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Scientists Take A Step Closer To Eternal Life As They PRESERVE And REVIVE Brain
FOR the first time, scientists have successfully managed to cryogenically freeze a brain and then revive it.
In a step towards eternal life, researchers from 21st Century Medicine (21CM) managed to freeze the brain of a rabbit using a technique known as Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation (ASC).
The team, led by recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Robert McIntyre, wrote in a press release: “Using a combination of ultrafast chemical fixation and cryogenic storage, it is the first demonstration that near perfect, long-term structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable.”
They achieved this by filling the vascular system of the brain with chemicals that are designed to halt the decaying process, and then froze it to -135 degrees celsius.
When the brain was warmed, the scientists found that the majority of its cell membranes, synapses and structures were still in tact and ready to function.
A statement read: “The key breakthrough was the quick perfusion of a deadly chemical fixative (glutaraldehyde) through the brain’s vascular system, rapidly stopping metabolic decay and fixing proteins in place by covalent crosslinks.”
Kenneth Hayworth, the Brain Preservation Foundation president, said: “Every neuron and synapse looks beautifully preserved across the entire brain.
“Simply amazing given that I held in my hand this very same brain when it was vitrified glassy solid… This is not your father’s cryonics.”
The Brain Foundation Preservation said of the next step: “Focus now shifts to the final Large Mammal phase of the contest which requires an intact pig brain to be preserved with similar fidelity in a manner that could be directly adapted to terminal patients in a hospital setting.”
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Mary Ellen Bute
CVM's Bute Research Pages : About Finnegans Wake
Bute's rarely-screened feature film, Passages from Finnegan's Wake. 1965-67, 92 mins, 16mm, b/w. Screened at our 2006 Bute Centennial Program, Los Angeles.
Harvard Film Archive Program Notes: "Mary Ellen Bute, a true poet of cinema, created a joyously Joycean, fascinating, and imaginative film, a mixture of the aural—for Joyce’s words are not only spoken but seen in subtitles—and the visual. A delight to critics, Joyceans, and lovers of film, Passages from Finnegans Wake suggested a new orientation for students of Joyce as well as for cineastes. Time magazine wrote that “its dream sequences . . . featuring reverse footage, collages and montages . . . frequently are as challenging and witty as Joyce’s prose.”
Review by Leonard Maltin: Finnegan's Wake (1965) 97 m ***1/2 D: Mary Ellen Bute. Stars: Page Johnson, Martin J Kelly, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with great energy and control.
New York Times Review: "Finnegan's Wake was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of Finnegan's Wake is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/editor Mary Ellen Bute, who while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
"Passages is a trove of superimpositions, flashbacks, varied angles, slow motion, intercutting, rapid motion, stop action, negative images, documentary footage, and finally sub-titles ... It brings in television, the H-bomb, the twist, interplanetary rockets. Bute believed that Joyce would have accepted the modern elements in a film based on his 1939 novel, and she even quoted a line from Finnegans Wake that mentions television." Lillian Schiff, "The Education of Mary Ellen Bute" in Film Library Quarterly 17:2 (1984). Rpt., abr. in Women and Animation: A Compendium. Ed. Jayne Pilling. London: British Film Institute, 1992.
NOTE: An interview with Mary Ellen Bute about Finnegans Wake, including clips from the film, is available through the CVM Store here.
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Counselling for Trauma & PTSD
Most people will experience some form of trauma in their lifetime. It may be a car accident, abuse or neglect, the sudden death of a loved one, a violent criminal act, exposure to the violence of war, or perhaps living through a natural disaster.
If necessary support and resources are not available and the experience of trauma remains unresolved, lasting effects can cause suffering long after the event has passed. In these circumstances, the support of a therapist is often fundamental to healing.
The four types of trauma symptoms listed in the DSM-5 include:
- Avoiding specific locations, sights, situations, and sounds that serve as reminders of the event
- Anxiety, depression, numbness, or guilt
- Intrusive thoughts, nightmares or flashbacks
- Anger, irritability, and hypervigilance
- Aggressive, reckless behaviour, including self-harm
- Sleep disturbances
Negative Mood and Cognition Symptoms
- Loss of interest in activities that were once considered enjoyable
- Difficulty remembering details of the distressing event
- Change in habits or behaviour since the trauma
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Haries History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The name Haries has a history dating as far back as the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 when the culture from which this family sprang arrived on British soil. It was a name for a person who was the son of the ruler of the property upon which he lived. Initially, le Herisse, the name came to England with the Norman Conquest, and is of Old French derivation. Another derivation, which is probably more common shows that the name is a version of the Old English given name Harry. Although both derivations are valid time has confused them and historians now disagree on which is appropriate in a given situation.
Early Origins of the Haries family
The surname Haries was first found in Derbyshire where they had been granted lands by William the Conqueror for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Early History of the Haries family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Haries research. Another 208 words (15 lines of text) covering the years 1080, 1483, and 1600 are included under the topic Early Haries History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Haries Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Harris, Harries, Harrys, Harryss, Haries, Haris, Hairis and many more.
Early Notables of the Haries family (pre 1700)
More information is included under the topic Early Haries Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Haries family to Ireland
Some of the Haries family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Another 67 words (5 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Haries migration to Australia +
Emigration to Australia
followed the First Fleets
of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Haries Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
- Mr. Robert Haries, (Wilson), Scottish Convict who was convicted in Dumfries, Scotland for life, transported aboard the "Caledonia" on 5th July 1820, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land)
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The Haries Motto +
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Fidelitas et liberalitas
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Every person who starts investing in real estate dreams of becoming a successful real estate investor. The truth is that becoming a real estate investor can certainly turn into a very profitable career. However, it is not every house investor who starts making money in real estate.
There are many things to consider before entering the field of real estate if you want to be one of the most successful real estate investors. How to start a real estate business and how to make money in real estate? These are just some of the things you might be curious about. Nonetheless, there is one basic question whose answer can determine your success. How to become a real estate investor? Not just how to become a real estate investor, but how to become the most successful real estate investor in the sphere? Here are the steps you need to take!
Step 1 of Becoming a Successful Real Estate Investor: Real Estate Education
Even though you do not need a special license in order to learn how to become a real estate investor, we strongly advise you to get some knowledge in the field. This does not necessarily imply that you need to obtain a certificate or get a diploma. However, it is important to be prepared and know what steps to take when buying an investment property.
Additionally, you should learn more about income properties and their features as well as investment strategies and the current state of the market. These will really help you in understanding how to start a real estate business and how to make money in real estate. Hence, you will be one step closer towards becoming a successful real estate investor. Nowadays, it is easy to get all the information you need. For example, by reading real estate blogs on online platforms such as Mashvisor, you can easily get all the knowledge you need, anywhere, anytime. To learn more about this subject, check out “What’s the Real Estate Education You Need to Start an Investment Business?”
Step 2 of Becoming a Successful Real Estate Investor: Learn How to Budget
How to make money in real estate? Create a budget plan. Making money in real estate simply means that the money your investment property generates is more than the costs you pay for that investment property. This is also known under the name of positive cash flow. In order to own positive cash flow rental properties, you need to make sure that the expenses are less than the income. Making a budget and sticking to it is a great strategy in this case.
In a budget plan, you can take into consideration all the financial assets you have. Before buying an investment property, set a price range for your future investment and do not go over it. Think about the ways to finance your property and add them to the financial scheme as well. It is advisable to estimate the potential expenses associated with the investment property, but also the potential income it will generate. Do not forget to compute taxes, possible renovations, and repairs. Once you start making money in real estate, do not forget to keep constant track of your plan and keep in line with it. After all, that is what the most successful real estate investors do.
Step 3 of Becoming a Successful Real Estate Investor: Choosing the Right Investment Strategy
You are probably wondering how to start a real estate business and rightfully so. When becoming a real estate investor, make sure you are familiar with the different investment strategies. Most importantly, make sure you choose the one that suits you and your real estate investing business the best. Different investment strategies require different sets of skills, workload, knowledge, and experience. It might even be argued that when becoming a real estate investor, you need to take your personality into consideration as certain types of income properties fit better with certain types of personal characteristics. To review different investment strategies, you can view “What Are the Top Investment Strategies in Today’s Real Estate Market?”
Step 4 of Becoming a Successful Real Estate Investor: Investing in the Best Real Estate Investments
Buying an investment property is hard, especially if you want to find and purchase the best real estate investments. Nevertheless, adding the best real estate investments in your portfolio is a sure way of becoming a successful real estate investor. So, there are a few things to do in order to find positive cash flow income properties. You can conduct comparative market analysis and investment property analysis. Comparative market analysis deals with studying the local housing market. As you know, the correctly chosen location is the basis of having a successful rental property. Besides the location, however, you also need to be careful when choosing the rental property itself. Investment property analysis can help you out. This type of analysis explores various investment properties by calculating performance measurements, such as return on investment, for example.
As conducting comparative market analysis and investment property analysis manually is quite a challenge, the most successful real estate investors use the help of different real estate investing tools. There are many different real estate investing tools. However, one of the most popular among them is the rental property calculator. Mashvisor’s rental property calculator computes return on investment, cap rate, cash on cash return, etc. in no time.
Besides giving you the potential return on investment for different rental properties, the tool has other great functions as well. For instance, Mashvisor’s rental property calculator gives you detailed information about the rental property as well as its location. Moreover, this real estate investing instrument suggests the optimal rental strategy for the specific income property. Using this particular one of the many available real estate investing tools is certainly a great way of becoming a successful real estate investor.
Step 5 of Becoming a Successful Real Estate Investor: The Real Estate Investment Network
Every successful real estate investor should know that the network he/she builds and develops in the field is the key to success. Through such a network, the real estate investor can learn more about different aspects of real estate investing. Moreover, he/she might be able to find great investments. Another benefit is the possibility of entering a real estate partnership and so on and so forth.
Building a network is definitely hard at first, but be determined and put some effort into it. Go and visit different real estate events, join such clubs or online forums/ discussions. Do not forget that once you have built a network, you need to expand it, while maintaining the relationships you already have. To learn more on this topic, make sure to read “Build the Dream Real Estate Investment Network in No Time.”
The biggest advice for becoming the most successful real estate investor is to be patient, consistent and hardworking in your real estate investing business. This is the path to prosperity.
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When William Gerstenmaier discusses the agency’s “Journey to Mars,” he really stresses the “journey” part. It’s like a family vacation. Getting there is half the fun.
“I wouldn’t focus on the destination,” NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said Thursday.
What Gerstenmaier means is that NASA’s mission to Mars is not exclusively focused on Mars. It’s about helping humans establish a permanent presence in deep space (like supply stations on asteroids). The comments came during the third-and-final day of the American Institute of Aeronautics And Astronautics’s annual Explore SPACE Forum in Long Beach, California.
Mars is merely one part of a broader vision to move us into exploring other worlds and moving habitable infrastructure into cislunar space — the space between Earth and the moon — Mars, and beyond.
“Right now we’re not ready to leave the Earthbound system,” Gerstenmaier said.
We need to stay close enough that we can travel back to Earth within days. But NASA and its partners are working on “an absolutely solid base” for progressing to allowing humans to work and live in space for years at a time — whether it’s in Earth’s orbit, on the moon or an asteroid, or an entirely new planet like Mars.
Naturally, this will require the development of many different new technologies. Gerstenmaier mentioned that “a large heavy-lifting launch capability” is perhaps the number one priority. If we can’t get a deep space crew capsule like Orion en route to the red planet, nothing else matters. Luckily, NASA is well on its way to getting the new Space Launch System tested and operational for a Mars mission.
And of course, there are other technological obstacles that need to be surpassed. Guy Beutelschies, the director of space exploration systems for Lockheed Martin, described his company’s work in designing the robotics systems we will be sending to Mars way before humans land on the surface. “We’re in the middle of it,” said Beutelschies. “We’ve been doing this for decades now.”
This involves making the most of the orbital satellites currently zipping above the red planet, and maximizing their data to pick out the best spots where we could set up a permanent Mars outpost. Then, we’ll need to start sending small packages containing building materials for necessary infrastructure, followed by bigger structures.
A “Mars base camp”
Robots will be used to build a “Mars base camp” where humans will live and work when they finally get there. The whole idea is to get to a point where robots and humans are working together and to help fulfill mission objectives and keep astronauts safe — especially in the context of time delays in communications
One of the most limiting factors to getting humans to travel to places far and wide are the physiological effects of long-term space duration. Michael Barratt, an astronaut whose flown on the space shuttle and is currently a part of NASA’s human exploration team, is working every day to learn more about how humans can better prepare to limit the negative symptoms caused by weightlessness.
For decades, the big enemy of long-term space duration was muscle and skeletal degradation. In this century, however, “we are now preserving bone and muscle …better than any time in history,” Barratt said.
The next biggest concern is how space affects vision through increased intracranial pressure, optic nerve enlargement, and structural changes in the retina. Barratt says about 90 percent of astronauts experience some degree of vision problems, and about 40-50 percent experience problems that are maladaptive.
Luckily, the International Space Station has been an essential tool in investigating these problems and allowing researchers to test out potential solutions (case in point: Scott Kelly’s “Year in Space” mission.)
Ultimately, in order to maintain the march toward sending humans to deep space, Gerstenmaier says it is up to the space community to continue making the case for why space exploration matters.
“It’s not an unaffordable program,” he said. It’s the intangible benefits that are underreported, but the space community can still make a clear argument without having to rely on numbers about return on investments.
“How do you put a dollar value on the aspirational change that we made by going to the moon?” he asked — reminding the audience that Apollo 11 essentially created a paradigm shift that seemed to suggest anything was possible.
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The perfect Christmas gift -- firearms
WASHINGTON -- Looking for a stocking stuffer this year? You might think about an AK-47 or a Glock or an even more exotic expression of your civil rights. And if you live in the correct state and have taken the proper legal steps you don't have to worry even if you or the person you intend to present with a firearm gift have been convicted of a violent crime.
You might be a little cautious, if the intended recipients of your generosity have spent some time under lock and key for manslaughter or armed robbery or other crimes where a gun comes in handy. They might get angry they didn't get the gun they really wanted and blow you away with the one they did. It has happened before, you know. In one recent case, a former violent thug got his gun back, got drunk and murdered a friend. Oh, well. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. But wait! The guy admitted if the gun hadn't been present, the crime wouldn't have happened.
A number of enlightened state legislatures under urging from the all-American folks at the National Rifle Association have been engaging in a process called "restoration." That's when they adopt a law that says former felons, barring extraordinary circumstances, can have their Second Amendment rights restored by appealing to a judge. The Second Amendment to the Constitution, of course, is the one the U.S. Supreme Court a couple of years ago certified as protecting the individual right of Americans to bear arms.
Now if you have been convicted of violating a federal criminal law, you probably can forget waltzing down to the local firearms emporium to buy some legitimate hardware. The Feds still prohibit you from owning a gun. But most ex-cons at all levels know where to find a street vendor, so no big deal. After all there are an estimated 300 million guns in the continental United States, enough for everyone.
Rumors have it that when Santa Claus makes his American run, he picks a sleigh decked out with twin 50 caliber machine guns just in case he is mistaken for a black helicopter from the New World Order. Also approaching Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's house unannounced is probably not a good idea. To refresh your memory, Scalia wrote the court's majority opinion establishing the Second Amendment as pertaining to individual and not collective rights as some wimpy scholars argue. One never knows when Rudolph's glowing nose will be mistaken for an incoming, infrared shell.
There was a time back in the Tommy gun days of the 1930s when Congress adopted a law putting guns off limits to anyone convicted of a violent crime. Then in 1968, Congress, responding to a nation upset about riots and assassinations, expanded the ban to include those convicted of non-violent crimes. President Lyndon Johnson praised the bill and signed it and even the NRA thought it was a good idea. It backed the legislation.
But that was before the NRA, which once spent much of its time catering to hunters and promoting gun safety to youngsters, was taken over by those more interested in expanding gun ownership with little or no restriction. The group not only pushes the interests of the gun manufacturers but also opposes most every sensible approach to firearms control. It spends lavishly on Capitol Hill and openly threatens lawmakers who oppose its policies. High on its agenda is not only restoration of gun rights for felons, but also legalizing the carrying of weapons in churches, college campuses, national parks, grocery stores and even saloons.
Are we crazy? The answer is more than obvious. Why, several years ago the NRA even put out a Christmas card with old St. Nick brandishing a weapon -- just what every kid wants to see. One of the main items on this year's NRA Christmas wish list is a bill pending in Congress that would make it all right to carry a weapon from a state where it is legal to one where it isn't.
Boy, grandma will be glad to hear that. She always feels better when her far-off relatives show up armed to the teeth. Before that the only thing under the tree was a Red Ryder BB Gun special.
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This paper is concerned with the interaction between the principle of equal treatment and non-disclosure agreements in English law. The common use of non-disclosure agreements (also referred to as ‘confidentiality clauses’ or ‘gagging clauses’) as a term in contracts settling possible claims in which harassment or discrimination were alleged came to public prominence in England following the #MeToo movement. There has, though, been little consideration of the enforceability of these non-disclosure agreements as a matter of contract law and the impact of non-disclosure agreements upon equality. This paper examines the legal enforceability of these agreements as a matter of English contract law. It is argued that non-disclosure agreements, designed to obtain silence, work to impede the equality of women. English contract law provides few protections from the potential abuse that can arise from non-disclosure agreements.
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When was Jeb Stuart born?
When was General Jeb Stuart born? Stuart was born in Patrick County, Virginia, on . He left home at the age of 12 and spent three years in school in Wytheville, Virginia, before entering Emory and Henry College at the age of 15. Did you know? Confederate Brigadier General J.E.B.
When did Jeb Stuart arrive at Gettysburg? By 3:00 am, the weary column was on its way to Gettysburg, with General Stuart leading the way. The exhausted corps arrived at Gettysburg on July 2, with what artilleryman Henry Matthews described as “a grateful sense of relief which words cannot express.” Immediately upon arrival, Stuart reported to Robert E. Lee.
What were Jeb Stuart’s last words? “I am resigned if it be God’s will” Stuart answered, “but I would like to see my wife. But God’s will be done.” His last words were spoken around 7 o’clock the night of May 12: “I am going fast now; I am resigned; God’s will be done.” He was 31 years old.
When was Jeb Stuart born? – Related Questions
Who shot Jeb Stuart?
The Confederate cavalier died the following evening in Richmond. Nearly two months later when Col. Russell Alger, the commander of the 5th Michigan penned his official report, he claimed his very own John Huff was the man who shot Stuart.
Why was Stuart late to Gettysburg?
Now Stuart was to determine if the Union army was moving north, following Lee’s army as it marched toward Pennsylvania. If Stuart felt that he could pass around the Army of the Potomac without hindrance, he was to cross the Potomac River east of the South Mountain range.
What did Lincoln Order General McDowell to do that led to the Battle of Bull Run?
Encouraged by early victories by Union troops in western Virginia and by the war fever spreading through the North, President Abraham Lincoln ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to mount an offensive that would hit quickly and decisively at the enemy and open the way to Richmond, thus bringing the war to a
What side was Robert E Lee on?
Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general who led the South’s attempt at secession during the Civil War. He challenged Union forces during the war’s bloodiest battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg, before surrendering to Union General Ulysses S.
Who took the blame for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg?
BOOK. by Jeffry Wert Simon and Schuster, $27.50 527 pp. General James Longstreet has always been a question mark in the history of the American Civil War. For years he was blamed by his former Confederate associates for the South’s decisive defeat at the battle of Gettysburg.
Who is the best remembered Confederate soldier at Manassas Junction?
Stonewall Jackson, byname of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, (born , Clarksburg, Virginia [now in West Virginia], U.S.—died , Guinea Station [now Guinea], Virginia), Confederate general in the American Civil War, one of its most skillful tacticians, who gained his sobriquet “Stonewall” by his stand
Who was Jeb Stuart’s wife?
Flora Cooke Stuart was the wife of Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart and the daughter of Union general Philip St. George Cooke. She met Stuart, a dashing subordinate of her father, while living in the Kansas Territory in the 1850s, and after marrying, the two settled in Virginia.
Which event marked the end of the Civil War?
Seven score and ten years ago, General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. That spring day in 1865 ultimately marked the closing of the deadliest war in American history.
Why was Robert E Lee called the king of spades?
The King of Spades” was a derisive nickname that Lee’s soldiers gave him early in the Civil War when he ordered them to dig entrenchments and fortifications around Richmond. These soldiers would quickly change their tune as the realities of that war began to take hold.
What did Jeb stand for?
His name wasn’t “Jeb.” The initials J.E.B. are an acronym of his three names, James Ewell Brown. 2. Stuart came from a long line of accomplished military leaders. His great-grandfather, Major Alexander Stuart, was a regiment commander during the Revolutionary War.
What did Grant do during the Civil War?
In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.
What did General McClellan do in the Civil War?
Rank. George McClellan Summary: George McClellan was a major general during the American Civil War. Nicknamed “Young Napoleon” and “Little Mac,” he twice was commander of Army of the Potomac, the Union’s largest army, and fought as general-in-chief of the Union army until being removed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862.
Was George McClellan Union or Confederate?
McClellan, in full George Brinton McClellan, (born , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died , Orange, New Jersey), general who skillfully reorganized Union forces in the first year of the American Civil War (1861–65) but drew wide criticism for repeatedly failing to press his advantage
Where is General Jeb Stuart buried?
Stuart is buried with full honors at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
Which army Union or Confederate was hurt the most by their Gettysburg losses explain?
The Union had won the Battle of Gettysburg. Though the cautious Meade would be criticized for not pursuing the enemy after Gettysburg, the battle was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy. Union casualties in the battle numbered 23,000, while the Confederates had lost some 28,000 men–more than a third of Lee’s army.
What was Jeb Stuart doing at Gettysburg?
Stuart spent the July 2nd familiarizing himself with the ground, for he had new orders to guard the Confederate left and strike the Union right. Thus, Jeb Stuart and his men took their position, ready to participate in the final, climactic day of battle at Gettysburg.
How many men died during the three day Battle of Gettysburg?
A turning point of the civil war, the battle was also among the conflict’s bloodiest. Of the 94,000 Union troops who fought in the three day conflict, 23,000 became casualties, with 3,100 killed. The Confederates were outnumbered — with 71,000 fighting in the battle, and a greater proportion wounded and killed.
Who got a nickname at Bull Run?
Jackson Earns His Name
Johnston (1807-91). Jackson earned his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run (also known as Manassas) in July 1861 when he rushed his troops forward to close a gap in the line against a determined Union attack.
Who paid for the Robert E Lee statue?
The General Assembly passed an act creating a governor’s board to head the effort – led after 1885 by Fitzhugh Lee, R.E. Lee’s nephew – to which the men’s group gave their funds. In 1886 a legislative act combining the funds of the Ladies Lee Monument Association with the men’s funds for a total of $52,000.
What actually started the Civil War?
The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery.
Was Grant in charge at Gettysburg?
Was Ulysses S. Grant at Gettysburg? However, General U.s. Grant was far away from Gettsyburg — he was in command of the Union army laying siege to Vicksburg, Mississippi at the time. The commanding General of the union forces at Gettysburg was General George Meade. | <urn:uuid:0dfa80c6-e02b-444d-9652-944532d7bf1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laquiete.org/when-was-jeb-stuart-born/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96986 | 1,785 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Data breaches not only endanger people’s privacy and financial information, they can cost companies millions and inflict untold reputational damage.
As a PhD student at the University of Toronto, Alhassan Khedr worked on a technology known as “fully homorphic encryption” that can be used to better protect valuable encrypted information.
“With homorphic encryption, you keep your data encrypted and safe,” Khedr says. “However, you can still do some meaningful and very useful manipulations on it without exposing it at any time.”
With Professor Glenn Gulak in U of T’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering – and the support U of T’s Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab (DCSIL) accelerator – Khedr launched Shield Crypto Systems, which helps banks and other financial institutions guard their data throughout its life cycle.
DCSIL helped Khedr and Gulak translate their research into a proof of concept with the Royal Bank of Canada.
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For many bicycle enthusiasts, summertime is the best time for biking. The hot weather and long days help create conditions that many riders love. However, the season also brings some distinct challenges. Here are some safety tips that will help you and your family avoid summer bicycle accidents from the bike accident lawyers at Patterson Legal Group.
Three Factors in Summer Bicycle Accidents
The unique temperatures, driver demographics, and traffic conditions of the summer introduce unique challenges. This means that you should treat the season differently when you want to take a ride. Although the changes are relatively small, our personal injury lawyers have found that they can be huge contributing factors to bike accidents in the summer. Here are three things to keep in mind while going for a bicycle ride in the summer.
Stay Hydrated to Avoid Cramping
Hot weather means that you’ll be sweating more than usual. After all, sweating is one of the body’s ways to regulate temperature. Your body is literally expelling fluid to cool you down. This means that dehydration is more likely to happen during a summer bike ride than in any other season.
Dehydration can lead to muscle cramps, which can make you lose control of your bicycle. This can lead to minor crashes, catastrophic injuries, and even wrongful death. The good news is that you can greatly reduce your chances of a muscle cramp by staying hydrated. Be sure that you’re well hydrated before you go out on a summer bicycle ride and bring plenty of water or your favorite sports drink with you.
Watch Out for Construction Zones
Construction activity ramps up in the summer for the same reasons that make the season so appealing to bicycle riders–warm weather and more hours of sunlight. The increased number of construction sites also increases your chances of getting into a work zone accident. Work zones can temporarily narrow roads, making it difficult to share the space with motor vehicles. Construction debris can obstruct your path and even pop your tires. Lastly, construction noise can make you less aware of your surroundings by drowning out vital audio cues.
If possible, check your phone’s map app to see if there are any work zones on your planned ride. The best way to avoid a work zone accident is by avoiding a construction zone entirely. If you can’t do that then be sure to lower your speed and ride through a work zone with extra caution.
Keep an Eye Out for Teen Drivers and Tourists
There’s a high chance that you’ll be sharing the road with tourists and teen drivers in the summer. Both increase the likelihood of summer bicycle accidents for numerous reasons, including:
- A lack of driving experience
- Unfamiliarity with local roads
- Bad habits like texting and driving
- Higher instances of distracted driving
Keeping an eye out for younger drivers and out-of-state license plates can help you avoid a bike accident this summer. Should you notice any teen drivers or tourists, slow down and do your best to avoid riding near them.
Contact a Summer Bicycle Accidents Lawyer
The team at Patterson Legal Group hopes that you have an amazing summer that’s filled with fantastic bike rides. We hope that the safety tips above help you and the riders in your family avoid summer bicycle accidents. Unfortunately, accidents can happen no matter how safe you’re being. Should you get into an accident this summer then contact Patterson Legal Group for immediate assistance.
Our team is available to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can reach us by phone at 888-687-2400 or connect with us online through LiveChat. Our lawyers have won superior settlements for our clients throughout Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming. They also take pride in treating each client with the compassion and respect they deserve. Contact us today and you’ll quickly see why Patterson Legal Group is one of the most trusted personal injury firms in the Midwest. | <urn:uuid:306da72b-3fa9-4a9b-a2bd-9f373e0d2152> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pattersonlegalgroup.com/summer-bicycle-accidents-kansas-missouri/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939579 | 801 | 1.53125 | 2 |
1. Ghata (also called Ghatakumāra). The Bodhisatta, born as the king of Benares. One of his ministers misconducted himself in the royal harem and the king, catching him in the act, banished him. The minister took service with Vanka, king of Sāvatthi, and persuaded him to attack Benares. Ghata was captured and thrown into prison, where he entered into ecstatic meditation. But Vanka was seized by a burning sensation, and he ordered the release of Ghata and the restoration of his kingdom. J.iii.168f; cf. Ekarāja.
2. Ghata (also called Ghatapandita).-The Bodhisatta, born as the ninth of the ten Andhakavenhudāsaputtā. When a son of his brother, Vāsudeva, died, Vāsudeva lamented beyond all measure, and Ghata, wishing to cure him, feigned madness and went about Dvāravatī asking for the hare in the moon. When Vāsudeva heard of this from his courtier Rohineyya, he hastened to Ghata and argued with him about the ridiculousness of his quest. The plan succeeded and Vāsudeva was cured of his grief. J.iv.81, 84ff; Pv.ii.6; PvA.93f. | <urn:uuid:49a798c4-b085-49d2-a7b3-5564163f0d91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/g/ghata.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981898 | 297 | 2.09375 | 2 |
How would you describe what designers do and the value that they create?
The job of a designer is to provide clarity around an idea. People can talk all they want about ideas, but the designer can take all that stuff that’s up in the air and turn it into something real, even if people hate it. That first step is really, really scary. It can be difficult getting that first thing up on the wall and to create clarity around it, and then get it clearer and clearer, until it “exists” for people. I answer questions about the thinking behind how this thing’s going to work, all the details.
The job of a designer is to provide clarity around an idea.
Having your vision come through in the product is a big challenge. A lot of companies will add a shitload of features and try to let that convey a vision. We came up with a very simple language, the path is a simple line that runs down the feed and the moments are these dots that sit on top of this path.
Then there’s other things as a designer I’ve helped to do like creating a nice palette, making the whole experience warm and feel like a nice place to keep what you’re capturing. The composer was a little goofy at the time. Honestly, I thought people were going to say, “This is fucking goofy.” I was really worried about that, but people liked it.
What are some of the unique ways that you in particular contribute as a designer?
Being a designer of a product, having a software engineering background has made a big difference, and most designers don’t even think about that. It’s important to have an understanding of the how things are built, what it takes, what’s going into what you’re designing: the framework, the tools, the techniques, and the materials.
Throwing a mock-up out and having some engineers build it might work, but the result won’t truly be great. At Path, I really push the designers to have good relationships with the engineers, so that we’re not throwing mock grenades over the wall and expecting the engineers to pull it together. We sit down and talk about problems and try to come up with the best solution on both sides.
The best product designers are technical. Take the time to learn more than Photoshop and design philosophies. Dive deeper than that. And the deeper the understanding the better. That’s something I didn’t think about when I was growing up, but looking back it has helped me be a better designer.
Can you give an example from Path of how you collaborate with engineers?
Let’s use the composer as an example. I didn’t hand over a mock-up of exactly how it was going to work. We’ve got loose specs around things, but the best stuff comes out of first forming a vision for how this thing’s going to work, and then sitting down with an engineer and making it great.
So I told the engineers roughly what I was thinking and it came out and it wasn’t that good. So we talked through animations. Simple things: it springs back, and then when it goes back in, it sort of goes out and then flexes out and back in. It just takes some time to think through and iterate the design until you get it right. You have to use it and go, “It’s not feeling right. The timing’s off. The angle on these things is off. It does a little spin, it’s too much.”
Your engineers also have to respect the process and be comfortable throwing away code. So that’s another thing designers are taught. To get to the best solution possible, sometimes, you have to toss things away.
Let’s talk about your background. What were your earliest entrepreneurial endeavors?
My mom’s a graphic designer, someone who slaves over how things look, so that’s always been in my life. The earliest thing I can remember building and thinking about is how software feels, Mac software because we only ever had Macs. If you wanted to make software, you were forced to think about how it would look because that was the environment. You had to put pixels on the screen and lay things out. This was late elementary school, and I wasn’t really thinking too much about design and design philosophy. I was figuring out how the hell to make a piece of software. I just wanted to get a button that you clicked and would do something on the screen. Back then, that required 1,000 lines of code.
Next I wanted to make something that I wanted to use. This is crazy—I tried to make my own version of Photoshop. I dove into it but never finished. I could draw on screen, create new canvases, but even though Photoshop was a lot simpler back then, it turned into this massive project. It was buggy. I didn’t understand memory management. I looked at Adobe’s software and wondered how do I make it even better. I didn’t want to sell it, just to build it and to see what it would take and just try. That’s the first time I thought about product design.
Why did you want to put that button on the screen in the first place? Was it related to your mom being a designer?
I think I wanted to make something that mattered, and it seemed like software mattered a lot to the grown-ups in my life. And I did use my mom’s work computer. She certainly let me take a lot of time on it. In early high school, they bought me my first computer. I completely messed it up. It was actually a piece of garbage. It was in Apple’s dark era when they were making Performas and the hardware was bad. Having my own computer was a big deal. I could get booted up much faster and could spend all my time on it, and I neglected a lot of homework because of it.
I also started to think seriously about shareware and that I could sell software and maybe make some money off of it. That this was something I could do with my life. I started wondering how I could start a company.
I released a small game and a couple things. It was really difficult. I was experimenting with different tools: C, Pascal, high-level tools like HyperCard. I was making interfaces: you put it in front of somebody, then they click, and things happen.
How did you have such entrepreneurial ideas at that young of an age?
I grew up in a really small town in Canada and a lot of people had their own small businesses. The biggest business up there probably employs ten people, maybe 20. Like my mom with another guy ran the newspaper in my town. So it’s the way we live.
So when did you end up starting a company?
At the end of high school, like 1998, I started a company with Aaron Sittig. There was a company called adSoft that made a Mac version of Winamp and a couple of other tools. I thought they were cool, so I pinged them on IRC and asked if there was anything I could do for them. The guy told me to work on a project idea with another guy who wanted to work on something, Aaron.
We got it pretty far. I really got into crazy programming and product work because people I hadn’t even met in person were relying on me to get this done. I learned about network programming and how to do really advanced UI stuff. It was really difficult back then to get even something small to work because you’re sending a packet over the wire. You had to do a bunch of crazy shit to send and receive information from another server.
So while we were working on this, I found out about Napster. You could just type in whatever song you wanted, and get it. But there was no Mac version. So Aaron and I and another friend Jason [Toffaletti], who was really into networking, decided to build a Mac version of Napster. We called it Macster and released a first version in two weeks or something. I learned C++. Then we spent another month or two building it out.
This was after high school?
While I was graduating and after that. My parents had no idea what I was doing: “What, you’re not gonna go to college? You should probably do something.”
We shipped it on Christmas Day. The day before, I sent an email to [email protected] to tell them we were putting out this Mac version. Don’t shut us down. A couple days later, they replied and wanted to fly us out to San Francisco because they liked what we were doing. So we went down here. This was the first time Aaron and I met Jason in person. It turned into our first actual interview.
I was a self-taught programmer, completely self-taught. So they asked crazy questions that I ultimately knew the answers to, but it was very awkward because I didn’t know a lot of the terminology they used. Anyway, they hired us. It was hilarious because our starting up salary was $40,000. To me, that’s holy shit, $40,000.
You’re 19 at the time, right?
Yeah, and I’m going to be making more money than my parents combined. This is going to be crazy. They were totally low-balling us, which was fair because we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.
So we worked on the official version of Napster for the Mac. That was big. We went from making nothing things with some friends to something with millions of users and that the whole world was excited about. We were there very, very early. There were five people and no one had heard of Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning yet.
We got paid to learn Objective-C and how to make software and design for Mac OS 10. We learned so much about engineering. I was writing a lot of code and designing at the same time.
Was Napster growing while you were there?
Yes, I think they had more marketing and business people than engineers. To tell you the truth, there weren’t designers. They relied on Aaron and me to produce a lot of the design work. Even after we grew and hired a full-time designer, a lot of product stuff came from the small engineering team.
Back then, hitting a million users was a big deal because we had no idea how to scale. The whole office cheered when one of the engineers pulled it off. We later got to many millions of users, and the company may have gotten to 80 or 100 on staff, but it wasn’t crazy.
Why did you transition away from Napster?
I left after a couple years to work on some more of my own stuff. It’s a lot of fun to have smaller projects and the freedom to build whatever you want. I moved back to Canada and did contract work for some companies. One turned out to be Flickr and another one was called imeem, which I joined and then left eventually because I disagreed with them product-wise. That’s where I met my wife.
I was back in Canada when Shawn told me he had met this guy Dave. He wanted to have a dinner and talk about some ideas we could work on together. We went through a lot of really crazy, really bad ideas, but the discussion was really good. I like Dave a lot, and I had known Shawn forever.
Finding someone to co-found with is a big deal.
You’ve got to be able to mesh, definitely. Dave is really good at product and we can talk about product all day long. We’re a pretty good pair. Dave’s really good at externalizing our vision. He can get up in front of a crowd and get the message out. I can sit down with Photoshop and the engineers and talk through stuff.
Did you start prototyping? Or did you first sign something or start a company?
I started prototyping some things and said we’ll see what happens. A lot of companies when they start have to get everything on paper first. There’s no trust there. It’s not a good sign when you talk about shares before you even know what the hell you’re doing. I don’t think that way.
We eventually came up with a few things we were interested in. But it took a while. I was in Canada for two years hacking on stuff and trying to work through different ideas while I waited for my green card. You couldn’t really start the project in earnest until we were all in the same room.
Have there be any surprises about founding a startup?
I noticed one thing recently. Early on in a startup, everything you do every single day plants a seed. A year later, those seeds are big freaking plants and trees. This startup is a mirror. You see your personality amplified and reflected in how the company behaves, so it can be scary. For example, I’m not very social, so for a while, we didn’t hang out together that much outside of work. That’s something we recognized and are fixing. So maybe you accept it or maybe you can celebrate it. When you start a company, it is going to be you, for better or worse.
Early on in a startup, everything you do every single day plants a seed. A year later, those seeds are big freaking plants and trees. This startup is a mirror. You see your personality amplified and reflected in how the company behaves, so it can be scary.
Do you see yourself as a designer reflected in the company as well?
Yeah, between Dave and I design thinking was injected from the get-go, as opposed to being stapled on later. But it was a challenge in the beginning figuring out the designer’s role and effect on process while figuring out our vision. Especially when all you want to do is prototype and build things as quickly as possible. But I’ve seen startups that are way too eager to just write some code and ship it and see what people think.
Where do you see Path going in the future?
We think it’s really important to build for ourselves. You have to be users of your own product. The easiest way to build a good product is build something you truly want. We’ve built a product that people trust to store the most real moments in their lives in an honest way, a space that’s with them all the time that they can put themselves into. That is something I’ve wanted for a long time and still doesn’t exist. People edit themselves on the Internet all day long. The most honest places right now are probably photo apps. Like iPhoto on your hard drive, but that’s not connected to anyone.
Our vision at Path has been to create an intimate, private space for sharing moments. And this connects to a very personal vision I have. Growing up, I remember being fascinated by these old photos my parents took before I was born. And it’s like, my dad looked like that? His glasses were enormous. But they only have a couple photos. There’s all these moments and stories that they don’t have anymore. They didn’t have the tools for it. It’s sad.
So first, I want a tool where I could just keep it all and trust that space. Second, if I were to have kids, it would be interesting to have a catalog of a life that they can look back on. That’s a ways out; Path has to be around for 20 years for that to happen.
Last question, what does meaningful impact mean to you?
We think about the meaning behind everything we make. I guess when I say design thinking, meaning is baked into that. For every feature we put into the product, we ask, “What is this feature really?” When someone says they want A, what are they actually asking for? What is the meaning behind the question? Why is the product currently failing them? When I think of meaning, I think of all the questions we ask, they’re all part of that meaning bucket. Every single thought we have that goes into this product has meaning baked into it.
It’s something that’s on my mind every day. Every time I use the app. When you’re a startup, it gets harder to use your software because you’re using beta builds and you’re finding bugs. You hate everything you put out there. Like, I’ll think it’s fine and I’m happy with it, but the moment it’s out there, I hate it already. That’s when you think of ten different ways it could have been better. | <urn:uuid:1674452c-7f52-4af6-84f2-6adf25f93a0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.designerfounders.com/interviews/dustin-mierau-path/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98364 | 3,583 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Since a World Health Organization (WHO) panel released a preliminary report on COVID-19 origins tracing in June, some Western politicians and media outlets renewed their attempts to smear China by playing up the so-called lab-leak theory in tracing the origins of COVID-19.
Experts worldwide have pointed out that COVID-19 origins tracing should be treated in a scientific and objective manner, adding that the politicization of the coronavirus origins probe is a ploy to cover up some Western politicians' botched pandemic response, and has seriously hindered the global source tracing and anti-pandemic process.
COVID-19 origins tracing is a scientific matter, which should be conducted by scientists worldwide with a rigorous approach.
A China-WHO joint study report released in 2021 has reached an authoritative scientific conclusion based on field studies by experts from many countries that a lab leak of COVID-19 is "extremely unlikely."
Such a crystal-clear scientific conclusion has not only received wide support from the international scientific community, but also laid a solid foundation for future global virus-tracing work.
The first expert group that visited China on a mission to better understand the origins of the pandemic "largely discounted the idea of the virus having escaped from the laboratory," said Kenya-based international relations scholar Cavince Adhere.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adhere noted, some Western countries have failed to take effective measures to protect their citizens from contagion, but politicized the pandemic, which has impeded global cooperation and response towards containing the health crisis.
Stanley Perlman, professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa, told Xinhua that it is necessary to have a thorough investigation of the COVID-19 origins, and that it is key to avoiding political hype.
The attempt to politicize and stigmatize the origins and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 "is not acceptable in scientific grammar and culture," Mushtuq Husain, an adviser to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research under the Bangladesh's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"That attempt to do so will only complicate the WHO investigation and global preparation against future pandemic threat," said the Bangladeshi health expert.
"It is utterly unscientific to blame any particular country, region, group of people for infectious disease origin and transmission," Husain noted. "It is a natural process."
In fact, China is by far the only country that has invited more than once WHO expert groups to come for a joint SARS-CoV-2 origins study. It is also the only country that has shared research progress multiple times on origins tracing with the WHO. China has shared more data and research findings on SARS-CoV-2 origins study than any other country.
China's open, transparent and responsible attitude towards this matter has been highly recognized by the international community.
In an attempt to shift blame to others to downplay the political, economic and social contradictions caused by the adverse response to the pandemic at home, some Western politicians and media outlets have been fabricating various lies and rumors against China on COVID-19 origins tracing.
Trsar Ziga, a Slovenia-based economics scholar, told Xinhua that China has always been open and transparent in sharing information on origins tracing with the WHO and the international community, and has provided urgently needed supplies to many countries.
In contrast, the United States played down the severity of the pandemic and did not take effective prevention and control measures at the early stage, which led to the number of cumulative confirmed cases and deaths in the country continuing to rank first in the world, Ziga added.
In order to divert attention from problems at home, the economist said, the U.S. government has been politicizing the pandemic and manipulating public opinion to smear China.
During an interview with Xinhua, Gennady Onishchenko, the first deputy chairman of the Committee on Education and Science of Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said, "topic of the lab origin of the coronavirus has been constantly raised."
"First, (Donald) Trump started it, then (Joe) Biden supported it, obviously, the purpose is to blame China, all this is being done in order to politicize the topic of COVID-19 origins," said Onishchenko.
ORIGINS TRACING COMPLICATED
Overseas experts and scholars stressed that the process of COVID-19 origins tracing is very complicated and may take years.
In fact, according to historical records, the place a pandemic was first detected and reported often turned out not to be the birthplace of the virus.
The 1918 Spanish influenza, for instance, is believed to have started with the infection of a U.S. soldier at a barracks in the U.S. state of Kansas, although it was first reported in Europe and named after Spain.
For the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have found traces of the coronavirus in human and environmental samples retained before December 2019 in many countries such as Italy, Spain, Brazil, with some dating as far back as the autumn that year.
Therefore, COVID-19 origins tracing needs to unfold in multiple localities worldwide, which requires countries to openly carry out scientific research cooperation and share the results.
"The U.S. government, notably the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has not been transparent or honest with the public and the world community about the research that the United States was funding," U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs, also head of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, told Xinhua.
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Overweight? Joint Pain Doesn’t Have to Weigh You Down
There are many different causes for joint pain. Injuries, accidents, age, posture and weight are just a few of the contributing factors. Chiropractic care can help alleviate and eliminate most of your pain with regular care. There is, however, a certain amount of self-care that is required of patients who want to see long-term results from their treatments.
Part of that self-care includes diet and exercise. If you are overweight, and it is causing you joint pain, the best way to see long-term pain relief is to lose that weight. If you were to seek out help from a chiropractor, he would include an exercise and diet plan as part of a treatment plan designed for you. It’s just as important to chiropractic care that you achieve overall wellness by maintaining a healthy weight.
It doesn’t have to be an overnight transformation, you won’t need surgery or a personal trainer. The success rate for dieting alone as a weight loss solution is dismally low. Sure, the weight will come off with dieting, but in the long run, the safest and most effective way is to create lifestyle changes that you are comfortable with. The changes you make need to be ones that you can live with in the long-term.
Calories = Energy
The food that you eat has certain caloric values. These values are measured by scientists who literally burn the food to get a measurement of how much energy is required to use up the food. The food you eat is the fuel your body “burns” to keep you going. Some fuels are easier and quicker for your body to use. While other fuels take much longer for the body to transform into energy. This is the basic idea behind any diet that has a point system. The better the fuel is for your body, and the easier it turns into energy, the less likely your body will be to try and use it as a fat store.
Eat It Up
A great way to start cutting calories is to look at your diet and give each food that you enjoy a value. It can be as simple as saying foods are a 0 or a 1. Foods that are high in fat, sugars or are heavily processed are much harder for your body to process. Fruits, vegetables and proteins are high in fiber, minerals and vitamins that will help keep you healthy. For many people, cutting out soda and potato chips is the only step they require to lose weight. Where does that leave them? It’s not very fun to be at a party and not get to enjoy your favorite foods. Cutting calories doesn’t have to be a punishment, and if you are too extreme, you may end up cheating and doing more damage than good.
Don’t tell yourself that you can’t have treats. In the long run, a diet should really be a lifestyle change. If you are comfortable with the choices that you have made to take the weight off, the more likely you’ll be able to stick to it. If you ditch the changes you’ve made and go right back to the same bad habits, you won’t keep the weight off and all the hard work you put in will be wasted. Allow yourself treats but remember that moderation is the key to enjoyment.
Here are a few tricks to try.
- Eating out- Choose healthier side dishes. Rather than fries, get the fruit bowl or a salad.
- Don’t drink your calories- Soda, juice, tea,etc are all delicious and are a great treat, but many of them have a lot of calories in them. If you were to count up the calories you consume from drinks alone, you may be surprised. If you do choose to have a drink with your meal, try getting a smaller portion. Also ask for a glass of water to go along with your sweet drink. Drinking soda and other sweet beverages can sometimes leave you thirstier than before which can lead to drinking too much. Water can help to quench your thirst and help you avoid drinking all your calories.
- Portion size– The size of an entire portion at any meal– even the ones we make at home– tend to be much larger than we actually need. Most meals you probably walk away thinking that you’ve eaten too much and are uncomfortable. It’s totally fine to get second helpings of something you enjoy, but try getting a smaller portion to start out with. If you are at a restaurant, it’s helpful to divide your meal before you start to eat. It can create a visual cue on your plate to tell you when you’ve had enough.
- Give it a minute- Before you dish up a second helping, sit and wait for 2-5 minutes. Take a drink of water and just relax. More often than not, you’ll realize that you really are full or at least satisfied and you don’t really need that second helping anyway.
- Drink your water– Drinking water with your meal can help fill the empty spaces. It can also help you pace yourself. The more water you drink, the less room there is in your stomach for food. This little trick can help you get away from the dinner table without feeling overfull. It’s also great to drink lots of water; the average person does not drink enough water, yet it’s so beneficial to your health.
- Don’t lick the plate- As children, we probably heard things like, “finish your meal” or “clean your plate.” This habit of cleaning your plate can lead to habits of overeating. Many people also have the habit of picking at their meal after they’ve determined that they were finished. This habit can be combated by trying the following:
a. Get a box for leftovers if you plan to take the food home. Get it boxed up so it’s out of sight.
b. Cover it up. Throw your napkin over the uneaten portion of your meal. If you can’t see, it you’ll be less likely to continue eating.
c. If you don’t plan to take the remains of your meal home with you, then tip a glass of water over it. Soggy food is unappealing, and you won’t be tempted to finish it off.
Work It Off
It’s easier to cut calories than to burn them. If you fill your tank with sugars and fats, the body will use the energy it needs to perform daily tasks, but will store anything left over in the form of fat. Once it becomes fat, it’s there to stay. Cutting calories is a great way to stop yourself from putting on the extra pounds, but if you don’t get enough calories in your system, then you won’t have enough energy. You could even potentially cause yourself harm if you are too extreme. The body needs the vitamins and minerals in the food you eat to function. The point? A healthy mix of diet and exercise is the most effective way to lose weight and keep it off.
Burning calories through exercise will help eliminate them from your system. If you burn enough calories, then your body will start to burn off the reserves in the form of fat. You don’t have to join a gym or buy fancy equipment to get in shape. A healthy lifestyle is just a few steps away. By making simple changes you can increase the calories you burn daily and create permanent healthy lifestyle changes.
It is recommended by the CDC to get in at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week. That’s just a few minutes a day. Setting a steps goal and getting yourself a way to track it is one of the easiest ways to reach the 150 minute goal. 10,000 steps is the magic number that many fitness trackers use as a target. This equates to approximately 5 miles walked and around 300-400 calories burned. Most people carrying a smart phone already have a device on them that is counting their steps.
Here are a few great ways to up your step count with just a little effort.
- Parking – Parking in the farthest reaches of the grocery story lot can help you reach your health goals. The few hundred extra steps will burn calories, and as an added bonus, there are usually better parking options. Shady parking spaces in the hot summer months are easier to find available if you’re willing to walk a little further.
- Stand and stretch- Even if you don’t have a desk job, you probably sit far more than is recommended. Not only is sitting bad for your posture, too much sitting is bad for your health. Create a habit of getting to your feet and doing a stretch or walk to the water cooler or take a lap around the room. This will burn a few calories and help you with your posture. The longer you sit, the more hunched or relaxed your posture will be, which is terrible for your joints.
- Take the stairs- In this amazing world of technology and convenience, you’ve been conveniently robbed of a great daily exercise. As a child, you probably spent a lot of your time running around outside and getting great exercise, but now as an adult you have responsibilities. Make the time to take the stairs and get in those extra steps.
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In Chauvin v. Shell Oil Company, the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment of the trial court granting summary judgment to defendants on Plaintiffs’ trespass action. In doing so, the Fifth Circuit made clear that to succeed on a trespass claim when the contracts at issue are ambiguous, parole evidence from the plaintiffs’ experts and the plaintiffs themselves should be consistent with ownership.
Plaintiffs filed suit for trespass against defendants after learning of their possible ownership of property over which numerous pipelines ran. Motions for summary judgment were filed by a number of defendants named in the action, arguing that plaintiffs could not succeed on an essential element of their claim – proof of ownership. At issue were two sale contracts from plaintiffs’ alleged ancestors in title to Shell Oil Company (“Shell”) dated 1971, in which two tracts of land were transferred to Shell. Based on these 1971 sales, Shell had granted a number of servitudes to other entities over the years. Plaintiffs claimed that the existence of pipelines on the property at issue pursuant to servitudes granted by Shell constituted a trespass and sought damages. While Plaintiffs did not dispute the fact that some property was sold to Shell in 1971, they did dispute exactly what property was included in those 1971 sales, claiming that the property over which the pipelines ran was not included.
The court disagreed with the Plaintiffs, and granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment, finding that there were no genuine issues of material fact regarding Shell’s ownership of the disputed property. On de novo review, the Fifth Circuit affirmed. Its opinion boiled down to interpretation of the 1971 sales, noting that essentially the case was a boundary dispute. Because the acts of sale themselves were ambiguous, the appellate court looked to parole evidence, such as the testimony of the parties’ respective surveyors, and evidence of the parties’ actions after 1971 to help determine the intent of the parties to the 1971 sales. First, the court noted that even the Plaintiffs’ own surveyor testified he could not determine the extent of the southern boundary of the property at issue in the 1971 sales, but despite this testimony, he still created a survey map that reached the same conclusion as Shell’s surveyor –the 1971 sales included the property over which defendants’ pipelines now extended. Second, the court noted that, although there were succession proceedings for the Plaintiffs’ alleged ancestors-in-title, none of the successions included the disputed property, suggesting that Plaintiffs’ ancestors-in-title believed they had sold the property in question and did not need to bequeath it to their heirs. Finally, the court made much of the fact that numerous plaintiffs testified that either they had never set foot on the property at issue, or that they were unaware of the property until just prior to suit. Furthermore, the husband of one of the Plaintiffs testified that his wife did not believe she owned an interest. The court contrasted the above “non-action” by Plaintiffs and their ancestors-in-title with Shell’s action since 1971, which included the granting of a number of servitudes and maintenance of a pipeline and posting of signage. The Fifth Circuit thus ultimately concluded there were no genuine issues of fact as to what the parties intended in the 1971 sales, i.e. that Shell had satisfactorily demonstrated ownership.
The court also noted that, even if the 1971 sales had not transferred the disputed property to Shell, Shell had also established ownership via acquisitive prescription, as it had possessed the property peaceably and continuously for thirty years, as evidenced by its granting of servitudes, posting of signage, and maintenance. The Fifth Circuit therefore affirmed the judgment of the district court.
A copy of the Fifth Circuit’s decision can be found here. For more information regarding the decision, please contact Erin Bambrick at firstname.lastname@example.org or Elizabeth Wheeler at email@example.com.
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This study examines postmarital residence patterns at the Windover site, an Early Archaic occupation located in east-central Florida. Residence patterns are assessed using a population genetics model based on isolation by distance and migration matrix methods. Variation in nonmetric dental traits is examined among a group of 40 adult males and 43 adult females. The sex with the higher within-group variance is considered the more mobile sex, thereby providing a possible reflection of residential patterns. Results indicate that females are almost twice as variable as males, thus suggesting patrilocality. However, this result is not statistically significant at the .05 probability level. Additional lines of evidence are assessed in conjunction with dental data. Specifically, ethnographic data indicate that subsistence and sexual division of labor are important factors related to social organization, including residence. Although these lines of evidence can be used to support the dental data and patrilocality, they are not conclusive. Future studies of activity patterns, disease, mortuary remains, and material culture may help to clarify the issue of postmarital residence patterns at Windover. | <urn:uuid:21299201-18a8-48c5-a832-fcb4303ba865> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://core-cms.prod.aop.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/issue/3DD8B2F5EEAE7D8F15023E0C163F3AFF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941436 | 218 | 1.875 | 2 |
Do you feel as though you have full control of your life, with all elements in perfect balance? Do you feel like you have achieved a maximum level of physical well-being?
I am fairly certain that most of us would have to answer these questions with a clear “No.” Sure, there might be times where it seems that we have full control and are performing at our best; however, many of us struggle with balancing the responsibilities of life and maximizing our physical well-being, and often experience more lows than highs. We encounter obstacles that seem impossible to overcome, and we fail to do the things we know we should. We may look for quick fixes, even though we know that, in the long run, these won’t be effective.
Many of my clients and students express repeatedly that there just doesn’t seem to be enough time for everything that needs to be done. It appears that everyone is continuously more stressed, busy, unhappy and physically unwell. While you could spend a lot of time analyzing why this might be so, it is more productive to focus on basic, simple ways to live life to the fullest, increase your physical well-being and balance your life in healthy and happy ways.
Setting the Stage
You are a multidimensional being, including mind, body and spirit. Achieving optimal health and a desired state of wellness requires a continuous readjustment of all elements to achieve balance. This journey of finding balance in all aspects of life seems to be the never-ending endeavor of the human race, inspiring us to search for a better way.
The Power of Knowledge
The good news is that we actually know a lot about the functioning of the different dimensions of wellness, including physical, mental/emotional and spiritual well-being, which can help us understand what we ought to do to achieve maximum physical well-being.
Transferring theory into practice (i.e., knowledge into action) is what presents the challenge for most people. This barrier usually creates the limitations to achieving an optimal level of physical well-being.
There a few key, yet simple, action steps we can take to balance the different aspects of our lives. Just remember that it will be an ongoing effort to reevaluate, readjust and rebalance, as needed. These elements will directly and indirectly affect physical well-being, yet all are important to achieving maximum wellness.
To experience positive change, you have to be willing to take a chance and challenge yourself. Are you ready? Now is the time to embark on a new journey to live a complete life that maximizes your physical capabilities and wellness.
Living life to the fullest is a choice, and you have an enormous amount of control over your life, including your time and health. Choose to take a chance to change for optimum wellness. It is not your circumstances that dictate the outcome; it is how you choose to respond. Write this sentence on a piece of paper or position it on your desktop or phone and say it out loud every morning: “I choose to live life to the fullest!”
Before you can achieve any level of balance in your life, you need to set your priorities. Create a list of your top five priorities and place this list where it will be visible to you. This will help you shift your energy in the right direction. You will probably notice that much of your time is spent on the things that have a lower priority in your life, which can actually drain you physically and cause unnecessary stress.
Not surprisingly, those who are organized have a lot more time to do the things they want to do. Organization decreases stress and provides an automatic sense of control. Organizing your time will be the key element to help you experience an increased level of physical well-being. This also means that you need to think ahead and plan how you will spend your time, including healthy habits related to resting, moving and eating. Use the calendar function on your electronic device or find a helpful app to start organizing your responsibilities and elements related to health and fitness. Make to do lists and check off the things you have completed; this provides an amazing feeling of accomplishment and positivity.
It will take practice, but you need to outline a training plan for your physical activity, eating and drinking patterns, sleeping habits and stress-management techniques. This will require some serious self-discipline, but you will start noticing that it will add phenomenal strength, energy, positivity and balance to your life.
Specifically, ensure to do the following and consider these as a general guideline (assuming that you do not suffer from any medical conditions, in which case you should always consult a physician):
- Move as much as possible throughout the day. Stand more and sit less. Take the stairs. Walk after lunch, even if it is for five minutes. Choose any activity over being sedentary.
- Exercise every day. Include at least three to five days of cardiorespiratory activity for 20 to 60 minutes. Do a full-body stretching routine each day (preferably after exercise that increases your body temperature for better results). Strengthen your muscles by engaging in muscular strength and endurance training two to three times per week, addressing all major muscle groups.
- Drink enough water each day. Depending on your situation and activity level, be sure to stay well-hydrated throughout the day. Check your urine to determine if you are drinking enough water (it should be light yellow or clear and odorless). Avoid drinking sugary, caffeinated or diet drinks.
- Eat well and balanced. Eat regular meals and snacks. Eat as clean and organic as possible. Avoid processed foods and prepare your own meals instead of eating out as much as possible. Include a lot of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes and whole grains. Avoid refined sugar and saturated fats as best as possible. This will require you to plan ahead as it relates to shopping, time and logistical preparations; therefore, include it in your organization.
Achieving balance and experiencing maximum physical well-being will require you to consider the power of rest, breaks, vacation and meditation in your life. Sleep should occur every night at a regular time for at least seven to eight hours. Take a lunch break and mini-breaks throughout the day. Start your day with a meditation (could be spiritual or non-spiritual depending on your belief system). Take regular vacations (preferably every three months for at least a week if that is possible). At the end of the day, reflect on what went well and what needs to change and improve tomorrow in relation to all things on the list above.
At the end of the day, restate your new objective: “I choose to live life to the fullest!” Finding a desired level of equilibrium in your life will be an ongoing journey, but if you can manage to implement these action strategies, you will achieve a greater level of balance that will contribute significantly to your physical well-being and inspire you to continue to do better. You will be energized and have a much more positive outlook on life because you know that you took a chance to choose to challenge yourself and change for the better. | <urn:uuid:26ed5488-5855-465d-a4fa-a2ad99952287> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acefitness.org/resources/everyone/blog/5909/maximize-your-physical-well-being-by-balancing-all-aspects-of-your-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950901 | 1,498 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Non-ventilator health care-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP): Pathogenesis and microbiology of NV-HAP.
Am J Infect Control. 2020 May;48(5S):A7-A9
Authors: Fine LS
Studies demonstrate that those at risk for developing nonventilator associated pneumonia (NV-HAP) include the very young and the very old, as well as persons with compromised immune systems cardiovascular and/or pulmonary disease. This section includes a review of the pathogenesis and microbiology of NV-HAP, including bacterial as well as viral and fungal pathogens. Etiology, modes of transmission, and specific prevention strategies associated with various causative microorganisms are highlighted.
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After scrambling to close midyear budget gaps, sustain needed services, and help the millions suddenly left jobless nationwide by pandemic shutdowns, state governments now confront additional and urgent decisions. Although conditions are improving, COVID-19 and its impact still top state legislative agendas. The difficult climate this year exacerbates the perennial pressure on state policymakers to focus on immediate crises while pushing complex, ongoing problems into the future.
Still, there is much that decision-makers can learn from recent events to make progress on structural reforms that will improve state fiscal health over the long run. They cannot control many factors affecting their state’s bottom lines—such as global economic conditions, federal policies, demographic changes, or pandemics—but well-managed states can stay on track, whatever unforeseen circumstances may arise.
Improving fiscal management does not have to further strain current budgets. Instead, enacting certain policies and practices will help states better manage finances now and in the coming years. But policymakers need to get the details right, and this may take more time than legislatures and state executives have during typical sessions. States can commit now to such efforts by making them a priority for interim committee work or special studies. Every state has already made progress on one or more of these ideas, but each has room to improve.
First, states need strategies to manage uncertainty and adapt quickly when fiscal crises arise. Experience and research show that:
- Robust reserves with evidence-based deposit and withdrawal rules are states’ best line of defense against undesirable spending cuts or tax increases.
- Budget stress tests help policymakers estimate the potential financial shortfalls that could result from adverse events and plan ahead to keep long-term priorities on track.
- Contingency plans can ensure that states are ready for midyear gaps and allow decision-makers to avoid under-correcting or overcorrecting to emerging budget shortfalls.
- Evidence-based budgeting can help states avoid indiscriminate across-the-board cuts to close a budget gap, instead helping them address the most critical needs with proven programs.
Second, crafting multiyear budget plans can help ensure that this year’s budget decisions do not create future deficits. Experience and research show that:
- Developing and following principles for using temporary budget fixes can help states achieve budget stability as they recover from recessions.
- Distinguishing between recurring and one-time revenue and spending avoids setting up future deficits and helps policymakers maintain sustainable funding for key priorities.
- Fiscal protections—if built into tax incentives—ensure that the cost of economic development efforts does not grow far beyond expectations.
- Planning now how to manage anticipated opioid settlement funds will help states sustainably dedicate money received to combating that public health crisis.
Third, states can improve how they support localities that may be struggling economically and fiscally. For example:
- States can review and amend policies that decrease fiscal flexibility for local governments and may make recovery from the downturn more difficult.
- States can monitor local budget conditions and offer help to distressed communities.
- Policymakers should examine state investments in economic development programs designed to strengthen distressed areas to improve how well they are targeted and tailored to local needs.
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Obey to Live
Today, Lord, I am here to let You speak. May this take place at this time. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Read Mark 2:23–28
Scripture taken from the THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
This kind of Sabbath-breaking is not an act of casual or wanton civil disobedience, but a sign that the King is here, and his kingdom is breaking through.
Jesus has told John’s disciples and the Pharisees that they need to listen to his teaching and live it out. He teaches a new way and they need to change. Today we see this difference between them turning into a division.
The disciples are plucking corn to make a way (23)—not necessarily to eat. The Torah bans harvesting on the Sabbath (Exod. 34:21), but not plucking odd bits of corn—though this was banned in later rabbinic tradition and probably the Pharisees had a similar interpretation. Pharisees regularly added commands to the Torah to update it or to give clarity on how to obey laws where they seemed to clash or to be impractical. They saw these extra instructions as Law, but Jesus did not.
Jesus tells the story of when David ate the bread of the presence from the Temple, which (probably; the Torah is not clear) only priests should eat (Lev. 24:5–9). Jesus argues that if David could eat that bread, why should his disciples be disciplined for plucking corn on the Sabbath—which is not even mentioned in the Torah? He chides the Pharisees for misunderstanding the nature and purpose of the Torah—the Sabbath was made for people and not the other way around.
Adding to the commands of Jesus is easily done—and often from the best of motives. Christian books and talks are full of guidelines about alcohol, romance and sex, lifestyle, self-help, parenting and the like. We need to distinguish between the teaching of Jesus and what is simply the wisdom or experience of fellow Christians, so that what was once said or written to help people grow in faith does not become a burden that prevents people from growing.
Jesus teaches obedience so that we may flourish. Is this our attitude and experience? What might we ask of Jesus so that his commands do make us flourish?
Lord Jesus, often man-made rules or church institutions hurt people. Grant me discernment to know the difference between Your teaching and what I impose on it. | <urn:uuid:8dbb2a30-885d-4690-8dcb-f0f4a6da54b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scriptureunion.org/dailyencounter/obey-to-live/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966324 | 559 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Austria emits about the same amount of greenhouse gases as in 1990. By 2030, however, emissions are to be halved. To ensure that this actually succeeds, the Austrian Climate Council has made 93 recommendations after long – and expensive – consultations. They should guarantee that Austria will become climate-neutral by 2040.
One of the concerns of the 88 climate councils: anti-discrimination for fruit and vegetables. In the future, therefore, the disadvantage and unequal treatment of certain foods should also be fought. The climate council does not reveal whether the establishment of an anti-discrimination office is planned.
The fact is: Discrimination based on perceptible characteristics – such as the external shape – will also be a no-go in nutrition in the future. Crooked vegetables should no longer be pushed back compared to other foods, that would be unfair. Therefore, a purchase obligation for crooked vegetables – including crooked cucumbers – should apply.
Further changes in behavior when eating are to be enacted: the destruction of food is to be banned, but the use of climate-friendly food in restaurants and canteen kitchens is to be made mandatory.
The 15 scientists involved in the process are convinced: “The measures proposed by the climate councilors, a cross-section of the Austrian population, show that the citizens are ready for far-reaching changes in behavior beyond their comfort zone.” Whether this also includes public distribution refrigerators , as proposed by the Council? According to this, ice boxes would be used collectively in the future.
The members of the climate council do not seem to be too worried about the inflation crisis – at least not the remaining 88 climate councils, because there were originally 100. The CO2 price is to be raised significantly, by 2025 to 120 euros per ton and by 2030 to 240 euros per ton. CO2 pricing is also planned for building materials, and volume discounts for food are to be banned – otherwise people would buy too much. There should also be higher taxes for climate-damaging vehicles. You can see: The record inflation is obviously not that bad, there is still room for improvement.
Another cornerstone: an enforceable fundamental right to climate protection. It is unclear against whom this fundamental right can be asserted, whether only against the state or also against fellow human beings who are not so serious about climate protection and are thereby violating the fundamental right of others to comprehensive climate protection.
In fact: no area is left out. For example, the protection of monuments should also be adapted to climate protection.
The proposal not to allow any new combustion engines from as early as 2027 would have far-reaching consequences. E-mobility is still a long way from being established. But even if the change were to succeed, drivers would be left at a disadvantage, in accordance with the wishes of the climate council. At the same time, “city tolls and car-free inner cities” are to be promoted, a monthly car-free day introduced in all larger cities and company cars reduced. After all: A relief is also planned: the tax deductibility of bicycles.
Consumers and producers are also being challenged in other ways: the repairability of products should be made mandatory and the destruction of new goods should be prohibited. | <urn:uuid:99345a3c-7e2d-4d79-ada5-206d2401e89f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vikendi.net/2022/07/04/gewesslers-climate-council-recommends-anti-discrimination-for-crooked-cucumbers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964659 | 660 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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These three books couldn’t be any more different, but I enjoyed all of them. I hope me sharing these books motivates you to read something, or if you’re already reading something let me know what it is and if you have any recommendations for me! You can see my past recommendations here.
If you liked reading A Brave New World or enjoyed Snowpiercer (I saw the movie and haven’t read the graphic novel), then you’re going to like Wool. It’s a story that follows several characters in a dystopic world that’s trying to hang on to a civil society.
It’s a bit long, almost 600 pages but it’s one that’s easy to tear through that has a great cause/effect succession of plot events and great characters that keep you engaged. It had me asking questions until the very last page and now new questions that makes me want to pick up the other two books in the series that followed the success of this one.
I highly recommend it for an entertaining dystopic/sci-fi/thriller.
We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.
The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman is an autobiographical look into the externally kooky, but internally relatable character of Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book bounces around little interesting stories of his life from working on the Manhattan project, teaching himself how to pick locks, learning how to pick up women, living and teaching in Brazil and playing musical instruments, going to strip clubs to think and practice his drawing, to rants about how terrible school textbooks are and maintaining integrity in science.
What is most striking throughout the book is his eternal curiosity. When someone tells him these are the best locks around, no one can pick them, then he sets to figuring out how they work and see if he can pick them (he could). He applies the curiosity to every aspect of his life which gave it so much fullness in so many areas of study and interest.
There’s some great interviews on YouTube that give an insight into how this contemporary of Einstein’s thinks. My favorite video of him speaking is one accompanied by this animation below:
Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing – it didn’t have to do with whatever it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
What I got out of that story was something sill very new to me: I understood at last what art is really for, at least in certain respects. It gives somebody, individually, pleasure. You can make something that somebody likes so much that they’re depressed, or they’re happy, on account of that damn thing you made!
At a young age I was naturally drawn to feathers and collected ones I found. There’s an intricate beauty to feathers and I was interested to learn more and Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle was the perfect book.
Feathers hold a powerful cultural position that we often don’t appreciate, from religion to aviation to fashion, feathers play an important role in everyone’s lives. They changed our understanding of natural history with Archaeopteryx and they changed hunting and warcraft in the Stone Age by their addition to arrows that we see influence modern day rockets!
Feathers are amazing and spending time reading about them is a great way to practice being in awe of our natural world.
In ancient Rome, official fortune-tellers called augurs based their predictions on the behaviors of birds or on patterns seen in their feathers, bones, and viscera. These birds oracles held great sway, influencing major decisions in politics as well as private life, and even today we recall the past importance of augury when we inaugurate presidents or speak of an auspicious occasion.
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Groundwater Overpumping and Recent Earthquakes in the Northern United Arab Emirates: A Natural Hazard Accentuated by Human Activity
Geography Department, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is on the flank of the Arabian plate, but far away from the major modern earthquake epicentres. It normally experiences only minor earthquakes whose epicentres lie along the suture between the Arabian and Asiatic plates in Iran, the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. In March 2002 a series of earthquakes occurred in several areas in the northern UAE, with foci along fault lines within the UAE. What made these earthquakes different from earlier earthquakes was their strength and frequency. For the first time in the area, earthquakes of a magnitude 5.5 (on the Richter scale) occurred, and continued over a period of three days. The causes appear to involve more than fault zone and plate tectonics, and may be related to human activity. Tracing the earthquakes during the past three decades indicates that the earthquakes followed major groundwater over-pumping, itself a result of population growth, growth in the number of farms and number of bottled water factories.
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With all that’s been going in the world, how are you feeling?
Identifying blind spots are so important in our lives. Can you identify any prejudices you may or used to hold?
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The bible is clear that we are all made in the image of God and are saved by grace. What does this mean to you?
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When one thinks of the term crowdsourcing, practices related to business, marketing, and/or consumerism first come to mind. In academia, the idea of crowdsourcing seems most relevant to science disciplines or statistics. However, over the past few years the idea of crowdsourcing has been co-opted by the digital humanities. In the digital humanities, the practice of crowdsourcing involves primary sources and an open call to the general public with an invitation to participate.
There are pros and cons to crowdsourcing DH-related projects. Certainly having the benefit of many people working on a common project that serves a greater good is a pro. In turn, the project gains more attention because of the traffic generated by people who feel invested and share the site with others. On the other hand, with many people participating there is more room for error and inconsistency. Another con is the supervision and site maintenance needed to answer contributor queries, correct errors, and manage a project that is constantly changing with new transcriptions and uploads.
The four projects analyzed for this module reflect a range of likely contributors, interfaces, and community building. For example, Trove, which crowdsources annotations and corrections to scanned newspaper text in the collections of the National Library of Australia, has around 75,000 users who have produced nearly 100 million lines of corrected text since 2008 (Source: Digital Humanities Network, University of Cambridge). Trove’s interface is user-friendly but the organization and number of sources are overwhelming.
A second project, the Papers of the War Department (PWD), uses MediaWiki and Scripto (open-source transcription tool), which work well and present a very finished and organized interface. PWD has over 45,000 documents and promotes the project as “a unique opportunity to capitalize on the energy and enthusiasm of users to improve the archive for everyone.” The PWD also calls its volunteers “Transcription Associates” which gives weight and credibility for their hard work.
Building Inspector is like a citywide scavenger hunt/game, and its interface is clean, clearly explains, engaging, and barrier to contribute are very minimal. In fact, it is designed for use on mobile devices and tablets. As stated on the project site: “[Once] information is organized and searchable [with the public’s help], we can ask new kinds of questions about history. It will allow our interfaces to drop pins accurately on digital maps when you search for a forgotten place. It will allow you to explore a city’s past on foot with your mobile device, ‘checking in’ to ghostly establishments. And it will allow us to link other historical documents to those places: archival records, old newspapers, business directories, photographs, restaurant menus, theater playbills etc., opening up new ways to research, learn, and discover the past.” Building Inspector has approximately 20 professionals on its staff connected either directly to the project or NYPL Labs.
Finally, Transcribe Bentham uses MediaWiki. It is sponsored by the University of London and funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation. It was previously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They also ask volunteers to encode their transcripts in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)-compliant XML; TEI is a de-facto standard for encoding electronic texts. It requires a bit more tech savvy, and its audience is likely smaller—fans, students, or enthusiasts of Jeremy Bentham and his writings. As a contributor, I worried about “getting it wrong,” especially with such important primary texts. Due to the sources’ handwriting, alternative spellings, unfamiliar vocabulary, and an older, more formal version of English made this a daunting task for me. An additional benefit of this project is the ability of contributors to create tags. In sum, Transcribe Bentham has 35,366 articles and 72,017 pages in total. There have been 193,098 edits so far, and the site is 45% complete. There are 37,183 registered users including 8 administrators.
As noted by digital humanists on HIST680 video summaries, the bulk of the work is actually done by a small group of highly committed volunteers who see their designated project as a job. Another group that regularly contributes is composed of undergraduate and graduate students working within a project like Transcribe Bentham as a part of their coursework. A final group of volunteers are those who are willing to share their specialized knowledge with these research, museum, literary, or cultural heritage projects.
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You may not know that your home is lacking insulation, issues are often in walls and your attic, so for most homeowners, issues that are out of sight are out of mind. There are signs out there that can clue you into your home having poor insulation. Insulation can be an easy way to improve your home’s performance, and who doesn’t want that? Saving money and energy are just a couple of the benefits of insulation. Read on to learn more about the importance of insulating your home or business.
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Ankle sprains are the most common type of injury in Basketball, with an inversion low ankle sprain the most common. Severe inversion ankle sprains may result in a high ankle sprain, affecting the ligaments on the front of the ankle joint. A study by Dewar et al., 2019 reviewed three different types of ankle braces and found little significant difference in their effectiveness. Still, all three effectively reduced the risk of ankle sprains in basketball.
Another study by McGuine et al., 2011 on the effect of lace-up ankle braces on injury rates in high school basketball found that they did not reduce the severity of injuries. Still, they did reduce the incidence of ankle injuries. These two studies highlight the benefits of Basketball ankle braces in reducing ankle injuries.
A basketball ankle brace should have a lace-up front with eight straps to fix the ankle into the desired position for stability. The laces prevent the ankle brace from loosening while you play, while the figure 8 strap is more stable than a figure 6 lock. Stirrups along the side help lock the subtalar joint, which is helpful for chronic ankle sprains.
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There is evidence that lace-up ankle braces reduce the risk of a sprained ankle when playing basketball; however, a debate is that wearing an ankle brace can weaken your ankle muscles as the brace does all the work for the ankle. There is no evidence to support this, but from a clinical perspective, this is reasonable.
We suggest doing balance and stability exercises for your ankle if you play basketball and wearing an ankle brace if you have a history of ankle sprains.
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Every year I receive Christmas gifts that I don’t know how to use. They usually wind up on a shelf, or in a drawer, or stored in the attic. And it has occurred to me . . . has God sent you His Gift, and you don’t know how to “use” Him either? The following reveals how practical His Gift is . . . every day.
From this passage, write a description of Bartimaeus. For example:
He was blind, meaning he probably felt lonely . . . what else?
He was sitting on the roadside, meaning he was outcast . . . what else?
He was begging, meaning he had financial needs . . . what else?
How do you relate to Bartimaeus, or who do you know who does?
I. JESUS HEARS YOUR CRY – Mark 10:46-48
- Do you think Jesus knew Bartimaeus was sitting by the roadside?
- Do you think Jesus would have stopped to help if Bartimaeus had not cried out?
- Describe a similar scene in Mark 6:47-50; in Luke 24:28-29. What does this teach you?
- Give phrases from the following verses that encourage you to cry out: Genesis 21:17-18; Exodus 3:7-10; 1 Samuel 9:16; 2 Samuel 22:7-20; 1 Kings 17:17-24; Psalm 6:9, 34:15-18, 55:16-17, 116:1-2, 145:17-19; Romans 8:15-16.
- What was Bartimaeus’ cry?
- How was he discouraged from crying out? How are you being discouraged from crying out, and who is discouraging you?
- Would you open your heart and cry out to Him now?
II. JESUS HEEDS YOUR CALL – Mark 10:49-50
- What two or more things did Jesus do in response to Bartimaeus’ cry?
- Why do you think Jesus won’t stop everything He is doing, and answer your cry?
- How does God describe Himself in Exodus 34:6? How is this description the basis of Nehemiah’s prayer in Nehemiah 9:5-37? Give the phrases with verse numbers that include the word “compassion” or “compassionate.”
- What encouragement do you receive from Isaiah 54:10? Matthew 9:36? 14:14? 15:32? 20:34? Mark 1:41? 2 Corinthians 1:3?
- Once he knew he had Jesus’ attention, what did Bartimaeus do? What do you need to “throw off” in order to experience the difference Jesus can make in your life? Hebrews 12:1; Luke 5:32; Acts 3:19; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:8-10
III. JESUS HONORS YOUR CONFIDENCE – Mark 10:51-52
- What did Jesus ask Bartimaeus? How did Bartimaeus answer?
- What does this teach you about prayer that God answers?
- What reason did Jesus give for making a difference in Bartimaeus’ life? Give the same phrase Jesus uses in Matthew 9:27-30; Luke 7:1-10; Matthew 9:20-22, 15:21-28; Luke 17:11-19
- When you cry out to Jesus, what does He honor? Luke 17:5-6
- Does everyone who asks in faith receive exactly what they want, and if not, why? 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Hebrews 11:32-40
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Since the EU is a union of nations, there is no EU Passport as such. As long as you have citizenship of any of the 28 EU nations, you are holding a de facto EU Passport, which entitles youto travel to any of these 28 countries as and when you wish to.
Subsidiarity is a founding principle of the EU. The nations are, therefore, subject to the privileges and obligations of membership coming under binding laws in exchange for representation within the common legislative and judicial institutions. Due to the extremely wide nature of constituent demography and biodynamics, there is no option but to allow them to retain considerable autonomy, and must be unanimous for the EU to adopt policies concerning defence and foreign affairs.
Before Cyprus joined the European Union (EU), it was simple to get a Cyprus Passport and residential permission. The ramifications of free access to and travel across all 28 European member nations of the EU required all member countries to adopt stringent measures in granting a passport, which, in effect, meant a European passport. Permanent residency applications were not affected much; this implied that EU Citizenship by Investment was possible on relatively easy terms. In Cyprus, permanent residence applications are speedily cleared for people buying properties worth €300,000. Terms for a Cyprus Passport, however, have been tightened in keeping with EU directives.
The EU financial crisis in recent years, however, has opened the visas-for-investment exchange to a far larger number of less wealthy foreign investors. Spain, Portugal, and Greece, to name a few, have been offering them to those with enough money to buy a second home abroad. Portugal and Spain will speed residency applications to people buying properties worth €500,000. Greece, its economy dire, demands only €250,000. Malta is publicizing a fast-passport scheme for €650,000.
In Cyprus, anyone who invests over €300,000 in property could receive Cyprus permanent residence and travel around Europe and in and out of Cyprus and stay wherever they wish to for as long as they like. The Cyprus permanent residence visa allows unhampered travel and stay throughout the EU. Cyprus citizenship for foreign investors is also possible, under a recently developed “Scheme for naturalisation of non-Cypriot investors by exception,” available only to investors holding a permanent privately-owned residence in Cyprus and who meet other mandatory requirements. Purchase of any property costing 300,000 will automatically qualify the buyer/investor for permanent residence in Cyprus. This is a gateway to a symbolic EU passport through investment, since the EU does not issue passports; passports of its member countries are the equivalent of a European passport. If you wish to get an actual passport for unfettered access to all countries of the EU, start with a purchase of a luxury property, which are available in plenty. | <urn:uuid:5ebb1c9c-4726-4b67-ba4e-21dd74a54453> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://macsads.com/en/news/EU-Passport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952187 | 582 | 2.015625 | 2 |
At the post-war Tokyo Tribunal, the Allied powers charged Japanese leaders with waging aggressive war, and committing war crimes against prisoners-ofwar and civilians. This trial, presided over by the Australian judge William Webb, was criticised at the time (and still to this day) for its retrospective charges and procedural shortcomings. After its conclusion with the handing down of the majority judgment in November 1948, the Allies deemed the trial to have been a failure and closed the door against further prosecutions for international crimes.
Yet the themes raised in the course of the trial continue to resonate 70 years later. The trial did not succeed in settling accounts: the issue of Japan’s wartime actions remains highly topical in Asia, with still active claims for redress for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Even so, the legal innovations advanced at the Tribunal to deal with these actions, such as the then-novel idea of civilian command responsibility and the much-maligned charge of crimes against peace, have reappeared in new guises at the International Criminal Court.
At this event, three leading experts on international criminal justice in Asia aim to cast new light on the proceedings by re-examining the purposes, conduct and legacies of the Tokyo Tribunal.
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Let’s get real: Relationships are a dynamic involvement sorts of situation. Time nights score stale. Texts rating misread. Vitality escape whack. Schedules get busy. If you aren’t earnestly strengthening you to closeness, everything halts. Therefore plus partner can also be wind up for the contrary edges of the globe, metaphorically talking.
“Intimacy is extremely important which can be one of the most significant factors regarding a love rendering it healthful, unlike an encumbrance,” claims Alexandra Stockwell, Meters.D., a romance and you can intimacy pro and you may bestselling writer of Uncompromising Closeness. “You could be supported otherwise known into the a romance which have some body who is sincere, considerate, useful, and you can collective. However, versus closeness, it will be so much more useful than just intimate.” We want to be in dating with people who want to getting along with you, not people that sound and you may settle.
“This is not to state that intimacy will help you to ‘keep’ individuals or guarantee that it’ll be a long-lasting matchmaking,” says Davia Freeze, an official intercourse teacher and you can closeness advisor, and you may creator away from Frosted Pleasure. “It is because you will be a growing being and your means, desires, and you will tastes probably varies or change a while.”
But it is indeed essential in cultivating and you may keeping a gratifying dating. Wondering just what intimacy was, precisely, and the ways to build it along with your partner? As well as, is perhaps all closeness an equivalent? Keep reading to learn what advantages need state and also the intimacy knowledge it strongly recommend undertaking along with your lover.
Closeness is simply social relationship, says Kamil Lewis, Good.Yards.F.T. and you may sex therapist. “Simple fact is that capacity to build a level of closeness which have other person or anybody.”
Usually, intimacy was mentioned in terms of romantic relationship, nonetheless it doesn’t have including bounds. You’ll be sexual that have romantic partners, friends, nearest and dearest, and you may (yes) animals. Intimacy actually a phrase booked to own cushion discussions with a partner otherwise candlelit snacks. You could lie involved every where for individuals who assist oneself. Yes, closeness which have your self counts, too!
“Expanding your own definition of closeness makes it possible to get on far more effortlessly,” claims Lewis. It will happen in many dating and you can plays many versions – bodily, intellectual, mental, religious, and you will experiential. Plus they are all-important.
Actual Intimacy against. Mental Closeness
Physical intimacy actually similar to gender. They’ve been often stated synonymously however, “you can get intimacy in place of intercourse, and you will sex as opposed to closeness,” says Lewis. You will be privately sexual – during the a non-sexual ways – compliment of cuddling, making out, hugging, and you will give-carrying. (See: The fresh new Scientific Benefits of People Contact)
“Among the delights of being into the a love having somebody are effect safe and you can enjoying the feeling of ease that comes having knowing anyone,” states Stockwell. Psychological closeness is all about impact safe adequate from inside the a link to talk about the deepest corners of notice. A switch element of mental closeness is the power to feel insecure that have someone else. Letting them inside the and you will discussing the heart with these people.
Where Really does Intimacy Come from?
“Real intimacy comes from a determination to disclose your self and start to become legitimate, instead likely to impact another person’s impact people,” says Stockwell. Feeling secure within the a love and you will believing all of them with the person you try because men. That’s real closeness.
“After you demonstrated susceptability, it signifies that another person can be vulnerable that have you,” states Lewis. It’s a classic your let you know-me-yours and you will I am going to reveal-you-mine disease. There’s each other give-and-take for the a love. They shouldn’t be a lot more of you to definitely compared to the most other.
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Strengthening closeness along with your mate could be a studying experience. It’ll grab efforts so you’re able to move that have life and readjust. “Whom you was basically at the beginning of the partnership isn’t really who you are in the modern, that’s ok,” says Frost. “When you can finally end up being intentional on the performing the intimate basket for the matchmaking, you will be investing mental, productive, and you will vulnerable money – which is a necessity.” | <urn:uuid:3d2b6c50-6885-4712-be68-3a41190801a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://prawase.com/2022/07/21/how-to-get-closeness-with-your-companion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948918 | 1,080 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Devarim 5782: Understanding Tisha B’Av
Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22 )
GOOD MORNING! Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, culminates the foreboding time period that our sages inform us has been a portent for evil and terrible events throughout Jewish history. This year Tisha B’Av falls out on Saturday, August 6th. Although Tisha B’Av is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, because it falls out on Shabbat – a day on which we must rejoice and refrain from showing any public signs of mourning – Tisha B’Av is observed on Sunday. Thus, the customs of Tisha B’Av begin at sundown on Saturday night. For more information on the applicable laws and observance for this unique year, see the Aish.com article “When Tisha B’Av falls on Shabbat or Sunday” (https://aish.com/48964976/).
Over the last 3,500 years, many of the most horrific events in Jewish history occurred on the ninth of Av. Rabbi Kalman Packouz, of blessed memory, compiled the following list to recount some of the many tragedies of this day:
- The incident of the spies slandering the Land of Israel with the subsequent decree to wander the desert for 40 years.
- The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by Nevuchadnetzar, King of Babylon in 423 BCE.
- The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE.
- The fall of Betar and the end of the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans 65 years later, 135 CE.
- Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade. Tens of thousands of Jews were killed and many Jewish communities obliterated.
- The Jews of England were expelled in 1290.
- The Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492.
- World War I broke out on Tisha B’Av in 1914 when Russia declared war on Germany. German resentment of the Treaty of Versailles set the stage for World War II and the Holocaust. In fact, many believe it was merely the continuation of World War I. Thus, the Holocaust also has its roots in Tisha B’Av.
- On Tisha B’Av, deportation began of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto..
As mentioned, this year the observances of Tisha B’Av begin on Saturday night. Tisha B’Av is a fast day (like Yom Kippur, from sunset one evening until the stars come out the next evening) and culminates a three week mourning period by the Jewish people. On this day, one is forbidden to eat or drink, bathe, use moisturizing creams or oils, wear leather shoes, or have marital relations. The idea is to minimize pleasure and to let the body feel the distress the soul should feel over these tragedies.
Like all fast days, the objective is introspection; disconnecting from our physical distractions, taking a spiritual accounting, and correcting our ways. In Hebrew this is called teshuva – returning to the path of good and righteousness, to the ways of the Torah.
Tisha B'Av is a very somber time: at night the lights in the synagogue are dimmed (many synagogues distribute candles to those in attendance) and everyone sits on low stools or on the floor, similar to mourners in a shiva house (house in mourning). The book of Lamentations, which was authored by the prophet Jeremiah who witnessed the destruction of the First Temple and the subsequent exile of his people, is read in a hushed and mournful tone.
The service is followed by a communal reading of some of the elegies composed by poets over the last two millennia. Many of those in attendance read these sad passages with tears streaming down their faces. This is repeated the following day; the custom is to read these elegies until midday and then head home to rest before returning for the afternoon services.
A story is told of Napoleon walking through the streets of Paris one Tisha B’Av. As he passed a synagogue he heard the mournful sounds emanating from within. Napoleon turned to one of his attending officers and asked, “What’s this all about?”
It was explained that the Jews were in mourning over the loss of their Temple. “Why haven’t I heard about their Temple being destroyed?” The aide replied that it had happened nearly 1700 years prior. Napoleon is reputed to have observed, “A nation that has mourned its Temple for 1700 years will surely merit seeing it being rebuilt one day.”
In all likelihood the previous story, like many tales and legends about famous personalities, never happened. But as author Tim O’Brien once noted, “Just because something never happened doesn’t mean it isn’t true.” In other words, the Jewish people, who for two millennia have been mourning the loss of the Temple and actively praying and pining for it to be rebuilt, will surely one day succeed in making that dream a reality.
Still, in order to merit having the Temple rebuilt we must understand why it was lost in the first place and make every effort to correct whatever caused that to happen.
The Talmud (Yoma 9b) states that the Second Temple was destroyed because of the sin of “sinas chinam – baseless hatred,” which was an outgrowth of the rampant strife and discord that plagued the Jewish people. This disharmony led to both the destruction of the Temple and the two millennia long exile of the Jewish people from the Land of Israel.
Once again, I would like to share an insight from my brilliant father, Harav Yochanan Moshe Zweig Shlita, based on a class he delivered titled “Peace - We Complete Each Other.” If interested, you can download the entire class from my podcast page on Apple, search “Torah Life and Living,” or click here to listen.
My father points out that the greeting “shalom” that is used as both hello and goodbye in conversational Hebrew actually means neither – the literal translation is “peace.” This seems to be a rather odd way to greet someone. What is the meaning behind this salutation?
Much of the ancient wisdom of the Torah has been distilled into principles of life and ethical behavior and compiled by our sages in the work known as “Pirkei Avot – Ethics of our Fathers.” This manual for living a meaningful and principled life was completed about two thousand years ago and the wisdom contained within is quite timeless. Pirkei Avot is part of the Torah known as Mishna, which forms much of the basis of the “oral law.”
We find an interesting teaching in the fourth chapter of Pirkei Avot: “Rabbi Masya ben Charash said, ‘(when meeting others) be the first to initiate a greeting, and be the tail to lions and not the head of foxes.’” This statement seems very odd as the two concepts appear to be unrelated and distinct.
This is even more perplexing when considering that the primary method of teaching the “oral law” was, as the name implies, verbally. A non sequitur would be infinitely harder to remember and transmit properly. What is the relationship between these two concepts?
Strife is always painful; when something is torn apart there is bound to be some level of profound suffering. This is why the word for peace in Hebrew is shalom. The word shalom come from the Hebrew word “shalem – whole.” When we have unity we have peace.
When we greet someone with “shalom” what we are really conveying is that we are unified with one another (as in “you complete me”). This is the ultimate way to greet or depart from someone because it implies a deep rooted connection and commonality as well as a sustained interest in their wellbeing.
This also explains the relationship between Rabbi Masya’s two statements. When we internalize that being part of a unified whole is the goal (rather than a focus on personal achievement) then we begin to understand that it doesn’t really make a difference whether or not we are a head or a tail, we are all one.
It’s not about the role you play; it’s about being part of a higher caliber entity. Therefore, it is preferable to be the tail of a lion than the head of a fox because, at the end of the day, it’s not about you – it’s about the unity of the corporate entity.
The Torah describes the Holy Temple as the place where the Almighty “rests His name;” it is where the Divine Presence is manifested in this world. When the Jewish people suffer from disunity and conflict, when they are unable to resolve their differences with each other, they make it impossible for God to rest His Presence in their midst.
Thus, in order for the Holy Temple to be rebuilt we must actively work on ourselves to internalize that there is no “us vs. them” – our fates are all intertwined and we must make every effort to bridge any divide between us. We are all created in the image of God and we are all His children. There is no greater joy for a parent than seeing one’s children getting along, helping one another, and living harmoniously.
May the Almighty grant all of us the insight and wisdom to become unified so that we will merit seeing the Holy Temple rebuilt speedily in our days. Amen.
Devarim, Deuteronomy 1:1 - 3:22
This week we begin the last of the Five Books of Moses, Devarim (“Words”). In English, it is called Deuteronomy (from the Greek meaning “Second Law” – from deuteros “second” + nomos “law”) perhaps because Moses repeats many of the laws of the Torah to prepare the Jewish people for entering and living in the Land of Israel. The book is the oration of Moses before he died. Moses reviews the history of the 40 years of wandering the desert, reviews the laws of the Torah, and gives rebuke so that the Jewish people will learn from their mistakes. Giving reproof right before one dies is often the most effective time to offer advice and correction; people are more inclined to pay attention and to take it to heart.
The darker the night the brighter the stars.
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Eretz Israel Four-Game
Tuesday, September 17 2019, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A special tour and art workshop for families in honor of the Israeli National Election Day, inspired by our favorite things in Israel!
The event will start with a short tour at the exhibition, where participants will learn about Nachum Gutman’s paintings and the varied ways he chose to document his time, people, landscape and culture.
At the workshop, the participants will create a four-game cards that reflected different characteristics of the Land of Israel. At the end of the workshop, they will be invited to use the “Nachum Gutman” cards to vote and choose their favorite piece from the exhibition.
The Activity is suitable for children at the ages of 7-12
Child: 45 NIS
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Meaning of Capital: Fixed Capital, Working Capital and Human Capital!
Meaning of Capital:
The term capital is used in economics in various senses. In ordinary language and sometimes in economics also capital is used in the sense of money.
But when we talk of capital as a factor of production, to confuse capital with money is quite wrong. Of course, money is used to purchase various factors such as raw materials, machinery, labour which help to produce goods, but money itself does not directly help in the production of goods.
The money which is available for investment and productive purposes has been called money capital or financial capital by some economists. But money capital is not the real capital. The real capital consists of machinery, tools, tube well, factories; tractors, etc., which directly assist in the production of goods.
Similarly, government securities and bonds, shares and debentures of public limited companies do not represent real capital. Securities, bonds, stocks, etc., possessed by individuals yield income to them but they cannot be called real capital because they represent only titles of ownership rather than factors of production.
Capital has been rightly defined as “produced means of production”. This definition distinguishes capital from both land and labour because both land and labour are not produced factors. Land and labour are often considered as primary or original factors of production. But capital is not a primary or original factor; it is a produced factor of production. Capital has been produced by man by working with nature. Therefore, capital may well be defined as man-made instrument of production.
Capital thus consists of those physical goods which are produced for use in future production. Machines, tools and instruments, factories, canals, dams, transport equipment, stocks of raw materials are some of the examples of capital.
All of them are produced by man to help in the production of further goods. According to Prof. Richard T. Gill, “A country s capital is its stock of produced or man-made means of production, consisting of such items as buildings, factories, machinery, tools, equipment and inventories of goods in stock.”
Fixed Capital and Working Capital:
Capital may be classified into fixed capital and working capital. Fixed Capital is durable-use producer goods which are used in production again and again till they wear out. Machinery, tools, railways tractors, factories etc., are all fixed capital.
Fixed capital does not mean fixed in location. Capital like plant, tractors, and factories are called fixed because money spent upon these durable goods, remains fixed or unrealised for a long period in contrast with the money spent on purchasing raw materials which is recovered as soon as goods made with them are sold.
Working Capital, on the other hand, are the single-use producers’ goods like raw materials, fertilizers, goods in process and fuel. They are used up in a single act of production. Moreover, money spent on them is fully recovered when goods made with them are sold in the market.
We have explained above the concept of physical capital. For a long time in economics, it was thought that it was the physical capital which played a crucial role in expanding production. In recent years, a new concept of ‘human capital’ has been evolved and emphasised.
By human capital is meant the stock of people equipped with education, skills, health, etc. It has now been found that the rate of growth achieved in the developed countries cannot be wholly explained by the increases in physical capital and advances in technology.
A good part of economic growth has occurred due to the accumulation of human capital. It has now been realised that human capital formation is as important in increasing production and productivity as the physical capital formation. An educated, trained and skilled man is much more productive than an uneducated, untrained, and unskilled.
Likewise, a person with good health contributes to production to a greater degree than the person with frail and poor health. Since investment in education, skill and health adds greatly to the productivity of men, investment in human capital has also been called investment in men, or investment in human beings.
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A new era of prosthetics
Low active above-knee amputees often do not receive a prosthesis. Regular sockets can be a struggle to wear for lower active patients and need to be custom fabricated in a time consuming process. The result is a large patient group that currently has to resort to using a wheelchair. Össur developed the new Connect TF exactly for this often overlooked group of patients. The flexible socket solution is adjustable to the shape of the residual limb and is easy to put on for the user, even when sitting down.
Same day: walk away!
The unique design enables fitting of the socket in under a day – time saving compared to conventional sockets. The flexible shells with soft edges conform to the body and by adjusting the length of the laces and the angle, the prosthetist can quickly create a socket that fits. As a final step, simply rotate the ergonomic lever to tighten the system for a perfect fit.
The WAACS story
At WAACS we love making small steps that have a large positive impact, especially if those steps are taken by prosthetic users. In Össur we found a partner who likes smart and meaningful product innovations just as much as us. The idea for an adaptable socket was born a long time in the heads of Össur’s innovators. We started by testing their working prototypes – then we not only upgraded the look and feel but also realized several improvements to the wearing comfort and the usability. | <urn:uuid:2855947f-50b9-4760-be81-455433d4b772> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waacs.com/news/ossur-connect-tf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960686 | 303 | 1.742188 | 2 |
We all want our kids to get lost in play. We spend precious time, effort, and money in the toys and resources we bring into our homes so that we can facilitate open-ended play that encourages imagining, creating, and playing. One of the tools we can harness in helping our kids get started is through invitations to play. If your kids are not playing with their toys, and you want to figure out why, visit our blog “Reasons your child isn’t playing with their toys (and what to do about it)" for additional tips to jump start play at your home.
What is an “invitation to play” exactly?
An invitation to play is where you set up toys and create an invitation of some sort for your child to engage and explore in new kinds of play. Invitations in general are very powerful, be it an invitation to belong, be known, or be a part of something. Many times simple invitations can be the most powerful tool in life to foster connection, growth, and meaning in the lives of those around us. Invitations to play are very similar...they show that you are thinking about and care about the person you are making an invitation for and that you are welcoming them and have made a special place for them to grow and to be themselves. What a great way to show our children that we see them, know them, and love them.
Invitations to play can be something very simple or something you put lots of thought and time into. Below are a few ideas to get you started, and before you know it, you will be getting new inspiration from your child about how you can invite them in new ways to explore the world around them:
1. Simply put on display certain toys in a beautiful way in an area they can be played with.
This is the most simple form of an invitation to play and can also be the most powerful because you are leaving all the imagining to the child. Take a toy or grouping of toys and put it in a prime location that will highlight it, making it the focus of an area. Put some puppets neatly displayed in the center of the couch, a game in the center of a clean table, or your Waytoplay roads in the middle of an open play area with cars and trucks at the ready. Make them look enticing and display them in such a way that shows them off.
Sometimes just noticing a toy apart from the rest is all that is needed to draw in our child and inspire curiosity. Think of a fancy boutique where they display only a few clothes in such a way that makes each one look unique and appealing. Bonus tip...this works for adults too!
2. Start building something...but only begin and leave the rest for your child to create
Sometimes getting started is the hardest part, and if we get the toys out, display them nicely, and put a few pieces together, we’ve helped our child get past their initial hesitation to get started. When forming new habits, one of the best tips is to make whatever you are trying to do as accessible as possible. After a few times of this kind of invitation, it is much more likely that a child will gravitate towards that toy even if it is not set up at all because they have developed confidence about how to start.
Just today I asked my daughter if she wanted to play with some blocks and she said no. I then went over without saying a word, put three or four into the shape of a little house, spread out a pile of them on the carpet next to the larger supply of blocks (smiling while I did it), and silently walked away. I looked over my shoulder and saw her glace over at it...stare for a minute...and then walk over and start building. She couldn’t help it. There was just so much possibility in that little beginning. Sometimes the power of an invitation comes when instead of getting frustrated with our child when they won’t play, we instead help them change directions by showing them by example how easy and fun getting started can be.
3. Create the gift of a small world for your child to enjoy
Gifts come in all kinds of packages, and the gift of spending time to create a magical world of play that our child could not create themselves is a gift that keeps on giving. Not only does it remind our child that we care enough to take the time to build something just for their enjoyment, it reminds us as parents that we are never too old to play ourselves, and may even bring back some much needed child-like wonder and joy into our own lives.
4. Thoughtful additions to go along with your invitation to play:
- Write a special note to your child to go along with your invitation to play. Write how you thought about them while you were making it, why you made this specific one for them, and list different things you love about them that you were reminded of as you built it. Going the extra mile to write a note (even if it’s just a silly sticky note) can boost your invitation to play from special to unforgettable.
- Play themed music that goes along with your invitation to play
- Have a read-aloud book and snack ready to share with them after they play
- If you are going all out, consider also surprising them by inviting one of their friends or family members over to play as well
- Maybe the most special of all...give them the gift of time and attention and Play WITH them!!!
For more visual ideas that will help you get started, be sure to visit our Invitation to play Pinterest board full of imaginative ideas for your next invitation to play!
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.. In Ocean Vuong’s book, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, language functions as both a border that has put a lot of the characters in the story into dangerous situations, and a gap of consciousness, creating other situations that make the characters targets of discrimination. In 2-3 pages, please analyze the following passage from the text. Close read all elements of the passage (structure, style, thematic content, literary devices, etc.) and make an argument for the ways in which Vuong uses different themes and images to explore the importance of love as acts of service or care.Please remember not only limit your understanding or argument to identifying themes, but also consider grammar and punctuation marks, as well as the structure of the passage (how it is written).PASSAGE: We try to preserve life, even when we know it has no chance of enduring its body. We feed it, keep it comfortable, bathe it, medicate it, caress it, even sing to it. We tend to these basic functions not because we are brave or selfless but because, like breath, it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind… This agency for evolution, which once made me proud… now betrays me. (198-199).
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WHEN DIANA NATALICIO WAS named president of the University of Texas at El Paso in 1988, the first issue she wanted to address was the racial makeup of the student body. “You draw eighty-four percent of your students from El Paso County, you should look like the county,” she declares. Back then, about half of the 14,000 students were Hispanic; today, after energetic recruiting, about 66 percent of the 15,176 students are Hispanic, and that does not include the 1,300 Mexican nationals, most of whom cross the border to attend class each day. Now UT—El Paso is the largest Hispanic-majority university in the nation.
But that wasn’t all that 59-year-old Natalicio set out to accomplish; she also vowed to increase the number of doctoral programs and to compete harder for research funds. “We didn’t have much self-confidence,” she says. “Our isolation was a big factor in our sense of futility at trying to play at the national or even statewide level. But we had untapped potential: Our student body, and our place on the border, made us unlike any other institution.”
So Natalicio kicked into high gear, hopping planes and lobbying for funds in Austin, Washington, D.C., and other power centers. In the 84-year-history of UT—El Paso, no one had ever mounted such a concentrated effort, but the new president succeeded like an old pro. The university’s budget, which was $64 million a decade ago, is now $146 million. UT—El Paso used to offer one doctoral program; now it has eight. And its profile is increasing both within the UT System and nationally. Last year Natalicio won the prestigious Harold W. McGraw, Jr., Prize in Education for her efforts to build the Hispanic student body (she set up a scholarship fund with the $25,000 she received). Meanwhile, she has used the school’s traditional strengths in the sciences and engineering—UT—El Paso began as the Texas School of Mining and Metallurgy—to establish ties with the National Science Foundation. “I think we’ve overcome that fear of failure,” says Natalicio, who was appointed to the foundation’s board by Bill Clinton and serves as its vice chair. “Now we’re a much more robust institution because we’ve proven to ourselves that we can compete.”
Born Diana Siedhoff into a blue-collar family in St. Louis—“Natalicio” is the surname of her ex-husband—she was a pretty fair pitcher as a child (she still throws in her back yard to relax and gets decent movement on the ball). She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish at St. Louis University, studied Portuguese in Brazil on a Fulbright Scholarship, and got her master’s in Portuguese and her doctorate in linguistics at UT-Austin. Warned by friends that she would find El Paso a wasteland, she instead took an instant liking to it; she enjoyed speaking Spanish and identified with a working-class student body that struggled to balance school with work and family. Over the years, she taught linguistics, chaired the Modern Languages Department, and served as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and as the vice president for academic affairs.
Since ascending to the top job at UT—El Paso, she has faced her share of controversy. Her aggressive, hands-on managerial style rubs some of her colleagues the wrong way. (“She’s a tyrant, not a president,” says associate professor of communication Barthy Byrd.) For the past three years Natalicio was the focal point, though not the defendant, in a lawsuit that began when she rejected geology professor Kathleen Marsaglia’s bid for tenure even after the tenure committee had approved Marsaglia unanimously; Marsaglia said she was turned down because she had charged geology professor Nick Pingitore, Natalicio’s close friend, with sexual harassment. (In July a judge ruled in favor of UT—El Paso and the UT System; Marsaglia plans an appeal.) Worst of all, the university, which is known for its outstanding basketball program, was placed under five-year sanctions by the National Collegiate Athletic Association earlier this year, mainly for using ineligible players in several sports. Natalicio blames poor record keeping that led to ineligible players suiting up; she has since replaced much of the staff in the athletic department.
If any of this fazes Natalicio, she doesn’t let it show. She talks animatedly about UT—El Paso’s research collaborations with Mexican colleges in Saltillo and Chihuahua, and she brags on its massive, one-year-old Undergraduate Learning Center, which not only brings the former mining school into the cyberage but also enables students to pursue degrees at their own pace; the university, she insists, must adapt to these students as much as they do to it.
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The bad news for Indiana supporters of public education is that the state Senate voted Wednesday to expand the state’s already generous school voucher program.
The good news: At least the vote was close.
Ten Republicans joined all 13 Democrats in the Senate to vote against House Bill 1003. The tally was 27-23. Bucking party leadership and standing with public schools were GOP Sens. Sue Landske, Jim Tomes, John Waterman, Vaneta Becker, Ronnie Alting, Ed Charbonneau, Susan Glick, Randy Head, Ryan Mishler and Ron Grooms.
Indiana gives private-school tuition vouchers to students whose families make up to 277 percent of the federal poverty level: $65,000 for a family of four. Until now, students have had to spend at least a year in a public or charter school to qualify. The bill passed by the Senate would lift that requirement for:
// Students who live in the attendance area of a school that gets an F on the state’s grading system.
// Siblings of students who currently receive vouchers.
// Students in special education. (And in their case, the income limit is 370 percent of the poverty level: $87,000 for a family of four).
Leaving aside questions about the appropriateness of handing over taxpayer money to unaccountable private schools – almost all of which are religious schools – the bill raises serious questions. How much will it cost? There’s no way to know how many more students will qualify for vouchers, or how many will take advantage. Legislative Services Agency analysts basically throw up their hands.
“The increase in eligible children due to these changes is indeterminable, but could be significant,” they say in the fiscal impact statement for the bill.
Other questions pertain to just who will qualify for vouchers. What, exactly, does it mean to live in an attendance area for an F school? The idea of students being “trapped” in a “failing” school because of where they live makes little sense in an era when urban districts are dotted with magnet and charter schools. And what are the rules for an area where, for example, the middle school gets an F and the high school gets a C. Does a student lose her voucher when she reaches ninth grade?
What’s next for legislators?
The version of HB 1003 approved by the House was even more generous than the Senate bill. In keeping with the wishes of Gov. Mike Pence, it granted vouchers to children of military personnel, veterans and foster parents, without regard to family income. So Rep. Bob Behning, the bill’s House sponsor, will have to decide whether to concur with the Senate amendments or take the bill to a conference committee.
Given the way the tide seems to have turned against expanding vouchers, he may be wise to take what he’s got and run with it.
What’s next for voucher opponents?
Groups like the Indiana Coalition for Public Education and the Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education pulled out the stops on this one, engaging in a furious calling and letter-writing campaign to stop the bill. Wednesday’s Senate vote may have been their best shot.
But if Behning agrees with the Senate changes, the bill will go back to the full House for a concurrence vote – one more chance to lobby. And if he doesn’t and the bill goes to a conference committee, the resulting measure will have to be approved by both the House and Senate.
While 23 no votes represented progress, some of the pro-voucher votes were disappointing. Sen. Luke Kenley, the voice of reason on many issues this session, expressed serious reservations about the voucher bill in the Senate Education Committee. But he voted for the expansion. So did Republican moderates like Tom Wyss and Joe Zakas and conservative but maverick lawmaker Brent Steele.
And Sen. Brent Waltz, the Republican who was endorsed by the Indiana State Teachers Association last fall over Democrat Mary Ann Sullivan — remember how ISTA President Nate Schnellenberger said Waltz and the union had a “meeting of the minds,” and the Republican had been “helpful to us in the legislative process”?
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Panjim, April 2022: Global institutes like Harvard and WHO are looking towards the western state of Goa for collaborative research projects. Leading business school Goa Institute of Management (GIM) is presently working on several collaborative healthcare-related research projects with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO)
“The Harvard project is a qualitative India case study that takes an in-depth look at the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), a community health worker program instituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) as a part of India’s National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) launched in 2005”, explained Dr. Kheya Melo Furtado, Associate Professor, Healthcare Management, GIM who was awarded the project.
In addition, the B-school is currently collaborating with WHO on a number of research projects on publicly funded health insurance programmes. These projects are being led by Dr. Kheya along with Dr. Arif Raza, Associate Professor, Healthcare Management, GIM. Other faculty from GIM’s Healthcare Management programme also contribute as part of the research team, including Dr. Devasheesh Mathur, Ms. Nafisa Vaz, and Dr. Supriya Phadnis.
The ongoing project with Harvard aimed to investigate the payment processes for frontline workers in lower-middle-income countries and the uptake of digitalization in this process.
Explained Dr. Kheya Melo Furtado, Associate Professor, Healthcare Management, GIM, “The study involved more than 50 in-depth interviews and several focus-group discussions with the health workers, their supervisors, and health system leaders to understand the incentive payment processes of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), community health workers. ASHA workers are vital as they form the first point of contact between the community and the public health care system. They provide services on various national health care programs including disease control programs.”
Dr. Kheya Furtado stressed, “ASHA workers are the grassroot level health workers and are very important building blocks of the public health system and this study aimed to improve efficiency related to timeliness, worker motivation and overall health system performance and thus it is important to understand the adoption of the incentive system.”
“GIM has also partnered with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to study the implementation of publicly financed health insurance schemes in India like the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY),” explained Dr. Kheya. Launched in 2018, the initiative intends to make secondary and tertiary healthcare entirely free for the most disadvantaged citizens. GIM has worked on five projects, with more in the pipeline, which includes several states across the country including Assam, UP, Haryana, HP, Punjab, J&K, and Meghalaya among others. | <urn:uuid:a68748c8-b13b-4b66-bd92-d7698afe156c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goemkarponn.com/who-harvard-look-towards-gim-for-collaborative-research-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950675 | 616 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Last weekend when we celebrated fathers all over the world, I wondered what the conversations and atmosphere were around the various dinner tables in homes across this country. I imagined there was a moment of pause, where contributions to the home and family were recognized. It was likely also a brief moment to forget about the trying times we are in. I also imagined that in some households, fathers were not celebrated or did not feel like celebrating for various reasons.
Parenting is a difficult, yet rewarding job. The rewards are seen when parenting is done well in spite of the circumstances. Children always need to have both parents physically and emotionally involved in their lives, but more so in a time like this where there is so much uncertainty, changes and turmoil that can impact their future. This makes parenting more challenging.
Fathers, your children are going to be looking to you to navigate this season and to help them to come out unscathed. It is not a time to be physically and emotionally removed from your family. Yes, your children may have the presence of a mother to nurture them, but do not doubt your ability to build confidence and self-esteem in your children. This is done by being more engaged, supportive, loving and providing a safe and secure home environment.
In a time like this, how do you provide safety and security for your family when you might not feel this for yourself? This might be a great challenge for you but I want to encourage you to do what is necessary for your sake and your children’s sake. It may mean that you do not ignore your own emotional needs, feelings of frustration, anxiety and inadequacies, for the sake of being perceived as “strong.” If you are feeling low and it is affecting your life, especially your responsibilities of being a parent, please seek help.
Be encouraged to continue or seek to perform your role of father, because your child’s future depends on your actions today.
If ever there is a time to intentionally develop a meaningful relationship with your children beyond simply meeting their physical needs, it is now.
How do you do this?
Spend time with your children. Create opportunities to get to know your child and for your child to get to know you. It will be about endeavouring to enjoy each other’s company.
Listen to your child. We all, including your children, need a safe space to discuss our ups and downs. When you develop a relationship with your child where feelings and concerns are unreservedly discussed, it would be easier to have conversations about more difficult situations. You can have that difficult conversation without having the answer.
Discipline with love. Often, parents discipline in anger and this has the potential to make your children more fearful of you. Children are to be taught that there are consequences for their actions. Reward or praise their good behavior as you do not only want to give attention to negative behavior.
Be your child’s role model: Your children are looking at the way you do life; your work ethic; your relationships; your emotional expressions. Teach them right from wrong. They are also looking at the way you treat their mothers.
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Both circulating and cellular biomarkers underscore that diabetes is a chronic inflammatory disease. Diabetes not only increases the risk of macrovascular complications like strokes and heart attacks but also microvascular complications like diabetic retinopathy (eyes), neuropathy (nerves), and nephropathy (kidneys).
According to the American Diabetes Association, 30.3 million people or 9.4% of the American population, had diabetes in 2015 and it was the 7th leading cause of death in the United States. In Australia, the statistic is even more shocking… an estimated 1.2 million Australians (almost 5% of the total population!) had diabetes in 2017-18, but as this figure is based on self-reported data, the reality is likely significantly higher due to survey participants either not knowing or accurately reporting their diabetes status. The incidence among our indigenous population is 4 times that of other Australians! You can appreciate, not only is there an unimaginable cost to health care systems all around the world, but very specifically to our fascia as well.
Keith Baar has looked into the relationship between diabetes and poor prognosis in tendon recovery due to the thinning of tendon structures through inactivity, and the high number of fragile sugar bonds – otherwise known as glycated proteins – (as opposed to the strong cross links that form in trained tendon which produce high levels of lysyl oxidase). This would certainly explaining why we Physiotherapists can really struggle to make a difference….
A disproportionate ratio of Type III and IV collagen to Type I can result in weakened vascular integrity (Arkkila et al). Collagen glycation can also affect the deep fascia, causing thickening and fibrosis. Duffin et al. demonstrate that patients with type I diabetes have a plantar fascia significantly thicker than that of normal controls. Also, Li et al. demonstrated that collagen cross-linking by advanced glycation end-products alters the physical properties of collagen structures and tissue behaviour, and reduces tissue stress relaxation, an increase in tissue yield stress and ultimate failure stress.
All of these changes have been demonstrated for tendons, but it is probable that this also applies to other fasciae, causing loss of fascial viscoelasticity driven by matrix-level loss of fibre to fibre sliding. Potentially, this has important implications for tissue damage accumulation, mechanically regulated cell signalling, and for matrix remodelling. | <urn:uuid:d6bd237c-34bf-4131-a854-1c1dafdf386c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fasciaaustralia.com.au/fascia-and-diabetes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950936 | 490 | 2.625 | 3 |
Immigrant birds are the most affected due to lights at night, as they cannot find the geographical path they follow and get lost while immigrating. This affects their environmental locations for their survival and this degrades their life and future generations.
Pollution is a very common term, that refers to imbalance from balance. It can be natural or artificial. Pollution exists from the beginning of life on the planet. That time it was very minimal and nature could balance it back without disturbing the equilibrium. Over the last few decades, industrialisation and urbanisation have been a source of various pollutants. This has drastically increased imbalance in the ecosystem, over a period of time. Pollutants are substances which cause pollution. The level of such chemical compounds has crossed the bar where natural equilibrium is disturbed having damaging effects. Types of pollution are air, water, sound, light, radioactive, thermal, littering, and soil contamination.
Types of Pollution:
Air pollution causes the temperature to rise, smog, and greenhouse gas effect due to carbon monoxide, methane in the atmosphere. Water is polluted by chemical residues mixed in the water. If such polluted water is consumed by living species, then chemicals mixed inside it affect their health. Sound pollution is an irritation one feels due to loud sound, for example, vehicle’s loud horns, aeroplane and industrial noise.
Can we imagine life without light? No, but the more we are dependent on light the most is the light pollution. It is important to use minimal light sources, especially at night. Immigrant birds are the most affected due to lights at night. They cannot find the geographical path they follow and get lost while immigrating. This affects their environmental locations of immigration. As a result, it rises difficulties in their survival. This degrades their life as well as future generations.
Chemical and electronics industries are the reason behind radioactive resources and radiation through electronic systems present everywhere. Everything we are doing under the umbrella of industrialisation is causing climate change and ultimately global warming affecting the planet’s health. From small pencil to big architectures, whatever we consider waste, is littering the planet. This is rising landfills resulting in one of the biggest challenges of waste management. Underground leakage of chemicals contaminate both the soil and groundwater resources. We are already on urgent alert of finishing groundwater resources. If we keep polluting them, the severity of water supply will, no doubt, rise exponentially.
As Newton’s third law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the more we harm our environment more we will be harmed………. So it’s time to introspect and act for the future!
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This article about books for kids behaviour was last updated in 2022.
We love our kids to the moon and back a million times, but when they misbehave it can be super hard to know the right thing to do.
Different kids behave differently. The way they react to the environment around them and express themselves depends on various ever-changing factors.
For this reason, there is no “one size fits all” solution to discipline our children.
In this article we recommend a number of books about getting kids to behave. Hopefully you’ll find one (or maybe two) that work for you.
And, in case you’re wondering who I am …
I’m Lucy, a single mum and the founder of the website you are on. I spend my time helping other single mums embrace independence, redefine their paths and be the best they can be, all whilst being brilliant single mums. You can get more in-depth, personalised support from my “You’ve Got This” Single Mum eCourse, which has already been downloaded by 2k+ single mums from around the world.
Discipline Without Damage
By Vanessa Lapointe
Getting kids to behave without messing them up is a difficult challenge for all parents. This science-based book shows that with the right disciplinary strategies, it is possible to correct immature behaviour without losing your cool and driving your children away from you. Take it from the author and psychologist who has helped hundreds of families raise happy, well-adjusted kids.
Recommended for: Parents who need an effective and healthy approach to disciplining their kids even in the toughest situations.
Calm Parents Happy Kids The Secrets of Stress free Parenting
Dr. Laura Markham
We’ve all lost our tempers when our kids act out, and often we feel guilty about it afterwards. Calm Parents Happy, Kids is a practical book based on the latest research about getting kids to behave without threats, manipulation or power struggles. You will learn a three-step programme on how to set limits with a focus on empathy and emotional awareness.
Recommended for: Parents who want to help their kids want to behave instead of forcing compliance.
From Boys to Men
By Maggie Dent
The teen years are probably the most difficult for any parent. But teenage boys come with their own unique set of challenges. In this common-sense guidebook, Australia’s boy expert and parenting educator Maggie Dent shows parents how to communicate effectively with their sons, teach them to deal with failure, foster healthy relationships and more.
Recommended for: Parents of teenage boys. Packed with practical and ground-breaking tips to help you navigate day-to-day adolescence.
BOOKS TO HELP MANAGE YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIOUR (CONT.)
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
By Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
This bestselling book is not just a practical guide on getting kids to behave. It is also a treasure trove of positive parenting strategies to help you set limits without disconnection, resolve conflicts peacefully, encourage cooperation from your children, and allow them to express anger and negative emotions in a healthy way.
Recommended for: Families looking for a practical and complete positive parenting guidebook that works.
By Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Getting kids to behave is usually a drama-filled exercise. But it doesn’t have to be. This book offers a different approach to discipline, one that is built on respect and connection, to encourage children’s innate drive to please parents and get along with others. Best of all, you’ll help your kids develop emotional and social skills that will serve them for a lifetime.
Recommended for: Parents who are tired of high-drama and high-conflict discipline.
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
By Philippa Perry
There’s no perfect parenting plan for getting kids to behave, but there’s a perfectly good one offered in this book by Philippa Barry. Drawing on the psychological history of both parents and children, she helps you understand in a judgement-free way why your own upbringing may affect the way you discipline your kids. Learn how to break negative behaviour patterns, learn from mistakes and cope with difficult feelings.
Recommended for: Parents who are scared of messing up their kids the way their own parents did.
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The purposeof this learning is to explore and analyze the different consequences andeffects of leaking confidential information about an organization to theenvironment within the organization or outside fighting through ethicaldilemmas and wrong doing. This paper also gives a brief idea on Whistle blowingin the IT industry mainly and some of the different variables that influencepeople to breach confidentiality to an internal party or third party. The goalis to of this article is to provide transitory understanding on informationwhistle blowing.
Information technology takes over more of our lives and the ethicalcomplications of decisions made by software developers, programmers and ITprofessionals is only becoming greater day by day.The question of ethical behavior in the IT industry is beginning to getaddressed. Unlike older and more established professions such as medicine andlaw, most ethical issues from IT and security professionals have not yet beencodified into law, nor is there a standard obligatory oversight body that hasestablished a comprehensive code of ethics for IT professionals and hence it isessential for an organization to look into the ethical dilemmas concerningprivacy, breach of confidentiality, whistleblowing to maintain a principledenvironment for individuals to carry upon their work successfully.This essayis going to include a short research into the incentives in the aspects ofwhistleblowing instances as well as its influence to an organization. “Althoughthe modern technology that is being used in work places promises competitiveadvantages to the organization it also increases apprehensions about unethicalinformation practices by employees who are caught up in an ethical dilemma.These technologies also makes it much easier to copy and distribute informationamong the organization and 3rd parties as IT professionals gainaccess to equipment and information to violate intellectual property andprivacy decisions.
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” (Erika et al, 2010)”Whistle-blowing is aneffort by an employee to attract attention to a negligent, illegal, unethical,abusive, or dangerous act by a company that threatens the public interest andthat of the organization. Whistle-blowers often have access to specialinformation based on their expertise or position within the offendingorganization.” (Reynolds, 2012)For an example, “an ITprofessional of a company may know and have access to the organization’ssensitive information regarding the accounting side of its aspect since he orshe may be in charge of the ERP system and may notice the numbers are beingfraudulent in the company’s record. A conscientious employee would call theproblem to management’s attention and try to correct it by working withappropriate resources within the company.
But what if the employee’s attempt tocorrect the problem through internal channels was dissatisfied or ignored? Theemployee could then consider becoming a whistle-blower and reporting theproblem to people outside the company, including state or federal agencies thathave jurisdiction. Obviously, such actions could have negative consequences onthe employee’s job, perhaps resulting in vengeance and firing. In May 2005,Oracle Corporation paid $8 million to settle charges that it fraudulentlycollected fees before providing training for clients and failed to comply withfederal travel regulations in billing for travel and expenses. The chargesarose from a whistle-blower lawsuit brought by a former Oracle vice president.As a result of the settlement, the whistle-blower received $1.58 million of the$8 million total settlement.
” (Reynolds, 2012)”However according to Granvillewhistleblowing can occur when parties external to the organization are informedof illegal or unlawful wrongdoing within an organization. These individuals maybe members of the media, government officials, members of public supportgroups, or various other parties external to the organization who can bringabout change. definition of whistleblowing, however, describes it as takingplace when a person reports individual or corporate wrongdoing to sourceseither internal or external to the organization. Internal whistleblowing may bedefined as disclosure to sources within the organization (for example, membersof upper management and supervisors) who can bring about effective changeregarding a perceived wrongdoing.
Reports of wrongdoing to co-workers (peerreporting), however, would not be considered whistleblowing.” (Granville, 1999)”On the other hand, incircumstances where the wrongdoer is a higher official, the observer of thewrongdoing could report the incident to other members of upper management whocould eliminate the unlawful act. This type of action may be accompanied by theexiting of the wrongdoer and/or rebel. Whistleblowing is a sensitive style ofcommunication which requires the successful communicator to consider theaudience, purpose, language, and tone of the wrongdoing that is beingdisclosed. There are a couple of benefits to internal whistleblowing as opposedto external disclosure.” (Granville, 1999)For an example, “Internaldisclosures allow organizations a chance to fix problems before they developinto full-blown scandals in the eyes of public”. Furthermore, internaldisclosure creates an ethical atmosphere within the organization whereemployees are encouraged to report unethical behaviour. If, however, theorganization’s climate is favourable to suppressing internal disclosure, thewrongdoing may go unreported for months causing the organization to suffer.
Although internal and external whistleblowing appear to be different, they areconceptually similar. For instance, both forms of whistleblowing start withindividuals observing organizational wrongdoings committed by executives/managers or employees. Besides, both use the active voice (that is, verbalcommunication) as a means of eliminating the wrongdoing, instead of alternativeapproaches, such as sabotage or violence where both forms of whistleblowing maythreaten organizational norms and culture, creating an atmosphere of animosityand retaliation against the observer of the wrongdoing.” (Granville, 1999)More over as per Eileen and Mary’ssayings “First, it directly implies ethical failure and involves one personjudging the ethical behaviour of another.
Second, whistleblowing is oftenanonymous, depriving the reported-on an individual the right to face his or heraccuser. Third, whistleblowing often entails reporting outside of theestablished lines of communication and authority. Finally, whistleblowingrequires trust in those at the top of the organization to take appropriateactions when they learn of misdeeds by their employees.
Unfortunately, evenwhen wrong doing is detrimental to many people external to the organization(e.g. fraudulent ?nancial reporting, hacking into to the system resulting inarti?cially high stock prices and leaking sensitive data regarding theorganization), those internal to the organization often view the whistle-blower’sreport (rather than the initial wrongdoing) as the cause of their losses.Evidence of widespread retaliation and cost to the whistle-blower himself iswell documented. However uncomfortable we are with the notion of reporting onthe behaviour of others, whistleblowing is an important organizational control.Indeed, industry surveys and academicresearch support the contention that reporting mechanisms aid in the preventionand detection of unethical behaviour.” (Eileen Z andMary B, 2010)”Whistle-blowing isgenerally considered from the viewpoint of professional morality. Moralityrejects the idea of choice and the interests of the professional as immoral.
Yet the dreadful retaliations against the messengers of the truth make itnecessary for morality to leave a way out of whistle-blowing. Therefore itforges rights (sometimes called duties) to trump the duty to the publicprescribed by professional codes. This serves to hide the obvious fact thatwhether to blow the whistle is indeed a choice, not a matter of objective duty.One should also notice that if it fails to achieve anything then blowing thewhistle was the wrong decision (or maybe the right decision that nobody wouldwant to make). There is nevertheless a tendency to judge it based on themotivation of the whistle blower. In a way, whistle blowers should strive toact like saints. Yet, it is logically impossible to hold both whistle-blowingas mandatory and whistle-blowers as heroes or saints. Moreover, this tends tovalue the great deeds of a few over the lives of the many, which is incompatiblewith the basic assumptions of morality.
” (Mathieu Bouville,2008)To conclude and summarize theessay, this literature explains that whistleblowing is a serious ethicaldilemma where from the perspective of ethics in general, whistle-blowers arefaced with deciding whether to break the bond of loyalty to their respectiveorganizations or to make a 3rd party aware about it in such asituation apart from being beneficial or elsewise.Whistle-blowers need to beinsiders, that is, either currently or previously associated with theorganization and a further discrepancy may be made between open and anonymouswhistleblowing during a situation. Internal whistle blowing is beingencouraged by many legal systems and legislations where there is also aprobability factor that the person may have chosen to leak information aboutthe company which may have negatively affected the society in the future andhence forth the whistle-blower might be saved in the face of law, if proventhat the information leaked would cause a commotion.Like there’s no rose without athorn, either way whistleblowing would or would not be considered as wrongdoing depending on the weightage of the consequence relating to the company andthe person himself.· ErikaMcCallister, Timothy Grance, Karen A.
Scarfone., (2010). Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally IdentifiableInformation (PII).
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Spec. Publ. 800-122, 59 pages.Journal Article.· GeorgeW.Reynolds (2012).
Ethics in Information Technology. 3rd ed. Boston,USA: Joe Sabatino. p331-373. Book.· GranvilleKingIII. (1999).
The Implications of an Organization’s Structure onWhistleblowing. The Journal of Business Ethics. 20 (4), p315–326.
Journal Article.· EileenZ. TaylorMary B. Curtis. (2010). An Examination of the Layers of WorkplaceInfluences in Ethical Judgments: Whistleblowing Likelihood and Perseverance inPublic Accounting.
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MsDora, Certified Christian Counselor writes on moral integrity especially for women and encourages appreciation for the men in their lives.
Jill Shavis, the author of Simply Irresistible, complains, "Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible."
But Jill, in a parking lot, it takes strategy and patience to discover a good spot. It might also take strategy and patience to find a good Christian man.
Although each woman has specifics about what makes a man good for her, most of them will include the following characteristics on their list of qualifications.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life.
— Johnny Cash
1) Respect for God
There's something appealing about an intelligent, mature, financially independent man who declares his respect for God and credits Him for his successes. It feels comfortable trusting a man who
- considers himself accountable to an Omnipotent Being;
- who considers his talents as gifts from God to bless others;
- allows the godly principles he has learned to influence his relationships.
A real man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasure she is.
— Leslie Ludy
2) Respect for Women
Respect for one woman is respect for every woman.
- A good man promotes the dignity of past and present female friends.
- He protects their confidentiality.
- He credits his mother and grandmother (or other motherly figures) with significant contributions to his manhood.
- He recognizes and honors the women in his life.
- He extends courtesies and speaks kindly to them; he encourages other men to do the same.
It makes a woman happy to be associated with him.
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
— William Hazlitt
3) Great Conversation
He discusses the other person's interests and shares his own. He continually finds opportunities to express affirmation and love. He asks questions and makes observations that feed a sense of purpose. No put-downs, no intimidation, no judgments. Talking with him boosts the spirit, energizes the mind, and leaves one feeling grateful for his friendship.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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4) Clean Humor
He initiates the laughter on many occasions and he also provokes the other person's sense of humor. The honesty on his face, free from sneaky and snobbish glances lets you know, even from a distance, that his laughter is not based on anything ridiculous or vulgar. He laughs at his own mistakes and lets those in this company know that they can do the same.
- How to be a Good Man | eHow
Good men are guided by their inner code. To a truly good man, the only test of his manhood is himself.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
— Ayn Rand
5) Positive Self-Image
“You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold,” writes Max Lucado in You are Special, a self-esteem builder for children and adults. A real man knows that Max is writing about him. He is:
- confident, but not conceited
- self-assured but not stuck-up.
A man who acknowledges his own value is more likely to acknowledge the value in someone else. He gives what he has.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
— Laurence Stern
The church folk, his employees, his clients and his community in general express respect and admiration for him. Obviously, his self-respect attracts their respect for him. They regard him as an authority figure and a friendly counselor in basic life management skills and they trust his judgment. He extracts smiles from most people. A woman feels honored to be seen in his company.
I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, … always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
— Max Lucado
7) Fun Parent-Child Rapport
The quality of parenting is measured by the quality of the relationship between parent and child. The good man scores big in this area. He enjoys the respect of his children and grandchildren. They look after his interest and they crave his counsel. They anticipate family dinners that feature his presence, if not his cooking. They share fun and laughter. If his children are happy with him, he must be good company.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe.
— Anna Kendrick
8) Concern for Others
He’s concerned not only about his friend but also about the other people in his friend's life. He inquires about their relatives, their health status, their progress in whatever projects they are involved in. He also has friends among the elderly who have come to rely on him for various types of assistance. They continually express gratitude for his acts of kindness. He’s good for lots of things—and lots of people!
A real man can make a woman fall in love without touching anything but the heart.
He expresses intimacy without being physical. The hand-written notes, the surprise telephone calls on some days, the taped music with personal messages interspersed, the night-time serenades aimed at relieving daytime stress—changing the recipient's mood from frustration and fear to respite and romance. He makes one feel loved, valued and wanted.
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
10) Passion for Music
A good man knows that he cannot say it all. He also knows the power of music to convey his feelings. Sometimes he calls and says, "Just listen." The lyrics may be sung by him or by someone else. It may be an instrumental played by him or by some other.
His love of music is not only to enhance his relationship. He is aware that music contributes to his mental and emotional health. He devotes time to listening and playing alone; and his music collection spans several decades and includes all genres. Sometimes he plays and sings passionately like nobody’s listening. It has nothing to do with the quality of his voice; it has everything to do with the fervor in his heart.
“After silence” according to Aldous Huxley, “that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” If that is true, then a great part of understanding a good man is understanding his music.
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One of the many spiritual confessions that William James records in The Varieties of Religious Experience stands out. It comes in the lectures on the "sick soul". James explains that he includes it because it has the "merit of extreme simplicity". Is that code for, evidence that well fits my case?
It turns out that this particular account of existential collapse, though anonymous, was actually written by James himself. It describes one of the depressive episodes to which he was prone. (He confessed the fact a couple of years after the publication of Varieties, the book version of his Gifford Lectures of 1901.) The incident provides us with a window into the soul of the American philosopher and psychologist.
In the lecture, James says the troubled testimony came from a "French correspondent". That, too, is thin cover. Along with his brother, Henry James, the famous novelist, William was educated as a young man right across Europe. If you want to learn about art, why not go to Florence? Philosophy, then Germany. In 1858, aged 16, he penned a letter from London to an American friend: "We have now been three years abroad. I suppose you would like to know whether our time has been well spent. I think that as a general thing, Americans had better keep their children at home. I myself have gained in some things but have lost in others."
Languages were one gain: he was fluent in French and German and had conversational Italian. These linguistic abilities played no small part in his international renown and his colourful, literary style. As to the loses: one biographer called it "growing up zigzag", and James did have trouble deciding just what he wanted to do with his life. He thought of being an artist at first, then trained to be a doctor.
The psychology came to him when he was asked to write an introduction to the new subject, a book that finally appeared in 1890 as the hefty Principles of Psychology.
The study of religion, and the philosophy, become distinct interests after that. So, the works for which he is remembered now – the Varieties, A Pluralistic Universe, and essays such as The Will to Believe – were published relatively late in his life. He was probably never really sure of his vocation.
The James family was comprised of two further brothers and a sister. The brothers' lives were effectively ruined by the American civil war. Henry and William were exempted from fighting on medical grounds, though biographers tend to note the role that "survivor guilt" played in their lives. Alice, the sister and a diarist, suffered, too. She died in her mid-40s.
Their education and travels were paid for by their father, Henry Sr. He had money, on account of the wealth of his father, William James Sr, an industrialist who at one time was the second richest man in America.
Henry Sr was a dominant psychological force in William Jr's life, too. He was a Swedenborgian mystic and freelance theologian, as interested in psychic phenomena as radical egalitarian politics. He also wore a prosthetic leg following a botched amputation. Given they travelled so extensively, the leg and the discomfort must have been a constant feature of the children's lives.
All in all, it's not surprising that William James was prone to spiritual crises. In the Varieties, the "French correspondent", describes being in a generally pessimistic mood, unsure what to do with himself. Then suddenly, one evening, he goes into his dressing room and "there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came out of darkness, a horrible fear of my own existence". It is followed by a vision of "an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic". James feels that he might become that patient, and further, that it is entirely out of his control whether that would happen. "I became a mass of quivering fear," he continues. A general feeling of insecurity clung to him for months.
What keeps the fear at bay is texts of scripture. He recites: "The eternal God is my refuge." "I am the resurrection and the life." James the man was ambivalent about the existence of God, and he has been called a humanist. But I think his fascination with what he came to call "the more" – coupled to the fact that in his crises and work alike he was obsessed by spiritual questions – demands that we think of him as a religious person. He described writing the Varieties as "my religious act".
He was existentially troubled, intellectually brilliant, linguistically talented, openminded and humane. In short, he is an excellent, even necessary, person to read today if you are interested in matters to do with truth, pluralism, experience and God. This year is the centenary of his death. It's a good moment to explore his thought, as we will do in these blog posts. | <urn:uuid:b9319128-8949-49e8-bcb5-9cf2bc82d56b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/oct/18/william-james-part-one | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.988295 | 1,025 | 2.40625 | 2 |
"On the Appalachian Trail"
Each year, The Heritage Mural Education Program highlights a period of time, event or individuals as a subject for a large scale community mural. For Wind Gap’s first mural, (the program’s 7th!) students took a walk on the Appalachian Trail with local thru-hikers Chris Minnich and Jamie Ratchford as guides.
The design was created using first hand photos and research compiled about the plant and animal life of the region. Over 30 plants, birds and animals are represented from the noble oak to the delicate lady slipper. Students worked put in close to 500 hours over 10 weeks working on the design, rendering, scale drawings and painting on site. The mural received significant financial support from the Pennsylvania Partner in the Arts, "Project Stream”, Lehigh Valley Labor Union /United Way of the Lehigh Valley “Teen Works” and Thrivent Financial “Care Abounds in Communities” grants.
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Islam’s manifesto of Universal brotherhood of human beings
Article by Abdul Malik Mujahid
Contributed by brother I. Tung’ande
From the Quran
“O Mankind, We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other. Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is he who is the most righteous of you” (Quran 49:13).
Explanation: There are several principles, which this verse presents:
- This message is not just for Muslims only because God is addressing all of humanity. While Muslims are one brotherhood, this is part of a larger brotherhood of humanity.
- God is telling us that He has created us. Therefore He knows the best about us.
- He says that He created us from one man and one woman meaning then that we are all the same.
- It also means that all human beings are created through the same process, not in a manner in which some are created with a better mechanism than others.
- God is the One who made human beings into different groups and people.
- These differences are not wrong, rather a sign from God (“And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colors. Verily, in that are indeed signs for those who know” [Quran 30:22]).
- Note that no word equivalent to race is used in this ayah or any other verse of the Quran.
- Islam, however, limits the purpose of these distinctions to differentiation and knowing each other. This is not meant to be a source of beating each other down with an attitude of ‘my group is better than your group’ or false pride as is the case with tribalism, nationalism, colonialism, and racism.
- The only source of preference or greatness among human beings is not on a national or group level, but it is at the individual level.
- One individual who is (higher in Taqwa), more conscious of his Creator and is staying away from the bad and doing the good is better, no matter what nation, country or caste he is part of. Individual piety is the only thing that makes a person better and greater than the other one.
- However, the only criterion of preference, Taqwa, is not measurable by human beings. Indeed God is the One Who knows and is aware of everything so we should leave even this criterion to God to decide instead of human beings judging each other.
These are the deeply embedded ideals of Islam which still bring people to this way of life even though Muslims are not on the best level of Iman today. This is what changed the heart of a racist Malcolm X when he performed Hajj in Makkah. This is the power that brought Muhammad Ali to Islam. This is what still attracts the Untouchables of India towards Islam. This is the theory which convinced noted historian Professor A.J. Toynbee in 1948 to say that: “The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”
Let’s ask ourselves if the Muslim Ummah today, in its individual and collective behavior is striving to adopt and promote these Islamic ideals?
From the Sunnah
1. Prophet’s response to racist comments:
A man once visited the Prophet’s mosque in Madinah. There he saw a group of people sitting and discussing their faith together. Among them were Salman (who came from Persia ), Suhayb who grew up in the Eastern Roman empire and was regarded as a Greek, and Bilal who was an African. The man then said:
“If the (Madinan) tribes of Aws and Khazraj support Muhammad, they are his people (that is, Arabs like him). But what are these people doing here?”
The Prophet became very angry when this was reported to him. Straightaway, he went to the mosque and summoned people to a Salat. He then addressed them saying:
“O people, know that the Lord and Sustainer is One. Your ancestor is one, your faith is one. The Arabism of anyone of you is not from your mother or father. It is no more than a tongue (language). Whoever speaks Arabic is an Arab.” (As quoted in Islam The Natural Way by Abdul Wahid Hamid p. 125)
2. Statement of the universal brotherhood in the last Sermon:
O people, Remember that your Lord is One. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a black has no superiority over white, nor a white has any superiority over black, except by piety and good action (Taqwa). Indeed the best among you is the one with the best character (Taqwa). Listen to me. Did I convey this to you properly? People responded, Yes. O messenger of God, The Prophet then said, then each one of you who is there must convey this to everyone not present. (Excerpt from the Prophet’s Last Sermon as in Baihiqi)
3. Don’t take pride in ancestry:
The Prophet said: Let people stop boasting about their ancestors. One is only a pious believer or a miserable sinner. All men are sons of Adam, and Adam came from dust (Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi).
4. Looking down upon other people will stop you from entering the Jannah:
The Prophet said: Whoever has pride in his heart equal to the weight of an atom shall not enter Paradise . A man inquired about a person who likes to wear beautiful clothes and fine shoes, and he answered: God is beautiful and likes beauty. Then he explained pride means rejecting the truth because of self-esteem and looking down on other people (Muslim).
5. The Prophet condemnation of Arab racial pride:
There are many hadith, which repeatedly strike on the Arab pride of jahiliyyah. Arabs before Islam used to look down upon others specially blacks. The Prophet repeatedly contrasted the believing Africans versus non-believing Arab nobles.
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Let’s talk about acts of kindness for kids!
I was reading an article a few weeks ago that really stuck with me. It talked about how we should raise our children to be kind, not nice.
The world is full of “nice people” who seem to always say the right thing. However, you feel uncomfortable doing the right thing when it’s socially awkward.
I know I have avoided socially awkward situations. But then, felt guilty about it, and that’s not just because I’m a polite Canadian.
It’s because as a “nice person” I shouldn’t be calling out others for their actions, but in critical situations, the bystander effect can cost someone a lot, even their life.
A nice person asks you how your weekend went (kind people can do this too). But, the kind person is the one who holds open doors. Helps a stranger when their grocery bag breaks too. Further, as it genuinely means the favors they offer, shows an act of kindness.
They pull the lever on the subway when someone is ill or in trouble. And also, they don’t need to post a humble brag about it on social media.
Further, a kind person speaks their mind about what is right, even when it’s the least popular opinion in the room.
Moreover, the subtleties of the art of diplomacy and holding your tongue when appropriate are also things we’ll need to work on with our kids, but that can come later.
I had a parent-fail moment this week when I realized I had tried to steer my daughter towards being “nice” instead of kind when she wanted to confront a girl who was being mean to her friend.
In my opinion, she’d already done enough, gone to a teacher and spoken her mind. But, she was bothered because her friend was still upset and wanted to make things right.
Too often, we want our children to be obedient “good” kids when they should be asking all sorts of questions, and they most certainly should be standing up for others as an act of kindness.
However, that’s where I failed. My daughter told me that she wished she had the authority of a teacher. So that, she could better direct people to apologize when they do things that make her friends feel sad.
It turns out she spent the next day making her friend feel better, so all is right again. I am proud that the pack mentality associated with the tween and teen years hasn’t yet impacted my kids, and I want to provide them with the tools so they’re ready when it does kick into high gear.
Teaching our children effective conflict resolution, along with how to be kind is one of the best things we can do as parents.
Maybe I’m feeling empowered by the movement of anti-bullying through participation in Pink Shirt Day at school this week.
I want my daughter (and my son) to be the type of person who stands up for the stranger who is being bullied on public transit.
The person who calls their friends out when they say something sexist or racist (but has a healthy debate and doesn’t resort to calling their friends’ names).
And I don’t want them to be afraid of being perceived as being problematic for doing so.
Whether your kid is 18 months or 8 years old there are many ways to bring out both the social justice warrior and a compassionate person inside of them.
7 Tips For Raising Kids With An Act Of Kindness
To do this we need to step outside of our own comfort zone, which will be good for our personal growth as well. Here are some tips on getting started:
Read a diverse cross-section of books & then talk about them
By six years old a child is able to communicate more about emotions. Explore this together by reading books with some age-appropriate conflict and come up with solutions for characters in the stories.
We noticed a pointed spike in name-calling after our son was introduced to SpongeBob Squarepants. He quickly learned that when he called someone “Idiot boy” because Mr. Krabs did, it meant that he wasn’t allowed to watch anymore.
Try a classroom social justice activity
There are many online resources that offer up different age-appropriate activities to help create a fantastic learning opportunity for school-aged kids. The resources on Education World are a great start.
Use theme days as educational moments
International Women’s Day, Black History Month, or Autism Awareness Month.
There are so many different ways you can celebrate together and learn about challenges faced by different people. This could help you raise your kids with an act of kindness.
Show your kids the importance of giving back to their community and the planet.
It can be as small as having them help you pick a cause to donate to annually or helping to gather clothes or food for donation.
You can also show them how to volunteer their time; this spring our family is having a park clean-up to focus on environmental action and discussion together.
When you experience conflicts in the adult world don’t be afraid to break down some of them in a discussion with and in front of your kids.
You’d be surprised at how insightful children can be. In turn, they’ll be more likely to workshop the issues they’re having while chatting at dinner with you.
Teach your kids to stand up for what’s important by taking the lead. They can make their own signs and really get involved.
There are some great resources for parents who want to help their children protest alongside them with safety in mind.
If you got an idea of how to teach an act of kindness for kids, we have more valuable parenting tips on the links below;
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From election meddling to new US sanctions to close calls between fighter planes over the Baltic Sea, the US-Russia relationship is as complicated as ever. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has described US-Russian relations as being “at an all time low, and deteriorating further.” Meanwhile, anti-corruption protests have sprouted up all over Putin’s Russia, and here in the US, the FBI and Senate Intelligence Committee continue their investigations into Russian cyberattacks and associations between the Trump campaign and transition teams and Russian officials. Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Senate Intelligence Committee co-chair Mark Warner, and Russian journalists Galina Timchenko and Alexey Kovalev join The Atlantic’s Julia Ioffe for a look at what it all means. How did the United States and Russia get here? Where are we headed? What do we need to understand about Putin and his stake in disinformation and destabilization? What have we learned about the 2016 cyberattacks, and, along the way, have we learned anything about ourselves and the health of American democracy?
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Whether you have been driving for decades or just passed your first license test, every driver ought to know about the importance of regularly replacing their tires. While proper rotation schedules can greatly extend the life of your tires, all tires need to be replaced eventually, and failing to do so could endanger you and your car. Fortunately, there are many relatively simple ways to know if you might need to head to your local tire service in Basalt, CO for some new tires. Here are the five most common and easy-to-detect signs that your car might need new tires:
- Bulging and cracks: Cracks and gouges are fairly obvious signs that your tires are not in great shape, and that you should at the very least have them looked at. Another sign, bulging, is equally as grave. When your tires start to deflate, they can start to bulge out a bit at the sides. When this occurs, it means that, at best, you will need to re-inflate and patch up your tires—although at this point, replacing them is probably the smartest move.
- Pressure: Did you know that your tires will lose about one pound per square inch (PSI) of pressure every month? This is natural, so losing a little bit of pressure and needing to occasionally pump your tires back up is nothing to worry about. But if your tires are loosing pressure at a much faster rate than one PSI per month, take that as a sign that something is up.
- The penny test: The penny test, which drivers use to check their tire tread, might be considered old fashioned by some, but it has stuck around for a reason: it’s pretty darn accurate, and very simple. To do the penny test, stick a penny into your tire’s tread line, with Lincoln’s head facing outward. If you can see the top of his head, then your tire’s tread line needs to be looked at, and the tire probably needs to be replaced.
- Temperature: The temperature at which you store your car can greatly affect your tire pressure and condition. During periods of extreme cold, your tire pressure will drop, but that is an easy enough problem to fix. The real danger is extreme heat, which will cause a tire with already low pressure to wear out very quickly on the road. If you have a summer road trip coming up, make sure your tires are in good enough shape to tackle it.
- Vibration: These days, there is no reason why your car shouldn’t give you a nice, smooth ride. If you notice vibration under your seats, that could be a sign that your tire pressure or tread is uneven, which means it might be time to replace one, a pair or the whole set.
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Let me give it to you straight. If you go to bed with a smile, content that you did something useful during the day and that something is taking you closer to your goals, you are onto something!
If you have this feeling most days, you will be successful in whatever you chose to do.
BUT, if this feeling is alien to you, read on.
Do you go through something like this?
-You work 10 hours a day and still think you have not done enough.
-Your mind jumps from one task to another without finishing the previous one.
-At the end of the week, you feel like you have hardly accomplished anything.
-Do thoughts about these frustrations plague your mind most of the time?
If so, here are five things that you might be doing wrong:
-Not being sure of what your priority is
-Not planning tasks that need to be done each day the night before
-Trying to do too many things at the same time and usually ending up doing little or nothing
-Not having a list of your three-month, six-month and one-year goals
-Allowing too many distractions to get in the way
Four Steps you can take to increase your productivity tenfold:
Power of one: Focus on just one major task that needs to be done every day, no matter what. Make sure you decide the day before what this ONE task will be. The task should take at least a few hours of your time. Focus on this task until you are satisfied that you have accomplished it. In a month’s time, you will have completed 30 important tasks. I promise you will be on top of the world once you see your accomplishments in this way. Imagine your state of mind in six months or a year! INDEED LESS IS MORE.
This is where your short, medium, and long term goals will come in handy. Be very selective in choosing your task. Let me give you an example from my own experience.
I have launched my blog, fabulousbody.com, which required me to write articles, an e-book, and other valuable content for my readers. To begin with, I was not in the habit of squeezing out time to sit down and write. If I wrote 500 words per day, that put a smile on my face, and that’s the goal I set for myself. The task of writing 500 words per day, allowed me to meet the timelines of my blog’s launch date and other monthly milestones.
The feeling of accomplishment in moving towards my goals is exhilarating. I believe everyone should live for this feeling. While deciding on the task you will complete, make sure it is not too easy. Select a task that you think will make you slightly uncomfortable. For example, consuming 150 grams of protein ( how much protein one should have )was tough for me at first. Now it’s easy. Working for 10 hours a day was tough for me. Now it’s pretty much a norm. Even if writing those 500 words takes my whole day (sometimes two), I know it’s important for me to keep reaching out to you with this knowledge, and it will help me in the long run too. So decide what task is important to you and then go for it!
Divide your day. If you decide to work 8 – 10 hours or so, divide your day into three or four chunks of few hours each. Make sure you are in a place where no one disturbs you when you are working during those periods. After an intense period of concentration, your mind will tell you to rest. Give yourself a break then. By a break, I don’t mean switch on the TV or open Facebook; these are mind-draining activities that will tire you even further. Instead, listen to soothing and powerful music, take a nap, play with your baby (I can do this since I often work from home), or do something that recharges you.
Take a break of no more than 20 minutes or so and then get back to your work. Before lunchtime, aim to put in at least 60 percent of the total time allocated to work for the whole day. (On the other hand, many people I know do their best work after 11pm, so schedule your day according to what works best for you.)
Schedule your worry. If you worry too much—about being fat, about losing your hair too soon, about being not rich, about not being loved—don’t despair; we all have such thoughts. I am not going to give you motivational jargon about thinking positive, etc. Instead do this: Set 15 minutes aside and write all your worries on a piece of paper.
List everything and everyone that is troubling you. Do it now. Now, tear that paper and throw it in trash can. Mentally say to yourself that you are done with the worries. If you want to go a step further, burn the darn paper. Do it. Light a match, and burn it. It is very liberating to see all your worries burn away and turn into ashes. Does it work? YEAH! For me it does. I want you to try it and tell me how it goes for you. One other thing that happens when you schedule worry is you free your time to spend being productive and taking action instead of worrying.
List three to five shorter, non-creative tasks to accomplish every day. Most of us cannot afford the luxury of taking the entire day to write or paint pictures or do other creative tasks. We have businesses to run, bills to pay, and families to take care of! In addition to your one linchpin creative task of the day, doing three to five “non-creative” tasks is also essential.
These tasks can include the important phone call you have been planning for a very long time or taking time out to spend quality time with your family. Yes, write these things down. Trust me; what gets scheduled gets done. Even minor things listed on your to-do list have a higher chance of getting done than those you do not write down.
Don’t forget good nutrition. If you keep gulping down mugs of black coffee thinking it will keep your productivity and creativity at an all-time high, think again! Coffee is a stimulant that keeps you alert for a short period of time, after which you enter a state of anxiety, mood swings, etc. Before you know it, you will need another shot to keep the “flow” going.
I am not against coffee. I do drink it, but only in moderation. Don’t overdo it. Instead, try drinking green tea or even rejuvenating coconut water. Overall, keep your diet balanced. Vegetable juices are the best things to drink, and they will help your concentration. In fact, mixing one tablespoon of ghee in your vegetable juice can take your energy through the roof!
In conclusion, being highly meticulous with your time is the key. Anyone can stay busy for hours, but the real question is whether your work is aligned with your medium and long term goals. Only you know if it is!
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Well, this is just insane. Whatever else happens today (unless it’s earth shakingly momentous) I hope to write SOMEthing. A character with a problem in a setting. That’s all I need.
I hope it whatever I write will lead to a novel. I really enjoy writing novels. And when I’m involved with the characters in a novel, my daily word count soars.
* * *
And just like that (snaps fingers), things change. Epiphanies happen. Calming comes. And clarity.
I wrote the first two paragraphs above just before I ventured to Dean’s site to check for a new post. Not finding one (at the time) I checked for comments on yesterday’s post. I’m glad I did. In fact I’m thrilled I did.
I found the most important gold mine of advice I’ve ever seen or can imagine in those comments in the form of a link to an article by Frederic van Rensselaer Dey. The superlative is intentional and I am not exaggerating in the slightest.
Although I’ve included a link to it in “Of Interest” below (just in case anyone skips this part to read that part) I also decided to make it the topic of the day.
This is the most important topic I’ve written and posted in this or any other blog. It probably is the most important topic I’ll ever post.
Topic: Writers and Learning
Despite the inadequate title of this topic, Frederick van Rensselaer Dey’s article “How I Wrote a Thousand ‘Nick Carter’ Novels” is a gold mine of knowledge not only in writing, but in any endeavor and in life itself.
Again, I’m not exaggerating.
Moreover, the article begs the reader to also read Dey’s short story, “The Magic Story.”
This is so important, I’ve copy/pasted “The Magic Story” into a Word document, converted it to PDF, and made it accessible via a link on my Free Stuff page. I did the same with the article. And I might even create a new page (or two new pages) on my website specifically to showcase the story and the article.
They are that important. But to the topic….
I’ve always said continual learning is essential to success in writing. That entails taking classes, reading blog posts and, of course, practicing. (By the latter, I mean
1. learn (conscious mind) something new about the craft in between writing projects, and
2. apply (creative mind) the new thought or technique in your next writing project.
I have known many writers and would-be writers during my life. In EVERY CASE, those who succeeded were not the ones with the best language skills or sense of syntax, etc.
The ones who succeeded (by which I mean continued to write and improve in the craft) were the ones who were willing to put forth the effort to learn new things.
But my take on learning to write has always been limited. “Learn the rules of grammar,” I would say, and “Learn how readers react, in every case, to punctuation” and “Take every opportunity to learn everything you can about crafting a story.”
I always advocate, still, learning the “rules,” but only so you can break them, when necessary, intelligently and intentionally to create a certain effect on the page and a certain reaction in the reader.
Those saws still comprise good advice and I stand by them.
But in reading Dey’s article, and as illustrated in his story[ies], I found that I had omitted perhaps the most important advice of all.
I almost slipped and gave you the answer. But I won’t because I don’t want that to derail you from reading the article for yourself.
Still, I want to make finding those articles as easy for you as I can. So here are the links:
Frederick van Rensselaer Dey’s article “How I Wrote a Thousand ‘Nick Carter’ Novels” (http://harveystanbrough.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/How-I-Wrote-A-Thousand.pdf).
(If you’d like to see the original article, you can find it at https://ipeopleblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/writer-frederic-van-rensselaer-dey/.)
Frederick van Rensselaer Dey’s story “The Magic Story” (http://harveystanbrough.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Magic-Story.pdf)
I’ve read both. I read the short story first (yesterday) and was completely awed at how the writer and the writing pulled me along.
I read the article this morning just before I began this topic. I intend to read it several more times, especially at those times when I feel the writing has fled me. But at other times too. When I can’t come up with a story idea. Or when my consious mind tries to intrude to question something my subconscious wants to put on the page. (Therein lies the personal reason to post both it and the story to my site.)
As an additional incentive, I’ll just say that Dean plans to post topics based on the article over a period of time. So if you read it now (and perhaps again later), you’ll have a solid foundation for reading Dean’s take on it later.
For my own edification, I’m also going to find every book and story I can find by Dey or his pseudonyms (the folks at the original link above included some of them) and read those as well. Voraciously.
So I wrote all of the above to lead to this:
Go. Read. Seriously.
Some interesting comments on Dean’s 1/1/17 Daily… Some Learning… (http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/1117-daily-some-learning/#comments)
Also, Frederic van Rensselaer Dey (same article I mentioned above) in his own words at https://ipeopleblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/writer-frederic-van-rensselaer-dey/ (from the February 1920 issue of The American Magazine). This is invaluable, even when preaching to the choir.
And finally, Dean’s 1/2/17 Daily… Adjusting Slightly (http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/1217-daily-adjusting-slightly/) is good.
Today, and Writing
Rolled out right at 3, starting to get back to my earlier “normal” time. This is part of that retraining I mentioned.
About a month ago, I started training myself to go to bed later and get up closer to a normal time. But with the recent changes in my family, I realized if I’m to meet my writing goals, I need to go back in the other direction, so I’m working on that now.
I messed around the first hour or so, then checked Dean’s site and wrote everything above this. I also added some things to my website (see above) and did some other stuff. It’s just after 9 now and I’m going to read Dey’s article again. There are some things there I want to revisit.
And now it’s almost 11:30. Some things came up, so I dealt with those and read the article again in about four separate sittings. Got what I needed though. And I’ll read it again as necessary.
At this point I might or might not write. I’m kind of casting about for characters. I’ve had a few strong “friends” I like a lot. I’m going to visit with them a bit and see whether any of them want to join me in another novel or twelve.
Definitely not writing fiction today. The rest of today I’m going to explore a few characters from an earlier novel. One of those characters is well-established. A second had more than an introduction, but not a lot more. Two others are incredibly interesting but served only cardboard, background roles in the first novel. I wanted to write more in that world anyway, and this seems the perfect time.
I started that process today. I’ll continue it in the morning, probably around 2 or 3. Then, situation allowing, I’ll write the rest of the day. The way I see it, I have some catching up to do. (grin)
See you tomorrow.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 1240 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 1240
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 1628
Total fiction words for the year………… 1628
Total nonfiction words for the month… 2860
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 2860
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I have to say there was a lot to remember about the town of Ottersweier to remember, but one of the biggest things to stand out in memory was that it was said to be relatively calm, but it has a pulse.
Didn’t that turn out to be the truth? No sleepy village for this Baden town, that’s for sure.
It looks like a typical rural town of some four villages, a place of just over 6,000 people spread out over thirty square kilometers in the Rastatt District filled with open fields, meadows and fruit trees.
— Top Areas Of Interest
Yet Ottersweier likes to let its hair down for a rarin’ good time when its festival time. Late April/early May is when most of the festivities for the year kick off, starting with the Maifest on April 30th/May 1st. This is followed by the Klosterhoffest just about a week (or so) later.
Ottersweier was once the site of a “convent” created by the Dowager Duchess Maria Victoria who established a school here for girls in the 18th century. Duchess Maria Victoria lived in what’s now Ottersweier’s Town Hall, just so you know.
Back to the festivals… May is also the time for Ottersweier’s Frühlingsfest, or Spring Festival and Music Festival, followed by the Antoniusfest and St. Johannes Pfarrfest that are both in June.
July has the Heckenfest over at the Grillplatz, with the Summer Festival right behind it in August. Don’t let the cooler weather fool you, there’s stuff going on in September (like the Autumn Festival); and December’s quite busy with all the Advent and Christmas celebrations going on.
Doesn’t leave you much time to get out on all the hiking and cycling trails in the Black Forest now, does it? It will if you make time for it. Make sure you suck in as much countryside as possible.
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Festivals, public events, restaurants, bars and concerts (and recently, the Milwaukee Bucks Deer District) can all draw massive crowds, which can be dangerous if you are not aware of your surroundings. Hupy and Abraham wants you to be safe in a crowd and aware of your surroundings. Remember the following 10 tips to stay safe in public.
- Identify all exits and make a plan in case of emergency as to how you will leave.
- Move with the crowd, while zigzagging to the outside, if caught in the middle of a crowd.
- Avoid wearing loose clothing or accessories that could be pulled or tangled.
- Walk around a crowd instead of pushing through it, if possible.
- Wear shoes that are not likely to fall off or make you trip.
- Drink water before the event or bring a water bottle with you.
- Charge your phone and keep it secured on you.
- Create a plan before the event where to meet with your friends in case someone gets separated.
- Research the event beforehand and stay aware of the layout of the event.
- Note suspicious activity. Don’t be afraid to report suspicious packages or people.
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Former Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos has reunited with his former company in a landmark deal to launch 83 satellites in upcoming years, in what has been described as the largest deal ever in the history of the commercial space industry.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it would be partnering with numerous companies to launch a total of 83 satellites over the span of five years, including 12 with Bezos-owned Blue Origin, 18 with French launch service provider Arianespace, and 38 with Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance. The contract also allows for 15 additional launches in collaboration with a private venture owned by Bezos.
These satellites are a feature of Project Kuiper, an undertaking by Amazon that seeks to provide broadband internet access worldwide by means of a series of satellites in low Earth orbit.
“Project Kuiper will provide fast, affordable broadband to tens of millions of customers in unserved and underserved communities around the world,” said Amazon executive David Limp in a press release.
“We still have lots of work ahead, but the team has continued to hit milestone after milestone across every aspect of our satellite system. These launch agreements reflect our incredible commitment and belief in Project Kuiper, and we’re proud to be working with such an impressive lineup of partners to deliver on our mission.”
Bezos retired from his role as CEO of Amazon in July 2020, but he retains a 12.7 percent share in the company he founded, where he still serves as executive chairman.
However, since Bezos stepped down as CEO of his most successful company, the billionaire has notably diversified his business ventures and shifted focus elsewhere.
Perhaps the most conspicuous of Bezos’ post-Amazon enterprises has been Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup that has drawn headlines for shaking up the nascent commercial spaceflight industry. Founded by Bezos in 2000, Blue Origin has acquired a much higher profile since July 2021, when the Amazon founder took part in a manned spaceflight just weeks after stepping down as CEO of Amazon.
This space flight fuelled a media narrative of a supposed “space race” between Bezos and Elon Musk, the second-wealthiest and wealthiest men in the world, respectively. Musk, whose own startup SpaceX is Blue Origin’s primary competitor, has suggested that Blue Origin’s Project Jarvis had “copied” his own company’s Starship.
While manned spaceflights have driven much of the media attention around Blue Origin and SpaceX, perhaps more significant for both companies are the satellites they have launched. With Earth’s orbit largely unregulated under international law, private companies have taken a proactive approach to claim the skies while the space is still available.
Musk’s SpaceX is seen as the dominant player in this space race, with over 2,000 SpaceX satellites, with the company owning 36 percent of all active satellites as of September 2021. The preeminence of SpaceX has drawn criticism from some such as Josef Aschbacher, head of the European Space Agency, who claimed last December that Musk was “making the rules” for space with his dominance of the satellite industry. | <urn:uuid:9deb745e-8f4a-4065-ae94-632359fd4f19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://truthusa.us/business-news/amazon-signs-landmark-rocket-deal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970758 | 648 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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|Locus:||An 7, Tomb Chapel|
|Date Made:||1190 - 1075 BCE|
|Credit Line:||The Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia, Aniba; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1911|
This stela comes from the tomb of a man named Mery who was the Overseer of the King's Treasury in Nubia. Mery was buried with his wife, Taweretherity. She was a Songstress of Amun.In the upper row, on the left, Mery faces the falcon-headed sun god Re-Horakhty and his daughter, Maat. On the right Mery stands before the god Osiris, the primary funerary deity. Standing behind Osiris is his wife, Isis. Osiris is depicted with green skin due to his associations with vegetation and regeneration. In the lower row Mery and his wife, seated before a table of offerings, receive incense and water libation from their children. The hieroglyphic text below contains a hymn to the sun god. Across the top and continuing down the sides are two prayers to Osiris and Re-Horakhty. The stela is topped with a molded cornice decorated with palm leaves. A complete break in the stone runs diagonally through the upper section of the inscribed face. All of the well-preserved colors are original.
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I just love baseball!! Organized leagues or pick-up games with friends or family what a great sport of skill and comradery. And it’s definitely not just for boys! (bottom) Check out this super slo-mo of a ball hitting the bat HERE. More video links below.
Sad. Lethargic. Just not right today. My beloved Indians are no longer in the hunt this year. Like you, I was hanging on to every pitch, every at bat, every move by the managers – hoping for a hit, or wishing for a swing and a miss. What an amazing game. Through all the data, and pontificators, as the experts will say, most believe in the playoffs, it all comes down to pitching. And, with the best pitcher in the American League this year, and the best bullpen and closer, I really thought we were headed to the big show again. But alas, “maybe next year.” On the “fun” side, watching the games, it did get me a thinkin’… just how do those guys throw those pitches and make the ball move the way it does. So, I went to discover some cool facts for you, and some interesting trivia, “just because”. Enjoy, and thanks to Mentalfloss.com and factretriver.com.
When watching from home, or listening in on the radio, we hear a lot of talk about what kind of pitch was just thrown, will be thrown, should be thrown, might be thrown, or, perhaps, shouldn’t have been thrown at all. Cutters, sliders, sinkers and more. Here’s how they work:
- Fastball – This is the basic, most important pitch in baseball. The first two fingers rest just on (or inside) the seams and the pitcher releases the pitch with the palm pretty much facing the batter, producing maximum velocity. How fast are we talking? Generally, in the 90-95 mph range, though some pitchers have been known to easily hurl over 100 mph. Technically, what most pitchers throw is called a two-seam fastball and produces a sidespin that causes the ball to cut in as it approaches the batter. There are other varieties, like the 4-seam fastball, which is thrown by holding the ball with the seams horizontal, rather than vertical. This produces backspin, which creates high pressure under the ball and low pressure on top resulting in the illusion of the ball rising (actually the ball isn’t rising, just falling more slowly than it would normally). There’s also a split-finger fastball where the first two fingers split, or straddle the seams, which causes the ball to drop a little as it approaches the plate. Despite the movement, the basic idea of a fastball is to overpower the batter, so he swings late and misses.
- Sinker – If you’ve ever played wiffle ball, you know the ball rises, falls, and curves in and away from a batter depending on where you position the air holes in the ball. Likewise, in baseball, a pitcher can create movement and variation in speed depending on how he releases the ball, or how he spins the ball. Off-speed pitches, like the sinker, are pitches that are released with the palm of the hand facing away from the pitcher. This causes the ball to sink as it approaches the batter. The idea here is to either get him to swing over the ball and miss, or, if he connects with the pitch, to produce a ground ball, rather than a line drive.
- Changeup – A changeup is like a sinker, in that it’s an off-speed pitch, only the palm is turned even further out. All off-speed pitches are similar in that they’re thrown with less velocity than the fastball. But the batter doesn’t know when one is coming because a good pitcher is able to use the same arm speed as he does for the fastball. So to throw it with less velocity, the pitcher presses the baseball deep into his palm. Less finger contact means less torque and less velocity. If a batter is expecting a fastball, slowing down, or “changing up” the speed to, say, 87 mph can trip him up and he’ll swing ahead of the ball. Great pitchers can build an entire career on the changeup because they’re able to slow it down all the way to around 80 mph. If they can throw a fastball around 95 mph, that’s a whopping 15 mph slower and really confuses the batter.
- Screwball – This is another off-speed pitch that not only sinks, but moves from the pitcher’s left side to the right as it approaches the batter (opposite for lefties). The palm is again pronated away from the pitcher, even further than the sinker and changeup. As the pitcher releases the ball, he twists the ball like a corkscrew. A left-handed batter will see the ball break away from him and a right-handed batter will experience the opposite, as the ball breaks in on him (the reverse is true if the pitcher is left-handed, of course).
- Cutter – Turning the palm in the opposite direction produces a series of pitches known as breaking pitches. The first stop over from the fastball is the cutter, which is like a fastball, only it breaks in ever so slightly and is generally thrown a few mphs slower than a fastball. The further the palm is rotated toward the pitcher, the more movement (in most cases, but not all). Major league pitchers can create amazing movement in and out from a batter, disguising the pitch to look like a fastball, but then it “cuts” away.
- Slider – Basically the same thing as a cutter, a slider is thrown with less velocity than the former and the palm is rotated further toward the pitcher. The slower speed means there’s more time for the ball to move, or slide, from one side of the plate to the other.
- Curveball (my favorite) – A good curveball can be devastating, and also fun to watch. These are the pitches that appear to arc up toward the batter’s chest (or even head) before dropping into the strike zone like a bomb as they reach the plate. Of course, not every successful curveball pitcher throws the large arc variety and they need not be so dramatic. Even a small arc keeps the hitter off balance. The pitcher turns his palm in so far that his hand looks like the letter “C.” He then flicks his wrist as he releases the ball (the opposite direction from the screwball) creating topspin. The more topspin, the greater the air pressure difference between the top and bottom of the ball, and the greater the break.
And some “I didn’t know that” fun trivia:
- The unofficial anthem of American baseball, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” is traditionally sung during the middle of the 7th inning. It was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer, both of whom had never been to a baseball game.
- The life span of a major league baseball is 5–7 pitches. During a typical game, approximately 70 balls are used
- A “can of corn” is an easy fly ball. The term comes from when old-time grocers used their aprons to catch cans knocked from a high shelf.
- “Soaking” was a very early baseball rule that allowed a runner who was off base to be put out by throwing a ball at him.
- The most innings ever played in a major League baseball game was 26 innings on May 1, 1920, when the Brooklyn Dodgers played the Boston Braves.
- The longest game on record was between the Chicago White Sox and the visiting Milwaukee Brewers on May 9, 1984. The game lasted 8 hours 6 minutes and went 25 innings.
- A big-league player can hit a 90-mph pitch with more than 8,000 pounds during the millisecond that the bat is in contact with the baseball. The ball leaves the bat at a speed of 110 -125 mph.
- A player increases his chance of hitting a home run if he hits the baseball at the bat’s “sweet spot.” This spot is an area between 5 and 7 inches from the barrel end of the bat. When a player hits the sweet spot, there is less vibration, and the bat makes a satisfying “crack” sound.
- The probable MLBrecord is Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Dodgers who pitched every inning of a 26-inning game in 1920. It is estimated that he threw 360 pitches over the course of the game. His opponent on the mound, Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves, also pitched all 26 innings and threw an estimated 319 pitches.
- While no records formally exist, it is believed Steve Kowalski can “out eat” most fans in a nine- inning game. This includes peanuts, popcorn, nachos, hot dogs, and the burger of the day.
Some Cool Video Links:
Fun – Grips and crazy ball movements:
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Baseball Research Center:
Video of a pitch in super duper slow motion:
The science and physics of a baseball pitch:
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Psychic (the past the present the future)
This sign was realised for an exhibition reflecting on and channelling Harald Szeemann‘s 1969 show, When Attitudes Become Form. A starting point and observation for the work was the proliferation of signs advertising psychics in the city of San Francisco, here pushing this presence into another language and context. This Psychic is a statement and a speech act, telling you in a somber illuminated white, “it is so.” And in the process, drawing lines of connection between different registers of intuition, intention and materialisation, lines between belief, spiritual practices and art.
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WUN: Mental health initiative launched
Dr. John Bell of UAlberta presents the Mental Health Initiative at the Opening Plenary of the WUN AGM.
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Public Health Global Challenge Steering Group (PHGC) launched the Mental Health Initiative via an online workshop on 12 May. Drawing some 70 participants from across the network, the workshop fostered dialogues and encouraged collaborations around the mental health challenges brought on by events and crises of the era, including COVID-19 and climate change. While these challenges are global, they take on unique cultural and local characteristics, such as the effects on diverse vulnerable populations and indigenous peoples. It is therefore vital to approach these problems from a network perspective by leveraging the complementary expertise and resources of the members. The participants were particularly interested in the mental health of vulnerable population, particularly children, as well as issues that impact people in vulnerable situations, such as migration, poverty, and climate change.
WUN is an exclusive network of 26 research universities across six continents. It fosters research in four key areas known as the Global Challenges, including Public Health. Prof. David Olson of the University of Alberta (UAlberta) and Prof. Roger Chung of CUHK serve as Chair and Vice Chair of PHGC, respectively. Together with UAlberta, the Office of Academic Links has been supporting the group in developing collaborative initiatives over the past two years. At the recent WUN Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lausanne, a report on the initiative was made.
Prof. Sylvia He’s presentation on her low-carbon transport project draws much interest.
Also presenting at the WUN AGM was Prof. Sylvia He of the Department of Geography and Resource Management at CUHK who shared her WUN Research Development Fund project on low-carbon transport and made recommendations for policymakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change.
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It doesn’t matter where you are in Australia during the warmer months of the year, you’re going to encounter mosquitoes. In some regions, mosquitoes are a constant and extremely irritating problem. Australians love the great outdoors and mosquitoes are simply a part of our way of life, but in some instances, the problem can be worse than normal.
The coming La Nina promises a cooler and wetter summer than normal for Australia, and experts are warning that this coming season, mosquitoes are going to be breeding like crazy and out in full force. The word is to brace for a mosquito plague this summer, with mosquito numbers much higher than those experienced during a regular summer season.
What Is La Nina?
La Nina is basically a fluctuation in water temperatures near the equator. La Nina is the term used to refer to the cold phase, while El Nino refers to the warmer phase of this temperature cycle. This article gives a great summary: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-19/what-el-nino-la-nina-mean-australian-weather/9053464
The cycle fluctuates every few years, and while one part of the world is in the La Nina phase, other parts of the world will be experiencing El Nino. These phases can last anywhere from 2 to 7 years but typically occur every twelve months or so. With Australia bracing for a La Nina phase of the cycle this coming summer, it means temperatures will be cooler than normal with more rainfall occurring.
Why Will the Coming La Nina Increase the Mosquito Problem?
It’s true that mosquitoes enjoy a warm to hot climate, and even during a somewhat cooler La Nina phase, the Australian summer is still very warm and for a prolonged period. Although temperatures can get cold during winter in some regions, the country is known for warm weather and long summers.
The main problem facing Australians during the upcoming La Nina cycle is the increase in wet weather. Mosquitoes breed in water, and with more prolonged and regular periods of rain, this will create the ultimate breeding ground for this pesky insect.
As mentioned at the start of this article, experts are warning of increased numbers of mosquitoes in potential plague proportions. This will likely affect every Australian household over the coming summer season.
What Will the Fallout Of La Nina Mean for Australians?
The most obvious result of the upcoming La Nina will be an influx of these biting insects. Whether you’re outside or indoors, mosquito numbers are going to be on the rise in a major way.
Imagine being outside for your regular family barbecue and everyone is getting eaten alive by swarms of mosquitoes. It’ll also be virtually impossible to keep them from getting indoors when there are so many around. Screens will certainly help, but chances are, every single time a front or back door is opened, mosquitoes will sneak inside and wait for a chance to attack.
Sleepless nights and constant mosquito bites is likely to be the outcome.
According to a recent Channel 7 report, the last time Australia experienced a La Nina like the one predicted by experts was 10 years ago, and during that cycle, the continent experienced mosquitoes in plague proportions in some areas. Overall, the mosquito population increased markedly in just about all regions of the country. Read the article and watch the video: https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/australians-warned-to-brace-for-potentially-deadly-horror-mosquitoesseason-c-1566211
Being regularly bitten or annoyed by these biting insects is only a part of the problem. The second major issue will be disease. It’s a well-known fact that mosquitoes can, and do, spread diseases and viruses. While not every single mosquito bite will result in illness, the potential is always there, and this potential will increase exponentially with the upcoming La Nina phase set to affect our shores. One key reason why mosquitoes have the potential to spread viruses, disease and illness is because of the environments in which they lay their eggs. Think about this. Mosquitoes lay eggs in still water, such as ponds, lakes, puddles, disused swimming pools, containers in the backyard, buckets, drains, clogged guttering, flood plains, wetlands and more. In fact, anywhere that still and stagnant water is located in a potential breeding hotspot for mosquitoes.
Much of this stagnant water contains bacteria and parasites. The mosquito larvae are bred in this toxic environment, and once a mosquito has matured and can fly off in search of prey, it could be infected with any number of diseases. It finds a human to bite and injects this parasite or disease into the person’s bloodstream. While the infection is not a guarantee, a La Nina phase increases the chances of pestilence being widespread during the Australian summer.
Potential problems include:
- Ross River Fever
- Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus
- Barmah Forest Virus
- And more…
Protecting Yourself During La Nina
Mosquitoes are most prevalent (and most hungry) at both dusk and dawn. If you can avoid being outdoors during these times of the day, you reduce your chances of being bitten and contracting a disease quite considerably.
Covering up by wearing long-sleeved shorts, long pants, shoes and even gloves will help stave off this annoying insect.
Pestrol’s Insect Shield Women’s Shirt
It’s only common sense to stock up on insect repellent and to remember to always apply it to any exposed skin to ward of mosquitoes. In fact, every single Australian should get into the habit of carrying insect repellent with them wherever they go during the upcoming summer.
Mosquito repellent is one of the easiest and most effective ways to protect yourself against mosquito bites.
Around the home, install some electronic mosquito zappers near the front and back doors, as this can really help keep mosquitoes from getting inside. You’ll also want to consider having a few cans of low-allergenic insect spray in the home in case too many of these pests do happen to find their way indoors.
While it does promise to be the summer of the mosquito, with some common sense and measures in place to protect yourself, your family and your home, you can survive the La Nina and keep mosquitoes at bay for the most part.
Read more about Mosquitoes with Pestrol:
The Best Ways To Repel Mosquitoes >
Mosquito bites, treatment, prevention and the latest news >
Mosquito-borne diseases in Australia >
The Best Mosquito Traps and How They Work >
Can Mosquitoes Spread Covid-19 Virus? >
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A monitoring and security system is set up to protect your house from burglars, thieves, trespassers and other risks including fire. You will find an assortment of home alarm systems to pick upon.
When considering one for the house remembers that they offer different operational purposes with something in common, they're intended to safeguard your house.
Some of the typical kinds of home alarms systems consist of electric circuits, motion sensors, and infrared alarms along with other varieties which are all comparatively efficient.
Below is more information about alerts and advice to have you pick one that best fits your requirements.
A monitored system is one which is wired into alarm a central call center in the event the houses alarm is triggered. The call center is alerted of an alert through telephone wires.
Clever thieves that have the ability to find outdoor phone wires which are vulnerable may cut them not permitting the call center to be alerted.
When thinking of a system similar to this recall there is always the choice of using a radio or cellular back up to your monitored alarm system.
One big drawback to your monitored alarm system is that when the alarm is triggered it takes thirty to forty minutes to your security business to get in touch with the homeowner. They wait this long to determine whether the alert has been accidentally set off from the homeowner.
The homeowner has a code which they use to deactivate the alarm if this isn't entered along with the homeowner never gotten a grasp of the security business will alert police.
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The Year of The Monkey2016 is the year of the Monkey and the Monkey is ninth of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Each year is related to an animal sign according to a 12-year-cycle so the Monkey years are 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016. People born in a year of the Monkey are supposed to be witty, intelligent, and have a magnetic personality. Personality traits, like mischievousness, curiosity, and cleverness, make them very naughty. Monkeys are masters of practical jokes, because they like playing most of the time. Though they don't have any bad intentions, their pranks sometimes hurt the feelings of others. Monkeys are fast learners and crafty opportunists. Great unexpected fortune will find its way to Monkeys in 2016, so they will not have to worry about food and clothes. The best months for them to make their fortune will be the second and twelfth Chinese lunar months, during which they should make full use of their time to invest and cash in. They should avoid gambling, speculating, and collecting illegal or greedy gains, or they will lose everything they have, especially in the third Chinese lunar month. They should also guard against becoming poor due to greed. Monkeys should not show off their wealth, or they will be persecuted by others. [gallery columns="2" link="none" size="full" ids="2789,2790"] Incorporate the Year of the Monkey into your decorations with these red and yellow Chinese New Year Monkey Danglers Attractive red, gold and silver hanging ceiling decoration, featuring a bold card cutout hanging from a foil streamer. Cutout depicts the Chinese symbol for monkey, as well as a monkey silhouette. You can hang these up to decorate your room at the Chinese New Year, or on the birthday of those born in the year of the monkey. Decoration measures 76.2cm (30") long. Or the 6ft 6" 2016 Year of the Monkey Hanging Stringer is s great way to cover large areas.
For something a bit cheeky why not use a few of these cute inflatable monkeys to decorate your venue. They look great hanging from doorways or nestled amongst your house plants.
Chinese New Year Party TraditionsHosting a Chinese New Year party is a great way to celebrate with all of your closest family and friends. Traditional Chinese celebrations are all about symbolism and lucky traditions to ensure you have a fortuitous 2016. You can incorporate the Chinese New Year traditions into your party theme through the invitations, decorations, food, tableware and music. Here are a few Chinese New Year traditions for your event:
- Clean your home before the start of the Chinese New Year to sweep away bad luck from the current year.
- Ask guests to remove their shoes at the door to encourage a smooth transition into the New Year.
- Send red themed Chinese New Year party invitations
- Decorate your home with Chinese New Year party decorations. Hang red lanterns with gold accents.
- Place figurines of dragons in the middle of each table for the centre pieces.
- Hand out Chinese New Year party favours, such as red gift bags with Chinese lucky coins or red envelopes with money (known as Lai See).
- A lion dance performed with the loud beats of a drum is a symbolic ritual used to usher in the new year. Two or three performers usually don a special costume and mimic a lion’s movements to ward off sorrow and fight back ill-fortune. A dragon dance may also occur when a team of people carry a large dragon on poles and travel in curving patterns around the room.
- Red envelopes containing money are passed out to close family members for luck, usually from married couples or the elderly to unmarried juniors and children. Sometimes chocolate or lucky coins may also be found inside.
Chinese New Year Party Decorations
- Red and gold are both colours with significant symbolism within Chinese culture. Red typically signifies good luck and energy, while gold is associated with both wealth and happiness. Use this theme in your decorations, tableware and costumes dress in these colours or to ensure you have a successful event and year
- Red paper lanterns are used in many Chinese celebrations including during the New Year festival. The hanging lights are meant to resemble a full moon in the sky.
- Firecrackers are traditionally wrapped in red paper and then ignited so that their loud explosions will scare away any evil spirits that may be lurking.
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Combine our different lanterns for a beautiful effect and hang from ceilings, doorways and windows. This Red & Gold Tassel Lantern makes great interior decorations or can mark the way to your venue. Perfect for use with lights to create a soft glow. These pretty Oriental Paper Lantern Decorations make perfect decorations for any Chinese New Year or Oriental themed party. Great when used with our hanging lights and when combined with our other Oriental Lantern styles for decorative displays.
For a simple yet effective and low cost way to decorate your venue, these red and yellow Chinese new year balloons work well outside, over doorways or tied to chairs.
For a more dramatic party decoration, have a look at this eye-catching Chinese dragon helium balloon with bright colours and metallic scales. This balloon would look great inflated in front of a window, in the corner of a room or at a table as a centrepiece. Balloon measures 78cm x 1.02m (31" x 40").
Chinese New Year Food & DrinkCertain dishes are eaten during the Chinese New Year for their symbolic meaning. Lucky food is served during the 16-day festival season, especially New Year’s Eve, which is believed to bring good luck for the coming year. The auspicious symbolism of these foods is based on their pronunciations or appearance.
- A large meal shared family-style is the most common practice for Chinese New Year celebrations. A staple of this sumptuous feast must be noodles since their length is a sign of longevity.
- Plan the Chinese New Year party menu to include traditional foods such as dumplings, mandarin orange pancakes, and crispy orange beef. Serve oranges and tangerines as part of the dessert menu which represent wealth, luck, and happiness, into the Chinese New Year party as much as possible. Serve beverages such as Chinese beer, wine, and tea.
- Fish is another lucky food and it is customary to serve a whole fish. By including the head and the tail, the coming year is guaranteed to contain “happy beginnings and endings,” and since there will be leftovers, the dish is a symbol of prosperity. Steaming the fish with a simple black bean sauce is believed to be the best way to display its freshness.
- The head should be placed toward distinguished guests or elders, representing respect.
- Diners can enjoy the fish only after the one who faces the fish head eats first.
- The fish shouldn't be moved. The two people who face the head and tail of fish should drink together, as this is considered to have a lucky meaning.
- Mandarin oranges are also very popular during Chinese New Year. The little golden tangerines are exchanged between families because their name is a homophone for “luck” in the Teochew dialect.
Chinese New Year Tableware & Party FavoursI absolutely love this pretty Chinese New Year tableware range - with red, yellow and gold print Chinese New Year paper cups with Chinese calligraphy saying "Happy New Year", lanterns, dragons and the national flower of China, the meihua (plum blossom). [gallery size="full" link="none" ids="2797,2796,2798"] Add one of our Chinese table runners and Chinese new year centrepieces to finish off the table. It's also customary to give small gifts of Chinese lucky coins or money envelopes or alternatively use a table decorations. [gallery columns="2" link="none" size="full" ids="2800,2799"]
Chinese New Year Crafts
- Chinese New Year Fans: Make beautiful fans for a Chinese New Year kids craft. Gather supplies which include three pieces of red construction paper, decorative stamps, gold acrylic paint, a paint brush, a glue stick, two gold chenille stems, and one red chenille stem. As a first step, decorate the red paper with the gold stamps. Use the glue stick to attach the three pieces of construction paper together. Fold the red paper into accordion style. Select one end of the fan, and hold all of the pleats together at that end by wrapping around the gold and red chenille stems.
- Red Firecrackers:Make a string of firecrackers to scare aware evil spirits during the Chinese New Year. Gather the supplies, which include four cardboard tubes, red construction paper, tape, gold glitter glue, red or white yarn, and scissors. Use half a piece of red construction paper to roll around each tube and secure it with tape. Fold the ends of the construction paper inside the tube on both ends. Once dry, tape yarn inside one of the ends of each tube and string them together.
- Door Hangers:Welcome good fortune into your home this Chinese New Year craft with door hangers. Decorate red foam door hangers with gold glitter. Make traditional patterns such as oranges and tangerines for good luck. Add Chinese lettering that says “welcome” on the door hanger. Find the details of the lettering online. | <urn:uuid:c85a8a8c-1880-419d-b7f0-f89364903f8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.partypacks.co.uk/blogs/party-inspiration/chinese-new-year-party-ideas-2016-year-of-the-monkey-chinese-new-year-celebration-inspiration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92928 | 2,046 | 1.882813 | 2 |
"Vi lär oss svenska."
Translation:We are learning Swedish.
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In this particular situation, it seems a little weird to me. Because that talks about teaching oneself as Arnauti did a very good job of explaining above. I would make the teacher the subject, teach the verb, Swedish the object, and you as the indirect object (the teacher teaches me Swedish). It seems weird to the English speaking eye but sometimes you have to go with what seems weird to adapt to the rules of a foreign language.
I'm not the expert though but this is just what I would do. I hope this helps
It's a reflexive verb. If you're not teaching somebody, (like in Jag lär honom svenska, I teach him Swedish), you need to have a reflexive pronoun in there.
Jag lär mig - I learn
Du lär dig, You learn
Han/Hon/Hen lär sig, He/She learns
Vi lär oss, We learn
Ni lär er, You learn
I don't think it should be approved in this case, because:
- We study Swedish means Vi studerar svenska.
- There's a significant difference in meaning between those two. att lära sig means to learn. "I've studied Swedish for two hours now, but I haven't learned anything" ."Jag har studerat svenska i två timmar nu men jag har inte lärt mig något".
The verb "to learn" is reflexive in Swedish. But in the English sentence, there is a clear emphasis on teaching ourselves, not just learning. That emphasis isn't there in the Swedish sentence, which is why it isn't accepted to translate it thusly.
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The British government revealed this week that eight Russian oligarchs sanctioned for their links to Russian President Vladimir Putin had bought their way into the U.K. under an “investor visa” scheme.
Sometimes called a “golden visa,” the scheme offered visas to foreign nationals who promised to invest at least $2.6 million in the U.K., with the option of applying for permanent residency within five years—and in even shorter periods if an applicant promised more money. According to the Financial Times, the U.K. granted 798 investor visas between September 2020 and 2021—of which 82 were awarded to Russians. The U.K. government did not reveal which sanctioned individuals received the investor visas.
The U.K. abolished the investor visa program last month amid worsening relations with Russia in the lead-up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. However, the U.K. is not alone in offering investor visas to wealthy individuals—Russian or otherwise.
Portugal offers two-year visas to individuals who have invested in the country—sometimes accepting investments as low as $222,000, depending on where the money is going. The visa can be easily renewed every two years so long as the investment is maintained—with the option of applying for Portuguese citizenship after five years. Golden visa holders can stay in Portugal for as little as seven days a year and keep their status.
According to CNN Portugal, Russian citizens applying for golden visas had brought $308 million into the country’s economy over the past decade. But on Feb. 26—two days after Russia invaded Ukraine—Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva announced that Portugal would stop issuing investment visas to Russian nationals.
Other European countries, such as Spain, Greece, and the Czech Republic, have also barred Russian nationals from applying to their golden visa programs.
One sanctioned Russian oligarch with permission to live in Portugal, however, did not technically get his status from being rich. In 2021, Roman Abramovich—the billionaire owner of England’s Chelsea Football Club—received full Portuguese citizenship under a scheme that offered citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country 400 years ago.
On March 16, Portugal said it would amend that law to prevent it from being “manipulated.”
In 2019, the UAE launched a scheme to grant a five-year visa to anyone who invests $1.4 million in the region, and a 10-year visa to those who invest $2.7 million in Emirati funds or companies. The program was meant to help support the country’s economy—especially the global city of Dubai—after the economic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The scheme has proved popular among wealthy Indians—including some of India’s most famous Bollywood stars—hoping to take advantage of Dubai’s tax-free status. Russian oligarchs, reportedly, are also pouring money into Dubai real estate as Western sanctions bite investments elsewhere. According to the New York Times, at least 38 businessmen with ties to Vladimir Putin owned mansions valued at over $318 million in Dubai. The UAE has not imposed sanctions on Russia.
Rich foreigners looking for a green card can apply for the EB-5 visa, which secures residency status for those who invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the U.S.
In theory, there are two ways for wealthy investors to gain this status: They could either invest in a U.S. company that employs at least 10 Americans, or they can put money into a “regional center”—a project authorized by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to connect international investors with developers in need of funding. The Hudson Yards project in New York City was one such “regional center,” with $1.2 billion of its funding coming from EB-5 investors.
According to data from the U.S. State Department, 59 Russian nationals received EB-5 visas in the 2019 fiscal year, compared to over 3,800 from mainland China and over 500 from India.
Malta goes a step further than the investor visa, offering outright citizenship to those willing to invest money in the country. It’s one of a small number of countries that offers citizenships for sale, alongside Turkey, Dominica, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
Malta offers citizenship—in effect, making someone a Maltese national with the permanent right to live and work in the country—to those who invest around $1.1 million. Because Malta is a member of the EU, the country’s golden passport scheme gives an additional advantage: Buying a Maltese passport grants the owner the ability to live and work in any EU country.
According to the Times of Malta, Russians made up 54.3% of applicants to Malta’s cash-for-passports scheme when it launched in 2014.
While Malta’s laws technically require someone to reside in Malta for at least 12 months before applying for citizenship, an investigation dubbed the Passport Papers found that Maltese passport agents were advising clients that a few days of physical presence in Malta would be enough to qualify. The investigation also claimed to uncover a “scoring system” that would determine whether someone had “genuine links” to Malta, which included activities like opening a local bank account or subscribing to a Maltese newspaper.
European leaders have long criticized Malta’s investor citizenship scheme, and pressure intensified after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Feb. 26, Western leaders said that they would take efforts to “limit the sale of citizenship—so-called golden passports—that let wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems.”
On March 2, Malta suspended its golden passport scheme for Russian and Belarussian nationals.
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Do you feel your dog is pulling you around the house? Are your neighbors constantly insisting that you take the dog out? Do you have a dog that is biting everybody and digging holes in your yard? Are they simply not obeying? If your dog isn’t in the right direction then it might be an appropriate time to locate an animal trainer or dog obedience school.
Begin a Dog Obedience Training Program: Find out how to establish the foundations for dog training before you start training your dog correctly. Teach Your Dog Using Tricks: Train your dog by using tricks. These do not have to be difficult ones like tug-of-war, but fun tricks that get your dog’s attention and engage their senses. This will get them excited about learning.
Train Your Dog to Learn Obedience Everytime It is the most important aspect in dog-training. It’s not required to do it every day, but you should do it every time. This will allow you to teach them a simple command every time. You can teach your dog the command “sit” every time you see him wagging his tail after you pass the bowl for your dog.
Teach Your Dogs the concept of “Halt Down”: A dog-training trick that is useful in any circumstance is to teach your dog to “stand down.” If the dog isn’t performing the behavior you want then simply use the word “down.” Dogs will learn that if he is going to stay down, he should put aside whatever he’s doing and simply stand down. Once they are able to master this technique they will be able to master additional commands, too. When you are training puppies to walk, make use of this trick every time you bring puppies inside. If you’re out working in the yard, teach your children to stay on the lawn prior to when they walk across a busy street.
Train them to do tricks There are many tricks you can train your dog to master. Learn to teach them how to shake hands with passing strangers. Train them to sit, heel and stand. Teach them to play certain games such as tug-of-war and hide and seek.
Learn with different techniques every day: Because dogs have different personalities depending on their breed, don’t try the task of teaching all at once. Instead, introduce them one at a given time so that they can learn how to behave accordingly. The goal of training dogs to be obedience trained is for the dogs to behave well within the confines of a certain setting. Here is where the dog training tips can help.
Teach Your Dog how to “Give a Treat” When You Do Something Right If your dog is doing well, give them a treat and lots of praise. However, don’t just give them the treat when they make a mistake. Instead, correct them by giving an affirmative no or raise whenever they accomplish something nice.
If you’re trying to figure out what you can do to teach your dog to offer a treat, the best method to teach it is with praise and gentle correction. Praise him for every single good deed or action such as sitting, walking, jumping, etc. Once they understand the command, you can simply use the command whenever you wish to. For instance, if would like to correct your dog for jumping, you would simply use the command “give a treat”. It is important that you discipline your dog repeatedly and gently.
Take advantage of a gradual increase in your earnings Once your puppy understands the command then you can begin increasing your reward. When you reward your dog with the treats, offer them more than a treat. As time passes your dog will be able to be satisfied with the simple reward of an occasional treat. After a couple of weeks of doing this consistently then you’ll be able giving your dog more money than you think he’s used to.
Correct a Command Using an obedient punishment If your puppy isn’t able to comply with the instruction, you should try correcting him by using gentle punishments like a loud snap, a loud noiseor other kind of punishment that’s not harmful to the puppy. However, you should only use a gentle punish in cases where your puppy’s behavior isn’t a serious matter. Also, you should praise him for each correct behavior, and inform him that he’s doing something right.
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Where are you from? This you will find in the 19th chapter of the Book of John. And the rabbi said to Pilate: We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, for he claims he is the Son of God. And their law would not allow that, for we know where this man is from, know all about him; and when Messiah appears no one will know where he is from. So his claim is false. When Messiah appears it will be mysteriously done. And yet we know exactly where this man is from. Even his own brothers do not believe in him. And he said to his brothers, My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. And then he repeated it, but qualified it: My time has not yet fully come. He knew his time. He is speaking of two entirely different times, two entirely different worlds, two different ages. So: My time has not yet fully come, but your time is always here. But my time had not yet fully come.
So Pilate said to him: Where are you from? And Jesus gave no answer. Pilate said to him: You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have the power to set you free and power to crucify? And Jesus answered him: You would have no power over me unless it had been given to you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin. He does not answer Pilate’s first question, but he corrects Pilate’s misunderstanding of power. He does not answer: Where are you from? He doesn’t answer him because Pilate would never understand; and he corrects Pilate’s misunderstanding . . which is the world’s misunderstanding . . of power. Pilate thought he had the power to set him free or to crucify him. He was simply telling him he had no power whatsoever unless it has been given from above.
For, one day you will have this experience, and you will taste of the power of the new age. You will see a scene just like this. As you taste of the power of this new age, you will know it is all animated, and you are the power animating it. You will arrest within yourself an activity that you sense, and at that moment of arrestment everything stands still and is dead; it’s made as though it were made of clay. Not just the outer aspect, but your brain, that is so fluid and so alive and so pulsing . . that, too, if you opened up the skull would be like clay. The heart that pumps . . that too would be like clay. The whole thing including all the inner works would be frozen. Then you would release within yourself the activity which you have arrested and everything once more would become animated and would continue in its course and would perform its intention. Then you will know what he means by this time, which is forever . . as against His time, when he said to him: Brothers, my time has not yet fully come, but your time is always here.
Now, man’s conventional view of time . . including our great scientists . . is that the future develops continuously out of the past; but that is not the Biblical view of time. The Biblical view of time is: what appears to be so new in our world is only the appearance of the return of phenomena already old. The whole vast world is moving on a circle, and all of this is already so, so that the entire space-time history of the world is laid out and we only become aware of increasing portions of it sequentially. But it is on a curve, and therefore what seemingly is past isn’t really; from the Biblical view, it is your tomorrow. It hasn’t receded into a past; it’s advancing into a future and it is forever.
Now listen to these words: What had been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, See, this is new? It has been already, in the ages past. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who will come after. (Eccl. 1:9-11).
Well, who would accept that! The conventional view completely denies it, it couldn’t possibly be. He is telling me that I have a memory of my youth. I can’t quite remember the moment of my physical birth. I vividly remember the moment of my spiritual birth. But he is telling me it has been . . that I do know. And everyone here . . without memory of that physical birth . . they can’t deny by observation of other people being born, that they, too, must have been born in a similar manner; so they say it has been. Now he tells me: that which has been done (which is my birth) is that which will be done. That I am moving towards that same thing on a wheel of recurrence, that same thing in this world of Caesar, and only divine mercy can redeem me from the wheel. That: What seems to be, Is, To those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to Whom it seems to Be, even of torments, despair, and Eternal Death; but then Divine Mercy steps beyond and Redeems Man in the body of Jesus. (Jerusalem, 36 William Blake) So here the wheel returns.
Now, let me share with you a story told me last Tuesday night . . the lady is present. She gave me a letter just before I started. I had no time to read it before my meeting, and had no time until just before I retired that night . . so about midnight I read the letter. It was dated Nov. 23rd, which as you know was a week ago last Saturday, the day after the great event in this world that took place on the 22nd. She states in the letter: This is my experience of ten days prior to the 22nd of November (that is the 12th of November). I go from my office home and back always in a certain manner, a certain road. It is my habit when I get into a certain intersection that I turn and read the headlines at a newsstand. Quite often a red light is with me, and so I have a moment to turn and read the headlines.
This night on my way home it was dusk, the sun was setting. I am moving west into the setting sun, and a few cars moving. I turned to read the headlines of the day. As I turned, I saw four papers on the rack . . three the usual black and white, and one was a green sheet and this enormous black type as a head mat read: KENNEDY SHOT. This is the 12th day of November. I almost put my foot on the brake to turn, but I was in the intersection. Then reason prevailed. I said, No it’s the headlight, it’s the dusk, it’s the sun that is setting; and surely above all things in my office where I work, the radio goes all day long, and such horrendous news would be on the radio. So that capped it, reason prevailed, and I knew I had not seen correctly; but I saw on this green paper: Kennedy Shot. Well, I kept going across the intersection. How long does it take . . 2 or 3 seconds? And so at the end of the three seconds I crossed the intersection and kept moving. It wasn’t one block before I completely forgot the incident.
In my office ten days later, on Friday the 22nd, I came to the office late. Two radios were blasting, a TV is going, and nothing but this news on the air. Some are crying, many are talking, others are cursing, and I wanted some quietness to do work. I am at the typewriter. 3:30 in the afternoon I am still trying to remember a dream, a dream that is related to what I am hearing. I couldn’t call back the dream. I know that something I dreamt is related to what I am hearing on the radio. What is coming across TV too, but I couldn’t bring back the dream. A coworker leaves the office. He is gone not more than a few minutes, when he returns bringing in a folded paper. He comes in my direction and he calls me by my name. He comes over to my desk and he slaps it down on the table and said to me: Isn’t it amazing how fast these papers can move? and he intended that I should have the paper. I took the paper and opened it and here is a green sheet, the outer covering is green; and only two words as the mat head: KENNEDY SHOT. Then suddenly what had happened to me ten days before springs into my mind, and here I am seeing the entire scene as I drove home going west and watched this headline on this newsstand.
I took that letter, because it meant a tremendous thing to me. I read it over and to my wife. She and I reacted as I would expect her to react . . I knew how I would react. But last weekend a friend of mine who sponsors my meetings in San Francisco came home, and so I invited four mutual friends that knew her well, to dinner. There were the seven of us. I took the letter and read it and gave it to each to read and see the letter and hold it in their own hands. There was only the moment of surprise of a strange coincidence . . no more. Within a matter of seconds . . just as the lady said in three seconds she had completely forgotten the incident and tried to bring it back to memory like a dream; for the event is now turning something in the depths of her soul, that she experienced it. But she couldn’t bring it back until the fact was presented when the paper was put before her in a physical manner, and then she saw it. Through the evening they discussed all kinds of things relevant to the great drama; but they thought that the FBI, the Secret Service, the local police . . all these people should have done what they did not do. And here it is, stated so clearly in the first chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes.
So in her letter she said to me, at the very end: When the man looked at me, having given me the paper and I saw it, black type on green, I must have turned green myself, because he said to me: What’s the matter? and I couldn’t answer him; because how could I tell him that creation is finished? How could I tell him that this is a drama, and it is finished? That because it is animated, blood flows instead of tomato juice (as it does on the stage). But having had the experience of arresting in me an activity which animated the scene I saw, I know that it is no more than that on the stage.
But it is for a divine purpose, and the purpose is that God is individualizing himself. He individualizes himself through this play; and when he comes out individualized, that’s Jesus Christ, the only name that the individualized God bears. So in each, as he comes out individualized, he is incorporated into the one body; for the Lord on that day, the Lord will be one and his name one and the Lord will reign as King over all the earth.
Then, said she at the end of her letter: Could my reason . . that is, my refusal to recognize as true what I actually saw . . be the lines spoken in the 30th chapter of Isaiah? Then she quotes the 9th . . 11th verses: For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the Lord: who say to the seers, See not and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel.
Yes, I can answer her. They are these lying sons . . your reason. They took everything that night . . the setting sun, the dusk, the absence of the news from the radio, everything, the headlight . . to persuade you that you had not seen what you actually saw. And it went so deep into your being that even when the news began to blare at the office, you thought it was related to a dream. This was a waking dream, just like another dream, and you tried to bring back memory . . and you couldn’t recall what you actually had experienced.
But it also struck me in a very forceful manner, because in the same 30th chapter of Isaiah I took the verse I wanted for the title page of my latest book, The Law and the Promise. I took the 8th verse, and she took the 9th 10th, and 11th: And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. And so I took that verse for my title page, that I would inscribe it in the book, whether one believed it or not. For I know it is more true than anything being discussed this day concerning what happened in Dallas, for they think it should not have happened. They don’t know this time against that time.
So he said to his brothers, who did not believe in him: My time has not yet fully come, but your time is always here. These garments are part of the eternal structure of the universe; and this thing here (the body) I will one day vacate it, but it remains as part of the eternal structure of the universe . . like Hamlet remaining after Lawrence Olivier makes his exit from this world. And so he remains, as part of the eternal structure of the play called Hamlet. Tomorrow another one . . unborn today . . will put on the costume of a Hamlet and play Hamlet as conceived by God, because I will have vacated it for the last time. But the time here is to be worn forever and forever until he completely individualizes himself. And more than the sands of the sea we are told. He is the great Abraham of scripture, the father of the multitudes, individualizing himself. There is a series of events by which he breaks this invidious bar, and then causes the individual whose shell he breaks to separate and escape from this strange, wonderful wheel of recurrence. At that moment in time, this series of events begins to appear within you . . that’s his secret.
But everything is here and that bullet in the brain of Kennedy is part of the eternal structure of God’s world, and God conceived it. And so is the one who pulled it [the trigger] . . God conceived it. And that’s a part to be played . . and played over and over and over. And man can’t quite see the garment, because it doesn’t make sense, because he thinks it’s here. It isn’t here. This is forever, as the play. But he is speaking of the other time: my time has not yet fully come. My time belongs to a world where I am then really free . . where I am in a world where everything is subject to my imaginative power . . but everything! And I too, will be part of that world, animating this, seeing it differently, so that the bullet and the one who pulled it [the trigger], and those who weep will not really disturb me from that level.
So Blake made the statement: Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, and Future, see; whose ears have heard the Holy Word that walks among the ancient trees. He is telling you the experience of that 3rd chapter of Genesis: And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And then in the 4th chapter of Daniel . . and this Holy One who walked in that garden gave the command: Hew down the tree. We were the tree in that holy garden, but innocent trees. And we had to fall into experience to awaken into the world of imagination, where everything is subject to our imaginative power, awakened as God. So here: Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. But leave the stump of its roots, let him be wet with the dew of heaven. (Dan. 4:14-15) Take from him now, (it’s a tree and suddenly becomes a person). Let his mind be changed from a man’s and let a beast’s mind be given to him; and let seven times pass over him to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men.
So here the tree is felled. And again with Blake: The Gods of the earth and sea sought thro’ Nature to find this Tree; But their search was all in vain; There grows one in the Human Brain. (from The Human Abstract.) So it is turned down into generation, and suddenly it becomes an animal. This (the body) is an animal. This is an animal form. Everything we call human . . that’s animal . . is related to the animal world. It has the animal heart, the animal mind. And seven times pass over him. What is a time in the language of scripture? Blake implies approximately 900 years. So seven times must pass over him. Blake leaves off the little additional 300 years and speaks of a solid number, 6,000 years. He says: I behold the Vision of my deadly Sleep of Six Thousand Years dazzling around thy skirts like a Serpent of precious stones and gold. I know it is my Self, O my Divine Creator and Redeemer. (Jer. 96 [sic])
So here he saw the whole thing clearly. The Holy One he heard . . the Holy One walking in the cool of the day . . in this world called the Garden of Eden. And he tells us by implication that he actually heard the command: Hew down the tree. So said he in this very opening to what he started as a series . . but only gave us one. He calls it, The First Book of Urizen, but he deleted the word First afterwards because he only wrote the one. But in this one he addresses the Holy One, the immortal, and he calls them Eternals. Eternals! I hear you call gladly. Dictate swift winged words and fear not to unfold your dark visions of torment.” This I am quite willing when I see the result of passing through this horror . . I am quite willing that I seek in my mind’s eye the vision, which is your vision for me, when you complete your dream and you individualize yourself.
So Los beheld the vision, and he was faithful to the vision in time of trouble. So when you go through it [trouble], know it has happened and happened and happened, but you have no memory. In some strange way, this lady in ten days, within one block . . it so passed from memory that even when the radios began to blare and the TV, and even the weeping and cursing and talking, she is prodding herself to remember a dream. And only when the facts of a paper were placed before her and she saw the green page with the headline: KENNEDY SHOT did the whole thing run into her mind like some photographic plate. And she remembered the intersection where she saw these four papers on a rack, three the normal black and white, and the fourth one the green with this headline; then the struggle with herself as she crossed the intersection which only took two or three seconds. Then all of sudden it rushed into the mind.
And our theologians for centuries have been trying to delete from our Bible the Book of Ecclesiastes, because it doesn’t make sense. Because the normal view of time is that the future develops continuously of the past: I was born as a babe and so I will grow as any person in this world, grow to manhood, and then . . having waxed . . I will then wane and vanish. That is the normal progression of this linear motion of time, but that is not the Biblical view of time at all. It is something entirely different, and he separates the two times. He speaks of your time that is always here, and my time when I chose the words I wanted for the title page of my book: Inscribe it in a book that it may be for the time to come For that is what it is. I am not speaking of this.
The Law . . yes. I still say, within the framework of God’s grand dream there is another dream . . my dream, your dream. And these that have unnumbered experiences . . we aren’t going to change His dream for us, but we can modify and change within the framework of His dream the things that we will encounter. And if I use the Law wisely I will avoid repetition tomorrow when the wheel turns again. I won’t break the foot the next time; I won’t have the distorted arm the next time; I won’t have anything the next time if now I revise it. So I say: if there is one thing I have been brought into this world to tell you, it is the secret of revision: that if something today is unpleasant, you don’t like it, don’t let it slip by.
The Bible speaks of redeeming the time. Every moment, if it is unpleasant, it should be redeemed, because you are going to meet it tomorrow as the wheel turns. So don’t let the night descend and catch you with the unredeemed day. Take the day and redeem it. You may produce the results now, in the immediate present. But if you don’t redeem it, when the wheel turns because you haven’t yet hatched out (or as Blake says, For hatching ripe he breaks the shell,) . . but if the shell isn’t yet broken by the series of events which detaches you from this wheel of recurrence, then revise the day. So that next time when the wheel comes around you aren’t going to relive the unpleasant thing of this moment in time.
But I tell you: your time is always here, my time has not yet fully come. It takes one more link to break it, for it is all only hanging by a link. To be part of the world, where . . having once tasted of the power of the age to come, then to return to the world where you are part of this age and be animated . . as he confessed: You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above. Here is one who is confessing he is only at the very brink of leaving it. But while he is in the world of Caesar . . having tasted of the world to come and the power that belongs to that world . . while in the world of Caesar, wearing an animal garment, then no one has the power over him unless it was given him from above. So the one who gave it to you, he has the greater sin. If now he sends you to the gallows because he sends you to perform an act that is condemned by society, you have the greater sin, for it is part of the great play.
And this dual time is so difficult for man to grasp. But I am only quoting scripture. He speaks so often of time, and he separates these two times: this time which belongs here forever, and that time; this world and that world. So he speaks of two ages: this age where there is rebirth, but he doesn’t mean reincarnation, for that which had been done is that which will be done. Were you once born of your present mother? You will be. It is happening all over again, at the moment in time when the wheel turns, and we will get the same surprise that is conceived of reincarnation, being born in the same manner of the same mother. Because they can’t see these garments and they think these are themselves, and these are garments that God wears.
And so, the whole vast world will say: O yes, I believe in reincarnation. It justifies the inequalities of life. Nothing justifies the inequalities of life . . as you are told of the blind man in John 9:2, 3: And his disciples ask him: Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. All these are the experiences through which God goes: the blind, the lame, the withered, the halt . . everything. It is not any justification, because the God of whom I am speaking is not a God of retribution. In spite of the horror of the play, he is a God of Love; because in the end, he individualizes himself, and you are he. If it took 6,000 years of horror, the end results justify the means he conceived as a play to bring it out.
I ask you: don’t forget the lady’s letter. Don’t do what my friends of last Saturday night did. So when they departed and I started washing dishes in the wee hours of the morning, I said to my wife: What a strange reaction. Now, that lady sponsors me, she has sponsored me for the last seven years, and prior to that she came to my meetings when she was not my sponsor. She sells all of my books, and all of my other friends have known me here on the West Coast for the last fifteen years. And so it was like reading a nice little mystery and then throwing it into the ashcan . . that’s it . . and then we go back to discuss the facts of life. Why were not the FBI on the job, and not these people on the job? And they just got through reading, that ten days before he was actually shot by the human standard, he was already dead.
But time with a larger focus, you see a larger focus, you take a larger section of time. And she, in some wonderful way, the green light is with her, she hadn’t time to really focus, so she is moving forward with the green light, and in the intersection, she is almost on it, but habit possessed her and she turned to see . . she is in the right-hand lane . . and here on a green paper the headline, Kennedy SHOT. But then it fades. But are we not told in Eccl. 1:9: There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after. And so she is trying, when it does happen, that we on this level will appreciate it. She is trying to remember what she called a forgotten dream. She thinks it’s a dream and she is wondering: When did I dream this? but she can’t bring back to memory, can’t recall it . . until the paper is brought and the voice said: Isn’t it amazing how fast these papers can move? Even then she didn’t . . and she opened up and saw the same headline on the green page. Then the whole thing rushed into the brain. Being a student of the Bible, she searched the Bible for something that caused her to lie to herself, and she found the 3 verses of the 30th chapter of Isaiah: Lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the Lord They will not listen to him. And they say: O seers,” those who see like a Blake, tell us not. Do not look. Don’t tell us any more. Tell us smooth things, pleasing things. And so that’s the world.
But I am not sent to tell you the smooth things or the pleasing things. But I can tell you . . through the one thing I have brought to tell you, which is revision . . it isn’t hopeless. You can, if the day is unpleasant, revise it. And if tomorrow the results are not before you, and the next week and the next month, they are not before you, I know that by your revision you will change the events, when once again you must come to that moment in time. And so you will change the pattern, for the wheel is turning and you can’t stop it.
I saw it. For one moment in time I was part of it, and I stopped it within me, and they all stopped. Not one could move, not even the bird in flight. The birds couldn’t fall. There was no gravity . . gravity was in me. And I thought (as I was taught in my little school) that Sir Isaac Newton discovered it; and I almost thought he made it, because the whole thing was Sir Isaac Newton. I heard it, and so no one was as great in my mind as the great Sir Isaac Newton. As a child I really believed that he determined how things should fall and how they should go on. Then one day I came into a taste of the power into which tomorrow I would inherit . . for I will inherit the kingdom of God, with all the power that goes with it.
But I tasted of that power before the last link was broken. And so the birds couldn’t fly, the leaves couldn’t fall, and the grass that was moving in the wind couldn’t move; and people walking couldn’t walk, and the diners dining couldn’t dine, and everything was frozen. I looked at them. I was moving; I was not frozen. I froze in me an activity which froze them. I went over and looked at them, and these were dead things, part of the eternal structure of the universe. Forever these are garments to be worn by God. And then I released it and they all moved. The birds continued in flight, and the leaves began to fall, and the grass began to wave, and the diners dined, and the waitress walked, and everything continued to fulfill its purpose. Then I knew of a different time, a different age, of a different use of power . . and that here we are only an animated world.
So, to repeat: You have no power over me, unless it has been given to you from above. The word is “anothin,” the same word used in the 3rd chapter of John. When he said, Except you be born from above (anothin) you cannot inherit the kingdom of God. You are still part of the wheel of recurrence, still part of this time . . which is forever. But God in his infinite mercy, having put seven times over you, will move beyond, and redeem you in the body of Jesus. Because there is only one body, you are redeemed in the body of Jesus. Jesus, believe it or not, is God. People won’t believe it. They smile at you and they laugh. But Jesus Christ is the only God, but so are you when you enter his body and become incorporated into it. Because there is only one name, only one Lord, and that one name is Jesus Christ. And all will be redeemed in the body of Jesus and all will have the same power, the same being; everyone will be Jesus.
Now it doesn’t make sense. But what I told you earlier doesn’t make sense. The lady is here and I must tell her that one of my friends who read the letter knows her quite well, and she said: You know, having seen the name of the one who signed it, I believe every word of it. Were it not that she wrote it, I would question it. So the questioning mind already was there, but she read the one who sent it and . . trusting her implicitly . . she said, I believe every word of this letter. But still, only three or four seconds, right away she is discussing the possibilities of changing God’s play and changing it radically so that he would still be here as our President. And they can’t see these wheels within wheels within wheels that Ezekiel spoke of.
So I tell you: it is not reincarnation, as the world teaches to justify the inequalities of life; you can’t justify them. For man didn’t sin. He didn’t gouge his eyes out, he was born blind. And his parents didn’t sin? And this only so that the works of God may be made manifest? What a horrible God! And that is the word of God speaking? He didn’t sin and his parents didn’t sin? It is only that the works of God be made manifest. Therefore, revision . . which in scripture is called repentance (but the word is tarnished) It was taught . . the very first word used in the earliest Gospel, which is Mark . . that first word spoken by the embodiment of God is repentance. The time is fulfilled he speaks of time, the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel. (Mk.1:15)
Well, repentance really is the ancient word for the word I use today of revision. For repentance is a radical change of attitude toward life. And if in the revolution of this world there is really a revolution, it’s not what took place in Cuba or in Russia or this country . . or in any part of the world. The real revolution is when man discovers that by a radical change of his own mental attitude towards life he can change the outer aspects of life. When man makes that discovery, there is a real revolution in the world. A man discovers that by his own change of mental attitude he changes the outer aspects of his life! For I can’t conceive of any greater revolution in the world . . and that is repentance.
But the churches have put barnacles on it, and they teach us to be remorseful, to be regretful; and to this very day you turn on the radio or the TV, they are still talking of the event that should not have happened. They all sit in judgment of God. And here is the whole grand wonderful play unfolding. When one really sees it in the end, and when one completely awakes, he, too, will be able to say to all of the characters who played the part: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. How could you tonight . . if you really believed the vision that was written to me ten days ago . . how could you today condemn anyone who had a part, whether his part was to play a part in not properly arranging protection, or the one who has gone berserk and bought his gun, and then hate, as he did, if he did it; and then the one who came and did all these things to hush the very voice that might be able to throw light on it? All these things in the wonderful drama. And then this fantastic pageantry that we had in our country, where the whole vast world . . with the aid now, of this Telstar . . saw it all at the same time. Russia saw it, all of Europe. If there are TV sets in China, they could see it too, because by this new beam the whole vast world could see it. And what drama! A tremendous pageantry that she actually saw ten days before this level could receive it.
So where are you from? I came out from the Father, said he. And I have come into the world. Again I AM leaving the world and I AM going to the Father. (John 16:28) In four short phrases he states his prenatal existence, his incarnation, his breaking of the wheel . . he’s going to die leaving this wheel . . and return to the Father. But he said to the others: Where I go you cannot now come, but you will. Where I now go you cannot now come . . not now. He tells you he is breaking the wheel, and therefore he departs for the last time; but he did incarnate and took human form.
He tells us by the words, the little phrase: I came from the Father . . that is a confession of a prenatal existence. I came into the world from the Father. But when you see me you see him who sent me. And who sent you? The Father. When you see me you see him who sent me. Well, how could that be? But if God is individualizing himself and God is Father, when he is individualized that individualized presence must all be Father. That is why he is saying these are the ways to the Father. You will never know that you are father unless God’s only begotten son appears and calls you Father . . no uncertainty when you look into his eyes and he into your eyes and he calls you Father. And so God is Father. When he begets you as himself, you can’t be less than God; and, therefore, he is father of the same child, not another child.
And so this is the way by which this invidious bar is broken . . this envious bar. For, someone who has wealth, they may envy someone who has more; one who is poor envies the one who has some; one who is known is not envious of the unknown, but they are envious of the known. All this strange, peculiar enmity in the world is part of God’s play, these unequal discriminations in the world. And the world thinks it is going to change it in some strange way. You will change it only in one way; if you know the art of revision. But you will change it only to the extent when you reach that point in time . . which is forever . . you do not encounter (again) what to you was unpleasant. When you encounter that moment in time, it’s the completed circle.
Now let us go into the Silence.
Question and Answer:
About two months ago (a psychic) saw it, tried to get in touch with the President to persuade him not to go. But, first of all, no one could persuade the President not to go. He would not have listened for one second. Today he is now woven closely in the tapestry of martyrs because he died in office a violent death. Already they are building up the idea of a Lincoln concept. And so given the choice of living another few years with a painful back or going this way without pain . . he didn’t know it. And then to go down in history believing undoubtedly as he does in the linear concept of time, he would have chosen exactly what happened to him.
But may I tell you: that was only the part . . God played the part. God through this is individualizing himself. Don’t get off now to a man who is called John Fitzgerald Kennedy or one who called himself Oswald. It is the all-together preciousness of the whole vast fragmented state that produces the individualized God. This body is going to be worn as it has been worn by many people . . many actors . . the actors all are God. It’s a great mystery. When I leave the stage, it is dusted off and hung up for the next occupant; and the next occupant and the next occupant will always be God.
You could not have changed his (JFKs) values. First of all he prided himself on being a very intelligent gentlemen and he was very learned. He would have looked upon Dixon’s suggestion as superstition. It would have annoyed him to think that anyone could have persuaded him to cancel a political visit, thinking in terms of next year, by some superstitious concept. He would have thought the Republicans have pulled that on me. He would have found it in the one who wrote the letter . . a nice Republican . . because if she succeeds in persuading me to go, then I have missed an opportunity to challenge the state of Texas. He would have justified it, just as the lady justified it with the oncoming lights and the setting sun and the absence of the news on the radio.
Reason steps in; and reason is the lying son who refused to hear the instruction of the Lord, who said to the seers see not . . she was a seer, she saw it . . and said to the prophets prophesy not to us what is right, speak to us smooth things. Speak to us and tell us of the prophesies of illusion. So he doesn’t want to hear unlovely things. Everyone in high office surrounds himself, invariably, with yes-men. So there are no seers who surround many prominent persons. If you said anything that displeased Hitler, you got your head removed. If you told the truth that they would lose the war and that millions would have suffered as a result of his attempt to conquer the world and that he himself would have an ignorable end, he’d have you removed because he didn’t want anyone to speak to him of anything other than smooth things. It is said of Stalin.
But they fulfill scripture, scripture is the eternal drama and man is trying to rewrite it. He’s always trying to rewrite it. Then say: He didn’t really mean this. And you say; Who didn’t mean it? Well, the one who wrote it. Don’t you believe God wrote it? Don’t you believe God dictated it to the prophets . . men organized by divine providence for that communion? They will seriously confess that maybe. Well, if God dictated it, doesn’t it contain his word? Aren’t you one who mustn’t tamper with the word of God? Well, they all tamper with it.
I read from a new Bible today, and they tried their best to give meaning to that which I quoted tonight and it is so far removed. It is the Modern English Bible; only the New Testament is out so far. And what they did to that wonderful 19th [chapter] of John in trying to give meaning, because (they think) he can’t possibly mean what the Word says, what he says . . but he said exactly that.
To the first question he does not answer . . Where are you from? and Jesus gave no answer. He would not. The priest: Do you not know I have the power to set you free and the power to crucify you? You would have no power over me had it not been given to you from above. Well, that’s stupid to Pilate, who represents Caesar. Caesar is the power of the world in today’s business . . and he represents Caesar. You dare to say to me . . you whose background, whose origin is well known to the world He had a large family. Four brothers are named and sisters and he comes from a simple little family. And you dare to say to me . . Caesar’s right arm . . that I have no power over you except that it be given me from above? Is there something above Caesar? And he says from above meaning “anothin” . . from God. Therefore, he (meaning God) therefore God determined who delivered me into your hands. He has the greater sin . . if it’s sin. | <urn:uuid:766e7be2-27e4-436f-9231-b0aab6fddb92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thevibeproject.org/2020/01/20/where-are-you-from/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979335 | 9,182 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Regional Railways facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
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|Main region(s):||East Anglia, North West, North East, Wales|
|Other region(s):||East Midlands, West Midlands, Scotland, Merseyside|
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|Parent company:||British Rail|
Regional Railways was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail. It was created in 1982. It finished operation in 1996, two years after privatisation. The sector was originally called Provincial.
The split-up for privatisation
Before privatisation, the Regional Railways sector was split into several different franchises ready for privatisation.
- Anglia Railways, later National Express East Anglia
- Central Trains and Central Citylink, later London Midland, East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry
- Merseyrail Electrics, later Merseyrail
- North West Regional Railways, later North Western Trains, later First North Western
Now part of Northern Rail
- Regional Railways Northeast, later Northern Spirit, later Arriva Trains Northern
Split into Northern Rail and **TransPennine Express
- ScotRail, later First ScotRail
- Wales and West
Later split into
Images for kids
153311 at Lincoln Central on 17 November 2007. After over a decade, 153311 has finally been re-liveried into East Midlands Trains colours.
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Collaboration is increasingly seen as necessary for making progress on the challenges at the forefront of the sustainability agenda.
This report explores the dynamics driving the evolution of company collaboration in and across sectors and highlights some of the innovative models that have developed.
Several factors are driving the evolution of collaborations:
- Stakeholders expect more ambition and transparency from companies - even on topics the companies do not directly control.
- Increasing urgency on sustainability topics is acting as an accelerant.
- Uptake of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is enabling cross-sector and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
As a result, corporate engagement in multi-stakeholder initiatives is shifting:
- Companies are being more proactive and strategic with time and resource investments.
- The private sector is overcoming competitive barriers to solve more systemic problems.
- Models are diversifying to shape and support more successful collaborations.
The report looks at how to be an effective collaborator and develop a high-level strategy. It also includes a framework and best practice guideline for managing collaborations through four major lifecycle milestones - Evaluate, Structure, Manage and Conclude.
Our report identifies several trends that will shape collaboration over the next 3–5 years:
- Diversity, inclusion, and equity topics will be the focus of new collaborations.
- Collaborations will increasingly address intersectional challenges.
- Broadening coalitions will drive innovations in collaborations.
- Despite technological advances, future collaborations will still lean heavily on interpersonal connections.
The environmental and social challenges we face need more innovative, sophisticated, and collaborative approaches and solutions. There’s much to be optimistic about. The private sector is becoming more active in developing collaborations and companies are finding new ways to drive change through innovative models and funding structures.
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Plastic surgery exists to help people feel better about themselves by changing the particular features that they don’t like. However, what is botched surgery? Is it possible for plastic surgery to be unsuccessful? Read more to find out about plastic surgery failure.
What is botched surgery?
The word “botch” can be defined as something that was miscalculated or done in error. When it comes to plastic surgery, botched surgery is a failed cosmetic or reconstructive surgery that produces unwanted results. There was something that went wrong with the surgery, and the patient is not happy with the outcome of the operation. There is no one specific type of surgery that is more prone to being botched. It can happen for any of the standard plastic surgery procedures. This also includes tummy tucks, rhinoplasties, and breast augmentation surgeries.
Types of botched surgeries
Many mistakes during plastic surgery can cause the whole operation to be botched.
Leakage. There can be leakage to the surrounding area or in the area of incision itself. This can cause dissatisfaction to the client because it can affect how the final product would look.
Incorrect procedure. Of course, if the procedure is performed incorrectly, there will be a difference between expectation and reality. Sometimes, there is also a discrepancy between what is advertised from the reality of the procedure. It might be advertised as just minimally invasive, but in reality, it is a much more invasive procedure.
Injuries. If an error is made during the procedure, there are increased risks of injuries and unwanted effects.
Anesthetic error. There is also the risk of damage if a mistake was made in the administration of the anesthetic for the procedure.
Surgical error. The procedure may have been done correctly, but then surgical errors refer to when a piece of gauze was left inside the patient by mistake. This can cause infection and harm to the patient if a foreign object would be left inside the wound.
Wrong medications. If the wrong medications for post-operative care are prescribed, even if the surgery was performed correctly, there will still be unwanted and harmful effects.
Nerve damage. Nerve damage can happen if there is a mistake in any one part of the surgery.
Aftercare. There can also be adverse effects if the wrong kind of aftercare is done following the surgery.
Actions that can be taken
It is possible for you to resort to legal action. You can sue if you feel unsatisfied with the plastic surgery you received. If you are a victim of a botched surgery, you can hire a personal injury lawyer for your medical malpractice claim. They will be the ones to guide you on the steps you need to take to get justice for the negligence of the doctor. Even if plastic surgery is said to be a non-elective type of procedure, if you have been injured because of the surgery, you can go after the doctor who performed it. | <urn:uuid:a0d40a93-5dde-4744-a643-4d2e23c4f238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knoxcohospital.com/botched-surgery-there-is-always-the-possibility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966222 | 603 | 2.125 | 2 |
Chapter 12 Rings, Moons, and Pluto
Collaborative Group Activities
- Imagine it’s the distant future and humans can now travel easily among the planets. Your group is a travel agency, with the task of designing a really challenging tour of the Galilean moons for a group of sports enthusiasts. What kinds of activities are possible on each world? How would rock climbing on Ganymede, for example, differ from rock climbing on Earth? (If you design an activity for Io, you had better bring along very strong radiation shielding. Why?)
- In the same spirit as Activity 1, have your agency design a tour that includes the seven most spectacular sights of any kind on all the moons or rings covered in this chapter. What are the not-to-be-missed destinations that future tourists will want to visit and why? Which of the sights you pick are going to be spectacular if you are on the moon’s surface or inside the ring, and which would look interesting only from far away in space?
- In this chapter we could cover only a few of the dozens of moons in the outer solar system. Using the Internet or your college library, organize your group into a research team and find out more about one of the moons we did not cover in detail. Our favorites include Uranus’ Miranda, with its jigsaw puzzle surface; Saturn’s Mimas, with a “knockout” crater called Herschel; and Saturn’s Iapetus, whose two hemispheres differ significantly. Prepare a report to attract tourists to the world you selected.
- In a novel entitled 2010, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, inspired by the information coming back from the Voyager spacecraft, had fun proposing a life form under the ice of Europa that was evolving toward intelligence. Suppose future missions do indeed find some sort of life (not necessarily intelligent but definitely alive) under the ice of Europa—life that evolved completely independently from life on Earth. Have your group discuss what effect such a discovery would have on humanity’s view of itself. What should be our attitude toward such a life form? Do we have an obligation to guard it against contamination by our microbes and viruses? Or, to take an extreme position, should we wipe it out before it becomes competitive with Earth life or contaminates our explorers with microorganisms we are not prepared to deal with? Who should be in charge of making such decisions?
- In the same spirit as Activity 4, your group may want to watch the 2013 science fiction film Europa Report. The producers tried to include good science in depicting what it would be like for astronauts to visit that jovian moon. How well does your group think they did?
- A number of modern science fiction writers (especially those with training in science) have written short stories that take place on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. There is a topical listing of science fiction stories with good astronomy at http://www.astrosociety.org/scifi. Members of your group can look under “Jupiter” or “Saturn” and find a story that interests you and then report on it to the whole class.
- Work together to make a list of all the reasons it is hard to send a mission to Pluto. What compromises had to be made so that the New Horizons mission was affordable? How would you design a second mission to learn more about the Pluto system?
- Your group has been asked by NASA to come up with one or more missions to learn about Europa. Review what we know about this moon so far and then design a robotic mission that would answer some of the questions we have. You can assume that budget is not a factor, but your instruments have to be realistic. (Bear in mind that Europa is cold and far from the Sun.)
- Imagine your group is the first landing party on Pluto (let’s hope you remembered to bring long underwear!). You land in a place where Charon is visible in the sky and you observe Charon for one Earth week. Describe what Charon will look like during that week. Now you move your camp to the opposite hemisphere of Pluto. What will Charon look like there during the course of a week?
- When, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto should be called a dwarf planet and not a planet, they set up three criteria that a world must meet to be called a planet. Your group should use the Internet to find these criteria. Which of them did Pluto not meet? Read a little bit about the reaction to the IAU’s decision among astronomers and the public. How do members of your group feel about Pluto’s new classification? (After you have discussed it within the group, you may want to watch The Great Planet Debate video recommended in “For Further Exploration.”) | <urn:uuid:1e5388f6-4c2d-45f3-ad6d-747c78e51862> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/astronomybc/chapter/12-7-collaborative-group-activities-and-exercises/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952332 | 1,002 | 3.328125 | 3 |
- 1 What state can you find the original 13 rules of basketball at?
- 2 What is the original rule of basketball?
- 3 Where is the origin of basketball?
- 4 Who invented basketball rules?
- 5 What are the 5 violations in basketball?
- 6 What are the 5 main rules in basketball?
- 7 What position is the 4 in basketball?
- 8 How many steps can you take in basketball?
- 9 Where is basketball most popular?
- 10 What is the original name of basketball?
- 11 When was basketball first invented?
- 12 What are the first 13 rules of basketball?
- 13 What is the most important skill in basketball?
- 14 When playing man to man defense you should always be in between what 3 things?
- 15 Who started the NBA?
What state can you find the original 13 rules of basketball at?
The 13 original rules of basketball were written by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The free-throw line was set at 20 feet. Points awarded for field goal change from three to two, and points awarded for each successful free throw from three points to one point.
What is the original rule of basketball?
On January 15, 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of “Basket Ball” that he invented: The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.
Where is the origin of basketball?
The only major sport strictly of U.S. origin, basketball was invented by James Naismith (1861–1939) on or about December 1, 1891, at the International Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College), Springfield, Massachusetts, where Naismith was an instructor in physical education.
Who invented basketball rules?
James Naismith wrote the sport’s original 13 rules as part of a December 1891 class assignment at a Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
What are the 5 violations in basketball?
What are the different violations in basketball?
- Out-of-bounds: being the last player to touch the ball before it goes out-of-bounds.
- Double dribble: dribbling the ball before picking it up and dribbling again.
- Carry: scooping the ball to carry it while dribbling.
What are the 5 main rules in basketball?
When a player has the basketball there are certain rules they must follow:
- The player must bounce, or dribble, the ball with one hand while moving both feet.
- The basketball player can only take one turn at dribbling.
- The ball must stay in bounds.
- The players hand must be on top of the ball while dribbling.
What position is the 4 in basketball?
4. Shooting Guard. Potentially the shortest player on the team, the Shooting Guard is the team’s best outside shooter. Besides being able to shoot well, the Shooting Guard needs to be good at dribbling fast, passing and having court vision by seeing the court.
How many steps can you take in basketball?
When a player has taken more than 2 steps without the ball being dribbled, a traveling violation is called. The rule was 2 steps before 2018, but The International Basketball Federation, also known as FIBA changed the rule. Since 2018, there is a step called the “gather step” before you take the 2 steps.
Where is basketball most popular?
Popularity of Basketball Around the World
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What is the original name of basketball?
In spite of student suggestions that he call the game “Naismith Ball,” the modest inventor gave the sport a two-word moniker—“basket ball.” In an article that ran in the January 15, 1892, edition of The Triangle, which was distributed to YMCAs around the country, Naismith detailed his 13 rules for a “new game of ball”
When was basketball first invented?
Basketball is built into the fabric of Springfield College. The game was invented by Springfield College instructor and graduate student James Naismith in 1891, and has grown into the worldwide athletic phenomenon we know it to be today.
What are the first 13 rules of basketball?
Dr. James Naismith’s Original 13 Rules of Basketball
- The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.
- The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands (never with the fist).
- A player cannot run with the ball.
- The ball must be held in or between the hands; the arms or body must not be used for holding it.
What is the most important skill in basketball?
Important Basketball Skills
- Shooting. Let’s face it, shooting may be the most important skill to have.
- Passing. Since basketball is a team sport, passing is an aspect that you’re just going to have to learn.
- Dribbling. Dribbling is easily the most important skill for any basketball player to master.
When playing man to man defense you should always be in between what 3 things?
Here are the 5 keys to playing great on-ball defense:
- Desire to be a great defender.
- Stay in a balanced stance.
- Slightly overplay the middle to force the offensive player sideline or baseline.
- Keep an arm’s length distance at all times.
- Keep your eyes on the opponent’s chest.
Who started the NBA?
The NBA is a 70-year-old organization born from innovation. It was June 1946 in New York City when Boston Garden owner Walter Brown realized that major ice hockey arenas, which were vacant most nights, could be used to host basketball games. | <urn:uuid:964363fe-6a89-405e-9c6e-c1cb33cb40ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://surreybasketballclassic.info/basketball-questions/question-where-are-the-original-rules-of-basketball-located.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962502 | 1,309 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Xinhua recently reported that Louis Vuitton (LV) just closed down one of its key stores in Guangzhou, which is the capital city of Guangdong Province – one of the most economically developed provinces in China and the closest province to Hong Kong. It is very telling since the store is still profitable and it is not the only LV store to close. Louis Vuitton is a widely recognized luxury brand in China. The move is symbolic since it’s the latest event that represents a continuous “flood” of store closures across many luxury brands since last year. Other examples include Gucci and Burberry. According to a research report by Bain & Company, the Chinese luxury market started to suffer a negative growth in 2014, which saw the largest number of store closures. Experts suggested that the main causes of the decline in the luxury sector were the anti-corruption movement, low domestic consumer spending, and customers shopping directly outside of China.
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Journalists operate in a corrupt and violent environment. More than 50 media workers have been killed since 2010, making Somalia the most dangerous country for journalists in Africa.
The fall of dictator General Siad Barre in 1991 marked the end of a state monopoly on Somali media. Since then, the sector has developed and diversified despite an extremely hostile and unstable environment. Radio remains the most popular information source. Access to information on television is a largely urban phenomenon. There are two state-owned television networks and serveral private networks, some established abroad by exiles and broadcasting via satellite. Universal TV, based in London, is the best known. The written press is fading, and only two newspapers are still published in the capital of Mogadishu.
Somali journalists frequently face political pressure and corruption attempts. Many media are directly owned by political leaders, including members of parliament, the executive branch and diplomats. Each federated state has its own media, generally considered spokesmen for local authorities.
The legal framework is extremely repressive. Journalists are frequently forced to face military courts, which are used to justify prolonged detention, or civilian courts that rely on a 1964 penal code or laws that date from the military dictatorship. A moratorium on journalist arrests, which authorities promised in 2020, has still not been adopted.
In Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the world, corruption is widespread and does not spare journalists or media executives. State subsidies are opaque and channelled to media outlets that favour the government.
Clan culture plays an important role in the handling of information. Journalists find it difficult to take on issues objectively while respecting a diversity of opinions. Stories involving sexual orientation or gender are strictly taboo because of the influence of radical Islam. Al-Shabaab, the Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, has its own media outlet, Radio Andalus, which broadcasts the organisation’s propaganda.
Al-Shabaab attacks journalists who do not practice self-censorship. The terrorist group is the main killer of journalists. Reporters also run the risk of arrest and arbitrary detention – 34 in 2021 alone – as well as torture and media shut-downs. Officials in Somaliland and Puntland are especially repressive and exert enormous pressure on local media. Virtually all these abuses are carried out with complete impunity. However, there have been some encouraging signs in recent years, including the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the killings of approximately 50 media professionals. | <urn:uuid:96c583ee-5f79-41d3-8248-1b49d2e823a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rsf.org/en/country/somalia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946706 | 520 | 2.546875 | 3 |
It is possible to get a lot of spirals and curvilinear designs which I was never able to get by cutting off the masking tape; then spraying bleach into the place where the groove was. I made short samples of that sort of material. As I say, less than half of all that stuff is in my possession at this point. I also made alternate versions of a great number of scenes. Sometimes, in order to demonstrate how it was done, I made up special reels that partially had the masking tape still left on, and partially the first… Anyway, there are thousands of feet that were never printed and several entire very long films. Many of those films are missing totally. I never edited at all, except to cut them down – except that second one, which shows the balls falling. Like I say, it was at least 1,200 feet long originally. It was then cut down to a hundred feet to make it match ‘Guacha Guero’.
What Jonas Mekas calls ‘The Magic Feature’ (Number 12) was originally about six hours long, and then it was edited down, first to a two-hour version, and then down to a one-hour version. There was also an enormous amount of material made for that picture. None of the really good material that was constructed for that film was ever photographed. There was a Noah’s ark scene with really fantastic animals. I started out with the poorer stuff. The really good things were supposed to be toward the end of the film, but, being as the end of the film was never made.”
He then continued to talk about a black and white film, Number 4, which begins with “- a painting. It is a painting of a tune by Dizzy Gillespie called “Manteca”. Each stroke in that painting represents a certain note on the recording. If I had the record, I could project the painting as a slide and point to a certain things. This is the main theme in there, which is a-doot-dootdoot-doot-doottadoot-dot; those curved lines up there. See, ta-doot-doot-doot-doot-dootaloot-dootaloot, and so forth. Each note is on there. The most complex one of these is this one, one of Charlie Parker’s records; I don’t remember the name of it. That’s a really complex painting. That took five years. Just like I gave up making films after that last hand-drawn one took a number of years, I gave up painting. After that took a number of years to make; it was just too exhausting.
In a number of cases I’ve made special screens to project films on. All those so-called early abstract films had special painted screens for them. They were made of dots and lines. All those things disappeared.”
John Whitney is another pioneer of experimental techniques whose work has been influenced by jazz. Talking to Austin Lamont (in ‘Film Comment’ 1970) he discusses his early period when he was making Five Abstract Film Exercises in the 1940s. “I was working with jazz,” he says, “music that had no pretensions or none of the complexity and subtlety of structure of traditional western music. I was finding ways of generating a visual motion by ways that avoided the tedium and the restrictions that you get by any cel animation or any conventional techniques. | <urn:uuid:1663b3e0-eeb4-4ee8-ba3c-da2a06e72d85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.animatormag.com/1983/issue-05/issue-5-page-27/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.987228 | 737 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Do Italians use a knife and fork for pizza?
“ Italians cut their pizza with pitchfork and knife and then eat the slices with their hands. One reason is that pizza is served piping hot, excessively hot to rip apart with your hands .
Do Italian people eat pizza with hands?
In Italy you can eat a pizza with cutlery or directly with your hands. however, according to etiquette, you have to eat it with cutlery only if it ’ s a hale pizza ( e.g. as they serve it in a restaurant ), while you can eat slice pizza with your hands ( e.g. as they serve it in the street food tradition ) .
Is Pizza traditionally eaten with fork and knife?
When the pizza has cooled and only a minor parcel of your slice is left, it is satisfactory to pick it up and eat it. There is no need to fold the cut. A fold pizza is known as a calzone – and even that should be eaten with a tongue and pitchfork.
Who eats pizza with a knife and fork?
Eating pizza with a knife and crotch is criterion practice in Italy, the birthplace of pizza. Eating pizza with your hands is badly frowned upon if done in a restaurant .
Is it rude to eat pizza with your hands?
The most dependable, ever-acceptable room to eat pizza is with your hands. If you ’ re eating a regular, thin-crust slice of pizza, do not reach for a knife and fork, but choice it up with your fingers. … Don ’ thyroxine cling around, or the pizza will start sag, and you ’ ll end up with a tomato-y batch down your exceed .
Is pizza actually from Italy?
Modern pizza evolved from alike flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, in the 18th or early nineteenth hundred. The give voice pizza was foremost documented in A.D. 997 in Gaeta and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy. Pizza was chiefly eaten in Italy and by emigrants from there .
Do Italians eat pasta everyday?
63 percentage of italian respondents said they eat pasta either every day or about every day. No state in Europe consumes sol much pasta : Italians eat about 23.5 kg pasta in a year.
On average, how often do you eat pasta ?
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Can you eat lamb chops with your hands?
never Use Your Fingers
As a general rule, it ’ randomness considered impolite to eat lamb chops with your fingers. Etiquette instructors advise to always use a knife and pitchfork to cut the kernel, leaving behind any stray bits of kernel .
How do Italians eat spaghetti?
” In Italy it is accustomed to first place the pasta in a bowl or on a plate, ” Mr. Giovanetti said. ” You then spoon the sauce on top and last cheese, if you use it at all. You use your fork and spoon to toss the pasta with sauce and cheese, and you then eat it with your branch entirely .
What is the white plastic thing that comes with pizza?
Yes, that circular plastic thing that goes in the in-between of a proto-indo european to prevent the pizza from sticking to the acme of the pizza box. It ’ mho called a pizza rescuer. And it was invented 30 years ago on February 10, 1983 when Carmela Vitale got her patent issued for that firearm of plastic .
How do you eat Neapolitan pizza?
How to eat our pizza
- Step 1 – The slice. First things first – cut the pizza into 4 quarters right across the middle. …
- Step 2 – The fold. As you may have noticed, great Neapolitan pizza is “floppy” – and a slice should not be able to hold its own weight (unlike, say, a pizza from the supermarket…). …
- Step 3 – The shovel.
Why do I eat pizza with a fork?
Having grease all over your hands is unappealing and uncomfortable. Eating with a knife and fork on a home plate besides reduces the chance of pizza sauce and cheese and crumbs getting on your clothes .
Do Germans eat a sandwich with a knife and fork?
The proper manner of eating a sandwich in Germany without getting any odd stares is with a fork and knife. however if your business lunch is informal and you are grabbing a Brezn ( pretzel ) sandwich on the wayside, you may be permitted to use your hands. Interestingly enough, potatoes should not be cut with a knife. | <urn:uuid:d5b2852c-ff0c-4aa9-bfdf-eeab73822f49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ozumarestaurant.com/do-italians-eat-pizza-with-a-fork-1650133148/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952631 | 964 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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Monday is work, Tuesday is laundry, Wednesday is sleep, you pee, shave your goatee and reel through, eyes rolling east to west. The seven-day week originates from early civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia attempting to make sense of nature by studying the sky. This knowledge of expert star-gazers resulted in the titles of classical planets as symbolic totems of time. But now that the glare of astral forces has been replaced by the glow of our screens, what does a seven day week mean?
From Monday, February 15th – Sunday February 21st, I ask anyone in Chicago or beyond to call in, stop by or post online their list of things to do that day. From short concise checklists to detailed stories, I will document this information within the physical space of the set (through improved performance & installation) creating a live timetable of various peoples day and therefore treating the four walls as a collective, zoomed in, square block in a calendar page.
Each participants shared, daily undertakings will be an important component for re-creating or preserving a mythology. Moon, Monday, Lunes, Mars, Martes, Mardi, Mercury, Miércoles, together we will realize the contemporary language, patterns or pacing of each day, what it can characterize, denote or emote.
Tune in, call in, stop in, write in to keep time on a cosmic clock of storytelling, performance, legendary quests and visiting guest as we digest the meanings, muse-ings and markings mingled into our modern calendar. | <urn:uuid:518de272-be6b-46ad-ab63-5577ba690999> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blairbogin.com/index.php?/installation/yyyymmdd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938402 | 332 | 1.875 | 2 |
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Book III Chapter 38: War with the Sabines.[450 BC]
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The fifteenth of May arrived, the decemvirs' term of office expired, but no new magistrates were appointed. Though now only private citizens, the decemvirs came forward as determined as ever to enforce their authority and retain all the emblems of power. It was now in truth undisguised monarchy. Liberty was looked upon as for ever lost, none stood forth to vindicate it, nor did it seem likely that any one would do so. |
Not only had the people sunk into despondency themselves but they were beginning to be despised by their neighbours, who scorned the idea of sovereign power existing where there was no liberty.
The Sabines made an incursion into Roman territory in great force, and carrying their ravages far and wide, drove away an immense quantity of men and cattle to Eretum, where they collected their scattered forces and encamped in the hope that the distracted state of Rome would prevent an army from being raised. Not only the messengers who brought the information but the country people who were flying into the City created a panic. The decemvirs, hated alike by the senate and the plebs, were left without any support, and whilst they were consulting as to the necessary measures, Fortune added a fresh cause of alarm. The Aequi, advancing in a different direction, had entrenched themselves on Algidus, and from there were making predatory incursions into the territory of Tusculum. The news was brought by envoys from Tusculum who implored assistance. The panic created unnerved the decemvirs, and seeing the City encompassed by two separate wars they were driven to consult the senate. They gave orders for the senators to be summoned, quite realising what a storm of indignant resentment was awaiting them, and that they would be held solely responsible for the wasted territory and the threatening dangers. This, they expected, would lead to an attempt to deprive them of office, unless they offered a unanimous resistance, and by a sharp exercise of authority on a few of the most daring spirits repress the attempts of the others.
When the voice of the crier was heard in the Forum calling the patricians to the Senate-house to meet the decemvirs, the novelty of it, after so long a suspension of the meetings of the senate, filled the plebeians with astonishment. "What," they asked, " has happened to revive a practice so long disused? We ought to be grateful to the enemy who are menacing us with war, for causing anything to happen which belongs to the usage of a free State." They looked in every part of the Forum for a senator, but seldom was one recognised; then they contemplated the Senate-house and the solitude round the decemvirs. The latter put it down to the universal hatred felt for their authority, the plebeians explained it by saying that the senators did not meet because private citizens had not the right to summon them. If the plebs made common cause with the senate, those who were bent on recovering their liberty would have men to lead them, and as the senators when summoned would not assemble, so the plebs must refuse to be enrolled for service. Thus the plebeians expressed their opinions.
As to the senators, there was hardly a single member of the order in the Forum, and very few in the City. Disgusted with the state of matters they had retired to their country homes and were attending to their own affairs, having lost all interest in those of the State. They felt that the more they kept away from any meeting and intercourse with their tyrannical masters the safer would it be for them. As, on being summoned, they did not come, the ushers were despatched to their houses to exact the penalties for non-attendance and to ascertain whether they absented themselves of set purpose. They took back word that the senate was in the country. This was less unpleasant for the decemvirs than if they had been in the City and had refused to recognise their authority. Orders were issued for all to be summoned for the following day. They assembled in greater numbers than they themselves expected. This led the plebeians to think that their liberty had been betrayed by the senate, since they had obeyed men whose term of office had expired and who, apart from the force at their disposal(1) were only private citizens; thus recognising their right to convene the senate.
(1): They still had the lictors, as no fresh magistrates had been appointed.
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Residents returning home after the destructive White Rock Lake wildfire in British Columbia’s Interior are being encouraged to connect with family and neighbours or reach out to a mental health help line.
Corie Griffiths, director of the Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre, says returning home after a wildfire brings a wave of emotions and those needing to talk to someone should know they’re not alone.
The regional district has set up a recovery office for area residents and property owners who experienced significant structural damage and is offering an information guide for those who have been affected.
It covers a variety of topics including checking for hazards before entering a home and wearing appropriate clothing such as long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, rubber boots and an N-95 dust mask.
Bagged and non-burnt yard waste can be taken to the North Westside Transfer Station, but other options are available for fridges and freezers as well as hazardous waste such as wood from damaged buildings.
The regional district says preliminary assessments confirm that 78 properties in the Estamont and Killiney Beach areas sustained significant damage.
“Be cautious of potential hazards in the area due to wildfire and fire suppression activity,” it says of the fire that is being held and not likely to spread beyond containment lines.
Residents are also being asked to watch for wildlife, hazardous trees and debris, and to call 911 if they see any spot fires threatening homes or other areas.
The regional district says 340 homes have been inspected for occupancy and placards in different colours have been placed to indicate the state of the property.
Green placards mean there’s minor to no fire damage, orange ones indicate restricted use and red placards show the home is unsafe.
“Please follow the notes that the assessors have provided on the signs,” a statement from the district says.
It’s also advising residents and the public to stay out of the backcountry and says entry is restricted to all Crown lands near the White Rock Lake fire.
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The moisture in the biomass storage processes, briquetting and firing is a determining factor in the quality of the end product or result of the process of biomass.
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When the humidity is too high in briquetting, biomass not compact enough and the briquettes does not have adequate durability.
When the humidity is very high in burning biomass may be necessary to exchange equipment for achieving the desired results.
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For many women, it is difficult to sleep well when they are on their periods. They might suffer from menstrual symptoms such as headaches, cramps, and anxiety, which makes it difficult to go to bed. The shift in hormones also interferes with your sleep cycle, and this can interfere with how you feel the next day.
It can become a vicious cycle that makes you feel exhausted day after day. It is important to understand how you can take care of your periods so that you can get more rest and wake up feeling refreshed.
Ways That Your Periods Can Impact Your Sleep Cycle
If you don’t take steps to promote sleep during your periods, they can disrupt your sleep cycle. The change in your hormonal balance can reduce the amount of serotonin that your body produces, and this hormone helps to regulate your sleep cycle.
In addition, research shows that some women have a lower response to melatonin, which is another hormone that signals your body when it is time to sleep and to awaken. This can be disruptive to your entire sleep cycle, which can leave you feeling exhausted.
It is important to take steps to help you get restful sleep during your periods so that you are impacted as little as possible. Take a look at the following eight steps you can take.
8-Step Self-Care Routine Before Bed Time
1. Make Sure That Your Bedroom Is Cool
When you get ready for bed, your hormones actually signal that it is time to lower your body temperature for sleeping. When you are on your period, you might have hormone shifts that interfere with your body’s natural sleep preparation process, which can make it difficult for you to fall asleep.
You can address this by preparing your bedroom before you go to sleep. Set your thermostat below 68 degrees, which will help your body prepare for a comfortable temperature for restful sleep.
2. Make Sure That You Exercise During the Day
Exercise is important for promoting sleep. When you exercise, it gets your body working. It also raises your body temperature, and when you relax after exercise, your body temperature drops back down. This is a great way to mimic the body’s natural process of preparing for sleep. The reduction in body temperature helps to prepare you for sleep.
You can also do a few yoga stretches before you go to bed. This has the same effect, and it can help reduce cramping.
3. Look for a Comfortable Position
When you are preparing to go to sleep, you should try out several different positions to find one that is comfortable. If you are uncomfortable, you are likely to toss and turn all night.
There are different kinds of pillows that can offer support and help you reduce your symptoms from your periods. The key is to find your ideal sleeping position before you go to sleep. Some people prefer to sleep on their sides with a body pillow for support. This helps to regulate your breathing.
Others find that the fetal position helps. Make sure that you try out different positions so that you know which ones work best for you.
4. Plan Your Diet to Promote Sleep
Your diet also has an impact on how your body functions at night.
When you have your periods, you may feel bloated or full, and some people find that warm, heavy foods are comforting. However, eating these foods too close to bedtime can make you feel nauseous and give you indigestion. Make sure that you eat earlier before it is time to go to sleep. Give your body time to digest the food.
Some foods can actually encourage sleep, such as chicken, eggs, and other dairy products. They contain tryptophan, which is an amino acid that makes you feel tired.
5. Limit Your Caffeine Intake
Another way to prepare for sleep during your periods is to limit your caffeine intake.
Caffeine can make your cramps worse because it is known to cause your blood vessels to narrow. It is also a stimulant, and it can keep you awake. Caffeine is in coffee, tea, soda, and chocolate, so make sure that you avoid these before bed time.
6. Take Time to Destress
Stress is a huge factor in your ability to sleep. It can make your heart rate go up, and it can put your body and mind into a state of hyperarousal that makes it impossible to relax and fall asleep.
Sometimes people get stressed by not being able to sleep, which makes it even more difficult.
You can take time to read a book, light a scented candle, relax and listen to music, or go through some yoga poses with breathing techniques. You will be able to use these exercises to prepare your body for sleep.
7. Keep a Sleep Journal
If you want to get a handle on how your periods are impacting your sleep, keeping a sleep journal can be very helpful.
You will write down what you did before you went to bed, and then write about the quality of your sleep the following morning.
You may notice patterns emerge that show you things that work well for your body, as well as things that do not. A sleep journal can give you great insight into what works best for you.
8. Take a Warm Bath
Taking a warm bath before bed can help your body prepare for sleep, and it will also relieve cramping and other symptoms related to your periods.
You can use a relaxing lavender scented product to help signal to your body that it is time for sleep. The warm bath naturally raises your body temperature, and the drop in temperature when you go to bed signals to your body that it is time for sleep.
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Area of concern
- Abdomen (tummy)
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Reverse sneezing is when a dog rapidly sucks air through their nose causing a loud snorting noise. It can be alarming to see, but is nearly always harmless.
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Deer Habitat Carrying Capacity
The fundamental property of density dependence is the relationship between deer population size and available food. Notice from the graph that as deer population size increases the amount of deer food decreases.
This incremental, annual decline in food supply affects the body condition of deer which influences their reproductive rate and survival rate, and ultimately reduces the population growth rate. Thus, as deer populations near the habitat's carrying capacity the rate of growth begins to slow down. That is why deer population growth is often depicted with sigmoid or "S" shaped growth curve as in (Figure 2 seen here); in the beginning deer populations have exponential growth, but as food becomes limited the growth rate begins to decline and the annual change in population size decreases.
Plant and Animal Dynamics During Population Growth
This figure shows the theoretical relationship between naturally occurring deer food and deer population size over time. When deer populations get too high they can actually damage the plant-food base that sustains them. This is because the deer eliminate the number of food producing plants, or they diminish the capacity of those plants to produce enough forage for the deer. This is similar to pruning a shrub or mowing the lawn. The right amount of plant removal will typically not damage the plant, or sometimes this even stimulates plant growth. But when too much of the plant is consumed it may become damaged and die, or not provide additional plant growth. Habitat damage and subsequent reduction of deer carrying capacity is depicted in (Figure 10) below.
How can a deer population exceed the habitat's carrying capacity?
So you may ask "how can a deer population exceed the habitat's carrying capacity?" Shouldn't density dependence slow population growth enough to keep the population below carrying capacity? In some cases yes, in other cases no. Let's refer to (Figure 11) to review this question.
Although we refer to carrying capacity as this maximum number the habitat can sustain, in actuality this number is always changing. Not only does carrying capacity fluctuate from year to year, it fluctuates from season to season. Because deer are herbivores, they depend on plants for food and plant growth is affected by precipitation and temperature. So annual changes in rainfall, for example, can influence carrying capacity by affecting the growth of deer food plants and their quality. Furthermore, the annual acorn crop can be highly variable.
A significant proportion of the fall and winter diet of deer is comprised of acorns. So all of these "environmental" factors will affect the annual and seasonal carrying capacity for a deer population in a given area. A deer population that is growing, or is maintained at carrying capacity, can actually exceed carrying capacity the following year because carrying capacity was lowered by changes in the environment (like drought, for example). During the time the deer population is above the habitat's carrying capacity is when the most damage to the habitat can occur. This is also a time when deer are in very poor condition and death due to malnutrition or starvation can occur.
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Quality and Safety
WHAT IS QUALITY AND SAFETY?
Delta Health is committed to the best quality of care and ensuring that patients are kept safe at all times. But what is the definition of quality in the hospital setting?
Delta Health has adopted the definition of quality as defined by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): “doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way – and having the best possible results.”
Quality is a process – it involves analyzing systems, outcomes, patient perceptions, and organization structures with the ultimate goal of care that is safe, effective, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely.
MEDICARE HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS
To participate in Medicare, hospitals must comply with Medicare health and safety regulations. Our accreditation entity, DNV, regularly inspects and evaluates our compliance with these standards. In addition, quality data is reported to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and publicly reported as “Core Measures.” Delta Health’s quality data can be found on CMS’s Hospital Compare website. This publicly reported data also includes patient satisfaction scores.
Patient safety is one aspect of the quality-of-care spectrum. The World Health Organization defines patient safety as “the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” Delta Health is vigilantly working to improve patient safety and two examples of patient safety improvement activities are listed below.
Hospital-acquired infections are infections that develop during the course of a patient’s hospitalization. Hand hygiene is an important aspect at preventing these infections. Delta Health staff audit and analyze compliance with hand hygiene and are always striving to ensure staff follow procedures for hand hygiene with every patient encounter.
Delta Health is committed to ensuring the “seven rights” of safe medication administration: right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, right route, right reason, and right documentation. This commitment, combined with leadership support, has led Delta Health to adopt new prescribing and medication administration technologies that assist in reducing medication errors. This system is called computerized physician order entry. This system enables providers to enter orders for medications or diagnostic tests into a computer instead of using a handwritten form. Computerized orders are easier to read than handwriting, reducing the risk of misinterpretation. The system software can also deliver tips, reminders, best practices, and automatic alerts about potentially harmful drug interactions or allergies. In addition, a bar-coding system for medication administration has been implemented. This is an integrated software system that combines wireless technology with a hand-held bar-code scanner. Patient medication doses are bar-coded and scanned along with the patient’s wristband prior to medication administration. That helps reduce errors and increase safe medication administration.
We have implemented a focused process improvement plan focused on improving our barcode scanning percentage in our inpatient units. You can see the Delta Health Inpatient team has hit the 95% goal for scanning medications on the graph below.
What you can do to promote safety
You are an important member of your care team. We encourage you to become part of the team and to work with us to keep you as safe as possible. Here’s how you can help:
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- Participate in all decisions about your treatment. You are the center of the health care team.
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As revolutionary communists, we are not into celebrating individuals. Nor do we have gods or idols.. As the words of the "Internationale", the battle song of the world working class declare,
"There are no supreme saviours
"Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune.
"Producers, let us save ourselves".
So, this forum will not be a celebration of Karl Marx, the man.. Rather, we want to use the opportunity of the bi-centenary of his birth to discuss what Marxism is, beyond the "ism", and to recall how it has been tested through history, as an instrument for social change, in order to show that it is more relevant and necessary than ever, for the working class today.
Of course that fact makes it indispensable for the capitalist class - faced as it is with a system in constant crisis - to show that Communism is irrelevant and unnecessary. But no matter that they have declared Marx and Marxism "dead" so many times, the capitalist media barons just cannot resist unearthing Marx's corpse again and again, the better to bury it!
The spectre of communism still haunts their world
So the bicentenary of Marx's birth (on May 5th) generated a truck-load of articles, TV and radio programmes from the capitalist establishment. Even the favourite journal of the British bosses, the Economist, featured several - one being entitled "Second time farce" - borrowing Marx's observation that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce".
But in contradictory fashion, the Economist's by-line this time was, "Why Marx was right". So, after a particularly distorted and bigoted article attacking Marx personally, it finished by saying that:
"The backlash against capitalism is mounting - if more often in the form of populist anger, than of proletarian solidarity. So far, liberal reformers are proving sadly inferior to their predecessors in terms of both their grasp of the crisis and their ability to generate solutions. They should use the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth to reacquaint themselves with the great man - not only to understand the serious faults that he brilliantly identified in the system, but to remind themselves of the disaster that awaits if they fail to confront them".
In fact, just before the general election last year, the Economist's columnist Bagehot rushed to Marx's defence after the Daily "Tory"graph condemned Labour's shadow chancellor John Mc Donnell for saying he believed there "was a lot to learn from reading 'Capital'," (Marx's best-known work) - to which Jeremy Corbyn had rashly added that Marx was a "great economist". Replied Bagehot: "The problem with Marx is not that his analysis is nonsensical, (...), but that his solution was far worse than the disease. (...) Yet Mr McDonnell is right: there is an enormous amount to learn from Marx. Indeed, much of what Marx said seems to become more relevant by the day".
These journalists take from Marx the fact that capitalism concentrates itself more and more and monopolies form, which for them is a sign of the degeneration of their "ideal" capitalist system of free competition. So, like many of capitalism's protagonists today, the prescription offered for this ongoing decomposition of capitalism is to reverse concentration, and to try to go back in history to the glory days of the 19th century's "free" trade...
Ironically, this was precisely the time when Marx and Engels first saw the inbuilt contradictions which led the capitalist economy into crisis. But of course, these two young revolutionaries also saw how this economic system could be ended - by the very class it had created, the working class, or proletariat.
Bagehot, on the other hand, goes on to tell us that:
"The genius of the British system has always been to reform, in order to prevent social breakdown. (...) It means preventing monopolies from forming" and he advises, therefore, that: "Britain's antitrust rules need to be updated for an age where information is the most valuable resource (...). It means ending the CEO salary racket, not least by giving more power to shareholders. It means thinking seriously about the casualisation of work. And it means closing the revolving door between politics and business. The best way to save yourself from being Marx's next victim is to start taking him seriously".
So, the Economist has at least an inkling of what is wrong, but puts it down to the fact that the British system has not maintained its former reforming genius. And it advises that it should rediscover this before it's too late.
Another bosses' mouthpiece, the Financial Times, marked Marx's bicentenary by paying a visit to the Communist Party of Britain - that is, what is left of the original Communist Party, which was founded in 1921. It interviewed general secretary, Robert Griffiths. And finding the party (apparently) reduced to around a thousand members and in effect advocating a left reformist programme under Jeremy Corbyn, it seems to have decided that it had thus laid the ghost of communism to rest, at least in the here and now.
That said, the FT did publish an updated version of Marx's Communist Manifesto - written by a Harvard professor of law and a corporate advisor (Rupert Younger and Frank Partnoy). They claim to have left at least 74% of the original intact, admitting that most of it is still pertinent and doesn't need to be changed. However they felt it was best to substitute the word "activist" for "Communist" - and so now the Communist Manifesto becomes the "Activist Manifesto" and it is not "the spectre of Communism haunting Europe" in the opening line, but the "the spectre of activism haunting the world"! In fact, what these self-proclaimed protagonists of free market capitalism, actually mean is "shareholder" activism. This, for them, is the way to rescue corrupt corporate capitalism and prevent further state intervention which according to them is always a bad thing.
They replace the supposedly outdated words "proletariat" and "bourgeoisie" with "have-nots" and "haves", because for them, Marx's manifesto is not an attack on the system, but an attack on inequality. Never mind what generates this inequality - they attack it in total isolation from its cause.
And this is no surprise: causality is precisely what the capitalists, their promoters and apologists, cannot get their heads around. This is, after all, an establishment that treats symptoms not causes, that tinkers round the edges rather than getting to the roots of problems. Because it's the cheapest way to appear to be doing something in a system that values the size of profits above everything.
Yet these academics and bourgeois commentators, brilliant only in their own mediocrity and ignorance, accuse Marx of being simplistic! And no wonder. Uprooting the present economic system would shatter their world. So it has to be "simplistic" to say that the basic determinant of our social systems throughout history is the development of the economy, as Marx does, or that the function of the political structures that humanity has built has always been, so far, to preserve the existing social order for the sole benefit of its privileged classes.
As for Marx himself, he is characterised by these same bourgeois commentators as a "fanatic". But what they are really objecting to is the fact that he was an activist, in other words, that for him understanding the world meant changing it. Which makes the FT's "Activist Manifesto" rewrite of the Communist Manifesto extremely ironical. Marx himself would probably have laughed. Because it is those who defend decaying capitalism with all their might - like the mouthpieces of the bourgeoisie, the FT and Economist, among others - who are the real fanatics, since they are defending the indefensible.
Why they should worry
Of course, the capitalist class is, and should be, very worried - and not just because its system keeps generating yet greater inequalities. But because it has long passed its sell-by date - it is rotting on its feet. In fact real progress for humanity, which would imply a solution to deprivation, hunger and wars at the very least, has not only not been halted, but unprecedented calamities have arisen, like the refugee crisis which has forcibly displaced 65.6m people around the world, according to UN figures. They define 22.5m of these as refugees, but all of these millions have had to leave their homes because of war or famine. It is as if the whole of the British population suddenly had to up sticks and flee. The list of refugee "emergencies" officially recognised by the UN goes like this: "Burundi situation, DR Congo emergency, Iraq emergency, Rohingya emergency, Syria emergency, Central African Republic situation, Nigeria emergency, South Sudan emergency, Yemen emergency". And that's not a full list of the countries from which men, women and children are fleeing - only the main ones. Last year Mediterranean migrant arrivals in Europe were 171,635, while 3,116 drowned on the way. And how many hundreds, if not thousands, of miles have the survivors been forced to walk, how many borders did they have to cross illegally, how many jails were they locked into, in their desperate search for a safe, decent life?
The supposed falling levels of world poverty are no more. Since the 2008 financial crisis workers in the rich countries, let alone the poor countries, have seen living standards crash. Precarious employment has been rising for decades everywhere and the so-called "gig economy" is now the norm for the new generation of workers. And that means the poverty suffered by the working class is increasing. "Uber" exists in every country. Anyway, the 2008 crisis, which was triggered by the subprime mortgage scandal in the USA means that much of the derisory private property owned by the working class in the world's richest country was confiscated and the poorest faced homelessness. And what about in the other rich countries? In fact homelessness was something which was unknown on Britain's streets 40 years ago, but now seeing people sleeping in doorways is normal. Who can deny today that society has, in almost every respect, been sliding backwards?
And of course these social manifestations are just the tip of the iceberg. There are on-going conflicts all over the world, which the current politicians see fit only to aggravate, stoking a series of powder kegs, ready to blow at any moment - whether it be in Palestine or the rest of the Middle East, the African states being torn apart by fundamentalist militias, like in Nigeria with Boko Haram, or by the greed of western mining companies, like in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And then, here in Britain, there is Brexit. What kind of degenerate bourgeois politicians would actually undertake to shoot themselves in the foot in this way, for purely selfish political reasons, and damn the consequences for everyone else? Of course, Brexit will just deepen and multiply the effects of the on-going financial crisis. It is hard to believe this is happening, even while knowing how rotten their system has become.
But what Marxism tells us is that there is a way out of this bloody mess - in fact only one way - provided those who produce all the value in this society, the international working class, takes its fate - and that of mankind - into its own hands, in order to restore some sanity into today's world. Marxism tells us this by providing us with a scientific method to understand how society has changed through history; how these changes have taken place in parallel with the evolution of the productive forces, whenever their development was prevented by the existing social organisation; how and why the capitalist social order has long reached the point where it has become an obstacle to the further development of these productive forces; why, therefore, the replacement of capitalism with a new social organisation allowing mankind to resume its march forward is a historical necessity and why the working class is the only force capable of delivering this change. But Marxism also tells us that historical necessity does not mean inevitability.
Social change will only take place as a result of a conscious, collective effort of the working class. And the whole history of our movement - the communist movement - has been one of learning, experimenting and learning again, in order to build up this collective consciousness that the working class will need, to achieve social change. In a way, this is what our forum is really about today: where Marx's ideas came from and what they involved at the time; how they were subsequently vindicated through the militant activity of successive generations of communist activists; how each generation refined its understanding of its political tasks by learning from the experience of the previous struggles; and where this long process has taken us today.
Children of an age of revolution
Let's begin with a statement which seems obvious for us, communists, but is totally incomprehensible for most of today's bourgeois intellectuals, whose whole social upbringing causes them to see themselves as individuals involved in an on-going, ruthless struggle to get to the top on the basis of their own merit - or so they want to believe.
Karl Marx and his life-long comrade in struggle, Friedrich Engels, were, first and foremost, the products of a remarkable period. They found themselves - largely by chance - in the right place at the right time. Their individual abilities and merits were, obviously, real. But if they were able to build up their ideas as they did, this was primarily because history had already prepared the bricks that they needed.
So, what was so special about this early part of the 19th century, which made them decide to get stuck into politics, rather than make a career as most bourgeois intellectuals do, in order to change the world?
In fact, unlike the English revolution which had little impact outside Britain in the 17th century, the energy of the French revolutionary bourgeoisie in the 18th, had an impact right across the whole of Europe. This had started even before the revolution itself; when natural sciences and philosophy were transformed forever by the efforts of the French bourgeois intellectuals of the Enlightenment, who were determined to deprive religion of its monopoly over knowledge, nature and society. And then, vindicating these efforts and bringing this energy to a climax, the French revolution proved that even what was considered at the time as the strongest monarchy in Europe, could be completely wiped out, together with its privileged classes - and this, despite the combined military intervention of all the European monarchies.
The democratic prestige of the French revolution was so great that when the armies of Napoleon 1st, who was himself anything but a democrat, moved into central and eastern Europe, its soldiers were more often than not welcomed by the populations as liberators.
By the 1830s, when Marx was a student, Europe was still feeling the aftershocks of this great French Revolution, which had demonstrated the revolutionary power of the poor masses. But nothing was yet settled - France had already seen another revolutionary explosion, in 1830. Throughout eastern Europe, motley crowds of artisans and youth plotted armed uprisings against their ruling tyrants, in the hope that, like in France, this would set alight the revolutionary spirit of the oppressed masses. Everywhere these attempts failed but new ones kept occurring. For rebellious youth like Marx and Engels these were interesting times indeed.
Compared to France, it must have seemed to Marx that German-speaking Europe was living in a time-warp, dominated as it was by the rivalries of countless despots, whose only preoccupation was to protect themselves and their fiefdoms, while bleeding the population dry in order to fund luxurious courts. Nothing could be more frustrating for the radical youth of this part of Europe than to live in an apparently immutable society, under the bigoted rule of small-time autocrats, when, next door, the French population had freed itself from the yoke of a far more powerful absolute monarchy.
Marx and Engels belonged to this radical youth. Like their peers, they took every opportunity to stand up against the feudal despots, whether in the streets or in their writings - and they got into a lot of trouble for that, to the point where Marx was forced to flee into exile when he was just 23. But unlike most of their peers who were satisfied with venting their frustration in obscure debates and maybe joining the odd obscure conspiracy, Marx and Engels wanted to see change. If ideas were to be worth anything, they had to be turned into an instrument for action. But Marx was under no illusion. Ideas could only change the course of history when, like in the French revolution, they became a weapon in the hands of large numbers of people, whose energies were welded together by a common objective based on a common understanding of what had to be done and why.
But where were the troops required for this to come from? Very early on, they realised that the affluent German bourgeoisie was far more interested in defending its wealth against the poor masses, than in risking its comfort by taking part in any kind of revolutionary action. And this prompted Marx and Engels to turn to those who were at the bottom of the social pile, those whose labour was allowing the privileged classes, both feudal and bourgeois, to live as parasites on their poverty - just as, in the French revolution, it was the impoverished masses of the big towns who had decisively tilted the balance of forces towards carrying out the complete eradication of the feudal order, rather than some sort of accommodation with it.
Knowledge as a militant weapon
If ideas were to be a tool for action and action was aimed at changing society then it was necessary to study how society had changed in the past, in order to figure out how it might change in the future. Modern natural science of the time described natural phenomena as the result of contradictory forces which acted against one another and as on-going processes which kept evolving. Man was an integral part of nature and so therefore, was society. History, i.e. society seen as an always evolving process, had to be the result of contradictory forces - but what forces?
In fact, these forces were rooted in man's material life - which began with his interaction with nature in order to obtain the necessities of life and in so doing changing nature and being changed by it. This was the so-called dialectical process which Marx and Engels had derived from the German philosophers Hegel and Feuerbach. And it was by studying man's social evolution as a result of the development of the ability to produce his necessities - that is, through the development of the productive forces - in other words the economy, that it became possible to understand the decisive changes which society went through along the way.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx writes that "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". If we trace each stage in the development of society, we see that it corresponds to a stage in the development of the productive forces. Indeed, society changes in parallel with these forces, each stage featuring a ruling class which appropriates the products of human labour for itself, but also giving birth to a new class which will eventually take over the running of society in the next stage of its development. This was the gist of Marx's so-called historical materialism, designed to be a scientific approach to understanding history. We can leave it to Marx to explain it in his own words :
"In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or - what is but a legal expression for the same thing - with the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic - in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out."
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx summarised his view of history as "the history of class struggles": "Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstruction of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes... The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat."
For Marx, therefore, the battle lines in the pursuit of social change were clearly drawn.
The proletariat and the lessons of 1848
By 1844, the bourgeoisie had already lost the revolutionary potential which had previously allowed it to do away with feudal rule. But the workings of capitalism and its dependence on the exploitation of human labour meant that the growing industrial proletariat was to be the next revolutionary class.
Besides, according to the news Marx was getting from Britain, this proletariat was learning very fast indeed and proving capable of organising itself in a way that no other oppressed class had ever shown in society. So, from this point onwards Marx's and Engels' work was to be focused on preparing the ground for the development of a political organisation representing the interests of the working class - that is, a communist party.
In 1847, having been forced to leave France as a "dangerous revolutionary" Marx, together with Engels joined a group of fellow German-speaking revolutionary exiles in Brussels - who had formed an underground society which they called the Communist League. It was at the request of this League that they had drawn up the Communist Manifesto, which first appeared in February 1848 - the first programme for a proletarian revolutionary communist party in history outlining the basis for the pivotal role of the proletariat in transforming society. This is what it says about it:
"Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat."
In fact the revolutions of 1848 - both in France and in Germany proved this very point. The bourgeoisie of both countries, having first formed a united front with the workers to overthrow the existing order, turned violently against them, when it came to the crunch - out of fear of their mobilisation. And the failure of the working class to have it own independent political leadership meant that in both cases it was unprepared and thus crushed by reactionary forces.
With the ebb in the class struggle, between 1848 and 1864, Marx devoted himself to the study of political economy in general and capitalism in particular, preparing for his writing of Capital. But when the struggles revived in the 1860s, he threw himself into the activities of the International Workingmen's Association - the First International - which was founded in London in 1864. This International brought together all kinds of socialists, but also anarchists and radical nationalists, as well as representatives of the English trade unions. Within its ranks, Marx fought for the adoption of a fighting proletarian programme, which the international working class could use in its struggles.
It was not always plain sailing for Marx. Many disagreed with the importance he gave to the class struggle in practice, as a school of communism (although the formula was coined by Lenin later) and as a means of preparing the ground for a future mass mobilisation of the proletariat.
For Marx, the problem was to help develop the consciousness of the working class through struggle, rather than having the working class rely on the consciousness of an elite few, who could then stage some kind of coup. And precisely because the class struggle was to be a school of communism, the task of the International was to get the working class to learn in practice how much strength it could acquire, by ignoring national differences and building on the fact that exploitation feels the same and requires the same fighting methods of struggle and objectives, whichever language you speak.
The vindication of the Paris Commune
Two major assumptions contained in the Communist Manifesto had never been - and never had a chance to be - put to the test of history at the time of its writing, in 1847. One was the ability of the proletariat to "set itself up as the ruling class" and therefore exercise its own rule - its own dictatorship, in fact. And the other was that, in this process, the proletariat would be paving the way for the end of class divisions and, by the same token, for the end of the state as an instrument of class domination. This is how the Communist Manifesto puts it:
"If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class."
The Paris Commune of 1871 vindicated these assumptions. It was the first workers' state - or dictatorship of the proletariat - in history and it was to serve for several decades as a kind of blueprint for communists as to what to do and what not to do. The Commune was the result of the extraordinary coincidence of exceptional factors. The rout of the French army in an ill-conceived war aimed at preventing the Prussian state from unifying Germany had sparked off the mass mobilisation of the Paris proletariat. But, this time, the bourgeoisie failed to turn this mobilisation to its own advantage. Highly politicised and experienced after their own devastating and bloody defeat by these same bourgeoisie in 1848, but also by now schooled by the First International, the Parisian masses scared the privileged classes into withdrawing their forces from the capital. And then, taking advantage of the resulting political vacuum, the Paris proletariat set up its own state.
Although short-lived - it lasted two months - the Paris Commune vindicated Marx's anticipation of proletarian dictatorship in the Communist Manifesto. It allowed Marx himself, who followed events day by day, to demonstrate in practice that the proletariat did indeed have the capacity to fulfil its historical task. But it also clarified another vital element of the struggle for socialism: that it was not enough to take power; the working class, in order to wield it and transform society had to smash all vestiges of the old state and build its own, proletarian state, suited to the task of creating the basis for a new society without exploitation or classes.
Having seized power almost by chance, the small Paris proletariat rose to the occasion. But it had little or no chance of holding out for very long against the combined forces of the French and Prussian bourgeois states. However, it certainly made the best of a bad situation by demonstrating in practice what the proletariat can achieve once it has the means to run society. In particular, it showed that its dictatorship was indeed far more democratic than so-called bourgeois "democracy" could ever be and why it could therefore pave the way for the "withering away of the state", as part of the transition to communism, to use Engels' formula.
Building mass parties
The Commune was a magnificent demonstration of the proletariat's capability which terrified the bourgeoisie. A brutal wave of repression followed, not just in France but throughout Europe. But soon the low ebb of the class struggle reassured the bourgeoisies and industrial development followed, fed by the rock-bottom cost of labour.
The time had come for the working class to build real working class parties, as opposed to the small communist groups of the 1st International which had rarely had more than a few thousand active members.
The centre of gravity of the communist movement shifted to Germany, where the communists had been less decimated by the repression following the Commune. Being now unified, Germany had a large working class and hundreds of experienced communist activists on the ground. And it was there that, despite being driven underground for over a decade by repression, the largest mass revolutionary workers party, so far, was built - the Social Democratic Party or SPD - a development followed closely, first by Marx and, after his death, by Engels.
At the same time Marx and Engels were sharpening their understanding of the workings of the capitalist system the better to arm the proletariat for the future revolutionary explosions. The first volume of Marx's Capital had already been published in 1867, but Marx was now working on the next two volumes which would look, among other things, at the financial workings of the system and elaborate on the recurring economic crises that shook the capitalist economy and why the capitalist class was unable to prevent them. Marx died in 1883 at the age of 65, before completing this work, and it was left to Engels to fulfil this task, which he undertook until his own death in 1895.
In the meantime, the huge electoral successes won by the SPD after it was unbanned had been feeding the illusion that maybe there was a reformist road to social change, avoiding the need for a revolution. These illusions and the growing integration of the SPD into the institutions of the state on which they fed, concealed the reality of the class war. Those who warned against the danger of forgetting the mortal danger that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie represented for the working class, even behind the facade of an apparently lenient "democratic" regime, were ignored. And then came WWI and the wholesale betrayal of the working class movement by its own organisations, including the mighty SPD itself.
The imperialist era
At the time, some were quick to argue - and this is an argument which is still very much alive today - that the betrayal of the working class movement by the SPD leaders had always been on the cards. Some said it was due to their having accepted to play along with bourgeois democracy by standing candidates in elections; others that it was due to the very idea of trying to organise the proletariat politically - and that any attempt to set up a disciplined working class political party would inevitably produce the same result.
Lenin, then the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, thought otherwise. In his view, the evolution of capitalism towards what he called its "imperialist phase" had been completed. The huge increase in the wealth of the rich, imperialist bourgeoisies had enabled them not just to bribe politicians and parties, but to also give whole layers of workers the illusion that they had a stake in the system, by offering them a few crumbs out of their huge profits. This, combined with a long period in which the working class had been invisible on the political scene, at least as an independent force, let alone a revolutionary one, had built up enormous social pressure on its organisations and when faced with a major crisis, they were paralysed.
However, this imperialist epoch was also opening up new prospects in front of the proletariat. Its main features, the massive concentration of capital and the fact that the capital of just a few of the world's capitalist classes was now flooding the entire planet, were trends which had already been noted by Marx, although they were now operating on a scale which would have been impossible to imagine in Marx's time. The irony, as Marx himself had noted, was that the ruthless competition between individual capitalists was driving the capitalist system to increasingly unify the world into a single economic entity which by-passed the existing national borders; just as much as the growing concentration of capital was centralising the world economy and preparing it for the time when it would be taken over by the proletariat.
But, at the same time, as Lenin explained, these features of imperialism were amplifying the contradictions of the capitalist system: the expansion of the world market, which made national borders increasingly redundant, reinforced the role of the state machineries of the imperialist countries, pushing their rivalries to unprecedented levels. Meanwhile the increasing concentration of the economy in the hands of a small number of big companies controlled by an even smaller number of even bigger banks, exacerbated their trade war. The contradictions of capitalism were reaching such an heightened level that they were becoming an obstacle to its development. The political and economic crises of this imperialist era, argued Lenin, would break out on a world scale, just as its chronic economic crises would affect the whole world.
WWI was the first drastic illustration of this. But this did not make a proletarian revolution more inevitable, even if it made it more urgent.
The Bolshevik exception
Fortunately there was a proletarian revolutionary party which was ready to lead the proletariat on the road to power in these tumultuous times - namely, Lenin's Bolshevik party in Czarist Russia. This may have seemed the most unfavourable of places. Marx and Engels had always argued that a successful socialist revolution would require an economic base provided by full-blown capitalist development and Russia was only very partially industrialised. On the other hand, it was, in Lenin's words, "the weakest link in the imperialist chain" and because capitalism, as the world war proved, no longer functioned on a national basis, but actually operated on a world scale - so too, of necessity, would proletarian revolution need to spread itself internationally. If revolution started in Russia, it could only be successful if the proletariat of other countries, especially the richest ones, followed the Russian proletariat's example. There was every reason to think that it was only a matter of time before German workers did just that. But as we know, this was not to be.
However, the Bolshevik party had managed to avoid falling into the same reformist trap as the German SPD. In a way, this was partly due to the fact that the harsh conditions created by the Czarist regime left little space for reformist illusions. But this was not the only reason. Lenin and the Bolshevik leaders had drawn the necessary lessons from the rising reformist trends in the German SPD. Not only had the Bolshevik party been built as a militant organisation specifically to conduct the class struggle and prepare for the seizure of power, but it was above all designed to operate on the basis of a close, democratic relationship between its activists and the broader ranks of the working class. This ensured that the party would be less likely to be led astray by any kind of non-proletarian social pressure.
In addition, the Bolshevik party had the experience of the failed revolution of 1905 under its belt. In fact, 1905 had provided the working class movement with two new weapons: the mass strike and the soviet, or workers' council. Equipped with this experience and tradition, the Russian working class led by the Bolsheviks, was able to take power in October 1917 in its own name - and to retain this power against the largest coalition of counter-revolutionary forces ever seen in history.
But the revolutionary wave following the Russian workers' victory eventually collapsed, leaving the Russian workers' state completely isolated - for lack of workers' parties elsewhere which had the same necessary qualities demonstrated by the Bolsheviks in October 1917. For them it was a question now of surviving until the next revolutionary upsurge - if and when.
But the pressure of the imperialist-dominated world became too overbearing, feeding the development of a bureaucracy, which, under the leadership of Stalin, hijacked political power. The fight had to move elsewhere in order to keep the tradition of the revolution alive and protect what had been gained. This became the task of a Left Opposition under the leadership of the former commander of the revolutionary proletarian Red Army, Leon Trotsky. Had this opposition not raised the flag of revolutionary Marxism, the Soviet Union would probably have collapsed even before WWII.
What is Marxism today?
So, what about Marxism today? What does it amount to in this 21st century? First and foremost, as we've already pointed out, it is the accumulated experience of generations of communist activists who devoted their energies to organising the working class in its fight for social change, over the past century and a half. It is the sum total of what can be learnt from its attempts to deal with the many different circumstances and obstacles it faced.
For the working class, the class struggle has always involved successes and setbacks, victories and defeats. But whether successful or not, there was always something new for the communist movement to learn from these struggles. And this was true even of the many revolutionary situations in history, when the working class rose up without having any realistic chance of success.
The Paris Commune is a case in point. Although it was doomed to fail, both its achievements and its failures allowed the communist movement to take an enormous step forward. It gave a concrete content to Marx's concept of the dictatorship the proletariat, which, so far, had been solely based on historical reasoning, rather than on real-life experience. And last but not least, it redefined and clarified the tasks ahead for the working class in its march to revolutionise society.
So, to go back to what Marxism is today, it is primarily this accumulated collective experience of the working class over time. But this experience would be useless without the foundation on which Marxism is based - i.e. its scientific approach to the understanding of society as a process in constant motion, driven by the class struggle. Those who want to act in order to change society have to learn from its past. If they don't, they will endlessly have to reinvent the wheel, while repeating the same mistakes. It is precisely because the Marxist approach requires us to learn from the past evolution of society in order to understand its present operation and trends, that we can benefit from the experience of the past generations of working-class fighters.
But, by the same token, precisely because it constantly incorporates the experience acquired by the working class in the class struggle, Marxism is not, contrary to what its critics claim, a "frozen dogma". On the contrary, as a body of ideas and reasoning, it is permanently evolving, as history moves forward.
Marxism is often presented as an economic doctrine - especially by its arch-pro-capitalist critics. But it is not and has never been such a thing. Marx's choice to devote so much time and effort to studying the niceties of the inner workings of capitalism was never an end in itself, but a means to an end. His aim was to equip the working class with a deep understanding of its class enemy, of the economic system on which it was based and of the precise nature of the capitalist exploitation that it was subjected to. And the purpose of this was to contribute to the development of the class consciousness of the proletariat - in other words its consciousness of the necessity to carry out its historical task of overthrowing capitalism in order to replace it with a new form of social organisation, free of the contradictions of the old system.
So, today, Marxism incorporates this understanding of the workings of capitalism produced by Marx in the 19th century. But, just as it has constantly been incorporating the fighting experience of the working class as it developed, it has also incorporated the evolution of capitalism as it happened. That said, , there are some aspects of today's crazy economic system whose intricacies we don't really need to know about, in order to fight it. Famous speculators like Warren Buffett or Georges Soros have often been quoted, explaining that they did not understand anything about many of the so-called financial products which are available today - despite the fact that, every day, tens of billions of pounds worth of these financial products are traded and billions of pounds worth of profits are made from this trade. Yet ignorance has not prevented Buffett and Soros from becoming billionaires, thanks to gambling on these same financial products. So why should we bother to try to penetrate their pernicious complexity, like bourgeois economists do day after day in the columns of such newspapers as the Financial Times?
What really matters to the working class is the extent to which this gambling has become parasitical on the real economy, to the point of causing devastating financial crashes which, in turn, result in the serial closure of productive facilities and mass unemployment. In that sense, Marxists are not economists and we make no apologies for this. On the contrary, let's leave the champions of capitalism to the pleasure of arguing between themselves over the quickest way to make a fast buck! This is not our problem!
Finally, Marxism is often accused of being a "biased" approach to understanding the workings of society. And yes it is! And defiantly so, since it was built from the bottom-up as an instrument designed to help the oppressed and exploited masses to free themselves from the cause of their oppression and exploitation - which is capitalism. So, yes, today as yesterday, being a Marxist is first and foremost about making a choice - the choice of the best instrument available to fight the capitalist system and change society.
A weapon which is more relevant than ever for the working class
The question which is often raised today is whether Marxism is still relevant, 171 years after Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. Many of those who raise this question have already made up their minds on this issue and decided that the answer is no. They invoke a long list of arguments, which are worth examining one by one.
- Are we still living in a class society?
Some say that the fundamental Marxist notion that we live in a class society is not longer valid. Well, has the capitalist exploitation of human labour disappeared? Of course not. If the shareholders of British companies netted an all-time record of £95bn in dividends last year, it was certainly not because they produced the equivalent value in goods and services using their own manicured hands.
Indeed, this colossal amount of dividends still represents, as it did in Marx's time, part of the value produced by waged workers which has been stolen from them by their employers - while the rest of this stolen value is kept by companies as retained profits. In other words, capitalist exploitation - that is, the institutional theft of workers' labour by the capitalist owners of the means of production - remains as extensive as ever.
In fact, this exploitation has been increasing for a very long time. One way of measuring this is to compute the total value of wages as a proportion of the total value produced in any given country. In the rich countries, this proportion has been shrinking more or less constantly ever since the end of the so-called "postwar boom", in the early 1970s. In the poor countries, this proportion started shrinking during the following decade, in the 1980s, when the international financial institutions of the richest countries, such as the IMF, began to impose austerity programmes on them, in order to force their governments to service and repay their debt.
So, yes. Not only is capitalist exploitation still there, but it is getting increasingly vicious, just in the same measure that social injustices have been steadily growing over these same decades and that, more recently, social deprivation has returned to the rich countries with a vengeance. So, those who claim that we live in a classless society today, must either be wearing blinkers or else, like Blair and Thatcher, they must have chosen to side with the capitalist exploiters once and for all!
- Is there still a working class in the rich countries?
While acknowledging the obvious fact that social inequalities still exist today, some claim that the working class no longer exists in the way Marx saw it. They claim, in particular, that the working class has now been fully integrated into what they call the "middle-class", which is more preoccupied with mortgages, consumer goods and even shares, than with defending their collective interests against the bosses.
Obviously, this argument does not hold water when it comes to the proletariat of the poor countries. In this respect, more than enough has already been exposed in the media about the appalling conditions of the Chinese workers who manufacture Apple's electronic gadgets and of the Bangladeshi workers who produce clothes for the likes of Benetton or Primark!
But even in the rich countries, this argument does not hold any more water - and not just because of the recent rise of the "gig economy". In passing, it is worth noting that this way of burying the working class as a class, is almost as old as the capitalist system itself. Already, in the late 19th century, commentators were ridiculing the fighting capacity of relatively well-paid skilled workers, who were wearing bourgeois clothes and top hats and having heated arguments over the price of their railway shares. Well, yes. But this did not prevent the British working class from staging some of the biggest strikes in its history during that same period. Nor did it prevent these same skilled workers - or their sons, rather - from taking the lead of the wartime strikes in engineering, during World War I.
The truth is that outside revolutionary periods, the working class has never shown revolutionary consciousness. Only a minority of workers have, those who are committed activists. This is nothing new. But the fact that today's workers get indebted up to their necks and become tenants of their banks by taking a mortgage, or that Royal Mail workers, for instance, hold shares in their own company thanks to privatisation, does not change anything when it comes to their exploitation by the capitalist class. And it is this exploitation, together with the way in which capitalism concentrates workers in large numbers in the same workplaces, which makes them members of a specific class, with specific collective interests opposed to those of the capitalist class.
As to the consciousness workers have of being part of their class, it has always depended on circumstances - on the collective experience and the sense of collective strength they had acquired in the class struggle and the quality of the organisations they had managed to build in the course of their struggles. This was true in Marx's and Lenin's days and remains just as true today.
Of course, today, the class struggle may seem subdued or even, non-existent, in the rich countries. But this has often been the case in the past: periods of lull and resignation have often preceded periods of large-scale unrest and determined upsurge. The truth is that the class struggle never stops. There is always a certain level of resistance against exploitation among workers, even when it takes only a molecular form. As to the capitalists, they are always on the lookout for an opportunity to boost their profits on the backs of workers, by turning the screw of exploitation a bit more. But then comes a day when they turn the screw one notch too far. Suddenly, the class struggle comes back to the forefront of the political scene, with a vengeance - and with it, the rejuvenated class consciousness of the working class, including in the rich countries.
- Can the working class still deliver social change?
Another common argument is that the working class has somehow lost its capacity to deliver social change. Various allegations are made to support this point of view: that the days of the very large concentrations of workers in huge factories are long over and, therefore, the collective strength of the working class is now much less than it used to be in the past; that, due to mechanisation, there are already fewer and fewer industrial workers; and that, tomorrow, robots will take over productive jobs, thereby reducing the working class to barrista-like jobs. In short, the working class is supposed to have already lost most the muscle it had due to its vital role in production and will lose even more of it in the future, to the point of being completely marginalised by robots.
Of course, all this certainly reflects the image that the media and politicians of the capitalist class try to give of the working class in rich countries like Britain. But even the capitalists' own statisticians show that this is just smoke and mirrors. It is true that successive crises and profit drives have literally turned whole regions of Britain into industrial wastelands. It may seem just as true that the number of industrial jobs have dramatically shrunk over the past decades. But is this so? There are far fewer permanent industrial jobs, yes, without any doubt. But what about the jobs in so-called "industrial services" - i.e. subcontractors working on-site or off-site for big manufacturing companies? What about the growing number of casual workers - temps or self-employed, on part-time and zero-hours contracts - who are now working yesterday's permanent industrial jobs, but at a much, much, lower cost for the capitalist class? Taken altogether, the number of workers in industry has not shrunk all that much over the past three decades, since the wave of big closures and casualisation started. Nor have robots taken over as many manual jobs as it is often claimed.
And there is a very good reason for this: quite simply because, capitalist exploiters may be able to rob workers of part of the value they produce as a matter of course, but they can't play this trick on machines or robots, which they have already paid for, anyway. Workers can be pushed beyond their limits; if they refuse, break down or walk out, they can be sacked and replaced by other, more docile workers. But when machines are pushed beyond their limits, they break down, and must be replaced at huge extra cost.. In short, workers are exploitable and exploited, but machines aren't. And this is why machines are not used to do so many hard, repetitive jobs in which they could easily replace human labour - because it wouldn't be as profitable for the employers. In short, no matter the level reached by technology, the capitalist class cannot do without large numbers of workers simply because workers, unlike machines, are their only source of profits. In other words, even in the rich countries, the working class is still bound to incorporate a very large section of the population for the foreseeable future, at least as long as the profit system remains.
But, more importantly, overall the size of the international working class and its importance in the production process on the scale of the planet, keeps increasing more or less at the same speed as the size of the world economy. And this is what really matters for us communists, because, for us, social change is not the task of the British or French or American working classes alone, it is the historical task that only the international working class can accomplish.
- Hasn't capitalism changed?
Then, there are those who tell us that capitalism has changed, that it has mended its ways and has finally managed to overcome the contradictions that Marx so carefully dissected in his day.
Well, yes, capitalism has changed. But, as was explained earlier, these changes are now fully incorporated into Marxism. More importantly, though, while capitalism has indeed changed, it has changed for the worse. Let's take the example of the chronic capitalist crises. Since the advent of the imperialist epoch, more or less in the very early years of the 20th century, these recurrent crises changed from affecting one industry in a relatively limited geographical area, as they used to do in the 19th century, to become wider and wider in scope.
Since the 1920s, as a result of the ever-increasing integration of the world market, every single capitalist crisis has affected a long list of countries and virtually every industry.
Then, from the 1970s onwards, a growing proportion of the capital available across the world was turned into colossal flows of floating capital which roamed the planet at increasing speeds in search of a quick buck. This was due to the fact that, following the sudden world crisis in production of the early 1970s, the richest capitalist classes were no longer willing to invest long-term in the productive sphere. Instead they were looking for ways of making profits out of very short-term investment - or should we say speculative operations - which allowed them to pull their capital out easily and quickly at the first sign of danger. The truth was that the capitalists themselves no longer had any confidence in their own system. And this lack of confidence, together with the increasing flurry of speculation which went with it, has become a permanent feature of the world economy ever since. This made the world economy more fragile than it had ever been before.
Ever since then, the world economy has been shaken by crisis after crisis, at least one in every decade, which all presented similar features. They initially seemed to be triggered by some obscure hiccup, somewhere in the world financial sphere. Then they spread like wildfire to the rest of the world through the high-speed channels which allow floating capital to travel across the planet. In the process, they severely affected stock or bond markets, commodity or derivative markets, banks, real estate lenders, or any combination of these. Eventually, the financial shock ended up hitting the real economy by reducing the amount of money that companies could borrow and increasing the cost of borrowing, thereby pushing many of them to the wall, causing plant closures and redundancies.
Of course, superficially, these modern crises appear to be different in nature from those described in the 19th century by Marx. But in reality, the mechanisms which are producing them are identical. They are driven by the same old contradictions of capitalism whereby instead of capital being allocated to every sector of the economy according to need, its allocation is driven by the frantic competition between individual capitalists to maximise their own benefits. In Marx's day, this was what produced periodic crises of over-production and plant closures in each particular industry. Whereas, today, similar crises are still taking place in the production sphere, but they remain more or less hidden by the financial merry-go-round, until the financial sphere itself is affected, crashes, and finally reveals what was really going on all along in the real economy. So, no, capitalism hasn't reformed itself nor overcome any of its contradictions. If anything, on the contrary, their scale has enormously increased.
- Isn't "globalisation", rather than capitalism, the real problem faced by the world today?
Some critics of Marxism also argue that, today, the real problem faced by mankind is not capitalism but "globalisation" and that, therefore, Marxism should be dumped into the dustbin of history. They point to the countless ills from which the whole planet suffers - and rightly so - but, instead of blaming these ills not on capitalism itself, they blame them on the way capitalism now operates on a worldwide scale.
So, in their view, multinational companies are the main enemies, but not the local medium-size employer who exploits his workforce on zero-hours contracts. They blame the big banks and investment funds for the on-going disruption of the world economy by large-scale speculation, but not the greed of the many individual capitalists who use these banks and funds to increase their own wealth. They blame international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank for the catastrophic austerity programmes they impose on deeply indebted poor countries, but not the fact that the dramatic impoverishment of these countries is primarily due to the fact that capitalist profiteering rules over all economic relations across the world.
Ironically, "globalisation" as it is described today by its opponents is something that Marx had long outlined as one of the main characteristic tendencies of the capitalist system itself. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx described how, in their frantic competition to increase their profits, the capitalists had to expand their markets and, therefore, their operation to the whole planet, thereby creating an increasingly integrated world market which in which national borders would become not only irrelevant but, increasingly, as many obstacles to the normal operation of the world economy. Almost 70 years later, Lenin was to show how this expansionist tendency had finally produced a new stage in the development of capitalism - which he called imperialism. And reading the description that Lenin gave of this new stage, back in 1916, one can find all the features which are described today as "globalisation".
In other words, today's "globalisation" is nothing but the face of capitalism after one century of evolution since Lenin described the features of its imperialist stage.
But instead of recognising this fact - and drawing from it the conclusion that capitalism must be overthrown, as Marx and Lenin did in the past - the "anti-globalisation" movement generally argues for measures which, in its view, would "tame" the excesses of the system and produce, so to speak, a more lenient, acceptable form of capitalism. So, for instance, they argue for a reduction in world trade, for national economies to be more self-sufficient and for national borders to be used to shield them from the world market. Under the pretext of containing the rapacity of the big multinationals, the "anti-globalists" propose to raise protectionist barriers - as if the capitalist classes were likely to be any less ruthless in their search for profits within their respective national markets! In order to "tame" capitalism, they propose to scale it down. In other words, while world-scale capitalism is evil, small-scale capitalism is beautiful - as Thatcher could have said. As if the law of the jungle which is the very foundation on which capitalism - and its cut-throat competition between individual capitalists - is based could ever be "tame", whatever the scale on which it operates.
However, this tweaking around the edges of capitalism advocated by the "anti-globalisation" movement is not just an ineffective remedy - it is a reactionary one. Indeed, what they argue is that mankind should return to the "good old days" when capitalism was still in its infancy - as if there had ever been "good days" for the exploited under capitalism!
Compare this harking back to a past which never existed, with the infinitely more enthusing stance adopted by Marx in 1847, when he declared that, on the contrary, the tendency of capitalism to expand to the entire planet was a progressive development "(because) all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon a greater extent of territory, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions into a single group, where they stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletarians."
And, indeed, Marx has been proven right: capitalist expansionism has indeed united the planet into one single economic entity, concentrated the production process of material goods and made possible the pooling together of all material resources worldwide; it has created ties between the working classes of all countries; but at the same time it has increased the contradictions of capitalism to an unprecedented level, worldwide, thereby setting the scene for the final battle between the exploiters and the international working class, which will free mankind, at last, from the capitalist straitjacket. What remains to be done is to prepare for - and to win - this final battle. But only Marxism can help us to do this.
- Finally, to complete the list of arguments of those apostles of capitalism who deny any relevance to Marxism, there are those who keep repeating, like broken records, that Marxism is invalid because it has failed in Russia, China and/or Cuba.
First of all, this is the pot calling the kettle black. With its two World Wars, countless colonial wars, and now its endemic proxy wars across the world, not to mention its on-going economic crisis, surely capitalism has more than failed - especially since, unlike communism, it has had over two centuries to resolve its contradictions but has never managed to do it.
But, in addition, this only exposes the crass ignorance of our capitalist apostles. Otherwise they would know that neither Mao's China nor Castro's Cuba had anything to do with communism or the proletariat. Both saw successful revolutions, yes, which overthrew regimes which were in hock to imperialism. But in neither of these revolutions did the working class, the only class which can overthrow capitalism to bring about a new social organisation, play any role. Not in the revolution itself, nor in building the society which came out of it. These were nationalist revolutions, with a petty-bourgeois leadership and armies recruited among the poor peasantry. But they were not proletarian revolutions. And the fact that both countries have now more or less returned, almost seamlessly, into the womb of the imperialist market, shows that the social interests these regimes represented were not those of the proletariat.
As to Russia, it is a different issue altogether. The Stalinist degeneration of the Soviet Union was a consequence of the total isolation of the new workers' state, after the failure of the October revolution to expand to the rest of the world. Nevertheless, despite the Soviet Union's isolation, the economic backwardness of the country and the parasitism of the bureaucracy on its economy, the expropriation of the Russian capitalists and feudal classes did allow the Soviet Union to reach a level of economic development that no capitalist country starting from the same level of poverty, has been able to achieve. If this is not a vindication of Marxism - that is, of the enormous step forward that mankind would be able to take, just by ending the private ownership of the means of production and expropriating the capitalist class - what is?
Ironically, of course, understanding what really happened in Russia, China and Cuba, requires the use of the Marxist method - that is, a class analysis of the forces which shaped the evolution of these three countries. But this is precisely what the apostles of capitalism are incapable of!
A vital tool to shape the future of mankind
As we hope to have shown throughout this forum, Marxism is designed to be an instrument for social change. Supporters of capitalism may borrow from it, in a futile attempt to protect their chosen class, but they can't really do anything useful with it. Quite simply, because, in every situation, the Marxist method can only highlight the inbuilt contradictions of the capitalist system and the impotence of the capitalist class to resolve these contradictions. So, adopting Marxism only makes sense for those who choose the side of the working class against the capitalist exploiters, in order to free society of the increasingly rotten capitalist system.
Of course, we often come across people who ask us what "guarantee" we have that Marxism can provide an alternative to the ills of capitalism, that a proletarian revolution will ever be successful again or that communism will work. And our answer is that we have no guarantee of success whatsoever.
But what other choice do we have? Don't we know what capitalism has in store for mankind? In her first leaflet opposing WWI in Germany, the Polish revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg summarised the alternative we are confronted with in one formula, which is more valid today than it has ever been: "Socialism or Barbarism". By "Barbarism", of course, Rosa Luxemburg was referring to WWI, which had only just started and had not even begun to reveal all its horrors - particularly the systematic use of chemical weapons against soldiers stuck in their trenches. At the time, Luxemburg had no idea of the far more horrifying methods that capitalism would produce during WWII, with its gas chambers, atomic bombs, etc. Nor could she anticipate how the US army would use Agent Orange to effectively turn whole regions of Vietnam into sterile land for years to come.
But nor could Rosa Luxemburg even begin to imagine the damage caused by the capitalist system's criminal profiteering in peacetime. How many millions of workers have suffered - and often died - from occupational diseases such as silicosis or asbestosis? Just because protecting workers from these diseases would have dented the profits of the mining and construction giants. And this is not to mention the immeasurable consequences of man-made global warming and other similar ecological disasters, which are not anywhere close to being addressed, because it would not be profitable for the capitalists to do this.
The fact is that "barbarism" is already visible everywhere in this capitalist world. So, yes, barbarism - that is, the collapse of human civilisation as we know it - is the only thing that is guaranteed, should capitalism fail to be overthrown soon enough.
On the other hand, we know that capitalism is rotting on its feet because of its contradictions - mainly due to the private ownership of the means of production and the resulting mad competition for profits. We know that, by taking power in the past, the working class has already shown that it can free society from these contradictions, even if it was only for short periods of time. Marxism gives us the tools to understand the society in which we live, how we can change it and what pitfalls we will have to avoid. It also tells us what practical instrument the working class will need to achieve social change - a revolutionary communist workers' party, like the party built by the Bolsheviks. This is the first step: the building of a party which can provide a collective backbone to the fights of the working class, develop its class consciousness, as an integral part of the international working class, and provide it with the confidence that it can - and must - aim at taking over the running of society. Building such a party is what we can do today. Succeeding in doing this is the only guarantee that when the next revolutionary explosion takes place, and we can be sure that there will be one at some point in the future, the working class will be ready to make the best of its revolutionary energy - and to pave the way for the construction of a new communist society across the planet; the only way forward for mankind. | <urn:uuid:f6b4269a-caaf-4c8e-86e7-9940c3df04bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.union-communiste.org/fr/print/term/3923 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972351 | 13,751 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Why are my eggs exploding in the microwave?
When eggs are cooked, they turn from a liquid or plasma state into a solid, albeit rubbery, one. But not every bit of the liquid disappears. When you microwave the egg, tiny pockets of the remaining water become superheated, and when air is added—by puncturing or slicing the whites—the egg spontaneously boils.
What does it mean when a boiled egg explodes?
When eggs truly explode in boiling water then that means that the contents have already started to degrade microbiologically releasing hydrogen sulphide, an obnoxious gas that you sometimes become aware of when following the car in front too closely.
What does it mean if an egg explodes?
Why rotten eggs explode Eggs start to go bad because bacteria enters the egg through the porous shell or through small cracks. As the bacteria multiples it produces gas. The gas causes pressure to build up inside the egg.
How do you keep hard boiled eggs from exploding in the microwave?
Place the eggs on a plate that is microwave safe. Put the plate in microwave and heat for 10 seconds intervals at medium temperatures until warm. Heating the eggs in short increments will help prevent the boiled egg from exploding in the microwave.
Can boiled eggs explode?
Though you can hard-boil an egg in the microwave, eggs that have already been cooked should never be reheated. Hard-boiled eggs, once microwaved, have a tendency to explode. They don’t typically explode in the microwave, either.
Why does salt prevent eggs from exploding in microwave?
First, microwaves are partially blocked by salt ions, preventing them from reaching the egg. Second, salt water heats more slowly in a microwave than pure water, causing the egg to cook more gradually… more like boiling an egg on a stovetop.
Can an egg be hard-boiled in a microwave?
Place the eggs in the bottom of a microwave-safe bowl and cover with water ½ inch above the eggs. Add ½ teaspoon salt for each egg to avoid an explosion. An alternate method is to poke a hole in the bottom of the shell. Microwave on high for 4 minutes for 2 eggs, adding 1 minute for every additional 2 eggs.
Can we heat boiled egg in microwave?
Boiled eggs. These should not be microwaved due to risk of the yolk exploding. Instead, boil water and pour it over the boiled egg in a heat-resistant dish until submerged. Let them sit for 10 minutes to reheat through.
Is it OK to drink microwaved water?
Microwaved, clean tap water or bottled water is completely safe to drink, provided it’s allowed to cool to a drinkable temperature. Heating water in a microwave oven can be a real timesaver when it comes to making a warm beverage such as tea.
Is it safe to boil egg in microwave?
Yes, it is safe to cook eggs in the microwave, whether you wish to poach, scramble, or “fry” your eggs. Sometimes, microwaved eggs taste even better than stovetop eggs.
How do you tell if eggs are hard boiled?
To tell whether an egg is raw or hard-boiled, place it on its side and spin it. If the egg spins steadily, it’s hard-boiled; if it spins slowly or wobbles, it’s raw. If you can’t tell, stop the egg with your finger, then take your hand away.
Can you microwave boiled eggs without shell?
Yes, you can absolutely reheat boiled eggs without the shell. You can do so by soaking the eggs in hot water for about 60-90 seconds. The heating time depends on your personal preference though. The other method is by heating them in the microwave for 10 seconds or so.
Do hard boiled eggs explode in microwave?
Hard-boiled eggs, once microwaved, have a tendency to explode. They don’t typically explodein the microwave, either. The egg will exploderight after you put it in your mouth. Why do hard boiled eggs explode when you microwave them?
Why should you never microwave an egg in its shell?
Never microwavean eggin its shell because itwill explode. Even out of the shell, eggsmay explodein the microwavebecause rapid heating causes steam to build up under the yolk membrane faster than itcan escape.
Why do boiled eggs explode when boiled?
The reason they are exploding the internal temperature of the egg is colder than the water. Either take them from the refrigerator and put them in really cold water, then start to boil. Do not bring them to a ROLLING boil, meaning once they start to boil, turn down the temperature a bit. About Us Trending Popular Contact
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What is the ADA?
ADA stands for the Americans with Disabilities Act.New Window It was signed into law by President George Bush in 1990, and it’s America’s most important law regarding accessibility and civil rights for people with disabilities, including web accessibility.
Essentially, ADA prohibits discrimination against anyone based on ability or disability. It came about after a 2-year campaign to advance civil rights to marginalized groups, including Americans with disabilities. Disability activists and advocates lobbied intenselyNew Window for laws that would prohibit discrimination, and from 1988 they began to garner cross-partisan support for federal legislation.
ADA draws on the precedent that was set by Section 504New Window of the much older Rehabilitation Act, which guarantees certain rights to people with disabilities. However, the Rehabilitation Act was very limited and only applied to the government sector.
What does the ADA cover?
ADA is a very broad and wide-ranging piece of legislation that covers a lot of different aspectsNew Window of accessibility for people with disabilities. The part of the ADA that affects the way that businesses serve customers is called “Title III,” so you’ll hear accessibility legislation referred to “ADA Title III”New Window
ADA Title III covers public areas, like schooling and transportation, and “public accommodations.” “Public accommodations” is a legal phrase that includesNew Window businesses, restaurants, hotels, theaters, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, retail stores, museums, libraries, parks, daycare centers, and almost every place of work.
ADA requirements are twofold.
- Employers have to make accommodations for employees with disabilities to be able to do their jobs, including disabled-friendly entrances, disabled-friendly bathrooms, and the right kind of chairs, desks, and office equipment.
- Businesses of all types have to make it possible for customers with disabilities to access their services. The law requires them to make “reasonable modifications” to their premises when necessary so that they can serve people with disabilities. This includes things like wheelchair ramps for entrance into buildings, accessible bathrooms, American Sign Language (ASL) interpretations, and accommodation for service animals.
Required accommodations at places of business for disabled individuals include:
- Ramp access for wheelchairs and other mobility devices
- Interface mechanisms for visually impaired
- Interpretive devices for the hearing impaired or qualified interpreters
- Accommodations for service animals
2018 Updates to ADA
Eighteen years after President Bush signed the original 1990 bill, his son, President George W. Bush signed major changes to the ADA into law.
Who counts as “disabled”?
The most important change involved the definition of a disability.New Window The original ADA defined a person with a disability as someone who has a condition that “substantially limits major life activities.” Courts defined this wording in a very conservative way, which meant that a number of ADA lawsuits, like the famous Sutton vs. United AirlinesNew Window case of 1999, and Toyota vs. WilliamsNew Window in 2002, were dismissed because the plaintiff wasn’t considered to have a disability.
Under the 2018 amendment, “major life activity” was redefined to include daily activities like caring for oneself or performing manual operations. It was also extended to include impairments to major bodily functions like digestive and respiratory functions, and neurological impairments, as legal disabilities.
Who has to be ADA compliant?
There’s a common misbelief that ADA only applies to very large corporations, but that’s a serious mistake. All types and all sizes of businesses have to comply with ADA legislation, for their customers, and for their employees if there are over 15 employees. That means that ADA affects:
- Places of entertainment like theaters, movie theaters, and concert halls
- Restaurants and eateries
- Small and medium businesses of all types
- Large enterprises
- Retail stores
- Local government offices, employment agencies, and labor unions
Is ADA compliance mandatory for websites?
It was clear from the beginning that ADA affected every kind of business in the physical realm, but it’s less obvious that it covers websites and online spaces. The 1990 bill obviously did not predict today’s huge breadth of internet use. The past decade brought a range of rulings from the U.S. courts, with some insistingNew Window that websites do not qualify as a “public place of accommodation.”
However, as the internet became more important and websites played a bigger role in the way that consumers interact with businesses, the way that ADA is applied to web accessibility began to change.New Window Since 2017, a clear consensus emerged that ADA also covers the online world. Disability rights activists,New Windowlegal scholars,New Window and court rulings have agreed that websites, internet portals, and online stores also need to be accessible for people with disabilities.
In September 2018, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote an official letter to members of Congress that said “The Department first articulated its interpretation that the ADA applies to public accommodations’ websites over 20 years ago. This interpretation is consistent with the ADA’s…requirement that the goods, services, privileges, or activities provided by places of public accommodation be equally accessible to people with disabilities.”
Today, U.S. courts apply ADA accessibility requirements to the online domain, which means that websites should comply with ADA rules.
The rise of ADA website compliance lawsuits
ADA’s relevance to web accessibility isn’t just theoretical. Since 2017, the number of ADA title III-related lawsuits skyrocketed. In 2017, 816 ADA Title III lawsuits were filed, but in 2018 that number rose to over 2,200 cases. That’s a rise of 180%,New Window and it’s only the tip of the iceberg. It doesn’t reveal the increasing number of ADA legal complaints and lawyers’ demand letters that were filed against businesses with non-accessible websites in the last few years, because they never become part of the public record.
Experts estimateNew Window that approximately 40,000 demand letters were sent in 2018, and 2019 has peaked with over 100,000 demand letters and over 10,000 lawsuits.
Why are there so many ADA website compliance lawsuits?
There are a few reasons why ADA web accessibility has become such a hot legal topic in just the last few years.
One element is that commerce has shifted dramatically to the digital sphere. eCommerce boomed, rising from a total market value of $449 billion in 2017 to $517 billion in 2018. Online retail purchases now represent almost 15% of all retail spending, and the numbers are still going up.
What’s more, many of our regular activities have transferred to the internet, like ordering a cab, booking a doctor’s appointment, or checking on bus times. As web interactions become fundamental to our daily lives, web accessibility has become more important.
The last few years also saw a spread in awareness about web accessibility. High-profile lawsuits and the increasing knowledge about ADA title III means that people with disabilities now know that they have legal recourse when they can’t complete activities online. Millennials and Generation Z are also a lot less likely to stay quiet in the face of discrimination and inaccessibility.
At the moment, the legal environment in the US makes it very advantageous for someone with disabilities to sue businesses under ADA Title III. Unlike many other areas of the law, ADA makes it clearNew Window that the defendant automatically has to pay the plaintiff’s legal fees, so a disabled user has nothing to lose by filing a lawsuit.
The vast majority of ADA Title III lawsuits find in favor of the plaintiff. Through a series of findings, settlement agreements, and an official letterNew Window to lawmakers, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has made it clear that ADA compliance includes web accessibility.
SMBs should take ADA lawsuits seriously
Web accessibility cases against giants like Domino’s, Nike, and Beyonce made the headlines, but the majority of lawsuits have been filed against small and medium businesses. It’s estimated that 85% of ADA lawsuits in federal and state courts in 2018 were filed against small and medium retail businesses.
Since it’s almost inevitable that the court would find in favor of the plaintiff, small business owners often feel that they have no choice but to settle out of court. The cost of defending a lawsuit would destroy even a medium-sized business, but the average ADA website lawsuit settlement still comes to $35,000.
The implications are clear: a non-accessible website is a major liability for any company operating on the web today. It’s worth remembering that the market for people with disabilitiesNew Window is also rising. At around $21 billionNew Window, it’s worth more than the African-American and the Hispanic markets combined.
In 2019, digital accessibility has become a fundamental principle for all marketers and businesses who understand that users’ needs always come first. If you want to keep your business safe from ADA web accessibility lawsuits, appeal to customers with disabilities, and feel that you are upholding the social fabric, you need an accessibility solution for your website.
ADA affects web design and development agencies too
Web agencies need to keep ADA title III requirements in mind too. If a client gets sued for having a non-accessible website, that client will turn to the agency that designed it. The client could insist on getting their money back; ruin that agency’s reputation for failing to comply with legislation, or even sue the agency for having created a non-ADA-compliant website.
Hundreds of web agency owners have expressed their fear that their clients would get sued if they don’t provide accessible sites, but that any manual solution would take months to implement and cost thousands of dollars. Web agencies were waiting in trepidation to see if they would get hit with the fallout from an ADA title III lawsuit.
What are the ADA website compliance standards?
Part of what makes ADA title III compliance so difficultNew Window is that the law doesn’t specify what you need to do to make your website accessible. As Assistant Attorney General Boyd wrote to Congress: “Absent the adoption of specific technical requirements for websites through rulemaking, public accommodations have flexibility in how to comply with the ADA’s general requirements of nondiscrimination and effective communication. Accordingly, noncompliance with a voluntary technical standard for website accessibility does not necessarily indicate noncompliance with the ADA.”
Although the DOJ has declinedNew Window to adopt any official legal standard for the ADA, it has frequently referenced the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. Many rulings set WCAG 2.0 Level AA as the goal for website accessibility, even though this isn’t codified into law. At the moment, WCAG 2.1 is the best measure of web accessibility when it comes to federal law, and it’s unlikely that a site that’s WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliant would be sued for lack of accessibility. | <urn:uuid:9821055b-62e5-4ec8-898a-d2148334e2e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webtronixdesigns.com/search-engine-optimization-trends/what-is-accesibe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96108 | 2,280 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Have you heard about the writer Almada Negreiros? He is the author of beautiful verses, like the Canção da Saudade, in which he says "if I were blind, I loved everybody..." Maybe you know him better as a writer and poet, but the artist also produced various illustrations and paintings during his intense life, and today - which is his birthday - is a good day to remember his artistic trajectory.
A versatile artist
Born in 1893 in Sao Tome, Almada Negreiros began to write and illustrate handwritten newspapers at the age of 12. In the following years, he continued collaborating with mainly humorous periodicals of the time. At the age of just 20, he held his first solo exhibition with about ninety drawings, and the following year became artistic director of a weekly magazine.
Negreiros created illustrations for posters, magazines and books, while also writing his novels, plays, essays and novels. By the 1930s, he became increasingly sought after, especially for official works, including the creation of commemorative editions of stamps, or studies for the stained glass windows of a church in Lisbon.
The artist also created frescoes, tapestry cards, and even panels for official buildings. Varying techniques, and always writing, he was a dedicated supporter of modern art in Portugal. Negreiros worked until a year before his death in 1970 and his last works were made for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the University of Coimbra. Almada Negreiros had a profoundly positive view of life, and a serenity that made him say there is no misunderstanding between me and life.
An engaged artist
It is also necessary to emphasize the artist's role in the promotion of modernist movements in Portugal. He produced manifestos in which he discussed the current literary production and as a writer, he was ironic, sarcastic, and intelligent.
In addition to writing, he also became involved in the current affairs. In 1917, he held a conference dressed as a worker. In the same year, he wrote a manifesto entitled Ultimatum Futurist to the Portuguese Generations of the 20th Century, in which he said: I do not belong to any of the revolutionary generations. I belong to a constructive generation. He also pointed out national decadence in the arts and culture. According to the artist, indifference was absorbing the patriotism of the Portuguese nation.
Believing in art and literature as basic elements for building a better humanity, Almada wrote: When I was born, the phrases that would save humanity were already written, all that was left was to save humanity.
An award-winning artist
Almada Negreiros was a man who wanted to unite all the arts. This artistic trajectory earned him numerous awards, like the Columbano award for the painting "Woman". He also received prizes, such as the Domingos Sequeira Prize, for his panel paintings. In addition to the awards, he was often invited to participate in exhibitions, including international exhibitions such as the Portuguese Artists Exhibition in Brazil in 1942.
An unforgettable artist
The production of Negreiros, in all the areas in which he worked, is intense and dynamic. He helped define the modernist movement in Portugal and was one of the most productive artists of his generation. Known affectionately as "master Almada", he was a champion of novelty and aesthetic provocation. The works he created, both in literature and in the visual arts, the exhibitions in which he participated, the prizes he received are proof that he significantly contributed to the artistic production of Portugal.
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A DOCUMENTARY says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their US superiors never ordered them to fire.
The documentary, due to air next year and seen by Reuters on Tuesday, says the troops could have killed the al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan but the order to shoot never came, possibly because it took too long to request it.
"In 2003 and 2004 we had bin Laden in our sights. The sniper said 'I have bin Laden'," an anonymous French soldier is quoted as saying.
The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the report was "erroneous information".
The documentary Bin Laden, the failings of a manhunt is by journalists Emmanuel Razavi and Eric de Lavarene, who have worked for several major French media outlets in Afghanistan. A cable television channel plans to air the documentary in March.
Razavi said the soldier told them it took roughly two hours for the request to reach the US officers who could authorise it but the anonymous man is also quoted in the documentary as saying: "There was a hesitation in command."
Razavi told Reuters several sources told them the sightings were six months apart and they declined to be more specific.
But French armed forces spokesman Christophe Prazuck said "that never happened" when asked about the bin Laden sightings.
Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is believed to be hiding in the mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
France has roughly 200 elite troops operating under US command near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. Paris announced on Sunday it was withdrawing them at the start of 2007.
France is part of the 32,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, which took over command of a war against the Taliban from US-led forces in October and has launched a series of military offensives.
Its special forces were deployed in 2003 to bolster Operation Enduring Freedom, a US-led campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda in response to the September 11 attacks.
Afghans questioned in the documentary said they believed the United States was not interested in finding bin Laden, despite the $25 million price Washington has placed on his head.
The documentary stopped short of that conclusion but raised questions about the US hunt for bin Laden, such as whether Washington is more concerned about preserving stability in Pakistan, where many support bin Laden, than in finding him.
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