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As you know, heat treating is near and dear to our hearts here at KHT. Everyday we strive to “make history” with our efficiency, consistency, performance and reliability, never taking for granted any one of our customers or customer’s jobs.
Well, nearly 100 years ago, a gentleman named Charles Strite also contributed to heat treating history, by patenting something we’ve come to rely on each morning – the pop-up toaster. (Filed for U.S. patent on May 29, 1919. Patent #1,394,450 was granted on October 18, 1921 for the pop-up bread toaster)
He hated that the toast in the cafeteria of the plant where he worked was always burned because it required a busy human to keep an eye on it. So he took on this PIA (Pain in the @%$) Job and figured out a way to automate the toasting process so it wouldn’t burn.
Before the electric toaster, sliced bread was toasted by placing it in a metal frame or on a toasting fork and held over a fire or kitchen grill. The first electric toaster was actually invented in Scotland in 1893. It was a crude device known as the Eclipse. It still relied on users to end the toasting process and was not very fire safe.
So, while some tried to flip the bread, it was Mr. Strite who invented the automatic pop-up toaster. History shows many innovations since – dual sided toasting, wider slots, auto-drop feeds, and numerous interior and exterior material innovations.
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The Complete History of Fern Lodge
The Complete History of Fern Lodge
Fern Lodge has a history of progress marked by growth in service to Christian Scientists. Mrs. Mindell Fern Cox gave her name to the Lodge in 1952 when she and her husband, Willard, opened their home to a Christian Scientist who needed care. Soon they were caring for 6 guests. The present site was purchased in 1957, and the Coxes were able to expand and serve 12. The Hillside House was built in 1963 to increase the capacity to 25 guests. Accreditation by The Mother Church came in 1966. In 1967 Fern Lodge was incorporated, and the Coxes began looking for others to run it. Mrs. Cox became Journal-listed as a Christian Science practitioner.
In 1970 Fern Lodge, Inc. was formed as a non-profit corporation. The transfer of ownership from the Coxes was completed on July 1, 1971. During these early years valuable leadership on the Board was provided by Henry Curran and Bob Sperr as well as Herbert Mitchell, who had served as a director of Harmony Haven, a Christian Science nursing home in Berkeley. Emily Valentine, an experienced Christian Science nurse, came out of retirement intending to give 2 years service as Administrator and Director of Nursing. She served selflessly for 8 years.
The addition of the present kitchen, dining room and Christian Science nursing offices in 1975 resulted in room for 5 more guests. Remodeling of the Creekside living room was completed in 1978, and new patient rooms were added in ’79 and ’80 to relieve crowding in some small double rooms. The capacity of Fern Lodge was then 28 patients. In 1984 expansion of Hillside resulted in the addition of the east side of the hall, including the living room, linen closet, Christian Science practitioner’s room, century tub and hairdresser’s room. This project added new patient rooms so Fern Lodge was able to move the offices from the old Hillside addition to the north wing of Creekside. The most recent addition to Fern Lodge was occupied in 1989 and is now called the Treeside wing. It includes 20 patient beds, support and storage rooms, a Christian Science nurses station and Christian Science Nursing Department offices. This addition doubled the floor area of the facility while keeping the capacity of 28. The rooms in Hillside were converted to single occupancy, and the result has been a quieter, more gracious appearance and atmosphere.
A key factor in attracting and retaining Christian Science nursing staff members is Fern Lodge’s ability to provide affordable housing. In the 1990’s four rooms in Creekside were remodeled to give two apartments with a shared kitchen, and two rooms in Hillside were combined to make one apartment with a kitchen. These three apartments were intended to be accommodations for more independent patients, but they have been used for Christian Science nursing staff housing since they were completed. Also in the 1990’s a private bathroom was added to the bedroom in the office of Creekside, and this room is used for rest and study, and as overnight accommodation for Christian Science nurses if there is a need.
Christian Science Nurse aide training has been available at Fern Lodge since 1971. George Strong began Christian Science nursing as an aide at Fern Lodge in 1975. He then attended the training school at Arden Wood because Fern Lodge could not offer training at that time. George returned to Fern Lodge 1978 to be the on-job-training instructor so Fern Lodge could participate in the Christian Science nurses training program that was then required by The Mother Church. Emily Valentine was still Administrator and Director of Christian Science Nursing, and Bob McVey was office manager. At that time, because of an acute need, Fern Lodge asked Arden Wood if a Christian Science nurse on their staff could fill in for a month. Camille Lindsay agreed to meet that need, but before the month was over Emily had to resign suddenly. Bob was asked to be Administrator, and Camille agreed to be Director of Christian Science Nursing. For more than three years Bob, Camille and George did much to raise the standard of Christian Science nursing care at Fern Lodge.
Bob McVey left Fern Lodge in 1981, and George Strong was asked to be Administrator. Camille Lindsay continued as Director of Christian Science Nursing, until she resigned in 1986, and Pat Alvarez was offered the position. Pat had served as a volunteer at Fern Lodge in the early 1970’s and in 1978 attended the first Adventure in Christian Science Nursing workshop conducted by George Strong. Pat was the first Journal-listed Christian Science nurse trained at Fern Lodge, and after she graduated she worked as staff Christian Science nurse, on-job training instructor, and assistant Director of Christian Science Nursing. Pat brought wonderful inspiration and insights into the spiritual nature of care. When Pat Alvarez resigned in 1999, the Fern Lodge board asked Sharon Strong to serve as Director of Christian Science Nursing. Before she came to work as a staff Christian Science nurse at Fern Lodge, Sharon had years of experience as a Christian Science visiting nurse, instructor at Christian Science nurses training schools, and Director of Christian Science Nursing at a Christian Science nursing facility in Washington. Sharon’s inspiration and steadfast commitment to Christian Science nursing and to Fern Lodge helped to bring the facility into the position of respect we now have among Christian Science practitioners and nurses, as well as other Christian Science nursing facilities, across the country.
The Fern Lodge board and administrative teams have regularly sought fresh ways to share our love of Christian Science nursing with our community. We publish newsletters, from two to four per year, which include articles that give the readers an increased spiritual understanding of God’s care for His children. We hold annual meetings, with inspirational talks, in local branch churches. We have offered several Adventures in Christian Science Nursing at the facility. We prepared a slide show on Christian Science nursing that was shown at over 30 branch churches in California and also at four branch churches in Europe, where it was helpful to the group who were just starting Christian Science facilities in Germany and Switzerland. We have shared an audio tape on benevolence with branch churches. We prepared a video tape on Christian Science nursing and facilities that was widely shared in California and other states. We have given talks at branch church business meetings and conducted seminars on the role of Christian Science nursing in our church and community at Fern Lodge and in branch churches. We hosted a benevolence seminar for California facility representatives and a seminar for Christian Science nurses. We conduct care workshops for branch churches in northern California.
We also have had the opportunity to share Christian Science nursing with the community. An article that told of a wonderful Christian Science healing that took place at Fern Lodge was printed in local newspapers and a national magazine. George Strong gave an informational talk at Cal State University, Hayward, to a class in the nursing department. George and Pat spoke to chaplains, social workers and nursing staff members at Washington Hospital in Fremont and Gladman Hospital in Oakland.
As a result of the quality of Christian Science nursing demonstrated at Fern Lodge, George has been asked to speak to a number of Christian Science organizations. These talks include inspirational talks with Christian Science nursing staff at two facilities and the Christian Science community at another, annual meeting addresses at three facilities and three Christian Science visiting nurse services, and three talks at meetings of other Christian Science benevolent organizations.
Fern Lodge is inspected and accredited by an independent organization. The Mother Church granted the accreditation until 1997. Fern Lodge was accredited by The Commission for Accreditation of Christian Science Nursing Organizations/Facilities from 1997 until 2002. In 2001 Fern Lodge, Arden Wood, and Olive Glen formed the Organization for Accreditation of Christian Science Nursing Facilities. As of 2004 this organization inspects and accredits Fern Lodge, along with four other facilities in the western states.
The steady, progressive growth of Fern Lodge can be attributed to the solid foundation of loving care provided by Mr. and Mrs. Cox and to the unfailing, generous support of Christian Scientists in the field. The dedicated work of the Staff and Board members who have been touched by the idea that is Fern Lodge has resulted in blessing for all. | <urn:uuid:0f4bab83-f963-43d0-9051-4df57aa90c7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fernlodge.org/completehistory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97404 | 1,656 | 1.921875 | 2 |
The suicide bombing at Manchester Arena should remind us that in the coming discussions about the perpetrators and what motivated their actions, we should not repeat the mistake of assuming they were rationally provoked by marginalisation or victimisation. Along with victim blaming, there are always a bevy of pseudo-explanations offered up as to why someone could be conditioned into becoming a religious fanatic prepared to murder innocent lives.
The concert-goers in Manchester, like all victims of terror, had committed no offences against their attackers.There is no constructing a rational provocation or grievance as the root cause of these murders. But there are those convinced that whatever the horror of an act of terrorism, there is an understandable original sin at the heart of it. Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, now far-Left political campaigner, said ‘you can’t pretend Muslims don’t have real grievances.’ But grievances against who, by whom, and do all Muslims share these grievances? Murray seems to think that all Muslims think with one mind.
The typical grievances that are invoked in debates about the causes of terrorism do not include some of the worst atrocities committed against Muslims in modern times. We don’t hear a great deal about the genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo committed by the then Serbian Socialists and the Tudjman Croats. Neither is there much outrage about Russia’s horrendous actions against Chechnyans during two wars.
Yet we hear repeatedly about the ‘grievances’ of the Muslim world as regards the ‘occupation’ of the West Bank, the irrelevant ‘settlements’, and the fabricated crime of ‘Islamophobia’, supposedly threatening to break out on Sydney public transport and elsewhere after every terrorist outrage.
Could it be that in instances where the offenders are not Jews or Westerners, crimes against Muslims that do amount to genocide can be brushed off? And why does the Palestine conflict, that has claimed far fewer lives, generate so much vicarious outrage? Is it something about the identity of the ‘enemy’?
We should be asking why radicalised Muslims act with such atavistic violence against those who’ve never harmed them.
The American cartoonist Gary Trudeau condemned the staff of Charlie Hebdo as being the inciters of violent protests in the Muslim world after the magazine chose to publish its famous edition, after the attack, depicting the prophet with the words ‘all is forgiven’.
The killings of the Parisian satirists revealed again the parallel arguments that offence felt by Muslims at depictions of the prophet leads to more violence – but that Muslims in no way support violence. Trudeau, perhaps absent-mindedly, said that Charlie Hebdo had ‘succeeded in provoking many Muslims throughout France to make common cause with its most violent outliers’.
Bordering on being quasi-racist, the suggestion seems to be that critics, dissenters and free-thinkers have to be careful because Muslims are predisposed to respond to offence with violence. Western liberals sidle into this debate by proposing that, on the one hand, al-Qaeda and Isis are completely antithetical to Islam, and that there is no bond between these groups and the Muslim population. Yet on the other hand, the actions of terrorists represent an immoral act driven by rational grievances. This is almost, but never quite, saying that everything up until the act of suicide murder was defensible.
The Manchester bomber didn’t take up arms on an actual field of battle against his enemies (as he imagined them). That type of response in itself is not just or reasonable, but is a half rational form of action. Instead he, as many such jihadis tend to do, cast himself as a vanguard martyr in a great holy war where his enemies are immoral, ungodly creatures fit only for death.
The fallen at Manchester Arena made the mistake of enjoying a night out at a Northern English music concert instead of wallowing in self-induced despair and religious fanaticism. The young victims of this week’s attack probably shared a great deal in common with the people of Greely, Colorado when the founding father of Jihadism Sayyid Qutb visited the town in 1948. While there to study at the University of Northern Colorado he was exposed to American culture and was aghast at the ‘animal-like’ intermixing of the sexes, the ‘seductive’ clothing worn by American women and the presence of women in churches. ‘Traumatised’ by what he had seen in the American Midwest, he returned to Egypt and formulated his theory that those who did not adhere to the Koran and the conservative interpretation are the equivalent of animals who could and must be killed.
Enlightened societies need to be clear that the principles of individual freedom and free thought that Outb so despised define our way of life and on this there will be no compromise. And we should never surrender to irrational hatreds and or mistake them for legitimate grievances.
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Trump announced Thursday he would pull out of the Paris accord
He cited an MIT study as justification
President Donald Trump used a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study to back up his departure from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday. But one of the study’s authors says the President misinterpreted their data, showing “a complete misunderstanding of the climate problem.”
John Reilly, the co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, told CNN Friday that he was unaware the White House was going to cite the study and only found out that they were mentioned when he was contacted by a Reuters reporter.
The study – titled “How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?” – looked at the incremental changes in the accord that would happen if countries kept their promises. It found that over a 5- to 10-year period global warming would slow between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
“Even if the Paris agreement were implemented in full,” Trump said Thursday, “with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a 2/10’s of one degree Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100.”
He then held up his hand, pushed two fingers together and said, “tiny, tiny amount.”
Talking points distributed by the White House also explicitly cited MIT.
The comment and the talking points were meant to undercut the efficacy of the Paris agreement, a claim that Reilly says is wrong.
“The whole statement seemed to suggest a complete misunderstanding of the climate problem,” Reilly said. “I think Paris was a very good deal for the United States, contrary to what they are claiming.”
He added: “This one small step with Paris is a necessary step. It is an incredibly important step. If we don’t take the step than we aren’t prepared to take the next step.”
Scientists also note that while a small change in temperature doesn’t seem like much, it could be the difference of survival for small island nations, like the Maldives.
Reilly said people at MIT have yet to have any contact with the White House over their use of the study – and don’t plan on reaching out.
“I think they are probably immune to fact,” he said.
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt defended the White House’s use of a MIT study that the authors now say is being misinterpreted. He also said there were “other studies published at the time” that found the same thing. But it is worth noting that the White House’s talking points specifically cited MIT.
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Interspersed with the information on what children eat around the world and the various issues faced by different countries - poverty, starvation, obesity, cultural issues - there are special segments on different movements around the world. In Italy, the school kitchens are run by a local co-op that uses as much local produce as possible. In Bangladesh, seventeen boats are combining classrooms and floating gardens to try and find a way to not only supply healthy food and education, but also survive the floods that continue to increase and threaten the area. In Canada, kids attend a program at a community center that helps them learn to make healthy food choices and think about food justice around the world. In Peru, a school reclaims their Quechua heritage through a communal school garden.
A final message to teachers, parents and students discusses some of the issues surrounding food and how you can not only help others globally, but make changes in your own school. There's also a glossary included.
Verdict: This is a fascinating look at food around the world. However, it is rather wordy and I found some of the explanations of the photos confusing; they don't identify everything in the lunch and I wanted to know what some of the other food was. I don't see many kids just picking this up on their own. However, I think it's a book that teachers might be interested in using, especially paired with It's Our Garden, the book I reviewed last week. This is one I'll get because I think it's important, even if its circulation isn't really high. | <urn:uuid:c4088666-62f5-406a-b579-e8dad51b9e4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jeanlittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2013/03/nonfiction-monday-whats-for-lunch-how.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979662 | 318 | 2.984375 | 3 |
From our spring issue of Magnolia Journal, Jo shares how reframing our view of time can lead us to appreciate all that is unfolding in the moments right in front of us.
a new view of time
by joanna gaines
Even if we’re not officially taught it in school, from a young age we learn the value of efficiency. We’re encouraged to manage our time well and offered reminders by those older and wiser that “time is a thief.” The irony is that some of us actually wait for it to be true. Some of us grow up expecting time to one day abandon even our best-laid plans.
For me, those lessons about efficiency—as good-natured as they might have been—started to cultivate a fear of misplacing what little time I thought I had. I started to measure my days based on all the things I didn’t get to instead of all that I was able to. I leaned into efficiency more and more over the years, treating time like something to control, and wearing the way I managed it like a badge of honor. And the truth is, I am good at being efficient. In a lot of ways, it feels like the most natural thing in the world for me. I wasn’t made to sit still, and I love to knock out a punch list—which, by the way, isn’t bad. It’s how I’m wired. Besides, an efficient outlook can be a really healthy thing. It can help guide our decisions so that the ways we spend our time align with our truest intentions, weeding out any lesser things or unwelcome distractions. In those moments, being efficient feels good and right—wise even. Yet when I look back at my life, I can see how, gradually, I began choosing efficiency over everything. Even things that I knew deep in my bones were worthy of my time.
One of those moments happened about a year and a half ago. We were having a big family dinner at my parents’ house. My younger sister and her family were there. All of our kids— 11 in total—were playing out on my parents’ big back lawn. My youngest son, Crew, was about a year old at the time, and by then we’d figured out that when we could get him to bed by 7:30 p.m. he was just an all-around happier kid the next day. So Crew’s bedtime became an important part of our family’s daily routine, and getting him down for the night on time felt like a win, like I’d succeeded in managing our time well. So at my parents’ house, when I noticed that it was already half an hour past Crew’s bedtime, the stress started to creep in. I hollered at the kids that it was time to start loading up just as my dad asked me to stay and watch the sunset with him. It was a summer night, so by 8 p.m. it probably would have meant staying another 15 minutes to catch the last of the daylight.
But I didn’t see it that way. I saw it only for what it would cost me tomorrow. So I told my dad I would do it the next time, and we headed home.
It didn’t take me long to regret that moment. My dad is the most understanding person when it comes to my family’s time. An invitation to stay and watch the sun disappear with him was a special request. I realized I’d held a meaningful moment hostage in the name of efficiency.
Over the years I had become so completely preoccupied with the idea of spending my time efficiently that I was missing opportunities to spend it well. I had believed that the structure I built around my family was keeping everyone prepared for all the stuff that life throws at you—and part of it was, and still does. But structure all the time leaves little space to simply be delighted, to let a moment catch you by surprise.
What I’ve come to learn is that sometimes what structure ends up shielding you from is the fullness of life.
Time went by, and I kept saying to Chip that I needed to get back to my parents’ house to watch the sun go down with my dad. But then COVID-19 hit, and more months passed. Spring turned to summer. Finally, this past fall, I called my dad one day after work and asked him to meet me in his backyard. And this time, as evening dimmed, instead of watching the clock, I watched the sun fall lower and lower until it hovered just above the horizon. Dad and I talked, mostly about the ordinary—the kids, work, the house—but the fact that I’d made it back to this place, that I’d been given a chance to reclaim a moment I’d so freely given away, was extraordinary.
For so long I’d chased efficiency for fear of misplacing my time. Yet as we stood there, eyes fixed on the sherbet-color sky, I wondered how many other moments just like this I had misplaced instead. That evening was a turning point for me. No longer would I measure my life based on what I achieved in a week, a day, or an hour. Now, it is time spent in moments like the one I shared with my dad that I hope define my lifetime. Time spent abandoning plans in order to catch a glimpse of something truly beautiful. Of being surprised by a moment of laughter or joy or heartache and letting it sink in for a breath or two. Time spent taking in the only view that really matters: the one unfolding right in front of me.
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The first thing to remember is "Your attitude"! Focus on the true meaning of Christmas, attitudes are contagious, if you are positive so will others. If you are a competitive type of person look at the season as a competition, just how much can you save? Then use your winnings (savings) for something important like something special you wouldn't normally buy, or pay off an old bill.
Do an inventory - Sit down with a notepad and write down what you need to accomplish and what have to work with, what skills do you have, what do you have around the house to work with? How much can you really afford to spend? Homemade gifts are NOT considered being cheap, it's a way of letting a person know they are worth one of your most valuable comities, "Your Time". A homemade gift is a gift from the heart.
Here are a couple of ideas to get you started:
Team work - If your or a friend is one of the many who isn't working right now and have more time than money, team up. Most of us have different skills than our friends/family. One can bake and the other do a craft, or the two of you can do different crafts and swap out items.
Establish traditions that don't cost a lot - Family night making decorations, is much cheaper than shopping for them. Have "Pot-luck" dinner party for friends, in place of a formal sit down dinner.
Agree on price limits.
Make a list of everyone, and how much you want to spend.
Buy or make one nice gift for a family, that every one will enjoy.
Bake something for co-workers, or have a pot luck with an ornament exchange.
Don't forget about size & weight for gifts that must be shipped
Have gifts dropped shipped. Most online, catalog, TV shopping (QVC & HomeShopping) companies offer this, also some larger department stores. This saves you the cost of shipping the item twice, as well as time.
Shop alone. If taking someone take only what cash you will need. No checks, AMT card, or credit cards.
Eat before you shop.
down on that chance of buying all those great looking snacks.
Buy in bulk - Many stores sell in bulk for much less. If you can us it all, that's money saved. If you don't need that many, then split it with a friend. Example: A set of 6 or 8 coffee mugs, and easly be split into two sets of four or even made into 'his & her's" gifts for several couples.
If the store doesn't offer free wrapping, ask for a box (if needed) and wrap it yourself.
Keep emergency gifts on hand. For those folks who decided to surprise you with a gift, you didn't expect, and for hostess gifts. These can be from a wide ranged of items, from bottle of domestic wine, to handmade Christmas decorations. A nice one is to keep some sugar cookie or gingerbread dough in the freezer and a decorated box. With only a few hours notice you can have fresh holiday cookies.
If the person lives in the house, (your wife) look at the tags in her clothing. Check jackets, sweaters, skirt, and paints. WRITE this information down.
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The King called for a volunteer. Note the sentence structure… ”Who will go for US?” The King stood up before the armies of Heaven. His eyes like flames of fire gazed across the realms of the Earth, the Universe and finally Heaven.As God stood all the Host of Heaven kneeled before His presence; yet only one man, a self-proclaimed person of unclean lips fell flat on his face in utter fear, unable to speak or move.
Isaiah the prophet recognized that among the host of heaven all were Holy and pure and sinless with the exception of himself. Isaiah lay prostrate awaiting an unknown fate. The latter is from the Book of Isaiah Ch. 6 vs. 8 in the Bible. Through the inspired words of Isaiah you and I get a glimpse into heaven. Isaiah was a prophet called by God to live for one purpose and one purpose only.
That was to serve and speak for God by confronting his generation with the TRUTH of God…. to awaken the living that are DEAD…which was the will of God for his life.
Whether you can relate to this or not makes no difference. However, if you are a true believer in Christ then you also live here for but one purpose. That being to serve the living God, only according to His will for your life. You too are called to reach out to the living dead all around you with the TRUTH of God.
You are an ordinary person called forth by an extraordinary God to do great things. HE is your strength until your eyes finally see His Kingdom. He grants you HOPE and FAITH for each day because of His great and everlasting LOVE for you. When the eyes of the Lord look down on the sons of men to see if any seek HIM; He sees you…His very own child. You who have a heart that seeks after God. Like King David you are a person after Gods own heart. You have a Restored Soul, reclaimed from the darkness that surrounds you.
There is no greater time in history than the time you now live in. All the signs are converging together quickly; Christ, The LORD is coming soon. He comes with a Rod of Iron to judge the hearts of men and women and then to rule the nations. The Dawn of Eternity is here and the beginning chapter in the book of Revelation is about to begin.Revelation is the story of the revealing of JESUS, the King of kings, the King of angels and the King of men. Revelation finishes the story of the end of physical mankind and the beginning of Eternal, Spiritual Mankind who will live forever in either Heaven or Hell.
It can be said of Isaiah as it can be said of each of us…everyone was born for such a time as this! Each of us was called from beyond the mist of time in eternity past to come forth from the mind of God to live and to make a difference in the lives of people that surround us. The people within the sound of our voice, within the reach of our touch, within the sight of our eyes; this is our purpose.
This is OUR ONLY PURPOSE !
Now I ask you is it possible to serve God without knowing and understanding who He is as revealed in His word contained in His Bible? Have you come to the understanding of what it means to be His disciple? As a Christian you already responded to His call to “Come and Follow Me”. Have you spent time with Him so you can be of value in this war between Light and Darkness that continues all around you? A war of Truth verses lies a war that only the understanding of sound doctrine can prepare you to fight in.
A war where the line between the Truth and the Lie requires biblical discernment taught by true men of God who know how to divide the Word of God rightly. Listen to the inspired words of the Apostle Paul from Hebrews 5 verses 7 to 11:“There is much more we would like to say about this. But you don’t seem to listen. So it is hard to make you understand.
You have been Christians a long time; and you ought to be teaching others. Instead you need to re-learn the basics.”Do those words apply to you?
YOU Were CALLED To Make A Difference
The Apostle Paul addressed the problem within the newborn church in Christ. The same problem exists today. It translates into the development of weak believers, who have no foundation, who have no discernment, who are tossed to and fro by every cultural demand that causes changes to the Doctrine of GOD (that will never change). It continues to create weak pulpits, it continues to produce shallow preaching and worst of all it changes the Gospel that saves to another Gospel that is hollow and condemns people to an eternity in Hell.
Christ charged Paul to be the Apostle to the Gentiles. Paul spent his life on earth building the newborn Church. He nursed it, he fed it, and he took its hand as a child and taught it doctrine so the cornerstone and the foundation of the Church would be built on Christ ALONE.
Later near the end of Paul’s life when in jail, tired and alone knowing that death was coming. He questioned if his work for Christ was going to stand, had he labored his whole life for Christ in vain? Paul lamented about the church. The church that was newborn was already dying. The Church had let in heresies; and very quickly was on the road to apostasy.
If you read between the lines of the Apostle Paul’s words you will hear him whisper the cry of his heart. I have poured out my life in Jesus’ name Has all my labor been in vain?
Oh, my churches, Dying churches, Are you not the Chosen Bride? Oh, my churches, Dying churches, How could you ABANDON CHRIST?
So I ask you my dear friend: ”Where are all the teachers today…who teach the TRUTH of God?” Instead most teach Christian Lite instead of the LIGHT of CHRIST. There is a famine in our land, but not for food, but of the Word of GOD ! | <urn:uuid:8b785ddf-42fe-436f-b7fb-da9cc87107d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crosseseverywhere.com/tag/spiritual-warriors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96985 | 1,262 | 1.757813 | 2 |
09 Mar Back Hurt? You Aren’t Alone! We Give you the Low-Down on Back Pain & Tips for Handling This Common Complaint
If you have back pain, you’re a member of an unfortunately large club. The CDC published their 2016 “National Health Statistics Reports” and an estimated 20% of Americans reportedly suffer from lower back pain alone. Yet back pain is such an overwhelmingly common medical complaint, that according to a WebMD article, it is a top reason that people miss work. Whether you’ve suffered in silence for months (or more) or you’re flat on your back right now and don’t know which end is up (but they all seem painful), we have some pointers for dealing with this common ailment. There is hope for healing your back pain…
- The best defense is a good…offense: One common factor many people with back pain share is that their back has taken over for a weaker core. A stronger core means your back will be less inclined to try and “pitch in” during daily tasks, sports, or work. Focus on strengthening your core when your back isn’t hurting and you may not need to worry about back pain! Exercises like planks and bridges can help you engage and work those muscles you should be using so that you don’t hurt the ones you shouldn’t be using.
- Sleep with a pillow between your knees: Your sleeping position can stress your back without you even knowing it. Now isn’t the time to be stubborn about your favorite sleeping position. Try sleeping on your side with a supportive, firm pillow between your knees. You can also put a supportive pillow behind you to keep you from rolling onto your back as you sleep.
- Alternate ice & heat: If you are waiting to see your doctor or physical therapist, alternating heat and ice can be a better combination than just sticking with one alone. We know it’s tempting to park yourself on the sofa on your heating pad and that the heat feels good – however, in the case of an acute injury to your back, ice will help calm inflammation. Try short rotations of 10-20 minutes of heat and cold.
- Don’t move into your bed: We know it’s tempting to lie flat in bed- and that used to be standard treatment. We now know that immobility doesn’t help your back heal any faster and doesn’t fix what caused the break-down to begin with. If your back is bad enough you want to crawl into bed, make an appointment with your provider.
- Talk to Your Physical Therapist: There are lots of causes of back pain, and very few result in the need for surgery. A physical therapist can be ideal for helping you identify and correct what may be causing your back pain – including movement patterns, posture, muscle weakness, and more. Unlike pain killers, your PT offers you both insight and potential for lasting improvement.
If you’re one of the millions of Americans suffering with back pain, don’t wait – call us today. We’ve helped many clients handle back pain that is their primary complaint, as well as back pain that has arisen from other issues. Back pain is a common problem but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Body One Physical Therapy is locally-owned with five convenient locations serving central Indiana: Downtown Indianapolis, North Indianapolis, South Indianapolis, Zionsville, and Fishers. Make your appointment today and let us help you get back on track! | <urn:uuid:0bc99684-9036-4c24-bac1-a17f46007805> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bodyonept.com/2018/03/back-hurt-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946772 | 742 | 1.804688 | 2 |
As an instructor and student of yoga, I know that people come to yoga for many different reasons.
Some are drawn to the physical aspects of the practice, some for the spiritual element and others for a mixture of both. My personal belief is that those who get the most from it, even if they fall into the first category, also get some sort of emotional fulfillment from it. That fulfillment doesn’t have to be earth-shattering. In my own classes, I often say that if a student leaves feeling better than when they left, I have done my job.
My own personal practice is primarily Ashtanga yoga. I make no bones about it—that it is the style I have practiced the longest and love the best.
Over the years, I have seen a lot of classic Type A personalities try Ashtanga. Usually, it comes after a recommendation from taking a beginner class. An instructor may say, “You seem driven and focused. Ashtanga might be a good fit for you.” Sometimes it is, but I have seen many of those Type As really get into it, then quit, because it wasn’t going fast enough for them or they weren’t mastering the poses as quickly as they wanted to.
That is one of the ironies of Ashtanga: it is a fast-paced practice, but it is not one that most people are going to move quickly through.
It isn’t designed to be that way. Ashtanga takes time and dedication. Many are familiar with the founder K. Pattabhi Jois’s quote “Ashtanga Yoga is for all people: old people, young people, fat people, skinny people—only not lazy people,” but he also said “Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.” So, when I have students who are interested in Ashtanga and especially those who are Type As, I suggest they supplement it with a slow yoga class.
There are a number of reasons why I do that. One is getting the alignment correct and taking the time to discover what that should feel like. The other, more important one, is that holding the pose causes one to slow down both physically and mentally and be “in the moment” that so many instructors talk about, but many new students do not quite get at first.
It’s not always easy to do that in the faster-paced classes.
For all the talk that yoga isn’t competitive, Ashtanga often does bring out the competitive nature in people.
After all, Ashtanga doesn’t promise that there is a reward at the end for getting through any of the series, nor does it imply that people who never get past the primary series are failures. However, many people seem to believe that whether they admit to it or not. I speak from experience, and I am not even a Type A. After a decade of still practicing primary, I find myself thinking more often than I care to admit, “This is absurd! When am I going to get the Second Series?” At this point, I am able to find the stillness in the postures, but that was not the case when I was first starting out.
Another advantage to taking a slow class is that it reminds me, even when I return to my Ashtanga practice, that yoga is not a race. Much in the same vein that there is no reward for completing any of the series, there is no advantage of being the first or the last to get in the pose. I truly feel that taking slow yoga classes have not only helped with my Ashtanga practice, but allowed me to stick with it.
Nearly a dozen years later, I have no plans to stop either one.
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African Christianity: Its Public Role
This is by far the most informative book about contemporary African Christianity around; nobody could have written a study as richly detailed and as informed by real insider knowledge as he has done. . . . It will be the most significant study of African Christianity to appear at a time when its importance for Africa is becoming ever more widely recognized. --J. D. Y. Peel
A sophisticated political and social analysis of the various Christian groups is allied to a most original, consistent exploration of their different theological positions and thinking. . . . An interesting, important critical assessment of the extent to which the churches are playing a major role in the emergence of a civil society. . . . Gifford's overall analysis and his four case studies are so fresh and so important that . . . they cry out for immediate publication. --Richard Gray
Paul Gifford analyzes African Christianity in the mid-1990s, against the background of the continent's current social, economic, and political circumstances. Gifford employs concepts taken from political economy to shed light on the current dynamics of African churches and churchgoers and assesses their different contributions to political developments since 1989. He also evaluates the churches' role in promoting a civil society in Africa. Four case studies--Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, and Cameroon--cover all strands of Christianity: Catholic, Evangelical, mainline Protestant, Pentecostal, and Independent. These detailed analyses of the state of the churches in each country also suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa. | <urn:uuid:ae6c284a-f2b5-4679-9f51-df76a066033d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.za/books?id=VwQo5KmRmWYC&dq=editions:ISBN1850653356&output=html_text&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946074 | 319 | 1.882813 | 2 |
SEATTLE -- International financial services giant UBS recently asked 4,500 high income investors how much money they would need to consider themselves wealthy.
The answer? At least $5-million.
Apparently that, according to UBS, is the amount of money needed to live one’s life with no financial constraints.
What exactly does $5-million mean and what could it buy?
Well that depends on where you live.
129 Lake Ave W, Kirkland, WA, 98033. Photo courtesy of Beth Billington, real estate agent.
In the Seattle area, $5.5-million in cash would allow you to buy this Kirkland home on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. Custom built in 1999 by Hamish Anderson, this home features panoramic city, water and mountain views along with a 4 car garage, private dock and power boat lift along 97' of shoreline.
With a lot size of 10,025 feet and square footage of 8,960 this home also features 5 bedrooms, 5.25 baths and 4 fireplaces.
Why commute across the 520 bridge when you can boat across the lake instead?
3784 W Rock Garden Ln, Boise, ID 83714 Photo courtesy of Coldwell Banker
In Boise, $5.5-million would land you considerably more space to stretch your legs. This estate features 18,434 square feet of in-door living space and 11.69 acres of outdoor ranch land.
Built in the year 2000, the property features the main home, a barn, a guest house as well as an indoor/outdoor pool and an excellent set up for horses.
If horses aren't your thing the same real estate broker wants to point you in the direction of this river ringed home for about the same price.
New York, New York
56 Leonard Street New York, New York. Photo courtesy of 56leonardtribeca.com
In New York City, $5.5-million could ensure you breathtaking views from towering heights in the 56 Leonard Street building in Tribeca. We say could, because this radically designed tower has yet to be built and construction is only slatted for “the next few years” and nothing more specific.
Still if could becomes would, your money buys a 3-bedroom apartment in this 145 unit building with unobstructed views of the Hudson and East River, floor-to-ceiling windows, solid wood doors, white oak flooring and a fire place. As for square footage, each apartment is a little different. But the 6,000 square foot penthouse was listed at $55-million. | <urn:uuid:90b8e98a-0cae-4dc5-bac3-97cf9f72e07d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.q13fox.com/news/daydreams-what-does-5-5-million-buy-in-kirkland-boise-and-nyc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937076 | 554 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter consists of two different areas in two different theme parks. Hogsmeade, located in Islands of Adventure, recreates the only all-wizarding village in Scotland, replete with the majestic Hogwarts Castle; Diagon Alley, snuggled inside Universal Studios Florida, is a hustling, bustling city block consisting of several side streets, all dominated by the imposing Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Both are, simply put, amazing areas, with so many unique attractions and experiences hidden around every corner that it just wasn’t enough to give you the basic information on the rides, shops, and eateries – we have taken it to a whole new level with our Insider’s Guide to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
This page includes a history of the development of the Wizarding World at Universal Orlando Resort, a description of the lands’ layouts, and some vacation-planning tips. (And when you are done here, use the navigational links at bottom of the page to continue your magical education.)
Land layouts of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley
With a design intended to evoke the topsy-turvey nature of the wizarding world, where everything is not as it seems, it’s easy to get a bit turned around while navigating these areas without a basic grounding in their layouts.
Hogsmeade at Universal’s Islands of Adventure
There are two entrances to Hogsmeade, though most guests enter through the one that connects the Wizarding World to The Lost Continent – we call this the primary entrance. There is also an entryway from the backside of the area, near Hogwarts Castle, that connects to Jurassic Park via a wooden bridge.
If you enter Hogsmeade through Lost Continent, you will walk past the Hogsmeade train station (for the Hogwarts Express) into Hogsmeade Village. This lower portion of the Wizarding World is home to most of the shops, The Three Broomsticks and Hog’s Head, and Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure. On the back end of the village is a relatively small outdoor gathering area, replete with a stage, where live shows are performed. At the far end of the Wizarding World lies the magnificent Hogwarts Castle, home to Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, as well as the setting for the evening projection-mapping shows. Finally, Flight of the Hippogriff is situated right next door, at Hagrid’s hut.
Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida
Unlike Hogsmeade, there’s essentially only one designated entrance and exit for Diagon Alley; this is because of the London waterfront area, which was designed to completely hide the Wizarding World from the rest of the (muggle) park. Looking at the row of famous London landmarks, the entrance is hidden underneath Leicester Square Station, and the exit secretly sneaks through Wyndham’s Theater – though not many use this second passageway at all.
Guests enter directly on Diagon Alley, which is home to the land’s dining establishments (The Leaky Cauldron and Florean Fortescue’s Ice-Cream Parlour) and a goodly swath of the shops. This main stretch leads to the next, perpendicular street, Horizont Alley. Carkitt Market, a (mostly) covered shopping area, loops around to the right, linking the end of Horizont with the beginning of Diagon Alley. It sounds confusing, but ultimately this just structures a loop for guests to comfortably mill about the shops. Finally, Knockturn Alley is a side street, running left off of Diagon and snaking up to connect to the other end of Horizont. If that sounds a little confusing, it was meant to be – Universal tried very hard to make its new land feel like a busy, downtown shopping district, the exact opposite of sleepy, rustic Hogsmeade Village.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – vacation-planning tips
In a common misconception that has floated around since opening day, many guests believe that both Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley are their own theme parks, a misunderstanding probably born from the fact that, in Universal’s initial marketing push back in 2010, it referred to Hogsmeade as “a theme park within a theme park.” It’s since dropped that language, thankfully enough, and you do not need to buy an additional ticket to visit the Wizarding Worlds. However, if you wish to ride the Hogwarts Express between the two lands, you will need to purchase a park-to-park ticket. Fortuitously enough, Universal has installed ticket booths at the entrances to each station, where guests can upgrade their tickets if they happened to overlooked this caveat.
For our very best vacation planning tips, check out the wealth of informational pages in our Insider’s Guide to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, including how to beat the crowds, the full rundown on early park admission, and where to find the best food and souvenirs on offer – and more!
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade: A history
The first slice of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was announced by Universal in May 2007, after author J.K. Rowling signed a deal to bring her popular book and film franchise to Islands of Adventure, the second theme park at Universal Orlando Resort. The new land’s development and construction would be overseen by two Harry Potter movie franchise alumni Stuart Craig, the production designer of all eight installments, and Alan Gilmore, the art director for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (and the assistant art director on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets). Ground would break on the project that summer, with a scheduled opening date of late 2009.
The news could not have come at a better time for Universal; between 2004 and 2007, attendance had been dropping at its resort, with many criticizing the company for not introducing “new excitement” after completing its Orlando expansion just a few years before (Islands of Adventure, CityWalk, and the first three resort hotels all arrived between 1998 and 2002). In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, the president of Universal Orlando, Bill Davis, stated that “we think [the Harry Potter franchise] is going to have a huge impact on all our constituencies: our guests, our team members, our management team – everybody. This is absolutely huge. We’re just thrilled and excited we were selected for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.”
“The plans I’ve seen look incredibly exciting,” Rowling herself said in a prepared statement. “I don’t think fans of the books or films will be disappointed.” (Neither were Florida contracting firms, who lined up to help build the “theme park within a theme park” right away.)
As news about the new development spread, Universal remained tight-lipped on the plans, announcing very few details from the start. According to Beth Kassab of the Orlando Sentinel, “Secrecy is standard practice in the early stages of major entertainment blueprints, a strategy that serves to protect the plans from competition and to build suspense about the details of a project.” This level of secrecy continued on through 2009. In an article for the Sentinel, Jason Garcia noted that “Universal has kept the project […] largely shrouded in secrecy. Contractors working on [it] have been required to sign confidentiality agreements, and the resort has offered few clues beyond a handful of artist renderings.”
Though many details were kept quiet until Hogsmeade’s opening, Universal began to share information about the attractions and food offerings after Tom Felton (the actor behind the dastardly Draco Malfoy) announced on behalf of the company that the Wizarding World would open in the spring of 2010.
Construction began in January 2008, and the Wizarding World’s construction site became a popular attraction almost immediately at Islands of Adventure, despite the fact that it was still decidedly incomplete; in the words of the Orlando Sentinel‘s Dewayne Bevil, “the latest attraction at Islands of Adventure has no line, no height restriction, and no t-shirt shop.” During their theme park visits, guests would gather on the bridge connecting the Lost Continent and Jurassic Park to watch the progress of the soon-to-arrive Hogsmeade Village.
From the beginning, Universal seemed dedicated to making the Wizarding World as authentic and as true to the films as possible, with no expense spared. “We’ve pushed every technology available to us to give guests a theme-park experience unlike any they’ve had before,” announced Paul Daurio, a producer of the project. Universal staff poured enormous amounts of time into their work, attempting to make the wizarding village look authentic from every perspective. “The detail, the absolute rigorous pushing of detail, is beyond compare,” commented Alan Gilmore. “There is hardly a corner that you can’t look in that does not have some amazing quality of detail, finish, and paint.” The entire land, from Hogwarts Castle itself down to the concrete snow, was designed to replicate the movies. Even the rockwork was carefully researched and detailed; the rocky crag that is home to the castle was inspired by the highland mountains in Scotland.
The finishing touch on the location’s authenticity could be found in the employees hired for the opening. A large number of British team members were assembled to work at the new land and were placed in roles that were integral to the Harry Potter experience, such as wand shopkeepers and station masters. Finally, all employees were required to take exams to showcase their knowledge of the source material in order to create a truly magical experience for park guests. Though immersive and certainly exciting, all of these details would come at a high price: $265 million for the entire area.
The night before Hogsmeade opened to the public, a Harry Potter gala was held on the new “island,” with a number of celebrities in attendance, including Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), and J.K. Rowling herself. During the event, John Williams conducted a performance of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, which performed a piece written by the legendary composer for the occasion.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade opened to the public on June 18, 2010, and featured three rides: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, Flight of the Hippogriff, and Dragon Challenge. It also featured a Hogwarts Express photo opportunity, an Owl Post (a post office where postcards and letters can be sent with a postmark from Hogsmeade Village), and a number of magical shops, including Honeydukes, Zonko’s Joke Shop, Dervish and Banges, Filch’s Emporium of Confiscated Goods, and Ollivander’s, the popular wand shop and experience where some lucky wizards and witches are chosen by their wands. More than 600 pieces of merchandise – including robes, trading pins, attire, wands, stuffed animals, scarves, and sweets – were licensed for the area’s shops. Demand for the souvenirs became so high that Universal faced challenges in keeping the most popular items in stock, leading it to open an online store for its Potter wares and eventually expanding the wizarding-merchandise footprint all over the resort.
Guests hoping to enjoy a meal fit for a wizard would not be disappointed: The Three Broomsticks and Hog’s Head dining locations serve drinks and foods that are specifically mentioned in the book series. The executive chef of Universal Orlando, Steven Jayson, spent three years researching and creating menu items for the dining locations. “To take words off of paper and images from film and create a menu that truly reflects the emotions and passion of the Harry Potter books has been a fabulous adventure,” Jayson said in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel.
J.K. Rowling, whose writing inspired every dish served in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, even had the final say on the park’s top-secret Butterbeer recipe. When served a sample of the soon-to-be-famous drink, “she took a sip, eased into a big smile, and said, ‘Yes, Chef, this is it.’” The spell the Universal culinary staff cast to create the sweet concoction has proved wildly successful; on January 6, 2011, Universal announced that it had already sold one million mugs of the “delicious, frothy, butterscotchy libation,” and in the years since, the treat has expanded to other forms, including ice cream, a hot drink, fudge, and potted cream.
Hogsmeade was one of the driving forces that began to pull the Orlando entertainment and accommodation industries out of the slump of the 2008 global recession. In May 2012, it was announced that Islands of Adventure’s attendance had gone up by 29 percent in 2011 thanks to enormous interest in the park’s newest addition – and that increase in attendance “accounted for nearly half of all the attendance growth at North America’s 20 largest theme parks combined” for that year. The Wizarding World’s success even spread to other businesses in Orlando – hotels throughout the city saw increased attendance and revenues within months of the land’s opening date.
Hogsmeade was so popular that, on December 6, 2011, Universal announced that a cloned version would be coming to Universal Studios Hollywood – although, thanks to the park’s lack of real estate, a lengthy construction process ensued, seeing older attractions and buildings being torn down to make room for the Wizarding World. This gave Universal Studios Japan more than enough time to not only announce its own version of the land (on May 9, 2012), but to also open it, as well, on July 15, 2014 (just seven days after Diagon Alley bowed at Universal Orlando). “I was delighted to experience and enjoy the attention to detail, creativity, and superb craft that went into the first Wizarding World in Orlando,” J.K. Rowling said in a statement at the time. “I am equally delighted that the same level of expertise and enjoyment will translate to the new park in Japan.”
Hollywood finally followed suit on April 7, 2016, giving the world its third – and, so far, final – Hogsmeade. Though they are largely the same, each of the three Wizarding Worlds does feature a set of exclusive experiences, whether it be an actual Black Lake in Osaka, extra interactive spells in California, or additional rides in Florida. (Of the three, Universal Studios Japan’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter has the biggest set of exclusives, which we break down in this in-depth feature).
Since opening in June 2010, Universal has kept a small-but-steady trickle of new experiences coming to the original (theme park) home of the Boy Wizard. To coincide with the addition of Diagon Alley in Universal Studios Florida, Hogsmeade received three new developments of its own in July 2014. First up, it expanded its wizarding footprint, taking up some more of next-door Lost Continent’s land in order to create a thematic vestibule and to erect Hogsmeade Station, giving the Hogwarts Express a place to disgorge its passengers from the other park. Second, Zonko’s Joke Shop was shut down, since its merchandise properly belonged in Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes over at Diagon Alley, and Honeydukes desperately needed an expansion, anyway. And, finally, several Hogsmeade Village storefronts got an interactive wand upgrade, adding in the brand-new feature that was originally designed for Diagon (both Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Hollywood would also end up receiving this interactive element right from their first day of operation).
November 2017 saw the advent of a first-ever Christmas in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a seasonal event that also introduced a permanent, year-round attraction: a projection-mapping show that uses Hogwarts Castle as its canvas. During the holidays, this performance is The Magic of Christmas at Hogwarts Castle; throughout the rest of the year, it switches between The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle and the Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle shows.
But arguably the biggest change of them all has to do with Dragon Challenge, the roller coaster that the Wizarding World inherited when it re-purposed the Merlinwood section of the Lost Continent (and which the Hogsmeades in Osaka and California didn’t have the room to include). After the 18-year-old inverted coaster reached the end of its lifespan in 2017, Universal opted to tear it down instead of replace it; taking up its mammoth footprint with the innovative Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, which debuted on June 13, 2019.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley: A history
On the same day that Universal Studios Hollywood’s Hogsmeade was revealed, Universal also announced that the Wizarding World in Orlando would be getting an expansion, although it would be nearly a year-and-a-half before it would finally clarify just what that expansion would entail: on May 8, 2013, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley was confirmed to be arriving at next-door Universal Studios Florida.
Much like Hogsmeade before it, Universal tried to keep everything as top-secret as possible, but nearly every major attraction, restaurant, and shop leaked out into the rumor mill months, if not years, before the company officially tipped its hand. This was primarily due to Diagon Alley’s preliminary design work having started before even Hogsmeade was completed; Stuart Craig, the movie series’s production designer, started sketching the layout of a Leaky Cauldron restaurant after he completed the blueprints for The Three Broomsticks, and Universal Creative began toying around with the idea of a real, live Hogwarts Express that would connect its two Orlando parks as far back as 2010.
When the announcement on December 2, 2011 was made that Amity, the home of the beloved Jaws ride, was going to be imminently shut down, it was received by the world at large as being the very first confirmation that Diagon Alley was, indeed, going to be inserted at Universal Studios. (Universal had initially considered placing Diagon Alley next to Hogsmeade physically, fully replacing Islands of Adventure’s Lost Continent area.)
In the spring of 2012, permits and other paperwork filed with the South Florida Water Management District – that long-time spoiler of theme-park secrets – revealed the exact, though unlabeled, layout of the new Wizarding World’s buildings, roads, and other such structures, including one that looked suspiciously like a train station. That August, Universal informed its employees in its team member newsletter that they should expect delays and rerouted traffic in the resort’s backstage area starting on the 20th due to “infrastructure upgrades and utility maintenance.” Once the associated map from the newsletter hit the web, outlining the path that the Hogwarts Express would take from Universal Studios Florida to Islands of Adventure, the cat was well and truly out of the wizarding bag.
Throughout the early part of 2013, with the feeling that so much was known about Diagon Alley, a growing sense of frustration was palpably building in the theme-park enthusiast crowd. Why wasn’t the company announcing any of this? The explanation, it was believed, could be found in the disastrous plunge in ticket and annual-pass sales from between the time that Hogsmeade was originally announced to when it finally opened, three long years later – the company didn’t want to repeat that mistake ever again. As it turns out, theme park and Harry Potter fans didn’t have to wait for much longer, as the official reveal finally dropped in May.
Although only the bare-bones basics were divulged by Universal – the only new bit of information for grizzled rumor veterans was the presence of the giant, 60-foot, fire-breathing dragon atop Gringotts Wizarding Bank – there was a veritable cavalcade of other revelations to go alongside it, starting with our very first look at the Hogwarts Express’s track even before Universal got around to formally announcing the attraction.
Meanwhile, Universal sent out a survey to annual passholders and other targeted guests. Although ostensibly gaining information for how best to handle the park-to-park Hogwarts Express, keen-eyed readers were able to glean a bit more information than the company was willing to share just a few weeks earlier, including a more firm “summer 2014” release date, Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts being a 3D ride, and the Express featuring a different experience on both legs of the trip – all as the rumor mill was stating for the past year (or more).
Not all of the latest intel was good, however, including the little bombshell that Daniel Radcliffe wanted nothing to do with the new theme-park land. Although many spent the next year fervently convincing themselves that the former boy wizard would change his mind, he never did, and neither, apparently, did Emma Watson – neither actor would film any new footage or record any new lines of dialogue for Diagon Alley.
The good news picked back up, however, towards the final stretch of 2013, when the train was installed on its tracks and The Leaky Cauldron was finally and officially announced. And then, of course, in the early months of 2014, the rest of Diagon Alley’s many streets, vendors, and shops were similarly divulged in a series of special webcast presentations, attempting to build fan interest and excitement to an unbelievably high crescendo.
It worked – perhaps a little too well, as increasingly-impatient vacationers wanted to make their travel preparations, including requesting time off work and booking their hotels. Universal, however, wouldn’t formally announce the July 8, 2014 opening date for another several weeks, until the land’s red carpet “premiere” for media and VIP guests on June 18.
Unlike Hogsmeade, which has received expansions and new rides since its opening day, Diagon Alley has remained comparatively static, with its only changes of note coming in the form of a few store swaps. In September 2015, a little over a year after the area debuted, Universal realized that it didn’t need an indoor overflow queue for Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions, after all, and, as such, closed it down; the following month, Shutterbutton’s moved into the space, helping to spruce the photography studios’s sales while simultaneously maximizing Diagon’s real estate. This development, in turn, opened up Shutterbutton’s former residence in the back corner of Carkitt Market, enabling the company to install a brand-new store: Sugarplum’s, finally giving the new Wizarding World a sweet shop of its own. Two more shop additions would make their way to Diagon Alley late in 2018, with the opening of Globus Mundi in November, followed by the Owl Post in December.
Why isn’t The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Walt Disney World?
Many people wonder why The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is not at the nearby Disney World Resort. You may be interested to know that Disney and J.K. Rowling were in talks for a period of time to bring the boy wizard to Disney World; however, Rowling demanded more creative control over the project than Disney was willing to give, and the company – surprisingly – wasn’t willing to commit as much money and resources to the proposed land as Universal would end up bringing. Once their talks died out, Universal was more than happy to step in and agree to the author’s terms, setting in motion a new era of development and success at Universal Orlando Resort (and also an era of more immersive theme-park lands across the board, as both Pandora: The World of Avatar and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge are Disney’s answer to Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade). | <urn:uuid:b937f42d-ec54-4792-8e44-1ed02641885d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://orlandoinformer.com/universal/wizarding-world-harry-potter-insiders-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957668 | 5,116 | 1.5 | 2 |
Light and electricity by sunlight costs nothing. You just need to purchase equipment for collecting also as convert energy by sun also it costs nothing for run.
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Melbourne is part of the solar Australian cities program. Learn by heading downtown, what that means nowadays. There you solar-powered can attend workshops on solar power at central Melbourne, and tour homes and buildings that using currently are solar power to help satisfy energy needs. It’s possible for you to find out how to implement solar power in your house or company. This really is something that old children can learn from, too. It’s never too early to get your children right into a maintainable source attitude.
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Introduction to the Larimar Gemstone
When talking about the gemstones which are attractive, rendering the wonderful healing energies, the blue Larimar is among the top-notch gems. It is a rare gemstone found only in the Dominican Republic on the Seashore of Caribbean Island. It is composed of pectolite minerals and has traces of iron and copper in it. Let us study Larimar jewelry in detail and know more about it.
All about Larimar
Larimar meaning signifies to the tranquil sea and sky energies, as this soft and soothing gemstone has white patterns on the exterior that resembles the sunlight dancing beneath Caribbean waters. Larimar stone brings the ancient wisdom of the Atlantic sea. Moreover, it is also called the dolphin stone as it has the energy to heal, harmonizing the body and the soul of the wearer.
What Makes Larimar Unique
Larimar is a unique gemstone because it is the only stone with the energies of water and fire together in it. This rare combination is due to the volcanic fire, as these crystals were formed during the eruption and were splashed everywhere, and were trapped in the mountain as well. However, during the earthquake, the mountains tumbled down, and the larimar crystals were found on the seashore of the Caribbean. And that’s how they have the energy of water and fire together in it. In addition, these crystal offers exceptional healing powers. Let us learn about them.
Healing Advantages of Larimar
It is one of the gemstones that can balance the polarities of these energies. For cooling tempers, calming the fears, reducing the problems of stress, anxiety, and depression, Larimar ring are oftenly worn on an everyday basis. Meditating wearing the Larimar crystal helps connect the divine energies. In addition, it is called the stone of communication as it provides the strength and courage to speak in public, having an association with the Throat Chakra.
History of Larimar
While buying this gemstone, it is essential to know about its history as well. So, this gemstone was first discovered in the year 1916 but was not given much importance. Later, in the year 1974, they were rediscovered again by the priest who sent them to a lab for testing, and they were recognized as semi-precious gemstones. Moreover, it was named after the priest’s daughter, Larrisa. So, the four letters of Larrisa were combined with the word mar, meaning water in Spanish. These crystals are set into sterling 925 silver, making beautiful jewelry pieces.
Caring tips for Larimar
Larimar jewelry requires care as it should be washed after every wear with regular tap water. Never use any kind of ultrasonic cleaner or steamer to clean the gemstone. This can cause a change in the color of the gemstone. Moreover, don’t expose it much under the sunlight, as it could fade its color and look dull.
Also, wear your gemstone, at last, to protect it from the chemical products like perfumes, makeup, creams, and lotions. Moreover, take it off at the first while returning back home and keep it safe in a pouch or separate box.
Where to get the Larimar from?
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On May 8th, the crucial South Africa presidential election will resemble several others held in the post-apartheid era.
Millions of voters, many wearing the garish t-shirts of their favourite candidates, will gather in the early hours at polling stations in townships and rural areas, queuing patiently to cast their vote.
Yet observers will note that the once excitable crowds of young voters are slowly but surely giving way to the middle aged and elderly.
Exactly 25 years after the dawn of democracy, more than half of 18 to 30 year olds are not registered to vote in the election.
For the generation that led South Africa to freedom and the ballot box at great cost, the idea that 10 million young citizens will voluntarily stay away from the polls provokes incredulity.
But the disenchantment of the ‘Born Free’ generation reflects widespread youth apathy with the tarnished brand of the ANC. The once celebrated party’s unbroken rule since the dawn of freedom has gradually given way to unemployment, corruption, weak economic growth and mediocre service delivery.
For incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has pledged to stop the rot since replacing the discredited Jacob Zuma in a bitterly divisive contest in February 2018, the election represents a major test of whether he can re-energise a flagging party and continue to usher the country down the path of much-needed economic reform.
While another ANC victory is all but assured given the party’s enduring association with the liberation struggle, the margin of victory will provide clues as to whether Ramaphosa can face down internal factions opposed to his tentative anti-corruption moves and unite the party’s pro-business and populist wings behind a reform programme.
For foreign and local investors desperate for renewed signs of job creation and economic growth – official unemployment is over 27% while the IMF projects just 1.2% growth this year – a resounding victory for the president will allow him to stamp his authority for the next five years.
‘Within days of his appointment of the new administration, investors will have made decisions – if not in hours – as to what the outlook is for the next five years if not the next ten years for South Africa,” says Colin Coleman, CEO of Goldman Sachs for sub-Saharan Africa.
A mandate for reform
While the ANC’s vote share has eroded over time, Zuma’s 62.15% of the vote in the last presidential contest in 2014 offers a useful benchmark by which to measure success.
Anything less than a vote share in the mid-50s will count as a significant reverse for Ramaphosa, according to analysts, weakening his hold on the party and emboldening former Zuma allies and radical ANC cadres in their opposition to his programme.
Whether Ramaphosa can secure a strong mandate and land close to the 60% mark largely depends on warding off the challenge of a resurgent Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the leftist political party led by Julius Malema.
Long-pledged to radical land reform and dismantlement of ‘white minority capital’, the party is a direct competitor for the working class township and rural voters. These segments comprise the backbone of the ANC and feel betrayed by joblessness, weak service delivery and widespread political looting.
An improvement in the EFF’s vote share to over 10% could erode Ramaphosa’s authority and embolden radical voices in the ruling party.
In opening the door to the expropriation of farmland without compensation via an amendment to the constitution, Ramaphosa is implicitly acknowledging the challenge that the firebrands represent to his rule.
Indeed, EFF is likely to provide a sterner test than the flagging Democratic Alliance, the official opposition, which is unlikely to better its 2014 vote share of 22.13%.
Damaged by infighting and struggling to build its brand among black voters, some of the liberal party’s middle class voters may be attracted to a Ramaphosa-led ANC dedicated to economic revival.
But whether the President succeeds in winning over wavering supporters will largely depend on whether he can persuade voters that the long-neglected bread-and-butter issues of service delivery, job creation and responsible governance are finally being met by the ruling party.
In recent months, the president has pledged to bailout and restructure Eskom, the failing national power supplier behind rolling power cuts, fired the head of the underperforming tax authority, and sacked senior prosecutors following an inquiry into their fitness to hold office.
Investors are being actively wooed with a $100bn investment target.
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Purpose and Focus
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) holds as its central mission the preparation and development of educators at all levels. The department ensures that its professional education programs are based on essential knowledge, established and current research findings, and sound professional practice.
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Professional Development Initial Licensure Program (PD-ILP) and Graduate Licensure Program (PD-GLP) in Elementary Education or Secondary Education. For further information visit ci.unlv.edu or e-mail email@example.com.
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Secondary education majors must select, from the fields available, a major (first) teaching field (one of the secondary education areas of concentration) in which they wish to be licensed.
For the approved areas of concentration for the first teaching field (required) and the second teaching field (optional), see the departmental listing.
Admission to the elementary education program requires completion of the University General Education Core requirements; completion of EDU 201, EDU 214E, and EPY 303; a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA; and passing PPST scores.
Admission to the secondary education program requires completion of the University General Education Core requirements, completion of EDU 202, a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA, and passing PPST scores.
Program requirements and other relevant information are available in the College of Education Advising Center. Students are recommended to meet with an academic advisor every semester (appointment required). It is the responsibility of every student to maintain contact with advisors as changes in departmental policies, programs or licensure requirements may occur. Students are also responsible for all information in the UNLV Undergraduate Catalog.
Students who are not in attendance the first day of class may be administratively dropped. Any substitution course(s) taken at another institution for a UNLV professional education course requirement must be approved on a substitution form (see the Advising Center).
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MULTI-POLE RING TECHNOLOGY
For years, the manufacture of multi-pole rings was not feasible in the technical field. For this reason, most motors had many square/arc segment shaped magnets glued onto a round metallic rotor in order to simulate a multi-pole ring. This is, of course, an extremely labor and cost-intensive production stage.
In this sense, the direct manufacture of multi-pole rings is a definite simplification in electric motor manufacture, one with which many costs can be reduced.
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The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy : Why Good Liturgy Matters
We all want to celebrate the liturgy well, to experience good, uplifting, and meaningful worship. But what is the best route to follow? In The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy, Thomas O’Loughlin offers a way forward that strengthens faith, builds up Christian community, and points toward a new direction based on liturgical principles that are rooted in our natures as ritual beings as well as in the gospel.
The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy explains why good liturgy is important, how to recognize it, and how to assess liturgy in terms of a larger vision of the Christian life. O’Loughlin, a seasoned theologian and teacher, identifies ten principles that make for good liturgy. Such liturgy must be honest, open, joyful, inclusive, celebrative of community, facilitative of engagement, based in creation, attentive to the marginalized, free of clutter, and true to the pattern of the incarnation.
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Hundreds of years ago, a priest was called in Rome to sort out a problem. A lady was being questioned for infidelity and her husband was fuming. How did the priest solve the case? He whispered in the child’s ear, ‘Who is your Father?’ and the two month old infant pointed to the husband. The Priest said, ‘my work is done here’. Things have surely changed now. We do not need a smart and logical priest, just a blood sample and approximately $100. For most, genetic testing does take care of uncertainty and may help them take an irrefutable decision to modify their lifestyle.
I am sure you are aware of The Human Genome Project, where collaborators from across the world spent billions of dollars to identify almost 25000 human genomes. For 13 years, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy and universities across UK, Europe, and China collaborated to essentially make the blueprint of a human body. The crux of the project was to develop the database of all the sequences of three billion chemical base pairs that make up the DNA of us, Homo Sapiens. President Obama said in 2013 that every dollar spent on the project returned $140 to the economy. As we all know, healthcare is the number one cause for bankruptcy across the world. Hopefully the on-going analysis on the project will help the world dwell deep into everyone’s past and future, so they can predict what could happen to their health.
Thanks to the Genome project and the new technologies, today the DNA Tests can not only be done at home for cheap but your chances of knowing if you are at risk of having Parkinson's disease or Cancer are higher
Thanks to the Genome project and the new technologies, today the DNA Tests can not only be done at home for cheap but your chances of knowing if you are at risk of having Parkinson’s disease or Cancer are higher. How much of this is authentic; we are yet to discover. Could this be used as an excuse to change your lifestyle? Yes. Is insurance paying for this? Maybe. Is this testing ethical? Are we playing God? Will this make our lives predictable for good? We do not know this yet. Could predicted genomes pairing and prediction, change over the course of life in accordance to your habits? We are still contemplating.
I personally believe, if we are to trust the Genome Project and trust the database then yes, the scorecard could help you take medical steps much before that mutation could hit you. It would also take care of deficiencies in your body if you have any but is DNA your destiny? No, I do not believe that it is. We are that close to predicting the Nature at least that is what we think but can anything be sure in this ever evolving world?
Remember last year’s Trump administration’s drama of DNA testing to reunite the children of illegal immigrants with their parents. Some results were shocking and lot of ethical issues were raised on the use of DNA testing. Maybe some tests proved right to wrong or vice versa, but many children were left as orphans as a consequence of this testing. Most commonly, in the western world, infant genetic testing raises a lot of ethical issues. If the government & ‘data mafias’ are reading our emails and WhatsApp messages, then do you really think your genetics results are safe? A lot of agencies, pharma & insurance companies would pay top dollar for that kind of data gold.
I truly believe that too much information on yourself could be dangerous. Naturally, we are aligned to raise a baby as she is born. Some negative DNA testing results over her future could make us hypercritical and or maybe insensitive. Proper counseling is of course a must but access to such guidance remains an issue. Such testing could also impact a decision ‘of life’ for children who would apparently carry any mutation. Tests for ethnicity are really popular. You can even gift the kits to your family for them to find out their origins. But would this initial excitement lead to bitter results and push their original beliefs?
These DNA tests are not unethical but the usage could be. What if you tell a person that he does not carry any cancer markers and he has no risk from cancer. That person, if not counselled properly could turn out to be a smoker. Lot of clinical laboratories are hence, against the DNA testing.
I personally, in every law of unpredictability, believe in the process of constant evolution. Only in due course of time will the acceptability of DNA testing result in smart, rational and ethical testing of our genomes.We are here to make this world a healthier place and make sure our children breathe happily. As people of science, our utmost duty is to take this forward ethically and never commercially. | <urn:uuid:9cf7e726-bf6c-4459-9f99-53213c3b4460> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthcare.siliconindia.com/viewpoint/cxoinsights/dna-testing-nwid-31212.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965975 | 985 | 1.9375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A federal judge Oct. 6 temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing a law that went into effect Sept. 1 banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
The order from U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, granted an emergency request from the Justice Department, which had already sued the state saying the abortion law was unconstitutional.
Pitman’s 113-page order said that once the new abortion law “went into effect, women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution.”
“This court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right,” it added.
The judge also criticized the means of enforcing the new law, saying lawmakers had “contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme” with its emphasis on private citizens bringing civil lawsuits in state court against abortion providers.
This temporary order was hardly the final word on this case as Texas officials said they would seek a reversal from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had previously allowed the abortion restrictions.
Texas Right to Life called the ruling “wildly broad, preventing Texas state officials from enforcing the law, including the shocking prevention to stop Texas elected officials and every Texas judge and court clerk from even receiving lawsuits filed by citizens against the abortion industry.”
It also said the order’s provision blocking lawmakers from such actions is “entirely unnecessary” since the language of the legislation, called the Texas Heartbeat Act, prohibits government officials from enforcing the policy.
The group said the judge’s “effort to obstruct state judges and court clerks from fulfilling their lawful duties is astonishing.”
The pro-life organization also said it is dedicated to “holding the abortion industry accountable to the fullest extent possible under the law” and is confident the state’s abortion law will “ultimately withstand this legal challenge and succeed where other states’ heartbeat bills have not.”
The “heartbeat” description for such bills comes from their ban on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detectable.
On Sept. 1, the Supreme Court ruled against blocking the Texas abortion law, a move that sent the case back to the lower court. It is currently before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans.
Abortion providers challenging the law had asked the high court for an emergency ruling on the law without waiting for a final decision by the appeals court.
The Texas Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, said the Supreme Court’s action marked the first time since Roe v. Wade that the nation’s high court “has allowed a pro-life law to remain while litigation proceeds in lower courts.”
“We celebrate every life saved by this legislation. Opponents of the law argue the term ‘heartbeat’ is misleading. They call it ’embryonic cardiac activity’ or worse, ‘electrically induced flickering of embryonic tissue.’ These attempts to dehumanize the unborn are disturbing,” the Texas bishops said in a Sept. 3 statement.
Texas abortion providers urged the Supreme Court Sept. 23 to once again review their challenge to the state law asking the court to essentially fast-track a decision on this without waiting for the federal appeals court to rule on it in December.
In their Sept. 23 brief, the abortion providers said abortion clinics in Texas have stopped performing abortions, causing some women to travel to clinics in other states. If the law stays in place, they warned that other states will enact similar laws.
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and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
and the LORD showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out: so shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
but your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.
a land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
when you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
In the morning you shall say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
the LORD said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people, for their eyes are upon us to bring us to naught; yes, they desire to destroy the inheritance which has been yours from the beginning.
All Israel, in the same way, cried out most earnestly to the Lord, because their death was before their eyes.
She said, "If it pleases the king and if I have found favor in his sight, and if it seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.
She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.
and they said to them, "May the LORD look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?
It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt."
When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the LORD.
and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you."
The appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, [even] the wheels that the four of them had.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.
Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and decorate yourself with ornaments,
Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord the LORD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord the LORD: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord the LORD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
the LORD said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
But Noah found favor in the LORD's eyes.
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
the LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. the LORD judge between me and you."
But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
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Spain is facing political chaos after yesterday’s election produced no clear winner and saw a surge in support for the far-left.
The governing conservative People’s Party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy remains the largest party but fell well short of a majority. Meanwhile, the radical leftist ‘Podemos’ – which has been likened to Greece’s Syriza – surged into third place with 20.7 per cent of the vote and 69 seats.
The centrist Citizens Party did much worse than polls had predicted, winning 14 per cent of the vote and only 40 seats.
The uncertainty comes while Spain is in the midst of a constitutional crisis, with the region of Catalonia trying to break away and declare independence, something Spain’s outgoing government vehemently opposes.
The Financial Times reports that the country’s stock markets fell today as concern over a long period of political instability, while analysts at Deutsche Bank wrote about the weakness of the Citizens Party: “This changes the post-election scenarios — a centre-right coalition cannot reach a majority — and injects even greater political uncertainty. This is unlikely to be a positive development for markets.”
Spain is one of the largest economies in the Eurozone, and any economic instability there could have a knock-on effect across the European Union, just months after the crisis in Greece.
The closeness of yesterday’s result means there is now no obvious government for Spain. The governing conservatives will be unable to form a majority with the Citizens Party, while a deal between the opposition Socialists, Podemos and Citizens also looks unlikely as Podemos have said they will refuse to serve as junior partners in any coalition.
The only stable arrangement would be a “grand coalition” between the conservatives and Socialists, but senior Socialists have warned against such a deal.
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Oceana and NRDC to Conduct Mock Seismic Airgun Test Outside Department of the Interior Building, Call to Prevent Testing in Atlantic
Photo Opp: Groups to Hold Press Conference and Demonstration, Sound Off Airhorns
Press Release Date: September 28, 2012
Oceana and NRDC will conduct a mock seismic airgun test outside the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. The groups are calling on the U.S. government to prevent such testing in the Atlantic Ocean because of its impacts on marine mammals, fisheries and coastal economies.
Seismic airgun testing is currently being considered for oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic Coast from Delaware to Florida. This testing involves shooting loud blasts of compressed air through the ocean and miles under the seafloor every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days to weeks on end. The blasts are so loud and constant they can cause temporary and permanent hearing loss, abandonment of habitat, disruption of vital behaviors such as mating and feeding and even beach strandings and deaths.
According to DOI’s own assessment, seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic Ocean would:
- Injure as many as 138,500 dolphins and whales
- Injure as many as nine critically endangered North Atlantic right whales (only 361 left worldwide)
- Disrupt nesting for threatened loggerhead sea turtles
- Displace commercially valuable species and decrease catch rates for coastal fisheries
Matt Dundas, Acting Campaign Director, Oceana
Matthew Huelsenbeck, Marine Scientist, Oceana
Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, NRDC
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Rawlins Park (outside Department of the Interior building)
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To spur the revitalization of a rural desert town, we wrote a downtown development guide that builds on the town's unique assets.
Green River, population 961, lies at the foot of the dramatic river bluffs of Southeastern Utah. Amid John Wayne’s West and Edward Abbey’s Desert Wilderness, Green River and its scenic cliffs and canyons have been welcomed sights to pioneers, cattlemen, outlaws, and modern travelers alike.
This beautiful, once bustling rural community now suffers from a stagnant economy, dilapidated housing, and a downtown in desperate need of repair. All that being said, residents of Green River lead good lives, but not necessarily easy ones.
Epicenter, in partnership with the City of Green River and a local steering committee, looked to spur and chart the town's revitalization through the creation of a downtown plan, which would eventually be named "Waypoint."
Swasey Beach on the Green River
The world famous Melon Days Parade
going down Main Street
Historically, Green River has been a geographic waypoint: an essential crossing point of the mighty river and a place to rest. At the time of the plan, Green River was at a waypoint in another sense -- a defining point in time where it could change its course.
The prospects of tourism, heavy industry, and other business ventures have the ability to alter the town for the better or worse. This town, where alfalfa and melon fields now cover the once arid badlands, has some questions to ask itself, like: “What do we want our town to be?” and "What can we do to help ourselves?”
Waypoint looked to help answer these questions, giving residents the forum to create answers that could strengthen what they loved about the town and give attention to downtown areas that could make the town truly great.
Broadway in downtown Green River in the 1930s
I was the project manager, primary researcher, and main author for this project.
Broadway in downtown Green River in 2017
The Design Process
The following is a brief narrative of steps we took in the planning process:
1. Planning Review and Research
We reviewed the town's general plans and other communities’ revitalization plans, researched public planning practices, and sought advice of experts from around the state.
2. Review of Town Data
We learned more about Green River’s past and present through census data and other publicly available information, and visited similar communities to understand their revitalization stories.
3. Gathering Public Input
To get local perceptions of the town and ideas for improvement, we:
created a local steering committee to guide planning activities
distributed a general survey, collecting over 100 responses
facilitated a Main Street assessment with residents
led two public workshops
conducted focus groups at the high school, senior citizens center, and English as a Second Language class
4. Drafting and Finalization of the Plan
We crafted recommendations based on residents' input, creating a rough draft of the plan that we presented at an open house. Feedback from that event informed the final draft of the plan.
Residents and staff at the first Waypoint charrette
Part of the scale model of downtown built for the second charrette.
One of the open-ended question boards featured at Waypoint meetings.
During the course of conversations with residents, a series of "big ideas" started to emerge. We turned these ideas into five guiding principles that would shape the plan's recommendations. These principles could act as hallmarks of the successful projects Green River could pursue in the future.
Use local know-how
Utilize the Green River community’s knowledge, deep understanding of the town, and insight from the past to help shape the community’s future
Implement a shared vision and foster spirit of pride/cooperation with partners new and old
Build on assets
Establish a framework that allows big ideas to scale from concrete actions and small investments that can begin now
Invite the "outside" in
Increase the town's population and fan base by welcoming the interest and resources from those outside the town, especially former residents
Stay Green River
Preserve and celebrate the town's character, identity, and people; not losing sight on what locals love about the town when moving forward
A melon field with the Book Cliffs as a backdrop.
Melon Princess contestants on a parade float
We organized the plan's recommendations into four themes, all of which are ingredients for a thriving downtown. To embody what downtown could feel like if these "ingredients" were fully present, we made "visioning statements" that put the reader into the shoes of future stakeholders who've benefited from downtown's turnaround.
As an entrepreneur or employee in the Green River of the future, you'll feel supported and listened to. You'll be optimistic about the town and your role in it. You'll be confident and sensitive to the needs of your customers and changing industry trends. You'll know that everyone in town, especially other businesses, has your back and wants you to succeed. You'll wonder why anyone would want to start a business or work anywhere else.
Cooperation and Celebration
As a resident of the Green River of the future, you'll feel connected to your neighbors, community, and decisions that affect your life. You'll appreciate Green River's past and look forward to shaping its future. You'll smile as you and a neighbor sit on a downtown bench, recounting the struggles, heartaches, and ultimate triumphs while getting downtown to look so good. You'll swell with pride as you think about what you accomplished together. You'll wonder why anyone would ever choose to leave.
Compelling Marketing and Tourism
As a visitor to the Green River of the future, you'll want to spend more time here than you have. You'll realize that though this town may be a bit rough around the edges at times, it's authentic, close to everything, and overflowing with beauty. You'll cherish the storied sunsets and starlit sky. You'll wonder if you should keep this place your little secret. You'll count the days until you can visit next.
Critical Mass of Inviting and Investment Ready Spaces
As a visitor to the Green River of the future, you'll find an inviting mix of public spaces, retail, housing, and cultural facilities all near each other. As you walk downtown, you'll see a continuous string of active storefronts and eye-catching displays that pull you down the street. You'll hear dishes clanging, people laughing, and the melody of different languages from around the world. You'll smell food from every direction. You'll feel warm and welcomed. You'll wonder how a town can be this charming.
The Final Document
The following are samples from the final 104-page Waypoint document:
If you'd like to view Waypoint in its entirety, please click here.
A few years from now, Green River will tell one of two stories about itself:
In one story, the town's population continues to fall and residents continue to be heart-sick for the town that once was – the place they knew and know slowly crumbling since the town’s last boom.
There’s another story: a story of new life, of new hope, and of using what is best in a community to save a community. It’s a story of a pioneer town blazing new trails together – making sure all members of the community have a voice in the process. It’s a story of a town’s people demonstrating how imaginative, resourceful, and committed they can be. It’s the story of Green River turning its own tide.
By supporting Green River’s businesses, making downtown a place people want to be, instilling more pride in residents, inviting new fans to the community, and building faith in the future of the community, Green River can live the story it wants: the story of a desert town overcoming the odds to bloom once again. And Waypoint could help point the way.
Ryan Baxter, Bachelor of Architecture
Contributor, Photographer, Layout & Design
Bryan Brooks, Master of Architecture
Contributor and Facilitator
Chris Lezama, BA Sociology and Literature
Primary Contributor, Project Manager, Editor, and Facilitator
Gwen Peck, Bachelor of Architecture and MA Historical Preservation
Maria Sykes, Bachelor of Architecture and Interior Architecture
Contributor and Facilitator
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Role of Media in Reflecting Fact
TEHRAN (AIPFF) - Unfortunately that's for years that the inverted world has been playing a role in the world and the players on the scene are deceitfully trying to neutrally, desperately and even in deterrent manner confront the bitter and dark events worldwide.
TEHRAN (AIPFF) – Unfortunately that’s for years that the inverted world has been playing a role in the world and the players on the scene are deceitfully trying to neutrally, desperately and even in deterrent manner confront the bitter and dark events worldwide.
Morteza Esmaeeldoost: Just look at the calendar next to you! You will notice September 30, well remembering the Day of Solidarity and Sympathy with the Palestinian Children and Teenagers. Such a designation is after Mohammad al-Dorah, the 12-year-old Palestinian teenager who was the target of Zionist militia on September 30, 2000. He was shelled to death mercilessly before the eyes of his father. Mohammad is an example of a large number of innocent children, martyred by Zionist tyrants.
And whose commemoration will be reminder of the shed of blood of an enormous victims by the Satans.
Unfavorable conditions that have changed the concept of life before the Palestinian people and suffocated life. The silence and inattention of the power holders and influential western media is very impudently. Of course, like many other reactions it has shown, the UN in 1947 superficially issued a resolution to call November 29 as the day of solidarity with the Palestinian people and children. However, the deceitful politicians worldwide extend assistance to such criminals and such designations will not come true.
Unfortunately, the inverted world plays a role for years and players on the stage are deceitfully trying to show neutral, desperate and even deterrent reaction to bitter and dark realities worldwide. This is the world, which under the guise of civilization, and presents different kinds of alien ideology to minds and spirit and turns a blind eye to realities. In this world many are unable to observe realities and as the invaluable novel Saramago says only an eye of reality can be found in it. Many pains need to be declared and hands are needed to heal wounds of those being awake.
Evidently major portion of the world imaginations today are reflected by the media and people’s imaginations are formed through the communicative channels. Cinema is also one of the most important means in playing a key role in transfer of the modern world’s informative data through extensive reflection of illustration and bold aspects of influencing minds of individuals.
So, westerners and power monger investors of Zionism make investment in the Hollywood works and give a new dimension to their dark attitude through a special illustrative method. Hence, our information disseminating media, especially cinema producers, have times more extensive duty, that serves as the heart of world awakening. They should illuminate visions through information dissemination.
It is worth to consider which part of regional events, especially those concerning Palestinian Muslims, are reflected by the domestic media. Also, the part and dimension of the revolutionary campaigns of the world Muslims, especially those of Palestinian children, need to be brought to the information of the world by the media. We should be informed to what extent our cinema has been able to produce awakening products for the world people. All needs to be verified. Our print and broadcast media should know that contrary to certain ignorant individuals, different kinds of investment needs to be made in connection with regional events, especially those in the fields of culture and arts, thus leaving important impact on our country’s movement.
The cinematographers should in a suitable manner dedicate major portion of their activities to focusing works of those making self-sacrifice and resistance.
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Yulia Kostereva interviewed Nina Khodorivska
January 24, 2015
Nina Khodorivska – performer, culture researcher, journalist and volunteer of Theatre for Dialogue
The project Theatre for Dialogue appeared as an alternative to the violent clashes that began on the Maidan in Kyiv in January, 2014. Group of activists works according to methodology of theatre of the oppressed to change the society. Last year leaders of the Theatre for Dialogue conducted more than 20 events in six cities around Ukraine, where about 1200 people took part. On meetings activists covered next topics: protests on Maidan, migrants, problems of youth, role and place of women in Ukrainian society, corruption in higher education system and many others.
Theatre as a tool of activism
Yulia Kostereva: How did the idea of project appear?
Nina Khodorivska: Since 2010 Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn – professional joker (joker – facilitator and practitioner in the theatre of the oppressed) held theatre activities in different parts of Ukraine. During the protest on Maidan Hjalmar together with the activists he met in Kyiv decided to begin big international “Joker Tsunami” campaign. Six jokers from all over the world came to Ukraine and conduct six workshops in five cities of the country. They worked on topics that concerned people, using theatre of the oppressed techniques as the main tool. Activists, familiar with this methodology united around this idea, thus Theatre for Dialogue appeared.
Gradually, the project is gaining a temp. From the start it was separated workshops, now it includes regular meetings. In February we are going to launch an open laboratory to work at certain controversial topics. We expect to find the people who are concerned in specific problems of society rather than methodology itself. In this process we’d like to see people who aren’t acquainted with participatory practices. Also, these are the people who are not reached by open call. That’s why we are going to advertise the events through the newspapers, informational leaflets on the poles, etc.
Yulia Kostereva: What is the structure of the Theatre for Dialogue? How do you share responsibility?
Nina Khodorivska: It’s a young initiative which is formed by eight participants, each of whom is co-founder. The responsibility is shared horizontally. Our work is based on project method. If someone has a contact to work with or any idea, it’s discussed at the common meeting. If someone formulated the specific proposal, he or she takes responsibility for this project. Decisions are taken collectively. Voices of all members are equal. But each has to explain the position, why he or she considers that this particular solution should be accepted. The dialogue mentioned in our title exists within the collective as well.
Yulia Kostereva: How do different social groups influence the activity of the initiative?
Nina Khodorivska: We don’t work with a particular social group, perhaps, because we haven’t had long-term projects yet. So far, we worked with mixed groups: people who oppose the majority, Maidan activists. We tried to work with migrants as a social group, visited them in Pushcha-Vodytsia, organized meetings in Kyiv, but there was no solid team created. Though some of them attended particular events, nobody wants to feel as a migrant and strengthen himself in this identity.
Yulia Kostereva: What events Theatre for Dialogue realized?
Nina Khodorivska: We’ve done the project with migrants. It finished on the level of volunteer assistance: to play with children, to bring blankets. We made the project with the Museum of Maidan, we were working with images associated with that period. Now, a year after those events, people are able to rethink it. We visited different youth organizations in Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr, but it was rather for popularization of the theatre like ours, theatre as a tool of activism. On Saturday together with Visual Culture Research Center we hold a laboratory for people who want to develop the theatre. This is a long-term program that deals with certain topics.
Grants and “barter”
Yulia Kostereva: Is it necessary for cultural organization to have the political overtone or to articulate its political position?
Nina Khodorivska: I guess that everything has its political overtone. The way how we define one or another word is a political decision. I cannot say that everyone in Theatre for Dialogue would think so, but many my colleagues would agree that recognizing of the fact that politics is everywhere, is basic for the Theatre for Dialogue.
Fortunately, we don’t have the clear political position in terms of ideology, which we translate outside. Hope, we won’t have it in the future. It seems to me meaningless, it’s like a distribution of ready-made formulas. While the essence of participatory art, and particularly the theatre of the oppressed can be described so: if you think that some solution is better than others, invite people who don’t determine the decision on this issue yet, and work together on this theme using different images. It is necessary to be in dialogue with people and not to impose the position, giving only choose between “yes” or “not”. In such process, if people don’t flee after first or second meeting, crystallizes a group with clear position, which can make some steps in the field of direct action, for example, by proposing the legislative initiatives.
Yulia Kostereva: What are the mechanisms to ensure financial independence of your organization? How the society could support your structure?
Nina Khodorivska: People help us with accommodation, also we have informational support. Various media wrote about our initiative, we’ve never paid for premises where we conduct our workshops. Now we’re collecting money to translate the book of Augusto Boal “Games for Actors and Non-actors” where there is a theory, and also a lot of practice: how to create the theatre of the oppressed. There are no books in Ukrainian and Russian languages about participatory art, and particularly about the theatre of the oppressed. I think it’s important to translate books about contemporary performance art into Ukrainian and Russian languages. Before I started reading English, I had a completely different notion of performance art.
On the one hand, now we apply for different projects with funding, so that at least a few people could fully dedicate themselves to our initiative. On the other hand, we push ourselves so that in a few months would be able to claim for additional funding and engaged only in Theatre for dialogue the entire team.
I cannot say from what sources we can fund our theatre of the oppressed, because the process is not established yet. But we see it as a fundraising and “barter”, for example, a room for services.
Baby in a sling as a sign of culture
Yulia Kostereva: What is the ideal institution for you?
Nina Khodorivska: It is institution that operates regularly and achieves its goals. I believe that it should be organized horizontally. In ideal institution one could combine parenthood and work. It seems as a small aspect, but for me it’s important. Not so difficult to organize things in the way, that the person could work and carry baby in a sling at the same time. Rather, it depends on cultural norms than on the aspect that a child could disturb. And, of course, transparent accounting would provide confidence in the organization and prevent corruption.
Yulia Kostereva: How does your organization affects the cultural policy of the state? Is it possible for small organization to influence the cultural policy of the country?
Nina Khodorivska: Of course, yes, but now I don’t know how. In principle, large-scale projects, such as legislative theatre influences. Actually, it looks like this: skits or plays based on workshops of the theatre of the oppressed are performed, it’s like a forum theatre. During the skits spectators are invited to replace one of the characters and propose own variant of solving the problem. At the same time there are lawyers and politicians in the auditorium. They try to deal with this problem, as well as journalists who write about this thing, providing media support. Then the lawyers reflect in laws what they saw in the theatre. But it’s a large work. It’s impossible to announce that we need a law that will act around Ukraine, on the basis of sessions with one group, even if this work would last three months.
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This chapter explains how database processes DDL statements to create objects, DML to modify data, and queries to retrieve data.
3.1 About SQL Processing
SQL processing is the parsing, optimization, row source generation, and execution of a SQL statement.
The following figure depicts the general stages of SQL processing. Depending on the statement, the database may omit some of these stages.
Figure 3-1 Stages of SQL Processing
Description of "Figure 3-1 Stages of SQL Processing"
3.1.1 SQL Parsing
The first stage of SQL processing is parsing.
The parsing stage involves separating the pieces of a SQL statement into a data structure that other routines can process. The database parses a statement when instructed by the application, which means that only the application, and not the database itself, can reduce the number of parses.
When an application issues a SQL statement, the application makes a parse call to the database to prepare the statement for execution. The parse call opens or creates a cursor, which is a handle for the session-specific private SQL area that holds a parsed SQL statement and other processing information. The cursor and private SQL area are in the program global area (PGA).
During the parse call, the database performs checks that identify the errors that can be found before statement execution. Some errors cannot be caught by parsing. For example, the database can encounter deadlocks or errors in data conversion only during statement execution.
Oracle Database Concepts to learn about deadlocks
188.8.131.52 Syntax Check
Oracle Database must check each SQL statement for syntactic validity.
A statement that breaks a rule for well-formed SQL syntax fails the check. For example, the following statement fails because the keyword
FROM is misspelled as
SQL> SELECT * FORM employees; SELECT * FORM employees * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
184.108.40.206 Semantic Check
The semantics of a statement are its meaning. A semantic check determines whether a statement is meaningful, for example, whether the objects and columns in the statement exist.
A syntactically correct statement can fail a semantic check, as shown in the following example of a query of a nonexistent table:
SQL> SELECT * FROM nonexistent_table; SELECT * FROM nonexistent_table * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
220.127.116.11 Shared Pool Check
During the parse, the database performs a shared pool check to determine whether it can skip resource-intensive steps of statement processing.
To this end, the database uses a hashing algorithm to generate a hash value for every SQL statement. The statement hash value is the SQL ID shown in
V$SQL.SQL_ID. This hash value is deterministic within a version of Oracle Database, so the same statement in a single instance or in different instances has the same SQL ID.
When a user submits a SQL statement, the database searches the shared SQL area to see if an existing parsed statement has the same hash value. The hash value of a SQL statement is distinct from the following values:
Memory address for the statement
Oracle Database uses the SQL ID to perform a keyed read in a lookup table. In this way, the database obtains possible memory addresses of the statement.
Hash value of an execution plan for the statement
A SQL statement can have multiple plans in the shared pool. Typically, each plan has a different hash value. If the same SQL ID has multiple plan hash values, then the database knows that multiple plans exist for this SQL ID.
Parse operations fall into the following categories, depending on the type of statement submitted and the result of the hash check:
The database always performs a hard parse of DDL.
During the hard parse, the database accesses the library cache and data dictionary cache numerous times to check the data dictionary. When the database accesses these areas, it uses a serialization device called a latch on required objects so that their definition does not change. Latch contention increases statement execution time and decreases concurrency.
A soft parse is any parse that is not a hard parse. If the submitted statement is the same as a reusable SQL statement in the shared pool, then Oracle Database reuses the existing code. This reuse of code is also called a library cache hit.
Soft parses can vary in how much work they perform. For example, configuring the session shared SQL area can sometimes reduce the amount of latching in the soft parses, making them "softer."
In general, a soft parse is preferable to a hard parse because the database skips the optimization and row source generation steps, proceeding straight to execution.
The following graphic is a simplified representation of a shared pool check of an
UPDATE statement in a dedicated server architecture.
Figure 3-2 Shared Pool Check
Description of "Figure 3-2 Shared Pool Check"
If a check determines that a statement in the shared pool has the same hash value, then the database performs semantic and environment checks to determine whether the statements have the same meaning. Identical syntax is not sufficient. For example, suppose two different users log in to the database and issue the following SQL statements:
CREATE TABLE my_table ( some_col INTEGER ); SELECT * FROM my_table;
SELECT statements for the two users are syntactically identical, but two separate schema objects are named
my_table. This semantic difference means that the second statement cannot reuse the code for the first statement.
Even if two statements are semantically identical, an environmental difference can force a hard parse. In this context, the optimizer environment is the totality of session settings that can affect execution plan generation, such as the work area size or optimizer settings (for example, the optimizer mode). Consider the following series of SQL statements executed by a single user:
ALTER SESSION SET OPTIMIZER_MODE=ALL_ROWS; ALTER SYSTEM FLUSH SHARED_POOL; # optimizer environment 1 SELECT * FROM sh.sales; ALTER SESSION SET OPTIMIZER_MODE=FIRST_ROWS; # optimizer environment 2 SELECT * FROM sh.sales; ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE=true; # optimizer environment 3 SELECT * FROM sh.sales;
In the preceding example, the same
SELECT statement is executed in three different optimizer environments. Consequently, the database creates three separate shared SQL areas for these statements and forces a hard parse of each statement.
3.1.2 SQL Optimization
During optimization, Oracle Database must perform a hard parse at least once for every unique DML statement and performs the optimization during this parse.
The database does not optimize DDL. The only exception is when the DDL includes a DML component such as a subquery that requires optimization.
3.1.3 SQL Row Source Generation
The row source generator is software that receives the optimal execution plan from the optimizer and produces an iterative execution plan that is usable by the rest of the database.
The iterative plan is a binary program that, when executed by the SQL engine, produces the result set. The plan takes the form of a combination of steps. Each step returns a row set. The next step either uses the rows in this set, or the last step returns the rows to the application issuing the SQL statement.
A row source is a row set returned by a step in the execution plan along with a control structure that can iteratively process the rows. The row source can be a table, view, or result of a join or grouping operation.
The row source generator produces a row source tree, which is a collection of row sources. The row source tree shows the following information:
An ordering of the tables referenced by the statement
An access method for each table mentioned in the statement
A join method for tables affected by join operations in the statement
Data operations such as filter, sort, or aggregation
Example 3-1 Execution Plan
This example shows the execution plan of a
SELECT statement when
AUTOTRACE is enabled. The statement selects the last name, job title, and department name for all employees whose last names begin with the letter
A. The execution plan for this statement is the output of the row source generator.
SELECT e.last_name, j.job_title, d.department_name FROM hr.employees e, hr.departments d, hr.jobs j WHERE e.department_id = d.department_id AND e.job_id = j.job_id AND e.last_name LIKE 'A%'; Execution Plan ---------------------------------------------------------- Plan hash value: 975837011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id| Operation | Name |Rows|Bytes|Cost(%CPU)|Time| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0| SELECT STATEMENT | | 3 |189 |7(15)|00:00:01 | |*1| HASH JOIN | | 3 |189 |7(15)|00:00:01 | |*2| HASH JOIN | | 3 |141 |5(20)|00:00:01 | | 3| TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| EMPLOYEES | 3 | 60 |2 (0)|00:00:01 | |*4| INDEX RANGE SCAN | EMP_NAME_IX | 3 | |1 (0)|00:00:01 | | 5| TABLE ACCESS FULL | JOBS |19 |513 |2 (0)|00:00:01 | | 6| TABLE ACCESS FULL | DEPARTMENTS |27 |432 |2 (0)|00:00:01 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 1 - access("E"."DEPARTMENT_ID"="D"."DEPARTMENT_ID") 2 - access("E"."JOB_ID"="J"."JOB_ID") 4 - access("E"."LAST_NAME" LIKE 'A%') filter("E"."LAST_NAME" LIKE 'A%')
3.1.4 SQL Execution
During execution, the SQL engine executes each row source in the tree produced by the row source generator. This step is the only mandatory step in DML processing.
Figure 3-3 is an execution tree, also called a parse tree, that shows the flow of row sources from one step to another in the plan in Example 3-1. In general, the order of the steps in execution is the reverse of the order in the plan, so you read the plan from the bottom up.
Each step in an execution plan has an ID number. The numbers in Figure 3-3 correspond to the
Id column in the plan shown in Example 3-1. Initial spaces in the
Operation column of the plan indicate hierarchical relationships. For example, if the name of an operation is preceded by two spaces, then this operation is a child of an operation preceded by one space. Operations preceded by one space are children of the
SELECT statement itself.
Figure 3-3 Row Source Tree
Description of "Figure 3-3 Row Source Tree"
In Figure 3-3, each node of the tree acts as a row source, which means that each step of the execution plan in Example 3-1 either retrieves rows from the database or accepts rows from one or more row sources as input. The SQL engine executes each row source as follows:
Steps indicated by the black boxes physically retrieve data from an object in the database. These steps are the access paths, or techniques for retrieving data from the database.
Step 6 uses a full table scan to retrieve all rows from the
Step 5 uses a full table scan to retrieve all rows from the
Step 4 scans the
emp_name_ixindex in order, looking for each key that begins with the letter
Aand retrieving the corresponding rowid. For example, the rowid corresponding to
Step 3 retrieves from the
employeestable the rows whose rowids were returned by Step 4. For example, the database uses rowid
AAAPzRAAFAAAABSAAeto retrieve the row for
Steps indicated by the clear boxes operate on row sources.
Step 2 performs a hash join, accepting row sources from Steps 3 and 5, joining each row from the Step 5 row source to its corresponding row in Step 3, and returning the resulting rows to Step 1.
For example, the row for employee
Atkinsonis associated with the job name
Step 1 performs another hash join, accepting row sources from Steps 2 and 6, joining each row from the Step 6 source to its corresponding row in Step 2, and returning the result to the client.
For example, the row for employee
Atkinsonis associated with the department named
In some execution plans the steps are iterative and in others sequential. The hash join shown in Example 3-1 is sequential. The database completes the steps in their entirety based on the join order. The database starts with the index range scan of
emp_name_ix. Using the rowids that it retrieves from the index, the database reads the matching rows in the
employees table, and then scans the
jobs table. After it retrieves the rows from the
jobs table, the database performs the hash join.
During execution, the database reads the data from disk into memory if the data is not in memory. The database also takes out any locks and latches necessary to ensure data integrity and logs any changes made during the SQL execution. The final stage of processing a SQL statement is closing the cursor.
3.2 How Oracle Database Processes DML
Most DML statements have a query component. In a query, execution of a cursor places the results of the query into a set of rows called the result set.
3.2.1 How Row Sets Are Fetched
Result set rows can be fetched either a row at a time or in groups.
In the fetch stage, the database selects rows and, if requested by the query, orders the rows. Each successive fetch retrieves another row of the result until the last row has been fetched.
In general, the database cannot determine for certain the number of rows to be retrieved by a query until the last row is fetched. Oracle Database retrieves the data in response to fetch calls, so that the more rows the database reads, the more work it performs. For some queries the database returns the first row as quickly as possible, whereas for others it creates the entire result set before returning the first row.
3.2.2 Read Consistency
In general, a query retrieves data by using the Oracle Database read consistency mechanism, which guarantees that all data blocks read by a query are consistent to a single point in time.
Read consistency uses undo data to show past versions of data. For an example, suppose a query must read 100 data blocks in a full table scan. The query processes the first 10 blocks while DML in a different session modifies block 75. When the first session reaches block 75, it realizes the change and uses undo data to retrieve the old, unmodified version of the data and construct a noncurrent version of block 75 in memory.
Oracle Database Concepts to learn about multiversion read consistency
3.2.3 Data Changes
DML statements that must change data use read consistency to retrieve only the data that matched the search criteria when the modification began.
Afterward, these statements retrieve the data blocks as they exist in their current state and make the required modifications. The database must perform other actions related to the modification of the data such as generating redo and undo data.
3.3 How Oracle Database Processes DDL
Oracle Database processes DDL differently from DML.
For example, when you create a table, the database does not optimize the
CREATE TABLE statement. Instead, Oracle Database parses the DDL statement and carries out the command.
The database processes DDL differently because it is a means of defining an object in the data dictionary. Typically, Oracle Database must parse and execute many recursive SQL statements to execute a DDL statement. Suppose you create a table as follows:
CREATE TABLE mytable (mycolumn INTEGER);
Typically, the database would run dozens of recursive statements to execute the preceding statement. The recursive SQL would perform actions such as the following:
COMMITbefore executing the
Verify that user privileges are sufficient to create the table
Determine which tablespace the table should reside in
Ensure that the tablespace quota has not been exceeded
Ensure that no object in the schema has the same name
Insert rows that define the table into the data dictionary
COMMITif the DDL statement succeeded or a
ROLLBACKif it did not
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The idea of the gas-powered automobile is the work of Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. Daimler and Benz both worked with the early 19th century technology of an internal combustion engine – an engine that is designed to use an explosive combustion of fuel (usually gasoline, diesel, or kerosene) to activate a piston that is housed within a cylinder. The movement of the piston activates a crankshaft that moves a chain or drive shaft which, in turn, moves the wheels of a vehicle.
Karl Benz, a German mechanical engineer, used the internal combustion engine to build the first gas-powered, practical automobile in 1885. His first vehicle, which moved on three wheels, was patented in 1886, with his four-wheel vehicle following in 1891. By 1900, Benz’s company was the world’s largest manufacturer of automobiles.
Around the same time, Gottlieb Daimler took the newly invented (by Nicolaus August Otto) four-stroke internal combustion engine and turned it into the first gas engine. This small, fast, and lightweight engine revolutionized the possibilities of automobile design. In 1886, Daimler converted a stagecoach to hold his engine, creating the first four-wheel automobile the world had ever seen.
The work of Benz and Daimler became increasingly popular and by the early 1900’s gasoline powered cars were some of the hottest technologies in the market. However, the cost of an automobile made buying a car somewhat prohibitive for the average American.
Ransome Eli Olds was the first to create a mass produced automobile. While automobiles up to that point had been mostly individually and uniquely made, in 1899 Olds created a factory in Detroit in an effort to produce a large number of low-priced cars. Olds’ ideas were improved upon by Henry Ford around 1913 when he created the first conveyor belt-based assembly line. Ford’s new technology meant that he could greatly reduce the time needed to assemble an automobile, which reduced its price.
Since that time, car manufacturers have worked to greatly increase the efficiency, technology, and designs of motor vehicles. Some of the most important improvements include:
- the invention of the electric ignition and the starter motor in 1911,
- introduction of independent suspension and four-wheel brakes (by Charles Kettering for Cadillac),
- the introduction of emissions regulations (in California in 1965),
- fuel economy (in 1973 in relation to the Arab oil Embargo),
- the creation of anti lock brakes (by Bosch for Mercedes-Benz in 1978),
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In the 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, gun legislation in this country still has not changed very much.
As schools prepared to end for summer break, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old armed gunman, walked onto the campus of Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas and used an assault style rifle to terrorize the members of this public school for more than an hour. In his deranged state, Ramos ended the lives of 19 elementary students and 2 adults. In its destructive aftermath, families were shattered, a community was left with unanswered questions, and a nation mourned the loss of innocent lives yet again. In the 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, gun legislation in this country still has not changed very much.
Mass Shootings Have Impacted Thousands of Public School Children
Easy access to firearms as well as limited regulation has led to thousands of women, men, and children being murdered every single year. Since the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, mass school shootings have impacted the lives of more than 300,000 students in 311 schools nationwide. These school shootings have caused a resounding alarm for parents and have created an unsafe learning environment for their children.
People Want Answers but Lawmakers Are Divided on Solutions
In the aftermath of this latest shooting, parents and other citizens are looking for answers from their elected officials. Hours following the deadly shooting at Uvalde, lawmakers were divided about the need to reform gun laws. Some officials deemed the need to restrict access to guns through more proactive gun legislation as a matter not to be addressed. Instead, this group of lawmakers proposed arming teachers and school administrators, increasing the number of campus police officers, and instituting limited entry access to schools as solutions to this problem.
However, in early June, members of the House of Representatives passed wide-ranging gun control legislation after hearing the emotionally-charged testimonies of Uvalde shooting survivors. One of the most compelling testimonies came from an 11-year-old student who pretended to be dead by smearing herself in her classmate’s blood. This proposed bill will prohibit the sale of semiautomatic rifles to anyone under 21, ban the sale of magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition, and establish strict requirements that regulate the storage of guns at home. Although this bill passed in the House, it is believed it will fail in the Senate.
Citizens Must Act Now to End School Shootings
As we once again mourn the loss of innocent children and members of the education community, the question becomes, “What must we do to end school shootings?” One solution for citizens is to increase the number of public school advocates who will work to ensure schools are not only equitable learning environments but are also safe places for children.
Additionally, parents and other citizens must raise their voices and require elected officials to stand up for children when making policies and laws that impact public education. When elected officials refuse to ensure the safety of our nation’s children, then the citizenry must exercise their power and vote for individuals (in local, state, and national elections) who will ensure public schools are safe and secure places to learn every single day.
For the millions of students who go to public schools across this nation, a high-quality education is required, and studies have shown that students learn best when they feel safe. When it comes to these senseless shootings, it’s past time for our elected leaders to do the right thing. Change will only happen when we take action. Join PPS and let’s work together to advocate for equity and safety in our nation’s public schools. We owe it to our children.
Updated 5:06 PM CST, Mon June 13, 2022
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Browsing Brock Major Research Papers by Subject "Sustainability"
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The Forest and its Trees: A Critical Inquiry into the Use of Nature-based Solutions in Canada’s A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy PlanNature-based solutions (NbS) and natural climate solutions (NCS) have emerged as promising options to address the challenges of the global climate and biodiversity crises. However, confusion persists about the meaning and practical implications of these relatively new approaches in the public, private, and political spheres. This research paper explores how the Government of Canada conceptualizes NbS and NCS, first through a scoping review of literature regarding the conceptual definitions and limits of NbS and NCS, and then through a directed content analysis of their 2020 climate plan, titled A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy (HEHE). This research determines that the NbS and NCS concepts are frequently confused or treated as interchangeable by the Government of Canada to the detriment of the HEHE plan’s strategies. The implications of these findings are discussed. The paper concludes with recommendations for improved design and deployment of NbS and NCS in Canada.
Logging, Tourism, and Community: Finding Balance in South Algonquin and Algonquin Provincial ParkThis major research paper looks to explore the interwoven complexities involved in finding balance among the different realms of sustainability within Algonquin Provincial Park and the community of South Algonquin. It explores theory, case studies, and literature surrounding topics of park management, community development, planning, and the provincial park and community itself. Primary data collection by the author was not utilized; however, the research examines a plethora of existing literature including government documents and reports, conference resources, and published articles. Throughout the work the development of logging and tourism within the park are examined, both as separate and intertwined industries. The issue of these contrasting yet tied industries can be explained as a “wicked problem”, that being one with no finite or correct answer. With this understanding the work goes forward seeking not one solution but a variety of practices in resource management, development, and community engagement. A central theme of youth as potential actors within the processes of park, resource, and community management emerges, with calls for more engagement from this demographic. In the overall examination I find that the balance of sustainability in this region is relatively stable, with appropriate and innovative strategies being utilized from a variety of engaged actors to establish a “best case” for all.
Sustainability-Related Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communications in the Canadian Grocery IndustryAs consumers become more socially and environmentally aware, organizations provide in-depth corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, sustainability reports, and communicate about CSR on various social media channels. This study consists of an exploratory content analysis of sustainability-related CSR social media communications from Canada’s three largest grocery retailers, including Loblaw, Metro, and Sobeys. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which sustainable business practices are being discussed through social media postings. The findings demonstrate that the retailers include more content related to sustainable business practices on Instagram as compared to Facebook and LinkedIn. Additionally, the results demonstrate that two out of the three retailers within the study do not communicate their CSR initiatives in alignment with previous research that provides best practices for CSR communications. These results have valuable implications for grocery managers, public policy writers, and researchers. | <urn:uuid:6836f061-92a0-45d3-8715-c74b9cb7d859> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/4226/browse?type=subject&value=Sustainability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937261 | 715 | 2.03125 | 2 |
DENVER, Feb. 10, 2015—As increasing numbers of farmers worldwide operationalize drone technology, Valmie Resources Inc. (OTCBB:VMRI), a high tech solutions company that brings to market state-of-the-art products for rapid commercialization, announces the development of an advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform for agricultural applications. AIMDx is a learning service module for the AIMD (Autonomous Intelligence for Mobilized Devices) Platform designed to work with multiple devices and assist with image analysis to route discrepancies. This is a key focus of the recently announced collaboration with a Mexico-based crop monitoring solutions provider to build a highly developed system for the agriculture industry.
“Drones have the capability to identify targets in the field such as pests, diseases and irrigation issues. Based on Valmie’s science-based and calculated approach, farm operators will be able to make better decisions. In many cases, the drone is the first step in detecting the need for automated response,” said Gerald B. Hammack, President and CEO of Valmie. “We are excited to be part of the future of agriculture and saving growers money by finding better ways to help them monitor and care for their crops.”
UAV technology, already in use throughout many areas of the world, helps growers’ continued efforts to efficiently monitor their fields, mitigate crop stressors and manage crop development. Imaging from drones allows farmers to combine their crop data with advanced crop imaging, mapping and pinpointing the most advantageous times for treatments. This process, known as precision agriculture, can save the grower money from unnecessarily overusing resources while at the same time reducing the amount of runoff that could flow into nearby rivers and streams.
Valmie plans to supply unmanned aerial vehicles with fully integrated ground control software and cloud services to the Mexican company, which provides crop monitoring and data collection for farms located primarily in Central and South America.
Valmie’s SaaS (Software as a Service) AIMD Platform, with the capability for robust customization, will collect and send data from the unmanned vehicles’ independent controller units back to a cloud-based modular resource network for aggregation and analysis. The AIMD Platform will have the capability to determine intervention thresholds, quickly route pre-determined responses, communicate critical information to the operator, and in some cases deploy solutions in real time.
About Valmie Resources Inc. (OTCBB:VMRI)
Valmie Resources is a U.S. company actively pursuing opportunities for the commercialization of leading edge products and services in the rapidly expanding technology industry. Valmie seeks concepts with valid business models positioned to make a significant impact within the four key “megasectors” of technology: software, hardware, networking and semiconductors. Valmie brings operating talent, tools and leadership to emerging companies in these sectors, promoting industry awareness and developing economically sustainable partnerships while increasing shareholder value.
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By Jak Burke
We love products that give parents a helping hand. One of the trickiest tasks when we have a new baby or toddler is taking a shower – right? It makes sense that we would want to be able to clean ourselves and our infant’s body at the same time so that we can maximize our free time (when junior is napping or playing for example).
But if you’ve ever tried to shower with your baby you’ll know how dangerous it can be to keep hold of a soapy little body. Babies wriggle and reach out for anything they can play with. So a shower stall is a magnet for tiny hands. You also don’t get to pay attention to your own hygiene. Last but not least you’re aware of how dangerous water can be to a small baby.
The along comes Primo – with a wonderful line of baby products made in the USA. Primo has solved the problem of dual showering by creating a safe, easy-to-clean, showering high-chair called the Charli Chair! It’s one of a kind. You will not find any other product out there that serves this purpose.
Here are the specs:
SAFER. It’s a safer alternative to bathing. Using a shower eliminates much of the risk of drowning conventional bathtubs have for a baby. According to reports, children ages 1 to 4 have the highest drowning rates.
LIGHT-WEIGHT AND EASY TO MOVE. The Charli Chair is used from when the baby is designed for infants 0-24 months, weighing up to 37lbs.
POSITION IT. Featuring a two position recline, the Charli Chair is able to tilt to a 30 degree angle for newborns and then 45 degree angle for when the child is old enough to want to sit up.
EASY ASSEMBLE. The Charli Chair is quick and easy to put together. Both the frames and the seat have a built-in clicking mechanism, making assembly a snap! The Charli Chair frame is made of zinc-treated steel, making it waterproof and rust-resistant.
EASY TO USE. The Charli Chair is a unique shower chair designed for babies that is placed in a flat surfaced shower. The chair’s adjustable height design eliminates the need to bend over while bathing, eliminating back pain most parents complain of. The Charli Chair provides parents with the freedom of both hands as their baby will be securely strapped in with a five point harness during use.
GOOD VALUE. We love the affordability of this chair at $149:99. Primo also offers free shipping within the USA. Buy it here.
We want our parents to experience new products too so we shipped a Charli Chair out to NYC mom Christine for her little guy Sawyer. Here’s her take.
Real Parents Real Reviews
The Charli Chair by Primo: by Christine Lee, mom to Sawyer
“Recently, my family had the opportunity to try out the Primo Charli Chair, the “world’s first baby shower chair.” The Charli Chair is one of those products that you never knew existed, but once you use it, it makes perfect sense.
Just to give you a little bit of background on my family – my husband, my son Sawyer and I live in a “cozy” 2 bedroom apartment in New York City. Our bathroom is pretty small with a shower instead of a tub. Although this hasn’t been a problem yet, our 19 month old is quickly outgrowing his toddler tub so we’ve been looking for potential solutions. We’ve tried giving him showers in the past, but they’ve been incredibly difficult, usually lasting just a few minutes and filled with lots of crying and very little washing. That’s why we were so excited to try out the Charli Chair.
Here’s a breakdown of what worked well and what didn’t.
Assembly was nice and painless! I put together this chair at 7am in my pajamas with zero caffeine or tools. It took approximately 4 mins to get everything out of the box and assembled, and that includes the time that Sawyer spent inspecting/playing with the contents. The chair consisted of 3 big pieces that easily click together: the base, legs and seat.
Adjusting the height of the shower chair was just as easy with a “button” on the sides that you can intuitively move up and down. I kept the chair at the top height so I wouldn’t have to hunch down when washing Sawyer, but it’s really useful to have different options to choose from. Using a dial on the side, you can also adjust the seat position, angling it to 30 degrees for newborns and then 45 degrees for older kids. The 45 degree angle worked really well for Sawyer since it allowed him to sit up and be a more active participant.
At certain points Sawyer was impatient to get down so it was great to have a full 5 point harness to keep him locked in place and safe. Unlike a bathtub where he has a lot to keep him distracted (splashing, pouring water, etc.), it was a bit harder to keep him occupied in the shower. With that in mind, it would be nice if the Charli Chair had a clip-on hanging toy bar or a tray/bag to keep toys nearby.
Overall, the Charli Chair served its purpose really well. The seat was big and comfortable. At 19 months old and 26 pounds, there was plenty of room for Sawyer to sit and move around. The seat drained very well with strategically place holes throughout the whole seat and the entire frame was waterproof and rust-resistant. The design is simple, stylish and compact, which I appreciated. The only downside is that I wish the frame folded or was collapsible so I could easily store it out of sight when it’s not being used.
Ultimately, with the Charli Chair I was able to give Sawyer a fun and easy shower experience that didn’t result in immediate tears. That in itself is a game changer for our family and well worth the price!”
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Botanical name: Melanocenchris jacquemontii Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Gracilea royleana
Desert Black-Millet is a small clustered grass common in stony and barren places. Stems are fasciculate, rarely solitary, rising up, 6-25 cm high. Leaf-blades are 1.5-6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, scaberulous above and on the margins, sheaths with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Heads are 5-10 on a rhachis 24 cm long. Glumes, including the awns, are up to 8 mm long, rarely longer, usually with white or occasion-ally purple hairs, the lower a little longer than the upper; lowest lemma 3-lobed, the lobes aristate, the central longer and narrower at the base than the laterals, 4-4.5 mm long. Desert Black-Millet is found in Sind (Pakistan) Central and southern India. Flowering: August-September.
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Are you happy with your life as it is? If no, congratulations! This article will get you unstuck.
If yes, congratulations too! I’m sure you’re here because you are a lifelong learner. There’s always a new way to be better and do better.
Would you be happy with yourself if 5 years from now you are the same person? No new adventures, no improvement in your finances, stuck in the same routine. Still doing the same unsatisfying job. Living the same kind of boring life. Stressed about the same things. Stuck with the same unsupportive friends.
Take a moment and imagine these scenarios. If you cringed and thought ‘Nah ah! I’m better than this! I’m made of more!’ Then, I’m sure you’re ready to take charge of your super sweet 5 year outcomes.
What does it mean to improve yourself?
If you walk into a bookstore, you will find hundreds if not thousands of books on this topic.
Every time you’re online, you’ll bump into blog posts and sound bites on the same.
It’s increasingly (or it has always been!) a mainstream thing. And as much as you may feel overwhelmed by all this content, you can’t afford to ignore it because there’s no joy or victory in remaining the same person or even worse, becoming worse off!
Self-improvement means becoming better at something. Which in this case, the ‘something’ has to be positive.
It’s possible to find yourself getting worse over the years, for example getting into deeper debt.
Self-improve is, therefore, progress in the right direction. You will get better and faster results in your self-improvement journey if you are self-aware.
Ways self-improvement can change your life
Brings new opportunities
Self-improvement will make you realize that you have great potential in you. That you can achieve anything you dedicate yourself towards.
You will also learn that successful people got there by consistently improving on who they are. This belief system will motivate you to do more, work harder, which will lead you to meet better people who will introduce you to more opportunities.
It will skyrocket your self-esteem
Confident people are contagious.
You’re more likely to trust a confident person than one who isn’t. If you dedicate yourself to becoming a reader, your esteem will be better as all the knowledge in you will give you the confidence to speak better, do better, and express yourself more clearly.
You’ll be high on inspiration
Learning what odds and obstacles other people overcame to be successful will teach you that you too, no matter who you are or where you come from, you can succeed. You’ll also learn that everyone has challenges, it’s your perception that will make or break you.
When you know better, you do better
When you know how big a change a small improvement every day can bring in your life, you get committed to making small changes every day.
You appreciate yourself more
Here you are, a beautiful and unique individual. Full of life, full of dreams and ambitions, dedicated to bettering yourself.
No one else is an exact copy of you.
Self-improvement will make you wake up every day believing and knowing that you’re a gift to the world!
You’ll be more grateful and happier
If the only thing you manage to accomplish for the next few days is carrying with you a feeling of gratitude, you will have succeeded.
You will learn to be more resilient
Resilient people push past discomfort. People with grit bounce back when they hit rock bottom.
No matter how scared they feel, they keep going. They execute projects even if all odds are against them.
Self-improvement will keep reminding you that no matter how tough the going gets, you’re tougher. And you got it in you to succeed!
12 Practical ways to improve yourself
1. Follow through on your commitments
Let’s be honest here. How many years (yes, not hours) of your life have you wasted through starting projects that you never finish?
And, how many more years are you willing to pour down the drain in the future?
If I was limited to write about just one self-improvement tip, this would be it. If you decide to do something, get it done!
There’s a lot of research that shows that people are happier when they follow through with their commitments. Yes, your self-esteem largely depends on this one self-improvement tip.
Every time you practice self-discipline, your self-esteem rises. – Anonymous
2. Forget your goals, work on your habits
If you have a plan for your life and you consistently stick to it, life gets better. Unlike when you depend on luck or just writing down big audacious goals without small steps (systems) on how to achieve them.
As James clear states in his book, Atomic Habits, ‘winners and losers have the same goals.’ It’s your habits that matter. I wrote a beautiful article on the same. Head here to learn more.
3. Don’t just read, be a reader
There’s some crazy magic that happens when you give yourself a positive identity even if you haven’t gotten there yet.
Next time someone asks you to talk about yourself, don’t say that you read, say you’re a reader.
Don’t: I’m trying to be a writer
Do: I’m a writer
Don’t: I’m trying to save money.
Do: I’m a minimalist/finance expert.
Apply this in everything you are and aspire to be. And that, smart human, are 2 ways in one to improve yourself.
Read many quality books for both fun and knowledge. Give yourself a smart person identity and live up to it.
4. Pin a ‘100 opportunities challenge’ board in your room
In 2018, I was almost drowning in a pool of low self-confidence. All the jobs, conferences, fellowships or internships I applied to, I got rejected.
I was beginning I to entertain the thought that I wasn’t smart enough. Then I came up with a brilliant idea to pin a flipchart in my room and list down 100 opportunities I’d pursue in 2019.
I started with 10 and I’ve been adding more as the year progresses. I’m at 25 as we speak.
The idea is to not stop applying until I get accepted. Until I get to 100, I will not entertain any negative thoughts!
Try it and tell us how it goes!
5. Take up a new online course-and do it till the end!
Did you know that Havard University offers certified free online courses that are self-paced and that you can do at the comfort of your home or office? What more could you ask for?
6. Declutter-both people and stuff!
Get rid of toxic people in your life. As they say, ‘you’re an average of the 5 people you spend your time with.’
Stick with the progressive and positive gang only.
Similarly, owning too much stuff, especially stuff you do not use affects your mental health. A clear mind requires a clean and well-organized place.
We’ll not even talk about the negative financial effects that come up with owning too much stuff.
If you buy things you do not need, you will soon sell things you need. – Warren Buffet
7. Face your fears
Well, I’m yet to face my fear of snakes. I can’t bring myself to go to a snake park. I often have anxiety attacks when I’m in the forest when I imagine the possibility of coming across one!
However, I’m aware of this fear and I’m working towards overcoming it. Recently, I realized I can look at photos of some snakes without freaking out.
What do you fear? Be deliberate about breaking away from that mental prison.
8. Create or own an asset
You have to own something to build wealth. It doesn’t matter what it is. A blog. Stocks in a company. A piece of land. A business. Podcasts.
In the book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki teaches about minding your own business.
If you are an employee in a company, do your work diligently but every single day, dedicate at least 4 hours towards minding your own business.
This means building your side hustle, blog, book, researching and building your stocks portfolio etc.
When you leave that job or worse still if you get fired, you will still be an owner of something, and you will be closer to your financial freedom.
9. Get excellent at your skills
Are you still swimming in a pool of average performers? Jump out now!
Being average is no longer acceptable. You’re either excelling or failing. Not ‘sort of making of making it, trying to make it, thinking about doing it’.
No, improve your skills and charge a premium while at it!
Being average is no longer acceptable.
10. Demand better from yourself
The beautiful thing about life is that you can’t lie to yourself.
You know deep down that you can do better than you are doing right now.
To improve yourself, you need to start by being accountable to yourself and demanding better from yourself.
Look in the mirror and get real with yourself.
When I fall into the laziness trap, I often have conversations with me, myself and I and remind myself that if I keep going down this path, I’ll be poor at 30.
This freaks me out and gets my ass off the couch. What real talk do you give yourself to get moving?
11. Respect your most valuable asset, time
There are only as many days in a year as you use them.
Yes, you don’t have 365 days in a year. You only have the number of days you use productively. Get moving.
12. Learn a new language
You do not exist in a vacuum. Or live in your country or continent alone, do you?
You need to learn other people’s and cultures and languages for you to thrive. It will be easier to network with people who speak the language you choose to learn.
People are often impressed and humbled if you speak their language, even if you’re not fluent.
Better still, if you choose to use Duolingo for this, you will learn the art of consistency! Which basically connects to tip one above.
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Aromatherapy Massage Therapy and Essential Oils
Aromatherapy massage combines the benefits of therapeutic massage and the use essential oils. Aromatherapy makes use of essential oils derived from flowers and plants to serve therapeutic purposes such as aromatherapy and relaxation. This kind of massage can be used as a natural treatment for stress management. Before you can decide which essential oils to utilize or mix them during an appointment, it's essential to know the fundamentals of aromatherapy. Massage therapy can assist you to get back to health and well-being by relaxing your mind and body.
Aromatherapy massage is described as an Swedish massage technique that uses pure rose oil or lavender oil. Aromatherapy massage is characterized by gentle, sensual movements to relieve tension and stress. Aromatherapy is founded on the idea that the sense of smell may trigger the central nervous system. Research has proven that the sense of smell could stimulate the part of our brain that triggers emotion, mood and behavior. Essential oils are utilized as part of an overall approach to wellness and health.
Aromatherapy is a great way to treat chronic pain and other ailments like cancer, arthritis, depression, and various other illnesses connected to mood disorders. Aromatherapy is a great way to reduce anxiety, stress, and mood. It can also help with breathing problems and anxiety issues. Aromatherapy massage therapy is effective at relieving pain due to muscle tightness and stiffness and enhancing the body's overall capacity to heal. It also assists in relaxing muscles and increases flexibility and flexibility, which is beneficial for athletes as well as those doing physical therapy work.
It is recommended to include a third party when you are having an massage with aromatherapy. This will help to keep you calm and to avoid accidents from happening. The most effective essential oils to utilize are those that have medicinal values. Essential oils are used to relieve pain by using acetaminophen and ibuprofen. They are extremely effective in relieving muscle and joint pain. You should always begin by calming the essential oils such as lavender rose, and gardenia. You can try other scents as the session progresses. The therapist can help you choose the best oils for your needs.
Don't apply the oil directly on your skin. You may experience a slight burningsensation, but it should be gone after 세종출장 a few minutes. After you have finished the aromatherapy massage, be certain to wash your body by washing it with warm water. This will remove all traces of the oils. This will allow you to prepare for the next treatment. To avoid a greasy or oily sensation it is recommended to apply the oil using the towel.
Essential oils and massage techniques have been utilized throughout history to help promote relaxation and rejuvenation. Research has proven that massage techniques and essential oils can help improve circulation. Increased circulation leads to increased flexibility of the soft tissues around your joints.
Studies have shown that aromatherapy massages and essential oils work well in relieving chronic pain. Aromatherapy has been proven to be efficient in alleviating joint pain and arthritis. Aromatherapy massage therapies experienced more improvement in pain than those that were treated using a placebo. This is because essential oils are perceived by the brain of the patient as a pain-relieving agent. The mind can then perceive the essential oil as a natural pain reliever and convince the conscious mind that it is effective.
Essential oils and aromatherapy massages are beneficial in promoting the relaxation and health of your muscles and soft tissues around your joints. You should not use oils on your skin. They are powerful and can cause side effects if they are ingested. Essential oils are extremely safe when used as directed. Essential oils shouldn't be used in aromatherapy massage therapy if they aren't dilute. | <urn:uuid:997f5555-c805-4402-8011-2bd2739240e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://anma1shanedzkz520.lucialpiazzale.com/9-signs-you-re-a-sejongchuljangmasaji-expert | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955662 | 791 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The Governor of Papua New Guinea's national capital has called for the government to review its policy on West Papua.
The newspaper The National reported that Powes Parkop wants PNG to push for a legitimate independence referendum for West Papuans
He said this was needed because 1969's so-called Act of Free Choice referendum, through which West Papua was incorporated into Indonesia, was fraudulent.
Mr Parkop's comment came amid escalating conflict between the West Papua Liberation Army and Indonesian security forces.
The Liberation Army this month massacred at least 16 Indonesian road workers in the Highlands.
Mr Parkop said the crisis would only be solved by a properly supervised and legally conducted referendum in accordance with international law.
PNG's government supports Indonesian sovereignty over West Papua.
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1WHAT IS EXPROPRIATION?
Expropriation is a process through which the government or other public bodies have the ability to acquire land that is privately owned without the permission of the property owner. Expropriation takes place when the government requires private land for public purposes, such as construction or expansion of roadways, transit projects, or improvements to infrastructure and utilities.
1What are my options when I have been contacted by a government agency or municipality indicating that my property is required for a public project?
Government agencies will often try to acquire land required for public projects by way of a purchase and sale agreement that is negotiated with landowners. This can provide a speedy, cost-effective way for public bodies to obtain the land they need. At the same time, owners may be able to quickly resolve their compensation entitlements through amicable negotiations. At this stage, however, landowners are under no obligation to reach an agreement to sell their land to the public agency. Negotiated transactions are entirely voluntary. If a government wants to acquire land without the landowner’s consent, it must do so in accordance with the Expropriations Act. The Expropriations Act sets out the rights of a landowner to compensation when property is acquired involuntarily. It is intended to ensure that the rights of private property owners are protected and that they are afforded full and fair compensation when their property is expropriated. A copy of the Expropriations Act is available at Ontario’s e-Laws website.
1How do I find out if my property will be expropriated?
While landowners might be informed in advance that their property will be expropriated, the formal process of expropriation, according to the Expropriations Act, does not begin until the landowner receives a Notice of Application for Approval to Expropriate. Once this Notice has been delivered to the landowner, rights and obligations exist for both the government and the landowner under the Expropriations Act. The Notice of Application for Approval to Expropriate is the first formal step government takes to get permission and approval to carry out a formal expropriation. Before this approval can be given, certain requirements under the Expropriations Act have to be completed.
1I have received a Notice of Application for Approval to Expropriate. What does this mean?
This Notice formally brings both the landowner and the public agency under the authority of the Expropriations Act. It means that an application has been made by a public body to expropriate all or a portion of private property. When owners are given this notice they have the right to request a Hearing of Necessity at which an Inquiry Officer hears evidence and determines if the expropriation is fair, sound and reasonably necessary to achieve the objectives of the expropriating authority.
1What can I expect during the expropriation process?
Upon receiving a Notice of Application, a landowner usually has the option to request a Hearing of Necessity, which requires the “expropriating authority” to demonstrate that the proposed expropriation is “fair, sound and reasonably necessary” to advance the proposed project. The hearing is conducted by an Inquiry Officer, who is appointed by the government and issues a report to the “approving authority” as to whether the proposed expropriation is “fair, sound and reasonably necessary”. This report is a recommendation and is not binding on the “approving authority.” Once the “approving authority” has considered the report of the inquiry officer, or if no Hearing of Necessity is requested, the “approving authority” will issue a decision to approve or deny the Application for Approval of Expropriation, and may also provide its reasons for doing so. Once the “expropriating authority” has obtained approval to expropriate, it may take ownership of the land in question by filing a Plan of Expropriation on the property’s title. The landowner must be notified that a Plan of Expropriation has been filed within thirty days of the filing (this is a “Notice of Expropriation”). The landowner is entitled to receive an offer of compensation within ninety days of a Plan of Expropriation being filed. The “expropriating authority” may require vacant possession of the expropriated property within ninety days after serving the Notice of Expropriation. A flow chart showing the expropriation process and the timing under this process can be found here. The procedural requirements under this chart are governed by the Expropriations Act.
1Can I challenge the planned expropriation of my property?
The avenues through which an expropriation can be challenged are limited. The Inquiry Officer’s report following a Hearing of Necessity, as described above, is not binding on the “approving authority”. Even if the expropriation is determined not to be “fair, sound and reasonably necessary”, it still may be approved. A landowner may challenge an expropriation if the “expropriating authority” or the “approving authority” does not have jurisdiction to expropriate or approve the expropriation of the property in question, but this situation rarely arises. Finally, a landowner can apply to a court to extend or vary the date on which the “expropriating authority” takes possession of the expropriated property. This will not prevent the expropriation from taking place, but may extend or vary the terms under which the authority may take physical possession of the expropriated property.
1How will I be compensated if my property is expropriated?
The intent of the Expropriations Act is to make all owners impacted by expropriation economically whole by providing full and fair compensation. In other words, it seeks to put owners in the same economic position they would have been in had the expropriation not taken place. The Expropriations Act requires a landowner to be paid an amount equal to the market value of the expropriated property as if it were sold on the open market between a willing buyer and a willing seller. Market value is based on the highest and best use of the property, without considering the impact of the proposed project on value. Additionally, landowners are entitled to receive damages for disturbance, moving costs if they are forced to move, out-of-pocket expenses arising from the expropriation and allowances for inconvenience related to finding a new residence. Where only a portion of a property is expropriated, an owner is to be compensated for any reduction in the land value of the remaining (non-expropriated) land caused by the expropriation and associated works. This is called “injurious affection”. Where a business is impacted as a result of an expropriation, the business owner might be entitled to relocation expenses and/or compensation for business losses incurred as a result of the expropriation.
1What does “willing buyer / willing seller” mean, and how does this affect my compensation?
The Expropriations Act requires landowners to be paid market value for expropriated land on a “willing buyer / willing seller” basis. This means that landowners are presumed to be willing to sell their land, and the “expropriating authority” is willing to purchase the land, for a price reflecting current market value. The fact that a landowner would not otherwise sell the expropriated property cannot be considered in determining market value, nor can sentimentality or attachment be considered or compensated for. Compensation arising from the expropriation of land is assessed as of a particular date, determined by the owner. Within thirty days of receiving the authority’s Notice of Expropriation, the owner may designate the valuation date for compensation by returning a Notice of Election to the authority. The owner may elect to have the valuation date be the date the Plan of Expropriation was registered by the authority, or the date of service of the Notice of Expropriation, or, in cases where a Hearing of Necessity is conducted, the date on which the Notice of Hearing was served. Compensation is also to be based on the “highest and best use” of the property. This means that the property will be valued based on the possible legal use of the property that would result in it having the highest value. For example, if an owner is using a property for a farm in an urban area that is being redeveloped for residential subdivisions, the property will likely be valued as development land, as opposed to being valued as farmland. This reflects the fact that if the property were sold on the open market, a “willing buyer and willing seller” would negotiate a price based on the most profitable use for the property. Expropriated owners are also entitled to the payment of interest, and the reimbursement of reasonable legal, appraisal and other costs, as discussed below.
1What are my options if I do not agree with the compensation I am offered?
If a landowner finds the offer of compensation received from an expropriating authority unacceptable, several options are available, even if the government has already taken the owner’s land. Under the Expropriations Act, the property owner and the expropriating authority are to attend a mediation before the Ontario Land Tribunal, if they cannot agree to final compensation. Mediations before the Ontario Land Tribunal are attended by both parties (and at times their experts) and are facilitated by two members of the Ontario Land Tribunal, who are representatives appointed by the Province of Ontario with experience in expropriation matters. The Ontario Land Tribunal cannot give a binding decision with respect to compensation at this stage, but can encourage negotiations and the facilitation of a settlement that both parties are prepared to accept. Additional information about expropriation mediations before the Ontario Land Tribunal can be found on the Tribunal's website website. If owners and government are still unable to agree on fair compensation, an arbitration proceeding can be brought before the Ontario Land Tribunal to have fair compensation determined in accordance with the Expropriations Act. Additional information about the Ontario Land Tribunal is available at its website. A landowner is entitled to interest in the amount of six percent per year on all outstanding amounts relating to Expropriations Act compensation for market value and injurious affection from the date the landowner ceases to make productive use of the expropriated land.
1Who decides how much compensation I will receive if my property is expropriated?
In the event that the property owner and the expropriating authority are unable to agree on compensation, a hearing takes before the Ontario Land Tribunal to have compensation determined under the Expropriations Act. A hearing before the Ontario Land Tribunal is similar to a trial before a court and involves the presentation of evidence and a formal decision by the presiding member of the Ontario Land Tribunal. Owners and expropriating authorities usually rely upon experts to determine fair compensation. This includes using professional appraisers to value expropriated land and using expert accountants to determine disturbance damages relating to a business. After expert reports are considered, the property owner and the expropriating authority try to work towards an agreeable resolution whereby full and fair compensation is paid. Before property is taken by the expropriating authority, it is obligated to provide an expropriated owner with an appraisal report estimating the market value of the land expropriated and any injurious affection that would apply. The expropriating authority also has to offer to pay 100% of the authority’s estimate of fair market value, based on its report. This advance can be accepted by the owner without prejudice to the owner’s rights to pursue additional compensation in accordance with the Expropriations Act.
1Should I contact a lawyer if my land is being expropriated?
The Expropriations Act prescribes the legal framework surrounding the acquisition of land for public purposes. Legal advice is often helpful to allow the landowner to ensure that full compensation and damages are paid and that the landowner’s rights and obligations under the Expropriations Act are protected. Owners can seek the assistance of lawyers, such as those at Rayman Harris LLP. Owners may also consult the website of the Ontario Expropriation Association, which includes a section listing lawyers and other professionals with experience in this area. The Expropriations Act has provisions relating to costs that are intended to ensure that expropriated owners have access to justice and fair treatment.
1How much should I expect an expropriation of my property to cost me?
One of the areas of compensation under the Expropriations Act is payment by the “expropriating authority” of all reasonable professional costs incurred by a landowner in determining the compensation owed for the expropriated land. This includes legal, appraisal, and any other professional work reasonably required to determine the compensation payable to the landowner. It should be noted that full payment of reasonable costs by the authority will only occur where the final compensation paid to the landowner is at least 85% of the offer of compensation made by the “expropriating authority”. Additionally, costs are only payable by an authority when the matter is resolved, rather than on an ongoing basis. The purpose of the costs provision under the Expropriations Act is to ensure that ownersare made whole and have access to justice when property is expropriated.
1Is there anything I should NOT do if I am approached by government looking to buy my property?
In most instances, property owners are not familiar with the expropriation process. On the other hand, real estate officers who work for government have experience with this process and often have the resources to ensure that the rights of the government are protected. We recommend that owners who may have their property acquired by government do not do the following without the assistance of professional advice:
- Have discussions concerning the value of your property or meaningful negotiations;
- Permit entry or testing on your property by government;
- Try to place a value on your own property without the assistance of a real estate appraiser with experience in the area of expropriation;
- Apply for rezoning or tax assessment appeals;
- Provide documents such as leases or financial records to government; or
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A new report says the number of foreign students in the United States reached a record high in two thousand eight. More than six hundred seventy thousand international students attended an American college or university in two thousand eight. That was eight percent higher than the year before, the largest percentage increase since nineteen eighty.
The "Open Doors" report is published by the Institute of International Education, with support from the State Department. It says the number of international students in two thousand eight was almost fifteen percent higher than the last record setting year, two thousand two. In all, seven of the ten top countries sent more students, just as the economic downturn was worsening. For the eighth year, India remained the leader in sending students to the United States. More the one hundred thousand students from India attended American schools in two thoudsand eight. That was nine percent more than year before.
China again sent the second largest number, more than ninety-eight thousand, an increase of twenty-one percent. The biggest increases were in Chinese undergraduate students. South Korea was third. The number of South Korea students increased nine percent to seventy-five thousand. Canada was the only non-Asian country in the top five. It rose two percent to fourth place. Almost thirty thousand Canadian students enrolled for the school year that began in autumn of two thousand eight. Japan fell to fifth place. The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand. Taiwan also sent fewer students, and the number from Mexico was nearly unchanged.
The University of Southern California in Los Angeles once again had the highest number of foreign students.
The "Open Doors" report says nearly seven thousand five hundred attended U. S.C. New York University and Columbia University, both in New York City, were second and third. The other schools in the top five were the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Business and management was again the most popular area of study for international students. The next most popular subjects are engineering, math and computer science.
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- Dairy cows experience a high rate of embryonic loss in the first week of pregnancy. Oocyte (egg) quality is an important determinant of embryo survival through this period.
- The developing oocyte is sensitive to changes within the follicle that nurtures it.
- Lactating cows with a high Fertility Breeding Value (BV) produce better oocytes and have a different follicular environment than cows with low Fertility BV.
- Improved oocyte quality and conception rate are features of cows with higher genetic fertility.
- DairyNZ’s aim is to find practical solutions for New Zealand dairy farmers to increase oocyte quality, and therefore conception rates, in their dairy cows.
What is an oocyte?
An oocyte is the egg which is fertilised by a sperm cell to produce offspring. Oocytes mature within follicles on the ovary. As shown in Figure 1, these grow from small follicles (A) to large, mature follicles with a central fluid-filled cavity (B). During each reproductive cycle, cows will typically ovulate one mature follicle following oestrus. The ovarian follicle ruptures, releasing the oocyte, which passes into the oviduct to meet with sperm. Following fertilisation, nutrient stores within the oocyte are essential to support the early pregnancy, until the embryo can assume control over its own development. The remains of the ruptured follicle form the corpus luteum (C) which secretes progesterone, the hormone required to maintain the pregnancy.
Why is oocyte quality important?
Dairy cows experience a high rate of embryonic loss in the first week of pregnancy. While 80 percent to 90 percent of cows have a fertilised oocyte following insemination, almost a third of these fertilised oocytes are not viable seven days later1. This very early stage of pregnancy relies on nutrient stores within the oocyte to support early development. Therefore, oocyte quality is an important determinant of embryo survival through this period2.
The high incidence of embryonic loss in New Zealand dairy cows during the first week after insemination is likely to be due, at least in part, to oocytes of poor quality. These oocytes are unable to sustain the embryo through this critical phase.
While it may appear that the ovarian follicle isolates and protects the oocyte from the external world, the oocyte is in fact very sensitive to environmental changes3. Alterations in blood metabolites and hormones, due to changes in the environment, health and nutrition, are generally reflected in the follicular fluid within developing follicles4. These changes in follicular environment affect the quality of the oocyte within.
What affects oocyte quality?
Dairy cows are routinely exposed to factors – notably negative energy balance in early lactation, when body tissue is mobilised to meet energy demand, and metabolic or inflammatory diseases, such as mastitis or uterine infection – that reduce oocyte quality. Furthermore, these conditions may affect not only the oocytes within the larger follicles, but also those in smaller primary and secondary follicles5 (Figure 1).
Bovine follicles take 80 to 100 days to develop to the ovulatory stage, once activated to grow5. This means the reproductive consequence of negative energy balance or disease may still be seen months later, when oocytes exposed to detrimental conditions early in their development reach ovulation6. Therefore, during mating, most cows will be ovulating oocytes that were exposed to relatively poor metabolic conditions in early lactation. This may affect their fertility.
Research to improve oocyte quality
At DairyNZ, we’ve been investing farmers’ levy in research* to explore ways in which oocyte quality, and therefore conception rates, could be improved. Our first task was to characterise follicular environments that can support the development of a high-quality oocyte. We compared oocyte quality and the corresponding follicular environment between dairy cattle with very high (+5) or very low (-5) Fertility BV, as non-lactating heifers, and again during the first lactation. We recovered the oocyte, their supporting cumulus cells and a sample of the fluid within the ovarian follicle from cows and heifers in heat, just before ovulation.
High-fertility cows have better oocyte quality
To assess oocyte quality, we measured the expression of genes, in the oocyte and its supporting cumulus cells, that are associated with good or poor oocyte quality. High-fertility lactating cows had greater expression of genes (VCAN and PDE8A) associated with higher oocyte competency and that have been linked to a greater proportion of live births in humans7, 8. This indicates that oocytes from high-fertility cows are of better quality and have a greater chance of establishing a successful pregnancy than those from low-fertility cows.
Heifers generally have better fertility and higher-quality oocytes than lactating cows9. There was no difference in oocyte quality between high-fertility and low-fertility non-lactating heifers. So, oocyte quality may not limit the fertility of yearling heifers with low genetic fertility.
High-fertility cows have a better follicular environment
Our research found differences between high- and low-fertility cows, but not non-lactating heifers, in the composition of fluid taken from within the follicle. Compared with low-fertility cows, high-fertility cows had lower non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) and amino acid concentrations, and altered hormone concentrations in their follicular fluid. These differences were not apparent between the high- and low-fertility heifers.
NEFA are produced when fat stores are broken down for energy. While they provide a valuable source of energy, NEFA impair cell function at high concentrations10. NEFA concentration in the bloodstream is reflected in the follicular fluid, where it is particularly harmful to the follicle and oocyte within, affecting hormone production, metabolism and maturation. High-fertility cows had lower NEFA concentrations within their follicles, creating a better environment for the oocyte. This may partially explain the high quality of their oocytes, compared to those from the low-fertility cows.
The elevated follicular NEFA concentrations in the low-fertility group don’t appear to reflect a greater breakdown of bodyfat, as there was no difference in blood concentrations of NEFA between the low- and high-fertility cows. Cows are thought to have some ability to protect their follicles and oocytes against rises in circulating NEFA, as follicular NEFA concentrations are typically lower than those in blood11. The high-fertility group had a lower ratio of follicular NEFA concentrations relative to their plasma concentrations. This tells us that the mechanisms protecting the oocyte from high-circulating NEFA may be more effective in these cows.
Amino acids in the follicular fluid are used by the oocyte and follicular cells for a wide range of processes, including energy production, cell signalling and protein synthesis12. Follicular concentrations of several amino acids were higher in low-fertility cows, which may indicate they have a reduced ability to use these amino acids. This may be associated with the high NEFA concentrations in their follicles, as this can interfere with cellular metabolism.
Differences in follicular hormone concentrations between the high- and low-fertility cows may indicate that low-fertility cows have a delayed response to the signal to ovulate. The ovulation process is associated with coordinated changes in hormone production, whereby the concentrations of oestradiol and androgens decrease and progesterone increases. In our study, although follicles were sampled shortly before ovulation, the low-fertility cows still had high androgen (testosterone and androstenedione) and lower progesterone concentrations (Figure 2). As increased follicular progesterone indicates healthy advancement of the ovulatory process, the low-fertility cows may take longer to ovulate relative to the onset of oestrus. Delayed ovulation relative to oestrus and insemination is less likely to result in a pregnancy.
Where to from here?
The differences we’ve identified in the follicular environment are now being used to design artificial environments to mature oocytes in the laboratory. We will then assess how oocyte function is affected by the differences we observed in amino acids, hormone or NEFA concentrations. Our aim is to understand how changes in the follicular environment have an impact on oocyte function. Ultimately, we want to find practical solutions for New Zealand dairy farmers to increase oocyte quality, and therefore conception rates, in their dairy cows.
* This project was funded by a partnership (DRCX1302) between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and dairy farmers, through DairyNZ Inc., and includes AgResearch core funding. The trials ran from 2016 to 2018.
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- McKenzie, L. J., S. A. Pangas, S. A. Carson, E. Kovanci, P. Cisneros, J. E. Buster, P. Amato, and M. M. Matzuk. 2004. Human cumulus granulosa cell gene expression: a predictor of fertilization and embryo selection in women undergoing IVF. Human Reproduction 19(12):2869-2874.
- Gebhardt, K. M., D. K. Feil, K. R. Dunning, M. Lane, and D. L. Russell. 2011. Human cumulus cell gene expression as a biomarker of pregnancy outcome after single embryo transfer. Fertility and Sterility 96(1):47-52.
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- Jorritsma, R., M. W. de Groot, P. L. Vos, T. A. Kruip, T. Wensing, and J. P. Noordhuizen. 2003. Acute fasting in heifers as a model for assessing the relationship between plasma and follicular fluid NEFA concentrations. Theriogenology 60(1):151-161.
- Aardema, H., F. Lolicato, C. H. van de Lest, J. F. Brouwers, A. B. Vaandrager, H. T. van Tol, B. A. Roelen, P. L. Vos, J. B. Helms, and B. M. Gadella. 2013. Bovine cumulus cells protect maturing oocytes from increased fatty acid levels by massive intracellular lipid storage. Biology of Reproduction 88(6):164.
- Gu, L., H. Liu, X. Gu, C. Boots, K. H. Moley, and Q. Wang. 2015. Metabolic control of oocyte development: linking maternal nutrition and reproductive outcomes. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 72(2):251-271.
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Protein synthesis and amino acid worksheets are different. For instance, if someone was looking for the answer key to the protein synthesis worksheet, he would find it in the worksheet itself. His problem would be when he was just reading about the protein synthesis process in the worksheet. He cannot figure out what to do next unless he understands the process itself.
However, even the worksheet does not explain the exact process of protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism as it does not really belong to the protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism area. The worksheet will only tell him that protein synthesis is the process where the building blocks of the protein are synthesized and thus taken from the basic amino acids to form the proteins. The work is also done by the action of enzymes such as the ones called myoglobin. This reaction is what causes the skeletal muscles to expand in size as well as produce more muscle fibers.
The second part of protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism is the breakdown of the proteins into amino acids so that they can be further used. Another form of protein synthesis is the conversion of the amino acids into the amino acids that can be utilized for the protein synthesis process. So when someone is looking for the answer key to this worksheet, he will find it in the breakdown of the proteins into amino acids.
The process of protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism is very complex and very important. However, it does not belong to the protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism area of the worksheet.
The use of protein and amino acids is also very important for the other processes that take place in the body such as the cell division and cell growth. However, the breakdown of proteins and the synthesis of proteins and amino acids both belong to the cell division and cell growth area of the worksheet. It is important to understand this to avoid a lot of confusion in the areas of the worksheet.
Therefore, if someone is looking for the answer key to the protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism worksheet, he will have to check the worksheet areas first. These are the protein synthesis, amino acid metabolism, and cell division and growth. He will have to read through these areas to see which information is needed.
One of the most important questions to ask is why is protein synthesis necessary for growth? This is actually one of the questions that are asked about the work of protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism. As mentioned above, this process is very important. It is needed to form all of the muscle tissues and to make other functions such as the blood-clotting system work.
In the cell division and cell growth area of the worksheet, a specific area is dedicated to protein synthesis and amino acid metabolism. There are also other areas of the worksheet that relate to cell division and growth. It is important to know which answers are required in order to answer the worksheet. | <urn:uuid:359e1265-d8b9-43f7-a71d-2e08a7d6b6ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.semesprit.com/38918/protein-synthesis-and-amino-acid-worksheet-answer-key/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972684 | 583 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Cared for by the National Trust for Scotland. Explore 700 years of history in one of Scotland’s oldest tower houses. Drum Castle has something for everyone, from the medieval High Hall to modern art exhibitions. Take a stroll through the grounds to see the centuries-old oak trees and magnificent wildlife, and breathe in the perfumes of the Garden of Historic Roses.
For up-to-date visit information, see here.
Drum Castle is deeply rooted in Scottish history. In 1323 the castle was granted to William de Irwyn by King Robert the Bruce. The castle remained within the Irvine family until 1975, when it was handed over to the National trust of Scotland. Irvine memorabilia is shown in the Family Room and the house contains an excellent collection of portraits and good Georgian furniture.
The High Hall of the castle tower is still in its medieval state which is accessed by a narrow newel stair offering fine views from the battlements. The original house was enlarged with the creation of a very fine Jacobean mansion house in 1619 and a later addition during the reign of Queen Victoria.
The grounds contain the Old Wood of Drum ancient oak woodland with Site of Special Scientific Interest designation mixed woodlands, three way-marked walks and an arboretum. The beautiful Garden of Historic Roses is divided into quadrants that show how roses have been cultivated from the 17th to the 20th century.
The ancient oak forest adjoins the castle, providing a sense of continuity through the centuries and a home for red kites, roe deer, red squirrels and badgers. | <urn:uuid:b12532a9-02a1-4975-957c-540f5a51a8a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitscotland.com/info/see-do/drum-castle-garden-estate-p254211 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953276 | 324 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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DLT AI in price prediction
Many machine learning and deep learning algorithms such as Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), deep residual network, Long short-term memory (LSTM), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and their combinations have been used by the researchers to predict and analyze the factors affecting the cryptocurrency prices.
Besides standard pair swaps, there are various forms or financial derivatives, such as Futures Contracts and Equity Options, are used as advanced trading methods.
Price prediction based on image analysis
Most of traditinally used machine learning price prediction algorithms rely of on numeric alanysic of stocks prices and other their derivatives. We propose a machine learning image recognition based alanysis when price charts and price combinations diagrams are used as training datasets and methods such as Extended Kalman Filter are used to predict prices. | <urn:uuid:8b218082-94f6-4c3a-8c07-002938e50eb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://esculap.uk/esculap-cryptocurrency-exchange/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.880833 | 290 | 1.976563 | 2 |
What's the issue?
Today, computing skills are the most sought after in the United States. Yet, women’s share of the computing workforce is falling. Women in the U.S. computing workforce will shrink in the next 10 years unless we take action now.
In 2015, there were 500,000 new computing jobs to be filled but fewer than 40,000 new computer science graduates. This shortage is a fundamental economic challenge for the U.S. economy and its global competitiveness. But this decline can be reversed… we can triple the number of women in computing.
Our research identifies the effectiveness of implementing a strategy focused on three clear stages of a girl's education. We have used these insights to create a strategy that is precise, targeted and sequenced.
Spark interest in junior high
SPARK girls' interest. Show them how computing can be cool and fun, and that it's not just for boys.
At this age, girls who play computer games are four times more likely to go into computing or coding as adults than those who don't. They're less likely to see the subject as just for boys, to think boys are better at it than girls, or to think of computing as "geeky" rather than "cool."
Sustain engagement in high school
SUSTAIN girls' engagement. Large numbers of girls who were engaged in computing in junior high lose interest in high school and never come back to computing. Make sure they don't fall into this "high school trap".
In the impressionable teen years, we must pay attention to their peer group and make sure that girls have friends doing computing as well and are not isolated in classrooms dominated by boys. Teaching is incredibly important at this age. 73% percent of high school girls who were interested in studying computing had a teacher who inspired them.
Inspire a career after college
INSPIRE young women through the use of role models, retooled courses and summer immersion programs.
When college women realize they can put computing skills to work in almost any career, in all industries and sector , they become much more open to computing as an option.
Who will crack the code?
No single stakeholder can achieve this alone, and this work demands collaboration around a widely shared agenda. Put simply, America needs more girls and young women in computing. It’s time to take the actions needed to make it happen. Together.
We have the opportunity to achieve the following:
Triple the number of women in computing by 2025
Boost women’s cumulative earnings by $299 billion
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Saving Office documents to a network server is slow when using EFS
Assume that you use the Encrypting File System (EFS) to help secure the Temporary Internet Files folder. You save Microsoft Office documents to a remote server than can support encryption, but the server is not configured to do remote encryption. In this situation, it takes longer than expected to save the documents.
When you save documents, the Office applications (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) create a temporary file in secure subfolders named "Content.MSO" and "Content.Word" in the Temporary Internet Files folder. If the subfolder is encrypted by using EFS, the file that is then copied to the server will have the encrypted attribute applied to it also. If the server supports encryption but is not configured to do it, multiple attempts to keep the file encrypted occur, and this slows the save process.
This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, see How to back up and restore the registry in Windows.
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods:
Remove the encryption from the "Content.MSO" and "Content.Word" subfolders in the Temporary Internet Files folder.
Disable EFS encryption support on the server by changing the following registry entry:
- PATH: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystemValue
- DWORD: NtfsDisableEncryption
- VALUE: 1
Note A value of 0 means encryption is enabled, while a value of 1 means encryption is disabled.
Enable delegated authentication for the server. This allows the server to impersonate the client, and to then create a profile that has the certificate for encryption on the server. For information about how to do this, seeEnabling delegated authentication.
Save the file locally, then drag the file to the desired network location.
By default, the "Content.MSO" and "Content.Word" subfolders are used by Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. They are hidden, system-protected subfolders of the Temporary Internet Files folder, as seen in the following example path:
C:\User\<user name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.MSO
In Windows 8, the Temporary Internet Files folder is now known as the "INetCache" folder. Therefore, the path to the "Content.MSO" subfolder would be as follows: | <urn:uuid:1c5fc186-2864-44a6-9188-9bfc96691b81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/office-suite-issues/saving-file-to-network-server-slow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.862822 | 616 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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A back actor (backactor or sometimes backacter) is a type of earth moving plant used on construction sites to place and transport excavated soil. It is sometimes referred to as a backhoe, backhoe loader or rear actor, and may also be informally referred to as a JCB. This abbreviation comes from the initials of Joseph Cyril Bamford, the founder of the Joseph Cyril Bamford Excavators Ltd. company. Other brands exist.
Back actors are fitted with a shovel (or dipper) for digging. This shovel is fixed to the back of the tractor by way of a two-part digging arm referred to as a boom and bucket arm or a dipper arm. This mechanism allows the dipper to move with a great deal of flexibility.
Backactors can be fitted with different attachments for tasks such as boring, digging, excavation and loading. They can also be used for minor demolition, powering building equipment, breaking asphalt and transporting light building materials.
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New Hampshire state House Speaker Bill O'Brien states: "Voting as a liberal, thats what kids do." He also states that students lack "life experiences" and "just vote their feelings".
A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law Center examines the effects of republican legislatures across the nation restricting voter access to the polls. From the report:
- These new laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.
- The states that have already cut back on voting rights will provide 171 electoral votes in 2012 – 63 percent of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
- Of the 12 likely battleground states, as assessed by an August Los Angeles Times analysis of Gallup polling, five have already cut back on voting rights (and may pass additional restrictive legislation), and two more are currently considering new restrictions.
The Effect of Voter ID Laws on Voter Turnout Dave Brockington examines a report from the Heritage Foundation on restricting voting rights in addition to the Brennan study. | <urn:uuid:0e9d3ded-da72-4ff6-98ab-4db7a60def52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ablazeofbrightblue.blogspot.com/2011/10/republicans-restricting-mostly.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944236 | 209 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Mainstream Medicine Actually Revises Its Opinion on Best Hypertension Treatments
High blood pressure is the Number One risk factor in the world for death and disability.
What’s amazing – and, I hope, a sign mainstream medicine may eventually analyze itself using improvements in technology – a recent study found the standard type of hypertension medication doctors usually start out prescribing is not the most effective.
The Study Results Published in Lancet
First, the study is unusual because researchers took data from patients in four countries – Germany, the United States, Japan and South Korea. They studied the records of nearly 5 million patients, so its results are convincing because the amount of data is huge.
All the patients had just begun treatment for high blood pressure. They were put on one of three types of drugs:
1. Drugs that relax constricted blood vessels.
These include the standard (and, up to now, preferred) type of medication, ACE inhibitors, vasodilators and angiotensin.
2. Drugs that reduce your heartbeat and, therefore, lower pressure.
These are beta-blockers.
3. Drugs that force your body to get rid of excess water.
Thiazide diuretics – usually referred to as water pills.
These are in line with the recommendations of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.
The Study Researchers analyzed the ongoing health records of those 5 million patients.
They found that patients started on one of those three types of medications had 15% fewer heart attacks, hospitalizations and strokes.
Which One was the Winner?
Remember, the most popular drug for American doctors to start patients out on are ACE inhibitors.
However, ACE inhibitors were not the winner. In fact, they not only allowed more serious events, they caused more side effects, including: diarrhea, cough, rash, swelling of tissues and – most worrisome of all – kidney failure.
But ACE inhibitors weren’t the least effective type of hypertensive medication.
The Least Effective?
Why are Diuretics Most Effective?
My theory is almost too obvious.
First, none of these medications address the many fundamental causes of hypertension. Placque deposited along your endothelial lining makes your arteries stiffer. Eating lots of sodium and little potassium means your electrolytes are out of balance, so your body holds on to water. If you don’t eat greens, beets and other foods high in nitric oxide, your arteries do not expand as they should.
Diuretics do sort of address the sodium issue, because people who take them pee out a lot of sodium. But too many just keep on eating too much sodium, so it’s not permanent.
But diuretics do lower your blood pressure by simple fluid mechanics. A lower volume of water means a lower volume of blood, and so the pressure against your blood vessels is lower.
It barely addresses the fundamentals, but water pills do keep you alive by forcing you to pee out excess water before the pressure builds up and causes a heart attack, stroke or kidney damage.
When to Take High Blood Pressure Medications
However, so far, too many doctors have ignored a study showing the effectiveness of medications for high blood pressure also depends on WHEN they are taken.
That sounds odd, but one study demonstrated that patients who took their meds at night, instead of in the morning, had much better control of their pressure.
They suffered fewer heart attacks. Taking the same medicines at night rather than in the morning cut their risk of death in HALF.
However, most doctors and pharmacists continue to tell patients to take their medications in the morning.
Therefore, death rates from all hypertensive medications are probably double what they would be if only patients were told to take them at night.
I Still Believe Lifestyle Changes Should be First Line of Defense
And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agrees.
Get 7-8 hours of sleep every night.
Meditate or otherwise relax to manage your stress.
Eat a spoonful of ground flaxseeds every day.
Stop eating as much sodium as possible. That means no table salt – and stop eating so many processed foods that use salt and monosodium glutamate to store and flavor foods.
Eat more foods – fruits and vegetables – rich in potassium.
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The biggest national waste pickers’ movement goes through an open and democratic process of electing its leadership structure, review past SAWPA activities from 2019 and plan for a way forward
Johannesburg, Tuesday, 02 August 2022. The South African Waste Pickers Association (SAWPA) is hosting its 6th biennial national meeting. The meeting will be convened in Observatory from 2nd to 4th August 2022. Waste pickers from all nine provinces will be in attendance. The meeting will also build solidarity with African waste pickers from Sierra Leone, Kenya and Ghana. Waste pickers are organised in various countries in Africa and globally.
The primary purpose of the meeting is to elect a new leadership structure. This is the first opportunity for SAWPA to convene following the passing of national coordinator Simon Mbata who sadly passed on in February in a car accident. SAWPA leaders will also take time to reflect and take stock on the work done in the past two years as well as put together plans on how they take their struggle forward.
Waste pickers play a very important role in our society as they pick materials from our waste streams for the purpose of recycling. They also help in terms of mitigating the impacts of climate change. When waste decomposes in landfills, it ends up emitting methane gas which is one of the drivers for climate change. Waste pickers make an honest living by taking discards and giving them second or third lives rather than disposing at landfills. Waste pickers also directly assist municipalities by diverting waste away from the landfills and dumpsites.
Since the launch of SAWPA in 2009, the organisation has experienced significant gains in their struggle. The 2009 conference focused mainly on gaining recognition of waste pickers by government, this became a reality after five years when the late former minister of Environment Affairs Edna Molewa told parliament that the existence of waste pickers in the country should be regarded as big positive initiative in the country. This formal recognition was cemented when the department of Environmental Affairs decided to commission guidelines for the integration of waste pickers into waste management systems in municipalities across the country.
Municipalities from all over South Africa have since started engaging waste pickers as part of the integration process, however some are still moving at a snail’s-pace and failing to support the work of waste pickers. Positively we have seen cities such as city of Tshwane, City of Johannesburg starting to implement formal projects with the aim of working with waste pickers.
Additionally, industrial sectors have also been compelled by the Environmental Department to formulate plans for ensuring that their packaging waste materials or waste can be returned for reprocessing through extended producer responsibility schemes. These schemes have forced these industries to start negotiations with people in the value chain who are handling their materials post-consumer usage. Under this scheme, the registered waste pickers in the national registration system will start receiving a fee from EPR schemes as a payment for collecting the recyclables of different industries.
Overall, zero waste to landfill is what SAWPA wants and this is underpinned by the Waste Act 2008 which addresses the overall reduction of waste through its management over the whole waste cycle starting from the source. If all the packaging materials were made from recyclable materials, there will be no waste but resources for waste pickers in a circular economy. This would result in recycling rates in South Africa to rise, but this can only be achieved through government, industry, and waste picker collaboration.
This convening hopes to reflect from the 2019 national conference and to plan for 2022-2023. Priority issues include the ongoing registration of waste pickers, organising, integration, election of the new leadership, and solidarity and collaboration with other social movements such as Abahlali Basemjondolo. Following the three-day meeting SAWPA will draw out and adopt resolutions that will take the waste picker revolution forward. | <urn:uuid:01eca5cf-ba64-477d-846d-924fad4c7f44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://groundwork.org.za/sawpa-biennial-2022-the-waste-picker-revolution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958215 | 805 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Research metrics, also called bibliometrics or citation metrics, are quantitative measurements designed to help you or others evaluate research outputs. They might include measurements such as times an article is cited, journal impact factor measurements, social media mentions, the h-index, news media mentions, and more. Some of these metrics are more traditional than others, but all of them can be used demonstrate the impact of your work.
The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics was published in 2015 by five experts urging responsible use in metrics, named after the conference where the idea came to fruition. They promote the following ten principles to guide research evaluation:
Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L., de Rijcke, S., & Rafols, I. (2015). Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. Nature News 520(7548), 429–431. https://doi.org/10.1038/520429a
The Metric Tide Report, published in 2015 commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (UK), is a report of the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management. Traditional metrics have long been used as indicators for research and researcher impact. Their use can be problematic when taken out of context with uncritical acceptance. Responsible metrics should be considered and understood in the following dimensions:
Metrics evoke a mixed reaction from the research community. A commitment to using data and evidence to inform decisions makes many of us sympathetic, even enthusiastic, about the prospect of granular, real-time analysis of our own activities. If we as a sector can’t take full advantage of the possibilities of big data, then who can?
Wilsdon, J., et al. (2015). The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.4929.1363
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (SF DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. The declaration was developed in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
The declaration is a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and stakeholders.
Signing the 2013 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is an important way for individuals and organizations to publicly acknowledge their commitment to improve research by strengthening research assessment.
The DORA roadmap for the next two years will focus on three strategic goals to enable signatories to take action:
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Whenever you try to connect to your friend’s world and see the message “Can’t connect to the world”, this can be frustrating. It is a fairly common problem, however, many players have trouble connecting to their friends’ worlds. In this article, we will try to fix the problem for you. We will list a number of solutions or tricks for this problem and one of them will help you connect to your friend’s world.
Some of these fixes are quite simple. Try one solution after another until the connection problem is resolved. Also, make sure your system has the minimum configuration required to run the game. If you have an underpowered system, even then, you may encounter this problem. So, without further ado, let’s move on.
How to fix the Minecraft “Can’t connect to the world” problem?
Add your friend again
You have the option to add friends to your Minecraft account. If, for some reason, you are unable to access their world, try removing them from your friends list and then adding them again. After that, try to connect to their world again, and if you face the same problem again, move on to the next solution.
Recharge your private world again
Sometimes, simply reloading your world can eliminate most of your Minecraft problems. So even with this problem with your friend’s world, try recharging your private world.
- Launch Minecraft.
- Click Play.
- Go to the Worlds tab and select one of your worlds.
- Open the menu and select “Save and Exit”.
- Now go back to the main menu of the game and choose the Friends tab.
- Your friend’s world should now load on the screen.
If the Unable to Connect window still appears, continue to the next solution.
Update your network drivers
Network drivers are responsible for network and system connectivity. If your driver files are corrupted or outdated, the game will have a problem loading any world. So you should try updating your network drivers and see if that fixes your problem.
There are three things you can do to update your network drivers. You can allow Windows to automatically get the latest driver and install it. You can download it yourself from the manufacturer’s site or use a third-party application for drivers.
- Press Windows key + X and choose “Device Manager” from the list of options.
- Expand “Network Adapter” in the Device Manager window.
- Within the network adapter section, you will see your network components.
- Right-click on each of these and choose “Update Driver”.
- Follow the onscreen instructions and let Windows download the latest network driver files.
If Windows cannot detect any files for the update, try downloading it manually. Just go to your PC manufacturer’s website and search for system drivers using the model number. Download the latest network driver configuration from that site and install these driver files on your computer.
If you can’t find any new network card driver update configuration on the manufacturer’s website, choose a third-party application that automatically searches for an update for your drivers and installs them directly on your PC.
If updating your network drivers also doesn’t fix the problem, skip to the next potential solution.
Change your game settings
Check your game settings and those of your friend on Xbox.com. Some settings can prevent someone from joining another world.
- Go to the settings page on the Xbox website.
- Click the Xbox One/Windows 10 Online Protection tab.
- Find the option to join multiplayer games in the list and make sure it’s set to allow.
- Click the submit button.
Also, ask your friend to do the same. If you are still stuck with the error message, move on to the next solution.
Disable your antivirus
Safe third-party applications like antivirus sometimes even prevent the suspected network connections that are potential threats. However, not all antivirus applications have this problem. There are only a few out there that may be blocking connections. So, if you are using an antivirus, try disabling it completely. To do this, open the antivirus program and disable the real-time protection function.
Now try to connect to your friend’s world again. If you see the same error message, move on to the next solution.
Disable Windows Firewall
Just like the antivirus program, Windows Firewall sometimes blocks connections too. So try making some changes to the Windows Firewall settings and see if it works for you.
- Click on the search bar and search for “Control Panel”.
- Open it once it appears in the results.
- Click the View By option in the Control Panel window and choose “Large Icons” from the drop-down menu.
- Click on Windows Defender Firewall.
- Click on the “Allow an app or feature through Windows Defender Firewall” option on the left side of the window.
- Look for the “javaw.exe” entry in the list of allowed apps and features. You may have one or more javaw.exe inputs. There will be a checkbox next to it. Make sure there is a checkmark next to each of the “javaw.exe” entries. If it is unchecked, click the “Change Settings” button and manually check the entry.
If all javaw.exe entries are checked, but you still can’t connect to your friend’s world, try the next solution.
Use a VPN service
There is a small chance that the network you are using to connect to the internet is blocking your access to your friend’s world for some reason. So try using a VPN service to mask the identity of your network. There are various free and paid VPN services. However, free VPN services usually have a very slow network speed problem. So opt for a trial period of a premium VPN service and then open up your friends’ world in your game. | <urn:uuid:c333e55b-7bbb-44d2-9080-c422e8c01b12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techvaz.com/minecraft-cant-connect-to-the-world-here-is-how-to-fix/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.888514 | 1,275 | 1.914063 | 2 |
In 1986 Scientific American drew attention to this visual of space junk tracked by NORAD, 7,000 spent rocket debris and the 40,000 objects with a diameter of 10 centimeters or more. I used this visual in many of my presentations in the 1980s and in Paradigms in Progress (1991), making the point that not only was space junk a result of our wasteful, “rearview mirror” industrial paradigm, and that even debris the size of the paint flake which damaged the space shuttle Challenger’s windshield in 1984 could, at orbital speeds endanger future satellites and space travel.
Since then, billions have been contracted to companies offering ways to clean up or corral additional accumulated space junk, with little success. Space has been increasingly militarized and used for satellite-based communications and internet service, with Intelsat’s 59 satellites and those of other countries providing today’s global connectivity.
Recently, the US Federal Communications Commission gave permission to Elon Musk’s SpaceX to set up a vast network, Starlink, of low-orbiting communication satellites, ostensibly to bring the world’s poor 3.5 billion people internet access. Closer examination seems to show that only rich business interests seeking higher-speed communications, including Wall Street’s big banks and high-frequency traders implicated in “flash crashes” will be customers.
Initially, Starlink will consist of 4425 satellites orbiting between 1100 and 1300 kilometers up, so as not to collide with the communications satellites currently in orbit further out into space. Each Starlink satellite will only last a few years, so SpaceX will need to launch new ones every few weeks to replace the dead ones, according to Hugh Lewis who represents the UK Space Agency on the International Space Debris Coordinating Committee. Lewis opines that “Musk is raising money for the Mars program” (The Economist, 10, Nov.2018).
Other companies are competing to launch additional cheap, small, low-orbiting satellites, including Alphabet’s Project Loon, 03B Networks, OneWeb, Amazon’s Blue Rocket, as well as those offering propulsion systems for the launches, including Apollo Fusion with Silicon Valley investors led by Reid Hoffman, which plans to use mercury as a fuel. NASA began moving away from mercury as a fuel in the 1970s due to its toxicity and the US has been tightening rules on the use of mercury for two decades. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports the danger of using mercury to propel these satellites due to their low altitude (300 to 1200 kilometers above the Earth), quoting Prof. Steve Brooks of the University of Tennessee “It’s a very heavy element that is not going to escape Earth’s gravity. Almost all the mercury you put up there will find its way back down”. Prof. Dan Jaffe of the University of Washington adds “Using a toxic chemical that we’re spending billions of dollars to clean up is probably a dumb idea” (Nov 20, 2018, p.22).
So how much internet access are the planet’s 3.5 billion poor people going to get out of all this new activity? Very little, it seems, since the markets are those who want higher-speed communications to enhance trading speeds, efficiency and profitability. New revelations about the unanticipated dangers of social media propagandizing “fake news” and sowing hatred, racism, misogyny and political revolts are now well-known. We now know that social media and internet connectivity cannot provide a genuine “public square” for debates while running for profit, using advertising and exploiting their users’ personal data. So why are we risking further proliferation of space junk and dangers of collisions with existing satellites and even eventually closing the window for further space exploration for such dubious, short-term, private profit goals?
The US Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) operated from 1974 until 1996 to assess such long term social and environmental consequences of technological choices. This OTA long term view of many unwise, unsustainable technologies drew fire from special interests and Congress slayed their messenger in 1996. Today, with so many new technologies leaving so many citizens behind and societies experiencing future shocks, like those I describe, over 40 Congress members are calling for re-funding OTA. All it’s ground-breaking reports are free downloads at the University of Florida Press Digital Library.“An Assessment of Technology for Local Development” originally published in 1980 and helped launch the “small is beautiful” green Solar Age technologies is also free at www.ethicalmarkets.com
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Simson is quite an old name on the motorcycle manufacturing market taking into consideration that the original company which produced so many well-known bikes was founded in 1856. It all started with Lob and Moses Simson, two brothers who founded Simson & Co in order to build guns. The company grew up a lot in the next few years and, in 1986, Simson & Co started producing bicycles, followed by automobiles in 1907. Simson Supra is probably the most popular car manufactured by Simson, being available in approximately 1520 copies, all of them built between 1924 and 1934.
Because of the fact that they were a Jewish family, the Simson brothers have to run away of the country during the Adolf Hitler dictatorship. However, a member of the board took the control of the company and merged it with other firms, forming the Berlin Suhler Waffen- und Fahrzeugwerke (BSW), a business which was more focused on motorcycles than the previous company. This fact was actually demonstrated the same year when BSW launched BSW 98, the first motorcycle of the company.
Being ceased to the Soviet Union after World War II and then handed back to Germany, the company was renamed to "VEB Fahrzeug- und Gerätewerk Simson Suhl", a company which became more interested in motorcycles and which aimed to abandon the production of guns and bicycles.
Due to the fact that the German Democratic Republic decided in 1960 that the local companies must only produce two-stroke motorcycles, Simson had to concentrate on mopeds, the firm managing to build no less than 200,000 units in a single year.
As the time passed by, Simson has built multiple attractive vehicles, including the Schwalbe, equipped with an engine able to develop 3.4 horsepower. Lots of these scooters could be seen today in Germany where most Schwalbe owners consider it a more advanced bike than many other similar vehicles.
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Many people have a technique or one other assembled a group of instruments as regards getting odd jobs executed in the home. Be it repairing decks or hanging footage. And as a bike owner, there’s nodoubt you’ve additionally amassed some tools to assist along with your bike repairs.
Ensuring your electric bike will get common cleansing and upkeep is crucial for its longevity. You’re additionally much less more likely to end up caught in unexpected circumstances on the roadside.
As with each restore device, there are fundamental instruments for Ebike repairs and additionally specialised Ebike instruments. And as chances are you’ll count on, fundamental restore instruments for common bikes additionally work completely for E-bikes. So when you’re a DIY or not too DIY form of particular person, this information will introduce you to each main and specialised E-bike restore instruments. Not simply that, this information can even introduce you to a number of mechanical instruments you should use for repairs in your storage.
So with out a lot ado, let’s start!
Fundamental Ebike Restore Equipment
The next are the fundamental instruments you’ll need when on and about along with your electrical bike.
Puncture Restore Equipment
An honest puncture restore equipment ought to have the following instruments;
- Metallic stuffed
- Vulcanizing cement
- Vulcanizing patches in numerous sizes and shapes
- Tire levers
Each one among these instruments often comes with directions on easy methods to mend punctures. Even with the directions, you will need to apply it first in your storage earlier than doing it for actual.
Particular multitools for electrical bikes include screwdrivers, open wrench items, and Allen wrenches (additionally referred to as hex keys). These instruments (most particularly the accessible wrench) are crucial for on the highway repairs. The open wrench additionally permits you to loosen your tire’s nut, which lets you take away and restore it. If the open wrench just isn’t accessible in the Multitool, you need to embrace it in your fundamental restore equipment.
Transportable, Mini Pump
You don’t wish to get caught in the center of the highway with a flat tire. That’s the final thing you desire to for yourselves as it may be very tedious and irritating. Having to push your heavy bike for miles beneath the scorching solar isn’t any joke. Therefore, carrying a conveyable mini pump with you is essential.
Little question, pumping with a mini pump can take a while and effort, however it’ll all the time put you again on monitor. Actually! Guarantee the mini pump you get can provide the strain your bicycle tire wants. Not simply that, additionally be sure you have the appropriate valve becoming for your tire.
In depth Ebike Restore Kits.
The important restore equipment mentioned above is the barest minimal you need to carry when on and about along with your Ebike. The essential restore equipment is greatest when you’re going for a brief trip. Nevertheless, if it’s an extended trip you’re aiming for, you’ll need to hold an improved restore equipment. An intensive restore equipment ensures that no matter the state of affairs, it is possible for you to to restore your means out.
Some particular restore instruments to have embrace;
Spare Interior Tube
In sure conditions, repairing a tube is simply out of the query. This type of situation is uncommon, but it surely occurs. Valves can get ripped out, inflicting holes which might be too large for restore. In circumstances like this, having a spare internal tube is the solely means out. For those who do, it is possible for you to to rescue the state of affairs and proceed your journey.
A headlamp turns into useful when it’s good to make repairs very near nightfall or late at evening. The headlamp means that you can see what you’re repairing and hopefully hasten the restoration. The headlamp additionally permits different commuters to know that there’s somebody on the roadside or path.
Nothing a duct tape can’t repair, they are saying. Properly, duct tape may also come in useful when repairing your bike. You don’t have to hold a complete roll. A size or two will likely be sufficient for the job.
Money and Change
Having a flat telephone battery and a flat electrical bike can occur at the identical time. That is why you will need to maintain some money with you in your trip so you possibly can hail a trip house.
Mechanic Software Equipment for Electrical bikes
Beneath is a listing of important mechanical instruments for power-assisted bikes when you’re going to be tuning, tinkering, and repairing in your storage. The great factor is you don’t must get these instruments directly. You possibly can all the time steadily accumulate these instruments as you want them.
Getting electrical bike tires pumped up with the ground pump is the dream. With the ground pump, much less effort is required to refill the tires than the mini pump. The ground pump additionally has a greater economical design than the mini pump.
You possibly can conduct quite a lot of restore and upkeep duties on flat floor. Nevertheless, when you regularly work in your electric bicycle, elevating your bike off the ground so you possibly can work whereas standing makes an enormous distinction. To lift your bike off the ground, you’ll need an electrical bike stand in your storage.
Slightly than working with adjustable wrenches, it’s higher to get one constructed for the job.
Nuts, screws, wheel spokes can come free at any time, even when it’s not supposed to come back free. A spoke wrench allows you to tighten all loosen wheel spokes. They match multiple-size spokes, are sturdy, and are very inexpensive.
An honest pair of cable cutters assist to create zip ties, cable housing, and trimming cables. Additionally it is an awesome device to have in the house in case any string materials wants trimming.
You should use the Masterlink device for all types of chains. You should use it to interrupt the bicycle chain if it’s good to take away it and assist match it again after restore.
The chain wrench helps to carry rear cassettes of gears ready.
The socket set makes it easy to make use of a fundamental socket set. This helps to advertise the straightforward elimination of bolts and nuts.
Hex Keys or Allen wrenches
Your Multi-Software needs to be outfitted with the Allen wrench, a part of your important E-bike restore equipment. Allen wrenches are the commonest kind of heads on common and electrical bicycle screws. However to maintain your important device, we advise that you just get further for your storage. The Allen wrench can be simpler to make use of when not connected to a Multitool.
You shouldn’t carry out your whole electrical bike repairs in your storage, regardless of how good you might be along with your instruments. Electrical bikes are costly, and you wouldn’t wish to take pointless dangers that may trigger everlasting injury to your bike.
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Slow Internet and network performance are annoying. However it's hard to troubleshoot issues when you just feel that performance is slow. You've got to know the kind of performance you are getting in order to improve it. Let's take a look at a few ways you can actually gage and monitor network performance.
Bandwidth versus Throughput
The first order of business is to understand the difference between bandwidth and throughput. If you understand these terms already, bear with me. Bandwidth is a fixed amount of data speed you pay for and receive from your Internet Service Provider. Throughput is a measurement of data speeds within your local home, or small business network. It's common to refer to Internet speed as bandwidth and internal network speed as throughput. For example: Your router may support a theoretical throughput speed of 450Mbps, but your Internet connection may only have bandwidth rates of 20Mbps for downloads and 1Mbps for uploads.
Measuring and Improving Bandwidth
When it comes to improving Internet bandwidth, that performance does not significantly change with any real tweaking, because, as mentioned, the data rate is fixed from your ISP. However, there are ways to optimize and monitor bandwidth.
A good, robust router may help improve your Internet connection with features such as Quality-of-Service (QoS) and help route traffic better between the Internet and your internal home or small business network. When I upgraded my router, which was a little over five years old, to a new, dual-band premium router with QoS, my Internet performance perked up a bit.
Of course it's fairly easy to measure your Internet speed with online tools such as speedtest.net(Opens in a new window). Hint: to get a good measure of your Internet speed, take several measurements at different times of the day on weekends and weekdays. (Also, take a look at which ISPs PCMag readers rated the fastest.)
Measuring your wireless network throughput is a different story. What is wireless throughput? That's the measurement of data rate between network devices within your home or small business network, also referred to as your LAN (Local Area Network—different from your Internet bandwidth, or WAN (Wide Area Network) connection speed.
So why only measure a network's wireless performance? Why not measure the speed of wired devices? For instance, why not measure how fast the data transfer rate is between a computer you have connected via an Ethernet cable to a LAN port on your router and a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device you may also have connected to the router?
Because that speed, like Internet bandwidth, is fixed. Most current laptops, desktops, and NASes—really any computer with an Ethernet port made in the last five years or so, likely has a Gigabit Ethernet port. If it's connected to a router that also has Gigabit Ethernet, then the connection (the data rate) between the computer and the router is Gigabit speed—1000Mbps. Now remember, if you have a slower, older port on a computer, one that is only Fast Ethernet (100Mbps) and you connect it via wire to a router that has Gigabit Ethernet, the connection rate will only be 100Mbps, not Gigabit speed of 1000Mbps. The network speed golden rule is that your network is only as fast as your slowest connection.
I test for throughput and performance for all the wireless routers and NAS devices that come into PCMag's lab for review. For routers, I use Ixia's IxChariot tool which measures the performance of data streams sent between two network devices (called endpoints). It's a great tool, because with it you can simulate all types of traffic—such as VoIP or gaming traffic—and find it out how different types of network data can impact network performance.
However, Ixia can take a while to learn and is an expensive utility. To get a good measure of your network throughput, you can use a test I use in cases where I don't have Ixia handy or for home testing.
Here's how it works: Take two network devices and wirelessly connect one your router (we'll deem this Device 1) and using an Ethernet cable, connect the second device (Device 2) to one of the LAN ports on your router.
Set up a network share folder on Device 2 so you can access it from Device 1. In Windows Explorer, this is done by creating a folder, right-clicking on it, clicking the "Sharing" tab, and then the "Share" button. In the image below, I created a folder called "testshare" and gave Read/Write permissions to "Everyone" on my network (you can remove or change permissions after testing for security, but for the test, Device 1 will need permission to write to the share).
From Device 1, you can browse through Windows Explorer for the newly created share (or map a drive to it).
Once you can open the Device 2 share on Device 1, you will want to copy a relatively large file from Device 1 to Device 2's share. I use a 1.5GB video clip for this test. During the copy, you will time how long it takes for the file copy to complete.
This gives a baseline of how fast it takes your wireless network to move data from one device to another. Let's say a 1.5GB file take 2 minutes to wirelessly copy from Device 1 to Device 2. You then want to perform some quick calculations:
First, convert GB to MB (I use an online converter like this(Opens in a new window)).
1.5GB is 1536 MB. Since we want to get the MB per second rate; convert minutes into seconds. You then end up with the formula: 1536 (MB)/120 (seconds) = 12.8 MBps.
For the data speed rate, we then want to convert MBps into Mbps (sometimes shown as Mbit/s). 1 MBps (megabyte, being a data storage measurement) equals 8 megabits per second (megabit is a data transfer speed measurement, which is what you want to note).
Therefore: 12.8*8= 102.4 Mbps.
You can also just plug the numbers into an online converter like this one.
Interpreting the Results
Now, 102.4 Mbps is a decent throughput rate especially for a router with a theoretical speed of 300 Mbps and with Device 1 and Device 2 connected to the 2.4GHz band. In general, I like to see somewhere near half of the maximum throughput the router's manufacturer states the router can reach (that rate is only in a testing environment free of any Wi-Fi interference. You will never see that speed in real life).
I can almost hear some of you saying, "But Wireless Witch, Windows already shows me how fast my wireless network connection is." This is a reference to the little Wi-Fi icon in the bottom-right of the System Tray which, if you click on your connection and then right click on "Status" looks like this:
What that typically shows you is the connection rate between the PC's adapter and the router, and does not give an actual measure of throughput performance when data packets are flying about!
I also like to perform the file copy test on the 5GHz band as well. You should see some performance gains at 5GHz as long as the devices you are testing with are not too far from the Wi-Fi router (the 5GHz band has shorter range.) Also, you should test different scenarios—do the copy test when you have several devices and users connected to your network or while you are streaming music or video from a media player. Once you have a baseline, you can see how streaming multimedia or having multiple users connected at once impacts bandwidth. You can then tweak settings like QoS in the router, to see if you can improve throughput.
The first step towards eking out the best performance from your network, is knowing what that performance is. Once you do, you can perform other troubleshooting steps to maximize network performance. For more speedup tips, check out 10 Wireless Router Features You Should Be Using but Aren't and 10 Ways to Boost Your Wireless Signal.
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Research Paper | Psychology | India | Volume 11 Issue 6, June 2022
Cyberbullying in the LGBTQ and Delineating Indian Government's Role for LGBTQ in Cyberspace
Sajan Abraham | Amala Saju
Abstract: Cyberbullying is one of the major concerns in LGBTQ community. The present research demonstrates the adverse effect of cyberbullying in mental, physical, and emotional health of LGBTQ community. The objective of the research is to measure the effects of Cyberbullying and delineating the government's role for LGBTQ in cyberspace. The qualitative study was carried out on a sample of 10 participants who are either bisexual, gay or transgender. Interviews were done in a telephonic manner and participants were asked a set of validated questions regarding cyberbullying and the Indian government?s safeguards and measures for the LGBTQ in the online space. Thematic analysis was conducted to analyse the data and themes were analysed separately for bisexuals, gays and transgenders for understanding any similarities and differences between them. The finding depicts the negative effects of cyberbullying which includes suicidal ideation and lower self - esteem, constant threats and abuses, mistreatment by the authorities, homophobia and bigotry. Recommendation and interventions were discussed with the participants. This paper contributes further on a rather scarce topic of LGBTQ and cyberbullying in India and attempts to bring a new understanding of LGBTQ in India.
Keywords: LGBTQ, Cyberbullying, Indian government, Authorities, Bullying
Edition: Volume 11 Issue 6, June 2022,
Pages: 1242 - 1249
How to Cite this Article?
Sajan Abraham, Amala Saju, "Cyberbullying in the LGBTQ and Delineating Indian Government's Role for LGBTQ in Cyberspace", International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 11 Issue 6, June 2022, pp. 1242-1249, https://www.ijsr.net/get_abstract.php?paper_id=SR22617213031
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Virus Outbreak California
California is easing its coronavirus restrictions to allow up to three households to socialize outdoors, an expansion of rules aimed at people tempted to have even larger gatherings around Halloween, Thanksgiving and end-of-year holidays, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
Three households can gather so long as they wear masks and follow other safety precautions designed to stem the spread of the virus, under the new guidelines from the California Department of Public Health. State health officials previously discouraged gatherings outside of a single household.
The goal is not to encourage larger gatherings, Newsom said, but to recognize the increasing pressure for get-togethers and provide ways for people to act appropriately. There’s no limit on the number of people within any three households, though state officials say smaller is better.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s Health and Human Services secretary, said the guidelines are meant to recognize that many close friends and relatives have been apart a long time and want to be together.
All such gatherings should be outdoors, although it’s OK for guests to use indoor restrooms as long as they are frequently sanitized.
While much of the country and European nations are seeing a resurgence, coronavirus indicators in California are near their record lows. Hospitalizations are at their lowest level since early April and those in intensive care at their second-lowest level since officials began keeping track in late March. The rate of positive tests has been hovering at 2.6% for two weeks.
California has recorded about 850,00 positive tests and has seen more than 16,500 deaths. The number of weekly cases has flattened after a precipitous drop from peak levels during the summer. Average daily deaths have been falling and were at 60 for the most recent seven days.
Newsom said officials want to keep the numbers low.
“We are entering into the holidays, but also we’re entering into part of the year where things cool down and people are more likely to congregate back indoors in settings that put their physical proximity and likelihood of transmission and transmitting disease at higher risk,” he said.
Even the less restrictive guidelines advise that it’s best to stick to the same three households over time.
“Participating in multiple gatherings with different households or groups is strongly discouraged,” the department said in the guidance released late Friday.
People can gather under awnings, roofs or shade structures so long as at least three sides are open to outdoor breezes. Gatherings should be two hours or less to reduce the risk of transmission.
Guests who aren’t from the same household must socially distance and food should not be shared. Masks should be worn except when people are eating or drinking. Singing, chanting and shouting “are strongly discouraged” because those activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols. Hand sanitizer or a place to wash hands must be available.
People who are sick or medically vulnerable should not attend. Those who come down with coronavirus-like symptoms within 48 hours should notify the others who attended, and the host or organizer should keep track of who attended so they can be notified.
In late August the state implemented a new system for reopening at the county level. Forty-two of the state’s 58 counties now have moved out of the most restrictive level and can offer such things as indoor dining and mall shopping.
The Walt Disney Co. is among businesses and individuals urging Newsom and state health officials to come up with rules allowing for the reopening of amusement parks. Disney officials recently announced they are laying off 28,000 workers because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Newsom said his administration is sending teams to inspect theme parks with an eye to eventually allowing reopenings. But he said the guidelines may draw a distinction between massive theme parks that amount to “small cities” and draw visitors from around the world, and smaller parks that may draw from a particular region and are less likely to lead to widespread transmission.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
-By DON THOMPSON Associated Press
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- 78% of consumers purchasing decisions are impacted by online reviews – Ipsos Open Thinking 78% 78%
- 63% of consumers are likely to use a local business if it has information available on a social media site. – comScore Networks 63% 63%
Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote your product or service. We can use their analytics tools to track the progress, success, and engagement of marketing campaigns.
Worldwide, there are over 1.86 billion monthly active Facebook users (Facebook MAUs) which is a 17 percent increase year over year. (Source: Facebook as of 02/01/17) What this means for you: In case you had any lingering doubts, statistically, Facebook is too big to ignore.
There are 1.15 billion mobile daily active users (Mobile DAU) for December 2016, an increase of 23 percent year-over-year. (Source: Facebook as of 2/01/17) This is hugely significant and shows the dramatic growth of mobile traffic on Facebook.
1.23 billion people log onto Facebook daily. The daily active users (Facebook DAU) for September 2016 shows a steady growth of 18% year over year (Source: Facebook as 02/01/17) The Implication is that facebook has a huge and vastly growing number of users that are active and consistent in their visits to the site. This makes them a promising audience for your marketing efforts.
Globally, YouTube is now the second largest search engine, right behind Google.With the demand for video on websites growing as bandwidth access continues to grow, using YouTube and video to market your business is a smart way to go.
Some Facts and Figures
- The total number of people who use YouTube – 1,300,000,000.
- Almost 5 billion videos are watched on Youtube every single day.
- YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day
- In an average month, 8 out of 10 18-49 year-olds watch YouTube.
- The total number of hours of video watched on YouTube each month – 3.25 billion.
- The average number of mobile YouTube video views per day is 1,000,000,000
- The average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40 minutes
- Female users are 38% and male users are 62%.
- User Percentage by Age 18-24 – 11%, 25-34 – 23%, 35-44 – 26%, 45-54 – 16%, 50-64 – 8%, 65+ – 3%, unknown age – 14%.
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The seas have been rising and falling for thousands of years without any help from the EPA or the IPCC
The sea level is rising rapidly! The coastal communities are becoming more and more vulnerable to storms and storm surges! Small island states will disappear under the waves!
Climate alarmists have been making these claims for years, trying to relate them to events like “super storm” Sandy, which was less than the strength of a Category 1 hurricane when it hit New York City in October 2012, or with Typhoon Haiyan, which swept across the low-lying central Philippines in November 2013.
For the alarmists, it doesn’t seem to matter that the strength or frequency of tropical storms decreased in recent years has, while sea level rise has fallen to around ten centimeters per century. Nor does it seem to matter that the loss of life and property has little to do with the sheer force of the storms. Their devastating effect was caused by encountering densely populated areas where governments had not adequately informed citizens of the magnitude and severity of the impending storm surges, too few people had been evacuated – and insufficient people, buildings and emergency equipment were prepared to withstand the raging storm surges.
The alarm calls are meant neither honestly nor factually. They are designed to generate hysterical headlines, scare the public about climate change and call for changes in energy policy and use.
China is rapidly developing into one of the richest nations on earth. It is by far the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide that alarmists claim is causing “unprecedented” storms and rising sea levels. Yet at the recent UN climate talks in Warsaw, China led a group of 132 Third World countries claiming that First World countries owe them hundreds of billions of dollars in “reparations” for “losses and damage” allegedly result from CO2 emissions.
The Obama administration has brought them back to the negotiating table (perhaps “bought” is more appropriate) by promising them unspecified US taxpayers’ money for these alleged losses. The details of this unprecedented concession will be negotiated at the UN-sponsored 2015 climate conference in Paris, certainly after the 2014 midterm elections in the US. In the meantime, a look at history is instructive.
In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama proclaimed, “This was the moment when the oceans began to slow down.” Indeed, he was right. Sea level rise has slowed, but not because of CO2 emissions, which are still increasing. Mother nature cannot be bought.
The changes in sea level in recent geological and human history show that alarmist claims do not stand up to scrutiny. The sea level rose significantly after the last Ice Age, fell during the Little Ice Age and has risen again since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850. In fact, the port cities of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages are now miles away from the Mediterranean because the sea level actually fell during the Little Ice Age.
During the deepest section of the last ice age, known as the Wisconsin Ice Age, sea levels were about 400 feet lower than they are today. When the earth emerged from the Wisconsin Ice Age about 18,000 years ago and the massive ice sheets began to melt, sea levels began to rise. The rapid rise in sea level during the “Meltwater pulse phase“About 15,000 years ago was about five meters per century, but then slowed down considerably since the Holocene climatic optimum about 8,000 years ago.
The rise in sea levels created new ports for Greek and Roman naval and merchant ships. Today, however, many of these structures and ruins are located inland, under the open sky, which makes them popular tourist destinations. How did that happen? The Little Ice Age again transformed large parts of the sea water into ice, which caused the sea level to sink and the former ports to run aground. Not enough ice has melted to turn them back into ports since 1850.
The ancient city Ephesus was an important port city and trading center from the Bronze Age through the Minoan Warm Age to the Roman Empire. A historical map shows its location directly on the sea. But today, in modern Turkey, Ephesus is 5 km from the Mediterranean Sea. Some historians falsely claim that the silting up of the rivers was the cause of the change, but the real “culprit” was the change in sea level.
The ruins of the old Roman port of Ostia Antica are very well preserved – with intact frescoes, maps and plans. Show maps from that timethat the port was at the mouth of the Tiber in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Battle of Ostia in 849 that occurred on a painting attributed to Raphael shows that the sea level was so high that the warships could congregate at the mouth of the Tiber. Today, however, this modern tourist destination is two miles upriver from the mouth of the Tiber. The sea level was much higher in the Roman warm period than it is today.
A major turning point in British history came in 1066 when William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings. Less known is that when William landed, he occupied an old Roman fort known today as Pevensey Castle, which was then on a small island in a harbor on the south coast of England. A drawbridge connected it to the mainland. Pevensey is notorious for the fact that unfortunate prisoners were thrown into this “Sea Gate” so that their bodies could be washed away by the tide. Pevensey Castle is now a mile from the coast – further evidence of a much higher sea level than 1000 years ago.
Before modern Italy, the region was ruled by the famous city-states of the Mediterranean, including Pisa with its picturesque Cathedral Square and the famous Leaning Tower. Located near the mouth of the Arno, Pisa was a mighty city, because the sea trade brought the goods of the sailing ships directly into the port. Their rule ended after AD 1300, the beginning of the Little Ice Age, when the sea level sank and the ships could no longer call at their port. Again, the silting up of the river is the cause called.
However, Pisa is now seven miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea, with large meanders upstream from Pisa and small meanders downstream. A “sloping” river has as little gradation as possible downstream, such as the meandering Mississippi and the Louisiana Delta. Rivers with steep gradients flow directly to the sea, with few meanders, like the Rio Grande in New Mexico.
The facts of the story are clear. Sea levels were 400 feet lower at the end of the Wisconsin Ice Age, 18,000 years ago. Sea levels rose rapidly until 8,000 years ago. In 1066, when the Normans conquered England, the sea level was a lot higher than it is today.
During the Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1850 – when temperatures were the coldest in 10,000 years – snow and ice accumulated in Greenland, Antarctica, Europe and glaciers around the world. As a result, sea levels fell so much that important port cities of Roman and Medieval times (such as Ephesus, Ostia Antica, and Pisa) were miles from the Mediterranean Sea.
Since the end of the Little Ice Age around 160 years ago, tide meters have shown that sea level has risen steadily – unrelated to the rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Sea level is a dynamic property in our planet’s climate cycles that are closely related to changes in solar energy and other natural factors. It is unlikely to change in response to tax policies that make energy more expensive and the economy less resilient – no matter what politicians in Washington, Brussels or at the United Nations may say.
Much to their chagrin, Mother Nature doesn’t listen to them. It has a mind of its own.
Robert W. Finally served 21 years as a weather officer with the US Air Force and 17 years as a meteorologist with the US Army. During his undergraduate studies in meteorology at Texas A&M University, he was inducted into Chi Epsilon Pi, the national honor society for meteorology. He has degrees in geology and meteorology from Rutgers University and Pennsylvania State University, respectively, and has studied and visited the ancient sites of Rome, Ostia Antica and Pisa. | <urn:uuid:a1dd3070-5305-495d-8c7f-d1b330bf4932> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eorense.com/history-refutes-the-claims-of-the-climate-alarmists-about-the-sea-level-uncut-news-ch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968067 | 1,740 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The new documentary film, “5 Broken Cameras,” tells the story of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who got his first video camera to film his son growing up, but he went on to document the residents of his village Bil’in resisting the Israeli separation wall. Over the course of the film, one camera after another is smashed or shot as Burnat films his village’s resistance movement. Focused largely on the experience of Burnat and his family, the film explores the intersection of their life with Palestinian and Israeli politics. Emad Burnat and the film’s co-director, Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi, join us for part two of our look at the film. Click here to watch part one of the interview. [includes rush transcript]
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: On Thursday, we first told you about a new film that tells the story of a Palestinian farmer, his wife and four small children in the West Bank village of Bil’in. Emad Burnat got a video camera in 2005 when his youngest son, Gibreel, was born. At the same time, the Israeli army began building a separation wall between Bil’in and a nearby Israeli settlement, cutting off residents from the olive tree groves that were their livelihood. Burnat turned his camera on his fellow villagers as they responded with nonviolent protests, including marches to the wall every Friday. The result is 5 Broken Cameras, a prize-winning documentary by Burnat and his Israeli co-director, Guy Davidi. Today, they join us for part two of our look at the film. But first, this is a clip narrated by Emad Burnat.
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] An 11-year-old boy is killed in Nil’in. Snipers shot him near his home. Immediately after the funeral, a 17-year-old boy is also killed. Clinging to nonviolent ideals isn’t easy when death is all around.
AMY GOODMAN: Emad Burnat, narrating an excerpt from his new film called 5 Broken Cameras. Focused largely on the experience of Emad Burnat and his family, the film explores the intersection of their life with Palestinian and Israeli politics.
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] When I film, I feel like the camera protects me. But it’s an illusion. I film my brother Khaled’s arrest. My mother and father try to stop the jeep. I keep thinking, “What should I do?” I have to believe that capturing these images will have some meaning.
AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt from the documentary 5 Broken Cameras. During the course of the film, one camera after another is smashed or shot, as Emad Burnat films his village’s resistance movement, by Israeli soldiers or settlers. With each camera, a part of his story unfolds.
Well, Emad Burnat is here in the United States for the opening of his film, from Bil’in in the West Bank, along with his partner on the film and co-director, Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi. 5 Broken Cameras is winning awards around the world, is in theaters now. It’s playing here in New York at the Film Forum through June 12th, which will host a Q & A with the filmmakers after tonight’s 6:30 screening.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! There’s so much to talk about in this film, which is why we brought you back. Emad, that last clip that we just played, you are filming your brother being arrested, your parents throwing themselves at the truck and pleading with the Israeli soldiers, yet you are just behind this camera.
EMAD BURNAT: Yeah, I was filming at the same moment, and I saw my brother get arrested, and I saw my mother and my father trying to block the jeep and to stop to take out my brother from the jeep. But I said, I cannot do nothing, just to keep filming, because to keep filming is—the camera is a very important witness. And I thought that maybe I can help him with this footage, to protect him or to protect my family or to use the footage in the court.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And at times like that, when no matter what’s going around, happening around you, you’re fixated on that camera, the sense that you have of your role there at that point?
EMAD BURNAT: Yeah, I think I was always connected to the camera. The camera became my friend. So I thought that I have to keep filming, even when my brother arrest or my friend arrest or—so, it’s very important.
AMY GOODMAN: And yet, you started by filming—you got this camera to film your youngest son being born and growing up.
EMAD BURNAT: Yeah, I got the camera at the same time when the struggle started in my village. So I thought that I have to film the resistance in my village and to be part in this with my camera, and to film my family and my son growing up and watching what’s going on outside.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, at one point in the film, Israeli police come to your house at night. Your sons answer the door with you. Let’s go to that clip.
ISRAELI POLICE: [translated] Open up!
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] Now it’s my turn. I take the camera to protect myself.
ISRAELI POLICE: [translated] I ask you to stop filming.
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] I can film in my own house.
ISRAELI POLICE: [translated] Show me your ID.
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] Get my ID. What’s the matter?
ISRAELI POLICE: [translated] This is a Closed Military Zone. “The military has declared this area a Closed Military Zone. Anyone found in a Closed Military Zone must evacuate the area at once. No one can enter or remain on the premises.” You are now in violation of that order. I ask you to stop filming.
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] I am a journalist. I can film.
ISRAELI POLICE: [translated] This is a Closed Military Zone. Stop filming. Put down the camera.
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] I am a journalist, and I’m in my own home.
ISRAELI POLICE: [translated] Put down the camera. That is an order. Turn the lens to the wall. Give it to your son. He can put it down.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Emad, the police interrogated you, accused you of throwing rocks, and arrested you. They put you under house arrest. Talk about this and about how the soldiers reacted to you.
EMAD BURNAT: Yeah, the soldiers, they were always trying to stop me, by shoot my camera or shoot me. And I’ve been arrested twice. They came to my house, and they arrested me. And they told me—so I was filming in the same time to protect myself, because I thought—I felt that the camera protecting me. And yeah, I was arrested, because they want me to stop filming. And I was in house, arrested outside my house, outside the village. They want me to be outside and far from the village. So, they use many ways to—
AMY GOODMAN: So, how long were you held when you were imprisoned?
EMAD BURNAT: I was in prison for about 20 days in bad conditions. And I was outside the house, outside the village.
AMY GOODMAN: You were deported.
EMAD BURNAT: Yeah, I was deported outside the village for 45 days.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s not only the political situation that was a lot of pressure; inside your house there was pressure. Your camera is always on, whether you’re filming the family or demonstrations against the separation wall. I want to ask you about your wife’s reaction to all that was happening. This is a clip from near the end of 5 Broken Cameras.
SORAYA BURNAT: [translated] What did they say?
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] They said they were going to arrest me again tonight.
SORAYA BURNAT: [translated] What will you do?
EMAD BURNAT: [translated] What can I do?
SORAYA BURNAT: [translated] See what’s happening to us because of your filming! Now they’re taking you. You never know what they’re up to. If they take you, what will we do, the kids and I? You saw what they did to you before. But you never learn! I’ve told you to stop a thousand times! Stay home with your kids and find something else to do! Why didn’t you? Why, Emad? If they come, what will we do? What will I do? And the kids? It happened once, twice. I can’t take it a third time. Stop! Enough with the filming! I am so tired. Stop with the filming!
AMY GOODMAN: Your wife, Emad. Yet, you didn’t, and you filmed through these years, from when your baby was zero to right through to when he was five years old. We watch him grow up, and we watch this movement against the separation wall and the occupation grow up, including the killing of people you know.
EMAD BURNAT: Yeah, actually, in the beginning, I started filming, and it was normal, and everything was OK. But when my first camera was broken and I was injured few times, so my wife started to be worried about me. So I’ve been to jail, and I was far from the house, from the kids. And they were suffering without me, far. And she just—when I came, she want me just to be safe and to stop filming.
AMY GOODMAN: Guy?
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Yeah, Guy Davidi, I wanted to ask you—this whole concept of this Closed Military Zone, where people are not even allowed to film inside their own homes, is this generally known in the rest of Israeli society that these kinds of conditions are prevalent on the West Bank?
GUY DAVIDI: You know, it’s not because that I’m an Israeli that I can access to why people decide to do this decision, you know? This is a—this is reality when the relations between people are completely influenced by violence and by fear and paranoia. This is part of what Palestinians experience that’s coming from our paranoia, from Jewish cultural traumas and the sense of being the ultimate victims.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to leave it there. The film is called 5 Broken Cameras, and it’s beginning to air around the United States and around the world. I want to thank Guy Davidi and Emad Burnat for joining us. | <urn:uuid:7252b819-7195-4d30-9a2e-91af248d30af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/8/part_2_acclaimed_new_film_5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974244 | 2,416 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Disability discrimination in schools
It's illegal for schools to discriminate against a pupil because of their disability.
In some situations, schools must also take positive steps so that disabled pupils can access and participate in the education and other activities they provide.
Read this page to find out more about disability discrimination in schools.
Removing barriers for disabled pupils
If you have a disabled child, schools must remove the barriers they face because of their disability so they can access and participate in education in the same way as someone who's not disabled, as far as this is possible. This responsibility applies to practices or rules the school has and to the need to provide an aid to a pupil who reasonably needs it. This is called the duty to make reasonable adjustments.
Is your child disabled
Schools only have a duty to make reasonable adjustments if your child has a disability which meets the definition in the Equality Act 2010.
When must schools make reasonable adjustments
The duty to make adjustments applies to all of the school’s activities and the decisions made by teachers and staff, including:
- access to school trips
- attendance at school
- help and support in school
- learning activities and materials
Schools must make adjustments if:
- your child is disadvantaged by a practice or rule because of their disability or the failure to provide an aid, and
- it’s reasonable to make the changes or provide the aid to remove the disadvantage
When is something a reasonable adjustment
Whether something is reasonable depends on things like:
- your child’s disability and what support, if any, they receive as a result of their additional support for learning needs, as set out in their Individual Education Programme (IEP)
- how practicable the changes are
- the school's resources
- the cost of making the change or providing the aid
- if the change you ask for would overcome the disadvantage your child experiences
- if there are other ways of overcoming the disadvantage
- health and safety considerations and the interests of other pupils
The duty to make reasonable adjustments in education is anticipatory. This means schools must consider in advance what they need to do to make sure all disabled pupils can access and participate in the education and other benefits, facilities and services they provide for their pupils.
It’s the school who must pay if they make reasonable adjustments and they are never allowed to charge you for them.
What must schools do
If your child is disadvantaged by something at school because of their disability there are two things you can ask them to do:
- change the way things are done in the school, like a policy, rule or practice - this is a provision, criterion or practice. For example, you could ask a school to change their uniform policy, their rules about lateness in class or their timetables
- provide extra aids or services - for example, extra staff assistance, a BSL interpreter, specialist equipment like an induction loop or an adapted keyboard.
What about changes to school buildings
Schools don't have to make changes to the physical features of its site or buildings. Instead the local authority and the school must publish and implement plans to improve the accessibility of schools. These plans must also set out how access to lessons, school activities and information will be improved for disabled pupils. You could ask to see the plan for your child’s school and what steps have been taken to implement it.
Children who have additional support for learning needs
It’s not necessary for your child to have been assessed as having additional support needs to ask the school for reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act. And if your child has been assessed as having additional support needs, you may still need the school to make reasonable adjustments in addition to the additional support they get. Find out more about rights to additional support for learning in the Parents' Guide to Additional Support for Learning on the Enquire website.
Other forms of disability discrimination
There are other types of unlawful disability discrimination:
- direct discrimination
- indirect discrimination
- discrimination because of something connected to your disability - this is called discrimination arising from disability
A private school has turned down your son’s application for a place because he’s disabled. This is direct disability discrimination and you can take action under the Equality Act.
Your daughter is disabled and has been told she can’t participate in the school Christmas play. This is because of her disruptive behaviour. Her behaviour is something which is connected to her disability. This is therefore likely to be discrimination arising from disability.
The school should also consider what reasonable adjustments it can make to allow your daughter to participate in the play.
Other useful information
Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS)
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Book The truth about leadership : the no-fads, heart-of-the-matter facts you need to know / James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner.
Associated Name: Posner, Barry Z.
Publication year: c2010.
Call Number HD57.7 .K684 2010
Media class: Book
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9780470633540 0470633549
Extent: xxv, 197 p. ; 22 cm.
In an engaging, personal, and bold new book, ten time-tested truths are revealed that show what every leader must know, the questions they must be prepared to answer, and the real-world issues they will likely face. Explores the fundamental, enduring truths of leadership that hold constant regardless of context or circumstance: credibility, values, trust, leading by example, heart, and more. Shows emerging leaders what they need to know to be effective, perform their real and necessary work while bringing about the essential changes that will renew their organizations and communities.
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How do you know if a quadratic equation will have one, two, or no solutions? How do you find a quadratic equation if you are only given the solution? Is it possible to have different quadratic equations with the same solution? Explain. Provide your classmate’s with one or two solutions with which they must create a quadratic equation. Explain in your own words how the principle of square roots is used to solve quadratic equations. What form must a quadratic equation be in to use the principle of square roots for solving? Demonstrate the process with your own example. Create two examples for your classmates to attempt.
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The biggest roadblock standing in the way of many people’s recognition of the importance of the commons came tumbling down when Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for Economics.
Over many decades, Ostrom has documented how various communities manage common resources—grazing lands, forests, irrigation waters, fisheries—equitably and sustainably over the long term. The Nobel Committee’s recognition of her work effectively debunks popular theories about the Tragedy of the Commons, which hold that private property is the only effective method to prevent finite resources from being ruined or depleted.
Awarding the world’s most prestigious economics prize to a scholar who champions cooperative behavior greatly boosts the legitimacy of the commons as a framework for solving our social and environmental problems. Ostrom’s work also challenges the current economic orthodoxy that there are few, if any, alternatives to privatization and markets in generating wealth and human well being.
The Tragedy of the Commons refers to a scenario in which commonly held land is inevitably degraded because everyone in a community is allowed to graze livestock there. This parable was popularized by wildlife biologist Garrett Hardin in the late 1960s, and was embraced as a principle by the emerging environmental movement. Hardin described the Tragedy of the Commons with a hypothetical example of shared herding land: If all herders make the individually rational economic decision of increasing the number of cows they graze on the land, the collective effect will deplete or destroy the common. But Ostrom’s research refutes this abstract concept with the real life experience from places like Nepal, Kenya and Guatemala.
“When local users of a forest have a long-term perspective, they are more likely to monitor each other’s use of the land, developing rules for behavior,” she cites as an example. “It is an area that standard market theory does not touch.”
Garrett Hardin himself later revised his own view, noting that what he described was actually the Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons.
Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz, also a Nobel winner, commented, “Conservatives used the Tragedy of the Commons to argue for property rights, and that efficiency was achieved as people were thrown off the commons…What Ostrom has demonstrated is the existence of social control mechanisms that regulate the use of the commons without having to resort to property rights.” [ActMo Note: This is one way to protect us from ourselves, but how do we protect from being captured if under co-op or governmental regulation?]
The Nobel Committee’s choice of Ostrom is significant considering that many winners of the prize since it was initiated in 1968 have been zealous advocates of unrestricted markets, such as Milton Friedman, whose selection helped fuel the rise of market theory as the be-all, end-all of economics since the 1980s. Policies based upon this narrow worldview sparked the rise of corporate power and the diminishment of government’s role in protecting the commons.
While right-wing thinkers scoffed at the possibility of resources being shared in a way that maintains the common good, arguing that private property is the only practical strategy to prevent this tragedy, Ostrom’s scholarship shows otherwise.
“What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved,” she explains.
A classic example of this is an acequia, a centuries-old tradition of a cooperative irrigation in New Mexico and Colorado where the small flow of water available for agriculture is allocated by the community as a whole through a democratic process.
Ostrom is the first woman to be awarded the economics prize, which some observers say helps explain her emphasis on the role of people’s relationships in our economic arrangements rather than the focus on individualized market choices expounded by many male winners of the Nobel.
Equally noteworthy is the fact that Ostrom was not trained as an economist, but as a political scientist—a factor that may be even more useful in explaining her outside-the-box approach to economics.
Yale economist Robert Schiller, quoted in the New York Times, welcomed the merging of the two fields. “Economics has become too isolated and stuck on the view that markets are efficient and self-regulating. It has derailed our thinking.”
Elinor Ostrom has always been explicit in recognizing the importance of the commons—she helped found the International Association for the Study of the Commons, also based at Indiana University—and her selection as a Nobel Laureate marks an early milestone in the emergence of a commons-based society. Her works shows that our social, environmental and personal advancement depends on the vitality of the commons. | <urn:uuid:48176ea9-37c1-4947-a6ef-ed49b1f7801f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://activism101.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-victory-of-the-commons | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951931 | 980 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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This was our last day in Warsaw to take in all of the remaining sites, and our first stop was to the Old Town Market Square. More than 85 percent of Warsaw’s historic center was destroyed by Nazi troops during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, but thankfully the Old Town was restored and has since become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
There is a statue of a mermaid in the middle of the square, which happens to be Warsaw’s symbol. “Many legends exist that describe how the mermaid came to symbolize Warsaw. A popular version of this story tells of how the mermaid named Sawa was rescued from capture by a man named Wars. Because of Wars’ kindness, Sawa vowed to protect the city. Warsawa (Warsaw) became the name of the city and the mermaid is shown with a sword and shield in recognition of her promise to protect the city. In another story, a peasant man named Wars was directed to the location of the future city by Sawa, the mermaid. A related version of this tale explains how a prince, guided by a mermaid, traveled to a small village where he was given food by a mother with two children he named Wars and Sawa. The prince bestowed land to the family and the mermaid rose from the water to bless the future of the city that was to become Warsaw.” Regardless of whichever story one may choose to believe, the mermaid symbol can be found incorporated into some of the architecture throughout the city.
As we explored the surrounding area by the Old Town Market Square, we came across a museum dedicated to the discoverer of polonium and radium, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Marie Curie—who also happened to be born in Warsaw. We then came across a beautiful church, followed by a second church with an especially tragic history. During the Warsaw Uprising, the church served also served as a hospital, which was located in the crypt of the church. The church itself provided shelter to the civilian population during the bombing blitz. In Mid August, the church was bombed and destroyed, killing approximately 1,000 people. The hospital managed to continue to function in the ruined building until it was taken by the Germans in September 2nd. The invaders firstly executed the whole medical staff and blew up the hospital burying about 500 people alive under the rubble. After the war, it turned out to be impossible to exhume the remains of all the victims. Therefore, the ruined crypt was completely covered with a new marble floor with the remains entombed underneath.
After our brief exploration during our free time, we stopped at a small cafe for lunch, where I had a tuna sandwich and an incredible berry merengue pie. (Not to bore you with minute details, but I had to include this as well as a picture because it really was great). When we finished lunch, we headed over to the Wilanow Palace, a Baroque-style royal residence built between 1677-1696, and has been consistently changed and modified ever since. Each time a new generation took over the Palace, they either remodeled or added onto it in a personal favorite style, which is why parts of the palace may look different than others. Nevertheless, every aspect of the Palace is truly magnificent.
When the tour of the Wilanow Palace concluded, we had the rest of the day to ourselves. As we walked outside our hotel and continued down the street, my sister and I saw a crowd gathered outside a hotel. We asked a local what everyone was waiting for, and they told us that the Real Madrid soccer team would be leaving the hotel any minute. They had been in town to play against Fiorentina, and stopped at the hotel to pick up their belongings before returning home. With high hopes of seeing celebrities, my sister and I decided to camp outside the hotel with other fans of the team. When three hours passed by and no one left the hotel yet, my sister and I decided to return to our hotel a few blocks away so that we could change for dinner. Just two blocks before arriving to our hotel, a motorcade consisting of police cars and police motorcycles passed by, along with the busses filled with the players of Real Madrid. Had we stayed in front of their hotel for ten extra minutes, we would have seen all of the players…
We went back to the Old Town Market Square for dinner, and ate in a fifty-seven year old Kosher restaurant, with hopes of tasting traditional Jewish food from the area. I ordered a steak that tasted like it was fifty-seven years old, but even so, the traditional Jewish pictures throughout the restaurant and its long-standing history in the community was still impressive. After dinner, we stopped for a drink at a bar a few stores down and walked back to our hotel as soon as our tiredness kicked in. On the way back, we passed The Church of the Vistandines, a Roman Catholic Church from the 1700’s, and even made it in time to watch the changing of the guards at the country’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The picture below is a little blurry, but the guards were just changing shifts at the top of the hour. With enough excitement for one day, it was time to go to sleep for the night, and prepare for our trip to Krakow in the morning. | <urn:uuid:e8f6b6f9-d584-4117-99ac-0cc4a1fa22c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hurdlestohappiness.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/day-2-in-warsaw-poland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98133 | 1,100 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Luning and Van de Camp about the research programme Gold Matters on NWO website
Illegally working with pans and mercury for a gram of gold? The international research programme Gold Matters adjusts and nuances this one-sided view policymakers have of small-scale gold miners. The programme focuses on conversations with the gold miners themselves: how do they see their future? This focus can lead to new perspectives on sustainability and ways of working. ‘Amazement is very productive.’ In an interview on the website of the NWO, Sabine Luning, Marjo de Theije and Esther van de Camp talk about the gold miners they met in various African and South American countries and they come to new insights.
In the interview they talk about the research programme Gold Matters, where nineteen researchers from different countries including the Netherlands, Brazil, Burkina Faso, the United Kingdom and Sweden are collaborating with gold miners and artists in a transdisciplinary manner. The aim: visualising how mining takes place in the landscape and how that will influence the future of people and the natural environment. | <urn:uuid:46d6e216-7549-488e-915c-7be3a286e162> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2021/04/luning-and-van-de-camp-about-gold-miners-in-africa-and-south-america?cf=humanities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922622 | 219 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Peter Jordens shares a post on a new book by Ellen B.A. Neslo: Een ongekende elite: De opkomst van een gekleurde elite in koloniaal Suriname 1800-1863 [A Formerly Unknown Elite: The Rise of a Colored Elite in Colonial Suriname, 1800-1863]. The text is a PhD dissertation (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) published by HaEs Producties in November 2016.
Here is Jordens’ translated and edited extract of this Dissertation’s description (in Dutch) at http://www.boekenroute.nl/gasten/gtn1Boek.aspx?BoekID=100004:
During slavery, there existed a colored elite in Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo. [They consisted of manumitted slaves and their descendants who were fairly well-to-do.] In her Ph.D. Dissertation, based on archival research, Ellen Neslo has examined this urban, colored elite. As it turns out, they were more successful than had previously been assumed. Carpenters and midwives could earn a good living. [The group also included administrators, legal experts, medical doctors, and artists.] They invested their money in [plots of land,] homes and plantations, and they also bought their enslaved relatives free. […] It appears that they already had an influential social role [before Emancipation in 1863].
These free coloreds also held slaves for economic gain. Because of their pursuit of economic independence, they were part of the dominant slavery system. Buying a slave’s freedom was a costly affair, averaging 1,500 guilders (11,000 euros today). One had to pay both the slave-owner and the colonial government. Still, the proportion of free coloreds who bought the freedom of enslaved persons was significant. It helped to slowly corrode the slavery system from within. However, coordinated actions on the part of the urban, colored elite to buy the freedom of slaves remained limited to a few cases. Only manumitted persons who had been born in Africa did buy slaves free in a coordinated manner, probably as part of a network. [. . .]
In a recent book review, Hilde Neus states that there are still a lot of gaps in [Suriname’s] history, which have begun to be explored, but have not yet been fully addressed. The latter is certainly important for a balanced understanding of the history of slavery. […] With this dissertation on an elite of former slaves, Neslo has filled an important gap and contributed to that desired balance. Her book is a major asset in Suriname’s historiography and will provoke commentary as she has dared to take on sacred cows. This publication, rich in source references and pertinent images, cannot be dismissed as a sidetrack. The data that Neslo has unearthed in her dissertation is qualitatively and quantitatively too convincing!
The complete, original review (in Dutch) is available at http://werkgroepcaraibischeletteren.nl/een-ongekende-elite-van-ex-slaven.
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What is graphic design? What are some career options for a graphic designer?
Graphic design is the process of creating visual communication for an intended audience. It encompasses the use of typography, images, and layout to create a piece that is both effective and engaging. Graphic designers must be able to think critically and work effectively with other members of a team in order to create successful pieces.
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Graphic design is the process of creating a visual representation of communication. Graphic designers work with clients to create layouts, graphics, typography, and images that can be used in print or digital media. They may also create marketing materials, website designs, or any other type of graphic design project. The goal of graphic design is to communicate ideas effectively and make a product look professional.
History of Graphic Design: How did it develop?
Graphic design has a long and illustrious history that dates back to the early days of printing. Over the years, graphic designers have developed many techniques and approaches to creating effective visual communication. This article provides a brief overview of the development of graphic design, highlighting key milestones and influential individuals.
Elements of Graphic Design: What are they, and how do they work together?
Graphic design is the process of creating a visual representation of an idea. It can be used to communicate information, entertain people, or simply improve a product. There are many different elements that go into graphic design, and it is important to understand how they work together in order to create successful designs. Some of the most common elements include typography, layout, colour, and image manipulation. Each element has its own specific purpose and must be used in conjunction with others in order to produce a successful final product.
Principles of Graphic Design: What are the most important principles to know when designing graphics?
When it comes to creating graphics for a website, there are a few key principles that should be followed. These principles include using effective typography, creating an eye-catching design, and incorporating effective colour schemes. Additionally, it is important to remember that graphics should be designed to complement the content on a website, not overpower it. By following these principles, designers can create high-quality graphics that will help promote their work and attract the attention of potential customers.
Skills for Graphic Designers: What are the essential skills for graphic designers?
Graphic designers need to be able to think critically, create effective layouts, and use specific software programs. Here are essential skills for graphic designers:
1) Critical thinking- A good graphic designer must be able to analyze data and come up with creative solutions. They need to be able to see the big picture and answer questions like “What am I trying to say here?” and “How can I make this more visually appealing?”
2) Layout design- Graphic designers need strong layout skills in order to create effective designs. They should be able to think critically about how text and images fit together and come up with creative solutions that look pleasing on screen.
3) Software usage- Graphic designers need to be proficient in various software programs in order to create effective visuals.
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5) The field of graphic design will continue to merge with other creative disciplines, such as photography, web design, and advertising.
6) As technology continues to evolve, so too will graphic design techniques and methods.
History: How has graphic design evolved?
The history of graphic design is one filled with innovation and change. From the early days of hand drawings to the digital age, graphic designers have constantly been evolving their skills in order to create more effective visuals. Here are key moments in which graphic design has evolved:
1) The development of print media: In the early days of printing, printers were limited by the technology available. As a result, graphics were often simple and minimalistic in order to conserve space on paper. Over time, however, printers became more advanced, and designers began to experiment with typography and layout techniques. This shift led to the development of modern magazine publishing and advertising designs.
2) The rise of motion graphics: In the 1960s, artists began experimenting with motion graphics in order to create more engaging visuals for television commercials and movie trailers.
Methodology: What are the main steps in creating a graphic design project?
Creating a graphic design project can be a daunting task, but with careful planning and execution, it can be an enjoyable experience. Here are the main steps in creating a successful graphic design project: 1) Define the goals of the project. What is the purpose of the project? What do you want your final product to look like? Understanding these questions upfront will help you stay focused during the process. 2) Choose a platform or framework. There are many different graphic design platforms and frameworks available, so it is important to choose one that will best suit your needs. Some popular options include Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Inkscape, GIMP, and Sketch. 3) Plan your layout. Once you have selected a platform or framework, it’s time to start planning your layout. This includes designing logos, loading images, and setting up grids. 4) Create graphics!
Skills: What are the essential skills for a successful graphic designer?
Graphic designers have many skills that are essential for their success. Here are six of the most important:
-Creativity: Graphic designers need to be creative thinkers to come up with new ideas for designs, products, and advertising.
-Design Skills: Graphic designers need to have a strong set of design skills, including proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
-Communication Skills: Graphic designers need to be good communicators so they can work with clients and collaborators to create successful designs.
-Positive Attitude: A positive attitude is key for a successful graphic designer. They need to be able to take criticism well and stay motivated throughout the process.
-Problem-Solving Skills: Graphic designers need to be able to solve problems quickly and efficiently when working on projects.
The Creative Process: How do creative professionals go about creating a graphic design project?
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Creative professionals go about creating a graphic design project in different ways. Some designers may start with an idea and develop it until it is finalized, while others may start with a rough sketch and refine it as they go. Regardless of the process, creativity is key to any great design.
The Future of Graphic Design: What trends do you see emerging in the field of graphic design?
The future of graphic design is constantly evolving and adapting to the latest trends in the industry. Here are trends that you may see emerging in the near future:
1. More focus on mobile design: As smartphones and tablets become more popular, there’s a growing demand for graphics that can be adapted to use on these devices. This means that more attention will be paid to designing graphics that look good and function well on small screens.
2. More emphasis on typography: Over the past few years, type has taken centre stage in graphic design, with designers striving for crisp, legible letters that look great no matter what size they are printed or displayed. This trend is likely to continue as more people begin to appreciate the importance of good typography in branding and marketing efforts.
What are the three basic principles of graphic design?
The three basic principles of graphic design are composition, hierarchy, and spacing. Composition is the arrangement of elements on a page to create a visual effect. Hierarchy is the use of various elements to create an effective and efficient layout. Spacing is the use of space between elements to create balance and harmony within a design.
What is the difference between a logo, a trademark, and an emblem?
Logos, trademarks, and emblems are all different types of marks. A logo is the most common type of mark, and it typically consists of a stylized image or letter that is used to identify a company, product, or service. A trademark is a unique name or symbol that is used to distinguish one’s products from others. An emblem is a less common type of mark, and it usually consists of an image or design that represents something specific (like a country).
How does the use of colour affect a design?
The use of colour in design can have a significant impact on how a user experiences a product or website. For example, incorporating different colours into web pages can help users with different disabilities identify information more easily. Additionally, using complementary colours (colours that are adjacent to the colour wheel) can create a unified look and feel for a product or site. When choosing colours for your design, it’s important to consider both the practical and aesthetic implications of your choices.
What are the three types of fonts, and what are their uses?
Fonts are one of the most commonly used design elements in any type of document. They can be used for titles, headings, paragraphs, and even entire documents. There are three main types of fonts: serif, sans-serif, and cursive. Each has its own purpose and uses in design. Serif fonts are typically used for formal documents or texts with a more traditional feel. Sans-serif fonts are less formal and are more often used for headlines, text descriptions, or advertisements. Cursive fonts have a unique look that is perfect for handwritten documents or for adding a handwritten touch to printed materials.
How does the use of space affect a design?
Space is an essential component of any design. It can help to organize and communicate information, create balance and harmony in a space, and provide a focal point. In order to create effective designs that take advantage of the space available, it is important to understand how the use of space affects a design.
In order to create a design that is effective, it is essential to consider the use of space. This can be done through various methods such as layout, typography and colour. By considering how space affects a design, it can be easier to create an effective and cohesive piece.
What is an effective process for developing a design?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best process for developing a design will vary depending on the project and team involved. However, some tips for effective design development include starting with a clear idea of what you want your final product to look like, breaking the task into manageable chunks, and testing different ideas against each other until you find one that works best.
What are the different types of graphic design?
There are a number of different types of graphic design, each with its own specific purposes. Here are six of the most common: web design, interface design, logo design, branding and advertising, print graphics and illustration. Each has its own set of skills and requirements that must be met in order to create quality work. Understanding these differences will help you select the right type of graphic design for your project.
What are the different steps in designing a graphic for a website?
Creating a graphic for a website can be a daunting task, but with the right steps in mind, it can be a relatively easy process. Below are key steps to creating a great graphic for your website: 1) Define the purpose of the graphic. Is the graphic meant to represent the brand or product? Is it intended to attract attention or communicate information? Once you know the answer to these questions, you can begin shaping your design accordingly. 2) Choose an appropriate medium. A logo designed in Illustrator may look great on a T-shirt but might not fit well on a website where users are expected to interact with it. Likewise, vector illustrations may be perfect for conveying information about products but might not be as visually appealing as photos or videos. 3) Consider size and placement.
How do you start your design process?
Designing anything is an iterative process that starts with an idea and ends with a finished product. However, starting your design process can be daunting and difficult. In this article, we will talk about how to get started and how to make your design process easier. We will also provide some tips for overcoming common design challenges.
Which type of programs do you need to create your design?
One of the most important steps in designing a digital product is coming up with an idea. Once you have a concept, you need to develop a plan and create programs to make it a reality. There are a variety of programs available to help you create your design, so which one is right for you?
Some people prefer software that allows them to draw diagrams and design pages easily. Others may prefer software that helps them create entire websites or applications from scratch. There are also programs that allow users to import designs from other sources, like Microsoft Word or Photoshop. In the end, what matters most is finding a program that lets you easily take your initial idea and turn it into a reality.
What is the difference between vector and raster graphics?
Vector graphics are made up of points, lines, and polygons. Raster graphics are pixels that are used to create images on a screen. Vector graphics can be more complicated to create but can offer more flexibility in design. For example, a vector graphic might have circles that represent different types of objects, while a raster graphic would use squares for the same purpose.
How does graphic design affect our lives?
Graphic design has a vast range of impacts on our lives, from making us more efficient to improve our cognitive abilities. Here are ways graphic design affects our lives:
1. Graphic design can make us more efficient. By using specific layout and typography techniques, designers can help users complete tasks faster and with less effort. For example, studies have shown that using large fonts on a small screen reduces the amount of time needed to read text.
2. Graphic design can improve cognitive abilities. By manipulating images and text, designers can help people learn new information or skills more effectively. For example, designed layouts can make it easier for students to remember information by grouping related concepts together. Additionally, effective use of colour and contrast can boost attention span and memory recall in certain situations.
3. Graphic design can create a sense of anticipation or dread.
What are the different types of graphic design?
Different types of graphic design include web design, print design, packaging, motion graphics, and user interface design. Each type of graphic design has its own set of skills and techniques that must be mastered in order to create effective designs. Web designers are responsible for developing the looks and feel of a website, while print designers create layouts and images for printed materials such as newspapers and magazines. Packaging designers create the look and feel of products, such as food packaging or advertisements. Motion graphics designers create Flash or other animation-based visuals for websites, presentations, or video projects. User interface (UI) designers are in charge of creating the look and feel of computer software or mobile app.
What is the difference between graphic design and illustration?
Graphical design is the process of designing the layout, composition and presentation of a document such as a web page or book. The illustration is the creation of images that can be used for representation in print, on screens, or in other media. Graphic designers typically work with layouts, typography and colour, while illustrators are more likely to create illustrations that accompany the text. Both disciplines have their own set of skills and tools, but they are mostly distinguished by how they approach a project. Graphic designers generally focus on creating an overall look and feel for a piece, while illustrators may specialize in certain aspects of design like landscape or character animation.
How does graphic design affect our lives?
Graphic design has a profound effect on our lives. It can make us more efficient in our daily routines, or it can help us to express ourselves in ways that we never thought possible. Whether it’s the way a logo or website looks, or the layout of an advertisement, good graphic design can have a real impact on how we feel and what we do.
Why is it important to learn about graphic design?
Graphic design is an important skill to have in today’s society. It can help to create a cohesive, appealing appearance for websites, advertisements, or any other type of visual communication. Additionally, graphic design can be used to convey a message or idea more effectively than words alone. Therefore, learning about graphic design is essential for anyone who wants to excel in the field.
UI UX Graphic Design
There are many different types of user interface (UI) designs, from simple web pages to complex computer programs. UI design is the process of creating a visual representation of an interface that users can interact with. The goal of UI design is to make it easy for users to understand and use the interface while satisfying their needs and requirements. It can be a challenging task, but with the right tools and approach, it can be a rewarding one.
UI Graphic Design
What is UI graphic design? UI graphic design is the process of creating graphics for user interfaces, such as websites and mobile applications. A UI designer will create high-quality graphics that will improve the usability and attractiveness of a product or website. The goal of UI graphic design is to make users’ lives easier and more fun.
UX Graphic Design
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UX Graphic Design is an important part of creating a user interface that is both effective and appealing to the user. This includes not only designing the look and feel of the interface but also making sure that all the elements work together correctly and seamlessly. Proper UX Graphic Design can help users find what they need quickly and easily, which in turn can improve their overall experience with a product or service.
WordPress for Designers
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that can be used by designers to create a website or blog. WordPress is free and easy to use, making it an ideal platform for creating a website or blog. Additionally, WordPress has a wide range of features that make it an excellent choice for designers who want to create a website or blog. Some of the features that are particularly beneficial for designers include the ability to easily create pages, posts, and categories; the presence of built-in themes; and the abundance of plugins that allow you to add additional features to your site.
WordPress Elementor for Designers
WordPress Elementor is a neat tool that allows designers to easily create beautiful and functional WordPress themes. The interface is easy to use, and the themes created with Elementor are reliable and professional-looking.
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that enables you to create a website or blog from scratch or improve an existing website. WordPress was created in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Chris Lattner, and it has since been used by millions of people around the world. WordPress is versatile and easy to use, making it a great choice for both personal and commercial websites.
Visual communication refers to the use of images and symbols to communicate ideas. Whether it’s a logo, photograph, or illustration, visual communication can help convey a message quickly and effectively.
Visual communication has been used for centuries to relay messages to others. Today, it’s often used in marketing campaigns, advertisements, and website designs. It can also be used for educational purposes, such as teaching concepts or promoting social causes.
The use of visuals in communication has become increasingly important over the past few years. Not only is it easier for people to process information visually than verbally, but visuals also have the ability to create a more engaging experience for users. This is why many companies are now focusing on using visual communications more prominently in their marketing efforts.
What is Visual Communications in graphic design?
Visual communications in graphic design refer to the various ways images can be used to tell a story, convey information, or just look pretty. From logo design to website design and everything in between, visual communication is an essential part of any good graphic design project. Here are some examples of how visuals can help communicate ideas:
1. Logos: A well-designed logo can be the first impression a company makes. It should be memorable and stylish while also communicating the brand’s message.
2. Social Media Graphics: Creating graphics that look good on social media is key for getting your message out there. Whether it’s a simple profile picture or an elaborate timeline template, using eye-catching visuals will help draw attention to your posts and build connections with potential customers.
Application of Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Applications of Graphic Design include Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign. They are used to create graphical designs for publications, websites, and other digital products. Many people use these applications to create logos, flyers, advertisements, and more. The applications have many features that make them versatile tools for creating graphics.
Adobe Photoshop Graphic Design
Adobe Photoshop Graphic Design is a powerful suite of software used by graphic designers to create layouts, logos, typography, and graphics for websites and other media. With over 1,500 filters and tools at its disposal, Photoshop is a versatile tool that can be used for many different types of design projects. Whether you’re new to graphic design or have years of experience, Adobe Photoshop Graphic Design is a great option for creating high-quality visuals.
Adobe Illustrator Graphic Design
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphic design program that allows users to create high-quality illustrations and graphics. With its extensive capabilities, illustrators can create logos, icons, symbols, and other intricate designs. Additionally, Illustrator can be used for web design and development, as it offers features like colour correction, texturing, and animation. Whether creating logos or illustrations for a project, Illustrator is an excellent tool for those looking to create professional results.
Adobe InDesign Graphic Design
Adobe InDesign Graphic Design is a powerful yet versatile program that can be used to create professional-quality graphics. With InDesign, you can create logos, brochures, flyers, and other types of graphics. You can also use InDesign to create charts, illustrations, and photos. If you’re looking for a program that can help you design quality graphics quickly and easily, InDesign is a great option.
Web Design Graphic Design
Web design and graphic design are two of the most important aspects of a website. A good web design will make your website look professional, while a good graphic design will make your website look sleek and modern. Web Design Graphic Design: Both web design and graphic design are very important aspects of a website. A good web design will make your website look professional, while a good graphic design will make your website look sleek and modern.
A good graphic design will make your website look sleek and modern. However, if you’re not getting the right SEO for your website, it won’t look as good to potential customers. In order to make sure that your website looks great no matter what, you need to have the proper SEO in place.
Design websites can be a fun and creative way to show your work to the world. They can also be an important tool for businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re a small business owner just starting out or an established company with multiple sites, designing a website can be an easy and affordable way to improve your brand visibility and grow your business. Here are tips for creating a great website design:
1. Choose a unique domain name that accurately reflects your business.
2. Choose a web host and design platform that will support your website’s layout and look.
3. Choose the right web development team to help create your website’s content, graphics, and layout.
4. Create engaging content that will draw in visitors from across the internet.
5. Optimize your website for search engine visibility using keyword research and placement techniques.
Type is how a written language is presented to readers. It includes the choice of fonts, size, location on a page, and other typographical elements that together create a text or document. There are many different types of typefaces, and each has its own unique characteristics that can be used to make an impression on readers. Typefaces can also be used for decorative purposes or to set apart sections of a document.
Colour theory is the study of the various colours that can be created and how they are related to one another. When someone speaks about colour theory, they are usually referring to three primary colours: red, green, and blue. Each of these colours can be combined in various ways to create all of the other colours. For example, yellow can be created by combining red and green light together.
There is no one definitive answer to the question of what topics make for a good study in graphic design. However, some popular options include understanding the history and development of graphic design, studying specific types of graphics (e.g., web graphics, print ads), learning about layout and typography, and exploring the ways that grap.
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Cambridge Dictionary defines running as an activity going somewhere quickly on foot, as a sport or for pleasure. Running may be an important component of a healthy lifestyle, but unlike any powerful medicine, you’ve got to get the dose right.
Runners have 37–56 percent possibility of running-related injuries on an average.Overuse injuries, cardiovascular deterioration, sore muscles,cardiac arrests, osteoarthritis and joint pain, are all part and parcel of the game, especially if you do it regularly for long distances.
“Your body is designed to deal with oxidative stress that comes from exercise for the first hour, “But prolonged intense exercise causes excessive oxidative stress, which basically burns through the antioxidants in your system and predisposes you to problems,” Cardiologist James O’Keefe, MD, Director of Preventative Cardiology at the Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, and author of the Heart editorial tells active.com
Types of Running Workouts
Base run. These short to moderate length runs will form the bulk of your weekly training mileage. You may do the run at your natural pace, and can make significant improvements in your aerobic capacity and endurance.
Progression run. You begin at your natural pace and end at a faster pace. Progression run is more challenging and requires more recovery time.
Long run. When you’re running for a long distance, your main aim is to increase the length of what you’ll be comfortable doing on your base runs.For the long-distance running, you can increase your pace or mix at some intervals.
Fartlek. These runs are less structured, and the best part is you can play with speed without any stress. Fartlek mixes in few intervals of different distance and duration.
Intervals. Intervals contain short or long bursts of intense effort. These running workouts get separated by equal or slightly longer segments, of slower running, jogging or walking.
Temp runs. You must perform them at the fastest pace that you can sustain for a period.These workouts help you to increase and support speed. They are also called as threshold runs.
Hill repeats. These workouts are short segments of uphill running that you’ll repeat to increase your aerobic power, pain tolerance, high-intensity fatigue resistance, and strength.
Recovery run. These sequences are also known as easy runs, and you can do them at a relatively comfortable pace. The best time to do recovery runs is after a hard workout such as the interval or tempo runs.
Common Running Injuries
Running injuries occur when you push yourself too hard. The movement of your body also plays a role. Here’s a list of the common running injuries:
- Runner’s Knee
- Stress Fracture
- Shin Splint
- Achilles Tendinitis
- Muscle Pull
- Ankle Sprain
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Iliotibial Band Syndrome
- Temperature-Related Injuries
Runners Knee. The stress of your running irritates your kneecap that rests on your thigh bone. You may feel a sudden or sharp pain or a dull and chronic pain. The pain may disappear while you’re running and reappears at other times. The primary cause of runner’s knee is poorly coordinated quadriceps and tight hamstrings.
Stress Fracture. It is a small crack in your bone or severe bruising within your bone. Stress fracture typically affects you in the shin and feet. A stress fracture occurs if you work too hard before your body gets adjusted to the new activity.
Refraining from high impact action for an adequate period helps you to recover from a stress fracture. If you resort to running too quickly, it will delay the healing process, and increases the risk for complete fracture.
Shin Splint. It is the catch-all term for the pain that appears in the front or inside of your lower leg along with your shin bone. Shin splint is typical for athletes, runners, dancers and tennis players.
It occurs if you change your workout, or increase the number of your runs too quickly. If you have flat feet,then you’re more likely to develop shin splint. Rest, stretching exercises and slow return to your running activities help heal this condition.
Achilles Tendinitis. It is due to an overuse injury of Achilles tendon. It is the band of tissue that connects your lower calf muscles at the back of your lower leg to your heel bone. Achilles Tendinitis occurs if you suddenly increase the intensity or duration of your runs. Proper rest, calf stretches and icing the area are the treatment options.
Muscle Pull. It’s a small tear in your muscle also called the muscle strain. It’s mainly due to over stretching of the muscle. When you pull a muscle, you may feel a popping sensation when the muscle tears. Rest, Ice, compression, and elevation are your treatment options. Hamstrings,quadriceps, groin, and calf, are the most commonly affected muscles.
Ankle Sprain. If your ligaments of your ankle get torn, it leads to an ankle injury. It usually occurs on the lateral or outside part of your ankle. An ankle sprain occurs when your foot twists or rolls inward. Your ankle injury may get better with proper rest, compression, ice and elevate your feet.
Plantar Fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis is the inflammation at the bottom of your feet. You may experience a sharp, tight, painful sensation at the base of your heel that can be annoying to excruciating.
Overuse, over training or improper footwear can lead to pain in your heels. The root of plantar fasciitis is the result of tight and weakened muscles in your foot. If your feet are weak, they can’t take on excessive load or handle the training that you’re trying to do.
Treatments: Avoid going bare feet, stretch and strengthen your calves, roll your feet around on a golf ball and ice the affected area. These steps will provide much-needed relief quickly.
IT band syndrome. The iliotibial band is a tendon which connects your knee to your hip.When your tendon becomes inflamed, it results in IT band syndrome.When you get this condition,you’ll feel that somebody has stabbed you in the side of your knee when you run, especially when you’re going downhill. It can cripple you if you delay addressing this condition.
Running downhill and on the same side of the road are the common culprits.These activities put a lot of stress on the side of your knee and cause friction between the IT band and your femur.
Overtime your IT band may tighten and starts to swell which results in pain. Then the pain intensifies to the level of preventing you from running.
Avoid aggressive downhill running, and switch sides while running on the road. Treatment options include cutting back on exercise, applying heat, stretching before exercise and icing the area after activity.
Blisters. This condition causes fluid-filled sacks on the surface of your skin. You tend to get these blisters because of the friction between your shoes, socks, and skin.
To help prevent blisters wear socks with double layer, apply petroleum jelly on areas prone to blisters and start using new shoes gradually.
Temperature-Related Injuries. Sunburn, frostbite, heat exhaustion and hypothermia are the temperature-related injuries. You can prevent them by staying hydrated, wearing suitable clothing and using sunscreen.
Oxidative Stress. Forget sore muscles and crafting; excessive running can cause even dangerous wear and tear on your body. When you have a strenuous workout, your body works hard to burn fat and sugar for fuel. This action creates the “smoke.”
The “smoke” which rises through your system is free radicals that can bind with cholesterol. It creates plaque buildup in your arteries and damages your cells in a process called as oxidative stress. So ensure moderation in your running workout.
Management of Health Risks of Running
Warm up and cool down. A good warm-up dilates your blood vessels and enhances oxygen flow to your muscles. It raises your muscles’ temperature for optimum efficiency and flexibility. It slowly increases your heart rate and reduces stress on your heart when you begin to run.
Just as important, the cool down keeps the blood flowing throughout your body. If you stop suddenly, it can cause lightheadedness because your heart rate and blood pressure drop quickly. If you wind down slowly the heart rate and blood pressure fall gradually.
Start slow and build your muscles. If you’re looking to start building your muscles and strengthening them, you’ll have to lift heavy weights, eat a diet based on your goals and take proper rest. Should you soak a sprained ankle in epsom salt? Find out here.
Studies about military recruits who were told to perform a particular amount of vigorous exercise conclude that, those recruits who have been the least active and less fit suffered more.
Studies also point out that injuries are related to duration, frequency, intensity, or the total amount of training. Therefore it’s wise to start slow and buildup your muscles. So, how’d you go about?
- Change the intensity of your runs
- Run at an incline
- Include weight lifting and resistance bands
- Be sure to rest
- Get enough protein in your diet
Recognize early systems of overuse. The following are the symptoms of overuse injuries:
- Gradual onset of pain
- No history of direct injury
- Pain presenting as an ache
- Visible swelling
- Point tenderness
- Missed training sessions as a result of illness or injury
- A persistent problem
When you experience nagging aches and pains that arise too frequently after running, you need to pause and listen to your body. Consult a physiotherapist before it becomes worse and gets you off the track for good.
Get the right shoes for your feet. Running shoes provide support in the midsole and padding and reinforcement in your heel. While running, you hit the ground with 2-3 times your body weight. So, it’s prudent to wear footwear designed specifically for this activity.
The type of your foot and the running style will help you determine the type of your perfect shoe. Wear proper fitting shoes and socks with good support. If the soles of your shoes are worn thin or angled, it’s time to get a new pair. If you have problem feet such as a flat foot or high arches, consider using orthotic shoe inserts.
Prepare your heart for exercise everyday. There are some rare incidents whereby a runner passed away or had some severe cardiac complications while running. To protect yourself from such happenings, take things slow and be active on a regular basis. Try to build up your running routine rather than running endless laps all of a sudden.
Here’s a list of cardiologist guaranteed best cardiovascular exercises. Strengthen your heart with these exercises to improve your running performance.
- Interval training
- Total body non impact sports
- Weight training
- Core workouts
- Being active all day
Worst exercises for your heart:
- Running long distance on pavement
- Any vigorous exercise you haven’t trained for
Stay hydrated to keep your blood pressure from falling. Most of the times running reduce your blood pressure. If you suffer from low BP, you may feel dizzy. So make sure you are well hydrated before,during and after running. Always have a sipper by your side to avoid dehydration.
Dehydration affects your running performance negatively. Water and carbohydrate replacement drinks are excellent for maintaining hydration while running.
Treatment of Common Running Injuries
You will feel relieved by following these procedures which we’ve discussed below. If pain and discomfort continue, check with your healthcare provider.
Rest. If you get pain while running and continue to do so, your injury may get worse. Choose other methods of healing such as swimming or cycling.
Ice and cold therapy. Apply ice packs to reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation.
Compression. Wrap the affected area with tape and use splints. They support to control swelling and stabilize the affected area.
Elevate. If you hurt your foot or sprain your ankle, raise your legs to reduce swelling.
Stretch. Do gentle stretches and massage the affected area to reduce pain
Pain relievers. Take over the counter pain relievers such as:
- Acetaminophen (Tylenol)
- Anti-inflammatory medications, such as naproxen (Aleve)
- Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) that your health care provider recommends to reduce pain and inflammation.
Never ignore pain, always listen to your body. Before you begin a running routine, talk to your trainer. She may help you to create a plan according to your fitness level and long-term goals.
Mix up your fitness routine. Try swimming, biking, tennis or other activities to build your fitness. Wear lightweight breathable clothing that wicks moisture away from your skin. Dress in layers. Wear a hat to protect from the sun.
Run on flat, smooth surfaces, Avoid steep hills until your body gets used to this form of workout. Run during the day in well-lit areas. Using light and cell phone helps to identify you in case of emergencies. If you’re running with headphones, keep your volume low enough to hear cars and other noises. Run with a partner if you can.
Avoid running outside if the temperature is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, below freezing or if humidity, is high. Stay hydrated.
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(Education) A school for children, typically older than toddlers and younger than adolescents. In the U.S., elementary schools cover grades 1 through 5, and the ages of the children are usually 6-11 years. At a minimum, elementary schools will teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and history.
A usually private secondary school that prepares students for college.
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After a pair of massive hurricanes battered Texas and Florida, members of Congress from those states are facing an uncomfortable question: Does relief for one state come at the cost of the other?
The fear among many in Washington is that the double-whammy of the two hurricanes — Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida — could pull away federal resources needed in both states.
One of the most important Texans in the middle of these negotiations is U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, a Fort Worth Republican and senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. She told the Tribune that she is “absolutely” concerned about Congress addressing dual disasters.
“How we pay for them, what we do is still up in the air because it’s an enormous amount of money,” Granger said. “We don’t even know how much.”
Late last week, Congress passed — and President Donald Trump signed into law — a massive deal that included a short-term funding package for Houston and other Harvey-affected regions.
But 90 members of the U.S. House — including four Texas Republicans — voted against the bill because it was married to a hike in the debt limit.
That measure was widely viewed as just a start.
“That was a down payment,” Granger said. “It was really to say, ‘We’re watching, and we care.’”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that leaders in Washington have assured him that Texas can expect as many as three more rounds of Harvey aid from Congress before the end of the year.
“They all are very clear that there will be multiple supplemental budgets that will be passed to pay for rebuilding Texas as well as rebuilding other disaster areas,” Abbott told reporters after receiving a Harvey recovery briefing in Austin. “We may have another supplemental budget as soon as the end of this month. There is also expected to be a supplemental budget in the October-November timeframe. Maybe another one by the end of the year.”
(Asked last week, as Irma was bearing down on Florida’s coast, if he was concerned that a second hurricane would hinder post-Harvey efforts, Abbott said his only concerns were for the country and the safety of those in the path of Irma.)
Concerns over how much of those disaster funds will go to Texas vs. Florida are bipartisan and extends to both states. Even so, sources from both delegations and in both parties stressed: Nobody wants this to turn into a competition.
“We have to make sure there is enough for both of us,” said U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, a Palm Beach Democrat.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is another worried Florida Democrat, but her concerns extend beyond the two states splitting resources. She worries about politics.
“In this Congress? I am [concerned] because there is a split in the Republican Party over whether to support emergency aid or not,” she said.
U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan-based Republican, brushed off that sentiment, saying he “wouldn’t put much stock” into Castor’s concerns.
“I think Congress is going to find a way to deal with the challenges that each [of the storms] bring,” he said. “I’m not worried about it.”
Congress’ recovery efforts could go beyond directly doling out cash. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, is a senior member of the tax-writing U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. He recently proposed legislation that would allow Americans put out of work by either hurricane to use their 2016 salaries to apply for tax credits — a move that would allow many to qualify for a larger credit than if they filed based on reduced income from 2017.
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Gareth Bayley, the UK Prime Minister’s Special Representative, convened a meeting in London of Special Envoys from the US and Europe to discuss peace in Afghanistan. Special Envoys of the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Italy, Norway and the European Union met in London on 23 April 2019.
“Respectful of the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Afghanistan, participants discussed the Afghan people’s desire for a lasting peace”, statement by UK government said.
The participants agreed on a number of things.
They reiterated their affirmation that the future of Afghanistan is for Afghans to decide. “A return to practices from an earlier period that rolls back progress will invite international isolation of Afghanistan. Participants do not believe that the majority of the Afghan people desire that outcome.
“, it said.
Sustainable peace requires inclusive dialogue between the Taliban, Afghan government, and other Afghans that leads to intra-Afghan negotiations.
The parties reaffirmed that intra-Afghan negotiations should begin as soon as possible, with the goal of reaching an agreement on a political roadmap for Afghanistan’s future.
They also urged all sides to take immediate steps to reduce violence and end the killing, “The Afghan people deserve and want an end to violence. Calls for more fighting will not advance peace efforts, and will instead yield only more suffering and destruction”.
The special representatives called on the Taliban to cut ties to Al-Qaeda, and other international terrorist groups, and to take concrete steps to ensure Al Qaeda, Daesh and other international terrorists do not use Afghan soil to threaten or attack any other country.
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Alex is a difficult employee. Increasingly argumentative lately, insisting on only one way of doing things, and claiming to be right without having the full picture. Talking behind the backs of others, blaming, sometimes name-calling, and generally being pessimistic. It’s a real problem for the team and manager.
The process of resolving difficulties starts within ourselves. It’s good to remember that sometimes we can be Alex and exhibit all the behaviours we find irritating in others. As a leader, any interaction we have with a “difficult” person is going to be much more successful if we can maintain our composure and keep our emotional triggers in check. One effective way to assess and neutralize our personal triggers is to have an intentional conversation with our boss or coach.
Five key strategies that can help you work with difficult people:
1. Create an environment of trust and safety where the employee can express their concerns. Providing a place to share will often de-escalate the emotional charge. Often individuals just need to be heard.
- Ask, “What is going on?”
- Listen with curiosity and empathy.
- Asking “what else” or “is there more” can allow the employee to drain the swamp.
2. Prompt with the facts that you have observed. Avoid judgements as much as possible. Instead of saying, “You were rude in that meeting,” try something more observable such as, “I noticed that a number of people were talking at the same time during our meeting and wanted to get your input on this.”
3. Look for the unmet needs that may be driving challenging behaviours. Do they have a need to be heard or to have the right answer? Perhaps they want fairness, competition, agreement, or accountability? Understanding that we all have different needs can be the catalyst for a conversation about how we cooperate and flourish in a diverse environment.
4. Be vulnerable and share if you can. Nothing builds trust like honesty and vulnerability. Let them know that you don’t expect perfection; you aren’t perfect either. If they are receptive, you can share some of your coping mechanisms.
5. Brainstorm solutions together. Let them know you care about and believe in them. “We hired you because you are good at this, so let’s work together to elevate the performance of the team, and achieve the organization’s vision.”
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What Can Cell Membrane Be Compared To Simple
What Can Cell Membrane Be Compared To. Unlike the cell wall, the cell membrane is flexible and its shape can be changed as needed. The cell membrane is present in all living organisms, including plants.
We all remember that the human body is amazingly problematic and one way I discovered to comprehend it is by way of the manner of human anatomy diagrams. Many people have did not recognise the numerous details, as students, or patients when your doctor has explained intimately what is going on to you.
Others comprise the following; a cell wall of peptidoglycan which continues the general shape of the cell and it’s made from polysaccharides and proteins. However, this cells have 3 distinctive shapes i.e spherical, rod fashioned and spiral. The only exception is Mycoplasma bacteria that don’t have any cell wall and for this reason no particular shape.
Bacteria diagram additionally indicates Periplasmic space, that is a cellular compartment found purely in bacteria which have an outer membrane and a plasma membrane.
The plasma membrane must be sufficiently. Mitochondria The mitochondria is the power house of the cell much like the power plant in a city. Visking tubing is very similar to the cell membrane.
The cell membrane is found both in plant cells and animal cells, but it is predominantly seen in animal cells.
Mitochondria The mitochondria is the power house of the cell much like the power plant in a city.
The plasma membrane must be sufficiently. Cell membranes are phospholipid bilayers that are usually visualised by the 'fluid mosaic model' consisting of proteins, carbohydrate polymers and glycoproteins that are able to move around relatively freely amongst the phospholipids. The exact mix or ratio of proteins and lipids can vary depending on the function of a.
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Climate action is a big topic for politicians in St. Paul. However, the city is behind in one policy area: allowing the sale and usage of gas-powered leaf blowers.
Washington, D.C., implemented a ban against gas-powered leaf blowers in 2022. The ban was approved by D.C. City Council back in 2018. “It’s time to phase out the use of these noisy, polluting leaf blowers,” Mary Cheh, D.C. Councilmember was quoted upon the council’s approval of the bill in 2018.
It is time. More areas are realizing this. Last December, regulators from the state of California voters approve banIn 2024, the sale of gas powered landscaping equipment, including leaf-blowers, will begin. In the same month, county commissioners in Multnomah County — home to Portland, OR. — also A plan was passed to phase outThe use of gas-powered leaf blowers.
However, St. Paul has been quite quiet. The city does not have any restrictions on leaf blower use, aside from a noise-related ban that prohibits the use of these ear-splitting devices between 10 p.m. & 7 a.m. These machines are powerful emitters of carbon and other harmful toxins. The city is making a grave mistake by failing to ban and phase out gas-powered leaf blowers.
St. Paul has committed that they will reach carbon neutrality by 2050. They’ve Considered big policy movesTo get there, large investments in green infrastructure and public transit are necessary. But the city’s environmental efforts seem to have mistakenly ignored gas-powered leaf blowers. Leaf blowers and other gas powered lawn mowers are common across the country. tools Create12% of all carbon dioxide emissions. A few years back, the California Air Resources BoardAccording to projections, 2020 will see gas-powered leaf-blowers and similar lawn equipment emit more ozone pollution that all other cars in the state. Leaf blowers are high capacity carbon-spewing machines.
Handheld leaf blowers can be particularly dangerous for the user, as they release toxins from their engines. Reports FromThe Environmental Protection Agency found that a gas-powered lawn is more effective than a grass-powered one. gardenEquipment, including leaf blowers can release dangerous particulate matter as well as volatile organic compounds. These include benzene, acetaldehyde, and acetaldehyde.
“If we’re using [leaf blowers] for a long time, cause you’re right over top of it, you can tell. You can get headaches and that kind of thing,”Michael Frazier, Macalester’s chief grounds person, said.
These toxins released by these machines’ small engines lead to long-term health problems. Sources say that these toxins are a long-term problem for health. These are the opinions of anti-leaf blower supportersThe toxins in Portland, Oregon expose workers to carcinogenic toxins and can cause respiratory problems. They can also cause hearing damage. Workers being allowed to use poisonous machines is against any claim of worker safety and protection.
The solution is electric-powered equipment. This reduces the carbon emissions, toxic fumes and excessive noise. In the summer of 2020, Macalester’s grounds crew took advantage of a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency grantsTo replace approximately half their lawn equipment with electric-powered ones. The grant paid half of the cost for new electric equipment tools.
As Macalester has learned, moving to electric leaf-blowers isn’t a perfect option; some trade-offs are involved.
“The only fallback is the power. Most of the stuff is fine, but it’s the backpack blower that kind of suffers. It just doesn’t have the power that the gas does,” Frazier said. But this isn’t a permanent state of affairs: “With that being said, it’s early, too. This stuff is all pretty new to us, and new to the industry.”
This technology will only improve. As Atlantic journalist James Fallows reportsOver the past two decades, battery technology has improved steadily.
As the market for leaf blowers with clean blades grows, this trend should continue.
Every investment in electrifying leaves blowers will make significant progress in reducing emissions in our city. However, waiting for private actors to make sufficient transitions on their own, is a fool’s task. Private landscaping companies will electrify their clients’ yards because the cost of switching to electric leaf-blowers upfront can be prohibitive and may make it less efficient for yard work. toolsToo slowly. Under the pressures of the marketplace, it will be hard for landscapers and yard workers to bear the costs of electrification while their competitors don’t have to.
This is where St. Paul’s influence can be significant. We should follow the example of other jurisdictions and eliminate leaf blowers. This can be a sensible and uncontroversial policy. We don’t need an immediate ban — we can do as other jurisdictions have, and give yard workers time to switch their equipment. We don’t have to force companies to bear all the costs of this change, which generates publicly shared benefits — we can maintain the Minnesota state grant program that Macalester utilized, which has More than 100 companies have been helpedTransition to electric lawn mowers | <urn:uuid:17eac22f-268f-4f21-aed7-9d1bc30d8201> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gardeningdaily.life/its-time-to-ditch-leaf-blowers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950999 | 1,133 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Using TikTok at work could get you in trouble - or boost your career
Social media. Once a curious niche of students, now a mainstream bastion of cliche. Social media is everywhere, it’s a great way to express yourself, stay in touch with family and friends, share pictures of your cherished moments. It’s this and that. We’ve heard it all before.
More precisely, people are using TikTok. Through TikTok, you can watch and share videos ranging from 15 seconds up to ten minutes, making it truly popular among people of all ages. Users are creating content in their cars, their homes and even their places of work. But what are the rules here?
Social media usage is pretty impossible to keep tabs on given its scope. Companies and businesses have learnt to live it rather than outright curtail it. Some operations even have their own “social media policies,” which all of their employees need to follow.
Whether or not your workplace has specific social media rules, it’s still a good idea to learn some do’s and don’ts when posting around work as a representative of the company, or posting IN work. In this article, we will talk about the things that you should - and should not -do when it comes to using TikTok at work.
Can TikTok help my career?
While browsing TikTok for amusement purposes probably won’t help your career in any way, using it as a tool to reach out to employers has proven to work in the past.
Amia Watson made a “hire me” video and pulled off a viral piece of content without so many frills or costly equipment. Don’t feel tempted to take a traditional, formal approach to applying for jobs. This is TikTok, it’s still a fairly untapped market. It feeds of youth and creativity. So be those things. If you’re not so youthful, then just up the ante on the creativity. Or have a “youthful soul!” It’ll still probably work. Make a 1-minute video on what you can bring to the table and link your resume in your bio. You can get creative, or you can keep it short and simple, like a video version of your cover letter. It’ll depend on the role and company you’re applying to.
Make separate videos on what skills you have and how they’re a good fit for your desired workplace. Make videos answering popular interview questions (but again, in a unique, relaxed way), so companies can get a feel for who you are and for your (youthful) personality.
Tag your desired companies. Other creators who’ve done similar videos have taken it a step further and tagged the companies they’d like to work for. With the approach being so direct and personal, it’s hard not to get noticed. And if your content is top dollar, it might be hard NOT to get employed. You may leave them with no choice but to Stan, and to hire.
Can you get fired for using TikTok?
Generally speaking, employers have the power to fire employees for any lawful reason, and sadly that now includes what they post on social media, which is why you see a lot of protected Twitter accounts. There are some defences that could be available to an employee staring down the gun of discipline. These include laws prohibiting discrimination and retaliation, and laws protecting whistleblowers and employees who complain about workplace conditions.
While you are working, your employer has a right to demand your attention, and therefore has an interest in curbing your personal social media use. As a result, it’s important that employees are aware of the risks associated with posting on their personal social media accounts during working hours.
When you’re not working, your employer has less of an interest in monitoring your speech. But your employer could discipline you for things you post outside of work, especially if what you post is obscene. A notorious example is the PR Executive who, before boarding a flight to South Africa, posted on Twitter: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” She left the flight only to discover she’d been fired.
An important note: making your profile or posts private aren’t a dead cert to save you from discipline. Courts generally believe that you lack an expectation of privacy for what you post on public platforms, so even if you intend to keep posts private, someone may share the post with your employer and you may be then subject to discipline.
What shouldn’t you do when using TikTok at work?
Don’t wear your uniform in your content. Wearing the uniform means you’re representing the company. So if you create a risque video while wearing said uniform, you could affect the image your company is seeking. There are exceptions if you are an ambassador and/or promoting the company’s products and services. In that case, representing the company TikTok may be part of the job description.
Don’t use your company email address. Reserve this, naturally, for work purposes only. Don’t use it to register on TikTok, Facebook, or any other social media.
Another obvious one: don’t slate the company or particular employees. Work is hard. It’s easy to rant against your boss, for example, who you feel is short-changing you in some way. Why not do so on TikTok so everyone can validate your feelings? Because though it may feel good to publicly vent like this, professionally it’s just not worth it and may affect your future employment at other companies.
Perhaps the most obvious one: don’t do anything criminal. TikTok trends can be dangerous, if not outright stupid. Some have involved challenges were laws are treated with ridicule. Resist the urge to go along with such trends if you’re a fan of working a job and being paid money by a company. If not, knock yourself out. Become an anarchist. Get TikTok famous and screw the rest.
TikToker Lexi Larson was promptly fired for sharing her salary on the app. On the day of her termination, Larson shows followers her work outfit, saying: “Hey guys. My name is Lexi. Welcome to the vlog of the day I got fired. This was my outfit.”
The video cuts to a short montage of buildings while she drives to work. “I left for the office at, like, 8am and this all of the footage I got because right when I went inside, I was fired.” she goes on.
“Their issue with my [TikTok] videos was me sharing my salary,” Larson said in another video. “And just to be super clear, I did not share any company private information. I confirmed with them that I hadn’t broken any policies or shared anything that was a security concern.”
The lesson? Don’t share your dough. An old school rule we know now doesn’t swing in the social media age.
Eli “Starbucks Guy”
A 19-year-old Starbucks barista in Indiana claimed he was fired for posting a TikTok about work.
The employee, who only went by his first name, Eli, posted a video on TikTok in September 2021 showing ways he and his co-workers wished they could respond to demanding customers. “There were no customers there. We were closed or about to be closed, so we were just having fun,” he told BuzzFeed News. “Nothing was broken or vandalized.”
A Starbucks representative told BuzzFeed News that “there is an expectation that partners create a respectful, safe and welcoming environment.”
The lesson here? The customer is always right and not to be mocked on TikTok.
Fresno Airport Employees
Four ramp service agents at Fresno Yosemite International Airport decided to make a TikTok after their shift one night, inspired by other airport staffers who’d made similar posts, as well as police officers and nurses. Tommy Chan and three other colleagues filmed themselves dancing using airport equipment as props.
The resulting video was viewed more than 370,000 times and had more than 50,000 likes. It shows the four men acting out lyrics from the song “Magnolia” by Playboi Carti. They use a traffic cone as a megaphone prop, jump out of a luggage cart and do the “milly rock” dance, using a mop as a gun while onboard a Flight Services & Systems vehicle. Later, they dance in front of the “Welcome to Fresno” sign inside the airport wearing their security vests.
Life was great. They’d made a viral TikTok. What could go wrong? Everything. When the video came to the company’s attention, officials told the group they used company equipment inappropriately while still on the clock and were promptly fired. Chan thought this was hypocritical given that the head of airport social media apparently told them “Nice video.” A spokesperson for the airport denied that interaction took place.
In a statement, the airport described the video as “inappropriate behaviour,” writing that the group “displays poor judgment and does not reflect the conduct expected of individuals working at FAT.”
Tamara Khalifa was also stung by the workplace TikTok only last month after uploading a video of being caught dancing at work by another employee. The video received about 6.7 million views on the social media platform.
In the short clip, Khalifa checks to make sure no one is watching before busting into a TikTok dance beside a printing machine. Then, right at the crucial moment, another woman comes around the corner to use the printer. Khalifa claims she didn’t see or hear the woman until she said “excuse me.” Khalifa laughs as she moves out of the way to stop the recording.
In a comment under the video Khalifa wrote, “I got fired y’all,” next to several laughing emoji.
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I just got back from a very sweaty run in hot and humid conditions, and downed several glasses of cold water before hopping in the shower. But, as is my habit, I didn’t drink anything during my run. Am I an idiot?
That question (whether you need to drink during short or medium-length runs, not whether I’m an idiot) has been debated for years now - and new research is still appearing. A couple of presentations on the topic at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting earlier this summer, from researchers at Elon University, caught my attention.
Both presentations were based on the same study, which involved 23 female recreational runners, who ran two 15K time trials in moderate, humid conditions (20°C, 87 percent humidity). In one of the trials, they drank 340ml water during the run; in the other, they rinsed their mouths with water then spat it out every three kilometres.
One presentation summarised the physiological and perceptual differences between the two runs. In brief, there wasn’t much difference. The drinking group sweated more, by roughly the same amount as the water they drank. The mouth rinse group was thirstier after the run. But their run times were the same (79.8 versus 79.7 minutes), and so were their heart rates and sense of effort.
The second presentation looked at affective responses - things like pleasure, arousal, energy, calmness, and so on - and found “similar affective responses” during and after both runs, though the mouth rinse group reported more tension.
So what does this tell us? For these particular runners, under these particular conditions, it didn’t really seem to matter whether they drank or just wet their mouths during the run. If they didn’t drink during the run, they were more thirsty afterwards - like I was this morning - but it didn’t slow them or make them feel worse.
One conclusion is that pausing to wet your mouth, or maybe take a sip or two, when you pass a water fountain may be all you need on some runs. Or it may just be that as long as you make sure you don’t feel thirsty (whether by wetting your mouth, drinking a little, or doing nothing at all), you don’t have to worry about mild levels of dehydration.
Conversely, you could argue that the real problem in this study is that the subjects didn’t drink enough, because even when they drank water they had a net sweat loss of 1.2 litres from an average starting weight of 132 pounds, indicating roughly 2 percent dehydration. But I’m not convinced.
A similar study published earlier this year by researchers at the University of Connecticut compared two other hydration protocols for runners doing a pair of 20K trail races in hot conditions. In one run, they drank “ad libitum,” meaning as much as they wanted; in the other run, they were assigned an individualised amount to drink in an attempt to replace as much of their sweat losses as possible.
As you’d expect, those who merely drank as much as they wanted lost more fluids: 2.6 percent of their starting weight, compared to 1.3 percent foar the well-hydrated group. So what were the results of the race?
For context, I should mention that I appeared on a WNPR radio programa few months ago with two of the co-authors of this study, Lawrence Armstrong and Rebecca Stearns. They were adamant that drinking when you’re thirsty is a recipe for disaster; that you have to drink early and drink often to avoid dehydration; and, perhaps most worryingly from a safety perspective, that your core temperature rises by about 0.55°C for every percent of dehydration.
The results of their own study, on the other hand, found no differences in race performance: the hydrated runs averaged 1:44:39, while the “drink as much as you want” runs averaged 1:44:09. Moreover, the subjects swallowed thermometer capsules to measure their core temperatures, and there was no difference at any point between the two groups, despite the difference in hydration status.
In the paper, the authors try hard to argue that the fully hydrated approach is still better than drinking when you feel like it. For example, they point out that at some of the intermediate points of the race, there was a non-significant trend for the hydrated group to be faster. Of course, basic logic tells us that if the two groups had the same overall time, and one group was faster at some points, then the other group must have been faster at other points.
The reason they’re so surprised not to see any difference is that their previous studies, like this Gatorade-funded one from 2010, suggested that dehydration really does slow you down during trail running. To understand why, take a look at this figure from the 2010 study:
The chart shows how thirsty the subjects were before, during, and after a pair of 12K races, one of which they ran with no water and the other with two drinks of 400ml. The dehydrated group (the squares and dashed line) had their fluid consumption restricted for 22 hours before the race (they were allowed 200ml of water to help them swallow the thermometer pill with breakfast). As a result, they were more thirsty before the race even started than the other group ever got.
So yes, drinking aggressively during a run is important if you haven’t had anything to drink for the last 22 hours. No dispute there. But under the more realistic conditions of the 2016 study, drinking when and as much as you feel like during a 20K trail run in hot conditions seems to be fine - even in the hands of researchers who don’t believe it.
Moreover, all of these studies involved time trials or races. If you're just out for a typical training run, it stands to reason that dehydration will be even less of an issue.
The overall conclusion here, I should emphasise, isn’t that hydration doesn’t matter. It’s important to health and to performance. When a runner like Haile Gebrselassie sets a marathon world record while losing 10 percent of his body weight, it’s not because he’s not paying attention to hydration - it’s because that’s the best balance he’s able to strike between drinking and running comfortably.
The shift in thinking about hydration over the past few years has involved a greater recognition of perceptual variables - how you feel - in addition to physiological variables; a realisation that the body can adjust and cope with surprisingly high levels of temporary dehydration; and a move away from the idea that you should always aspire to replace every drop you sweat as soon as possible. Studies like the ones above suggest that this shift is a good one. | <urn:uuid:3e225b8d-e7d9-4011-94b6-4d982de19a34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a775110/do-you-need-to-drink-during-a-one-hour-run/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977938 | 1,443 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Acta Neuropathologica Communications
Multiple sclerosis is a devastating neurological disorder characterized by the autoimmune destruction of the central nervous system myelin. While T cells are known orchestrators of the immune response leading to MS pathology, the precise contribution of CNS resident and peripheral infiltrating myeloid cells is less well described. Here, we explore the myeloid cell function of Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP1), a scavenger receptor involved in myelin clearance and the inflammatory response, in the context of Multiple sclerosis. Supporting its central role in Multiple sclerosis pathology, we find that LRP1 expression is increased in Multiple sclerosis lesions in comparison to the surrounding healthy tissue. Using two genetic mouse models, we show that deletion of LRP1 in microglia, but not in peripheral macrophages, negatively impacts the progression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of Multiple sclerosis. We further show that the increased disease severity in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis is not due to haplodeficiency of the Cx3cr1 locus. At the cellular level, microglia lacking LRP1 adopt a pro-inflammatory phenotype characterized by amoeboid morphology and increased production of the inflammatory mediator TNF-. We also show that LRP1 functions as a robust inhibitor of NF-kB activation in myeloid cells via a MyD88 dependent pathway, potentially explaining the increase in disease severity observed in mice lacking LRP1 expression in microglia. Taken together, our data suggest that the function of LRP1 in microglia is to keep these cells in an anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective status during inflammatory insult, including experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and potentially in Multiple sclerosis. | <urn:uuid:221d2bb6-5d6a-45cf-9b14-1307d2818e41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://listlabs.com/citations_products/lrp1-expression-in-microglia-is-protective-during-cns-autoimmunity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.887891 | 359 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The Baltic Landscape and Mythology in Polish Literature
In the history of the development of a symbolism of space, so important for Polish culture, the most important part has been played by images of the plains or hills that stretch broadly between the Baltic and the Carpathians, an expanse of fields, meadows, woods and steppe. It was only Romanticism that was to make the aesthetic discovery of sea and mountain, while cityscapes would take on greater significance even later, in the era of positivism. Society, composed mainly of gentry and peasantry, directed its imagination mainly towards the land and the vegetation that covered it. The most important literary figure was the country gentleman. In times of peace a landowner living on his country estate, in times of war he became a knight who fought for his homeland. In contrast, sailors as discoverers of foreign lands, as merchants or as fishermen, appeared only infrequently on the pages of Polish literature. It was not the ship but the horse that served my ancestors in overcoming space and symbolised the dream of freedom, the exhilaration of speed. In those works in which they appeared, the literary topoi of sea, ship, sailor and journey often had more in common with Greek and Latin literature than with the personal experiences and observations of the writers.
Even in the nineteenth century the place where the various Baltic neighbours met, both literally and metaphorically, was Rome, thanks to their common love of antiquity. To illustrate this, I have taken an example not from literature, but from the history of art. The Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen made the acquaintance of Polish artists and patrons of art in the Italian capital, and it was as a result of this that he visited Poland. Many of his works found a permanent home here, several of them in the places that are most important to our culture. At Wawel Cathedral in Cracow, where Polish kings were crowned, there is a gravestone of one of the country’s leading aristocrats, made by Thorvaldsen, while Warsaw is graced by two of his famous statues, those of Copernicus and of Prince Józef Poniatowski. The latter of these has a special eloquence. Poniatowski, nephew of the last king of Poland and one of the outstanding military leaders in Napoleon’s service, came to a tragic end in Germany during the battle of Leipzig. Wounded, he mounted his horse in the currents of the Elster while leading his soldiers into attack, and he drowned. In the Polish collective imagination he immediately became an almost mythical figure, a development favoured indeed no less by the emotional aura that surrounded him than by his heroism in battle. The prince was an exceptionally handsome man and was famous for his numerous affairs. He was thus an ideal candidate for a hero, openly adored for his manliness, but subconsciously for his masculinity, which was the admiration as much of men as of women. The patriotic and erotic ideals were combined into a whole of uniquely powerful effect. And it was to this Romantic figure that the Poles set up a monument, on which the classically inclined Danish sculptor, working in Rome, presented the hero in ancient costume. On the Warsaw monument Poniatowski is certainly not jumping into a river; far from it, he is wearing a Roman tunic and armour and sitting proudly on horseback, in a tranquil pose copied from the figure of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol.
Hence there was a special kind of Mediterranean intermediary at work in the contacts of the Baltic neighbours, resulting from the dominant place occupied in the imagination by the Mediterranean Sea as the cultural cradle of all the nations of Europe. The imagination of Poles was also drawn, though in lesser degree, to the Black Sea because of the historical contacts with the East, which became particularly dramatic in the era of the Tartar khans’ expansion. Politics and economics joined Poland firmly with her neighbours to the east, first with Kievan Rus and Turkey, and later also with the empire of the Russian tsars, but our main cultural inspiration was of course drawn first from Italy and then from France.
Before the severe landscape of the northern sea could find an aesthetic right of citizenship in Polish literature, the cultural attractiveness of the regions outside the traditional European centre, that is the countries of the Mediterranean, had to be discovered. Romanticism brought the beginning of the changes by its discovery, through Madame de Staël, of the value of the culture of the North, as opposed to the culture of the South. As one effect of this discovery, Polish literature was encouraged to remember the existence of the Baltic. A further strengthening of this Romantic impulse came at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the artists of the Young Poland period found their place among other national movements of Young Europe, together creating “Jugendstil”, contacts with artists who came from the Scandinavian countries played an important role. These contacts then began to appear not on the fringes but in the mainstream of artistic endeavour.
One of the most influential artists of the time was Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868-1927), a dramatist, novelist and essayist whose work had a bilingual character to begin with, as the author lived for many years in Berlin and wrote both in Polish and in German. In Berlin’s Bohemian international artistic circle he was regarded at the turn of the century as the most important prophet of the new art. His passionate but also stormy friendship with August Strindberg and Edward Munch left deep traces on the work of all three artists. The work of Henrik Ibsen also had great significance for Przybyszewski’s own endeavours as a playwright. His travels to Denmark and Norway as well as his contacts with their writers bore fruit in countless articles in the German and Polish press on the subject of Norwegian art, which was at the time very significantly involved in the same artistic quests as those that engaged the minds of artists in the Baltic countries.
Slightly younger than Przybyszewski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 – 1939) was also known by the pseudonym of Witkacy, which he invented himself. The significance of his work went far beyond that of his predecessor. He was a painter and one of Poland’s first photographers, as well as a philosopher, art theoretician, novelist and essayist, but his greatest achievements were in drama. After his death, in the post-war years he was recognised as a precursor of the French theatre of the absurd; his plays were translated into many languages and performed in theatres on both sides oft he Atlantic. In many of his dramas parodic allusions to Ibsen and Strindberg have considerable significance. There is also a small episode in his life that is connected not only with the culture of the Baltic countries, but also with their seaside landscape. Of course Witkacy’s interest in photography is only on the fringes of his varied creative passions, but the photographs he left behind do have a place in the history of early Polish artistic photography. Among his early work are several interesting seascapes from the Baltic town of Palanga, today part of Lithuania. At the turn of the century it was already a fashionable health resort, enthusiastically visited by Polish painters, including Witkacy’s father, Stanisław Witkiewicz, and Leon Wyczółkowski.
The focus on the North initiated by Romanticism and strengthened in the turn of the century period, acquired an entirely new character after the First World War, when Poland regained independence after more than a century of subservience, and this within borders that guaranteed access to the sea. Cultural interest in the Baltic then received very strong political support, which bore fruit in a lively development of popular and young people’s literature, as also in publicist writings on maritime themes. A particular role in popularising the history of Pomerania and the Slavonic presence on the Baltic was played by the book Wiatr od morza (Wind from the Sea, 1922), whose dimensions were not large, but which was significant because of the name of the author. Stefan Żeromski (1864 – 1925) was acknowledged then to be the greatest Polish prose-writer and at the same time an authority on matters of national culture. The writer presented selected historical episodes from remotest times to his own, concentrating especially on the moments of dramatic conflict between the Slavs who inhabited the Pomeranian coast and the incoming elements, such as the Vikings, the knights of the Teutonic Order, and the Germans. The separate parts are linked by a figure drawn from folk mythology, Smętek, who personifies the evil present in history. His name is an archaic version of the word “smutek”, sadness. At the end of his book the writer, fired with optimism because of Poland’s restored independence, shows Smętek leaving the shores of the Baltic for ever. At the time no one foresaw that Smętek would return to these parts in less than twenty years, on September 1st, 1939.
Another important work of Żeromski’s, from the same period, is entitled Międzymorze (Between the Seas). This piece of prose poetry about the Hel peninsula (to which the title refers) expresses fascination with the beauty of the coastal landscape, so different from the low-lying plains that dominate Poland’s territory, with their woods, meadows and fields. The way of describing the changing colours of the water and of the sky over the sea has a clearly Impressionistic origin. Żeromski knew the Baltic landscape from personal experience, for in the last years of his life he spent several summers living in Orłowo near Gdynia in a little house right next to the beach, at the foot of a high cliff. Today this is a museum named after him.
In the earlier novels of this writer there are many extensive and varied descriptions, written in an emotional language that is dense with metaphor and with countless sophisticated epithets that seem rather exaggerated to the present-day reader. Younger writers had already distanced themselves decidedly in the twenties from Zeromski’s mannered prose, but nevertheless the author continued to enjoy a huge readership for many years, and hence his works on the Baltic and the Coast had considerable significance for the development of the symbolism of the sea in Polish literary imagination.
Among those who entered the writers’ arena in the period between the First and Second World Wars, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894 – 1980) is particularly outstanding. Acquaintance with the culture and natural environment of the Baltic region was part of his own experience. Although it was a very short episode, it left an interesting mark on his work. Born in the Ukraine, Iwaszkiewicz spent his whole life in central Poland. He had an expert knowledge of Italy, which he adored and which he visited almost twenty times. In his private mythology of space a key role is played by the comparison of the Ukraine and Sicily. The Baltic episode was an exception connected with his work in the diplomatic service. Before the war Iwaszkiewicz had already been cultural attaché to the Polish Embassy in Copenhagen for several years. He translated several of Kierkegaard’s works into Polish, and wrote a volume of sketches about the landscape, culture and literature of Denmark, to which he gave a title taken form Andersen’s fairy tales: Gniazdo łabędzi (The Swan’s Nest). More importantly, however, he introduced Denmark and its Baltic landscape to his own creative work. In Iwaszkiewicz’s rich output as a poet, prose writer, dramatist and essayist, his most valued work apart from poetry consists of small prose forms. One of his best short stories is to be found in Słońce w kuchni (Sun in the Kitchen, 1938). This is the moving and dramatic story of a girl from the people, the daughter of Polish emigrants in Denmark. The situation of a young Polish girl working as a servant in a wealthy middle-class Danish family does not serve to expose cultural and social differences in a particular historical time and place. Although the author takes care to make the details probable, he uses these realistic details in order to open up a universal perspective beyond them, presenting a study of existential loneliness and of the helplessness of a human being in the face of the circumstances into which he has been cast. The heroes of the story, however, are not mere ciphers representing certain ideas of existentialist philosophy; the psychological portrait of the characters, though sparingly outlined, is also very important. We learn about the behaviour of the characters through a tale told by a narrator, but the interpretation of their experiences and the deeper meaning of what happens to them is signalled only indirectly, through a series of images with a symbolic subtext. The events are played out against the background of consistently constructed scenery whose character suggests more to the reader than any direct commentary could do. All the events important to the story take place by the sea, and this element accompanies the heroes unceasingly, in happiness and unhappiness, in love and in death. The time of the action is conducted in such a way that the author shows the course of all the seasons of the year on the Baltic. The story also contains descriptions of the sea at different times of day and night, in changing weather, in the port of Copenhagen and on the shores of Jutland, in the depths of the bay on which lies the small town that is the main scene of the action, as also on the western side of the peninsula where the ocean begins. In the experience of the heroine the sea represents above all her feeling of being threatened and lost, her undefined fears, helplessness and nostalgia. Ignasia, the main character of the story, lives in this state of mind throughout the autumn, winter and early spring. The sea is then grey and stormy and the sky above it cloudy. The threatening, dark winter sea is also a sign of separation and longing. Throughout this time it divides Torben, in Greenland, from those closest to him. He is the eldest son of Ignasia’s employers and the only person who has aroused her trust. He is missed not only by Ignasia, but also by his youngest brother Kai, who feels unloved by his parents and dreams of sailing away to Greenland. It is only the goodness of Ignasia, who shows him a mother’s tenderness, that protects him from the emotional coolness of his mother and the severity of his father. But in a moment of despair the boy runs away from home and drowns in the sea. After Torben returns from Greenland, a brief change in Ignasia's life brings her happy love in the setting of a beautiful summer on the beach, when the Baltic turns sky-blue and warm in the light of the sun, like the southern seas. Then even the night is lit up by the moon. Ignasia’s fear turns into a light-minded overconfidence and the girl swims far out to sea while bathing. However, the summer idyll does not have a pleasant ending. Torben’s parents will not hear of their son’s marrying a foreign servant, and besides, both heroes are really involved against their wills in other relationships. The handsome Torben arouses an ambiguous interest in his mother’s younger sister, while Ignasia is sought by a strange person, much older than she, who was once a socialist and a participant in workers’ strikes, and is now the leader of a small religious sect. The finale recalls ancient tragedy – when the complex knot is only a step away from being happily untied, a sudden, inconceivable twist brings disaster. Ignasia does not understand her own self; she would like to be somewhere other than where she is, but it is not this or that country that is her problem, but her feeling of alienation which she can neither name nor express, her neurotic wavering and existential inability to take roots in being. In the end the girl kills Torben as he is canoeing, with a pistol shot, and his body is immersed in the waters of the same bay in which his little brother drowned in the spring.
The motif of death by drowning appears regularly in the novels and short stories of Iwaszkiewicz. The writer always exploits this motif in the same interpretative perspective, for death of this kind is only met by the young and innocent, who are endowed by the writer with positive values. If death occurs by another means in Iwaszkiewicz’s fiction, for example by hanging, it involves only figures that are clearly negative. Iwaszkiewicz remained faithful to this symbolism of death in the one work whose action is entirely located on the Baltic. How firmly the seaside setting is incorporated by the writer into the tissue of the story’s meaning, its building of mood and psychological and philosophical subtexts, can be seen if we compare the descriptions included in the story with those that occur in the previously mentioned book about Denmark. In Gniazdo łabędzi we find information about the same geographical places as provided the setting for the fictional action of the story, but the writer in this earlier book did not endow them with the depth of emotion or depth of significance that characterise the descriptions of the coastal landscape in the story, where they are always linked with the experiences of the characters.
After the Second World War the agreement of Yalta forced millions of Poles to leave their homes and make a mass migration to the west, to the lands abandoned by the Germans by order of the same treaty. Among the Poles who came from the Vilnius area was Zbigniew Żakiewicz (born 1933), a prose wirter who has lived in Gdańsk for several decades. Like many others from the same parts, he found in the hilly, wooded, lakeland Kashubian landscape of Pomerania something that at least a little reminded him of his lost homeland. In the several successive volumes of his literary journal, Żakiewicz found room for many scattered notes, showing how the initial feeling of foreignness connected with life in a new place was gradually though partially replaced by a growing familiarity with the landscape of Kashubia, Gdańsk and the sea. An original characteristic of his work, both autobiographical and fictional, is the combination of seriousness and coarse humour, of the metaphysical and the everyday. Philosophical questions about death and the prospect of immortality appear in his work in the context of down-to-earth scenes in which the biological side of physical life makes its voice heard. His sense of humour and richness of style save his writing from vulgarity, while a great part is played in his narratives by the perspective of the naive narrator, a child or a person who retains a simple outlook despite being adult and educated. He knows how to make use of his learning and to draw philosophical conclusions from his observations, but he has not lost the spontaneity and carefree attitude of someone who likes to eat and drink well. This is the case for example with Żakiewicz's newest book, Gorycz i sól morza (The Bitterness and Salt of the Sea, 2000). The heroes of his works are dualistic: they know how to enjoy the sensual pleasures of life, but on the other hand there is a dangerous tendency in them to madness and melancholy. It is in this context that images of the Baltic landscape shape themselves in his writing. The sea is presented as an element symbolising infinity, in a metaphysical perspective and high poetic style; but at the same time it is the scene of trivial incidents presented in a humorous convention, almost like that of old comedies from the period of the silent movie. The narrator may jokingly compare himself or his heroes to a powerful bison or bear from the Lithuanian wilds, who when he glimpses the sea stretching to the horizon is overtaken by boundless astonishment, thinking that he has found himself at the end of the world. A metaphorical shorthand for Żakiewicz's attitude to the Baltic landscape is to be found in the title of one of his novels from the nineties, drawn from Adam Mickiewicz's poem about the Wilja river, which flows through Lithuania to join the Niemen and be lost with it "in the depths of the sea".
We can find a certain parallel to Żakiewicz's life history in some of the younger prose writers living in Gdańsk, with the difference that not they themselves but their fathers were new arrivals from the eastern borderlands of the former Republic, from Vilnius and Lviv. Pawel Huelle (born 1957) and Stefan Chwin (born 1949), for it is of these that we are speaking, did not come to Gdańsk from anywhere else, but were born here soon after the war. Without eliminating the mythology of the eastern borderlands, which is so strong in Polish literature, neither of them made it part of their writing. Instead, they created between them a new literary mythology of the northern borderlands. Their writing is evidence of their acceptance of their place of birth as their own territory, but they do not lose the memory of the complex, multinational and multicultural past of their home town, which for centuries was also the homeland of the Germans who lived here, and embraced the people of other nations besides. The image of Gdansk in the work of these writers is a separate problem which has already been discussed and analysed repeatedly. Here let us simply examine the consequences for the two writers of the fact that Gdańsk lies on the Baltic.
Huelle's prose in written in two different keys. On the one hand, his works reveal an excellent observer's instinct that a reporter might envy him. This gift of quick observation allows the writer to present the realities of time and place with unusual vividness. On the other hand, his work is characterised by a richness of imagination, by the elemental temperament of the storyteller who loves to invent the tallest of tales to entertain his listeners and himself.
Among the details presented with almost documentary faithfulness, the writer introduces the element of the unearthly, touching close on Romantic fantasy. He balances on the borderline between probability and improbability in a manner that is risky, but so skilful that the reader accepts the world he has invented without hesitation. This double existence, rooted in a specific geographical and historical context and at the same time referring to some other dimension of reality, is also evident in the scenery of sea and beach in the Gdańsk bay that appears in his work. The action of his first and most famous novel, Weiser Dawidek (1987) takes place in the course of one summer holiday, during which an eleven-year-old boy and three of his friends experience events that leave their trace on the whole of the rest of their lives. Huelle drew on the tradition of the novel of initiation, showing the transition from the child's ability to rub shoulders with the mystery of being, to the bitter adult knowledge that this mystery cannot be known.
In the realistic dimension, a particular characteristic of these extraordinary holidays is the fact that from the start, the children cannot go to the beach because the sea around Gdańsk has become ecologically infected; fish and seaweed die, covering the shallow water and sand of the beach with a stinking mass. The situation described did really occur, but more than ten years later than the action of the novel suggests, and above all not on such a scale. To begin with the poisoning of the bay is the subject of ordinary everyday grumbling on the part of the bored children, but gradually in the narrative it begins to be spoken of in an almost apocalyptic tone. The situation is aggravated by a heatwave and long-lasting drought. People begin to pray for rain; a patient runs away from the psychiatric hospital (described, incidentally, in accordance with its real location). He is like some grotesque prophet, making a spine-chilling forecast of the approaching end of the world. The hero is haunted by a nightmarish dream in which the boy sees monstrous fairy-tale animals coming up out of the sea. The huge monsters demolish the seaside homes and devour the fishermen. Both the dream scene and the prophecy of the madman are clear stylistic paraphrases of the Book of Revelation. The novel contains more of such Biblical and poetic allusions, but a colloquial style clashes with the high tone both in the narrative and in the dialogues of the boys, whom the water in the bay reminds of some disgusting fish soup.
The coastal scenery presented in the text that closes the volume Opowiadania na czas przeprowadzki (Moving House, 1991) is characterised by a similar dualism that combines particular historical realities with a universal plane of reflection. One of the characters is a man plunged into the depths of despair because he shot an angel. This is how the event presents itself to his feelings. The reader quickly becomes acquainted with another point of view. The poor unfortunate who is now a patient in a psychiatric hospital, years ago did night duty as a young soldier on guard at a Gdańsk beach. This was during the Stalinist period, when the government was obsessed with guarding national borders. At that time the town’s beaches were dragged each evening so that it would be easy to find the traces of anyone who wanted to cross the border illegally and escape, for example to Sweden. This principle is no literary fiction, invented by Huelle, but a historical fact, though it has the look of a paranoid illusion. Each morning the earnest young guard finds prints of bare feet, running over the harrowed sand from the dunes to the water. One day he finally glimpses a winged figure in the morning mist, running towards the sea, and he shoots and kills a young girl. Both the wings of the girl who has come to the beach that morning and all the older traces in the sand are merely the illusions of a sick mind; only the death of a chance stranger is real. Now grown old in hospital, the patient rakes the sand daily in front of the building and looks into it carefully, as if seeking something.
Stefan Chwin prefers to introduce extensive literary allusions to his work than to make use of dreams, the fantastic and unearthly, which are one of the poles of Huelle’s imagination. The mystical perspective, which constitutes a counterweight to the rollicking physicality of Żakiewicz’s writing, does not interest Chwin either. The intellectual attitude is what is important in his writing: the subtle and incisive reflection of the essayist. He constructs his world out of very precise descriptions that are permeated with metaphor and whose elements he gathers with the fascination of a true scholar and connoisseur. He is not interested in the ancient art of spinning fascinating tales. In his prose it is not events that matter, but what they communicate, the atmosphere that surrounds them and the scenery in which they are played out. Chwin is a painter of figures and objects, from whose appearance he draws out the metaphorical meaning, like a gypsy foretelling with cards a future that is invisible to the uninitiated eye. The Baltic landscape in Chwin’s novel Hanemann (1995; the German title is Tod in Danzig), though it remains faithful to geographical and historical realities, is opalescent with general meanings that are independent of place and time. The location of the action in Gdańsk in the period just before, during and after the Second World War and the creation of an international gallery of portraits might have encouraged the writing of a social novel of manners, soundly immersed in politics and history. These accents are of course present and have aroused the understandable interest of readers. However, it would be an impoverishment of the work to stop at such an interpretation. Chwin bent the political and historical realities to his artistic needs, writing a novel about love and death, about flights from life and returns to it. His novel speaks for the permanence - despite historical changes – of Romantic attitudes in the modern philosophy of the human being. The landscape of the Baltic is stylised in Chwin’s novel according to the spirit of Romantic melancholy not only because he several times recalls the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, and not only because a reproduction of Friedrich’s painting Moonrise over the Sea, an ideal painter’s expression of the melancholy attitude to the world, has appeared constantly on the covers of successive editions of the novel. The titular hero, Hanemann, both as a medical student and throughout his years of work as a doctor, has been directed by the desire to find the mysterious borderline between life and death. He is also a professor whose duties include conducting lectures for students during autopsies. One day the bodies of the victims of a pleasure boat disaster that has just taken place on one of Gdańsk’s suburban beaches, are sent for him to examine. As fate would have it, when he begins his lecture he uncovers on the dissecting table the body of the woman he loves, before he has had a chance to learn of her death on the wrecked ship.
The sense of a loss from which he cannot recover crushes him through all the years that follow. Hanemann gives up his position and his medical research for good, and mentally also he remains on the fringes of life. Towards the end of the war all his acquaintances and neighbours attempt to sail away to Germany on a huge passenger ship. This episode in the novel is based on the authentic story of the disaster of the “Wilhelm Gustloff”, a ship sunk with several thousand fugitives by a Soviet submarine. Both the attempt to board the ship and the final staying in Gdańsk are carried out as if outside Hanemann’s will and decision; he behaves completely passively as he regards his fate. It is only after the war, when he receives a letter from his assistant Retz, one of the very few survivors, that Hanemann learns that his neighbours drowned together with their children. This event is described very shortly and simply, but in an exceptionally moving way. Of the author of the letter, we know from the first pages of the novel that his favourite place to walk before the war was the long pier in Sopot that runs far out into the sea. He was accustomed to stand there without regard to the cold weather or the wind that tangled his hair, gazing into the “dark line of the horizon”. Retz is several times called simply “a melancholic”. The narrator says of him that he always carries, like a weird talisman, a plaster cast of the face of the famous Romantic drowned young woman, called The Unknown of the Seine.
In Chwin’s novel the Baltic is a dark sea of death. Only once, and before the drowning of Hanemann’s beloved, does it appear as the backdrop for a lovers’ meeting, but even then it is an evening landscape, its colours already marked with the symbolism of death. The narrator shows us “dark silhouettes – the black profile of a man and the black profile of a woman on the silver background of the shimmering sea”. When, towards the end of the novel, Hanemann slowly begins to awaken to life again, this has absolutely no link with the still close presence of the sea and with the symbolism of the coastal landscape. On the contrary, some new chapter in the fortunes of the titular hero is to begin only after he has left Gdańsk, but this is something we do not find out about.
I have presented only a few examples, striving to choose views that are varied in their character and at the same time of the highest literary value. I have spoken about works whose functioning is not limited to the regional, which includes considerably more literary texts that for understandable reasons are linked with the theme of the Baltic landscape and mythology. The texts that I have dealt with here belong in terms of their subject-matter and poetics to Polish literature as a whole that stands above the various local traditions. They are so because of the potential for intellectual and artistic generalisation with which the writers endow their experiences, rooted as they are in the particular realities of time and place.
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Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
Research supports the many benefits of continued personal development. Among them is increased resilience and improved self-confidence. Meeting new people, having novel experiences, or learning different skills, are all ways to encourage personal growth.
I’m passionate about this topic, both for myself and for others. To change the world, your marriage or your business, you have to start with yourself.
Personal development is valuable, but what happens when one half of a couple is on a growth path that doesn’t involve the other one? Does having personal development experiences that aren’t shared affect the quality of your connection?
A recent study out of Durham University in the U.K. looked at the link between personal development and passion within an intimate relationship.
The British team conducted three different studies. Two focused on daily diary entries where participants were asked to write about elements like novelty, excitement, increased perspective, and feelings of competence. These could be experienced individually or with a partner. They were also asked to record in each entry how passionate they felt about their relationship.
The results showed that when one person experienced a sensation of personal growth without their partner, it heightened the passion they felt for their relationship.
This supports previous research suggesting long-term couples can maintain excitement in their relationship by sharing new and novel experiences. Learning to dance, taking up a new hobby, or traveling together can all boost relationship passion.
The third study looked at couples who recently relocated to a new city as part of a career move for one of the partners.
The thinking behind this was that half the couple would be a situation that encouraged personal growth that didn’t involve their partner. They’d meet new people and have different experiences within their fresh work environment.
It seems that when personal growth happens regularly for one partner and doesn’t involve the other one, the result is a lessening of relationship passion. Rather than growing together, they start to grow apart.
Personal growth has many psychological benefits for individuals, so don’t think you should stop having growth experiences away from your partner. Awareness of this tendency is key. The takeaway is to make sure you spend enough time growing together to balance out individual growth experiences.
Growing as a couple doesn’t mean being in the same room watching television. It comes from meeting people outside your regular connections, learning new skills, and having novel experiences together.
If you want more relationship passion in your world, maybe it’s time to reinstate that weekly date night.
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A High Jump Coaching School Session With Matt Horsnell
Here is a video recording of a Little Athletics NSW Sunday Coaching School session that features Australian high jump coach Matt Horsnell. Matt is the coach of Nicola McDermott who at the time of the recording had a personal best performance of 1.96 metres. She has since been the first Australian woman to clear 2 metres and was the silver medallist in the Women’s High Jump at the Tokyo Olympics.
Below the video you will find 14 key takeaways from the session.
Key Video Takeaways
1. Athletes need to enjoy the sport and the training that goes with it
- The athlete has to be driving the process.
- Get athletes to the point that competing almost becomes secondary to their love of the training environment.
- Emphasise fun with kids. Their developing bodies are often unable to produce what a technical skill requires.
2. Start with scissors
- Scissors jumping helps to prevent bad habits, such as leaning into the bar.
- Scissors is a good alternative to the flop. Kids are not often strong enough in the core to hold flop clearance position over the bar.
- Teach kids how to run properly over objects followed by a simple scissors bar clearance.
- The scissors take-off foot strike should be under the hips so that it is not blocking* the movement; run off the take-off.
*Blocking is when the foot is planted out in front of the athlete’s hips, leading to a “blocking” effect on forward momentum. It can slow the athlete and lead to an increase in ground impact which may contribute to injuries. It can be identified by a foot strike that is low to ground. (The foot may even scrape on the ground as it is brought through). Correct this by picking up feet while running. Look for the foot being picked up behind hamstrings and brought under hips).
3. If you get right what happens on the ground, the stuff in the air comes automatically
- Teach kids to run tall with their foot planting under their hips to prevent blocking.
- The lean away from the bar is a crucial aspect in high jumping. An effective drill is to run with the free arm in the air and jump without putting the arm out over the bar during take-off.
- Don’t concentrate too much on what happens over the bar/in the air. Doing so will cause athletes to go straight into the landing after take-off.
- Teach the kids to get up and hold the take-off. Use a drill where the athletes attempt to hit the flexible training bar with their knee.
4. Keep the run-up simple
- An open j-curve-shaped run-up should be used rather than c-curve shape.
- Keep the run-up measurement as simple as possible.
- Using tape measures to mark out run-ups can create problems.
5. Make use of a flexible training bar
The use of a flexible jump training bar helps kids to work on technique and new things in training without fear of hitting the bar becoming a limiting factor.
6. You can train for high jump without landing mats
No mats? Ideas include:
- Mark out a circle with cones. Run around the circle rehearsing the lean. Work both sides of the body by running in each direction.
- Sand pit work – Run in off a curve, take off holding the knee drive, and land in a sandpit.
7. Be innovative with conditioning for kids
- Triggering the glutes with a tennis ball followed by foam rolling can be used to help manage soreness and prevent injuries.
- Barefoot balancing on a medicine ball in sand pit in case of fall. Progress to squatting on the ball in the sandpit. The coach or a partner to assist with balance if required. A great activity to teach control of centre of gravity.
- Chin-ups and swinging around on a chin-up bar, in preference to a lot of sit-ups or other exercises on the ground. Create an unstable environment.
- Strength and conditioning activities in soft sand e.g. single leg hops and bounding for developing kids without the landing load. Great for teaching the kids to get the foot under hips; a blocking action will quickly result in the kids not going anywhere in the sand.
8. Discipline is indispensable
Successful athletes have an inbuilt discipline. They do things immediately don’t leave things standing, whether it be school work, assignments, or other tasks. Get things done so they can get back to training.
9. Distract with a diversion
Some athletes will be unsettled by watching and thinking about the opposition during a competition. If so, think of things to take an athlete’s mind off the competition. It may involve getting them to undertake a task when a competitor is jumping.
10. Tell athletes what to do; not what not to do
Don’t tell athletes what not to do; tell them what they HAVE to do; telling what doing wrong makes them focus on that. Tell them exactly what they need to do to improve.
11. Too many sports spoil the brew
Too many sporting commitments can be too much for kids. It doesn’t allow for proper recovery time between activities, which can lead to fatigue and injuries.
12. Athletes shouldn’t just jump all the time
Those athletes that just want to jump all the time won’t get better at jumping. They need to learn to enjoy the other associated “non-jumping” aspects of training.
13. Learn from others
Alongside participation in coaching courses, learn from mentors and fellow coaches. Seek input from different people.
14. There’s no rush for a result
Don’t try to jump too quickly to the end result. Enjoy the process and the group you are working with. for example, you can get strong quickly but this might make you slow. A combination of strength and speed is needed to produce power, which is better gradually developed.
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Christmas is just over a month away! Our tree is up, the snow is on the ground and the first batch of cookies has been baked.
I love Christmas, the celebration of Christ’s birth, the time spent with family and just taking it slow for a few days. One thing I do not like is toy overload. I get overwhelmed very easily and every year I am extra thankful I only have two kids, I know the overload would be more extreme if I had more than two.
We try to focus on educational toys as much as possible, I love an item can be a great gift, a source of entertainment and something to learn with.
Today I wanted to share a few favorite education gifts you can get your kids this year. My own kids are 5 and 8 so I would say this list is best for the kindergarten to middle school range. I try to give age guidelines where possible but they are pretty flexible.
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I couldn’t create this list without sharing books. Yes, we love our library, and it did save us a whopping $23,000 last year, but I still like to own books. This is actually the only thing on my personal Christmas list this year, no surprise there. Here are a couple of book series’ that are sure to entertain and educate your children, the ones I’ve chosen to share all take kids back to some point in history.
This series follows Jack and Annie as they go back in time on certain missions. I can’t tell you how much Raeca has learned about history this way, it’s astounding. I first started reading these to my kids when they were about 4 years old and as soon as Raeca could read she was devouring them herself, she has re-read the ones she owns multiple times. Since Ephraim can’t quite read yet he often listens to them on audio.
Keeping in the going back in history vein, this series takes kids back into Bible history. This series is written by the same guy that writes Adventures in Odyssey, more about that shortly.
This series takes the reader back to some point in church history. They meet characters like William Tyndale, George Muller, Martin Luther and more. As one who wants to learn more church history, I am planning on sneaking a few of these from Raeca to read myself.
As I was writing the above books I realized I had to include audio on here. We listen to a lot of audio as a family, either as we are eating lunch or when we are driving in the car. Audio is excellent for road trips, we’ve listened to so many audiobooks that way.
This is not a book but actually a radio drama series. Jared grew up listening to these in the vehicle whenever they would go on trips as a family and he and his siblings are still quoting funny lines from here. We’ve listened to a number of them and there is one episode that always takes me back to a certain road trip, I can remember exactly where we were on the road when we were listening to it.
No matter how many times I try I am not good at reading The Little House Series out loud, there is so much descriptive language I find it a struggle, but the audio series is excellent. My favorites are definitely the first few books in the series, we’ve listened to those multiple times.
This is one of the best audiobooks I have ever listened to. Ultimately this story follows a harmonica and the journey it takes as it falls into the hands of four different children over time. Honestly, no description I write here is going to do it justice. While I am sure reading the book is also great the audiobook is exceptional. This was my kids’ first real introduction into WWII and it sparked some great conversations.
We love to play games as a family, here are a couple I would recommend for gift giving!
This game is a great introduction to coding for little ones. Each player is a turtle and they have to code their turtle through the course to find their gem. This is great for learning step-by-step process for younger children.
We got this game for Raeca for Christmas a few years ago and I think she played around 30 games of it in the first week. It was obviously a hit! In this fun, cooperative game you are working as detectives to try to figure out which fox stole the pot pie. Each turn you are either trying to reveal suspects or discover clues to see what the fox is wearing. But you have to be quick to try to figure out who the thief is before he or she gets away! This is great for learning deductive reasoning, something I remember to be a favorite of mine in math when I was in elementary school.
To be honest, while I am putting this in the “7+” category, Ephraim has been playing this since before he turned 5, circuits are his thing. Circuit Maze gives you a variety of challenges where you need to try to complete the circuit and turn on the lights!
This is a great game for travelling since it is just cards and is easy to pack in a bag. Sushi Go is all about collecting different cards, my favorite educational portion is the counting of points at the end, some of the point variations are a little complex, sneaky math for the win!
This is one of our favorite family games to play at the moment. It is another cooperative game (I have a bias towards cooperative games) where you are trying to save your castle from various monsters. You need to use logic because certain monsters can only be damaged in certain areas and you want to be able to hit them when you can before they move.
You can check out a full list of our favorite games here.
A microscope one of the items we want to purchase for our homeschool this year. Both my kids love science and it is definitely not my forte but I could definitely help them find things to explore under a microscope! I remember using mine a lot as a child, I love how different things look when you can zoom in so close.
This is on our wish list for next year. I am planning on doing a fairly major study of the sky with them in conjunction with getting a telescope. To be honest, I think Jared and I want a telescope as much for ourselves as we do for our children. It’s not just educational for the kids! 🙂 I’m not sure what we would do price wise on a telescope yet, this one has good reviews and is under $100, this one also has good reviews but is over $100.
My kids love science and Ephraim especially loves the Little Bits Kits – they are right up his engineering personality and this Little Bits R2D2 just looks amazing, I imagine he would spend hours upon hours with this.
This is one thing Ephraim has spent hours pouring over. If the Little Bits Kit is too advanced for your children, Snap Circuits are a great step to start with. With these easy, snap-able circuits your kids can learn about electricity and circuits in an easy and safe way.
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eight. Throughout the house on the Mango Roadway, Cisneros’s narrator makes reference to herself off a couple perspectives: because the she sees by herself so that as she believes anyone else get a hold of the woman. We are able to see a typical example of so it in the “My Title”: “In school it is said my term comedy as if the fresh new syllables have been made from tin and damage the fresh new rooftop of mouth area.” In which otherwise about book does Cisneros convey this twin consciousness? Why does Esperanza discover by herself? How come she consider anybody else perceive the lady?
8. Regardless of if Esperanza is actually clever and sometimes very perceptive, she actually is nonetheless a child, and you may Cisneros possibly shows the girl failing woefully to comprehend the importance of issues that would be obvious so you can anybody earlier. An example is obtainable into profiles twenty-four-5, when Esperanza and her family members go for a ride inside a showy auto determined by Louie’s relative, who’s on time detained because of the cops. Where more throughout the facts does Cisneros utilize this strategy?
nine. Within novel’s avoid, Esperanza announces one to she is too good having Mango Highway to keep the girl forever. What’s the characteristics out of her power? Why does Cisneros introduce this attribute someplace else on guide?
What is the effectation of and come up with Esperanza what is actually possibly titled an “unreliable narrator”?
10. What is the need for all the details when you look at the too many of the new chapter titles, we.elizabeth., “Alicia Exactly who Notices Mice,” “Papa Which Gets Upwards Exhausted at night,” “Minerva Writes Poems”? Essential so is this recommendations towards feeling of exactly who these men and women are? What other information really does Cisneros use to establish them? How could the feeling of these people change met with the writer employed other details-how they browse, whatever they wear, what they do to have an income?
step 1. Immediately after rereading the fresh sections “The house into the Mango Highway,” “Bums from the Loft,” and you can “A home away from My,” generate an explanation from Esperanza’s domestic. How come she experience they? How can you envision the lady family may look to a complete stranger? With what version of family carry out she should real time?
dos. Within the “Boys and girls” [8-9], Cisneros writes, “The new men plus the ladies are now living in separate planets.” From inside the “Stunning Horrible,” you’ve got the e for instance the others who lay its necks for the endurance awaiting the ball and you can chain.” How would your determine the latest particular planets in which Cisneros’s people and you can ladies real time? What sort of men and women are it planning to getting once they become adults? Have fun with occurrences and you may meanings this kind of stories once the “My personal Label,” “Marin,” “Alicia Whom Sees Rats,” “Rafaela Which Products Coconut and you can Papaya Fruit juice with the Tuesdays,” “Sally,” “Minerva Produces Poems,” “Breathtaking Vicious,” “Sally Claims,” and you can “The newest Monkey Lawn.”
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Study Objective: To ascertain current anesthesia utilization of esophageal and precordial stethoscopes in U.S. anesthesia training programs. Design: Prospective, single-blind, incidence study. Setting: Operating rooms of three tertiary care hospitals with major academic anesthesiology departments. Subjects: Anesthesia faculty [MD and certified registered nurse-anesthetist (CRNA) staff] and anesthesia trainees (anesthesiology residents and student nurse-anesthetists). Interventions: Observe and record the placement (stethoscope device appropriately positioned) and utilization (stethoscope in place and connected to the ear piece of the anesthesia provider) of the esophageal or precordial stethoscope during general, regional, and monitored anesthesia care. Measurements and Main Results: During 520 anesthetics, an esophageal stethoscope was inserted in 68% of subjects, a precordial stethoscope was positioned in 16%, and an anesthetic stethoscope was absent in 16% of cases. Utilization (stethoscope connected to earpiece) ranged from a low of 11% of cases to a high of 45%, depending on the institution. Overall, providers were listening via an anesthetic stethoscope in only 28% of anesthetics. Conclusions: Our data suggest infrequent utilization of esophageal and precordial stethoscopes in anesthesia training institutions. Thus, current anesthesia training may be fostering an environment where providers overlook a valuable minimally invasive, and cost-effective continuous monitor of patients' dynamic vital organ function.
- Anesthesia, safety
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Since 2001 invasive American mink has been known to populate Navarino Island, an island located in the pristine wilderness of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile, lacking native carnivorous mammals. As requested by scientists and managers, our study aims at understanding the population ecology of mink in order to respond to conservation concerns. We studied the abundance of mink in different semi-aquatic habitats using live trapping (n = 1,320 trap nights) and sign surveys (n = 68 sites). With generalized linear models we evaluated mink abundance in relation to small-scale habitat features including habitats engineered by invasive beavers (Castor canadensis). Mink have colonized the entire island and signs were found in 79% of the surveys in all types of semiaquatic habitats. Yet, relative population abundance (0.75 mink/km of coastline) was still below densities measured in other invaded or native areas. The habitat model accuracies indicated that mink were generally less specific in habitat use, probably due to the missing imitations normally imposed by predators or competitors. The selected models predicted that mink prefer to use shrubland instead of open habitat, coastal areas with heterogeneous shores instead of flat beaches, and interestingly, that mink avoid habitats strongly modified by beavers. Our results indicate need for immediate mink control on Navarino Island. For this future management we suggest that rocky coastal shores should be considered as priority sites deserving special conservation efforts. Further research is needed with respect to the immigration of mink from adjacent islands and to examine facilitating or hampering relationships between the different invasive species present, especially if integrative management is sought. | <urn:uuid:0264f60b-e165-4c15-81c3-ac568f8548b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/publications/abundance-and-habitat-preferences-of-the-southernmost-population- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934264 | 338 | 3.078125 | 3 |
President Joe Biden has signed into law legislation to curtail a dramatic rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Biden signed on Thursday the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act which overwhelmingly passed Congress in a rare show of bipartisanship following a spate of high-profile attacks on Asian Americans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The House of Representatives approved the bill 364-62 this week, following the Senate's 94-1 vote in April.
"Silence is complicity and we cannot be complicit. We have to speak out. We have to act," Biden told lawmakers. "That's what you've done. And I can't thank you enough. I'm proud today."
The new bill, sponsored by Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono and Democratic Representative Grace Meng, will speed up the US Justice Department’s reviews of hate crimes by putting an official in charge of the effort.
Local law enforcement agencies will be assisted by federal grants to help improve their investigation, identification and reporting of bias-driven incidents, which often go underreported.
Incident such as stabbings, shootings and other attacks against Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals and their businesses have increased since the start of the pandemic a little over a year ago.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is Black and Indian, said such incidents had increased six-fold during that time.
She said that while the new law brings the US closer to stopping hate, “the work to address injustice, wherever it exists, remains the work ahead.”
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You want to know how modern computer came to be? Here’s a concise easy to understand computer history preamble.
The Complete Computer history from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Introduction: A Brief Computer History – A Look Into The Beginnings of Modern Computing and the inventors.
In 1946, John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry designed the first prototype of a digital computer at Iowa State College. It was called the ABC machine.
In 1948, George Stibitz used a modified version of this machine to perform the first calculation on an electronic computer. He then went on to build another prototype known as SWAC (Stibitz Wire-O-Cipher) that could solve systems of linear equations.
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What is a Computer?
The topic of what is a computer and why should we care, is one that I have been pondering for years. Why is it that so many people have absolutely no clue what a computer really is? How can they know the word computer but not understand what it really means? And why are these people so fascinated with computers?
A computer is an electronic device that processes information electronically. The information can be processed by the computer or by a human who uses the computer to interpret data or create something new. While this definition may seem complicated, you don’t need to understand it to see how computers are working.
A computer can also said to be a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
Computer systems that can run programmed instructions are called computers. These systems are used as control systems for a very wide variety of industrial and consumer devices.
Without a doubt, the invention of computers is one of the most impactful inventions ever since its birth.
Inventor: It was Charles Babbage who first conceived the idea of a computing machine in 1822. He worked on this idea for a long time and finally presented his “analytical engine” in 1837. However, it was not until 1941 that “The Harvard Mark I” became operational and it was the world’s first computer to do so.
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Inventor: In 1945, J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly invented ENIAC which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. This machine took up an entire room and weighed 30 tons but could calculate over 5000 times faster than any other machine at that time.
Early Computer Systems – Gears, Levers, and Vacuum Tubes
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The first computer system was developed in the 1950s. This machine combined gears, levers, and vacuum tubes to solve the problem of people needing to calculate rocket trajectories.
Vacuum tubes were first introduced to computers in the 1920s. The vacuum tube was used as an early form of a digital circuit that could manipulate electronic signals. This innovation made it possible for computers to calculate mathematical problems many times faster than any previous machines.
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Here is a clue for you. I have put up 2 more topics with selected keywords below, use them to write out what you think about:
- The birth of Digital Computing
- Further Development in Digital Technology
The Birth of Digital Computing – from Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer to the Modern Personal Computer
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Further Developments in Digital Technology – From Microcomputers to Smartphones and Beyond!
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