranean Sea. This cruise is entirely displaying the beauty of Southern France, especially with magnificent views of Lyon, Avignon and Arles.
Another classical river cruise is the Russian Volga river cruise. Volga is the longest river in Europe and it is nearly 2,300 miles. The cruise is significant, for it is showing the whole beauty of the Russian most amazing cities. You will be able to see Moscow’s Red Square, the ancient Uglich, as well as St. Petersburg – the pearl of Russia. | <urn:uuid:81fdac83-307d-4cd6-a6e2-e5d76db8d903> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thetravelerszone.com/cruise-travel/a-cruise-is-a-cruise-even-if-not-on-the-ocean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950898 | 276 | 1.53125 | 2 |
DeSoto National Forest
DeSoto National Forest
DeSoto National Forest is a 518,587-acre property in southwestern Mississippi. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina damaged everything along the Gulf Coast up to 60 miles inland and DeSoto National Forest was hit hard. Sections of the Forest have still not recovered and some of the human amenities may never be rebuilt.
The landscape is a gently rolling terrain with dry, sandy longleaf pine/scrub oak ridges, often-flooded tupelo/bald cypress swamps, upland hardwood forest and Buttercup Flats: a vast savanna populated heavily with pitcher plants (pitcher plants grow in soil that has no nutrients). Streams on the Forest tend to be tea-colored as a result of all the decaying vegetation around (this is typical of Coastal Plain forests).
About 21 miles of Black Creek in the forest have been designated the Black Creek Wild & Scenic River (with the focus on "scenic"), the only Wild & Scenic River in Mississippi. Black Creek bisects Black Creek Wilderness on its way to its confluence with the Pascagoula River. There are 2 private outfitters licensed to provide canoe and kayak rentals on Black Creek. There are 5 developed landings along Black Creek and multiple other landings for use as needed. Be prepared to see deer, birds, wood ducks and river otters along a float downstream. There might even be a black bear or two...
The Black Creek National Recreation Trail (foot-only) runs for 41 miles across the Forest, about 10 miles of it in Black Creek Wilderness.
Black Creek creates a broad floodplain area with oxbow lakes and thick stands of red maple, oak, pine, bald cypress, sweet gum and sweet bay. This is how much of the Gulf Coast forests were before the Euro-American invaders arrived: spring flooding and summer drought controlled water levels and water levels determined the distribution of species.
The total elevation variation across DeSoto National Forest is about 170 feet with the highest point being about 270 feet above sea level. Clear-cutting of the timber and decades of bad agricultural practices changed the face of the South, and not generally for the better. In most cases, Forest Service properties east of the Mississippi River were assembled from land that had been heavily worked over and almost destroyed before being abandoned.
|Airey Lake Recreation Area||Camping, Picnicking, Hiking, Fishing|
|Ashe Lake||43 mile lake, Disc Golf, Picnicking, Nature Trail, Fishing|
|Bethel OHV Trail||43 miles of Trail, Parking, Primitive camping|
|Bethel Bicycle Trail||19 miles of Trail, Parking|
|Big Biloxi Recreation Area||Camping, Picnicking, Interpretive Trail, Swimming, Fishing|
|Big Creek Landing||Camping, Picnicking, Hiking, Boat Launch, Wild and Scenic River|
|Big Foot Horse Camp and Trail||23 Mile Horse Trail, Horse Camp|
|Black Creek Hiking Trail||42 Mile National Recreation Hiking Trail|
|Cypress Creek Landing||Camping, Picnicking, Boat Launch, Wild and Scenic River|
|Fairley Bridge Scenic Landing||Camping, Picnicking, Boat Launch, Hiking, River|
|Janice Landing||Camping, Picnicking, Boat Launch, River|
|Moody's Landing||Camping, Picnicking, Canoe Launch, Scenic River|
|P.O.W. Lake Recreation Area||Camping, Hiking, Historical Site, Fishing|
|Rattlesnake Bay OHV Trail||31 Mile OHV Trail, Parking|
|Tuxachanie Hiking Trail||About 14 Miles National Hiking Trail|
Along Black Creek Wild & Scenic River
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All Change (Week 6)
Welcome to this devotional for Kids! Our All Change series is inspired by our Changeling DNA - Just like a Caterpillar changes into a Butterfly, we can all grow and change as we become more like Jesus. Shaking of the old and stepping into the new. Follow along as we journey through this together, and learn all about the purpose God has for us!
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STUBBERSFIELD, JOSEPH,MICHAEL (2014) Content Biases in the Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Urban Legends. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
|PDF - Accepted Version|
This thesis examines the role of cognitive content biases in cultural transmission. The concept of cognitive content biases suggests that humans preferentially attend to, recall and transmit certain types of information over others, and that this bias influences the transmission and evolution of cultural artefacts. A number of studies are presented which primarily use genuine urban legends as material. In using ‘real world’ material such as urban legends these studies expand our knowledge of how content biases operate and shed light on the cultural success of these legends. Methodology included qualitative analyses, experiments using participants in linear transmission chains and computational phylogenetic techniques. The studies demonstrate that content biases are an effective force in cultural transmission but that different biases may not necessarily operate in exactly the same manner. It is argued that the cultural success of urban legends can be explained by their exploitation of cognitive content biases. The studies also demonstrate the efficacy of using ‘real-world’ material such as urban legends in the examination of the mechanisms of cultural transmission and evolution.
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|Award:||Doctor of Philosophy|
|Keywords:||Cultural Transmission; Cultural Evolution; Urban Legends; Content Biases|
|Faculty and Department:||Faculty of Social Sciences and Health > Anthropology, Department of|
|Copyright:||Copyright of this thesis is held by the author|
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<link http: www.uady.mx>Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Doctorado Institucional en Ciencias Sociales, Calle 31 y 35-A Carretera Antigua a Chuburná, CP 9720, Mérida, Yucatán, México
PhD Project Title
Environmental degradation viewpoint from governmental policies and tourism activities in Yucatán´s natural protected areas
Abstract of PhD Thesis
Framework of this research links development, ecotourism and environmental degradation from political ecology. Topic is located within Natural Protected Areas (NPA) where tourism activities are related to environmental degradation from a social science perspective.
The problem is focused on environmental degradation of water resource in Ria Celestún related to tourism services of boat rides. Local agents are involved in a complex set of knowledge, practices and rational drivers about environmental conservation in contexts with private interests, power relationships, information, institutions, economic market integration and historical facts, among other elements. Tourism practices of boat rides in Ría Celestún show different linkages to policies, agents and interests about environmental conservation. Public policy configuration of the NPA plus other governmental supports for boat rides’ providers in Celestún frame their perspectives regarding environmental conservation and local knowledge.
Within the “political ecology of conservation” perspective (theoretical framework) local agents linked to tourism and other economic activities in NPA experience market integration in different forms; however, one way to analyze its effects is related to their income profile and their household dynamics. Following a narrowed perspective of market integration within economics of conservation, therefore, there is a possibility to understand how tourism activity is located under state-directed conservation practices but also facing multifactorial market integration where income profile is complemented through several economic activities as well.
The objective of this research is to know the influence of governmental policies on boat rides’ providers towards their knowledge in the conservation of water resource in Ría Celestún.
This research is important in realizing how development affects local knowledge on environmental conservation in local communities in Yucatán, Mexico, through specific public policies and rational drivers around sustainable development.
Mixed methods research is considered for this project.
<link http: www.economia.uady.mx>Dr. Javier Becerril
Sustainable Development, Political Ecology, Public Policy
|2012 - 2014|
Master’s in Comparative Public Policies, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico
|2001 - 2005|
Bachelor’s in Political Science and International Relations, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico
|2015- 2018||Public Policy Analyst at the National Institute of Transparency and Access to Public Information, Government, Mexico.|
|2011 - 2014||Research and program evaluation analyst at the Superior Audit Office, Government, Mexico.|
Social / Political Activities
- Founder of “JADE Propuestas Sociales y Alternativas al Desarrollo”, NGO based in Yucatán, Mexico / Promoting local/community projects and human rights
- Co-founder of “Laboratorio de Innovación Democrática”, NGO based in Guadalajara, Mexico / Promoting participation, citizenship and democracy
- Member of Amnesty International
- Experience abroad as freelance and volunteer in Morocco
Awards / Scholarships
- CONACYT-Mexico for studies in public institutions
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If you've ever wondered how India's royals travelled, you can live a bit of the experience at the Orchard Palace in Gondal—located an hour away from Rajkot—where the royal family of Gondal has preserved their private rail saloon from the early 1900s.
Built in the late 19th-century as an annexe to Huzoor Palace, the royal family's residence, The Orchard Palace in Gondal was meant to host personal guests of the Maharajas. In the early 90s, the palace was converted into a seven-room heritage hotel, well-appointed with Art Deco furniture, antiques and handicrafts from the family's collection. As a part of this exercise, the royal railway carriage of Maharaja Bhagwat Sinhji was restored to allow for guests to take a trip back in time.
The Gondal State was one of the many princely states that made up the Bombay Presidency, an administrative region of British India. The 11-gun salute state—one granted a gun salute by the British Crown—spanned an area of about 1,000 sq miles comprising four towns and more than 175 villages. Under the enterprising Maharaja Bhagwat Sinhji who ruled from 1883-1944 and studied medicine at Oxford, Gondal grew into a prosperous, liberal state. Part of the Maharaja's many modernisation schemes were sanitary drainage and underground electricity supplies in Gondal town, road and irrigation networks across the state as well as the establishment of the railway industry in Saurashtra.
Way ahead of his time, the Maharaja planned for a railway factory close to the palace, so as to allow for a set of private tracks to be laid for his personal railway carriage. Those private tracks along with his saloon still stand to this day. The carriage—which guests of the property can walk through—comprises a kitchen with an intact Dover wood-fire stove, a bar and dining area, a living room, two washrooms and a bedroom for two. | <urn:uuid:475f5beb-cf8c-46d2-aeae-99440acdef2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cntraveller.in/story/gujarat-journey-back-time-maharajas-carriage-1900s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970909 | 422 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Photography, the basis of cinema, is also the foundation of Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments. The Swedish title of Troell’s feature, his fourteenth, translates as Maria Larsson’s Everlasting Moments, which alludes to the photographs taken by its lead character, images of her family and community. But the photos, captured with a boxlike Contessa camera, by a wife and mother of six living in Sweden in the second decade of the twentieth century, constitute more than a mere trove of memories and impressions. They are a symbol of the new awareness imparted to modern experience by the ability to capture life on film—a central event in human consciousness. Thus, the moving story of one couple’s marriage and family life becomes a profound investigation into the artistic phenomenon of photography.
Everlasting Moments opens with the image of a camera over the title credits; we learn, in voice-over, that Maria and Sigfrid Larsson (Maria Heiskanen and Mikael Persbrandt) won the Contessa at a carnival while courting. As the film progresses, Maria takes up photography as a hobby, which provides her with an escape from her domestic obligations and Troell with an opportunity to further explore his longtime interest in recording the natural world and human nature. Always discovering the universe anew through a viewfinder, he is one of the few great filmmakers working today who frequently serves as cinematographer on his own movies (on Everlasting Moments, he shares credit with Mischa Gavrjusjov), in addition to writing and editing them.
But there’s a richness to the multitasking here that is different from Troell’s previous wide-eyed visions, from the Old World saga of his internationally acclaimed diptych The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972) to the historical adventure The Flight of the Eagle (1983) to the political biopic Hamsun (1997). Everlasting Moments, based on the reminiscences of Maja Oman, Maria Larsson’s daughter, as told to Troell’s wife (and Larsson’s great-niece), Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell, transcends biography by finding a specific, personal meaning in photography that applies as well to a hobbyist like Maria as to an accomplished auteur of cinema. The perceptions of Maria, a homemaker, stand in contrast with those of her stevedore husband, and Troell’s vision encompasses both, creating a kinetic family album. Through a series of extraordinary scenes illustrating Scandinavian winters and summers, life among poor workers and middle-class shopkeepers, and, on the periphery, Sweden’s political history, Everlasting Moments commemorates the world of its story, capturing its photographable essence and eliciting contemporary viewers’ empathy with the people who live in it. One indelible shot features Siggi cradling an injured friend whose urgings have sparked Siggi’s political sense of right and wrong: it is an epiphany, instantly revealing his emotional and intellectual potential. Through personal and social history, Troell vividly reminds us why cinema, photography, and images (memories) matter.
Structured as the grown-up Maja’s recollections of and inquiry into the mystery of her parents’ marriage, Everlasting Moments expands the Larsson family tale from culturally specific folk history into something universal. Its moving story encompasses childhood, romantic awakening, working life, social awareness—plus private discoveries, such as the creative aspirations (Maria’s diversion) or pragmatic concessions to necessity (Siggi’s work conditions) that parents sometimes hide from their children. Through these seminal moments, Troell provides a full account of a marriage’s stages, but he also deftly chronicles women’s and men’s social habits in Sweden before women’s suffrage.
The feminist message of Troell’s film may be only an undertone, but few recent movies have more compellingly portrayed the necessity and nobility of the struggle for female independence than Everlasting Moments. Yet Maria is not a symbol. When Siggi is jailed after his roughhousing turns into spousal abuse, Maria feels a shame that derives not only from his behavior but also from her relief (“I don’t miss him,” she frets). The film paints Maria’s relationship with her often hostile husband as complicated: despite his bursts of violence, Maria has a lingering, affectionate bond with Siggi, one that has both a carnal, erotic aspect and a playful one. There are undeniable pleasures in the family’s routine: they sing and frolic, and the tattoos on Siggi’s broad back become a source of entertainment for the children—and of private delight for Maria.
This is an authentic physical and emotional environment, and such immersion in vivid detail has always distinguished Troell’s filmmaking. His technique often recalls the documentary realism of the vérité movement that was in favor when he began working in film, as a cinematographer for director Bo Widerberg and on television documentaries. The revolutionary 1960s shift toward the use of available light, resulting in a limpid, unforced visual quality, is evoked in the images of Everlasting Moments. Troell’s casual verisimilitude conveys an appreciation of the world’s splendors and perils, enhancing and poeticizing his story’s atmosphere and recalling the lifelike immediacy of nonfiction realists Robert Flaherty and Joris Ivens. His attention to flora, climate, and states of natural beauty—as when the Larsson kids watch a classmate venture dangerously onto a frozen lake—stops short of pantheism yet persistently connects the characters’ psychological conflicts to the inevitable changes in precipitation or temperature. Troell’s drama is often as cyclical as the weather—like the phases of Maria’s and Siggi’s marital fidelity, and the household’s struggle with poverty. The respite of a family outing to a company picnic, where the usually uncomfortable couple relax and dance, is elevated by the rapturous sense of summer airiness—contrasting perfectly with the desolate moment when Maria and the kids escape Siggi’s violence and wander through the snowy streets, obscured by frosty haze, their isolation silhouetted against a streetcar’s solitary headlight.
Troell’s many scenes from marriages (from The Emigrants on) are earthy, physical experiences, and he enhances their naturalism with a sense of tension between the spiritual and the sensual that hails from his Scandinavian heritage, and directly from such masters of human conflict as August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman. In Troell’s sole American film, the 1974 western Zandy’s Bride, farmer Gene Hackman adjusts to living with his Swedish mail-order wife, played by Liv Ullmann, in an environment of awesome, verdant wilderness—a literal evocation of the couple’s adventures in new emotional terrain. Troell has a silent filmmaker’s gift for finding natural allusions to human temperament. Note the crucial scene in Everlasting Moments in which Maria’s artistic intuition is encouraged by a quiet, courteous portrait photographer, Pedersen (Jesper Christensen), whose loyalty is reflected in a hangdog pet. Maria and Pedersen are tentatively attracted to each other, and their bond is cemented when Pedersen demonstrates a basic photographic principle by sensuously creating the image of a butterfly in Maria’s palm. This moment, imprinted on her consciousness, anticipates her own transformation.
Maria and Pedersen’s mutual infatuation is discreet yet momentous. He also introduces her to the movies, inviting her family to a screening of a Charlie Chaplin film that draws them out of their domestic isolation. This new way of seeing opens up Maria’s potential; it confirms her artistic yearning while unsettling her sense of purpose. Heiskanen’s portrayal of mingled hesitancy and boldness is especially moving when Maria confesses that taking pictures makes her “forget I’m a mother.” Everlasting Moments is enriched by the full scope of Maria’s womanhood; her avocation gives devastating insight into her personality and private sensibility, as when she photographs a child’s burial dressing for a grieving mother. Troell captures fleeting, immediate life and loss on film—and he expresses it with classic images. In one, Maria watches Pedersen’s departure while simultaneously recalling her Chaplin encounter. Her perceptions have expanded: she is now conscious of how art commemorates emotion and experience.
That lovely, Chaplinesque farewell (with the forest haloing Pedersen, providing a natural, wooded iris-out) is an unusual, metacinematic moment for Troell. But it is, essentially, a grace note. It summarizes the deep feeling and revolutionary compassion that a new century’s technology brought into being. In this way, Troell’s film is similar to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (written in the same period in which Everlasting Moments takes place): the two artists share an understanding of the early twentieth-century perception of experience and memory. By rediscovering the importance of the photographic image, Troell reminds us of the significance of cinema itself. | <urn:uuid:212c1e54-48b0-4164-a956-ae8e976e9f60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1501 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932297 | 1,980 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Spiller, Roger 1944- (Roger J. Spiller)
Spiller, Roger 1944- (Roger J. Spiller)
Born October 19, 1944.
Writer, military historian, combat strategist, and educator. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, former professor of combined arms warfare and deputy director, Combat Studies Institute, George C. Marshall Professor emeritus of military history.
"Not War but Like War": The American Intervention in Lebanon, Combat Studies Institute (Fort Leavenworth, KS), 1981.
(Editor) Dictionary of American Military Biography, three volumes, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1984.
(General editor) Combined Arms in Battle since 1939, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press (Fort Leavenworth, KS), 1992.
(Author of introduction) Tadayoshi Sakurai, Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War, translated by Masujiro Honda, edited by Alice Mabel Bacon, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1999.
Sharp Corners: Urban Operations at Century's End, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press (Fort Leavenworth, KS), 2001.
An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2005.
Author Roger Spiller is a military historian, combat strategist, educator. He is the George C. Marshall Professor emeritus of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There he also served as a professor of combined arms warfare and as the deputy director of the Combat Studies Institute.
Sharp Corners: Urban Operations at Century's End, is "full of case studies of sieges that went bloodily wrong, for the attacker, the defender, the civilians in between—or for all of the above. But while recounting this grim history, Spiller holds out real hope of a more artful path to victory: instead of a blunt, frontal medieval siege, a subtle, postmodern one," commented Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr., writing in the National Journal. Spiller assesses the components of city warfare, providing military planners and tacticians with cogent observations on how to structure combat operations in urban environments. He advises that effective city warfare demands that planners know how a city is constructed, and the characteristics of the three-tiered anatomy of most cities consisting of the street level, the underground environment of sewers and subways, and the elevated level of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers. Spiller also looks at urban warfare from a historical perspective. Unfortunately for military operations specialists, Spiller notes that "cities bring out the worst in armies, and that armies bring out the worst in cities," Armor reviewer Kevin C.M. Benson reported.
Freedberg stressed the point that Sharp Corners "is not a detailed operational manual for urban warfare. There is no such manual for seizing an entire city." However, within the book, Spiller offers real-life tactical lessons for commanders and soldiers who find themselves facing the difficulties of urban warfare. Benson advised readers, "Get this book, study this book, think, think, and think again. The use of force cannot preclude the use of intellect; indeed, in our age, the use of force demands the use of intellect."
Spiller departs from the strictly factual framework of nonfiction military history with An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History, a collection of thirteen fictional pieces that explore the concept and experience of war over a time span of some 2,500 years. The collection is a "brilliantly unorthodox piece of work," a "strange, brave, and absolutely fascinating book," commented Fredric Smoler in American Heritage. All the stories in the book are "powerful, most of them are disturbing, and each contains lessons that can be subtle, multiple, and contradictory, as so many of war's lessons are," Smoler observed. Throughout each of the stories, Spiller "skillfully combines imagination and meticulous research to shrewdly engage and challenge the reader," remarked Military Review critic Andrew M. Roe. Prominent military figures from the past often appear in Spiller's tales. One story addresses Cortez's conquest of the Aztecs; another concerns Civil War general McClellan and the lessons he learned from Napoleon; yet another portrays a Japanese general caught up in an investigation in the years following World War II. In one of the collection's most striking pieces, Spiller describes a far-future war of apocalyptic power and destructive force. "Spiller's stories can be read as parables. They neither celebrate nor condemn war but raise fundamental questions faced by soldiers and civilians," remarked USA Today reviewer Bob Minzesheimer.
"An Instinct for War offers timely insights into the human challenges of armed conflict. It is skillfully written and always thought provoking," Roe stated. Throughout his collection, Smoler concluded, "Spiller displays great learning, always lightly worn; great moral seriousness, never ponderously displayed; and literary flair. This is a remarkable book, initially disconcerting and eventually enthralling."
Spiller is also an advocate of presenting military viewpoints of other warriors from history. He provided the introduction for Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Tadayoshi Sakurai. This memoir offers Sakurai's firsthand accounts of life and combat during the early- twentieth-century war between Japan and Russia, from 1904 to 1905. He recounts how many of his contemporaries preferred to commit ritual suicide rather than face the shame of not being called to fight in the war, noted Jeff Plaks, writing in the Historian. At the time, no one believed that Japan could successfully wage war against a powerful enemy such as Russia, but the Japanese proved to be equal to their European enemies both in land battles and naval engagements. "In his touching memoir, Lieutenant Tadayoshi Sakurai relates many such firsthand testimonies to Japan's national spirit," which, he believed, accounted for "Japan's extraordinary victory over European Russia," Plaks stated. Sakurai provides a detailed account of the siege of Port Arthur, a military engagement that resulted in the loss of his right arm. In 1905, after an unprecedented defeat in battle and strong resistance to the war from the Russian homeland, the tsarist Russian state capitulated and agreed to negotiate peace. Plaks called Spiller's introduction "insightful," and concluded that "both students and advanced scholars of Japanese, Russian, and military history will find this engaging and insightful memoir of great interest."
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
American Heritage, November-December, 2005, Fredric Smoler, "Wartime Lessons: An Audacious New Book Offers Intimate Glimpses of 2,500 Years of Strife," review of An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History, p. 22.
American Libraries, May, 1985, review of Dictionary of American Military Biography, p. 339.
Armor, May-June, 2003, Kevin C.M. Benson, review of Sharp Corners: Urban Operations at Century's End, p. 49.
Historian, winter, 2001, Jeff Plaks, review of Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 438.
History: Review of New Books, spring, 2006, James E. Sefton, review of An Instinct for War, p. 99.
Library Journal, December, 1984, George F. Scheck, review of Dictionary of American Military Biography, p. 2264; April 15, 1985, review of Dictionary of American Military Biography, p. 42.
Military Review, March-April, 2006, Andrew M. Roe, review of An Instinct for War, p. 114.
National Journal, April 5, 2003, Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. and James Kifield, "Sharp Corners, Soft Sieges," review of Sharp Corners, p. 1058.
St. Petersburg Times, March 18, 2001, Margo Hammond, "Military," p. 5.
Times Literary Supplement, March 10, 2006, Brian Holden Reid, "Back to the Woods," review of An Instinct for War, p. 10.
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Tudor was intended as an entry-level brand for the less democratic Rolex. “Montres Tudor SA has designed, manufactured and marketed Tudor watches since 6 March 1946. Rolex founder Hans Wildorf conceived of the Tudor Watch Company to create a product for authorized Rolex dealers to sell that offered the reliability and dependability of a Rolex, but at a lower price.” says their website. So, beginning in the 1950s, they outsourced their movements to ETA, a big producer of various movements and ebauches, and put them in Rolex “Oyster” cases, with Rolex-signed bracelets.
Watches are carefully branded and marketed, and words do count. Successful brands like Rolex and Omega did put some thought into their keywords and most importantly, they stuck to them for decades until they became part of the modern world, like the Levi’s jeans and the Coke soda. What are the main concepts in the Rolex/Tudor language?
Of course, one can play with words and name “Oyster Royal” a Rolex watch and “Oyster-Prince” a Tudor one…
Why 7965? This is the reference number of the case, often engraved between the lugs; Rolex SA made quite a few of them over the years, it must be known to clearly identify the watch.
Tudor watches from the 1950s and 1960s clearly state the provenance of their Oyster cases: the Rolex logo is on both the caseback and the crown. The production date is stamped inside the case (IV 59 here).
Inside, the ETA movement is nicely plated and decorated. In this particular watch this is an ETA 2461, a real workhorse, tough and accurate when well regulated. It may have been replaced: the originals have a balance wheel with screws and are often plated white, this one has a more modern annular balance and is nicely gold/orange plated. | <urn:uuid:19cf3aef-2efa-44ea-acf9-6b7d4407671b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://horlogerie-hervouet.fr/en/2015/11/tudor-rolex-7965/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976214 | 422 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Defining What “Sustainability” Really Means
Due to my own specific background, to date the materials on this website largely focus on the “planet” part of the “people, planet, profit” triumvirate that constitutes a genuine sustainability program. From a systems thinking perspective, essentially equal weight must be granted to each part of this equation. (Another version is equity, ecology, economy.)
The most common definition of “sustainability” is from the Brundtland report of 1987, which defined “sustainable development” as basically meeting the needs of today without messing things up so badly for the people tomorrow that they won’t be able to meet their needs. I like that definition because it allows for the reality that sustainability is an ever moving target. What is reasonably sustainable today may not be thus tomorrow. A program that is basically sustainable on this side of the mountains may be unsustainable on the other side. And what works just dandy for me may put you in an untenable position, and for reasons that may be difficult or impossible to quantify or qualify.
Many people find reasons to dislike the term “sustainability” and have worked to promote alternatives that refer to the goals of sustainability, like “well-being,” “balance,” and “resilience.” There is also the widespread problem of using the term illegitimately because it is hard to define, and no real rules have been set down to standardize its use.
I suggest that it is most important to remember two things: 1) don’t believe claims that “it’s easy being green,” because in the midst of our extremely unsustainable society, it rarely if ever is, and 2) working toward true sustainability requires deep personal commitment, and there are no shortcuts. With this last point, I don’t necessarily mean that you’re going to have to work extra hard to earn that extra money to afford a Tesla. Rather, I mean that working toward real sustainability requires that we do whatever work is necessary–which turns out to be mostly inner work–to bring out the best of ourselves, and to lead with sincerity and goodwill in every interaction. Anything less is less than sustainable. | <urn:uuid:9664e9cf-7ba2-4e32-8543-75264c6a1331> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.introductiontosustainability.com/about-2/what-is-sustainability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954503 | 474 | 2.25 | 2 |
Roused Meaning in Urdu
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Popular Indian Restaurants
Indian food is popular all over the world. Combined with plenty of spices and authentic food items, Indian food is celebrated everywhere. But what happened to us Indians?
Since the last few decades, we have started indulging ourselves in junk fast food items. Mostly these food items belong to foreign soil and a few of them are Pizzas, burgers, tacos, etc. They are high in cholesterol and contain too much fat which causes obesity among humans. They also provide too many health complications as well.
We are not opposing our readers to stop having these food items, we are just advising to stay away from these junk foods as much as possible.
Our country is as colorful as a rainbow and so is the food that comes with it. From north to south India, the variety in cuisine is much different and everything you taste will give you much peacefulness and will entice your taste buds.
Time to time, we go outside of our houses to eat food in restaurants. Rather than having these foreign junk food items from KFC, PizzaHut, Dominos, etc. we can go to Indian restaurants to taste the authentic Indian food.
Here are some popular Indian restaurants that provide tasty and delicious food at a reasonable price.
The restaurant chain Rajdhani was founded in 1985 at Crawford Market Mumbai. Rajdhani is a reflection of Indian culture and strives to keep the traditional feel alive with the concept of “Atithi Devo Bhava”. The restaurant is famous for its vegetarian dishes and mind-blowing Thalis. Rajdhani serves its trademark thalis in Indian cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Nagpur, Baroda, Jaipur, Pune, Chennai, and foreign cities like Dubai.
Saravana Bhavan is the largest south-Indian restaurant chain in the world and it was founded in 1981 in Chennai. Started with a capital of INR 5000, the restaurant has grown fast in popularity across the world. Dosa varieties and idlis are some of the famous dishes available in the restaurant. The restaurant has more than 40 locations in India and 87 cities outside India.
The famous barbeque restaurant in our country is the Barbeque nation. It was founded in 2006 and now it serves in 138 outlets in India and 7 outlets outside India. Known for its delicious vegetarian and non-vegetarian grill and tandoori items, it is famous among Indians for party and celebrations. Buffet lunches are famous in this restaurant that serves both veg and non-veg items respectively.
The largest chai retailer in our country right now is the Chai point. Currently, they have around 100 service hubs located in eight cities such as Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai. They serve freshly brewed chai along with snack items like samosa, vada pav, noodles, banana cakes, etc. Even though this is not a restaurant chain, it is a fun place to enjoy with your friends and also fill your stomach with tasty breakfast and snack items.
There is no other place where you can sit, relax and enjoy with your friends like a local Dhaba where dishes are available at a considerably cheap price. Dhabas are usually located on the highway roads in India and they offer North Indian dishes that are tasty and affordable. Dhabas offer both vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisines.
Founded in 1948, Ratna Cafe is one of the famous south Indian restaurant chains in the country. It was established by the Gupta family who actually hailed from Mathura, UP. The most famous dish ‘Idly-Sambhar’ is the specialty of this restaurant. Even now people get amazed by the fact that a Mathura born person has popularized the traditional ‘Idly-Sambhar’ food item which belongs to South India.
As the name suggests, this restaurant chain is famous for its South Indian dishes. It was founded in 1997 and operates in 72 outlets across India, New Zealand, Oman, and UAE. The restaurant is very famous for its Dosa varieties such as Spring Roll Dosa, American Chopsuey Dosa, and Paper Roast Dosa. They have more than 25 Dosa varieties to serve their customers.
One of the oldest Indian brands Bikanerwala was founded 115 years ago and they started just by serving sweets and namkeens (snack items). Then Bikano Chat cafes were opened to serve food items like quick-service restaurants with minimal table space. Later on, Bikanerwala restaurants were established which serves North and south Indian dishes at an affordable price.
Paradise Food Court:
Founded in 1953 as a small canteen serving Hyderabadi dishes in Secunderabad, Paradise soon became famous for its tastiest Hyderabadi biryani. That is how the restaurant chain got its famous name ‘Paradise Biryani’. Paradise also serves Kebabs, Chinese cuisine, and Tandoori cuisine. It serves in various locations across Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Guntur, Vijayawada and Vishakapatnam.
Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant:
With over 60 years of experience in the food industry, Dindigul Thalappakatti Restaurant is famous for its mouth-watering biryanis. The restaurant chain primarily operates in Tamilnadu but it operates over 62 outlets in India, seven of which are overseas. Also, the restaurant has a trademark for the word ‘Thalappakatti ‘ (meaning Turban in Tamil) to be used only with their restaurant name.
Established in 2001, Punjabi Grill is known for its mouth-watering Punjabi dishes such as Paneer Kurkara and Butter Chicken. They have a very prominent and tasty tadka that is added to their food items which makes it more tastier. Punjabi Grill has set up multiple branches in prominent cities of the country. Punjab Grill has expanded its radius globally with the recent set up of branches in Bangkok, Singapore along with Washington DC, USA.
That is all my friends.
Treat yourself with authentic Indian food by going to these Indian restaurants with your family and friends And we are sure you will be having a good time and delicious food as well.
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From time to time, issues arise between members of any team which require resolution in order for the team to continue to function at its highest level. Following are six points to remember for positive and successful issue resolutions:
- Turn your complaints into requests.
- Change “you” statements to “I” or “we/us” statements.
- Never go backwards! Focus on the future only.
- Offer a solution or new idea.
- Avoid making demands. Ask for someone’s help in solving the issue in a mutually beneficial way.
- Avoid generalizations like “you always” or “you never.”
Notice how different these two examples sound and feel. See how easy it is to utilize and incorporate all six of the techniques above in just a few sentences:
Complaint: “You never clean your instruments before you leave for the day. You got off on time but I had to stay late every day last week to finish them.”
Request: “Cheryl, I’d like to ask for your help. Could we sit down together one day this week – say, Wednesday at noon – and develop a system to make sure all the instruments are cleaned and properly put away at the end of every day? I have some great ideas about it and wanted to ask for your help in developing a system that would work for both of us.“
- Avoid a sarcastic or condescending tone when making your request.
- Most people are reasonable and want to work out differences just like you. Expect to work it out.
- Be respectful that “right now” may not be a good time for the other person involved. Ask permission to discuss it now or to pick a good time (be specific) in the near future.
- Listen and smile! Recognize every human’s greatest need is to just be heard and understood. Seek first to understand and then to be understood. And a soft smile can powerfully communicate optimism and kind intent.
This week, we recycled one of our most popular MMS’s from several years ago.
Our new subscribers will enjoy Katherine’s story and the lessons she took from the experience.
And to all of our MMS readers who have been loyal subscribers from the beginning…
you’ll remember why we love seeing the world of business and life through the eyes of The Lioness.
“Nothing big will ever come from being small.”
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Children and Vulnerable Adults
Protections for all.
Creighton University adopted the Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy to ensure that departments, student organizations, and outside groups have adequately prepared for the supervision and responsibility of working with children and vulnerable adults. This policy applies to programs and events both on and off-campus where children or vulnerable adults are the target audience.
Who are defined as children or vulnerable adults?
Children are minors under the age of 19 and vulnerable adults are adults with a substantial functional or mental impairment.
What is required for an organization, department, or program to offer an activity or event intended for children or vulnerable adults?
This policy requires the program or activity to be registered with the University and that each employee, volunteer, or representative successfully complete required training and a background check as needed. This must all be completed prior to the start of the program or activity for the individual to be authorized.
Step 1: Register and receive approval of the program or activity by completing the online registration form.
- This form must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the date of the program/activity
Step 2: You will receive an email from the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance following a review of your form.
- The office will request a list of all participants (names and NetIDs) in an excel spreadsheet or word document, so please have this ready in advance.
Step 3: The Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance will assign online training to all participants or verify that participants have completed children and vulnerable adult training within the last calendar year.
- Online training will be available through "Get Inclusive" our online training vendor.
Step 4: The Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance will determine if your participants will need background checks for participation with your event. The Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance will assist in facilitating background checks (charged to your department or organization) or assist in identifying approved vendors to complete background checks.
Step 5: The Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance will notify you of participants who are approved to participate with your event. Individuals who do not complete requirements with the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance are not eligible to participate.
All individuals working with children and/or vulnerable adults must complete an annual required training. Training for Creighton faculty, staff, and students is now completed through Get Inclusive, an online training vendor.
Online training procedures:
1. If you are part of a program or event being registered through the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance, your name and NetID will be provided to the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance. You will be signed up for "Child Abuse Prevention" training. If your program or activity works with vulnerable adults you may receive a different training from the Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance.
2. You will receive a direct email from Get Inclusive with a link in the email to your training. The link is specific to you and should not be shared or forwarded to other individuals.
3. You must complete the training in its entirety to receive credit for the training. The Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance will verify your completion within the Get Inclusive system.
If you do not have a Creighton NetID, or need assistance with the training, please contact Lysette Caraballo-Brown in the Office of Equity and Inclusion at 402-280-3189 for assistance.
The Office of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance offers "Safe Environments" training for faculty, staff, and students doing service with the Archdiocese of Omaha. Safe Environments training is a requirement of the Archdiocese of Omaha for all adults volunteering with a Parish or with an area school. The Creighton online training does not fulfill the Archdiocese requirement.
Individuals must attend an in-person training (approximately 2-3 hours) and complete a background check to be certified through the Archdiocese. Certification is good for 5 years and after that time, individuals can complete an online refresher training to renew their certification.
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HALL TOPPED CONVERTIBLE
Roy Herman is the current caretaker of this early 1950’s built custom 1941 Ford. An original custom with rare Hall padded top.
From 1973 and up the history on this late 1940’s early 1950’s built custom is known, and documented with some photos etc. Roy Herman, who bought the car in 2011, has been desperately search for more history on the car. Where did it come from when it was saved from the crusher by Moe Miller in 1973. And who was the original builder/owner of this 1941 Ford convertible. The Hall top – Hall was located in Oakland – might indicate it was built in Northern California.
There is some information that the car may have been customized circa 1949-50 after having the front end damaged in a collision. People seem to remember the car in the early days but no one could remember the owners’ names, or has any photos to proof this. The car looks similar to other 41 customs of the period except for the, turned side-ways 1949 Buick taillight treatment. That is rather unique for the 1941-48 Ford.
These are the earliest photos Roy has been able to find of his Ford. The photos were taken in the mid 1970’s, when Moe owned the car and had started to restore it. The complete body was stripped down to bare metal as we can see here. Moe had added the four rows of louvres by now.
The unrestored Hall top is still in place in these photos. Later the canvas and padded material would be removed and the former Hall’s Top Shop employee would red the top in the same way they did in the 1940’s and ’50’s. The C.A. Hall Auto Top tag below comes from the Ron Brooks collection.
The car is an early custom with an 3 1/2 inch chopped windshield. Most likely after the front-end got damaged in the collision this was replaced with the front of an ’46-’48 front Ford. The fenders were molded and leaded to the main body. Door handles were removed and solenoid latches added. The Ford grille was replaced with an 1948 Cadillac grill and the surrounding sheet metal reshaped. 1949 Plymouth bumpers were added front and rear. And the most unique feature of this early custom are the 1949 Buick Taillights turned sideways, and molded into the rear fenders. Hall’s Auto Tops created the padded top.The car was painted a bright metallic green when found with many layers of paint under that. The 41 had no engine when found but was set up for a flathead with top loader trans and stock rear end.
Timeline of the Hall Topped 1941 Ford
- On March 24 1973, Moe Miller of San Jose CA, buys an old custom 1941 Ford Convertible from a local auto wrecker. It was on it’s way to the crusher.
- Moe along with help from friends Dean Essex and Ralph Reyes restored the 41 over the next several years.
- Moe had an original employee from Hall tops redo the top.
- The car was painted 55 Buick Titian Red with black interior.
- Moe installed a 48 Mercury motor and punched the hood louvers.
- By the time the car was finished Moe had his own shop in San Jose called Valley Custom Auto Body doing restorations, custom work, and louvers.
- In April 1980 the car was featured in Vol 1 No. 1 of Classic and Custom magazine, a new California publication.
- The car appeared at the Oakland Roadster Show in 1980.
- 1985 Moe sells the car to a friend, Richard Periandri, also of San Jose.
- Richard kept the 41 till 1995 then sold it to Los Gatos Ferarri dealer Brian Burnett.
- Apparently Burnett sold the car to someone (unknown) in Texas.
- In 1998 it was sold at Barrett Jackson Auction in Arizona. The car was now painted a darker maroon and had a white and maroon tuck and roll interior installed. It also had the Crestliner steering wheel, fender skirts, and Thickstun engine parts installed. A buyer brought the car home to British Columbia, Canada.
- Roy Herman, the current owner purhased the ’41 Ford in 2011.
Top and bottom show the feature article featured in Vol 1 No. 1 of Classic and Custom magazine. The text in the article was not quite accurate. Since it mentioned nothing about the car being an original custom. And listed Moe and his friends actually doing all the customizing.
These two photos, above and below, were taken in the early 1980’s. Moe had added single bar flipper hubcaps by now.
The photos above show the car as it sits now. When Roy bought the car it was repainted in a darker shade of maroon and the single bar flipper hubcaps were replaced by 1957 Cadillac hubcaps. Fortunately all the other details have been left intact, including the Spotlight and all other customizing elements. Obviously all previous owners after Moe have had the same passion for the car, and wanted to keep it as period as possible.
This photo above, shows the Thickstun equipped flathead engine. The set in shows how Moe used the 1941 Ford to promote his Valley Custom Auto Body shop business. The ad comes from an early Classics & Custom magazine.
If anybody recognizes the car, from the time prior to 1973. Most likely in California. Please let us know. Roy really would love to know the complete history of his car, and so do we. The most obvious features are the adaption of the 1946-48 Ford front sheet metal, the 1948 Cadillac grille and the best option to identify the car the side way mounted 1949 Buick taillights.
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Construction is one sign of normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, heavy equipment removes old concrete from the former Downtown home of Dominion Virginia Energy, the state’s largest electric utility. The work is in preparation for the dramatic implosion of the 21-story building in the 700 block of East Cary Street that is scheduled for Saturday, May 30. The 42-year-old former headquarters was vacated after Dominion completed a new 20-story building next door that fills the 600 block between Cary and Canal streets. Plans have been filed with the city for construction of a 17-story building on the site once the 1978 building is removed, but Dominion officials have not yet announced whether the company will proceed with the building to be known as 700 Canal Place. Along with 600 Canal Place, the company has employees in the 20-story 8th & Main building at 705 E. Main St. and in its three-building, national headquarters complex on Tredegar Street. In all, Dominion employs about 2,700 people at its Downtown operations. | <urn:uuid:f578226b-48e7-46a9-956a-a6bcf68047c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://richmondfreepress.com/photos/2020/apr/09/292104/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970401 | 215 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Innovation drives business forward. Of course, it’s appealing: engage in research and development (R&D) and produce your own improved materials, products, devices, processes or services. Set your business above the competition. But, is this realistic? How do you afford and plan R&D?
The R&D tax incentive may seem irrelevant because you do not see research and development as a realistic activity. In reality, a large number of different businesses, both large and small, engage in activities relevant to the R&D tax incentives. Along with other small business grants such as the EMDG, Calibre helps you gain the financial incentives of the R&D tax offset rate.
How can the R&D Tax Incentive practically help me?
Similar to the EMDG, the scope of the R&D tax offset rate is extensive. The R&D grant covers both SMEs and large corporations, and both companies that are with profit and those at a loss.
Incentive value based on company turnover
|Company Turnover||Potential R&D tax offset|
|Less than $20 million||You receive a 43.5% refundable R&D tax offset rate, provided your business is not controlled by income tax exempt entities. For example, if you invest $90,000 into research and development you receive $39,150 back.|
|More than $20 million||You will receive a 38.5% non-refundable R&D tax offset rate, and you may be able to carry forward unused offset amounts to future income years. For example, if you invest $200,000, you receive a benefit of $77,000.|
The rate is reduced to the company tax rate for that portion of your R&D deductions that exceed $100 million for an income year. Yet the financial value of R&D tax incentives is powerful.
How do I know if I eligible for R&D tax incentives?
You are eligible for R&D tax incentives in Australia if you engage in core activities: activities that seek outcomes that cannot be determined by current knowledge, only by tests or experiments based on the principles of established science. You may also claim based on supporting activities, which complement core activities and relate to goods and services. If you think this covers activity that you engage in, there is a broad scope for potential eligibility for the R&D tax incentive.
Am I eligible for R&D Tax Incentives?
|Condition||Am I Eligible?|
|I am incorporated under Australian law||✔|
|I am incorporated under a foreign law but am an Australian resident for income tax purposes||✔|
|I am incorporated under a foreign law but am a resident of a country with which Australia has a double tax agreement, and carry on business in Australia through a permanent establishment (as defined in the double tax agreement).||✔|
|My R&D activities are conducted for my benefit||✔|
|My total notional deductions for an income year are at least $20,000||✔|
|My total notional deductions for an income year are less than $20,000||Special rules apply|
|I am a consolidated group or a multiple entry consolidated (MEC) group or an R&D partnership||Special rules apply|
|My R&D activities are conducted for another entity||Special rules apply|
How do I apply?
It is important to undertake the right steps and move forward with clarity and precision with any small business grant, from the EMDG to Jobs Action Plan. The R&D tax incentive is no different.
- Check that you meet the four initial eligibility requirements. Is your entity eligible? Does your R&D activity meet the criteria? Are you registered with AusIndustry? Do your notional deductions qualify?
- Work out if you are controlled by any exempt entities. Understand the criteria to make sure just which entities are exempt.
- Calculate your aggregated turnover. Make sure you have kept detailed records to substantiate your claim.
- Work out which tax offset you can claim.
- Calculate your R&D tax offset rate and lodge your claim.
The R&D tax incentive allows you to not only offset a considerable amount of tax, but also attain innovative knowledge, products and services that drive your business forward. Calibre Business Advisory has considerable expertise in helping businesses realise that they too can engage in R&D, and we then can give you the best chance of successfully applying for the R&D tax incentives.
“We are a start-up technology business developing an App in the education space. Significant funds were invested as a start-up so the R&D tax incentive was critical for our cash flow. However, it was our first claim and we were worried that it might be a difficult and lengthy process. Calibre took the time to sit down with our development team to understand and define the R&D, and helped us document the plans until the forms were submitted. We completed the process in good time and our development team now has a great understanding of what is required for future claims.”– EDWY | <urn:uuid:8a1c2893-db95-4053-90a3-c0e27651d488> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://calibreba.com.au/why-every-business-should-look-into-the-rd-tax-incentive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952901 | 1,081 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The Chinese ASIC manufacturer Bitmain Technologies controls 45 percent of the computing power through their mining pools.
Bitmain is among the most recognizable companies in the cryptocurrency space and it manufactures several brands, such as Antminer, Antpool, and Hashnest. Over the last week, the mining pools BTC.com and AntPool have found 25.7 and 16.1 percent of all blocks respectively over the last week.
This could be an issue if a single entity controls the majority of the hash rate since they could execute a ‘51 percent attack‘, which could be devastating for the Bitcoin Blockchain.
Back in July 2014 the mining pool GHash.IO actually exceeded 51 percent of the total hashing power. In protest, the miners stopped mining with the pool, making the overall hash rate drop. The company behind GHash.IO voluntarily limited the hash rate to 39.9 percent to avoid taking control over the blockchain.
Bitmain isn’t even devoting all of its computing power to merely Bitcoin mining, they are also mining Bitcoin Cash.
The mining is performed by the ‘Antminer S9‘ the world’s first consumer-grade bitcoin miner based on a 16nm process ASIC chip. Bitmain also claims this is the world’s most power-efficient bitcoin miner, taking that title away from its predecessor, the Antminer S7.
One reason for Bitmains success lies not only in the sales of their ASIC miners, people are joining mining pools simply because pool-mining is the most effective way to make money. By grouping together with other miners and contributing with hash rate to the pool, the nodes have more chance of successfully validating blocks. This means that their profits will be smaller since they are shared among all the miners, but it’s still a better option than trying your luck finding blocks by mining on your own. | <urn:uuid:ae18abbc-f561-4a4c-bc1e-3f55d03a9d45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/cryptocurrency-news/spotlight/bitmain-controls-45-percent-of-the-total-btc-hashing-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94576 | 387 | 1.648438 | 2 |
U.N. organization dubs U.S. southern border 'deadliest land crossing in the world'
Border deaths have shot up during the Biden administration as illegal migrants flock to the U.S. entrance point.
The Facts Inside Our Reporter’s Notebook
United Nations group the International Organization for Migration has determined the U.S.-Mexico border is now deadliest land crossing in the world.
The group's July 1 report claimed that at least "1,238 lives have been lost during migration in the [north, central and south] Americas in 2021, among them at least 51 children."
"At least 728 of these deaths occurred on the United States-Mexico border crossing, making this the deadliest land crossing in the world," the report also states.
The number of deaths on the border is much higher than any previous year, even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet the number remains an undercount, also according to the report.
The increase in death numbers is being attributed to an increase in mass migration at the border during the Biden administration.
Over the weekend, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, despite surging numbers and the recent discovery of at least 53 dead migrants in the back of a truck in Texas, "I think that we are doing a good job."
"The border has been a challenge for decades – ultimately, Congress must pass legislation to once and for all fix our broken immigration system," he continued. "We’ve stopped more than 400 vehicles and saved and rescued more than 10,000 migrants." Though it is unclear whether those migrants were sent back from whence they came, or more likely, released into the United States.
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Confusion comes before order. Living in this world requires the ability to solve problems. Without problems, there cannot be any reason for surviving. Providing food for the family can be a problem that makes life interesting. This world was never designed to be utopian; therefore, without problems this world is meaningless.
The utopian condition describes paradise, which is an attribute, not applicable in this world. Paradise is unachievable, and undesirable, as carrying no reality in the pattern of the physical world. Of significance is that this world is different from heaven.
Some preachers attempt to convince their followers that everything in this world is satanic. While true, to some degree, those preachers fail to articulate the dynamics of heavenly life, as compared to earthly life. It is impossible to understand heavenly life without understanding earthly life.
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Luke 16:10-13 NIV).
The above Scripture requires wisdom, or else it can be misinterpreted as being oxymoronic. How can Jesus talk about good management of worldly wealth, while despising the idea of financial accumulation, at the same time? To understand, it is necessary to effectively analyze what Jesus taught.
Living in this world grants the greatest opportunity for triumphal victory. But the triumphal victory is that of the spirit, rather than of the flesh. It is a question of what one does; during his physical existence. This is like attending school to either produce good grades or zero grades.
The one having produced zero grades would have had the same opportunity like the one having produced good grades. Who does not like to produce sterling results? Good performance, in any activity, requires tenacity and hard work. It doesn’t matter what it is that needs to be confronted.
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How Long Does It Take Misoprostol To Work For Induction
How long will it take before Misoprostol will have effect Misoprostol Medication for Managing Miscarriage Cytotec (Misoprostil) Induction - The Pregnancy Nurse Abortion With Misoprostol - Information At A Glance Results: Vaginal misoprostol: one small study showed that the use of misoprostol results in more effective cervical ripening and reduced need for oxytocin when compared with placebo. When compared with oxytocin, vaginal misoprostol was more effective for labour induction. The relative risk of failure to achieve vaginal delivery within 24 hours. Keep in mind that Cytotec is not normally given until close to your due date. Although there are reasons you might be induced early. Most women don’t get this until 37-40 weeks pregnancy. Prior to 39 weeks of pregnancy they would need a reason to be induced early. Using Misoprostol is very effective (80-85%) [1, 2] to end a pregnancy that is 13 weeks or less. Remember this information is useful for an abortion with pills in pregnancies that are 13 weeks or less counted [1, 2, 3] from the first day of.
When inserted vaginally, it takes about 30 minutes for misoprostol tablets to dissolve. Vaginal administration results in serum concentrations that increase gradually, reaching a maximum level after 70–80 min.
Misoprostol causes cramping and bleeding to empty your uterus. For most people, the cramping and bleeding usually start 1-4 hours. In most cases Misoprostol will have an effect within 4 hours and you will start getting cramps and bleeding. The symptoms (pain, blood loss, nausea, diarroea, etc.) can last for up to 12 hours but should diminish when the abortion is complete. She said the good news is we finally got pregnant naturally. She said this happens every 1 in 3 pregnancys. She prescribed me the misoprostol. I was scared to take it but after reading this post I was confident and took it today.. It's likely to take longer if this is your first pregnancy or you are less than 37 weeks pregnant. Also to know, how long does it take for Cytotec to start working? 1. Cramping usually starts between 30 minutes to 7 hours after you place the misoprostol in your vagina. 2. Bleeding usually starts between 30 minutes to 10 hours after you place.
Time your doses so that they line up with breakfast, lunch, and supper. Have a small snack or a glass of milk with your last pill of the day. 4. Take a missed dose as soon as possible and stay on schedule. If there is more than an hour to go before your next dose, take a missed dose as soon as you remember. You’ll either take the misoprostol right away, or up to 48 hours after you take the first pill — your doctor or nurse will let you know how and when to take it. This medicine causes cramping and bleeding to empty your uterus. For most people, the cramping and bleeding usually starts 1-4 hours after taking the misoprostol.
Can Abortion Cause Pelvic Adhesions
1 INTRODUCTION. Retained fetal bone fragments are a rare complication of abortion and can be a cause of secondary infertility. 1 No evidence for clinical signs of retained fetal bone fragments is widely available, but they are thought to include dysmenorrhea and other menstrual irregularities, chronic pelvic pain, and secondary infertility. 2 No agreed-upon. You may like to try these three things: Step 1: 🕰. Right now, your emotions are probably all over the place. This is caused by a drastic change in hormone levels. Our desire for you is that you would be able to take the time you need to allow yourself to regain a. Alford Lemke Score 4.1 votes Perihepatic adhesions are often considered associated with pelvic inflammatory disease and subsequent infertility..
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How Long Does It Take To Heal From An Abortion
6 to 12 Months. Between 6 and 12 months after birth, most women are totally recovering. However, some of them might still feel physical discomfort, like numbness or itching of the skin around the scar. If some women seem to recover very fast after such an experience, others may take a few weeks or even 6 to 12 months. You’re hardwiring in a new, healthy pattern instead. Your dopamine receptors upregulate → your overall happiness with life goes up. You feel proud of living a good life. That’s how you rewire your brain to quit porn once and for all. There you go! You. Abortion after Rape. Any sexual violence involving intercourse constitutes rape, including the abuse of a child by a family member, the coercion of a teenager by an older man, being drugged to prevent resistance, or forced penetration by a stranger or partner.; 5% of sexual assaults result in pregnancy.Approximately 50% of rape-related pregnancies are terminated. | <urn:uuid:210bfae6-abdf-47f2-9dbc-2c33df6ef931> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bibiandersondatingover40.com/profile/goastnls/profile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938663 | 1,090 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The PLATO Society of Los Angeles Announces a Free Public Lecture on Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Problems, Paradoxes and Some Possible Solutions
The January 2020 Colloquium will be on Affirmative Action In Higher Education: Problems, Paradoxes and Some Possible Solutions; Presented by UCLA Prof. Richard Sander at The Skirball Cultural Center; Address: 2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049; Jan 16, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. Coffee and Cookies, 1:30-3:00 Program.
Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Problems, Paradoxes and Some Possible Solutions
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January 16th, 2020
Presented by Prof. Richard Sander at The Skirball Cultural Center;
Address: 2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049; 12:45 Coffee and Cookies, 1:30-3:00 Program.
UCLA Professor Richard Sander is a national authority on race in higher education. In 1997, Sander successfully argued in favor of class-based preferences in law school admissions. In 2004, he published a comprehensive study of affirmative action in American law schools.
Professor Sander's controversial study concluded that the use of racial preferences in higher education may harm its intended beneficiaries and cause as many problems as it solves. Attempts to fix these problems have often made matters worse. Professor Sander will draw on his research and recent legal developments to lay out the challenges of affirmative action and describe some paths to reform.
After receiving his B.A. at Harvard, Sander earned graduate degrees in law and economics from Northwestern University.
A UCLA Law faculty member since 1989, Sander helped launch the UCLA Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
Learn more about the heated debate over affirmative action.
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A Look at Transparent Design
Did you grow up with a transparent Nintendo Gameboy or maybe you had a transparent watch? Did you use the super colorful, transparent iMac G3 computers in school? If you said yes to one of these or all of them or were thinking of other transparent designed items you used or saw as a kid that wasn’t mentioned, you’re not alone. In fact, you may have dated yourself as an 80s or 90s kid, sorry haha. But don’t worry, transparent design has actually been around much longer. As we have been checking out the Nothing phone (1) and Nothing ear (1) we have been curious about this kind of design so we took a look and have learned some really interesting things. They are so interesting, that we had to tell someone, so who better than our fellow Heyupers?
When Did Transparent Design Start?
It all started in the 1930s with the invention of plexiglass apparently. While it didn’t become super popular in the 1930s, we did get to see the world’s first transparent car in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair. The transparent car that was debuted was a Pontiac Deluxe Six 1939 Ghost Sedan.
Pontiac Deluxe Six 1939 Ghost Sedan - Image courtesy of Wikipedia
While it was definitely eye-catching, it just wasn’t something everyone wanted back then, and it was likely difficult to implement on smaller objects. And thus, outside of some novelty items, transparent design faded away for a time.
Clear Craze Of The 1980s & 1990s
In the 1980s, we started seeing lots of transparent house phones with blinking lights when there was a call and it was the start of a craze for transparent design. The popularity of these and then other products with a transparent design like watches and other products, even containers like soap exploded and created this craze. We saw transparent design eventually touch on everything during this time, even clothing. But for some of us, it really reached its peak when we started getting transparent technology products, like those famous brightly colored iMac computers that were used in so many American public schools or the super popular transparent Tamagotchi electronic pet toy.
A transparent Tamagotchi, a pet breading console which was popular at the time.
Young gamers in the 90s probably also remember all of the various transparent designs that Nintendo made for their consoles and handheld devices. Like the transparent versions of the Super Nintendo or Nintendo 64, or the transparent version of the Gameboy.
Why Do We Love It?
It may be because of our own innate curiosity and desire to not only know how a thing works but to see it work. It’s wonderful to see the mechanical interactions and how everything is put just so inside of the devices we love. And this love for transparent design is still holding true even today.
Modern Transparent Design
These days not many things are doing the transparent design, but one company, in particular, is trying to bring it back, Nothing. With their Nothing ear(1) earbuds and Nothing phone(1) smartphone, both of these products are working hard to bring the cool transparent design we all love back into fashion, and it looks like it is working as other companies are picking up on it.
Nothing Phone (1) and Ear (1), with transparent design.
Like REDMAGIC with their REDMAGIC 7 & 7Pro phones and their new REDMAGIC 7S Pro that is coming out soon. They all have one or two versions of the smartphone has a transparent back so you can see some of the insides. Since it is a smartphone, it’s not the same experience as before since not much visible, but it’s still cool. There are also some brands like dbrand that make skins for the devices we use, and they have made several custom skins to show what the inside of our favorite devices look like. With these custom x-ray-ish skins of our favorite devices, it is almost like having a transparent design.
REDMAGIC 7s Pro, with the X-ray-like appearance.
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By Ben Selby
April 16th 1964. Television sets across America began broadcasting an advert made by the Ford Motor Company. What the announcer said next signified that something unique was on its way. “Coming April 17th, the unexpected, the Ford Mustang.” The term “unexpected” fit well, for no one was prepared for what Ford was about to show them.
Prior the Mustang, Ford were in the middle of a sales slump never before seen by the folks at Dearborn, Michigan. Ford Division Head Lee Iaccoca knew the world was changing and when looking at what they new baby boomer generation wanted in a new car, he and his closely knit team decided to design and develop a car to reinvigorate the public imagination with the blue oval.
Iaccoca and his team worked in secret, under the codename “The Fairlane Committee.” The reason being that Henry Ford II was initially reluctant to embrace a new concept after the flop that was the Edsel project a few years prior. Iaccoca wanted to bring the glamour of European sports cars to the American public but at a price just about anyone could afford.
Also, the new project would allow buyers to choose from a seemingly limitless number of optional extras, from engines, transmissions, wheels, trim, colours, and other add-ons. Ford was going to give customers the chance to have their own personally bespoke sports car, at less than a dollar a pound. When Iaccoca showed HFII the final designs for the new project, Ford responded with, “It better sell!”
And sell it did. On April 17th 1964, Ford unveiled the new Ford Mustang at the New York World’s Fair. The public went wild. So much so that 100,000 were sold within the first month. People like Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds ordered one on that first day. Another sold on that launch weekend was the car you see here.
Probably the oldest Ford Mustang in New Zealand, this 1964 1/2 Mustang Coupe was on the Ford production line as early as mid-March 1964. Chassis number 108425 indicates this Mustang was the 8245th example off the production line and was sold new through New York’s Ford Dealer to Denise Monti.
Monti and her husband Frank were renowned performers and acrobats, known through American TV-goers as “The Flying Agostinos.” Regarded as “America’s most exciting acrobatic adagio act” they would frequently perform to a stunned crowd and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan and even Sammy Davis Jr and Muhammad Ali.
Denise held onto the car for 40 years before selling it on to a New Zealand wholesaler in 2004. The car arrived in New Zealand in October 2004 before being sold to a Mustang owner in Hawkes Bay. After that it was sold to a Canterbury based Mustang couple who held onto it for another 20 years.
Today the Mustang once owned by the better half of The Flying Agostinos is in remarkable original nick, even retaining its original patina. It has never been refurbished or touched up, what you see here is probably one of the most original Mustangs on Kiwi roads. Painted in Wimbledon White with whitewall tyres, it is identical to Ford’s original show car at the New York World’s Fair and believe it or not, sports an original 53,000 miles.
Under the bonnet sits the original 260ci D Code 4.3L V8 engine mated to a three-speed automatic transmission, or as Ford called it, “cruise-o-matic.” The hi-po 289ci would become the most popular V8 found in the Mustang over the production of coupe, convertible and fastback, but the 260ci was only used for the first year of production. Ford rated a power output of 164hp and you also had power brakes and power steering, the latter of which I will touch on soon.
With the Mustang already the fastest selling car of all time, Ford’s pony car was even awarded a medal for excellence from Tiffany & Co in April 1964. This was the first time Tiffany had given its Award For Excellence in American Design to a car. This Mustang comes with a keyring noting this gong.
Fire up and that 260ci small block burbles away quite happily at idle. It does feel silky smooth as each of those eight cylinders rev so nicely in unison. Flex your right foot on the throttle and said burble becomes a subdued hum. A small block V8 like this is not a powerhouse, nor is it deafening. Instead, it is more about power under control and giving you the satisfaction of mechanical components working in harmony.
Selecting drive via the cruise-o-matic three speed box and the Mustang gently begins to move forward. Navigating the tight spaces of a north Canterbury seaside parking area is a doddle thanks to probably one of the lightest feeling power steering units around. Its dead easy to negotiate those tight turns.
When you get off and running properly, that 260ci small block rumbles away happily in the background. Press that accelerator closer to the firewall and there is a gentle application of torque as that pony embossed front rises ever so slightly. Before long you are cruising at a steady 50km/h. This Mustang is all about the cruise and it does it very well.
It is also so easy to drive. That light steering means you are turning either left or right with no real feeling in between but when it comes to burbling along with that small block providing the score, you can just enjoy the drive itself. It’s certainly not hard to imagine criss-crossing US Interstates with 93 KHJ blasting on the radio.
Should you want to give the “stang” a bit of stick, you can. Winding it up to 100km/h is dealt with in relatively brisk succession but once you are there, all you want to do is cruise. In fact, I’d say this granddaddy of all Mustangs is one of the nicest cars around to just enjoy the drive and cruise along with hand out the window and steering with the thumb and index finger of your other.
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Mleczek M., Budka A., Siwulski M., Budzyńska S., Kalač P., Karolewski Z., Lisiak-Zielińska M., Kuczyńska-Kippen N., Niedzielski P. (2021). Anthropogenic contamination leads to changes in mineral composition of soil-and tree-growing mushroom species: A case study of urban vs. rural environments and dietary implications. Science of The Total Environment, 151162.
Because wild-growing edible mushroom species are frequently consumed, a knowledge of their mineral composition is essential. The content of elements in mushrooms and their possible beneficial or harmful effect may be influenced by the human-impacted environment. Thus, the aim of the study was to analyse the mineral composition of the soil, trees, and especially soil- and tree-growing mushroom species collected from within a city and from rural areas. Due to potentially higher pollution in urban areas, we assumed that mushrooms from a city environment will contain higher levels of mineral elements than those from rural areas and that the high content will be attributed to greater contamination of city soils. Significantly higher concentrations of several elements in soils (Ca, Ba, Bi, Hg, Pb, Sb, Sr, W and Zr) and trees (Ag, Bi, Ce, Co, Mn, Mo, Nd, Pr, Ta, Tm and W) were observed from the samples collected in the city. Additionally, significantly higher contents of Ag, Fe, Hg, Mn, Mo, Sr, Y and Zn in soil-growing, and Al, As, Ba, Cr, Fe, Hg, Ni, Pb, Sr, Ta and Zn in tree-growing mushroom species were recorded from the urban area. These differences formed the basis for the observation that the content of elements in urban mushrooms is generally higher than in those from rural areas. However, a higher content of several soil elements does not necessarily mean that there will be a significantly higher content in fruit bodies. There was also no real risk of consuming soil-growing mushroom species collected in recent years from the city, suggesting that this practice may still be continued.
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With the desire to stay fit and ensure a healthy lifestyle there has been an inclination towards choosing food that is low in calories. In today's time, when most people are consciously putting an effort to try and remain fit, it is very important to consume food smartly.
Often we find that whenever we talk about a meal, we inevitably try to assess how much weight would we put on after consuming it. Most people who consult me are often concerned about their weight management and one of the most effective ways to treat this issue is by addressing the sugar element. People are conscious of consuming oily and fattening food items but forget about sugar which constitutes a major part of their daily calorie intake.
Making the move from sugar to no sugar may be impossible, sugar being a key ingredient in Indian households. Here, safe low calorie sweeteners come into play.
Low-calorie sweetener is a food additive that provides a sweet taste like that of sugar while containing significantly less food energy than sugar-based sweeteners, making it a zero-calorie or low-calorie sweetener (LCS). Conversations often arise and lead to the safety of switching to low calorie sweeteners and their health benefits.
Unlike popular perception, low calorie sweeteners available in the market are thoroughly investigated and their safety is confirmed by many studies. It is not possible to market a new sweetener without the approval of the competent authorities.
Low-calorie sweeteners don't cause weight gain and may even be actually effective for weight loss. Pixabay
In India, Low-calorie sweeteners are regulated by FSSAI. WHO approves LCS based on their claims and recommended ADI (Acceptable Daily Intake).
Here are a few myths around low calorie sweeteners that we will bust. Ishi Khosla, renowned nutritionist shares her take on the myths and facts of the effects of low calorie sweeteners. Read to know more:
I often find people discussing that the consumption of low calorie sweeteners leads to increase in weight. Some people also believe that low calorie sweeteners might increase appetite. The idea is that low calorie sweeteners may be unable to activate the food reward pathway needed to make you feel satisfied after you eat.
Evidence from controlled studies suggests that Low-calorie sweeteners don't cause weight gain and may even be actually effective for weight loss. Safe sweeteners can support weight loss as a substitute for sugar in sweets, foods and beverages.
Recently, I have heard someone say, "Don't use sugar substitutes in your tea, coffee or food. They can cause cancer." There's been a lot of debate about low calorie sweeteners and these Discussions were prompted by the rise of sugar-infused drinks and foods over recent decades.
The reality is no scientific studies have found a direct connection between Low-calorie sweeteners and cancer. Infact cancer is multifactorial. A much-debated sweetener described as causing cancer is aspartame. Questions on its safety arose in the mid-1990s amid a report that allegedly claimed it caused brain cancer. Yet after further analysis, no clear link between the sweetener and brain cancer was found. Neither Centers for Disease Control (CDC) or FDA was able to identify a specific set of symptoms associated with aspartame use that would constitute a public health hazard.
Low calorie sweeteners are unlikely to cause headaches, depression and seizures. Pixabay
Sometimes when I'm scrolling through my phone I come across reports that say that low calorie sweeteners may cause unpleasant symptoms, such as headaches, depression, and seizures in some individuals.
Low calorie sweeteners are unlikely to cause headaches, depression and seizures as per World Health Organization report when consumed within the recommended ADI limit. FDA scientists have reviewed scientific data regarding the safety of low calorie sweeteners in food and concluded that it is safe for the general population under certain conditions. Sucralose has been extensively studied and more than 110 safety studies were reviewed by FDA in approving the use of sucralose as a general purpose sweetener for food.
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Integrated Circuit Inspection
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Explore real-time confocal imaging of integrated circuits with reflected light confocal microscopy. Instructions for operation of the tutorial are given beneath the applet window.
This tutorial simulates imaging of integrated circuits using a Nikon Optiphot 200C IC Inspection Confocal Microscope. Use the Choose an Integrated Circuit pull-down menu to select a chip to image. Then use the Focus Depth slider to drop focus through the various focal planes visible through the microscope. Clicking on the blue arrow buttons to the left and right of the slider will toggle through the images in single order.
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Flemingsberg has a history of successful research and clinical development, not least in the field of advanced therapies and regenerative medicine.
The development offers hope for effective treatments for previously incurable heart diseases and cancers, as well as a number of autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, and also Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. These new methods use patients’ own cells to activate their own immune system for a more successful treatment.
At Karolinska Institutet, the researchers are developing new concepts in stem cell biology with the aim of finding new forms of treatment in a number of different areas. To help, Karolinska Institutet has a strong infrastructure, including in the form of Core Facilities.
One of these Core Facilities is Vecura, which among other things manufactures gene therapy vectors and cell therapy products for clinical trials. Vecura is part of the Clinical Research Center, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge. The facility is certified by the Swedish Medical Products Agency and the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Pizza stones are flat pieces of ceramic material used to bake pizza.
They are available in different sizes and shapes.
They are usually placed directly onto the oven rack and heated to a certain temperature.
This allows the stone to get hot quickly and evenly.
In addition, they are easy to clean and maintain.
On the other hand, pizza screens are flat metal plates that are designed to fit into the bottom of a conventional oven.
They are not meant to be used as a replacement for a pizza stone but rather as a way to prevent the crust from burning
Pizza Screen vs Pizza Stone
A pizza screen is a flat metal plate used to bake pizzas. It is usually placed directly onto a gas burner or oven and heated until hot enough to bake the pizza dough. A pizza stone is a heavy ceramic slab that works similarly to a pizza screen but is designed specifically to hold the pizza crust while baking. Both screens and stones are used to bake pizza, however, they serve different functions. Screens are typically used to bake thin crust pizzas because they allow air to circulate around the bottom of the pizza. This allows the bottom of the pizza to crisp up faster than if baked on top of a stone. Stones are generally used to bake thicker crust pizzas because they provide a stable surface for the pizza to rest on during baking.
Pizza screens are not recommended for baking thick crusts of pizza. Thick crusts of pizza tend to stick to the screen and burn. However, they are great for baking thin crusts of pizza.
A pizza stone is a ceramic plate used to bake pizzas. It is placed directly under the oven during the baking process. This helps to distribute heat evenly throughout the oven and prevents uneven heating.
What’s The Right Choice?
Pizza stones are available in different sizes and shapes. The most common shape is rectangular but round and square stones are also available. A pizza stone is usually made from porcelain or clay. Porcelain is a better choice because it conducts heat well and won’t crack easily. Clay tends to absorb moisture and cracks easily.
How To Use A Pizza Stone
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit 230 degrees Celsius.
Is a pizza crisper the same as a pizza stone?
Pizza crisper pans are used to bake pizzas and other baked goods. These pans are used to crisp the crusts of breads and pastries. Crisper pans are available in different sizes and shapes. Pizza crisper pans are designed to hold the dough while baking.
How do you use a pizza screen in the oven?
A pizza screen is used to hold pizzas in place while baking. It is not necessary to use a pizza screen if you are using a pizza stone. A pizza stone is used to bake pizzas directly on top of the stone. A pizza screen is used to prevent toppings from falling off the pizza during baking.
Which is better pizza pan or pizza screen?
A pizza mesh is a grid-like structure used to hold toppings while baking a pizza. It is usually placed underneath the crust during baking to help prevent soggy bottoms. A pizza mesh is typically made from stainless steel wire mesh, although other materials such as plastic or aluminum mesh can be used.
Can you use a pizza screen on a stone?
Pizza screens are used to remove the cheese from pizzas after baking. These screens are usually made of stainless steel and are placed directly into the oven. Pizza screens are not designed to withstand high temperatures and therefore cannot be put into the oven.
Can pizza screen go in oven?
Yes, but not every stone works well with a pizza screen. A good quality stone will have a flat surface that is easy to clean. It is important to note that the stone needs to be cleaned thoroughly after each use. This is because the stone will absorb grease from the pizza dough. Grease can build up on the stone and affect the way the crust cooks.
What is a pizza mesh?
Pizza pans and screens are two different types of devices used to bake pizzas. Pizza pans are flat and rectangular while pizza screens are round. Both of these devices are used to bake pizzas but they differ in how they are used. A pizza pan is usually placed directly on top of a gas burner or electric element and baked until the bottom crust turns golden brown. On the other hand, a pizza screen is usually placed on a baking sheet and baked until the bottom of the pizza turns golden brown. It is important to note that if you are using a pizza screen, you should not place any toppings on the pizza because the toppings could fall off during the baking process.
Should you use a pizza screen on a pizza stone?
Pizza screens are used to help prevent the bottom of a pizza from burning while baking. This is done by placing the pizza directly on top of the screen. It works by allowing air to circulate underneath the crust. This allows the crust to bake evenly and prevents the bottom from burning.
Do pizza crisper pans work?
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Bestansur Neolithic Settlement
Entered into the World Heritage Tentative List in 2017
By Dr Mónica Palmero Fernández
Located in the Zagros foothills on the edge of the Shahrizor Plain about 30 km southeast of Sulaimaniyah city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Neolithic site of Bestansur offers unparalleled archaeological evidence on the transition to sedentary life in a region of worldwide significance for understanding the development of agriculture and animal domestication.
The site consists of an intact mound covering 2.5 ha close to a perennial spring. It comprises extensive Early Neolithic occupation and later Neo-Assyrian and Sasanian levels. The latter form much of the 7.5m high central mound. Since 2012, a team of Iraqi-UK archaeologists have explored the Neolithic settlement, discovering the earliest rectilinear structures (dated to 7700 to 7100 B.C.) ever found in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Thus, the site offers the earliest evidence of village life in the region. The many stone and shell beads found with intramural burials at the site also bear witness to the beginning of long-distance exchange networks possibly as far as the Persian Gulf.
The importance of the site stems from its unique position as one of the earliest Neolithic settlements in the region. It bears unique testimony to a cultural tradition and civilisation at the onset of sedentary life that ultimately enabled the development of towns, cities, empires and entire civilisations. The site of Bestansur sits at the heart of that long trajectory of world history and offers unique evidence for the some of the earliest built environment in the long tradition of mudbrick and pisé architecture which survives in the region until today.
As of 2019, the site of Bestansur is protected by the Iraqi Antiquities and Heritage Law No 55 of 2002 and a full-time site guard is employed in the nearby modern village of Bestansur to look after the site year-round. The newly-funded MENTICA project based at the University of Reading will continue to fund excavations at the site, enhance site conservation and interpretation, as well as develop ties with local communities and heritage organisations. | <urn:uuid:79675e0a-98f5-4b44-9747-2da55beae0b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rashid-international.org/bestansur/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.915012 | 492 | 3.28125 | 3 |
A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/20 / 2020-02-28 00:46:02 / February 28, 2020 @ 12:46 am. The temblor was reported at 20:46:02 / 8:46 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020059000. Event ids that are associated: us600085qa, pr2020059000. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.861 West, latitude 17.8386 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Corozal, Cayey. Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days four hundred and four and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
Did you feel it?
Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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