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Head of state: King Letsie III
King Letsie III succeeded his father, King Moshoeshoe II, who was dethroned in 1990.
Five years later, after the return to civilian government and amid political instability, he abdicated and his father was reinstated as monarch.
Letsie III was restored as king in 1996 after his father died in a car accident. The monarch has no legislative or executive powers.
Prime Minister (incoming): Thomas Thabane
Thomas "Tom" Thabane's All Basotho Convention won early elections in June 2017, after the coalition government of Pakalitha Mosisili lost a vote of confidence.
He served an earlier term as prime minister in 2012-2015, and briefly fled to South Africa in August 2014 alleging a coup attempt by the armed forces.
This veteran politician, born in 1939, has served in various ministerial capacities since the early 1980s, including a stint as foreign minister under Mr Mosisili in 1998-2002. He formed the All Basotho Convention in 2006.
Mr Thabane moved to South Africa in 2015, alleging that as opposition leader he was not safe in Lesotho. He returned in 2017 in order to challenge Mr Mosisili in the vote of no confidence.
Mr Thabane's concerns about security were borne out when his estranged wife Lipolelo was shot dead by unknown assailants a few days before his return to office. | <urn:uuid:a653bab8-c4a1-47d8-8879-b2329354d2bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13728326 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.986448 | 299 | 1.601563 | 2 |
APEC Summit: After Mike Pence, Xi Jinping spar over tariffs, infrastructure; grouping fails to issue joint statement
Chinese president Xi Jinping and US vice president Mike Pence traded barbs in speeches at the APEC summit of world leaders on Saturday, outlining competing visions for global leadership as trade and other tensions between them simmer.
Chinese president Xi Jinping and US vice-president Mike Pence traded barbs in speeches at the APEC Summit of world leaders on Saturday, outlining competing visions for global leadership as trade and other tensions between them simmer.
Leaders of 21 Pacific Rim countries and territories that makeup 60 percent of the world economy will meet in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. They are struggling to reach agreement on a joint declaration, particularly whether to push for changes to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which sets the rules for trade and can penalise nations that breach them.
WTO member nations have been unable to reach agreement on further freeing up trade for years and the organisation is in danger of atrophy. Following heated US-China exchanges, the members failed to put out a joint statement upon the conclusion of the summit.
CNN reported that all member countries, except China, were in agreement on a joint statement; a discord which resulted in the summit not issuing a joint statement for the first time in 25 years.
Two-thirds of its members claim developing nation status that allows them to take advantage of benefits and exemptions to obligations not granted to advanced economies, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The US, meanwhile, believes the WTO’s arbitration body has made decisions beyond its mandate.
APEC is also facing questions about its future. Malaysia’s 93-year-old prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said it will become irrelevant if developing nations continue to be left behind by globalisation and free trade.
In the midst of uncertainty about the summit's purpose and outcome, Xi and Pence engaged in a war of words over unresolved issues between the two economic giants. The two debated over protectionism, trade tariffs and "chequebook diplomacy" as they laid out sharply contrasting visions for the Pacific Rim region.
The exchanges laid the ground for what could be a fiery encounter between the Chinese leader and President Donald Trump at next month's G20 in Argentina.
US-China tariff war
Pence said there would be no letup in President Donald Trump’s policy of combating China’s mercantilist trade policy and intellectual property theft that has erupted into a tit-for-tat tariff war between the two world powers this year.
The US has imposed additional tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods and China has retaliated. Pence reiterated Trump administration threats to more than double the penalties.
“The United States, though, will not change course until China changes its ways,” Pence said, accusing Beijing of intellectual property theft, unprecedented subsidies for state businesses and “tremendous” barriers to foreign companies entering its giant market.
Xi, who spoke before Pence, anticipated many of the US criticisms in his speech. He said countries are facing a choice of cooperation or confrontation as protectionism and unilateralism spreads. He also expressed support for the global free trading system that has underpinned his country’s rise over the past quarter century to the world’s second-biggest economy after the US
“The rules made should not be followed or bent as one sees fit and they should not be applied with double standards for selfish agendas,” Xi said. “Mankind has once again reached a crossroads, which direction should we choose? Cooperation or confrontation? Openness or closing doors. Win-win progress or a zero sum game?" he added.
The Belt and Road Initiative
Pence announced the US would be involved in ally Australia’s plan to develop a naval base in Papua New Guinea, where the summit was held. China has been intensely wooing Papua New Guinea and other Pacific island nations with aid and loans for infrastructure.
“Our vision for a free and open Pacific region will prevail,” Pence said.
The vice-president harshly criticised China’s global infrastructure drive, known as the “Belt and Road Initiative,” calling many of the projects low quality that also saddle developing countries with loans they can’t afford. The US, a democracy, is a better partner than authoritarian China, he said.
“Know that the United States offers a better option. We don’t drown our partners in a sea of debt, we don’t coerce, compromise your independence,” Pence said. “We do not offer constricting belt or a one-way road. When you partner with us, we partner with you and we all prosper.”
Responding to a chorus of criticism of China’s international infrastructure drive, Xi said it was not a trap or power grab.
“It is not designed to serve any hidden geopolitical agenda, it is not targeted against anyone and it does not exclude anyone,” Xi said. “It is not an exclusive club that is closed to non-members, nor is it a trap as some people have labeled it.”
South China Sea
China’s territorial claims to most of the South China Sea that borders Southeast Asian nations were also a target in Pence’s speech.
China has demanded that the US stop deploying ships and military aircraft close to its man-made islands in the disputed waters after American and Chinese ships nearly collided near a contested reef in September. But Pence stressed on Saturday that the US won’t back off.
“We will continue to fly and sail wherever international law allows and our national interest demands,” he said. “Harassment will only strengthen our resolve. We will not change course.”
Washington will continue to support efforts by Southeast Asian nations to negotiate a legally binding “code of conduct” with China “that respects the rights of all nations, including the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea,” Pence said.
The aim of the strategy, also known as ‘asymmetrical warfare’, is to make Taiwan’s defence so secure that any attacker faces a ruinous cost. It also focuses on weapons that are easily concealed such as portable Javelin and Stinger missiles over expensive and easy-to-hit tanks, warships and naval ves
The Indian Army takes in Nepalese soldiers under the tripartite treaty signed between Nepal, India and Britain in 1947. India currently has 43 Gorkha battalions serving in seven regiments
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Halloween is a fun night for kids to be out in Oak Park or Chicago. Unfortunately, children who are out trick-or-treating face significant risks. A personal injury lawyer knows that there are more child pedestrian accidents on Halloween than any other day of the year. Parents need to be aware of the dangers of collisions and should discuss road safety with their kids. Children under the age of 12 should also trick-or-treat only when accompanied by an adult.
Safety Tips for Halloween
Safe Kids Worldwide has provided a number of important safety tips to help kids avoid the risks of collision on Halloween night. To stay safe, it is important for:
- Children to cross the street at corners only, and never in the middle of the block. Data from State Farm shows that the majority of child pedestrian accidents on Halloween night occur in the middle of the block. This is usually because excited kids run out in between vehicles and are struck by cars.
- Children to look both ways when crossing. Kids should put down electronic devices and should look both ways before crossing the road and as they move across.
- Children to make eye contact with drivers prior to crossing in front of a vehicle.
- Kids to walk on paths or sidewalks. If there are no sidewalks available, children should be taught to walk facing traffic. It is also a good idea for kids to walk on direct routes with the fewest street crossings.
- Children to watch for vehicles that are backing up or turning. Parents should stress the importance of never running out onto the road in between vehicles.
- Children to wear safe costumes. Wearing face paint instead of masks helps to avoid obstructed vision, while brightly colored costumes can make a child more visible to other vehicles that are passing by.
Parents should go over these rules with their children before kids head out to go trick or treating. If a child is under age 12, he or she should go out with a parent only and should not be on the streets alone at night. Unfortunately, even older kids face the risk of getting hurt on Halloween. State Farm data on pedestrian accidents has revealed that kids in the age group of 12 to 15 are most likely to be involved in pedestrian collisions on Halloween.
While parents and kids need to do their part to keep young people safe, it is also important for drivers to exercise caution as well. More than double the number of child pedestrians are killed on Halloween each year compared with other days of the year. Drivers need to be aware that kids will be out trick or treating and should slow down in residential neighborhoods and take the time to look for children at intersections and on medians.
If drivers, parents and kids all recognize the risks of Halloween and make a commitment to stay safe, hopefully fewer lives can be lost this year and everyone can enjoy the holiday.
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POEMS,or AMUSEMENTS IN RHYME,written at various periods between the years 1815 and 1845.Together with an ALS.
A lovely copy of the First Edition together with a long holograph letter dated August 1844 to his two daughters which begins. " When sun and moon are clouded and not a star appears - when chart & every other guide fails, there is a light in the human countenance which will never deceive us..." The letter posted in Liverpool, goes on to describe an incident in Southport involving his friend John Fowler the civil engineer and ends with a request that they contact the Mechanics Institute immediately - of which Fowler was the Hon Secretary to say that he cannot be present. Rogers was born in Greasborough and a shoemaker by trade. He became a Methodist preacher and then seceded on doctrinal grounds. He was aquainted with the Elliott family and was persuaded by John Holland [poet and editor of The Iris] to move to Sheffield. The book is dedicated to George Calvert Holland the physician poet and autodidact from Pitsmoor, who "became a Mæcenas to a Shoemaker" 8vo.viii.192pps yellow coated endpapers rebacked original blind stamped cloth in exceptional condition.
Author Rodgers, Paul. [Sheffield Poet 1788 - 1851]
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The strategy for the preparation of the UPSC syllabus is the deciding element of whether the aspirant will clear the exam or not. The most crucial step while starting to prepare for the examination is to devise a plan or layout of a strategy that will help you cover the entire syllabus in time, give you plenty of time for revision, and make time for solving mock tests and previous year question papers along with daily preparation of current affairs. While devising a strategy for preparation one must thoroughly understand the syllabus of each paper separately, and understand the varied amount of effort that one needs to put in accordance with the subject requirements and one’s own command over the subject. When time is managed to keep all these points in mind, there are higher chances of better preparation and hence a better attempt.
Syllabus Preparation Strategy for UPSC Examination
Along with the preparation of the UPSC syllabus, comes the crucial decision of selecting the most suitable optional subject for yourself that would increase your chances of scoring more marks in the examination. Sociology is one such optional subject for the UPSC examination that is widely preferred by civil services aspirants. The UPSC sociology syllabus is relatively concise as compared to the other subjects. This increases the chances of getting one’s score up. On some other lines, the sociology syllabus overlaps with the general studies syllabus as well, contributing to one’s essay preparation too. One can get a very clear idea of the sociology paper by solving a bunch of previous year’s paper questions so as to be completely prepared for the examination.
UPSC Sociology Syllabus
The UPSC sociology syllabus revolves around the fundamentals of sociology, politics-society inter-relationship, religion-society inter-relationship, marriage and kinship, Indian society, the structure of Indian society, etc. The sociology optional is divided into paper one and paper two. Paper one includes fundamentals of sociology whereas paper two includes questions about Indian society. Both the papers carry 250 marks each. The preparation for sociology option Naal makes the candidate well versed with the societal norms and assess the policy decisions.
Blueprint Towards Sociology Optional Preparation
- Thorough understanding of the syllabus:
A complete understanding of the syllabus will make sure that no time is wasted over the topics that are not relevant to the syllabus and complete focus is on the topics that are important, and the ones that have frequently appeared in the previous examinations.
- Resource management:
One must gather the best resources while preparing for sociology optional. There are some great books available for paper one and paper two separately, which will help in a complete understanding of the topics. The important point while gathering resources is to limit them and not get overwhelmed with the options available. Gathering limited sources and focusing on preparing them is a much better approach to completing the syllabus rather than going for variable sources all at once.
- Complete yet concise notes:
While preparing, one must prepare the notes as they proved to be of utmost benefit while coming back for revision. Handwritten notes help us recall the topics much more efficiently and quickly.
- Proper revision:
Once the notes have been properly made and all the topics are precisely covered, it is easier for the candidate to revise after the completion of the entire syllabus. The formula of multiple revisions is a tried and tested one, across the years, by numerous candidates. It is very helpful in recollection of the syllabus and improving writing efficiency in the essay paper.
- Solving mock tests and previous year’s question papers:
Solving previous year’s question papers is a must while preparing for sociology optional as one is able to zero in on the topics that have appeared multiple times in the previous years. This provides a clear path of preparation for the aspirant. The previous year’s question papers alone do not serve the greater purpose as they need to be combined with regular mock test attempts in order to increase one’s efficiency and writing skills. You can also read some more tips to prepare for UPSC exams on the BYJUS exam prep website. | <urn:uuid:ef24ff15-6957-4b17-9189-9e811a150897> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aajkitajikhabar.com/strategies-to-prepare-upsc-sociology-syllabus-in-3-months/?noamp=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.932752 | 845 | 2.625 | 3 |
Finding and Using Clip Art
Creating your own documents and presentations usually requires the addition of images in order to produce a more visually pleasing end product.
There are many ways to get images into your documents, from utilizing images included within templates to finding images on the web or even grabbing something via a scanner.
Microsoft clipart is another way – available both online and via Microsoft Word and other Office applications, clipart can be browsed and imported into documents and PowerPoint presentations to provide a polished, professional visual enhancement to the document.
This article introduces you to accessing Microsoft clipart online, where an immense selection of clipart can be found and used in your documents.
How to Access Microsoft Clipart Online
Accessible via most Microsoft Office applications (in Word 2007 go to Insert > Clip Art), clipart can also be viewed online at office.microsoft.com where over 150,000 images and sounds are available. This page can also be accessed via the Clip Art sidebar in Microsoft Word.
This site also offers “featured collections”, a clip of the day, tips for using clipart effectively as well as a comprehensive search function and a browsable list of the most commonly used categories.
Although browsing Microsoft clipart online is easier than using the clip art function in Word, downloading is more complicated.
To download an image, tick the box beneath it – a section called Selection Basket will appear on the webpage, informing you how many items are selected and what the download size is, as well as providing a link to download the item. Once this has been done, the item is available from the Microsoft Clip Organizer, a tool installed as part of Microsoft Office.
Benefits of Clipart
The use of clipart in Microsoft documents is widespread – after all, it is a popular method of providing an interesting graphical illustration to accompany the contents of your Word document or presentation. Many such documents have benefited from the effective images that come as part of Microsoft’s clipart library.
While the most common uses of clipart are in Word, Publisher and PowerPoint, the images can with a little adjustment also be used in Excel and Access applications.
One of the main benefits of Microsoft clipart is the format – the vector-based WMF (Windows Metafile) file type is used, which offers an image that is scalable and much smaller than the JPEG or GIF version.
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A holiday without facebook, twitter, wifi, ipad, blackberry, and all other gadgets! A holiday totally disconnected from technology and connected with nature. Imagine how enjoyable it would be. Stress due to day to day life is pushing for a complete escape into nature, a world that is devoid of internet and modern gadgets. Sounds interesting right! Does such a place exist on the earth? Yes, there are places where you can stay disconnected from technology and allow you reconnect with people, nature and yourself. Read on to know more about such places.
Unplugged Vacation Destinations:
1. Huaorani Ecolodge, Amazonian Rainforest, Ecuador
For people who want to connect with nature and experience every aspect of it, can there be a better place than a forest. Huaorani ecolodge offers you a life changing experience.
The resort is located in one of the Amazon villages where guests can stay in thatched cabins and learn more about the Huaorani culture.
You can know about the tribes, their custom, go hiking with the tribes, and learn how they survive in the forest. This will definitely be once in lifetime experience.
2. Yellowstone Under Canvas
Located 10 minutes away from the Yellowstone National Park entrance, the Yellowstone under canvas offers a wide range of adventure filled activities to unwind and revive you.
The comfortable Safari tents, onsite restaurant, smell and sounds of nature, no electricity and a lot of activity will make the holiday one of the best holidays in your life.
Kaykaying, horse riding, fly fishing, amazing wildlife, rafting, zipline canopy tour, guided tours, biking and many more outdoor activities will excite your senses and energize you. All you need to do is switch off your gadgets and get started for more activities in nature.
3. Saba Rainforest Ecolodge
Saba, a Caribbean island which is considered one of the top diving destinations, is serene and charming. The ecolodge offers an experience beyond comparison and activities that are very thrilling.
It situated near the Crispeen track and is a perfect place to unplug stress.
The cabins in the ecolodge are constructed in the traditional Saba style and surrounded by lush greenery. The solar lighting, composting toilet, hammocks, cool breeze, songs of birds, etc all make you reunite with nature and stay off the grid.
4. Gateway, Colorado
Visitors can have the opportunity to truly disconnect from technology in Gateway resort. The resort has only limited internet connectivity that helps you stay totally connected with nature.
The remote location in the amazing red rock canyons will be a unique and unusual experience.
Mountain biking, horse riding, hiking, fly fishing, and what not, you can enjoy doing all kinds of adventurous outdoor activities in the resort and still feel at home.
5. Taha’a, French Polynesia
Taha’a Island in Pacific Ocean offers the magnificent sights of nature with its soft mountains, bright beaches, and the green valley.
The flower shaped island is the best place for those seeking escape from modern cities and stressful everyday bustle.
Sea diving is a popular activity where you get to see the yellow coral and white tip sharks. A lot of water based activities and cruising, shopping, over-water bungalows, unique spas, island tours will give you a wonderful experience you will remember forever.
6. Jade Mountain Resort, St. Lucia
This multi-tiered open air resort is built into a mountainside overlooking the Caribbean Sea. To maintain the Robinson Crusoe vibe, the rooms do not provide any digital distractions. You can enjoy scuba diving or take a dip in the stunning private infinity pool or enjoy custom prepared lunch prepared by a private butler. | <urn:uuid:87d503e8-1b06-4dae-8c87-8681447ccda3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.traveltourxp.com/6-amazing-unplugged-vacation-destinations-around-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.93253 | 785 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Les seules preuves philosophiques de l’existence des substances séparées qui répondent aux exigences épistémologiques de Thomas sont des arguments aristotéliciens dont les conclusions, basées sur des prémisses d’une astronomie et une physique obsolètes, sont inacceptables. Thomas prit des distances à leur égard et, laissé sans alternative philosophique, proposa une série d’arguments théologiques dont la cohérence et valeur logique sont mis en question. Puisqu’il n’y a pas de preuve philosophique de l’existence des substances séparées, leur notion devrait être exclue du discours (...) philosophique. (shrink)
As the basis for this translation, Robb has used the Latin text of the Quaestiones de anima which he edited in 1968. Since both the English version and the Latin text are responsibilities of the same scholar, should the former be judged by the quality of the latter? This approach does not seem fair, especially since Robb did not present his original text as a critical edition, but rather as a "corrected" edition, designed to serve students of medieval philosophy until (...) the Leonine Commission published its definitive text. In fact Robb's edition achieved its goal very well, and has been an excellent tool for many studies of Thomas's anthropology. However, our analysis of the whole tradition of Quaestiones de anima has revealed two facts unknown to Robb: first, that the manuscript he used for his edition, although excellent, represents a late stage in the transmission of the text; and second, that the independent family, whose existence Robb was able to establish, is both larger than Robb thought and more authoritative than the university tradition. We hope to prove these points in the edition we are preparing for the Leonine Commission, which will differ from Robb's Latin text in many details. Given these conditions, we shall here limit ourselves to examining Robb's translation with respect to two questions: is it faithful to the text of Robb's Latin edition? and in what sense does it represent an improvement over this edition? (shrink)
Although language processing seems to resist age advancement, linguistic changes in aging are the reflection of systematic decline in cognitive and energy resources. However, aging does not affect language in a global way, being predominant a marked deterioration of production versus a relative maintenance of comprehension at various levels. This review provides updated information on the changes occurring in linguistic aging, focusing on lexical-semantic processing and the role of sociodemographic factors such as education, socioeconomic status and gender; In addition, a (...) brief approach to linguistic processing in the fourth age is attached. As a result, literature shows that lexical-semantic processing is asymmetric; older adults maintain their vocabulary and conceptual knowledge, however, they fail in tasks of access and lexical availability, with notable increase in events of the tip of the tongue associated with dependence on the psycholinguistic variables of the word. At the same time, the educational and socioeconomic level can influence lexical-semantic performance of the older adult, given its relation with the cognitive reserve and the greater elaboration of compensatory strategies. (shrink)
This paper presents two projects concerned with the application of natural language processing technology for improving communication between Public Administration and citizens. The first project, GIST,is concerned with automatic multilingual generation of instructional texts for form-filling. The second project, TAMIC, aims at providing an interface for interactive access to information, centered on natural language processing and supposed to be used by the clerk but with the active participation of the citizen.
Neste artigo apresentamos de forma breve uma teoria searliana de interpretação dos atos de fala. Mostramos através do exemplo das metáforas que, conforme proposta por Searle, a interpretação de atos de fala consistiria em reconhecer a intenção do falante. Esse processo se daria por meio do uso de regras convencionais da linguagem tanto pelo falante quanto pelo ouvinte. Contudo, as metáforas são um exemplo de que essa proposta de interpretação não é suficiente para descrever o processo pelo qual os agentes (...) interpretam atos de fala. Argumentamos que se deve acrescentar a esse processo a noção de regras estratégicas. Seguindo Peirce, duas regras estratégicas são oferecidas: o princípio da coerência e o princípio da economia. Parece também satisfatório acrescentar o princípio da não-contradição. Embora estudos empíricos não sejam definitivos sobre o tema da interpretação, em especial sobre metáforas, os resultados apontam para a aplicação de regras estratégicas na interpretação. Finalmente, é sugerido que se Searle está certo ao dizer que interpretação é o reconhecimento da intenção do falante, então a interpretação depende do uso de regras convencionais e do uso de regras estratégicas. (shrink)
A detailed outline is presented of several convergent points of view connecting the self-dual and anti-self-dual fields with their free data. This is done for the Maxwell and for linearized gravity as exemplifying the approaches. The Sparling equation provides one tool of great power and characterizes one approach. The twistor theory of Penrose yields another equally powerful point of view. The links between these two basic approaches given in this paper provide a unification that allows workers and others with interest (...) in this area to proceed more readily toward the goal of understanding the full nonlinear Einstein equations. (shrink)
In this note we give two new simple derivations of the “good-cut” equation, the equation which governs (complex) self-dual asymptotically flat gravitational fields. One of these derivations is remarkably simple, involving only a few lines. Our main point of interest, however, is in the second derivation. Though it is slightly more complicated, this method of derivation is almost certainly generalizable to cover real asymptotically flat space-times and thus lead to a generalization of the good-cut equation.
We report three experimental studies of reasoning with double conditionals, i.e. problems based on premises of the form: If A then B. If B then C. where A, B, and C, describe everyday events. We manipulated both the logical structure of the problems, using all four possible arrangements (or “figures” of their constituents, A, B, and C, and the believability of the two salient conditional conclusions that might follow from them, i.e. If A then C, or If C then A. (...) The experiments showed that with figures for which there was a valid conclusion, the participants more often, and more rapidly, drew the valid conclusion when it was believable than when it was unbelievable. With figures for which there were no valid conclusions, the participants tended to draw whichever of the two conclusions was believable. These results were predicted by the theory that reasoning depends on constructing mental models of the premises. (shrink)
Over recent years, the research community has been increasingly using preprint servers to share manuscripts that are not yet peer-reviewed. Even if it enables quick dissemination of research findings, this practice raises several challenges in publication ethics and integrity. In particular, preprints have become an important source of information for stakeholders interested in COVID19 research developments, including traditional media, social media, and policy makers. Despite caveats about their nature, many users can still confuse pre-prints with peer-reviewed manuscripts. If unconfirmed but (...) already widely shared first-draft results later prove wrong or misinterpreted, it can be very difficult to “unlearn” what we thought was true. Complexity further increases if unconfirmed findings have been used to inform guidelines. To help achieve a balance between early access to research findings and its negative consequences, we formulated five recommendations: consensus should be sought on a term clearer than ‘pre-print’, such as ‘Unrefereed manuscript’, “Manuscript awaiting peer review” or ‘’Non-reviewed manuscript”; Caveats about unrefereed manuscripts should be prominent on their first page, and each page should include a red watermark stating ‘Caution—Not Peer Reviewed’; pre-print authors should certify that their manuscript will be submitted to a peer-review journal, and should regularly update the manuscript status; high level consultations should be convened, to formulate clear principles and policies for the publication and dissemination of non-peer reviewed research results; in the longer term, an international initiative to certify servers that comply with good practices could be envisaged. (shrink)
The mental model theory predicts that reasoners normally represent what is true, but not what is false. One consequence is that reasoners should make "illusory" inferences, which are compelling but invalid. Three experiments confirmed the existence of such illusions based on disjunctions of disjunctions. They also established a successful antidote to them: Reasoners are much less likely to succumb to illusions if the inferences concern disjunctions of physical objects (alternative newspaper advertisements) rather disjunctions of the truth values of assertions. The (...) results shed light both on the cause of the illusions and on the current controversy among different theories of reasoning. (shrink)
8 March, now known as International Women’s Day, is a day for feminist claims where demonstrations are organized in over 150 countries, with the participation of millions of women all around the world. These demonstrations can be viewed as collective rituals and thus focus attention on the processes that facilitate different psychosocial effects. This work aims to explore the mechanisms involved in participation in the demonstrations of 8 March 2020, collective and ritualized feminist actions, and their correlates associated with personal (...) well-being and collective well-being, collective efficacy and collective growth, and behavioral intention to support the fight for women’s rights. To this end, a cross-cultural study was conducted with the participation of 2,854 people from countries in Latin America and Europe, with a retrospective correlational cross-sectional design and a convenience sample. Participants were divided between demonstration participants and non-demonstrators or followers who monitored participants through the media and social networks. Compared with non-demonstrators and with males, female and non-binary gender respondents had greater scores in mechanisms and criterion variables. Further random-effects model meta-analyses revealed that the perceived emotional synchrony was consistently associated with more proximal mechanisms, as well as with criterion variables. Finally, sequential moderation analyses showed that proposed mechanisms successfully mediated the effects of participation on every criterion variable. These results indicate that participation in 8M marches and demonstrations can be analyzed through the literature on collective rituals. As such, collective participation implies positive outcomes both individually and collectively, which are further reinforced through key psychological mechanisms, in line with a Durkheimian approach to collective rituals. (shrink)
We report three experimental studies of reasoning with double conditionals, i.e. problems based on premises of the form: If A then B. If B then C. where A, B, and C, describe everyday events. We manipulated both the logical structure of the problems, using all four possible arrangements (or ''figures" of their constituents, A, B, and C, and the believability of the two salient conditional conclusions that might follow from them, i.e. If A then C , or If C then (...) A . The experiments showed that with figures for which there was a valid conclusion, the participants more often, and more rapidly, drew the valid conclusion when it was believable than when it was unbelievable. With figures for which there were no valid conclusions, the participants tended to draw whichever of the two conclusions was believable. These results were predicted by the theory that reasoning depends on constructing mental models of the premises. (shrink) | <urn:uuid:9f7c0f3e-2dd8-47f3-b2c5-4a555dbd0a92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://api.philpapers.org/s/Bernardo%20Carlos%20Baz%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDn | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.902786 | 2,646 | 2.078125 | 2 |
What is a growth stock?
A growth stock refers to the stock of a company with a market value that has the potential to grow faster than the average rate.
Companies considered to be a “growth stock” have growth characteristics such as – success in research and development, good marketing programs, and excellent management. These are usually smaller or startup companies, especially in the growth sectors like technology and biotech.
These companies generally don’t pay dividends mainly because they suffer negative cash flows that are usually tied to the higher growth rate.
An example of a successful growth stock in the global market includes Amazon, Meta, Apple, Netflix, and more.
Amazon Inc. is one of the largest growth stocks today globally. As of June 2022, Amazon ranks fifth among US stocks in terms of its market capitalization. The company’s stock has been traded at a high price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. And for the year 2022, its earnings per share (EPS) growth estimates are over 67.
Investing in growth stock
Investors seeking a massive return on their investments tend to purchase a growth stock with the expectation of share price appreciation.
However, it is also considered a high-risk investment and can be relatively volatile. Since growth stocks typically do not pay dividends, investors can only earn money when they sell their shares.
It may appear to be an attractive investment option, but its level of uncertainty can be very risky. If the business is not in good condition, investors may take a loss on the stock when trading.
On the other hand, growth stock also offers a lot of advantages to investors. They can accumulate earnings through capital gains as they sell their shares in the future. And these capital gains are subject to long-term capital gain tax (LTCG).
In growth stock, the profits are realized over a long period of time. Additionally, the returns on stocks are bigger than the inflation rate, which is an opportunity for investors to generate income in their total investments.
There are several factors to be considered before investing in a growth company, which include profitability, balance sheet health, emerging trends, and analyst predictions.
Growth stock vs value stock
In growth stock, investors expect to earn capital gains in companies that have a steady growth. However, these stocks tend to be overvalued due to their high price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios.
On the other hand, value stocks are often undervalued and ignored by the market. These are the stocks typically at low prices but have the potential to gain value over time. Value stocks are most likely to be traded at a low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio.
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Bitcoin has been a buzzword in the financial space. In fact, over the past few years bitcoin has exploded on the scene, and many people and many large companies are now switching to bitcoin or cryptocurrency, wanting to participate in the action.
People who are completely new to the cryptocurrency space are constantly asking this question; “What is Bitcoin really?”
Well, for starters bitcoin is a digital currency that is not under the control of any federal government, it is used all over the world and can be used to buy things like your food, drinks, real estate, cars and other things.
Why is bitcoin so important?
Bitcoin is not amenable to things like government control and fluctuations in foreign currencies. Bitcoin is backed by the full faith of (you) man, and it is strictly equal to a peer.
This means that anyone completes transactions with bitcoins, the first thing they realize is that using it is much cheaper than trying to send money from bank to bank or using any other services that require sending and receiving money internationally.
For example, if I wanted to send money, say, to China or Japan, I would have to take a fee from the bank, and it would take hours or even days for that money to go there.
If I use bitcoin, I can do it easily from my wallet, cell phone or computer instantly without any of these fees. If I wanted to send, for example, gold and silver, it would take a lot of guards to move the ingots from point to point, it would take a lot of time and a lot of money. Bitcoin can do it again with the touch of a finger.
Why do people want to use Bitcoin?
The main reason is that bitcoin is a response to these destabilized governments and situations where money is no longer as valuable as it used to be. The money we have now; the paper currency that is in our wallets is worthless, and in a year it will cost even less.
We even see large companies showing interest in blockchain technology. A few weeks ago, several Amazon customers were asked if they would be interested in using cryptocurrency if Amazon created it. The results of this showed that many were very interested. Starbucks even hinted at using a blockchain mobile app. Walmart has even applied for a patent for a “smart package” that will use blockchain technology to track and authenticate packages.
Throughout our lives we have seen many changes in how we shop, how we watch movies, how we listen to music, read books, buy cars, look for houses, now how we spend money and banking. Cryptocurrency is here to stay. If you haven’t already done so, it’s time for everyone to fully explore cryptocurrency and learn to take full advantage of this trend, which will continue to thrive over time. | <urn:uuid:60830581-28f5-4f44-bb02-2b2f3e4e7653> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://actia2022.com/2022/02/05/what-is-bitcoin-and-why-is-cryptocurrency-so-popular/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972396 | 576 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Max Bill and Zurich Concrete Art
13.4.2019 – 2.2.2020 | Beim Stadthaus
«concrete art is when taken to its logical conclusion the pure expression of harmonious measure and rule. It orders systems and with artistic means breathes life into these orders.» The standard that Max Bill (1908 – 1994) set out in his Manifesto for Concrete Art in 1949 is clearly absolute: Harmony and order become the guidelines for an artistic stance preempted decades earlier by pioneers such as Theo van Doesberg and Piet Mondrian. Max Bill raised them to the status of a programmatic agenda. Painting (and sculpture, too) was not supposed to arise for its own sake, but was to be produced in the service of a modern utopia, whereby following in the footsteps of Bauhaus the arts were meant to combine with architecture and the applied arts to form a modern gesamtkunstwerk. In line with this ideal, Max Bill took the stage not only in the field of fine art, but likewise as an architect, designer and university lecturer.
Born in 1908 in Winterthur, Bill first completed an apprenticeship as a silversmith and then studied at the Bauhaus from 1927-8 before returning to Switzerland in 1929, where he initially worked as an architect, and then later as a sculptor, graphic artist and painter. From the 1930s onwards this native of Winterthur emerged as one of the main champions and representatives of Zurich Concrete Art. As the founding director of the Ulm College of Design, he successfully ensured the renaissance of Bauhaus ideas in post-War Germany.
Kunst Museum Winterthur owns a major group of Max Bill works, and they are ideally complemented by paintings and drawings by his contemporaries Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg and Richard Paul Lohse. They show that Concrete Art is far more than a set of rules and order, forever breaking its own dogmas asunder with surprising images and colors that strongly appeal to the senses. The exhibition is rounded out with pieces by artists who in subsequent generations took up the traditions of Constructivist Art and reflected on it.
Curators: Konrad Bitterli and David Schmidhauser
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In order to contribute to long-term risk mitigation and tackle increasing water challenges, corporate water targets must be informed by the best available science on hydro-ecological conditions at the basin level, informed by contextual social needs, and aligned with local to global public policy objectives.
A high-level summary of research findings and recommendations for driving progress on WASH and SDG6 through supply-chains and voluntary standards.
An increasing number of companies recognize that water poses a significant risk to their business and have begun to take action to mitigate their risks via improved water management practices and stewardship. This paper proposes a new recognition that companies seeking to manage water-related business risks can and should contribute to improved water and sanitation management and governance that is also in the public interest.
The Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines seek to advance a common approach to corporate water disclosure that addresses the complexity and local nature of water resources.
This brochure outlines the 5 Tipping Points for a Healthy and Productive Ocean identified in the report “Global Goals, Ocean Opportunities”. The tippings points cover the areas of traceable seafood, low-carbon shipping, renewable energy, mineral extraction and data collection, and ending harmful pollutants entering the ocean. Each of these represent a valuable contribution to achieving the 2030 agenda.
The global sanitation crisis is one of the most critical sustainable development challenges facing the world today. This discussion paper explores the business case for corporate action on sanitation and identifies several ways the private sector can make an impact.
This guide aims to help companies set effective site water targets that are informed by catchment context, which can create value and lessen risks for the company and support collective action. This guide is intended for site staff or technical water specialists responsible for water management, and relevant corporate staff. This guide lays out three key elements for setting effective site water targets: Water targets should respond to priority water challenges within the catchment; The ambition of water targets should be informed by the site’s contribution to water challenges and desired conditions; and Water targets should reduce water risk, capitalize on opportunities, and contribute to public sector priorities.
This paper articulates the need to allow companies to contribute to water management efforts, to assist them instead of excluding them, and to insist that they operate in a manner that justifies their presence and is welcomed by local stakeholders.
The Toolbox connects your business to the latest tools, guidance, case studies, datasets, and more most relevant to you based on your circumstances and interests. It features more than 250+ resources from dozens of organizations and is updated every week.
As an easy-to-access and use tool, it offers business the ability to explore, assess, value and respond to water risk and identify contextually appropriate solutions to advance SDG6 in particular.
Offers perspectives from companies and examples of existing projects, as well as framework of actions companies can take to support sanitation coverage in their facilities, among their suppliers, and in the communities in which they operate.
Examines the unique nature of water challenges in conflict-affected or high-risk areas and how the management of water resources can in turn affect business operations and society – particularly through its potential to exacerbate conflict. | <urn:uuid:9adb282c-780a-4596-8624-a50be39be7b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bkeywords%5D=&search%5Bissues%5D%5B%5D=291&search%5Bcontent_type%5D=&search%5Bsort_field%5D= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.931188 | 648 | 2.1875 | 2 |
TUG is an interdisciplinary arts collective that creates contact zones where people can generate insights about, and produce actions around, contemporary social issues.
Gaelyn Aguilar is a cultural anthropologist whose work falls under the broad heading of performative ethnography, an area of interest that looks to performance as a site for both intervention and radical re/search. She initially explored this pivot point in the Republic of Macedonia, where as a Fulbright Fellow she conducted research on dance and the cultural politics of national identity. Following almost 24 months of fieldwork in the Balkans, Gaelyn turned her attention to the borderlands of North America, a shift that dovetailed into her role as the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of TUG Collective. Prior to becoming active as an ethnographer, Gaelyn was an independent filmmaker who produced documentaries that profiled individuals, organizations, and socio-cultural issues that lacked access to popular support and conventional media outlets. Her documentary work has appeared in National Geographic’s New Explorers Series, been distributed nationally to over 250 refugee resettlement programs, and received support from the David Bermant Foundation, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the Ohio Commission on Minority Health. Gaelyn complements her identity with work as a live performing and studio-recording artist, and has collaborated with modern dance choreographers in the United States and abroad, performed in the award-winning Korean Musical Myong Sung Whan Hu, and recorded for the Samsung/Ak and LG Music labels. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Gustavo Aguilar is an experimental maker/performer/improviser, whose interdisciplinary approach to art making cooperatively combines the archive (preconceived elements such as notation, texts, documents, letters) and the repertoire (present-conceived elements such as gesture, movement, orality, aurality) with the use of new technologies and an active research interest in cultural/critical studies. As an art practitioner whose work has been called "beautiful, introspective and passionate," "thought-provoking and thoroughly fresh" Gustavo’s awareness and engagement with new and innovative forms of art operate and encompass a wide range of traditions and media that help him to blur the boundaries betwixt maker/performer and between music/visual arts/theater. A Brownsville, Texas native, Gustavo has performed at major festivals throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, including IRCAM's Festival Agora (Paris), RedCat Theater’s Now Festival (Los Angeles), the Zagreb Biennale International Festival of New Music (Croatia), the Acousmania International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Sounds (Bucharest), the Jooksan International Arts Festival (Seoul), the Green Mills Project (Melbourne) and the American Composer's Orchestra Improvise! Festival (NYC), and has given lectures and master classes at universities and symposia across the United States and abroad. Gustavo continues to hold the position of Composer-in-Residence with GroundWorks Dancetheater of Cleveland, Ohio—a position he has held since 1997. Gustavo is an Assistant Professor of Collaborative Arts in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. | <urn:uuid:abf71b74-0fe6-4480-941b-5992d63c76b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tugcollective.org/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941924 | 693 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Dr. Erin Calipari on breaking the cycle of addiction - Wild Health
1tim 30min201516+. NYC, 1968 Max Bornstein Studio: Breaking Glass Pictures. Amazons åldersklassificering: 16+ Unga vuxna. Speakers also propose ways of breaking this 'addiction'.
Identify your problem behaviors. 2. Identify alternative healthy habits to replace the bad habits.
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Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 616.86/06 Library of Congress HV4998 .D63 2011 ID Numbers Open Library OL24524431M ISBN 13 … The National Association for Children of Addiction states that recovery and even abstinence is possible – you can break the cycle. Tim Sanford of boundless.org, author and licensed professional counselor with over 20 years of experience as a clinician, has provided several key steps to breaking the family cycle of addiction, or even dysfunction. 2017-11-08 Another step towards breaking addiction stigma is enrolling your loved one in addiction treatment. Once your loved one decides addiction treatment should be a core component in their life, they make it possible to enjoy a new and sober life.
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“Dr. Dodes’s approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of ‘powerlessness’—a message that r Addiction is really about soothing a psychological ill and that's true no matter what the addiction is. People who have a strong social support network, who have a very full life, tend not to Breaking addiction : a 7-step handbook for ending any addiction / Lance Dodes. Dodes, Lance M. (författare) ISBN 9780061987397 1st ed. Publicerad: New York : Harpercollins Publishers Inc, 2011 If you are concerned about your porn viewing, there are some warning signs of porn addiction to consider. You might have a porn addiction if: You are consumed with thoughts of porn even when you are not actively watching it. You view porn on your cell phone at work or in social situations where you might be seen.
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Although recovering from addiction is a lifelong endeavor, the process must always begin with detoxification and withdrawal, as your body copes with abstinence from your drug of choice. The duration and danger level of withdrawal symptoms will depend on several factors, such as the substance abused, how long you abused it, how you took it (smoking, swallowing, injecting, etc.), your dosage, as well as other medical and mental factors particular to you. As you become addicted, you may experience withdrawal when you aren't able to do the addictive behavior. Physical withdrawal symptoms may occur, such as shaking, feeling unwell, stomach upsets, and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms, such as feeling cravings, anxious, or depressed.
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Step 7 in Breaking Addiction describes long-term strategies. These involve not just knowing how to identify the key moment on the path to addiction and how to manage the urges when they occur, but In his ground-breaking book "The Heart of Addiction", Dr. Lance Dodes rejected pat explanations of alcoholism as a disease and explored the underlying emotions that drive addictive behaviors-be they drinking, gambling, obsessive sex, or otherwise. In his practice and research, Dodes has found that virtually every addictive act is preceded by a feeling of helplessness or powerlessness-deeply Including special bonus sections for both families and health-care professionals, Breaking Addiction is the new handbook for those suffering from addiction—a valuable resource that addresses addiction’s root causes and serves as an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and similar recovery programs. 2010-06-05 2020-10-03 Often breaking out of an addiction is a combination of emotional healing, learning about who you are in Christ, forgiving (yourself, others, and God), overcoming self-worth issues by changing how you see yourself (in light of how God sees and loves you), and casting out any spirits that came in and are enforcing the addictive behavior. 2006-09-04 2020-02-26 Breaking the Addiction: The Story of a Crack Addict [The following story comes from a member of the Marriage Helper team and his personal experience of struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine for 6 years.
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Tennis is a sport ball held between two gamers singles or two pairs pairs recreation with bat and ball in the open. Tennis is an Olympic sport performed in lots of international locations around the globe. The sport can be called “white sport”. The title “tennis” Outdated French – “! Tenez”; Hebrew “Maintain!, Receive!”. The monks were the first who invented the game suited to their conceptual world halls were monasteries. 13th century – performed with palm halls beneath the influence of special rules tailored religious concepts. Monks invented the game arms – Jeu de Paume prior to tennis.
With no guidelines like real, you can race forward with out bothering of risks which are life threatening in actual life. So hitting towards a pole, or rushing over a slender hill top, or speeding when someone is crossing the highway hardly issues! Is it good? Everyone knows each coin has two sides. The identical could be utilized for these automobile games too. These being so thrilling in experience, youngsters actually get hooked on easily. One has to repair a time to play.
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If beforehand recreation solely grew to become the monopoly on the small child, it is different from what occurs now. Now it’s not unusual anymore when a father can sit for hours together with his son in a pace contest of a game. And this is what occurred right now, gaming just isn’t the monopoly of a small child once more.
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This top 10 list of foods, can bring foodborne illness to your dinner table real quick. Food poisoning often starts where the product originated, or along the journey, all the way to your dinner table. If you don’t clean and cook the product properly you’re also responsible.
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The old bumper stickers used to say, “Unions: The folks who brought you the weekend.” A more accurate version today would read, “The UAW: The folks who gave away the weekend—and the eight-hour day.”
With its support for the so-called Alternative Work Schedule, the UAW is overseeing the destruction of basic protections won by autoworkers 75 years ago and joining in the corporate effort to pump ever-greater profits from auto workers.
The new schedule, which is in operation at many plants across the country, is being implemented at Chrysler’s truck assembly and stamping plant in the Detroit suburb of Warren next week. The new schedule has provoked widespread anger among workers.
Under the AWS, workers will work at least 10 hours a day without overtime, and most workers will be compelled to work Saturdays at straight time. At Chrysler’s North Jefferson Assembly plant, periodic Sunday work at straight time has also been scheduled.
The AWS is also known as the 3-2-120 schedule because three crews work two shifts for 120 hours a week. At the Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit, the “A” crew works 10 hours a day on day shift from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The “B” crew works 10 hours on night shift 6 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., Wednesday through Saturday. The “C” crew works 10 hours on the night shift Monday and Tuesday and 10 hours on the day shift Friday and Saturday.
It allows the company—whose 2012 profits jumped to $1.7 billion—to cut tens of millions in labor costs by eliminating overtime payments for working more than an eight-hour day and on Saturdays, which previously paid time-and-a-half.
The schedule allows the company to operate its plants longer, adding the equivalent of an extra 49 days of production annually compared with traditional plant schedules.
The right of auto workers to be paid overtime after eight hours was won in the bitter 1941 strike at Ford. During the 2009 restructuring of GM and Chrysler, the Obama administration demanded the elimination of that provision and the UAW agreed to it.
Every study shows that extended work hours and swing shifts are detrimental to the health of workers, adding physical and mental stress and disrupting their family lives. But none of this is of any concern to the auto execs and their UAW business partners.
By extending the workday, shortening breaks, freezing wages and halving the pay of new hires, the auto companies have been able to drastically increase the amount of what Marx called surplus value—the value created by workers above and beyond the cost of their wages. This is the basis of the vast profits—some $11 billion for the Detroit automakers last year—that go directly into the pockets of the corporate CEOs and wealthy Wall Street investors.
The working class in the United States and around the world fought for more than a century to win the eight-hour day. To overcome the violent resistance of the industrialists and the government, workers had to shed much blood, including those of the four Haymarket martyrs sent to the gallows in Chicago in 1887 for leading the movement that demanded “eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what we will.”
Today the ruling classes in every country are seeking to turn the clock backwards and return workers to slave-like conditions. In response to these attacks, auto workers in India, Brazil, and France in recent months have engaged in battles against the global auto giants.
The collaboration of the UAW in the extension of the workday demonstrates the historic transformation of this organization. In 1937, the militant workers and socialist pioneers who led the Flint sit-down strike and established the UAW demanded a 30-hour week at 40 hours pay, with time-and-a-half overtime payments after six hours of labor. Today, UAW executives like Bob King and General Holiefield demand that workers labor for longer hours and less pay in order to boost the profits of the auto bosses.
No amount of petitions or protests to the UAW—like the one called by the Labor Notes group at Warren Stamping—will make them change their minds about the AWS. With 40 percent of Chrysler’s shares, the UAW apparatus has a direct financial incentive to increase, not lessen, the exploitation of workers.
This was made clear in the comments of Holiefield to the Detroit News. The “Flexible Operating Plan,” the UAW bureaucrat said, has “proven to be successful, allowing the company to operate at maximum capacity…”
If there is to be a fight against these sweatshop conditions, then it has to be waged by the workers ourselves. Rank-and-file committees, completely independent of the pro-company UAW, should be organized to unite every section of workers throughout the auto industry to oppose the AWS and the two-tier system.
These committees will be the foundation for mobilizing the entire working class against the unending attack on all its social rights.
The WSWS spoke with Chrysler workers at the Warren Stamping plants, as well as Sterling Heights Assembly and North Jefferson about the new work schedule.
Pete, a veteran worker at Warren Stamping, said, “The AWS is just not right. Corporate greed is behind it. In my opinion it is all about taking away our overtime. Our fathers fought for things. They were paid for working overtime after eight hours. The company is making money, but we are making that money for them. Every contract we give and the company is taking.
“The sad truth is they are bringing in all the young people making half what we make. They are putting a big target on the back of the first tier workers. I fear they are going to eliminate the top tier at the next contract.”
Referring to the role of the UAW, he said, “Bob King apparently thinks the UAW will do well with the IPO [Initial Public Offering] of stock that Chrysler is coming out with. What has that got to do with representing us? There was a picture inside the plant being sent around showing Marchionne and Holiefield shaking hands and hugging. It is pretty obvious they are planning to make everyone a lower tier worker.”
A worker from the Sterling Heights plant said, “Most workers can’t wait for the contract to expire in 2015 because they are going to stop paying union dues. The UAW does not represent us anymore. We’re having our wages and benefits cut, our families destroyed with these new schedule. I’m going to have to work 5:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays—that takes away all the time when the family plans events.”
Keith, a worker with 20 years at Jefferson North Assembly, said that Chrysler was implementing mandatory Sunday work. The plant has been under the Alternative Work Schedule since last fall. “They are now implementing Sundays because they say we are behind in production,” he said. “Now they are going to be a seven-day-a-week operation, but we will get paid less because they did away with overtime until after 40 hours. They want us to work mandatory Sundays permanently. This Sunday will be ‘B’ crew and next Sunday will be ‘C’ crew. We’ve done it now for a month.”
Clinton, a worker with 19 years at Jefferson, said, “It is mandatory to work on Sunday. It might be one day a month on each crew. The shift is different. It is hard to get adjusted to. I am working on ‘C’ crew, morning and days. It is pretty hard. I don’t complain a lot, but the schedule is rough. It throws you off. You are exhausted.”
Nichole, a young second tier worker at Warren Stamping, said, “I gave up a college scholarship to come to work here because I thought it was a good job. With the new schedule I won’t be able to attend classes. The time and half on Saturdays was an incentive to give up part of your weekend, and now they have taken that away. They’re stripping everything away and the UAW doesn’t do anything for us. The union said this was a new thing and that it would be implemented right away, but they agreed to this back in 2007 or earlier.” | <urn:uuid:3e165dde-446b-42fe-9d03-dc7117b2ea70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www14.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/02/auto-m02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963677 | 1,783 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Different types of Programming languages – Busting language confusions
Languages basically let us speak to the computer in its own language. Just like there are many human languages, computer languages are also numerous. Programming languages, markup languages, style sheet languages and database languages comprise the basic classification of computer languages. Without further ado, let us understand what each of these languages are and what they are used for.
1. Programming languages:
They are nothing but a set of instructions given to the computer to obtain an output. They can further be classified into high level and low level languages. High level languages are called so due to its close resemblance to human languages. Programmers use these kinds of languages to write source code. They can further be classified into compiled and interpreted languages. C++ and Java, for example belong to the compiled language category whereas Perl and PHP belong to the latter. Software applications are created using compiled languages and interpreted languages are basically used for running scripts.
The basic difference between a high level language and a low level language is that the former is user-friendly whereas the latter is machine-friendly. Low level languages can be directly recognized by the computers and therefore, need not be translated or interpreted. They include machine languages and assembly languages.
2. Markup languages:
Ever wondered what ‘ML’ stands for when you scroll through websites. Yep, you guessed it! It’s ‘Markup Language’ as in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). Markup languages are used to annotate text so that the computer can manipulate it. In simple words, they are the ones that tell the software how to display or format the text. They contain simple English words and therefore easy to read. There are a bunch of markup languages, but HTML and XML are the ones you come across usually.
3. Style sheet languages:
Just like the name suggests, style sheet languages are simply used to…well, style sheets. They are used to style whatever is written in markup languages. It determines how the website should be presented to the audience. Font, colour, background, etc. can be adjusted using this language. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), DSSL (Document Style
4. Database languages:
Well, did you really think languages are used just to create websites and software? There are other applications of languages beyond that, for example, database creation and management. Database languages can be used to read, update and store data in a database. They can be classified as Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation
Language (DML), Data Control language (DCL) and Transaction Control Language (TCL). There are several database languages, the most popular one being SQL (Structured Query Language). | <urn:uuid:fe17e6df-9ead-43d3-8a67-08f7e20944d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://codeconia.com/different-types-of-programming-languages-busting-language-confusions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.887558 | 618 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Islamic Himmah and Christian Charity: An Attempt at Inter-Faith Dialogue
Despite its significance for Gülen's teaching, the conceptual meaning of himmah has been given little attention by Gülen scholars. A quick survey of the works conducted on Fethullah Gülen's thought or the movement he inspired delivers few results. This is understandable as apart from scholars studying the Sufi tradition, the conceptual meaning and significance of himmah is not well known even among students of Islamic thought. Compounding its relative obscurity among scholars is the challenge of translation. Frequently rendered as spiritual "aspiration," "yearning," or "resolve," this richly suggestive concept is difficult to translate into English with one single word.
This paper attempts to clarify the conceptual meaning of himmah in the context of Gülen's thought through a cross-cultural comparison with the more familiar Christian virtue of "charity." This paper begins with a discussion of the contemporary meaning of himmah within the Gülen movement, and moves on to discuss its meaning within the Sufi tradition in the second section. The third section examines the Christian virtue of charity, and the fourth compares charity with himmah. The last and concluding part will raise some questions about the practice of the inter-faith dialogue in relation to this comparison of the two key concepts of Islam and Christianity.
I. The Role of Himmet in the Gülen Movement
It is widely known that the Gülen movement identifies itself as hizmet (hizmāt in Arabic), which means "service" in Turkish. Hizmet is the generic name for all the disinterested public activities conducted by the members of this community to fulfill their duties to religion and nation. Specific examples of hizmet are inter-faith dialogue initiatives and the educational network set up in Turkey and abroad. The term is also used more broadly for self-identification by the community members. Hence, a member of the Gülen movement often identifies himself or herself as a member of hizmet.
Related to this concept and less known to the outsiders but perhaps more important in terms of Islamic history is the concept of himmet. It has been noted that the twin concepts of hizmet and himmet provide a general conceptual framework for all the economic, cultural, and religious activities of the Gülen community both inside and outside Turkey. Himmet, as another student of this movement notes, is the technical name used for the fundraising gatherings of the community: "The meetings organized by the Gülen community to obtain financial support for its activities, especially its educational activities, are called himmet meetings." The organizers of these meetings present the past achievements and future goals or projects of the community, and appeal to the religious sentiments of the participants to collect funds for their activities. The participants, mostly local affluent business owners, pledge to make donations for the cause.
The Turkish word himmet derives from the Arabic word al-himmah (in Persian himmat). The original Arabic word denotes several interrelated meanings. More commonly it is translated as spiritual "aspiration" or "resolve." Its other renderings by contemporary translators and commentators include "diligence," "power," "will," "yearning," "desire," "purpose," "ambition," "intention," "concentration," and "determination," all of which are used with a spiritual connotation. Common to all these translations of himmah is the connotation of spiritual or mystical quest for the divine. This quest requires turning one's attention and efforts from worldly business toward more noble and urgent matters.
There are numerous phrases in the Islamic literature in which himmah appears with this connotation of rising above the affairs of the world. The phrase uluww-i himmat (lofty aspiration) was used by the Persian Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar to mean "setting oneself high goals and not being satisfied with trivial things." Another phrase in which himmat appears in relation to rulers is himmat-i buland which can be compared to the virtue known as high-mindedness or magnanimity in the Western tradition. For the first moralist of Islam, Miskawaih, izam alhimmah (composure) stands for "a virtue of the soul which causes it to sustain calmly both the happiness of good fortune and its opposites, including the distress which accompanies death." Miskawaih defines himmah as a kind of courage.
In a short article entitled "Himmet: Teveccüh, İnfak ve Gayret," ("Aspiration: Orientation, Charity, and Perseverance"), Gülen appeals to the theological roots of himmet in the Islamic tradition. Gülen puts great emphasis here on the fact that there is a deeper spiritual aspect of himmet beyond its popular aspect associated with spending one's wealth in God's path. Gülen particularly notes that himmet must be understood first and foremost in its tasawwufi sense. The common practical usage among public as charity (infak) and perseverance (gayret) is subordinate to this older theological meaning. Gülen further points out the connection between himmet and another tasawwufi term teveccüh (tawajjuh in Arabic). Translated as spiritual "concentration," "orientation," or "attentiveness," tawajjuh literally means turning the face toward something. Tawajjuh is often used in the context of turning one's face toward God or God's disclosing itself to the Sufi wayfarer (salik) in return. It is also used in relation to the very personal relationship between the Sheikh (master) and the murid (disciple) in the Sufi orders. In both senses it means the spiritual concentration or attention of the salik through which he hopes to receive the grace of God (either directly or indirectly through the sheikh). In relation to tawajjuh, himmet means orientation toward God with all one's powers by opening one's heart to God, and purifying oneself from all material or even spiritual interests and pleasures. One must even put aside the thought of heavenly rewards or spiritual powers, and commit his every deed for the sake of gaining Allah's pleasure.
Gülen also notes a second related sense of himmet in the context of social relationships. Himmet means doing a favor, helping one another, coming to the rescue of another, or reaching out to the needy. This social sense of himmet refers to committing oneself to benevolent action with sincerity on the one hand and God's reciprocating the tawajjuh and sincerity (ikhlās) of his servant (kul) on the other. The servant's inaba (turning to God with repentance) is reciprocated by God's merciful tawajjuh toward the servant. God's favors and care depends on servant's constant orientation toward God (tawajjuh) as well as God's reciprocal tawajjuh in mercy. It is this sense of himmet which bridges over the public meaning of doing good deeds through financial means and the tasawwufi sense conceived by sufis as "spiritual power," which will be explored in the next section.
Gülen stresses that contrary to the popular opinion that equates himmet merely with infaq (spending in the service of God) the latter must be understood only as one aspect of the former. Reminding us of the fact that himmet did not have this specific meaning in the past, Gülen points out that both the public calls for assistance and people's response to these calls have come to be called himmet through time. The theological aspect of himmet, according to Gülen, subsumes the more practical religious virtues and duties of beneficence such as "infaq," (charity) "sadaqa" (voluntary almsgiving), and "zakat" (obligatory almsgiving).
Gülen also notes that himmet (in the second restricted sense of beneficence) can be conducted not only through wealth but also knowledge, deeds, health, and intelligence. Combining its spiritual and practical sense, himmet can be construed to mean making efforts in the service of one's religion and nation. Himmet in this sense carries the connotation of striving toward God through serving one's fellow compatriots, co-religionists, and even all humanity. Gülen concludes his discussion of himmet by remembering Bediüzzaman Said Nursî's words in the "The Damascus Sermon." Here Nursî discusses the notion of himmet in the context of national solidarity or fraternity and laments how this notion was successfully applied at his time in the West and almost forgotten in the Islamic world. To quote the important passage on himmet from his sermon in full:
[B]ecause of the idea of nationhood which those foreigners obtained from us, an individual becomes as valuable as a nation. For a person's value is relative to his endeavour [himmet]. If a person's endeavour is his nation, that person forms a miniature nation on his own. Because of the heedlessness of some of us and the foreigners' damaging characteristics that we have acquired, and, despite our strong and sacred Islamic nationhood, through everyone saying: "Me! Me!" and considering personal benefits and not the nation's benefits, a thousand men have become like one man.
Said Nursî goes on to emphasize the Aristotelian notion (incorporated later by Aquinas into the Catholic tradition) that man is a political or social being by nature and must act accordingly to become fully human:
If a man's endeavour is limited to himself, he is not a human being, for human beings are by nature social. Man is compelled to consider his fellow humans. His personal life continues through social life.
It can safely be claimed that Gülen is in agreement with the importance of the virtue of putting the service to others before oneself in the name of God. This virtue indeed constitutes the heart of Gülen's teaching on the moral education of an ideal Muslim.
II. Himmah in the Sufi Tradition
As Gülen implies in his article, the concept of himmah holds a significant place in the Sufi tradition within Islam. Scholars of Sufism have noted that this is a technical term employed by greatest Sufis of history. Various late medieval Sufi masters such as Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi, Najm al-Din Kubra, and Abdul-Karim al-Jili or Sufi poets such as Farid al-Din Attar employed this concept in their works. The spiritual powers of earlier mystics such as Hasan al-Basri and Rabi'a al-Adawiyya are also referred to as himmah in the hagiographical literature. This crucial term was often used by Sufis to signify the "determination of the heart to incline itself entirely to God." Himmah in this sense is an essential quality to possess to be able to follow the arduous Sufi path. A contemporary scholar draws our attention to the significance of himmah to Sufism: "He who has no spiritual aspiration [himmah] or sincere will in seeking God in gratitude or in love cannot have an ambition to follow the path of Sufi walâya [authority]."
Various definitions of the term agree in their emphasis on the fact that himmah involves the spiritual quest for God, and this quest demands first and foremost the further qualities of purity, sincerity, and concentration. According to a contemporary scholar of Islam, himmah implies "total commitment to the goal of achieving spiritual perfection and closeness to God." In a classic work of Sufism Istilahat al-Sufiya (A Glossary of Sufi Technical Terms), himmah was defined as a term "applied to the freeing of the heart for the desired objects . . .; to the primal sincerity of the aspirant...; and to the concentration of the spiritual aspirations to insure the purity of inspirations." According to still another scholarly source, himmah is "the quality of perseverance or striving towards God" and "its opposite is al-hiss," which means "distraction or inattention from concentration upon God."
For the famous thirteenth century Andalusian Sufi Ibn al-Arabi, who exerted great influence on the course of Sufism after him, himmah is a pure force peculiar to the human being, which is either natural or acquired later in life. As an Ibn Arabi scholar notes, "The phenomenon of himmah is . . . something of much more than marginal significance in Ibn al-Arabi's thought." Ibn Arabi held that "it was only possible for human beings to come to a true understanding of the relationship that exists and should exist between creature and Creator if they were to become endowed with this power of himmah themselves."
Ibn Arabi uses himmah in his major work al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Illuminations) especially in reference to the ideal of perfect man (al-insan al-kamil), which is characterized by "the inner condition of sidq [truthfulness] or pure spiritual intention (himma)." Himmah, according to Arabi, is the preserve of the spiritual elite as it is "one of the distinguishing signs of the highest forms of true faith in God" and the "natural effect of divine 'victorious support' (nasr)." Nasr is a term that combines "the notions of divine assistance and the 'victory' resulting from that support." Ibn Arabi's coupling of himmah and nasr is especially important for the purposes of this paper as this relationship between the two roughly corresponds to the close connection between charity and grace in the Christian tradition.
In Futuhat Ibn Arabi uses the phrase al-fi'l bi'l-himma to refer to the act of "producing effects . . . in the outside world through concentration." This somewhat supernatural ability is closely related to the development of the faculty of imagination. The 20th century French orientalist Henry Corbin highlights this active (poetic) sense of himmah in Ibn Arabi's work and uses the phrase "the creative power of the heart" to capture its richly suggestive meaning. According to Corbin, this creative power is essentially "the very power with which God creates and sustains the cosmos, the power by means of which God brought all the cosmic domains, subtle, physical, and intellectual into existence," but is also something that human beings can partake of. The difference between the mystic's himmah and the divine himmah is that "God exercises this creative power with perfect attentiveness and concentration whereas the mystic always exercises it with some admixture of inattentiveness."
III. The Christian Virtue of Charity
Charity in contemporary usage means "liberality to the poor, or tolerance in judging the actions of others." In the first sense, charity means showing or doing an act of good will toward those in need (almsgiving, benevolence, beneficence, etc.). It may even be interpreted as "a dutiful or even a patronizing regard for those one finds socially and psychologically taxing." This is a reduction of its original meaning, which is love, however. In the Summa Theologiae, for instance, Aquinas treats beneficence or almsgiving as an outward effect of charity but not identical with it (IIaIIae.31.1). The comparability between himmah (in its sense of beneficence) and charity in its modern popular sense is clear enough.
Less straightforward is the relationship between the tasawwufi sense of himmah and the original sense of charity as love. In this prior sense, charity translates agape (love) in the original Greek version of the Christian Bible. Agape is the disinterested love found among human beings, or between humans and God, directed either from God toward humans or from humans toward God: "In the NT [New Testament] it was used to designate a beneficent love, a predilection of God for men, or a love of men for God or of men among themselves, i.e., a fraternal charity." To distinguish it from eros, which is the word used more commonly in the ancient Greek literature for love, especially for passionate love among humans, agape or charity is also designated as the Christian love.
It is common knowledge that Christianity as a religion gives utmost importance to love. This can be discerned both in the New Testament and the writings of later authorities such as Augustine and Aquinas. A few examples from the New Testament should be sufficient to establish the primacy of love for the Christian tradition. Upon reading the New Testament, we get the sense that the distinctive mission of Jesus as a prophet in the Hebrew tradition is to prioritize love among all other commandments of God. In response to the question (posed by a member of the Pharisees sect) "which the greatest commandment in the Law is," Jesus says: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Mat 22: 34-40). Here the New Testament is quoting directly from the Books of Deuteronomy (6:5) and Leviticus (19:18) of the Hebrew Bible except that it replaces "mind" for "might" in the first quote.
Commenting on this passage from the New Testament, Pope Benedict XVI stresses the originality of Jesus' response in his first Encyclical as follows: "In acknowledging the centrality of love, Christian faith has retained the core of Israel's faith, while at the same time giving it new depth and breadth . . . . Jesus united into a single precept this commandment of love for God and the commandment of love for neighbour found in the Book of Leviticus." The Pope fails to mention, however, the most distinctive teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, which is almost non-existent in the Hebrew Bible: the commandment to love one's enemies (Mat 5: 43- 48, Luk 6: 27-36). In this passage, Jesus truly goes beyond the teaching of the Hebrew Bible on love: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven." (Mat 5: 43-45).
The early disciples of Jesus recognized the originality of Jesus' teaching and further expounded on the centrality of love. For St. Paul, "love is the fulfillment of the law." (Rom 13:10). Paul defines Christian love as "as self-giving service for the benefit of others." Most famous is his ode to love in his epistle First Corinthians 13. Here St. Paul puts love above prophecy, miracles, and faith, and concludes his ode by paying tribute to love as the foundation of all: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1 Co 13:13). In another critical passage of the New Testament, the apostle John equates God with love: "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." (1 Jo 4:16). All the above examples show that love is what is most distinctive about Jesus' message to humankind. As mentioned earlier, the word used for this kind of devotion in the Greek Bible is agape, and the later Latin rendition of agape (in the Vulgate Bible translated by Jerome) is dilectio (regard) and caritas, which too comes from the Greek charis (grace).
The centrality of love or charity in Christianity can also be observed among the leading authorities of the Christian tradition. Augustine, for instance, contrasts the virtues expounded in the pre-Christian Greek and Roman sources and find them both wanting since, according to him, there can be no true virtue without piety (i.e., the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity). Any claim of virtue which does not take God as its reference point, according to Augustine, is false. Virtue is actually identical with the love of God: "If virtue leads us to the happy life, then I would not define virtue in any other way than as the perfect love of God." Augustine accepts the ancient correlation between happiness and summum bonum (the supreme good), but redefines the latter as eternal life in the hereafter (City of God XIX 4). Humans can find true happiness only in knowing and loving God.
Augustine defines love as "affection of the mind which aims at the enjoyment of God for His own sake, and the enjoyment of one's self and one's neighbor in subordination to God." (De doct. christ. 3.10.16). Its opposite is selfish and exploitative love, lust or cupidity, which is "affection of the mind which aims at enjoying one's self and one's neighbor, and other corporeal things, without reference to God." Scripture, Augustine says, "enjoins nothing except charity, and condemns nothing except lust" (De doct. christ. 3.10.15). Thomas Aquinas, the greatest exponent of Christianity after Augustine, agrees with the general run of Augustine's thoughts on charity even though he allows, more than Augustine, for the possibility of attaining happiness in this world through moral and intellectual virtues acquired independent of the theological virtue of charity. Still, this form of happiness will remain incomplete without the finishing touch of God's grace. In the Catholic tradition, perfect happiness can be attained only through the vision and love of God (beautitudo), and this can take place only in the afterlife. To prepare for this, however, one must conduct all his/her actions in this world for the love of God and not from any other motive.
IV. The Deeper Connection between Himmah and Charity
So what is the relationship between himmah in its tasawwufi sense—the "determination of the heart to incline itself entirely to God"—and charity in its original sense of love? To answer this question fully we still need to discuss the connection of himmah to "will," on the one hand, and to the concept of love, on the other.
For Islam, as for the Christian tradition, will or volition (irâdah in Arabic) is the single most important human faculty endowed by God. For some, it is even more important than reason because of its association with morality and freedom. This power is something that humans share with the divine, and is a truly distinctive human trait; neither beasts nor angels (with the exception of Satan) do possess it according to both the Islamic and Christian tradition. The beasts simply follow the laws of nature and the angels obey God's commands, but only human beings freely choose their deeds. Their moral freedom even elevates them above the angels; hence God's command to angels to bow before Adam. The foundation of the moral education of the youth (in both Islam and Christianity) is the proper training of this faculty of will to allow them to make the right decisions later in life. Temptation, however, is an ever present danger represented by the supernatural figure of Satan. The sincerity and purity of the human will can be marred and obstructed by all sorts of worldly temptations (fame, wealth, power, lust, greed etc.).
Himmah in the tasawwufi sense refers to the deliberate direction of human will toward God to flee from these worldly temptations. If we recall the sufi definitions of himmah presented above, we may see its close affinity with will. Himmah, an Islamic scholar observes, "corresponds to what is usually called will or power of will." The following description of himmah by another scholar of Sufism stresses its relationship to will:
Al-himmah signifies the force of decision, the desire to rise above oneself or spiritual aspiration. Thus it is a quality of the will and not an intellectual faculty; none the less it should be noted that by anticipation spiritual will is intellectual. From the point of view of realization it is the most important and the noblest faculty of man. Man is only truly man through his will to be delivered, by his ascending tendency, pictured in his vertical posture which distinguishes him from animals.
The relationship between will and himmah is crucial to understand himmah's connection to "love", and this is true for both Islam and Christianity. Augustine clearly establishes a close link between "will" and "love" so much so that "genuine love and the 'will' are identical." This link can further be seen in Augustine's major work City of God, where he declares that "the right will is, therefore, well-directed love, and the wrong will is ill-directed love" (XIV.7). Augustine's use of the term love conveys "the sense in which agents' particular choices and intentions express what they care most about, what their lives are directed toward generally and above all." This sense of love involving a deliberate and special choice is discernible in one of the Latin equivalents of agape, namely, dilectio, which literally means esteem or regard. I believe it is not a coincidence that one of the translations of himmah is "diligence," which is derived from the Latin diligere (to love).
Himmah is connected with will, on the one hand, and to love, on the other. For Najm al- Din Kubra himmah is an effect of the mysterious connection between the lover and his desired object. Frithjof Schuon, a great contemporary scholar of comparative religion, explicitly relates himmah to love in passing in his teaching on Indian spirituality: "For Shankara bhakti is what Muslims call himmah — spiritual fervor; for Ramanuja it is continuity or perpetuity of contemplation; for Chaitanya it is limitless love, though this is but the means and not yet the end: the goal is prema, divine Love, Beatitude."
This connection between will, himmah, and love can further be seen in al-Ghazali's discussion of niyyah (intention or resolve) in the seventh Book of the Part IV of his Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya Ulum al-Din). Here we see Ghazali using niyyah in a sense very close to himmah. This seventh book of Ihya is entitled "On Intentions, Truthfulness, and Sincerity" and follows the one entitled "On Love, Longing, Intimacy, and Contentment." In this book Ghazali discusses the theological or mystical virtues of niyyah (intention), şidq (truthfulness), and ikhlāş (sincerity) in the same breath because these three are closely related to one another: "resolve [niyyah] is useless without sincerity [ikhlāş], and sincerity [ikhlāş] is nothing unless truthfulness [şidq] is connected to it and perfects it." It is important also to note that Ghazali uses niyyah and will (iradah) in the same sense. "By intention al-Ghazili does not mean a passive thought or mere wish to do something good, but a firm determination ('azm anniyya wa l-himma)...."
Sincerity or ikhlāş arises "when the intention is nearness to God, unadulterated by any worldly or selfish motive." The virtue of ikhlāş is instrumental to reach the highest station and virtue on the Sufi path, which is love (mahabba or hubb). As R. A. Nicholson notes, "the keynote of Sufism is disinterested, selfless devotion, in a word, Love." Various Sufi figures from Rabiah al-Adawiyah to Jalal al-din Rumi are known for their discourses on divine love. Mahbub (Beloved) is the technical name used in the Sufi tradition for God. The love of God or divine love is central to the Sufi tradition as it is to the Christian tradition.
This common emphasis on divine love in both Islam and Christianity is not accidental for two reasons, one general and the other particular. The general reason is that Islam continues the Abrahamic tradition that first shaped Judaism and then flowed into Christianity. The more particular reason is the historical interaction between Islam and Christianity: "the doctrine of divine love which emerged in the early stages of Sufism undoubtedly was reinforced by the Christian influence." Al-Ghazali, in his Book on love in the Ihya, even quotes the New Testament to establish the importance of love for religion: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'" (Matt. 22: 35-37).
We often encounter, in the teachings on Christian charity and the Sufi mahabba, repeated warnings against the temptation of worldly goods and even against expecting spiritual rewards for piety. "Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God." (Jam 4:4). "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (1 Jo 2: 15-17). Similarly, Ghazali warns against the love of the world since it is "the head of every sin and is the incurable disease." The highest station on the journey to God in the Sufi tradition is love and "there is no path to it except by the expulsion of other than God from the heart and the severing of ties from all that is other than God-from rank and wealth and country." The difficulty of this task is obvious and the challenge to fulfill it passes through what himmah in the Islamic tradition and charity in the Christian tradition represent.
V. Concluding Remarks on Interfaith Dialogue
This paper has attempted to accomplish two parallel goals. First, I have wanted to highlight the role of himmet in Gülen community and discuss its place in the Sufi tradition. Second, I have compared himmet to Christian charity both to examine its meaning further and to point toward the need for more engaged ways of conducting interfaith dialogue. In this concluding section, I will first sum up my observations on the first issue and then say a little bit more on the second issue of interfaith dialogue.
Himmet is a key spiritual concept in the Sufi tradition, and we witness its revival today in Gülen community. Although himmet in Gülen community is definitely related to the Sufi himmah as Gülen's discussion makes this clear, it can be said that it is more commonly employed for practical rather than spiritual purposes. One possible practical role of himmet is to unite and mobilize members of this community around service (hizmet), both to religion and nation in an altruistic way. As Gülen emphasizes, himmet is not restricted to giving away one's wealth but includes devoting one's knowledge, skills, strength, and deeds to the service of religion and nation. In this way, there are multiple venues for rendering service and fulfilling himmet. As the centerpiece of community organization, this concept may thus allow for more horizontal relationships among diverse community members of different ages, status, and occupations. It may also help to create a loose and flexible sense of identity among community members.
Himmet is not an exact equivalent of Christian charity. The precise Islamic equivalents would be "mahabba" (love) for charity as "love" and "sadaqa" for charity as "benevolence." Nonetheless, there are good reasons for a comparison between the two concepts. In theoretical terms, himmet is comparable to charity because it matches both the pre-modern sense of charity as "love" and the modern sense of "benevolence." To establish the latter is admittedly less problematic than the former. My claim for the commensurability between the two concepts in the sense of love has been based on the centrality of "will" to both Islamic and Christian traditions. Himmah in the Sufi tradition refers to concentrating one's will and directing it to the love of the divine. The Christian love, charity, on the other hand, must be understood as "the right will," as Augustine puts it. Interestingly enough both himmet and charity has undergone a similar process of semantic change. Their contemporary meanings are confined to benevolence but benevolent acts in every age and place are inspired by love even if this love is not immediately conscious.
The spiritual kinship between the two great world religions in their emphasis on divine love should come as no surprise given their common Abrahamic origin and the centuries of giveand- take between Muslims and Christians. In comparing himmah to charity, this paper attempts to contribute to the ongoing interfaith dialogue initiatives between Muslims and Christians which aim at dwelling on and expanding the common ground on which both religions are built. The success of these initiatives depends on not only mutual tolerance but also sympathetic understanding of the principles and history behind each religion. To reveal the common core shared by Islam and Christianity, to which we can and must also add Judaism, we need to go beyond the historical disputes over doctrinal matters and the political rivalry between Christian and Islamic political powers through history or in the present (9/11 and post-9/11 events). All these causes have provided ample ammunition to the partisan adherents of each religion to justify their distorted judgment of the "other" religion.
In looking away from divisive matters and looking at what is most important to both religions, this paper follows the example of Gülen's teaching on dialogue: "For interfaith dialogue to succeed, we must forget the past, ignore polemics, and focus on the common points." He further makes a remark in the same context which is clearly directed at Muslims: "The West's view [of Islam] has changed." The West no longer holds to the "historical portrayal of Islam as a crude distorted version of Judaism and Christianity, and the Prophet as a fraud." This sea of change in the West, I believe, must be reciprocated among the Muslims by developing a more sympathetic understanding of not only Jesus (which already exists) but also Christianity.
Drawing attention to the urgent need to build bridges between Muslims and Christians in our age, Gülen speaks of the "The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue," which is the of a paper he presented to the Parliament of World's Religions in Cape Town, Australia in 1999. But what exactly is the end of (interfaith) dialogue for Gülen? What does he think will come out of interfaith dialogue? Gülen defines dialogue as "the coming together of two or more people to discuss certain issues, and thus the forming of a bond between these people." It is "an activity that has human beings at its axis." Interfaith dialogue, in particular, "seeks to realize religion's basic oneness and unity, and the universality of belief." Looking at his other writings, it is clear that Gülen expects peace and tolerance to be the fruits of interfaith dialogue even though this talk on love and peace might easily be criticized given the great divisions that exist not only between Muslims and Christians but within Islam and Christianity.
Be that as it may, one must avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy of the clash of civilizations and try to strengthen the ties between Christians and Muslims. To do this, followers of both religions must open themselves to a sympathetic understanding of the other religion. To quote Gülen again, the need for discovering and bringing forth the commonalities among the three Abrahamic faiths is an imperative of our age: "Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all stem from the same root; all have essentially the same basic beliefs, and are nourished from the same source. Although they have lived as rival religions for centuries, the common points between them and their shared responsibility to build a happy world for all of the creatures of God make interfaith dialogue among them necessary."
Hizmet members prefer this identification to its alternative cemaat (community) for the negative connotations of the latter word when used in relation to a group organized around a particular leader or idea.
M. Hakan Yavuz, "The Gülen Movement: The Turkish Puritans," in Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement, ed. M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003), 26.
Mustafa Sen, "Turkish Islamist Entrepreneurs in Central Asia" in Birgit N. Schlyter, ed., Prospects for Democracy in Central Asia (Stockholm: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 2005), 259.
Hellmut Ritter, The Ocean of the Soul: Men, the World and God in the Stories of Farid al-Din Attar, translated by John O'Kane (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003), 319.
Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Ghazali's Theory of Virtue (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1975), 182.
Fethullah Gülen, "Himmet: Teveccüh, İnfak ve Gayret," 12 December 2005. Available at http://www.herkul.org/kiriktesti/index.php?article_id=2720.
William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabis Metaphysics of Imagination (New York: SUNY Press, 1989), 280.
Annemarie Schimmel, Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (New York: SUNY Press, 1994), 192.
Gülen notes that infaq is not solely through wealth but also through helping those in needs of science, ideas, strength, and deeds.
The sermon was given in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in early 1911.
Bediüzzaman Said Nursî, "The Damascus Sermon" (Hutbe-i Şamiye), tr. from the Turkish by Şükran Vahide, (Istanbul: Sözler Neşriyat ve Sanayi A. Ş., 1989). Available at http://www.nur.org/en/nurcenter/nurlibrary/Risale_i_Nur_Collection_The_Damascus_Sermon_1737?action=download. Part of the original quote reads: "Çünki bir adamin kiymeti, himmeti nisbetindedir. Kimin himmeti milleti ise, o kimse tek başiyla küçük bir millettir. . . . Kimin himmeti yalniz nefsi ise, o insan değil. Çünki insanin fitrati medenîdir." I have modified Şükran Vahide's translation slightly by changing the translation of the word "medeni" in the last sentence from "civilized" to "social."
Lloyd Ridgeon, Aziz Nasafi (Routledge, 1999), 159.
Ibid., 160. See also R. W. J. Austin, Ibn al-Arabī: The Bezels of Wisdom (New York: Paulist Press, 1980); Toshihiko Izutsu, Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); B.A. Dar, Ch. 43 in A History of Muslim Philosophy, Vol. II, ed. M. M. Sharif (Kempten, Germany: Allgauer Heimatverlag GmbH., 1966), 864-5.
Jean-Louis Michon and Roger Gaetani, ed., Sufism: Love and Wisdom (World Wisdom, Inc, 2006), 145. This sense of himmah as spiritual power resembles another Sufi term barakah.
Thomas Patrick Hughes, A Dictionary of Islam (Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1994), 175.
Souad Hakim, "The Way of Walâya." Available at http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/wayofwalaya.html.
Mustansir Mir in Tulip in the Desert: A Selection of the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal, translated and edited by Mustansir Mir (Hurst & Co., 2000), 138.
Abd al-Razzaq al-Qashani, A Glossary of Sufi Technical Terms, trans. Nabil Safwat (London: Octagon Press, 1991), 67.
Cyril Glasse and Huston Smith, New Encyclopedia of Islam: A Revised Edition of the Concise Encyclopedia of Islam (Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2003), 181. See also Kabir Helminski, The Book of Language: Exploring the Spiritual Vocabulary of Islam (Watsonville, CA: The Book Foundation, 2006), 82.
Ridgeon, 159.
Jess Byron Hollenback, Mysticism: Experience, Response, and Empowerment (Penn State Press, 1996), 253.
James W. Morris, in Ibn Arabī: The Meccan Revelations, ed. Michel Chodkiewicz, William Chittick and James (New York: Pir Publications Inc., 2002), 251-275.
Chittick, 265.
Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabī, trans. Ralph Manheim (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 220. According to Corbin, himma can be taken as the equivalent of the Greek term enthymesis. This Greek word, Corbin tells us, means "meditating, conceiving, imagining, projecting, ardently desiring" or, literally, "of having (something) present in the thymos [the spirited part of the human soul]" (p. 222).
Hollenback, 253.
Thomas Rees, "Charity," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. James Orr (Chicago: The Howard-Severance Company, 1915).
New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (New York: Gale), p. 169.
The Christian tradition often (but not always) contrasts agape and eros (or amor in Latin) as unselfish and selfish love, respectively. See, for instance, Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros, trans. P. S. Watson (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953).
Pope Benedict XVI, "Deus caritas est" (December 25, 2005). Available at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritasest_en.html
The Hebrew Bible anticipates the Christian position in the following verse: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." (Prov. 25: 21-22).
Bruce Longenecker, "Galatians," in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul, ed. James D.G. Dunn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 64-73.
See also Rom 12: 9-21.
Lindsay Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2005).
Quoted by Scott MacDonald, "Augustine" in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy N. Noone, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 157.
St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine, ed. Philip Schaff (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 1890).
Mark D. Jordan, "Theology and Philosophy," in The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, ed. Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 241.
Dar, 86.
Titus Burckhardt, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (World Wisdom, 2008).
John Rist, "Faith and Reason," in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 37.
Scott MacDonald, 158.
Ridgeon, 160.
Frithjof Schuon, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected Letters, ed. James S. Cutsinger (World Wisdom, 2008), 165.
The fourth and last part of Ihya concerns in general the matters of salvation (munajjiyāt).
Sherif, 115.
Muhammad Abul Quasem, The Ethics of Al-Ghazali (Delmar, NY: Caravan Book, 1978), 171.
Sherif, 117.
R. A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), 231.
M. Saeed Sheikh, Islamic Philosophy (London: The Octagon Press, 1962), 23. See also Nicholson, 231.
William McKane, Al-Ghazali's Book of Fear and Hope (Leiden: Brill, 1962), 49.
Ibid., 50.
Short of a more comprehensive research on this topic, the following observations are offered tentatively.
I am grateful to Gökhan Bacik who read the paper and provided me with insightful comments, particularly on the practical purposes that himmet serve in Gülen community.
M. Fethullah Gülen, "The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue." Paper presented to the Parliament of World's Religions in Cape Town, December 1-8, 1999.
M. Fethullah Gülen, Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance, ed. M. Enes Ergene (Somerset, NJ: The Light, 2004), 50.
Ibid., 231.
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A structural analysis of the recently developed orange fluorescent proteins with novel phenotypes, LSSmOrange (λex/λem at 437/572 nm), PSmOrange (λex/λem at 548/565 nm and for photoconverted form at 636/662 nm) and PSmOrange2 (λex/λem at 546/561 nm and for photoconverted form at 619/651 nm), is presented. The obtained crystallographic structures provide an understanding of how the ensemble of a few key mutations enabled special properties of the orange FPs. While only a single Ile161Asp mutation, enabling excited state proton transfer, is critical for LSSmOrange, other substitutions provide refinement of its special properties and an exceptional 120 nm large Stokes shift. Similarly, a single Gln64Leu mutation was sufficient to cause structural changes resulting in photoswitchability of PSmOrange, and only one additional substitution (Phe65Ile), yielding PSmOrange2, was enough to greatly decrease the energy of photoconversion and increase its efficiency of photoswitching. Fluorescence of photoconverted PSmOrange and PSmOrange2 demonstrated an unexpected bathochromic shift relative to the fluorescence of classic red FPs, such as DsRed, eqFP578 and zFP574. The structural changes associated with this fluorescence shift are of considerable value for the design of advanced far-red FPs. For this reason the chromophore transformations accompanying photoconversion of the orange FPs are discussed.
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TOKELAND, Wash. (AP) — There’s a new option to escape a tsunami for people on the southwest coast of Washington.
The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe dedicated a 50-foot tall (15.2-meter) evacuation tower in Tokeland, Washington, on Friday, the Northwest News Network reported.
TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of the utility operating the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to pay 13 trillion yen ($94 billion) to the company, holding them liable for the 2011 disaster.
SEATTLE (AP) — A study published by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources this week shows a tsunami triggered by a major earthquake beneath Puget Sound would arrive at Seattle shores sooner and reach farther inland than previously thought.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government is not liable for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, dismissing thousands of evacuees' demands that the state, not just the utility, pay compensation for damage to their lives.
DILI, East Timor (AP) — The foreign ministers of Australia and China were both making their final stops Friday on what has become an island-hopping diplomatic duel in the South Pacific.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in Tonga where she met with Prime Minister Hu’akavameiliku and other officials including King Tupou VI.
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Tuesday ordered a utility not to restart a nuclear power plant because of inadequate tsunami safeguards, backing the safety concerns of residents at a time the government is pushing for more reactors to resume power generation after pledging to ban imports of Russian fossil fuels.
TOKYO (AP) — The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed the importance of transparency on Friday after visiting the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, where he observed preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater that has prompted concerns inside and outside Japan.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Thursday that it will donate 2 million euros ($2.1 million) to the International Atomic Energy Agency for its efforts to ensure the safety of Ukrainian nuclear facilities that have come under Russian attack.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release its TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake struck off the east coast of Taiwan on Monday, shaking buildings in the capital, Taipei. No serious damage or injuries were reported, and authorities said there was no danger of a tsunami.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake struck off the east coast of Taiwan on Monday, shaking buildings in the capital, Taipei. No serious damage or injuries were reported, and authorities said there was no danger of a tsunami.
FUTABA, Japan (AP) — Yasushi Hosozawa returned on the first day possible after a small section of his hometown, Futaba, reopened in January — 11 years after the nuclear meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi plant.
TOKYO (AP) — Residents in Fukushima and Miyagi were cleaning their homes after a sleepless night following a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the northern Japanese coasts, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people.
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday night, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people. A small tsunami reached shore, but the low-risk advisory was lifted by Thursday morning.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Strong, shallow underwater earthquakes shook western Indonesia and the Philippine capital region Monday, but no serious damage was reported and no tsunami warnings were issued.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Friday paid tribute to the victims and renewed searches for those still missing from a massive earthquake and tsunami 11 years ago that also triggered a nuclear disaster in Fukushima where tens of thousands still cannot return home.
OKUMA, Japan (AP) — Eleven years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was ravaged by a meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami, the plant now looks like a sprawling construction site.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first two booms from the volcano were scary enough, but the third explosion was immense, sending everyone from the village running from their homes in a reaction that would save all but one of their lives.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tonga's main internet connection to the rest of the world has finally been restored more than five weeks after a huge volcanic eruption and tsunami severed a crucial undersea cable.
TOKYO (AP) — A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the site at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant where more than a million tons of treated radioactive waste water are to be released into the ocean, as they seek to determine how to make the decades-long project safe.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A month after an undersea volcanic eruption and ensuing tsunami lashed Tonga, a U.N. official said Wednesday that 80% of the Pacific island nation’s 105,000 people were affected and the country needs over $90 million to start repairing damage and restoring its key farming and fishing sectors.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Senate has unanimously approved a measure that would allow older schools at high risk of threat from earthquakes or tsunamis to get state dollars to replace or retrofit buildings.
TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has captured images of what appears to be mounds of nuclear fuel that melted and fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Thursday.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Every try scored in the first 10 rounds of Super Rugby Pacific this season will aid Tonga’s recovery from last month’s volcanic eruption and tsunami.
Rugby Australia and Rugby New Zealand on Wednesday announced the “Tries for Tonga” campaign which will see money donated to the Red Cross Pacific Tsunami Appeal every time a try is scored.
TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot on Tuesday was used to probe the hardest-hit nuclear reactor at Japan's wrecked Fukushima plant, as officials push forward with clean-up operations that have been mired in delays and controversy.
BANGKOK (AP) — For more than two years, the isolation of the Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga helped keep COVID-19 at bay.
But last month's volcanic eruption and tsunami brought outside deliveries of desperately needed fresh water and medicine — and the virus.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — British and Australian navy ships arrived in Tonga on Wednesday and attempted to deliver aid without making contact with anybody ashore to avoid spreading the coronavirus in a nation which has never had an outbreak.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Four Japanese aircraft left Australia on Monday to deliver more vital aid to Tonga as the Pacific nation deals with the aftermath of a volcanic eruption and tsunami.
The two Japanese Lockheed C-130 Hercules and two Kawasaki C-2 left the Royal Australian Air Force Base at Amberley in Queensland state to make the 3,300-kilometer (2,050-mile) journey east to the islands that were devastated by the Jan.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Aid flights from Australia, Japan and New Zealand carrying food, water, medical supplies and telecommunications equipment landed in Tonga over the weekend, as the Pacific nation grapples with the aftermath of an underwater volcanic eruption and tsunami.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck southern Alaska on Thursday night, and people reported shaking in Anchorage and surrounding areas, according to officials.
The epicenter was 49 kilometers, or 30 miles, northwest of Ninilchik, Alaska, the U.S.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The incredible story of a retired carpenter who survived overnight in the ocean after the Tonga tsunami swept him out to sea appeared to fit with events at the time, a New Zealand diplomat said Friday.
TOKYO (AP) — Several former residents of Futaba, the only remaining uninhabited town in Japan still recovering from effects of radiation from nuclear plant meltdowns in 2011, have returned to live for the first time since the massive earthquake and tsunami forced them out.
BANGKOK (AP) — As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerging from beneath the depths.
SYDNEY (AP) — Three of Tonga's smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — People around the world looked on in awe at the spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting in a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption began to recede Sunday, while the extent of damage to Tonga remained unclear.
Satellite images showed the spectacular eruption that took place Saturday evening, with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java on Friday, damaging buildings and houses and sending people into the streets, but no casualties were reported.
BERLIN (AP) — Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last summer helped make 2021 one of the most expensive years for natural disasters, reinsurance company Munich Re said Monday.
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Thursday that a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71% increase from the previous 7-day period that the U.N.
PETROLIA, Calif. (AP) — A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Northern California coast on Monday, bringing significant shaking but likely minimal damage to the sparsely populated area.
A tsunami was not expected to follow, the National Weather Service said.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia lifted a tsunami alert Tuesday following a magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake that struck off Flores Island, triggering panic in a region prone to fatal quakes but apparently causing no major damage or casualties.
TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday that a data simulation of its planned release of treated radioactive water into the sea suggests it would have an extremely small impact on the environment, marine life and humans.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A shallow undersea earthquake shook part of eastern Indonesia on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.7-magnitude quake struck about 65 kilometers (40 miles) off Amahai, a coastal village on Seram island in North Maluku province.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's new prime minister on Sunday said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.
MADRID (AP) — The second 4.5 magnitude earthquake in two days rattled the Spanish island of La Palma on Friday, officials said, as scientists described a gushing river of molten rock from an erupting volcano as “a true lava tsunami.”
TOKYO (AP) — Officials at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty exhaust filters that are key to preventing radioactive pollution, after being forced to replace them twice.
TOKYO (AP) — Objective, science-based monitoring is the key to safely carrying out the planned release of treated but still radioactive water at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, an International Atomic Energy Agency official said Thursday.
TOKYO (AP) — Too little is known about melted fuel inside damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, even a decade after the disaster, to be able to tell if its decommissioning can be finished by 2051 as planned, a U.N.
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Riding through Craig for a cause, Steve Schwier battles through Meniere’s with purpose
After standing still a few minutes too long, Steve Schwier reached over to grab ahold of the sleeve of his brother, Dave, for balance.
“I’m always dizzy,” Steve said.
Steve has Meniere’s disease, a rare inner ear disorder without a cure that causes vertigo, weakness, hearing loss and ringing in the ears.
“I was diagnosed 9 years ago, and the first 8 years, I was too sick to do anything,” Steve said. “A doctor a year ago made it manageable, helped me get out of bed, but it stole my job, stole sports, stole snowboarding, stole music. I had to quit doing everything I loved to do and disappeared. Last 9 years has been trying to live with a chronic illness.”
But once Steve got to a point where he could get out and do a little more, he decided, why not do a lot more?
“Woke up one day and decided I’m going to ride my bike across the country, try to raise some awareness, maybe some money,” Steve said.
Steve called Dave and they got going.
“We put it on social media, and people started following the trip, we raised like $10,000,” he said. “Then this year, people asked, ‘Well what are you going to do now?’”
In the meantime, the brothers had written a book about the condition: “On the Vertigo: One Sick Man’s Journey to Make a Difference”. It’s doing well on Amazon, Steve said.
“We had momentum, so we didn’t want to lose it,” Steve said. “We left Sept. 1 last year, so we thought we’d leave Sept. 1 this year again.”
The first ride, which Steve made via e-bike, was from Denver to Columbus, Ohio. Now the Silverthorne-based rider is headed west.
“We’re going to San Francisco,” Steve said. “We call it ‘Escape to Alcatraz.’”
The Schwiers were rolling through Craig on Thursday afternoon after departing Steamboat Springs in the morning.
It was already feeling pretty rocky, Steve said.
“Around the world in the Meniere’s community, they hear ‘On the Vertigo’ they equate it with these trips we’re doing to raise money and awareness,” Steve said. “So we’re doing it again, Day 2, glad to stop in Craig, I have a friend in Craig with Meniere’s, and we’re staying with her tonight.”
Steve said awareness is critical to the mission.
“The No. 1 message is first of all awareness, the trip brings awareness, but no awareness there’s no funding,” he said. “Nobody’s heard of this disease, it’s very rare. I want to get the word out that this disease needs funding and research. It’s not terminal, but it’s chronic. Nobody wants to put money into that, they say he’ll live until he’s 100.”
It’s also important to him that people know he’s not competing with other illnesses or issues.
“Everyone has a burden to carry, I’m not trying to outcompete anyone’s disease or situation,” Steve said. “I’m not saying I’m sicker than you, my life’s worse than yours, everyone has to deal with it, this is my corner, my little disease. But nobody’s really doing it, most people with my disease stay inside all the time. I’m showing people get out if you feel like it, do something positive. Don’t let it kill your life. Deal with your suffering and try to enjoy something.”
Dave is the younger brother, but he’s the “business caretaker,” for Steve, the latter said.
“He does all the posting, filming, I just ride my bike and stay safe,” he said. “I couldn’t do this without him.”
Dave said it’s become a purpose for him, too.
“When I started, I saw him first diagnosed, and when he called me saying he wanted to do it, I said anything you want to do is fine, I saw how bad off he was,” Dave said. “We discussed, do we even make this? Is it a good idea? But he wanted to do it, get off the couch and ride a bike, having not done anything for 8 years. I said if he wants to do this, I’m 100% behind it. What it turned into on the trip, all the people following us around the world, every day messages about what it means to these people, every night it was comments, thanks for what you’re doing.”
For both brothers, it’s a passion now. It’s being a voice for a nearly silent worldwide community.
“It feels like we’re making a difference,” Steve said.
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Article By: Dan Clark
By 1985 Steven Spielberg was already one of the most acclaimed directors in Hollywood. He had been nominated for multiple Oscars, and his films began the blockbuster era we live in today. Despite his success the one knock was he had yet to direct a ‘serious’ movie. That changed when he was slated to bring Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel The Color Purple to the big screen. Spielberg was at first hesitant to direct this film as he lacked the personal knowledge needed to convey this story. He was eventually convinced and used The Color Purple as evidence that he could direct a narrative that is solely based in human drama. Surely it was instrumental in leading Spielberg to create some of his greatest artistic achievements. This film is far more than just a stepping stone. It delivers a high level of emotional agony and triumph. The learning curve does prove to be too sharp at times as its passion causes it to diverge into overt acting and prolonged suffering. Still, The Color Purple proves to be a testament to the horrors life can bring, and the ability of the human spirit to overcome.
Spielberg transitioning from movies like Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Color Purple is analogous to a known comedian attempting to take on a more serious role. So it is fitting the star of the film is Whoopi Goldberg, who up to that point was solely known for her work as a stand-up comedian. Directing someone in their first feature is difficult for a seasoned director, let alone one breaking into a new genre for the first time. Their partnership was for the most part successful. Goldberg earned an Oscar nomination for her performance, but one wonders if that was more based on her ability to surpass expectations. For most of the film she is this shy reserved character with a deflated sense of self-worth. By the nature of the character’s design the role is limiting. Goldberg is effective at limiting herself to this timid personality, but she lacks a quality of authenticity. She is too consequence of her characters movements, causing each decision to feel over pronounced. There are definitely moments where you can feel her grief. You would also be hard pressed not to want to route for her. There is simply a force artificiality hovering over her performance.
In the film she plays Celie, a woman with a troubled existence living in the early 1900’s. The film follows thirty years of her life from her adolescents till she is middle-aged. Her life is filled with heartbreaking tragedy. By the time she was 17 she had already been impregnated twice—by her own father. Things only get worse for her as she is basically given away to Albert(Danny Glover), an older man who was trying to marry her more attractive younger sister. Celie’s only solace in life is her sister. That also gets taken away from her when Albert forces her away after she refused his sexual advances. Years and years of abuse and neglect go by until a small glimmer of hope suddenly presents itself. Celie might finally get a life she most indisputably deserves
Those who weren’t aware the film was based on a book could tell merely by its story structure. The scope of the film and the way the story evolves reek of a novel adaptation. Material is a river wide—but a puddle deep. It delves into issues like race relations, poverty, and the inequality of gender, yet not much is said about any of them. Perhaps it was Spielberg’s uneasiness that caused hesitation when a controversial topic became available. One particular example was an alluded to homosexual relationship involving Celie. It was handled in such an overblown ambiguous manner there was seemingly no point. While the story lacked profound thought, it certainly was full of passion.
The focal point was the forced relationship between Celie and Albert, and it thrived at providing misery and agony. There are moments that are certainly hard to watch. Watching Celie constantly getting emotional beat down will evoke masses amounts of helpless anger. Few people can immerse you into an experience like Spielberg. Typically he accomplishes that goal with his masterful directorial style. In this his trademark camerawork was mostly muted. He took a back seat to allow the actors to control the show, removing him as the focal point. The Color Purple is unmistakably an actor’s movie.
Danny Glover gave one of the film’s best performances. He was this vial creature that still had a small sense of charm. He is a person you love to hate. Glover knew precisely when to dial back his smokescreen bravado, and when he should dial it up. Unlike his costar Oprah Winfrey. She play Sofia, his large and in charge daughter-in-law, who is bursting with sass. She is the type of person who would not back down to anyone. Similar to Goldberg this was also Winfrey’s first film, and she too earned an Oscar nomination. Not surprising as her performance has Oscar bait written all over it. Overacting issues aside, she is still shockingly good. While it may not be the worthwhile performance some make it out to be, she does an adequate job with what is demanded of her.
One aspect that is infamously left of this Spielberg feature is a score by John Williams—making it the only film that is completely directed by Spielberg that is not scored by Williams. Music legend Quincy Jones took his place, and does a fantastic job. Music along with the great costume and set design go a long way in bringing this past back to life. This is a period piece that represented the past in all its filthy glory. The dirt in the air was so palpable you could taste it. The art direction all around was fantastic.
The Color Purple showed the Steven Spielberg was more than just a genre director. He was capable of crafting a quality story without an assortment of special effects. The narrative was solely reliant on his ability to tell a story. With a number of splendid performances behind him that ability shined through. Some often forget Spielberg was the director behind The Color Purple, which goes to show even the greats know where their voice should not be the loudest. | <urn:uuid:c0547a7a-68fc-4478-a691-8e361d2e1ec4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geekcastradio.com/movies/steven-spielberg-retrospective-part-9-review-of-the-color-purple/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.984252 | 1,267 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Now we have received young sexed animals of the narrow-banded form (species?), 12-15 cm long. The males have developed – in addition to the modified anal fins, typical for sexually mature Myloplus males – black horizontal banding on the ventral side. To our knowledge, this has not yet been documented for M. schomburgkii. Possibly the phenomenon is related to reproduction, similar to the spawning rash in carp fish.
For our customers: the animals have code 270506 on our stocklist. Please note that we only supply wholesale. Only available in small quantities!
Obviously many different varieties – or do they even represent different species, who knows? – of the attractive pacu Myloplus (formerly: Myleus) schomburgkii exist. We obtained recently very nice specimens from Colombia, which are characterized by the very broad black band over the body. Our fish are 9-12 cm long and only subadults; Myloplus schomburgkii attains a maximum size of more than 40 cm.
For our customers: the fish have code 270514 on our stocklist. Please note that we exclusively supply the wholesale trade. Available in limited numbers only.
Shipments containing juveniles of silver dollars or pacus are always surprise packages. The juvenile coloration of many species is simply unknown and juveniles look totally different than the adults. So we can only guess that in our current case the fish from Venezuela may belong to the species Myleus torquatus.
The smallest babies, about 1.5-2 cm long, are very dark colored and have a light blaze on the forehead. They float through the water without much move and imitate a dead leaf. This can make the keeper pretty nervous, but is the normal behaviour. When the fish are a bit larger, 3-4 cm, they become lighter in basic colour and the blaze vanishes. A diffuse light band over the nape appears and an individually differing pattern of spots and stripes appears. The behaviour differs now, too: the fish become active swimmers and form schools with conspecifics.
If our new arrivals really belong to M. torquatus the adult fish will become about 20-25 cm long with a silvery basic colour, yellow fins and – this is species-specific for M. torquatus – a broad black band that borders the caudal fin. We will keep some specimens to see what will become of them. We are really curious for that!
For our customers: the fish have code 270630 on our stocklist. Please note that we exclusively supply the wholesale trade.
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- Doomsday Planes to Be Updated
- Congressional Budget Office Estimates Nuclear Modernization Costs
- Nuclear Testing
- U.S. Rejects North Korean Offer to Suspend Nuclear Tests
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Russia Ends Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
- President Obama Continues to Seek Iranian Nuclear Deal
- The Chaplain Who Blessed the Hiroshima Bombers
- This Month in Nuclear Threat History
- The World’s Nuclear Weapons in Graphic Form
- Foundation Activities
- Swackhamer Disarmament Video Contest Now Underway
- 14th Annual Kelly Lecture Features Dr. Helen Caldicott
- The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction
- New Book by NAPF President David Krieger
The 2015 State of the Union Address: A Major Omission
When President Obama first took office he was deeply concerned about nuclear disarmament. We might well ask not only what happened to “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” but what happened to President Obama’s commitment?
Mr. President, we live in an unpredictable world, but it is predictable based on history that nuclear weapons and human fallibility are a dangerous and highly flammable mix. Nuclear weapons, including our own, threaten all Americans and all humanity. Don’t give up on the essential quest for a Nuclear Zero world, which you seemed so eager to achieve upon assuming office.
To read more, click here.
Three Minutes to Midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just announced its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock moving ahead the minute hand to three minutes till midnight. The clock represents the count down to zero in minutes to nuclear apocalypse – midnight. This significant move of TWO minutes is the 22nd time since its inception in 1947 that the time has been changed.
In moving the hand to 3 minutes to midnight, Kennette Benedict the Executive Director of the Bulletin, identified in her comments: “the probability of global catastrophe is very high”… “the choice is ours and the clock is ticking”…”we feel the need to warn the world” …”the decision was based on a very strong feeling of urgency”. She spoke to the dangers of both nuclear weapons and climate change saying, “they are both very difficult and we are ignoring them” and emphasized “this is about doomsday, this is about the end of civilization as we know it”.
To read more, click here.
The Marshall Islands Versus the World’s Nuclear Weapons States
Last April, in an extraordinary and commendable act of chutzpah, RMI sued all nine states currently possessing nuclear weapons – the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – accusing them of violating their duty to negotiate in good faith for the elimination of those horrific weapons.
One effect of the RMI initiative is to throw a spotlight on the policies of the nuclear weapons states, which claim to be committed to a nuclear weapons-free world while showing not the slightest willingness to reach that goal. Reduction, which can go on forever, is fundamentally different from elimination, which reaches an end point. The legal obligation to conclude negotiations for complete nuclear disarmament is not met by shrinking a nation’s nuclear arsenal from 600 to 300 weapons, as France has done, nor by the agreement between the United States and Russia to reduce the stockpile of deployed long-range nuclear warheads each to 1,550 by 2018, as was done in the New START Treaty negotiated in 2010.
To read more, click here.
Nuclear Zero Lawsuits
Nuclear Zero Lawsuits Featured on Australian Morning News
A story about the Nuclear Zero Lawsuits aired on “Sunrise,” Australia’s largest morning TV show. Dr. Keith Suter, Foreign Editor for the program, discussed the lawsuits and the important issues that the Marshall Islands is raising.
To see many of the media stories published since the Marshall Islands filed the Nuclear Zero Lawsuits in April 2014, click here.
“Decades Since U.S. Nuclear Tests,” Sunrise, January 18, 2015.
Oral Arguments in U.S. Federal District Court Lawsuit
On January 16, Judge Jeffrey White heard oral arguments in the lawsuit filed by the Marshall Islands against the United States in U.S. Federal District Court. The hearing focused on the U.S. Motion to Dismiss.
Laurie Ashton, representing the Marshall Islands from the firm Keller Rohrback, said at the hearing that there is “an increased risk of nuclear detonation every time the U.S. refuses to negotiate disarmament.”
Prior to the hearing, Judge White issued a tentative ruling granting the Motion to Dismiss. However, he has taken the matter under advisement after the oral arguments and has not yet delivered a final ruling.
Katherine Proctor, “Marshall Islands, Feds Argue Disarmament,” Courthouse News Service, January 16, 2015.
Nuclear Zero Profiles
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has launched a series of profiles featuring people from the Marshall Islands who have been significantly impacted by U.S. nuclear weapon tests. A new profile will be published each Friday for the next few weeks on the NAPF Facebook page.
Profiles have already been published of John Anjain, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Lijon Eknilang.
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Air Force Piles on Requests
The United States is preparing to develop and build a new generation of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) for the Air Force. ICBMs are the land-based leg of the “nuclear triad,” which many experts believe to be unnecessary and highly dangerous.
The Air Force’s ICBM force is largely designed to be a sponge to absorb part of a massive hypothetical Cold War-style Soviet nuclear attack. “An adversary would have to fire hundreds, if not thousands, of missiles to eliminate that leg of the triad,” said Kingston Reif of the Arms Control Association. The only potential adversary capable of doing so is Russia.
Dave Majumdar, “$348 Billion in Nukes Ain’t Enough. The Air Force Wants New ICBMs Too,” The Daily Beast, January 28, 2015.
Doomsday Planes to Be Updated
The United States will update its four E-4B flying command posts that would be used by its leaders to manage military operations in a nuclear war. The planes will receive communications upgrades to enhance their ‘connectivity’ during a nuclear conflict.
Currently, at least one of the four “doomsday planes” is kept on alert at all times. The planes are capable of staying airborne as long as a week with aerial refueling. The on-board equipment is hardened against nuclear effects. In a nuclear crisis, the heavily modified Boeing 747s could each carry a crew of over 100 specialists attempting to manage the conflict.
Loren Thompson, “A Doomsday Plane Reminder: Nuclear Weapons Haven’t Gone Away,” Forbes, January 13, 2015.
Congressional Budget Office Estimates Nuclear Modernization Costs
The Congressional Budget Office has released a new report that estimates the U.S. will spend $348 billion on nuclear weapons over the next 10 years, and possibly $1 trillion over the next 30 years. Planned spending includes rebuilding all three legs of the nuclear “triad” and their associated warheads.
Although Congress mandated reductions in planned military spending and President Obama’s military advisors have determined that the U.S. has more nuclear weapons than it needs for national security, the current spending plans would allow the U.S. to deploy far more weapons than deemed “necessary.”
Kingston Reif, “CBO: Nuclear Weapons Still Expensive,” Arms Control Association, January 22, 2015.
U.S. Rejects North Korean Offer to Suspend Nuclear Tests
On January 10, North Korea offered to suspend its nuclear tests in exchange for the U.S. cancelling its annual military drills with South Korea. The U.S. almost immediately rejected the offer, calling it a veiled threat that inappropriately linked nuclear tests and the U.S.-South Korea military drills that have been carried out for decades.
“By refusing to accept our proposal…the United States has shown once again that they will continue to increase attack military capabilities in South Korea while requesting us not to have our own national defence capabilities. This is absolutely unacceptable and cannot be justified by anything,” said An Myong Hun, North Korea’s Deputy UN Ambassador.
Michelle Nichols, “North Korea Offers to Meet U.S. on Rejected Nuclear Test Proposal,” Reuters, January 13, 2015.
Russia Ends Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
Russian officials informed their U.S. counterparts that they will no longer be seeking the United States’ help in securing Russia’s massive weapons-grade uranium stockpile. In accordance with deals struck between the two powers following the Cold War, the Untied States was helping Russia protect its HEU stockpile from finding its way onto the black market.
Since the cooperative agreement began two decades ago, U.S. experts have helped destroy hundreds of weapons and nuclear-powered submarines, pay workers’ salaries, install security measures at myriad facilities containing weapons material across Russia and the former Soviet Union, and conduct training programs for their personnel.
Bryan Bender, “Russia Ends US Nuclear Security Alliance,” The Boston Globe, January 19, 2015.
President Obama Continues to Seek Iranian Nuclear Deal
In an interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN, President Obama said that he continues to seek a good deal with Iran on its nuclear program. Referring to the desire of some members of Congress to implement additional sanctions against Iran at this time, Obama said, “For us to undermine diplomacy at this critical time for no good reason is a mistake and that what we need to do is to finish up this round of negotiations, put the pressure on Iran to say yes to what the international community is calling for.”
President Obama continued, “I’ve said before that we will take no deal over a bad deal….Why would we reject [a good] deal and prefer a potential military option that would be less effective in constraining Iran’s nuclear program and would have extraordinary ramifications at a time when we’ve already got too many conflicts in the Middle East?”
“Obama: Netanyahu’s Visit Too Close to Election for Meeting,” Fareed Zakaria GPS, January 28, 2015.
The Chaplain Who Blessed the Hiroshima Bombers
Sixty-nine years ago, as a Catholic Air Force chaplain, Father George Zabelka blessed the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the next twenty years, he gradually came to believe that he had been terribly wrong, that he had denied the very foundations of his faith by lending moral and religious support to the bombing. Zabelka, who died in 1992, gave a speech on the 40th anniversary of the bombings. He said:
“The destruction of civilians in war was always forbidden by the Church, and if a soldier came to me and asked if he could put a bullet through a child’s head, I would have told him, absolutely not. That would be mortally sinful. But in 1945 Tinian Island was the largest airfield in the world. Three planes a minute could take off from it around the clock. Many of these planes went to Japan with the express purpose of killing not one child or one civilian but of slaughtering hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of children and civilians – and I said nothing.”
To read Zabelka’s full speech, click here.
This Month in Nuclear Threat History
History chronicles many instances when humans have been threatened by nuclear weapons. In this article, Jeffrey Mason outlines some of the most serious threats that have taken place in the month of February, including the February 13, 1950 crash of a U.S. bomber that was simulating a nuclear attack against San Francisco.
To read Mason’s full article, click here.
For more information on the history of the Nuclear Age, visit NAPF’s Nuclear Files website.
The World’s Nuclear Weapons in Graphic Form
The Nagasaki Council for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, (PCU-NC) in cooperation with the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University, have produced a poster about the number and type of nuclear warheads in the world.
To view and download a copy of the poster, click here.
Swackhamer Disarmament Video Contest Now Underway
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s annual Swackhamer Disarmament Video Contest is now underway. The contest is open to people of all ages around the world. Contestants must make a video of 90 seconds or less on the topic “The Imperative of Reaching Nuclear Zero: The Marshall Islands Stands Up for All Humanity.”
Entries are due by April 1, and the top videos will receive cash prizes. For more information and a complete set of rules, click here. You can also “like” the contest’s Facebook page and see the videos as contestants post them.
14th Annual Kelly Lecture Features Dr. Helen Caldicott
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 14th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future will feature Dr. Helen Caldicott, an Australian physician and renowned anti-nuclear advocate. Her lecture, entitled “Preserving Humanity’s Future,” will take place on March 5, 2015, at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California.
Tickets start at $10 and are on sale at the Lobero Theatre box office online or by phone at (805) 963-0761.
The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction
The Helen Caldicott Foundation for a Nuclear Free Future will hold a two-day symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine on February 28 – March 1, 2015. The symposium will address the dynamics of possible nuclear extinction.
NAPF President David Krieger is among a distinguished group of panelists for this event. In last month’s edition of the Sunflower, we indicated that the symposium is free. This was an error; there is a modest cost associated with the event. For more information and to register, click here.
This event will be live-streamed. Check the link above for updates on the exact details of the live-streaming.
New Book by NAPF President David Krieger
Wake Up! is the latest poetry book by David Krieger, in which he continues on his path of writing piercing and thought-provoking peace poetry. His poems are often poems of remembrance, as well as warnings about the dangers of the nuclear age. Wake Up! is divided into six sections: Truth Is Beauty; War; Remembering Bush II; Global Hiroshima; Peace; Portraits; and Imperfection.
The book has received much praise. Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, “There is haunting beauty and truth in this poetry.” Doug Rawlings, poet and Vietnam War veteran said of Wake Up! that “…it reads like a series of eloquent telegrams sent directly to the heart of a culture, ours…” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and author of A Coney Island of the Mind, wrote: “Wake Up! is accessible and moving writing, setting itself against the dominant murderous culture of our time. Every poem hits home.”
Click here to order a copy of the book. NAPF is offering a 20% discount if you order by March 1.
“There are a lot of hard decisions we’ve got to make out there, but this isn’t one of them. We want them (our children and grandchildren) to win: 100 to nothing, not 51 to 49. We can afford this, and it’s desperately needed so the United States Air Force continues to be what it always has been – the force that allows alternatives and options for our president to defend America.”
— Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, Air Force assistant chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration, arguing for a massive budget to build new nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles.
“Many people feel powerless and suffer in cynicism, selfishness, and apathy. There is a cure: when individuals commit to caring for others with kindness and compassion, they change and they are able to make changes for peace in the world.”
— An excerpt from the statement “Living Peace,” issued at the conclusion of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.
“In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second – more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.”
— Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States. The U.S. observes Presidents Day on February 16, 2015. This quote is featured in the book Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action, available from the NAPF Peace Store.
“Nuclear deterrence and the threat of mutually assured destruction cannot be the basis for an ethics of…peaceful coexistence among peoples and states.”
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Health Canada investigating blood clot reports after U.S. pauses J&J vaccine
Published April 13, 2021 at 5:05 pm
OTTAWA — Health Canada says it is investigating reports a second vaccine may be linked to extremely rare cases of blood clots.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a joint statement Tuesday recommending a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women developed blood clots after being vaccinated.
The clots were observed along with reduced platelet counts making the usual treatment for blood clots, the blood thinner heparin, potentially “dangerous.”
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s the chief public health officer, also reports today that there are a record number of COVID-19 patients in Canada’s intensive care units.
She says an average of 970 people have been in ICUs over the last week, and the highest seven-day average previously was 880 in mid-January.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is also urging Canadians to continue following public health orders in the hopes of a better summer.
More than 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine have been administered in the U.S., the vast majority with mild or no side effects.
The vaccine was approved for use in Canada in early March and although the country has pre-purchased 10 million doses, with options to buy another 28 million, none have yet been delivered.
In a tweet, the Canadian drug regulator said it is aware of the matter and is asking the drug manufacturer to provide information.
“(Health Canada) is following this issue closely and is working with the manufacturer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other international regulators,” the tweet said.
“Health Canada has asked Janssen to provide information on any cases of these rare blood clotting events.”
Janssen is the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson.
Procurement Minister Anita Anand said Monday she didn’t expect any J&J doses to be in provinces ready for injection until the first week of May.
The issue is very similar to the clots being reported after using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses the same technology but not the same formula. Europe reported more than 220 cases in about 34 million shots given in Europe and the United Kingdom.
Blood specialists and infectious disease experts and the drug regulators say the risk of blood clots is vastly lower from the vaccines than from COVID-19 itself. The syndrome is treatable if caught.
CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet Wednesday to discuss the cases and the FDA has also launched an investigation into the cause of the clots and low platelet counts.
They are recommending that people who were given the J&J vaccine who are experiencing severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain, or shortness of breath within three weeks after receiving the shot contact their health care provider.
Officials say they also want to educate vaccine providers and health professionals about the “unique treatment” required for this type of clot.
Until now concern about the unusual blood clots has centred on the vaccine from AstraZeneca. European and British drug regulators last week said they could no longer dismiss a link between AstraZeneca and blood clots, even though they can’t yet explain it.
Also Tuesday, the European Medicines Agency confirmed very rare blood clots and low blood platelets should be listed as a “very rare side effect” of the AstraZeneca vaccine. In Europe, the vaccine is now known as Vaxzevria, but the company hasn’t applied to Health Canada for a name change yet.
Canada authorized it in February and about 700,000 doses had been administered here as of April 7. At this time, no clots have been reported publicly in Canada.
The U.S. has not yet approved AstraZeneca’s vaccine.
The European Medicines Agency stressed that the benefits of receiving the vaccine outweigh the risks for most people. But several countries have imposed limits on who can receive the vaccine. In Canada, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommended not using it on people under 55, because initial reports found the clots were occurring mainly in younger age groups.
They have since been found in all age groups and genders but there hasn’t yet been a change made to that recommendation.
Britain recommended that people under 30 be offered alternatives.
— with files from The Associated Press
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WHOIS and the Health IndustryDownload PDF
The standard of WHOIS is important to the health industry, especially when it is incorporated into a multi-faceted threat intelligence program. Before we get to that, it is clear in this day and age that many information technology organizations recognize that threat intelligence is a valuable tool, which is, in fact, essential to a strong security posture. However, throughout many industries one of the main issues out there is that the sheer volume of threat data combined with a gap in staff expertise stand to reduce the potential effectiveness of threat intelligence programs. Despite these challenges, threat intelligence programs that include sharing are a critical tool for healthcare organizations, especially with the current state of cybersecurity and the variety of threats of today. Everyone is trying to incorporate this, and here is how WHOIS can be a big part of that.
It's obvious that threat intelligence programs are relevant in every industry, but they are of particular importance in healthcare. There is a spectrum of sophisticated and evolving threats at the gate, on a constant basis. In the face of these growing threats, market sectors have had to mobilize as quickly as healthcare organizations. Healthcare hosts a significant payload of personal, identity, financial, and health data throughout countless subsectors, locations, and technology platforms. The value of this data can be leveraged to cause significant damage to individuals and organizations. When you add in the widespread and nefarious elements of black markets and the dark web with all the intent-filled damage that can be caused, the value becomes astronomical.
Awareness and Cybersecurity
Every organization has at least some cybersecurity in place and is (hopefully) trying to do better. Each organization is different in terms of the circumstances, business propositions, customers, and threat profiles. Focusing on that last part, it’s the threat profiles where cybersecurity starts. Each organization has its needs based on a combination of business goals and threats, which drives the nature of cybersecurity. You build a framework from the basics, bring in the mandated regulation-based security, and drive beyond that with a tailored approach. Hopefully, most organizations are already on their way to awareness through threat intelligence.
That’s the essence of threat intelligence – awareness, preparedness, and knowing, because otherwise, you might end up groping in the dark. If you are trying to build virtual walls and obstacles to protect yourself against everybody, there’s simply no way you can do that. The threats are too many, too constant, and too rapid to effectively protect against on a continual basis. Information is the currency behind everything and you need information on who to protect against, when and how.
The only intelligence that is going to help you and your organization is actionable intelligence. This means that subscribing to threat intelligence information is a tremendous foundation to a program. But this activity only becomes successful when the information is actionable and it is combined with specific actions.
Somewhere within the systems across the technology environment lie pieces of traceable information. In logs, event viewers, and other informational resources, both silent and overt threats touch systems within and on the perimeter of technology systems.
One way to actively integrate information is to explore information from WHOIS. Tracing log events, attack information, correlating public information, and many other activities gain relevance when the ability to research information directly is added to a threat intelligence program. Within WHOIS, one can find the source of information, the destination for suspicious traffic, detect increases in activity from unverified networks, and much more. Implementing a tool such as WHOISXMLAPI allows security teams to implement thorough research by using threat intelligence as a source and information that is specific to the organization.
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Guide to Historically Black Presbyterian schools
“I went as a Negro, I became Black, April 4th, 1968.”
- Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon speaking about being a student at Barber-Scotia College when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
The Presbyterian Historical Society is excited to announce a new subject guide to records in our holdings related to Historically Black Presbyterian Schools.
PHS holds collections that document the educational work of Presbyterians among freedmen after the Civil War and the African American schools founded and supported by Presbyterian pastors and leaders. Several of these schools continue to flourish either as fully independent institutions or through affiliations with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The importance of these institutions can be heard in the words of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon. Her story about attending Barber-Scotia College, linked in the video below, highlights a pivotal moment in American history but also a pivotal moment in her own history.
What makes Dr. Cannon’s memory of that day at Barber-Scotia College special is that this story would not have played out the same if she were a student anywhere else.
This story perfectly encapsulates the significance of attending historically Black Colleges and Universities. To attend an HBCU is to take on a new identity that shapes the way you look at the world just as much as it shapes the way the world looks at you. It gives you access to a network of students, faculty, and administrators that support you as a student and as an individual.
As a part of the team working on the African American Leaders and Congregations collecting initiative, I have had the pleasure of recording a number of oral history interviews with Black Presbyterian leaders. Like Dr. Cannon, these leaders have remarked about the pivotal role that their HBCU played in shaping them as a leader. Their lives act as a testimony to the value of these institutions in the past and in the present.
Barber-Scotia College is just one of the institutions represented in the PHS archives. Also included are the following historically Black colleges and universities: Biddle University/Johnson C. Smith University, Harbison College, Knoxville College, Lincoln University, Mary Allen Junior College, Mary Holmes College, Stillman College, and Swift Memorial College.
PHS also holds records documenting other smaller Black schools and academies founded by Presbyterians and run by the Board of Missions for Freedmen and its successor agencies. These schools were not colleges, but many of their faculty had ties to Presbyterian HBCUs, and the schools helped prepare future students of HBCUs.
As part of our effort to collect the history of Black Presbyterians and institutions, we invite people who hold records related to these schools to contact us about donating materials to PHS. Please see the Personal and Family Papers page for more information.
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Existing work on inference detection for database systems mainly employ functional dependencies in the database schema to detect inferences. It has been noticed that analyzing the data stored in the database may help to detect more inferences. We describe our effort in developing a data level inference detection system. We have identified five inference rules that a user can use to perform inferences. They are "subsume", "unique characteristic", "overlapping", "complementary", and "functional dependency" inference rules. The existence of these inference rules confirms the inadequacy of detecting inferences using just functional dependencies. The rules can be applied any number of times and in any order. These inference rules are sound. They are not necessarily complete, although we have no example that demonstrates incompleteness. We employ a rule based approach so that future inference rules can be incorporated into the detection system. We have developed a prototype of the inference detection system using Perl on a Sun SPARC 20 workstation. The preliminary results show that on average it takes seconds to process a query for a database with thousands of records. Thus, our approach to inference detection is best performed offline, and would be most useful to detect subtle inference attacks.
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Estate In Chillingham, Northumberland
A country manor house with beautiful gardens, an observatory, old church and ruined pele tower.
This Lilburn Tower is actually a 19th century mansion house just around the corner from Chillingham Castle, but is now privately owned. Fortunately once a year, the grounds are opened to the public, usually for charity, allowing you a wander around.
Before we take you on a tour, let's give you a bit of history on the estate.
John Clennell of the Clennell family of Clennell Hall (that's a lot of Clennells!) bought the manors of East and West Lilburn and joined them together. The western side had the ruinous remains of a 15th century manor house, unsurprisingly known as West Lilburn Tower. The ruins of this tower still stands in the grounds.
The estate was bequeathed a few times until it ended up in the hands of Henry Collingwood of Cornhill, who also had the title of the High Sheriff of Northumberland. He requested the services of the architect John Dobson (the lad who built lots of Newcastle City Centre) to design a new Elizabethan-style mansion and work started in 1829 with the house costing a grand sum of £25,000.
Although Dobson designed the house, Collingwood didn't appoint anyone for the grounds, planning and managing the gardens himself.
After the death of Henry, the house was passed down to other family members, including the nephew of Admiral Lord Collingwood with the current owner being Duncan Davidson who founded Persimmon Homes.
Enough of the history, let's show you more pictures of the grounds.
Following the track around some bushes we came across the observatory.
Then we just followed tracks off to a wooded walk.
We then came across a quaint little bridge which was covered in lovely scented honeysuckle.
We crossed the bridge and headed down to a little pond area.
We then headed back out and through the woods back towards the house.
And we found a huge marble egg!
Then a horse!
We then spied the observatory again peeking through the trees.
Time for a sit down before we headed out in the gardens in front of the house.
If you look closely in the above photo, you can see the Hurlestone Tower at Lilburn in the distance.
Few more photos of the garden.
After our lovely wander we headed back to the car through the courtyard.
Then we spied this fella lurking in the bushes.
They are both within the estate and we asked permission from the owner before we trekked across the park to them. More information on their own posts.
But in our haste to visit these, we missed finding the old church and the West Lilburn Tower. Fortunately our new Fabulous North friend Margaret Pinsent also visited on the open day and sent us over her snaps.
The open days are usually in June, so keep an eye out for the next one.
Place contributed by Simon Hawkins
Thanks for checking out this place on the Fabulous North! I do enjoy a wander out in to the countryside trying to find hidden gems that not many people know about. You can't beat a rogue Pele tower up a remote hill or a mysterious stone circle or a stunning waterfall secluded in a forest.
A 4m standing stone, most likely a headless cross, maybe thrown there by giants or the devil.
A ruined, Grade II listed Scheduled Monument, 16th Century Tower House / Bastle House.
The ancestral home of the Earls Grey since 1319. (As in the tea!)
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They have a lot of potential applications in various fields: registries, finance, healthcare, supply chains, gaming. However, the problem is that blockchain technology still suffers from very serious limitations; the worst of them is the speed of transactions.
Even Ethereum, which is the most popular blockchain platform, still doesn’t have any mainstream services or applications. All popular applications such as Cryptokitties clogged the network so much that the regular transaction was taking one day to be completed. At the same time, all networks that can achieve higher throughput are more centralized - such as EOS, Tron, NEO, all of them have only 20-100 nodes. That’s why large businesses can’t build anything on these platforms - they simply don’t trust them.
Another problem is that none of these platforms uses the rich arsenal of tools for Ethereum developers, trying to invent their own tools, and the large community of Ethereum developers doesn’t want to touch these platforms, preferring to wait until Ethereum gets upgraded.
That’s where layer 2 solutions can shine. What is layer 2 for a blockchain? That’s another chain connected to the main one, that can be used to transfer assets from Layer 1.
The layer 2 scaling solution for Bitcoin is called Lightning Network. The solution for Ethereum is called Plasma. The concepts for both are developed by Joseph Poon. There are two types of layer 2 blockchains - side chains and child chains and currently, there are two working implementations of Plasma, OMG Network (OMG) and Polygon (previously Matic). The first one is the child chain Plasma implementation, and it roots its security in the Ethereum parent chain. Polygon, on the other hand, is a child chain with its rules, connected to Ethereum. The only true Plasma according to the initial design is OMG, but a side chain implementation can also be useful for scaling.
How do they work?
OMG Network’s blockchain is anchored to Ethereum. Assets get sent to a smart contract on Layer 1 and then can be transferred on Layer 2. When necessary, the network can save the current state and balances on Ethereum. The security of the network is controlled by decentralized Watchers, special smart contracts that supervise the network. Currently, all blocks are generated by a single producer node, called the Operator, but in the future, it will be possible to switch to a decentralized scheme of the PoS consensus.
The most important feature is the total security of funds, meaning that even if some operators go malicious and try to attack the chain, all users will still be able to exit safely to the main chain retrieving all their funds.
Polygon on the other hand works as a PoS Plasma side-chain hosted on the Tendermint blockchain. Currently, its maximum throughput is 10,000 tx/s. It can also be scaled in the future by launching additional side chains. It has its own security scheme which doesn’t rely completely on Ethereum security.
Polygon owners stake their tokens in the root contract of the Ethereum chain to be able to verify transactions on the 2nd layer, on the Tendermint side chain, the main Polygon 2nd layer. Stakers also choose Block Producers who have to stake a significant amount of MATIC tokens to be nominated. There is a very low number of Block Producers to achieve faster block generation times. Any user can deposit ERC-20 or ERC-721 in the Polygon contract on the Ethereum chain.
When the transaction gets completed, the same amount of tokens appears on the Polygon chain and then can be sent to any address with a very small fee and faster confirmations (1 second or less). When a user wants to exit the Polygon chain, they can withdraw the remaining tokens from the Root contract. The current state of the Polygon chain gets saved on the Ethereum chain from time to time, every several Polygon blocks.
If somebody finds a fraudulent transaction from the bad actor on the Polygon layer, they can challenge the transaction, and if they’re right, the fraudulent node gets slashed and all its tokens go to the reporter. That’s a small additional security measure.
Overall, both Plasma implementations are very good and can be used in many areas, such as DeFi, lending platforms, exchange platforms, healthcare, and even games, as they allow to transfer ERC-721 non-fungible tokens such as CryptoKitties. Layer 2 solutions are probably going to be widely used in the future to scale blockchains. | <urn:uuid:2f5ec02a-efea-424e-a34e-6daf67f7123b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://getblock.io/blog/layer-2-solutions-for-ethereum-how-do-they-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943608 | 941 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Whitney Karriger is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. Her research focuses on using baboons and macaques to model differences in craniofacial growth and development between Neandertals and modern humans.
She has taught a variety of Anthropology courses, both for the School of Liberal Arts and for the School of Professional Advancement. In addition, she has been a lab director for the Gross Anatomy course offered to first-year medical students in Tulane's Department of Structural and Cellular Biology.
Ms. Karriger has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Anthropology from Illinois State University, and an M.A. in Anthropology from Tulane University. She is also a member of the New Orleans Track Club and enjoys participating in local races in her free time.
What are your favorite activities when you are not working?
When I'm not working, my favorite activities include running, playing Settlers of Catan with friends, and reading.
Who has influenced you most in life?
I think my parents and grandparents have had a huge influence on my desire to pursue an education. When I was a child, they always emphasized the importance of an education, and that was an important factor in my decision to pursue a Ph.D.
What is your favorite thing about SoPA?
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At our office, you’ll be treated like family while we create for you a beautiful smile increasing your self-confidence. The doctor and his caring staff can show you how today’s state-of-the-art braces offer many aesthetic options and efficient treatment to a winning smile.
Providing the best in orthodontic care – Cutting edge digital imaging and the latest in orthodontic technology assure precise and gentle care. We offer comprehensive and modern orthodontic care in a most patient-friendly environment. More on this website
YOUR FIRST VISIT
We look forward to meeting you on your first visit to our office.
We will help you get acquainted with our office and learn about the different types of orthodontic braces and teeth straightening procedures that can be offered to you to create your new and beautiful smile.
The doctor will take extra care to present you a thorough and efficient clinical exam to help diagnose your personal needs. He will tailor a treatment plan especially for you that meet exactly your goals for treatment.
You will have time to ask any questions regarding treatment, office policies or finances. You will be given a treatment plan and a complete breakdown of your financial responsibilities including benefits from any orthodontic insurance.
TYPES OF BRACES
Orthodontic appliances come in a variety of styles these days.
From the multi-colored rings that go around the metal wires to clear trays, < orthodontic treatment has advanced in more ways than you know.
Sometimes it is advantageous for children between ages 7-10 to undergo an early treatment of orthodontics. This is commonly known as a Phase I treatment. Indications for a Phase I treatment include anterior and/or posterior crossbites, extreme crowding, excessive overbite, and jaw disharmony. Another reason for starting an early treatment is to build self-confidence in a child who is very conscious about his or her smile. Phase I treatment usually lasts about 12 months. You must understand that accepting an early treatment does not eliminate a Phase II treatment. Phase I usually helps prepare for Phase II by eliminating the need for extractions at a future treatment.
Many adults are having orthodontic treatment to give them a brighter smile. About 25% of most practices are composed of adult treatment. This ranges from simple alignments with clear aligners to more complex treatments involving orthognathic surgery. Please don’t be alarmed; just because you have stopped growing does not mean that you are doomed to have extractions or will require having your jaw repositioned.
Most adults do not require extractions and with some cooperation using rubber bands can correct most problems. Adults of all ages are having treatment; you are never too old to consider improving your smile.
Our promise – Creating tomorrow’s smiles, today.
Call us to schedule your appointment for a complimentary examination to find out what orthodontic treatment can do for you.
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Creative Kids at West Village
- Tue Jan 01 - Tue Dec 31 2019
- Free all year round!
Creative Kids runs a wide variety of workshops for kids that are free, fun, engaging and inspiring for all ages – right in the heart of West End.
Their dedicated studio and deck sit next to The Common parkland, facing Boundary Street – so you can grab yourself a coffee and enjoy the sunshine while the kids are entertained.
Let your little ones experience the joys of messy art using their hands and fingers.
(ellaslist tip: don’t wear that good dress from Grandma – it will get covered in something colourful and creative!)
Engage your child’s senses through textured art materials, alternate techniques, and sensory play.
Art and Science Wednesday
Fizzing, bubbling, and colour will be explored in our science-based art activities each Wednesday. BYO lab coat and safety glasses!
All things fluro will be used to make eye-catching art to finish off the week with vivid colour and fun each Friday.
ellaslist opinion: A fab location, so definitely take a wander around West End before or after.
Where: West Village, The Common Parkland, Boundary St, West End
When: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020
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The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is a career average pension scheme. Career average schemes are also referred to as ‘CARE’ or ‘pension build up’.
As soon as you begin paying in, you’ll start to build up a pension that we will pay to you when you retire. You also get other benefits if you leave or die before you retire, or if you die within ten years of retirement.
Each year you are a contributing member of the Scheme, we work your pension out and add it to your pension account. We do this using your actual pay for the year and dividing it by either 49, if you are in the main section or 98 if you are in the 50/50 section. This is then increased each year in line with price rises.
Here's an example:
Abby joined the main section of the LGPS two years ago. Her pay in the first year was £24,000. So, after her first year she built up a pension of £489.80 (£24,000 / 49). In her second year, her pay increased slightly to £26,000 and so she built a pension of £530.61 (£26,000 / 49). In her second year of membership, the pension from her first year was also increased in line with price rises by £16.76, giving her a total pension pot after two years worth £1,037.17.
|Year 1||£489.80 + £16.76 = £506.56|
If Abby continues paying contributions into the scheme for a total of five years, her pension will continue to build up each year.
The following example shows Abby’s annual salary paid over five years. The figures for her pension earnt and her total pension carried forward each year are also included.
The yearly amount paid by the member is the total contributions Abby has paid in over the year. Abby’s salary places her in the band for a 6.5 per cent contribution rate. You can check your contribution band on the Joining, contributions, and transferring in your benefits page.
To simplify the example, we have not included the increase in line with price rises Abby received after her first year, or for any additional years. Abby remains in the main section of the pension scheme and on the same salary from year two onwards.
Pension earnt (Worked out using 1/49 of pensionable salary)
Carried forward to next year
Increase in line with price rises
Yearly amount paid by the member inc 20% tax relief
If Abby takes her pension at her normal pension age (NPA) she will receive an annual pension of £2,612.24, plus inflation. If she takes her pension before her normal pension age, it’s then reduced.
If Abby receives her pension for 15 years after retiring at NPA, she would receive a total of £39,183.60 over the 15 years, plus inflation.
One of the most important benefits of the LGPS is that this amount is guaranteed, index-linked and paid every year for life.
Before April 2014, the LGPS was a final salary pension scheme. If you were a member before April 2014, the benefits you built up before this are protected and will be calculated differently. We use your full time equivalent final salary when you leave to work out the pension built up before 1 April 2014. We add this amount to the pension you have built up since then.
To work out your final salary benefits we use the membership you have built up in the Scheme before April 2014 along with a portion of your final salary when you leave.
Changes were made to the final salary scheme in April 2008. Before April 2008 we use 1/80 of your final salary to work out your annual pension, and an automatic lump sum is also payable. After April 2008 you no longer receive an automatic lump sum. You do receive a bigger pension though, as 1/60 of your final salary is used to work out your yearly pension.
Before April 2008
|Years’ membership * final salary / 80||Yearly pension|
|Years’ membership * final salary / 80 * 3||Automatic tax free lump sum|
After April 2008
|Years’ membership * final salary / 60||Yearly pension|
You can find out what all your benefits are worth by registering or logging into your My Pension account.
If you joined after 1 April 2008, then you won’t have an automatic tax free lump sum. However, you can take up to 25 per cent of the overall value of your pension pot as a tax free lump sum. You must normally take all your benefits at the same time.
You can choose to take your standard pension benefits, the maximum 25 per cent lump sum, or any amount in between.
For every £1 of pension you give up you get an extra £12 back as a lump sum which is tax free. The amounts may change if you have tax free cash from other pension schemes. It does not take account of any AVCs you have with us, and you may be able to take some or all of your AVCs as tax free cash.
As a contributing member, you can use the calculator within your My Pension online account to check how much lump sum you can take when you retire.
Brenda is about to retire. She was a member before 2008, and her standard package of benefits is as follows:
If Brenda decides to give up £1,000 of her yearly pension, this is how her benefits will change:
|Lump sum||£33,000 |
(original lump sum of £21,000 plus £12,000 (£1,000 x 12))
If Brenda wants the maximum lump sum under HMRC limits her benefits will be:
(reduced by £2,089)
|Maximum lump sum||£46,068|
(original lump sum of £21,000 plus £25,068 (£2,089 x 12))
Local government pensions are subject to pensions increase. Active pension accounts, deferred pensions and pensions in payment are adjusted each April in line with inflation. The rate of inflation used is as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, normally at the rate it was in the previous September.
On 11 April 2022, local government pensions will increase by 3.1 per cent.
Because the increase applies mid-month, the monthly pension instalment we pay to pensioners in April will be a combination of two different annual rates. The pension payments we pay in May will be the fully increased amount. If your pension began on or after 12 April 2021, we will pay you a proportion of this year’s pension increase, depending on how many months your pension has been in payment.
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This example shows a fundamental difference to remember between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade
The example is that I altered the repository for the 0ad game package from the default to the ppa for the 0ad (i.e. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad) . I then did a sudo apt-get update and then I did a sudo apt-get upgrade 0ad
Nothing wrong with that except that there is a new package dependancy for the 0ad game and this new to be installed package causes apt-get upgrade to hold the package upgrade.
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Hi! I'm trying to create a topdown shooter zombie game. In my World (main) scene, I have created several nodes like "Survivors", "Bullets", and "Enemies" where I would add my zombie scenes as a child of the Enemies node in the ready function. The Zombie scene has a detection radius set to 150 and I want it so that if the player enters this radius, the zombie would start going towards the player and its detection radius would increase to 300. But the problem is, when I spawn some zombies, and I enter the radius of one zombie, all of them would increase their radius to 300 even though I didn't enter the detection radius of the others. This is the code in my world scene:
onready var Zombie = preload("res://Scenes/Zombie.tscn")
for i in range(num):
var Z = Zombie.instance()
Z.global_position = Vector2(rand_range(300, 600), rand_range(300, 600))
And this is my script in my zombie scene: (However I will not include the part where the zombie goes towards the player because I have no problem with that.)
if target: #target is whoever entered the DetectionRadius
What I have tried so far is that I made a function called "target_seen" in the zombie scene and I placed the expansion of the radius of DetectionRadius code there only to see the same result. I'm a beginner in Godot and I started learning last 3 weeks and this is my first time asking in the site. Thank you! | <urn:uuid:3259f6ec-5871-4907-ada3-d0f8e6af0354> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://godotengine.org/qa/39077/triggering-method-child-node-triggers-same-method-children?show=39094 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.879429 | 441 | 1.539063 | 2 |
As people in the north can attest, there's something earthy and natural about autumn. We all love rich, traditional, earthy Fall scents and tastes, from spices like cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, to tastes like pumpkin, cranberry, and apple.
In Southwest Florida, we might not get a traditional fall climate with sweater weather or leaves changing colors. Instead, our homes become our autumn oasis. Here are some of the ways to make your home smell like fall even if it doesn't feel like fall outside.
As an alternative to lighting a scented candle, a stove-top simmer pot is a pot filled with water, fruits, spices, and/or herbs that gently simmer to create a nice aroma in your home. Typically, a pot can simmer for a few hours. The beautiful thing about a simmer pot is that there's no science to it. You can play around with recipes and personalize them. Just grab a pot and fill it ¾ of the way with water. The bigger the pot, the longer it will last. Make sure to check the simmering pot often.
Here's one of our favorite recipes for a classic fall smell:
- Orange slices
- Lemon slices
- Cinnamon sticks
- A dash of nutmeg
- 1 tsp cloves
- A handful of cranberries
Baking is a great way to use your hands to create something that looks, smells, and tastes great.
And if you're a fan of cinnamon scent and taste, then you can also make cinnamon bread to satisfy your desire: you will need 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast, 1/3 cup warm water, 1 cup warm milk, 1 cup sugar, 2 large eggs, 6 tablespoons softened butter, 1-1/2 teaspoons salt, 5-1/2 to 6 cups all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon.
- Start by adding yeast, warm milk, sugar, butter, eggs, salt, and flour in a large bowl and beat the mixture till it becomes a smooth dough.
- For 6-8 minutes, knead the dough and place it in a greased bowl for an hour.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle them into the dough placed on the surface.
- Roll up the dough, place it in a loaf pan, cover it with a kitchen towel for an hour, and bake it for 30-35 minutes till it becomes golden brown.
- Place it on the racks to cool, and your cinnamon bread is ready to enjoy!
Not only will they fill the room with warm scents, but they also will warm it. Even if you don't have leaves falling.
Of course, the best fall scents are the ones that capture the aromas of the season, from woodsmoke to cinnamon, from cloves to—yes—that pumpkin spice latte. Whether you prefer fruity scents, sugary scents, or spicy, musky scents (or even something different altogether!), there's a little something seasonal for everyone. Notes like vanilla, fig, pine, clove, cedarwood, pomegranate, and more can all add so much autumn goodness to your home.
Rosemary Wreaths bring a bit of the outdoors in and give. Since rosemary symbolizes loyalty and friendship, it's a perfect time as we spend time with friends and family for the holidays. You can buy a rosemary wreath, or if you enjoy DIY projects, you can even make it on your own:
· What you'll need: metal wreath frame, needle nose pliers, and green wire to attach the rosemary.
· Place the rosemary around the metal frame, giving yourself an outline. Then start attaching it using the wire and needle-nose pliers.
· Add a generous amount of Rosemary, especially when dealing with dried Rosemary.
· Use some old leather to hang your wreath, or you can even use a belt.
· Extra step: add some lavender to the top to give the rosemary wreath some color.
· Then enjoy a beautiful and fall scented wreath!
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2021-8-19 · CONE CRUSHERS – CG SERIES. Nesans CG series cone crusher is a heavy duty, easy to maintain, higher crushing force with optimal energy consumption crusher predominantly used at the secondary and the tertiary stage of crushing. Higher reduction ratio enables CG series cone crusher to operate at tertiary and quaternary stages of crushing.
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2020-6-3 · How Does a Cone Crusher Work? Cone crushers are straightforward pieces of equipment, which makes it easy to understand. It all starts with the material you need to crush, which is known as the feed. The feed drops into the crushing chamber, which is a large circular opening at the top of a cone crusher.
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2021-1-12 · ZI Cone Crusher. Supported by two bearings (the upper bearing of the top frame and the lower bearing of the bottom frame). The feed materials are crushed by the eccentric motion of the main shaft. The concave (crushing liner) is assembled inside. It is one of the main wear parts and is replaced during maintenance work if worn-out.
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2016-1-12 · • In a cone crusher the stones are crushed with both SPB and IPB as the material moves down through the chamber. • The relative amounts of IPB and SPB depends on factors like chamber design, crusher geometry, speed, css, eccentric throw, and others.
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2020-6-3 · Most cone crushers have a feed opening size of 5-14", so material that''s larger than the maximum size allowable will need a first stage of crushing before they can be fed into a cone crusher. Final Product Isn''t Uniform. Cone crushers do an excellent job of providing finished material that''s relatively homogenous.
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2021-8-26 · Compression-style jaw, cone, impact crushers, and gyratory crushers are most often appropriate as primary crushing equipment types, though there can be overlap between primary and secondary crushers as far as suitable types. 2. Secondary Crushing. In secondary crushing…
Inside your cone crusher The basic principle is straightforward: the material to be crushed (the feed), drops into the crushing chamber. The mantle is a moving part that gyrates in an eccentric motion.
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Cone crusher is widely applicated in mining, cement plants, sandstone industries, suitable for different rocks under 350MPA, such as iron ore, non-ferrous metal ore, basalt, granite, limestone, sandstone, pellbles, etc. 1、High crushing rate and high production efficiency；. 2、Flexible application；.
2018-12-26 · crushing chamber, progressively approaching, and receding from, each element of the cone shaped inner surface, it creates compressive force, which fractures the material. Above figure shows sectional view of a typical gyratory crusher.
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If your curves are due more to fat than muscle, it can be difficult to keep all your curves while losing belly fat. You can't spot reduce and lose pounds or fat in just one place like the belly; the fat will come off all over your body. You can work to build muscle in the places you want curves, however, while you lose fat through diet and exercise.
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Dietary Changes to Lose Belly Fat
Belly fat potentially increases your risk for heart disease and diabetes, so it's best to minimize it even if it means you'll wind up being a little less curvy overall. Men typically need between 14 and 18 calories per pound to maintain their body weight, depending on how active they are, and women usually need between 12 and 16 calories per pound. To lose about 1 pound per week, you need to be in a deficit of 500 calories each day whether through diet or exercise or a combination of both. Women shouldn't go below 1,200 calories, and men shouldn't go below 1,800 daily, however, or it could slow down metabolism and prevent meeting all of the required nutritional needs.
To do this, concentrate on eating lean protein, vegetables, fruits and whole grains instead of more highly-processed foods. Including calcium-rich foods, such as dairy products in your diet may help improve fat loss during a weight-loss diet, according to a study published in Obesity Research in 2005, and these foods also contain protein, which is one of the nutrients that is particularly satiating. One way to feel full without eating too many calories is to divide your plate so half contains non-starchy vegetables, and eat these first. Their high water and fiber content will fill you up so you can easily eat less of the foods that are higher in calories on the other half of your plate, which should include whole grains and lean protein foods. Trade dessert for fruit, and cut back on sugary foods as much as you can. Consider swapping your favorite caloric beverage for unsweetened green tea, which may help increase any belly fat loss due to exercise, according to a study published in The Journal of Nutrition in 2009.
Importance of Cardio
The more you move and the less you sit, the more calories you burn each day, and the easier it is to lose weight and potentially belly fat. A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2004 found that as the amount of exercise and the intensity of exercise a person does increases, so do the beneficial effects on body composition and weight, even without dietary changes. Even better, a study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise in 2003 found that weight loss from exercise is more likely to come from abdominal fat than weight loss from diet alone, helping you to maintain more muscle and improve your body composition. For weight loss purposes, aim for at least 300 minutes of moderate intensity exercise or 150 minutes of high-intensity exercise each week. Moderate-intensity exercise means exercising hard enough that you can talk but not sing, while vigorous exercise makes it hard to say more than a few words at a time.
Strength Training Helps Keep Curves
Although most people think of cardio as exercise for weight loss, you shouldn't skip strength training. Muscle takes more calories to maintain than fat, so you'll burn more calories even when you aren't exercising if you increase your muscle mass. Also, if you don't strength train, about one-fourth of any weight you lose will come from muscle instead of fat.
Do at least two strength-training workouts per week that include eight to 10 different exercises targeting the major muscle groups and eight to 12 repetitions of each exercise. The muscle you build will help give you some curves, making up for those you lost when you shed fat. You don't necessarily need to go to the gym to lift heavy weights, as you could also use exercise bands or body-weight exercises at home. Examples of body-weight exercises include pushups, crunches, planks, lunges and squats. Another option is to use household items as weights, such as cans of food and water bottles from your pantry. As you get stronger, you'll need to increase the amount of weight you're using to continue benefiting from the exercises, however.
What to Avoid
One thing you shouldn't do if you're trying to lose belly fat is take weight-loss supplements. A review article published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2004 found that there isn't enough evidence to recommend the use of any over-the-counter weight-loss supplements. None of these supplements are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and most have potential safety concerns associated with them. For example, bitter orange can increase your blood pressure and cause chest pains, garcinia cambogia can cause headaches and gastrointestinal issues, and hoodia can lead to vomiting and dizziness.
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- Rush University Medical Center: Is There 'One Trick' to Losing Belly Fat?
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- WomensHealth.gov: Physical Activity (Exercise) Fact Sheet
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise: Exercise-Induced Weight Loss Preferentially Reduces Abdominal Fat
- Obesity Research: Effects of Calcium and Dairy on Body Composition and Weight Loss in African-American Adults
- American Council on Exercise: What Are the Guidelines for Percentage of Body Fat Loss?
- American College of Sports Medicine: Metabolism Is Modifiable With the Right Lifestyle Changes
- American Council on Exercise: Caloric Cost of Physical Activity
- The Journal of Nutrition: Green Tea Catechin Consumption Enhances Exercise-Induced Abdominal Fat Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults
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Welcome to 997000 divided by 60, our post which explains the division of nine hundred ninety-seven thousand by sixty to you. 🙂
The number 997000 is called the numerator or dividend, and the number 60 is called the denominator or divisor.
The quotient (integer division) of of 997000 and 60, the ratio of 997000 and 60, as well as the fraction of 997000 and 60 all mean (almost) the same:
997000 divided by 60, often written as 997000/60.
Read on to find the result of 997000 divided by 60 in decimal notation, along with its properties.
16616 Remainder 40
What is 997000 Divided by 60?
We provide you with the result of the division 997000 by 60 straightaway:
The result of 997000/60 is a non-terminating, repeating decimal.
The repeating pattern above, 6, is called repetend, and denoted overlined with a vinculum.
This notation in parentheses is also common: 997000/60 = 16616.(6): However, in daily use it’s likely you come across the reptend indicated as ellipsis: 997000 / 60 = 16616.6… .
- 997000 divided by 60 in decimal = 16616.6
- 997000 divided by 60 in fraction = 997000/60
- 997000 divided by 60 in percentage = 16616.6%
Note that you may use our state-of-the-art calculator above to obtain the quotient of any two integers or decimals, including 997000 and 60, of course.
Repetends, if any, are denoted in ().
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What is the Quotient and Remainder of 997000 Divided by 60?
The quotient (integer division) of 997000/60 equals 16616; the remainder (“left over”) is 40.
997000 is the dividend, and 60 is the divisor.
In the next section of this post you can find the frequently asked questions in the context of nine hundred ninety-seven thousand over sixty, followed by the summary of our information.
Nine Hundred Ninety-Seven Thousand Divided by Sixty
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To sum up, 997000/60 = 16616.(6). The indefinitely repeating sequence of this decimal is 6.
As division with remainder the result of 997000 ÷ 60 = 16616 R 40.
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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
(Lisa Rovner, 2020, 84 min, DCP digital)
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS presents an eye- (and ear-) opening survey of some of the 20th century’s most inventive and overlooked electronic music composers–who all happen to be women. Director Lisa Rovner draws on rarely-seen archival footage and incisive interviews to craft portraits of ten artists, from theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore to modular synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, who created new horizons of sound. Narrated by Laurie Anderson, SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is both an overdue corrective to male-dominated histories of experimental music, and a primer on the waves of technological and social transformation that brought electronic sound from the fringes of the avant-garde to the forefront of popular culture.
Following the screening, the Block will host a discussion between Jes Skolnik, senior editor of Bandcamp Daily, and Jennifer Iverson, associate professor of music at the University of Chicago and author of Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Avant-Garde.
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- 11th Motorized Rosiori Regiment
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- 9th Calarasi Regiment
- 5th Horse Artillery Regiment
It was created on 15 March 1942, through the reorganization and transformation of the 7th Cavalry Brigade.
When it left Romania for front at the Don’s Bend, the division had 227 officers, 193 NCOs and 6,115 soldiers. These were armed with 5,604 rifles, 242 LMGs, 62 HMGs, 42 mortars and 47 artillery pieces. For transport it had 2,748 horses, 436 horse-drawn carts and 136 motor vehicles. A part of the cavalrymen were in fact on foot due to the division’s lack of a sufficient number of horses.
It returned home at the beginning of 1943, having 182 officers, 165 NCOs and 4,621 soldiers, who represented about 76% of the original strength. The equipment was made up of 4,213 rifles, 129 LMGs, 31 HMGs, 31 mortars and 24 artillery pieces. They still had 2,396 horses, 345 horse-drawn carts and 125 motor vehicles. Although the unit had been involved in some very heavy fighting in November and December 1942 and in January 1943, most of it had survived.
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When I think sauropod, I think of North America's Jurassic giants. That's probably because these dinosaurs - Diplodocus, Supersaurus, Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus, and more - historically lucked out in getting better press and more attention than all their other relatives. There's much more to the sauropod story than the hefty herbivores excavated from the deserts of the four corners, of course. Paleontologists have been finding and naming new sauropod dinosaurs at a relentless pace, and the latest comes from the approximately 72 million year old rock of central Spain.
Paleontologist V. Díez Díaz and colleagues have named the dinosaur Lohuecotitan pandafilandi. This huge herbivore was one of the titanosaurs, a specific lineage of sauropod that spread the world over during the Cretaceous, and the collection of vertebrae, hip bones, and limb elements makes Lohuecotitan the most complete titanosaur yet discovered from the Late Cretaceous of Europe.
Back in the time of Lohuecotitan, central Spain was very different. The dinosaur trod a muddy floodplain that sat closer to the coast of the ancient Ibero-Armorican Island that formed part of an ancient European archipelago, Díez Díaz and coauthors write. Other big sauropods called this island chain home around the same time, such as Ampelosaurus and Atsinganosaurus from France, but precisely how these dinosaurs relate to each other - and how many sauropod species there were in these habitats - is unknown. Lohuecotitan is another piece to the prehistoric puzzle, holding the promise of more out there waiting for a paleontologist to have a lucky day.
Name: Lohuecotitan pandafilandi
Meaning: Lohuectotitan means "Lo Hueco titan", denoting where the dinosaur was found as well as its size, and pandafilandi is a reference to the character Pandafilando de la fosca vista in Miguel de Cervantes' The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Age: Cretaceous, around 72 million years old.
Where in the world?: Cuenca, central Spain.
What sort of critter?: A sauropod dinosaur belonging to the titanosaur lineage.
How much of the creature’s body is known?: A partial skeleton including vertebrae, parts of the hips and limbs, and several indeterminate pieces.
Díez Díaz, V., Mocho, P. Páramo, A., Escaso, F., Marcos-Fernández, F., Sanz, J., Ortega, F. 2016. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain). Cretaceous Research. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.08.001
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The most important part of a scholarship is finding the best ones for you and applying for them. In this article, we would be giving you an overview of how to apply and the essential documents needed in applying for any scholarship.
A scholarship is one of the best ways to further your education. There are millions of scholarships and other avenues such as grants, loans, awards, studentships, endowments, fellowships, and much more. Do you come from a particular country, study a specific subject or belong to a specific group of people? These are common grounds for qualifications that are not academically based. So, find the ones best for you from the pool of opportunities available.
Before applying for any grant, make sure you tick all requirements and are eligible. Confirm you are good to go from the website of the host.
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Depending on the University of Choice, be sure to gather certified copies of previous education, e.g., first degree, school-leaving exams, transcript of records, diploma, etc., as soon as possible. Seek to use preliminary documents to meet deadlines.
If the program’s language is not your native tongue, you are usually required to present a certificate showing your language skills. E.g., for English- speaking bodies, IELTS and TOEFL are widely accepted. So, get familiar with the language of the host body.
This is the most crucial application process. It should entail reasons you think you should win the scholarship, why you chose the University Study, course choice, and other relevant information. Different hosts require different information, which is listed in their criteria.
These letters contain remarks of people who have interacted with you as a good candidate for a scholarship. However, be sure to read rules and guidelines as some scholarship providers have strict rules for letters.
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Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Health Sciences,the conference organized by Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation(PMR) Club on the topic of “Importance of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation For Injuries During Sports” took place in Fazıl Say Hall with the participation of former national football player Rüştü REÇBER, Doctor of Fenerbahçe Sports Club Prof.Dr. Burak KUNDURACIOĞLU, Associate Dr. Demirhan DIRAÇOĞLU from Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Physiothreapy Specialist for Sports in 5th May 2015.
The main message conveyed during the conference named “Physiotherapy in Sports” was the fact that the physiotherapy is not only essential for injuries but also applied for preventing injuries and boosting performance. Bahçeşehir University Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences Prof.Dr. Orhan BABUÇCU delivered the opening speech and made statements regarding the importance of physiotherapy in sports.
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Dan Sali is connected to a wheelchair most of the time, but that doesn't stop him from connecting with nature and beauty.
And that's what caught the eye of a travelling Japanese priest, who invited Sali to exhibit his paintings at a Shinto shrine in Tokyo recently.
"I believe it's a first for a Canadian artist," said the soft-spoken Sali, 53, who has muscular dystrophy and spends much of his time in a motorized wheelchair.
"I have many physical barriers but I look at them as opportunities to grow. I'm aware of my body and place in this world, but there are other higher places to exist," the Victoria artist said, after returning from Japan.
The show was instigated by Victoria potter Harumi Ota, who admires Sali's work and described it to a friend visiting from Japan named Kaya Wataru.
The Shinto priest was so impressed he organized an exhibit at his shrine.
"Dan's painting is symbolic and good for the shrine display because of its imagery," Ota said this week. "He is also a good friend, and as an artist I appreciate his talent."
Sali said the priest felt a strong connection "between my thinking and the basic Shinto beliefs about balance between nature and human interaction. He only saw photos originally, and I was very pleased when he held a picture to his chest and said: 'This is my heart.' "
The show of 20 ink and watercolour works was displayed in the shrine during November, and organizers want to create a touring exhibit. The priest is also talking about setting up a foundation to promote art workshops for children with disabilities.
"They are impressed with the art, and also sort of impressed with how I live my life and move through it with my disability. They joke about my being Japanese in my last life," said Sali, who was born in Regina and moved here six years ago. He never went to art school, but worked as an art teacher for several years.
His disease is progressive -- "Walking is dicey so I use a power chair, but I can still draw" -- and he was recently part of a two-person show at the Victoria Arts Connection gallery, as well as a group exhibition of Canadian artists and illustrators at the Pacific Festival of the Book.
His paintings are full of fanciful birds, bubbles, spheres, light beams and solar systems. In one is a view of outer space framed by two blue herons with wings outstretched. "The herons are guardians of solitude, gatekeepers of consciousness," says the artist, who is inspired by quantum physics and Buddhist thought.
One of his most uplifting moments was years ago while meditating on a hill in Saskatoon: "I had a sudden feeling of connection that lasted 10 minutes. I could hear the grass moving, all the insects . . . It was one of those defining moments when you realize you are part of everything."
He added the recent trip was special because old friends bought his airline ticket, and new friends in Japan took care of everything else. Sali lives on a disability pension, and hopes to raise his standard of living through his art.
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A quick shot of Wente Winery in Livermore, California. Grapes that are grown in this incredible valley of Northern California rival any of those in Napa, Sonoma, or the surrounding wine country area. A forty minute drive across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, into the East Bay and you’re here. Wente has a wonderful restaurant with exquisite offerings of fresh, locally grown foods, and outdoor seating under shady oaks; there is also an onsite golf course that has a lovely café with outdoor seating to enjoy a casual meal and glass of wine, with vineyards at your feet. There are about forty wineries in the Livermore area, so make a weekend of it if you have the time.
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Synodality, where the church hierarchy listens to those in the pews, may seem like a new concept — but only because the Catholic Church has drifted away from this ancient tradition, a professor says.
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry professor Rafael Luciani told a webinar with 1,200 registrants that synodality dates back to the first millennia of the church, and that through the Synod of Bishops on synodality, Pope Francis is simply reviving the practice in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).
And synodality is especially important now because "the church is in the midst of a clericalist crisis," Luciani said. "Synodality is rooted in the tradition of the church, Francis is rescuing this value of our own tradition."
The webinar, focused on how consecrated religious can engage in synodality, was hosted Jan. 12 by the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Luciani is an expert on the Theological Commission of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops and on the faculty at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, and is a member of the Theological Advisory Team of the Presidency of CLAR (Latin American Confederation of Religious).
Sacred Heart Sr. Maria Cimperman, director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life and the moderator of the discussion, said Luciani has previously noted that "if you're only listening, it's a survey," but that synodality calls us to much more. Cimperman is author of Religious Life for Our World: Creating Communities of Hope, and was named by the International Union of Superiors General to a four-person commission that created a synodal process for congregations and who will encounter the responses from religious congregations and offer a synthesis for the synod.
'What I listen to binds me in my decisions and in my discernment. If a bishop is listening, he cannot make a decision in isolation.'
"When I am being listened to, it is the Spirit speaking through my life," he said. "We have to find a consensus, and this is new. To build a consensus means to discern together, to pray together, to share time together — it's a process."
Luciani said synodality is much more than just the bishops of the church listening to the people — which they should be doing anyway. Rather, they should participate in dialogue "as just one more among the faithful," noting that the roots of the word synod come from Greek words meaning "to journey together."
"This changes the whole way we relate to each other as a church and as the people of God," he said.
Luciani said it is more than simply taking directions or advice.
"What I listen to binds me in my decisions and in my discernment," he said. "If a bishop is listening, he cannot make a decision in isolation."
The church is not the hierarchy, the church is the people of God, Luciani said, and being people of God demands that everyone is part of the dialogue.
Cimperman said those in religious life can offer their tradition of communal discernment.
"This doesn't remove people from their roles, even if they're in leadership, but each person's dignity must be listened to," she said. "This is a space where everyone is to be consulted. Everyone."
Though the concept is not new, Luciani said, it seems revolutionary after recent decades.
"Take the word consensus. Twenty years ago, that was a word that was almost never heard," he said. "This is a new reception of the Second Vatican Council."
The synodal process is supposed to begin in the dioceses and parishes, but those on the panel said that is not happening in many areas. Caldwell Dominican Sr. Donna Ciangio is helping to lead efforts in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and said during the webinar that the archdiocese has a wealth of resources online that anyone in any diocese is free to use. There are resources in English and six other languages.
Cimperman said that while men and women religious are often on the margins of the church, this is a chance for them to be the catalyst that makes the synodal process work.
"I think this is a profound moment for religious life," she said. "Religious life is not meant to be the whole loaf of bread or even the wheat, but we're called to be the yeast. ... We're being asked to create spaces for those conversations."
Organizers said a recording of the webinar should be available in a few days on the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life's media channel.
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On the surface, this is an exceedingly practical text. Xenophon tells us to make sure the horses in service don’t have bad legs, that the men can mount their horses, etc. There is a catch: in Memorabilia III.3, Socrates has an interlocutor who is an elected cavalry commander. Xenophon declares that he knows the presented conversation happened. This is not a claim he makes about many of his chapters. Socrates gives much of the exact same advice written in the first book of On the Cavalry Commander to the interlocutor, who comes off as extremely ignorant. As it stands, I’m developing an argument that Socrates’ practical advice in III.3 is actually about nobility and the soul. I suspect there is less truly about horses in both writings and a lot more about philosophy and human nature, some kind of direct hint about how Socrates educated Xenophon directly.
However, there is an enormous difference between Xenophon in On the Cavalry Commander and Socrates in Memorabilia III.3 that is revealed by the opening. Socrates never mentions gods or piety in giving the commander advice. He focuses on provision, training, motivation and obedience for horses and men alike. But Xenophon opens his treatise such:
The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thoughts, words and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and to bring yourself, your friends and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage (Cavalry Commander 1.1).
Xenophon is not shy about repeatedly mentioning the service the commander owes to the gods. Is Xenophon more pious than Socrates? Hardly – the morality of this passage is extremely questionable. In return for giving the gods control over your thoughts, you get affection, glory and advantage. This is an attempt to bribe the gods. The “thoughts, words and deeds” that matter the most bring success, not justice or living within one’s means (contrast with: Mem. I.1.19). It is worth noting that Xenophon talks about the gods so much in his little treatise that he apologizes for it later (Cav. 9.8).
The full significance of piety in the treatise requires one to see competing claims about divinity. Xenophon is abundantly clear about the cavalry commander’s perspective. The other opinion comes about a roundabout way, as the figure of Socrates is hinted at. Xenophon’s practical advice is never just that. To take perhaps the most important example: it is sensible advice that one who wants a horse’s feet to be stronger will have it stand on large stones outside of the stable (they didn’t have horseshoes), making that horse as a matter of habit get used to the hardness (I.16). Xenophon gives a hint that this advice is central to the plan of his work, as he tells the reader that if he tries this, he will “believe in the rest of my rules.”
This passage reminds of Socrates’ hardened bare feet, one aspect of his disdain for wealth and his own continence (cf. Mem I.2.5). It only reminds, as we can only speculate. Much later in the treatise, Xenophon discusses how a thoroughly superior cavalry unit would come about, one that would make one’s opponents look like amateurs. The cavalry that will almost literally fly in difficult situations and over rough terrain – Xenophon says they will be like “birds to beasts,” the “sound from the lame” – that cavalry is trained and has hardened feet (Cav. 8.2-3). He goes further, saying that equestrian exercises are no work at all, for they are the activities where man comes closest to flight (8.6). If one is still not convinced of the value of cavalry, there is this: through war, states get happiness from the gods; no other competition among men is like it (8.7).
Our speculation is beginning to see the outline of a pattern. Men compete not just to be better than other men. They are trying to make claims over other men, trying to show that what other men could not do they can do. In other words: man is the species that is emphatically not content with being man. (One can argue that the text most Greeks know is Homer. A figure like Achilles cannot simply be ignored when reading Plato and Xenophon.) Xenophon is quietly pushing the idea that a superior warrior is near godlike while overtly pushing a more conventional piety. Not to make a bad pun, but to stay grounded, we have to try not to think about a lot of training making someone look like they can fly. We’re going to have to wonder why someone with rather tough soles would choose to stay in the city. The answer, I think, lies in an allusion near the end of the treatise. The gods, who know all things, give warnings through a variety of means; a commander must do his best to take them seriously (9.9). Socrates had the same warnings (Mem I.1.3). To a degree, to want the power of a god is to deny oneself direct access to divine knowledge. Why would someone truly godlike compete? | <urn:uuid:79bbebfe-e7af-4b75-a2fa-15731ff19205> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ashokkarra.com/2013/08/xenophon-on-the-cavalry-commander/?replytocom=22750 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966313 | 1,105 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Why did Dan Staples become an engineer?
“Tumbling shaded blocks!”
That’s what stole Dan’s heart and mind nearly 30 years ago and inspired him to become a software engineer. If he had not seen those blocks, he might have gone into patent law. His mechanical engineering degree from Rice University has provided a good base of knowledge for his career in computer graphics. And perhaps it was that early interest in patent law that helps him develop patented software. Here’s my interview with Dan from Solid Edge University:
Dan notes one cool course in school was a semester spent in the machine shop where he learned to operate a lathe and machining centers as well as welding.
So if you have an interest in physics and tumbling shaded blocks, maybe consider software engineering. Dan calls it “highly addictive.”
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The Dutch MEP who spearheaded the report that triggered Article 7 against Hungary said she was satisfied that the vote went through to stand for the protection of democracy and rule of law.
The report was about the rights of Hungarian citizens and, in a press conference, Judith Sargentini thanked all those who voted in its favour, putting their interest above those of party politics.
The European Parliament voted in favour of opening Article 7 proceedings against Hungary because of threat to the EU values. A two-thirds majority was needed and 69% voted in favour.
In a press conference held after the vote, Sargentini said that she was not sure that the vote would go through but was satisfied with the result.
“Are there are more countries in need for a more serious investigation – I say yes. Next week I’ll be in Poland with Civil Liberties Committee – at the same time there will be a delegation from Parliament visiting Malta and Slovakia because of the investigations surrounding the murder of journalists looking into corruption cases. Next Strasbourg session, we will be debating Romania and this will concide with the Romanian president holding a speech,” she said.
Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola, who was also shadow rapporteur on the Hungary report, during a session on Tuesday spoke about the importance of choosing the politics of hope over the politics of fear.
“Our EU way of freedom, of compassion, of fierce personal liberty, of passionate equality, of rule of law, of free thought, free movement, free press, and of protection of minorities, is a global symbol of enduring courage,” she said.
The vote was welcomed by many, including Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld who will head a delegation to Malta next week, who pointed out that the Council of Europe could no longer turn a blind eye to the violations of the Hungarian government.
In the report, Civil Liberties Committee listed 12 breaches including the weakening of the Constitutional Court and the judiciary, corruption, restrictions on freedom of expression, assembly and intimidation of the media, non-governmental organisations and research institutions.
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‘No one in Europe’ wants second Iraq: Austrian president slams ‘provocative’ US Iran policy
The US’ reckless maximum pressure campaign against Tehran and nations dealing with it is deeply provocative and hurts international relations, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen said, warning against a major “crisis.”
Speaking at a joint press conference with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on Wednesday, Van der Bellen slammed the US sanctions against Iran by saying that such policies “do not help international relations” and only erode the system of global treaties.
“The fact that the US withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal undermines trust in this agreement in general,” he told journalists.
It is particularly provocative that the US reimposed its sanctions against Iran after pulling out of the deal and threatened the companies, which continued to work with Tehran, with punishment.
The Austrian leader also admitted that Europe has so far failed to “come up with a mechanism that would help companies effectively circumvent” the US restrictions. He also said that creating such an instrument is a “very laborious” task.
Van der Bellen then warned the US against going down its chosen path by saying that any additional pressure Washington puts on Iran “is going to undermine political relations” on the international arena “even further.”
If America continues to put pressure on Iran, the whole situation risks spilling into another major crisis “as it happened in Iraq some years ago,” the president warned, without elaborating.
No one in Europe wants this to happen.
Van der Bellen’s words came amid growing fears that a military conflict could potentially break out between the US and Iran. These concerns were further fueled by the US decision to recall all non-essential personnel from its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and a consulate in Iraq’s northern town of Erbil. The developments have prompted Germany and the Netherlands to temporarily suspend its missions aimed at training the Iraqi forces.Also on rt.com Baghdad won’t let Washington use its territory in war against Iran – Iraq’s envoy
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Town Of Saratoga moves to protect groundwater
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The new ordinance gives Saratoga the power to enforce existing Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules, according to town attorney Paul Kent.
"The town is in an area of the state where there are very sensitive soils, very sandy soils, so the application of manure can pass right into the groundwater," Kent said. "Of their 5,000 residents, almost all of them are on private, shallow wells."
The town has been involved in legal action with the Wysocki Family of Companies, owner of Golden Sands, since 2012. Kent said the town is only trying to protect its groundwater.
"If there's a way that the dairy can proceed and protect our groundwater, I think the town would be open to looking at that," Kent said. "But I think what the town is most concerned about is not being in a situation like Flint, Michigan, where we've got hundreds of people with contaminated drinking water."
The new ordinance points to groundwater monitoring wells near the existing Central Sands Dairy in Juneau County, which is also owned by Wysocki.
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What you’ll learn…
The Chocolate Journey
In class, you’ll learn all about where chocolate comes from, how it’s processed commercially and then see how it’s made in small batches by artisan chocolatiers the world over using a stone grinder. The chocolate we make and use in class is all natural, plant based and free from refined sugars.
Tempering chocolate is what gives it the shine and snap we all know and love. It also makes it more shelf stable – meaning it won’t melt in your hand. I’ll show you how to easily temper chocolate, so you can do it at home if you’d like.
In this class, we’re making an easy chocolate ganache and setting it in a silicone mould. We’ll then pop it out, enrobe it in chocolate and decorate it to the nines 🙂 This is a great way to make quick and easy chocolates at home!
You can make pralines using any nut or seed butter that you like and mixing it with chocolate. In this class, we’ll make pralines into little balls and finish them in two ways. One is by enrobing them in chocolate, the other is by putting them inside a chocolate cup (which I’ll show you how to make in class) and decorating them up!
Learn A New Craft
Unlike some crafts, chocolate making can be done at home using a few easy to find tools and some good quality chocolate. In fact, as you’ll see in this class, you can even make your own artisan chocolate at home. Whether that interests you or not, you can still take your new found skills and embark on a creative journey that’s also very tasty!
Take What You Make
You’ll take home portions of what we make in the class, which typically ends up being a nice little chocolate haul. All the chocolates we make in class will keep for several weeks…. if they last that long!
All chocolates are dairy, wheat, gluten and refined sugar free.
Kind words from our friends
Working in the industry and the huge surge in food intolerances, allergies and required diets, with Amy’s help I can face any challenge with a grin and think, “What would Amy do?”Sammy Tranger
Having Amy’s raw chocolate courses on therawchef.com makes me so proud. Our students love learning about raw chocolate from Amy, because she’s so knowledgeable and methodical.Russell James“The Raw Chef”, London UK
Amy is an inspiring teacher and someone who pushes raw culinary artistry to the edge. Her sophisticated chocolates and elegant desserts were the cornerstone at all SAF restaurants during their opening years.Chad SarnoChef, Consultant & Speaker
I love Amy’s recipes, she is always creating and sharing so openly with all of us. What’s a plus, she actually uses weight measurements (thanks, Amy)!Monika WackeFounder Schoccolatta, Switzerland
Amy Levin is a very knowledgeable and enterprising professional chef and culinary artist, whose creativity, organisational skills and teaching abilities are remarkable.Amy WebsterFounder of Simply Raw, Zurich Switzerland
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learnJulia Child
about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it,
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Details of the pictograms reflect the famous Odessa charm.
Smaller versions of the icons work great on maps, in tables and on other small-scale media.
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The merchant appeared one day at the temple, a long way from the center of town. His robes were torn and dirty, his face streaked with tears. The priest was summoned and met him at the door.
“Please, sir, I want to join the you and the monks,” said the merchant, kneeling in the dirt.
“Why? What’s happened to you?” asked the priest.
“I was foolish. I made bad decisions . . . and now I’ve lost everything! My money is gone, my wife left me. My debtors took everything I have! You’re the only one I can turn to–please let me become a monk, and I will spend the rest of my life in the temple doing God’s work.”
The priest looked at him carefully. “Your faith is not in God, I think.”
“But it can be! I know I haven’t been a very faithful person–”
“You are very faithful. Your faith is in men’s hands, and what they make with them.”
“I don’t understand.”
“I’ve seen you at the market,” said the priest, “and I know where your faith is. Your faith is in the surging masses, clamoring to bargain. Your faith is in the camels coming in from the desert, laden with fine silks and spices. Your faith is in the battered ships, bringing your cargo here through storms and pirates. There lies your enthusiasm, your heart, and your faith–not here at the temple.”
“But those things have only led to me to ruin!”
“Have they?” The priest smiled. “Your wife was beautiful, but she did not love you and she left at the first sign of misfortune. Perhaps you are well rid of her?”
“Well . . . maybe . . .”
“And you aren’t quite penniless.” The priest pulled a small pouch of gold coins from his robes and gave them to the merchant. “There is enough there to get started again, I think.”
“I don’t understand,” said the merchant, shaking his head. “You would turn away a monk?”
“I would help you through a time of doubt, if I can.”
“You would rather have me do man’s works instead of God’s?”
“All works are God’s works,” replied the priest, “and all faith is faith in God.”
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Mental Health Resources to Help You Cope With Financial Stress
We are living in unique times. The ongoing pandemic presents not just a physical health care challenge but a mental health care challenge, as well.
Social distancing and COVID-related anxiety can create new mental health issues or worsen existing ones. Additionally, financial stress during this trying time has been a factor for many Americans. A survey released by the National Endowment for Financial Education found 88% of experienced financial stress due to COVID-19.
The average cost of therapy may be somewhere over $100 per session, which may not be affordable, depending on your personal financial circumstances, but by turning to low-cost resources and self-care advice from mental health professionals, you may be able to better manage your mind on a budget.
Find out if you’re covered
Unfortunately, many insurance plans do not offer full coverage for mental health services (assuming you have insurance coverage in the first place). Additionally, according to data from nonprofit Mental Health America, about 29% of surveyed adults were unable to see a doctor for a cognitive disability due to prohibitive costs.
If you do have health insurance, investigate your coverage, and make sure your health insurance plan provides the network benefits you need. While the Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to provide mental illness coverage, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to walk into any private practice and obtain free therapy.
Before making an appointment, contact both your insurance provider and mental health provider to learn whether you’ll need a referral from a primary care doctor, if you’ll owe a copay, and which mental health treatments are covered by your plan. Your insurance company may only offer coverage if you have a specific mental health diagnosis, rather than paying for general talk therapy, so it’s important to get a proper picture in advance.
Ask about payment options
If you aren’t insured or are worried about general therapy costs, talk to your potential provider and see if they’ll offer a sliding scale fee or reduced rate for their service. Certain treatments, like cognitive behavioral therapy, for example, may be more costly than the average session, so it’s all the more important to know your options.
You’ve definitely heard of 911. And you’ve probably heard of 411. But did you know there were other X11 numbers to call in the United States? For example, 211, which was created back in 2000 to provide callers with access to different kinds of local community services. Depending on your area, you may be able to access community mental health clinics offering affordable therapy, group therapy, mental health counselors, hotlines, and other types of therapy.
While COVID precautions are preventing certain in-person doctor appointments, online therapy or therapy sessions over the phone may be an option.
Mentalhealth.gov also has a list of resources for affordable mental health access, including links specifically for veterans.
While it may not be free therapy, 7 Cups is a resource that lets you text or online chat with a therapeutic “listener.” You can choose your listener based on their specialties, expertise, and other characteristics. There are options for both volunteer listeners and licensed social workers and therapy services. You can read a review of 7 Cups at Betterhelp, which itself provides connections to therapists.
Talkspace is a similar service that allows you to text, call, or video chat therapists across multiple devices. Here is a comparison between Talkspace and Betterhelp so you can figure out which of these options may work for you.
If you’re having a serious emergency situation, you can reach out to the Crisis Text Line.
Words from some professionals
There may be steps you can take on your own to try and make dark days a little brighter.
“Practice acceptance,” suggests therapist Kimberly Hershenson. “Make a list of what you can control in the situation (getting enough sleep, eating well) and what you can't control. Focus on what you can control to make change, and accept what you cannot control.”
Hershenson also recommends shutting off the TV, computer, and phone before bed. “Technology stimulates the brain, causing our minds to stay active and unable to wind down. Turning off technology allows us to slow down and prepares the body for rest.”
Alisa Kamis-Brinda, psychotherapist and owner of Serenity Solutions Therapy, directed us towards a list of mental health tips she has written on her site:
- Get 7-9 hours of sleep each night.
- Avoid excessive alcohol use. Drink water and other nonalcoholic beverages.
- Exercise for stress management.
- Make a budget and stick to it.
- Take the pressure off of yourself. It is more important for your mental health to follow the above steps than it is to try to be perfect and get everything done. Prioritize, delegate and give yourself a break.
Know that help is always out there. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to seek it out.
Alisa Kamis-Brinda, LCSW, LCADC, owner and primary psychotherapist at Serenity Solutions, LLC, in Philadelphia, PA, helps overwhelmed, stressed out professionals and new moms learn how to slow down anxious and angry thoughts so that they can be in the present moment, relax, and enjoy life again. Follow her @SerenityAlisa.
Kimberly Hershenson has worked successfully with clients who have experienced problems such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, personality disorders, and difficult relationships. Her aim is to create a warm, supportive, and safe space for her clients to help achieve their personal goals. She believes that, together, they can work on understanding feelings and behaviors regarding clients’ areas of concern while helping them to practice healthier coping mechanisms in order to fully participate in life. Follow her @kimhershlmsw. | <urn:uuid:407e9361-ce75-4443-8961-0f4c5ef13d1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opploans.com/oppu/articles/mental-health-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939642 | 1,261 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Though it hasn’t garnered as much attention as other COVID-19 crises, the rental car industry is suffering. Rental car companies like Avis, Hertz, and Enterprise have taken a painful beating at the hands of the coronavirus pandemic, and many are struggling to simply keep their doors open.
Rental Car Companies Lost Majority of Revenue
The first and most significant hit to the rental car industry occurred when air travel slowed and nearly stopped altogether. Most rental car companies get two-thirds of their revenue from airport locations. So when flying plummeted 94% in April and May, rental cars sat untouched and unrented.
Other non-airport business comes from customers involved in accidents, but the rate of accidents also dropped with less drivers on the road due to lockdown mandates.
The end result is an entire industry that lost its core customer base virtually overnight.
The Domino Effect to New Car Sales
Unfortunately, the struggles of the rental car industry are bleeding into the automotive industry in general. Normally, rental car companies account for at least 10% of new car sales in the United States. That equals as many as 19 million car purchases annually.
But without steady rental business, rental car companies can’t afford to purchase new vehicles. Even if they could afford it, the new cars wouldn’t have any immediate use. As a result, car manufacturers are bracing for impact.
Hertz Struggling to Pay Creditors
The domino effect even extends into used car sales. Hertz, which filed for bankruptcy in May, can’t make payments to creditors and must now sell 182,500 vehicles to raise funds for repayment.
Hertz will keep $900 from the sale of each vehicle, with the remainder going to creditors. And even with this arrangement, Hertz will only repay $650 million, or half of what the company is obligated to pay its creditors.
With so many used cars hitting the market, customers can expect used car prices to sink quickly. This is great news for shoppers seeking a good deal, but worse news for drivers planning to trade-in old vehicles.
This, in turn, will further hurt new car sales for automakers already struggling. Customers will have the option to choose late model, relatively low mileage used cars from rental companies at a fraction of the price of a new car.
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The Alberta Law Reform Institute recently released their Final Report 106 Assisted Reproduction After Death: Parentage and Implications.
My daughters, lovely irreverent young women that they are, sometimes joke about which one of them will stay on our farmette and look after the oldies (referring to my husband and I) in order to inherit. What if we had some medical assistance in achieving parenthood, stored some embryos, one of us passed on, and the other wished to have a child after the death of a genetic parent? This scenario is completely feasible and possible and there are broad implications surrounding the issue.
The news release about the ALRI report describes the issues this way:
Rationale for this report
Advances in storing human reproductive material and assisted reproduction make it possible for a child to be born well after the death of the child’s genetic parent. While the law has long recognised parentage and inheritance rights where a child was already in the womb when a family member died, neither parentage nor inheritance rights are recognised outside this short time frame.
The Report reviews the current problems faced by families who want to register a deceased person as the genetic parent of a child. The Report recommends that the Family Law Act should be amended to allow a deceased genetic parent to be registered as the parent of a child born after his or her death. Such registration would be subject to appropriate consent by the deceased during life and consent of the deceased’s surviving spouse or partner when the child is born. Recommendations are also made to clarify when the deceased’s surviving spouse or partner can be recognised as a parent where he or she has no genetic relationship to the child. As Alberta law currently provides, however, a child would not be registered with more than two parents.
Why assisted reproduction?
Alberta families access assisted reproduction technology and store human reproductive material for a variety of reasons including active fertility treatment, in advance of many cancer treatments, and as a precaution against injury or death in high risk jobs such as military service. Having a child after the death of genetic parent is rarely – if ever – the first choice families would make. However, where such a choice is made, the law should recognise the child’s parents on the same basis as if the child had been born during the deceased parent’s life.
Implications for inheritance
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Medical assisting is an excellent career choice for many, but is it right for you? There are several similar careers from which to choose, so it can be difficult for many students to know which choice fits their needs. Here is a comparison of medical assisting and some other popular careers so you can make an informed decision about your future:
Medical Assistant Career Information
Medical assisting is one of the most in-demand careers in healthcare. In order to become a medical assistant, candidates may be able to train on the job or can choose from a variety of medical assistant training programs that last anywhere from 8 months to two years. Most programs provide hands-on experience through an externship opportunity. In many states, medical assistants are not required to be licensed or certified, though becoming certified provides better job opportunities and higher earning potential. People who enter medical assisting enjoy an average salary of around $34,000 per year as well as excellent employment benefits that include vacation and sick pay, health and dental insurance, retirement plans, bonuses, and more. The medical assisting career field is an excellent choice because it is predicted to experience a growth rate of over 30% in the next decade, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since most medical assistants work in physician’s offices and clinics, this career provides a clean, well-lighted employment environment with typical working hours that include 8-hour days, 5 days per week.
Medical Assistant vs. CNA
When compared to medical assistants, CNAs have a much shorter training period. Typical programs last between 6 and 12 weeks. However, many CNA training programs do not include internships or other hands-on experience, so students must arrange such experience on their own. CNAs are required to be certified and earn an average salary of around $24,400, substantially lower than that of a medical assistant. Full-time CNAs typically do receive employment benefits, but many facilities choose to hire CNAs on a part-time basis and provide few to no employment benefits. Since most CNAs are employed in nursing homes, hospice facilities, and hospitals, they enjoy a professional working environment. However, typical working hours for a CNA may include days, nights, weekends, holidays, or a combination of hours. In addition, CNAs spend a great deal of time lifting and moving patients, which results in a very high rate of on-the-job injuries, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CNA career field is expected to experience a 20% growth over coming years, lower than that of medical assisting but still high enough to provide ample job opportunities. Additionally, those who choose to become CNAs can use this career as a springboard to advance into other nursing careers with additional training and education.
Medical Assistant vs. LPN
Depending upon the level of education chosen, it is possible to become an LPN in as little as one year, making the training period comparable to that of medical assisting. Training must be accomplished through a formal educational program and often includes an internship or other hands-on experience. LPNs must also pass an examination and become licensed before they can begin working in this career. On average, LPNs earn around $40,380 per year, which is higher than the average salary of medical assistants. However, this career has a predicted growth rate of just over 20%. This is substantially lower than that of medical assisting, meaning that there will be fewer openings for LPNs. LPNs can be found working in nearly all healthcare facilities and offices and may be required to work days, nights, weekends, holidays, or swing shifts. Since most LPNs work full-time, they enjoy the full range of employment benefits. In addition, the LPN career often serves as a starting point for those who wish to advance to higher degrees of nursing training and employment.
Medical Assistant vs. Registered Nurse
Registered nurses have many more responsibilities than medical assistants and are often required to work independently and make snap decisions regarding patient care. The education and training program to become a registered nurse typically takes at least two years of full-time study and includes hands-on experience in a variety of medical areas of specialty. Although the length of training is typically longer than that required to become a medical assistant, the average salary is substantially higher at $64,690 per year. Registered nurses can find work in nearly any type of healthcare environment and may choose to specialize in one or more areas of practice. The expected growth in the nursing field is around 26%, lower than that of medical assisting but still impressive. The largest disadvantage to becoming an RN over a medical assistant is working hours. The hours of an RN can vary dramatically from one geographic region to another and among varying employers. RNs may be expected to work any hours and days of the week. In addition, if they work in a shortage area, they may be required to work much more than 40 hours per week. While nursing is a very promising career, it is also listed as one of the most stressful and burnout among nurses is very high.
Medical Assistant vs. Phlebotomist
Where medical assistants perform a wide range of clinical and administrative duties in healthcare facilities, phlebotomists specialize in collecting blood samples from patients so they can be analyzed in a laboratory. Depending upon the type of certification pursued, phlebotomy training can take between 6 months and a year, making it somewhat shorter than medical assistant training. This shorter training period may be why the salary is also lower. Where medical assistants can expect an average annual salary of $30,000, phlebotomists that perform only phlebotomy earn around $20,000 a year. Depending upon the needs of the employer, phlebotomists may work full- or part-time and may be required to work any hours or days of the week, especially in hospitals. The expected growth rate of the phlebotomy career field is expected to grow at a rate of about 14% in coming years, quite a bit lower than the growth of the medical assistant field.
Medial Assistant vs. Dental Assistant
Dental assistants perform many of the same tasks as medical assistants, but in a dental office or clinic. Dental assistants must provide patient care alongside a dentist and are also responsible for many administrative duties. Dental assistant training may be acquired on the job in some areas, but increasing numbers of employers are looking for applicants who have completed formal dental assistant training. The programs typically take between three and six months to complete, much shorter than typical medical assistant training. Some states require dental assistants to have a formal education and to be registered, while others have no requirements for the profession. The salary of a dental assistant is also comparable to that of a medical assistant, with the average being around $33,470 per year. The disadvantage to dental assisting, however, is that over half of those currently employed only work part time. This means that dental assistants may find it necessary to make a lower salary, to forego benefits, or to work two part-time jobs. While full-time employment is available, it may not be as readily available as full-time positions for medical assistants.
Medical Assistant vs. Physician’s Assistant
The titles of medical assistants and physician’s assistants may sound like the jobs are very similar, but there are vast differences between the two careers. While medical assistants work under the direction of a doctor, a physician’s assistant may often work independently and may even be primary care providers at a clinic where the doctor works part-time. Physician’s assistants provide patient examinations and treatment, prescribe medications, order laboratory tests, and much more. This enhanced responsibility requires more extensive training. Physician’s assistants must earn at least a master’s degree to practice. As with most career fields, more education equals more pay. Physician’s assistants earn an average of $86,410 a year, plus benefits. This is substantially higher than that of a medical assistant. The job outlooks of both professions are very similar. Both fields are expected to see at least a 30% growth over coming years. So why would anyone choose the career of medical assistant over that of physician’s assistant? There are some definite disadvantages to the PA career field. The extensive time and money investment required to earn a master’s degree make this career unreasonable for many. In addition, the added responsibilities of physician’s assistants make this career a great deal more stressful than that of medical assistant.
Medical Assistant vs. Medical Billing and Coding
Medical billing and coding is very different from medical assisting. While medical assistants perform many varied tasks in a healthcare environment, billing and coding specialists are solely responsible for properly coding patient medical records, ensuring accuracy of information, and using coded information to create invoices for patients and insurance companies. Billing and coding professionals are needed in every type of healthcare environment, from physicians’ offices to large hospitals. In order to work as a medical billing and coding professional, candidates must complete a training program that lasts between 9 and 12 months on average. This length of training is comparable to that of medical assistants. There are no requirements for certification for this position, but many employers prefer candidates who are Certified Medical Reimbursement Specialists. The average salary of a medical billing and coding specialist is around $32,350 per year, a bit higher than that of medical assistants. However, within this range, the salaries can reach as low as $22,000 a year. Currently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects medical billing and coding to have a growth of around 21%. This growth is substantially lower than that of medical assisting, meaning that there will be fewer open positions. In addition, increasing numbers of medical facilities are choosing to outsource billing and coding activities. If this trend continues to grow, it may have a detrimental effect on the career field.
Medical Assistant vs. Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technicians work alongside licensed pharmacists to provide medication and healthcare products to a variety of patients. Pharmacy technicians manage inventory, count and measure medications, and complete dosage forms. Those who want to enter this career field may be able to get on-the-job training or can complete an official program through an accredited school or a pharmacy chain, such as Walgreen’s. Most programs take less than a year to complete, which is comparable to the length of training for medical assistants. Certification is not required in all states, but is highly recommended for the best job offers and earnings potential. The average salary of a pharmacy technician is around $28,400, slightly lower than that of a medical assistant, but pharmacy technicians often enjoy full employment benefits. People who choose this career may work full- or part-time. However, while most medical assistants work a traditional 40-hour work week during daytime hours, pharmacy technicians may be required to work any hours, especially in hospitals and other facilities that provide 24-hour a day care. This field offers ample job openings and has a predicted growth rate of 32% over coming years.
Medical Assistant vs. Dental Hygienist
The career of dental hygienist is vastly different from that of a medical assistant. Dental hygienists provide oral examinations to patients, clean teeth, check for oral disease, and provide patient instruction and care on dental health. In order to work as a dental hygienist, candidates must have at least an associate’s degree in the field, which takes around two years. This is a bit longer than the training needed to become a medical assistant, which means a greater expenditure of time and money. Because of this increased investment in education, dental hygienists also earn a larger salary at an average of $68,250 per year. Those who choose this career enjoy a clean, professional working environment and may work full- or part-time during regular weekday hours. Every state requires that dental hygienists be licensed according to state guidelines, unlike medical assistants. Job prospects in this field are similar to those of medical assisting, with an expected growth rate of around 38% over coming years. However, those in rural areas may find a more difficult time finding employment than those in metropolitan areas.
Medical Assistant vs. Veterinary Assistant
Veterinary assistants are the animal world equivalent of medical assistants. They perform clinical and administrative tasks under the direct supervision of a veterinarian in animal clinics and hospitals. The work is high demanding both physically and emotionally and is in high demand. Many veterinary assistants are able to enter the field with no more than a high school diploma or GED and on-the-job training. While this career is much easier to enter than that of a medical assistant, the pay is also substantially lower. On average, a veterinary assistant earns around $22,040 a year and many do not receive employment benefits. In addition, while some veterinary assistants work full-time, there are many positions that only offer part-time employment. The employment outlook for veterinary assistants is also much lower than that of medical assistants, with a predicted growth rate of 14% as opposed to over 30% for medical assistants. This means that any open veterinary assistant positions have much higher competition and it may be very difficult to find a job in your area.
Medical Assistant vs. Veterinary Technician
Veterinary technician is the next step up from veterinary assistant. In addition to other veterinary office duties, vet techs perform diagnoses and treatment of animals under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian. In order to enter this field, candidates must have at least a two-year associate’s degree, making the training more intensive than that of a medical assistant. In addition, while medical assistants typically enjoy regular daytime working hours, vet techs may be required to work any hours, including weekends. The average salary of a vet tech is around $29,710 a year, slightly lower than that of a medical assistant. However, the predicted job outlook for this career is a bit better, with a predicted growth rate of 52%. So, although it involves longer training and a lower salary, job prospects are substantially higher. | <urn:uuid:f597d11c-39bf-4212-bdfb-6c9b854d86a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onlinemedicalassistantprograms.net/career-comparison/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971395 | 2,884 | 2.453125 | 2 |
I was thrilled to see so many people at the opening of Illumination: 21st Century Interactions with Art, Science, and Technology. For this show, under the direction of curator Chi Essary, sixteen San Diego artists produced work after teaming up with scientists and technologists from seven major research institutions: La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Qualcomm Institute/Calit2, Salk Institute, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Scripps Research, and UC San Diego.
I was paired with Dr. Krishna Vadodaria at the Salk Institute who’s work stretched my work in new ways. Below are some detail shots of my work Untitled (after Vadodaria), fibers on acrylic, 2019 and a short piece I wrote for the show. Illumination is on view until May 3rd with free general admission. This venue is wheelchair accessible with close parking in the Alcazar parking lot at Balboa Park. For more information visit SDAI online HERE.
This new series of fibers is more process-based than much of my other works but not without its research grounding. Before meeting with my scientific partner Krishna Vadodaria, I was exploring readings on neuroplasticity and processing trauma from a cognitive/ behavioral standpoint. It was wonderful to discover similarities in our work beyond the process of experimentation.
Her research works toward creating neurons with the same genetic makeup as the patient’s own brain cells that can then be used to test the efficacy of drug therapy. This would be a drastic improvement from the current practice of painstakingly easing into and out of drug trials over months, a process I know intimately due to my own experience with traumatic brain injury. Vadodara takes something external, a skin cell, and alters it to support the growth of something structural, the hippocampus in the brain. This creative repurposing was a great parallel to my use of “decorative” embroidery stitches to mend mesh netting.
Part of the imaging process she told me about in the laboratory involves a multi-colored dye process that helps differentiate these structures. One type of die will bond to DNA for example, the bulk of which is in the cell’s nucleus. Therefore, when you look at the slide you will see a strong concentration of that dye in one portion of the cell marking the nucleus. This gave me my color palette and an idea of how to organize the stitches.
I was fascinated by the process of deprogramming and reprogramming cells to turn skin to neurons. To pull from Vidodaira’s research, I started to think of my stitches as the different structures inside a cell. As I stretch the mesh over the plexiglass I think of it as a pristine microscopic slide ripe for experimenting. I imagine how my stitches might develop and divide to spread across the surface in distinct stages. This gave me the freedom to experiment with new stitches and expand the “vocabulary” of my embroidery. The structures I’ve created are not a direct depiction of her work or meant to be a didactic illustration but I have really enjoyed the shift in perspective our conversation gave me.
Thanks again to Krishna and Chi for collaborating and including me in this show, and to the installation/exhibition team at SDAI. If you do happen to visit the show and see my work please tag me (@kikarino) and the art institute (#illuminationsdai) in any photos and use the extended title of the work to give credit to my partner scientist.
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Since the spring of 2011, members of the Gull Lake Area Rotary Club have participated in the Adopt-A-Highway program.
Adopt-A-Highway is a Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) program designed to help keep the state's highway roadsides clean and attractive. Participants adopt both sides of a section of state highway roadside to clean up for at least a two-year period. Since 1990, local Adopt-A-Highway groups have collected over a million bags of trash. Currently 2,800 groups are participating in the program and have adopted over 6,400 miles of Michigan highways.
Participants pick up litter three times a year (spring, summer, and fall) from the highway roadsides in their designated area. The Gull Lake Rotary has adopted the stretch of highway extending from the intersection of M-43/M-89 (at the corner of the Blackhawk Inn) northward on M-43 to Sterling Drive (the entrance to Tanglewood Hills).
MDOT provides the bags for litter and pickup of filled bags. MDOT also supplies safety vests for each member of our team. Bags, vests and safety materials are picked up at supply locations throughout the state.
Members of our club share the same sense of pride that other groups feel as we enhance the appearance of our community. MDOT recognizes all groups by identifying them on the Adopt-A-Highway signs displayed near their roadside pickup area. We also receive a certificate of participation from that is displayed above. | <urn:uuid:533f2426-74c6-46c3-a013-e5c22b9f4eb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://gulllakearearotary.org/adopt-a-highway.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957578 | 324 | 1.726563 | 2 |
While I’m sitting here in my comfy chair, wrapped up in my cozy blanket, I’m watching Anthony Bourdain travel the world and experience not only the food of a country but learn some of its dark and fascinating history. It’s a reminder of how people of different walks of life can come together over a good plate of food, share stories, rehash memories and find true connections. Mr. Bourdain has helped me navigate and find the best food specialties in many cities including Venice and Nice. But what I love most is not the food, but the stories.
Anthony does not stick to the road of the tourist. He rejects the typical “must-see” destinations that most people venture to with awe and wonder. Rather, he takes the back road; the path through the small villages, towns and homes of families carrying on traditions for generations. Today I’ve seen him visit Vietnam and Haiti. He listened cautiously to the tales of war-torn pasts and clashes between the old and the new over bowls of comforting pho and spicy conch in chili sauce.
Two days ago my husband was approved for his green card and I started to think about traditions. He grew up in Austria but has melded into American culture without a snag, fully embracing cultural norms and way of life. I am both pleased and amazed by his ability to be a chameleon. I’d like to think that I could as easily be transplanted and get along as well as he does. But, like Bourdain, I think I would learn and share through food.
Even though the U.S. is very young country, we do have some deeply rooted traditions of our own. And, like many other places in the world, we like to associate them with food. I grew up in the Midwest which, to me, is decidedly characterized by casseroles. Now the word ‘casserole’ is very generic, meaning food that has been cooked in a large deep dish in the oven. Midwestern cooks can make a casserole out of anything (and often do!) and Thanksgiving is never without at least 2 or 3 casseroles.
This Brussels Sprout & Leek Gratin is my first casserole for my month-long Thanksgiving extravaganza. But why is it called a gratin and not a casserole? Well, because it’s adorned with a crunchy topping and because I like to sound fancy. This casserole, like most, can be made ahead of time and put in the oven to bubble up to temperature the day you serve it.
Now, if you want to start telling me how you don’t like Brussels sprouts I’m not going to hear it until you’ve tried this dish. The leeks, cheese and creamy sauce take out any of that weird sprout taste you think you don’t like. And, if you already like these little cabbage-like bundles, this gratin will make a welcome addition to your Thanksgiving table.
If you have any traditional Thanksgiving recipes you’d like to see me put my twist on, please let me know!
Brussels Sprout & Leek Gratin with Rosemary
Servings: 8 • Size: ¾ cup • Weight Watcher Points+: 5
Calories: 161 • Fat: 6g • Carbs: 21g • Fiber: 4g • Protein: 9g
Sugars: 3g • Sodium: 510mg • Cholesterol: 9mg
- 1 ½ pounds Brussels sprouts
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 3 leeks, tops removed, halved and sliced (*See NOTE)
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 ½ teaspoons Kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 ¼ cups nonfat milk
- 2 ounces grated romano cheese (about 2/3 cup)
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ cup panko breadcrumbs
- 2 scallions, chopped
Trim the bottoms of the Brussels sprouts and cut them in half, keeping any fallen leaves with the bunch. Heat a large pot of water to boiling and prepare an ice bath. Toss the Brussels sprouts and fallen leaves into the boiling water and blanch for 4 minutes. Immediately transfer sprouts to the ice bath. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a large deep skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil and add the leeks, garlic, rosemary salt and pepper. Saute, stirring frequently until leeks are softened, about 6-7 minutes.
Sprinkle the flour over the leeks and continue cooking, stirring frequently and additional 5 minutes. Pour in the milk and continue cooking and stirring frequently 10 minutes longer, until the sauce begins to thicken and bubble. Stir in ½ the romano cheese and nutmeg. Reduce heat to low.
Remove Brussels sprouts from the ice bath and roughly cut into bite-sized pieces. Add them with the lemon juice to the leek mixture and stir to combine. Transfer mixture to a large casserole dish.
In a medium bowl, combine the breadcrumbs, remaining cheese and scallions. Sprinkle this mixture on top of the casserole. Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake, uncovered, 15 minutes. If you have difficulty getting the top to brown, turn on the broiler for 3-5 minutes.
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Dear Cecil: I don’t have a dog, but I do have a toddler, which means I spend a lot of time hanging around parks and sidewalks. I’ve witnessed many incidents of dogs with white owners barking, growling, or otherwise being extremely aggressive towards African-Americans. I’m sorry to say my parents’ dog does this too. Since they live in a fairly white area I used to think maybe it was a function of not having much experience with black people (their dog once met a white guy who was almost seven feet tall and barked at him too). Are these dogs racist? Are they picking up on deep-seated racial anxiety their owners might not even be aware of? Nicola Spasoff, Baltimore
One of your knottier questions, giving rise to acrimonious disputation here at the Straight Dope. Let’s take it from the top:
- The hostility of some dogs to black people has been widely remarked on. For example, we found a 2003 Slate article entitled “Can a Dog Be Racist?” A query along these lines on the Straight Dope Message Board likewise drew numerous affirmative responses. (More on both matters below.) In 2002, a councilwoman in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, attracted national attention when she accused Dolpho, the borough’s police dog, of preferentially attacking blacks and demanded he be put to sleep.
- Tales abound of human racists trying to instill prejudice in their dogs. The boerboel, or South African mastiff, was associated with violence against blacks in the apartheid era. A dog trained to attack blacks was the plot vehicle in the 1970 short story “White Dog” by Romain Gary, adapted for film in 1982 by Samuel Fuller; Gary claimed the underlying facts were true.
- The belief that dogs could be trained to target ethnic groups led the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps to establish an experimental “war dogs” program during World War II. Dogs underwent training at Cat Island, Mississippi, to sniff out Japanese soldiers and kill them. This charming procedure involved having a Japanese-American soldier in padded gear beat a dog bloody, whereupon the dog’s handler would order it to attack the soldier. The results weren’t impressive. After 90 days of such abuse, the dogs still couldn’t reliably distinguish ethnic Japanese.
- The idea of detecting ethnicity based on scent isn’t totally nuts. Research indicates some Asians produce less sweat from the apocrine glands than most Europeans while some Africans produce more. Apocrine sweat tends to be smelly, so the dogs could differentiate that way.
- After asking around for weeks on the Straight Dope Message Board, we eventually got roughly 80 reports of the form “My dog dislikes people having characteristic X.” These included people with sunglasses, obese people, hat wearers, men in hoodies, women in saris, individuals wearing jingly things such as keys, men who hunted, smokers, people on bicycles, Mormons, white people in general (2 cases), bearded men (2), Asians (3), people in uniforms (4), Hispanics (4), and the Lipka Tatars of Belarus (1).
Only two groups were cited more than ten times as targets of canine hostility: men, sometimes specified as white men (12 cases), and black people (40 cases). In other words, of 80 dogs who seemingly had it in for some subset of humanity, one in eight didn’t like men, and fully half didn’t like blacks.
- The Slate piece offered the following theories from dog behavior expert Nicholas Dodman, a veterinary professor at Tufts: (1) some dogs are unaccustomed to black people and so regard them as threatening; (2) other dogs may have had a bad experience with a black person; (3) dogs sense some black people are afraid of them, which reinforces their hostility; and (4) some white dog owners fear or dislike black people, and the dogs pick up on that. Dodman’s own investigation found owners of black-hating dogs tended to be the anxious type. When we contacted Dodman he reiterated the above but acknowledged research hadn’t advanced further.
- Writing up these findings, I observed that if Dodman’s explanation were sufficient, we’d expect to hear of black-owned dogs who didn’t like whites, but the absence of such reports suggested something more was at work. Straight Dope copy editor Jim (taking up the cudgels for the momentarily quiescent Una) riposted that this conclusion was worthless, as it rested on a dangerously iffy data set — for one, we didn’t know how well black dog owners were represented among the SDMB readership. Nettled, I went back and specifically requested reports from dark-skinned dog owners. Eight wrote back: seven said their dogs exhibited no preference; one said his dog disliked Asians until trained out of it.
Conclusions: (a) I sure hope global warming research is more reliable than this, but (b) I’ll concede that the core Dodmanian hypothesis — dogs bark at the unfamiliar — may largely explain the facts.
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At Ebola Ground Zero In Dallas, Residents Are Surprisingly Calm
Texans say they're "rocking business as usual" despite the deadly Ebola infections in their neighborhood that have sparked headlines and fear around the country.
People all over America are worried about contracting Ebola, but here's one place where everyone isn't panicked: Dallas, Texas.
More specifically, residents are surprisingly calm in the neighborhoods surrounding Texas Presbyterian Hospital, the so-called ground zero of Ebola in the U.S. where Thomas Duncan died and two nurses later became infected.
What's going on?
The scene at The Bend in the Village — the apartment complex of nurse Amber Vinson, who was diagnosed with Ebola this week — was especially relaxed Thursday. On the complex's park-like campus people exercised under leafy trees, moms chatted on cellphones as they pushed babies in strollers, and one man was slacklining.
Each front door displayed an Ebola warning flyer that fluttered in the wind, but everyone who spoke with BuzzFeed News seemed mostly unfazed.
"I've seen indifference on one side and mild concern on the other side," said Jordan Malouf, who like many at the complex was alerted to the situation early Wednesday via a text message from apartment managers.
Malouf's apartment lies just minutes from Vinson's, and his office is a stone's throw from Texas Presbyterian, but he and his wife haven't made any changes, nor do they plan to. Malouf is still going into the office, going to the gym, shopping for groceries, and doing everything else according to routine. "I personally am not too worried about it," he added. "The worst I've seen is a guy who won't shake hands."
And that was pretty typical for the area. Stewart Owens was lying out on an expansive lawn Thursday reading V-Wars — a book he laughingly explained as "about a virus that sweeps America and turns people into Vampires" — but said he hadn't really noticed anyone changing their daily routines. Jackie Callanen, a retiree who saw the hazmat trucks Thursday, also was undeterred and said the area was still ideal for walking. And Kris Berry recalled waking up to news helicopters hovering overhead, but said he was still "rocking business as usual."
More than half a dozen other people made similar comments to BuzzFeed News.
Just a few miles away, near the home of Nina Pham — the first American nurse infected with Ebola — things were similarly quiet. A row of neighborhood shops was bustling and Matthew Torbik, a bartender at The San Francisco Rose, said he hasn't seen any dip in business. "A lot of people are cracking jokes about it," he said. "Just making fun of it. Granted, they still know it's a serious issue, but to lighten the mood they're making jokes about it. But business hasn't changed and people don't seem scared around here."
The scene at Texas Presbyterian Hospital was also calm Thursday. In the cafeteria, many scrub-clad doctors and nurses discussed Ebola, but otherwise there was no indication that the hospital was the epicenter of Ebola in America. Several hospital workers declined to comment to BuzzFeed News.
Ebola is affecting people, but in subtle ways.
Though no one who spoke with BuzzFeed News was too concerned about the deadly virus, a few mentioned that friends and co-workers were nervous because they live near the nurses who picked up the virus.
Kyle Stewart said that while he isn't "too overly concerned about those kinds of things," he has seen people judging him because he lives near Vinson's apartment. "I kind of got some interesting looks, you know, people reaching for the hand sanitizer."
Aaron Dunn, who is self employed, said his wife Heather has had similar experiences at her job in a law office, with co-workers being "on pins and needles" about her coming into the office.
So why aren't the residents in these neighborhoods scared?
Different people gave different reasons for being calm in the face of Ebola nearby. Some thought it was because people in Dallas are religious, or due to the tone of local media coverage. But several people independently said that they hadn't panicked because they live near the outbreak. The idea, according to Berry, is that seeing first hand what happens offers a more accurate view of the threat.
"I can actually see them working to contain it so that might give me a little bit of calm," he explained.
Jennie Brown, who also lives nearby, agreed. Brown and her husband, Jason, are the parents of a toddler who likes to "touch everything," prompting the family to create an informal, self-imposed quarantine. The more they saw what was going on, however, the less threatened they felt.
"As I'm finding out more about the protocols and procedures, I feel empowered by knowing right where it is," Brown said. "I feel empowered to carry on as normal."
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U.S. to make revisions to energy plan, may cut support of hydrogen fuelMay 24, 2012
Cuts to hydrogen fuel support backed by Department of Energy head
The U.S. government has taken on a new energy plan that would have the country pursue the research and development of various forms of alternative energy. The “all of the above” plan initially received praise from the environmentalist community, who heralded the plan as a sign that the government was beginning to take alternative energy more seriously. The plan had brought in a great deal of support for hydrogen fuel cells, but now the government may be revoking this support, a move backed, once again, by Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Fuel cells identified as a costly venture
The government is currently revising its energy plan, looking to make cuts to the support of some forms of energy in favor of others. Hydrogen fuel cells are one of the energies that are expected to receive cuts during this revision. This is largely due to the cost of hydrogen fuel cells, which have been a serious deterrent in their commercialization and adoption. Bringing down the cost of fuel cells has proven difficult, as the necessary research and development for this feat is expensive in and of itself.
DOE has had a troubled past with hydrogen fuel cells
DOE Secretary Steven Chu has had a turbulent history with hydrogen fuel. Chu has made no secret of his views concerning fuel cells, often calling them “far future technology.” The Secretary had been adamant in his disdain for fuel cells for some time until federal legislators decided to put more money into the development of fuel cell technology. This move was considered to be inspired by the number of automakers that are planning to release hydrogen-powered vehicles within the coming years.
Still unclear whether support will be withdrawn
During the revision period, support may be pulled away from hydrogen fuel cells. If this happens, the fuel cell industry is expected to slow down in the U.S. This may cause the industry to grow at a more rapid pace in other countries as fuel cell companies opt to reallocate their resources. For now, the future of hydrogen fuel in the U.S. remains uncertain. | <urn:uuid:ae7ee2d1-a9cd-4aa1-be25-a9ce57c8c2c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/us-make-revisions-energy-plan-may-cut-support-hydrogen-fuel/853865/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977791 | 445 | 2.078125 | 2 |
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-08 - Publisher: Alpha Edition
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes – her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-04-01 - Publisher: BRILL
This re-evaluation of the place of Nemesis in the Roman World shows that the goddess was associated less with the lower classes than with the emperor and state. It also reveals her as particularly connected with the munus and venatio as the result of a function peculiar to these games.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-01 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This book contains 15 papers which were presented by specialists from Europe and Egypt at two conferences held at Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2015. Eight of the articles deal with the history of Late Antique Egypt in its manifold aspects, from monasticism and Coptic manuscripts, to the
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
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It’s a museum you listen to, exhibiting hundreds of sounds recorded around the world!
(Our recordings are kept on a mobile phone, not in a building – and not online.)
Our sounds are organised by topic – the same way other museums exhibit visual objects.
Our visitors make an appointment – with us and themselves – to listen!
(Visit online or meet us in person – alone or in a group!)
We also host temporary exhibitions!
Here’s What Some of Our Visitors Say:
‘A thing of beauty!’—Londonist.com
‘An amazing project – magical.’—Judith Clark
‘Has changed the way I’ll think about every museum I visit going forward.’—Kevin McKinney
‘I’ve never thought about sound in this way before!’—First Year Student, Bournemouth Film School
‘The coolest thing I’ve done in a long time!’—Dominique Russell
‘*****, would go back’—Seth Cluett
‘Plays with sound as media and media as sound…investigates the many facets of a young and quickly evolving culture of sound and listening.’—Reviews in Digital Humanities
What Else Do We Do?
We offer classes & workshops, organise conferences, and publish things about sound.
We also keep a Physical Objects Collection, a Research Library, and a Video Gallery.
Our Director was awarded a PhD from University of the Arts London for this museum and the thesis he wrote about its creation.
In the mood for some academic talk? Download a free PDF of Listening to Museums: Sounds as Objects of Culture and Curatorial Care!
LIVERPOOL/SOUTHSEA – MOPS Director John Kannenberg appeared on the 10 o’clock Sky News last night as part of a three minute segment marking the death of the iPod.
BLYTHE HOUSE ARCHIVE, LONDON – A vintage 1982 Philips portable tape recorder once held in the Science Museum’s archives has been officially transferred to the collections of the Museum of Portable Sound.
18 1/2 Minutes: The Erasure of Watergate Tape 342 Hear the infamous gap in the tape that sealed the fate of US President Richard Nixon exactly 50 years ago
We bring the culture & history of sound beyond music to the world, one listener at a time.
Who We Are
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dCODE Dextramer® (HiT) Reagents Allow Multiplex Screening of Large Epitope Panels
Immudex, internal data 2020
dCODE Dextramer® (HiT) carries a unique DNA barcode, specific for the MHC-peptide complex displayed on the Dextramer® (Fig. 1).
The MHC-peptide specificity can be identified by PCR and sequencing of the attached DNA barcode.
Fig.1 dCODE Dextramer® (HiT)
Goal: Detect antigen-specific T-cell populations in a human PBMC sample using a multiplexed panel of dCODE Dextramer® (HiT) reagents.
- Healthy donor PBMC sample (haplotype A*02:01, A*29:02, B*35:01, B*57:01) stained with a pool of 56 MHC I dCODE Dextramer® (HiT) reagents displaying different viral and cancer epitopes. Each MHC-peptide specificity was made in duplicates, each with a different DNA barcode label.
- Following staining, dCODE Dextramer®-positive and -negative cells were individually sorted by flow cytometry.
- DNA barcodes bound to sorted cells were amplified by qPCR and sequenced. Specific enrichment of dCODE Dextramer®-positive cell populations was determined comparing with dCODE Dextramer®-negative cells
- Positive antigen-specific populations were confirmed by flow cytometry.
dCODE Dextramer® (HiT) reagents with MHC alleles matching the donor’s haplotype detected four antigen-specific T-cell populations with a signal higher than the threshold (Fig.2). Results were confirmed by flow cytometry, which enabled identifying the same antigen-specific T-cell populations (Fig.3).
Fig. 2. Detection of T-cell responses by PCR and NGS. A threshold was set at a value of 2 (two-fold higher than the negative control signal) to identify positive antigen-specific T cells.
Asterisks (*) indicate antigen-specific T cells detected with a fold increase higher than 2 that were further validated by flow cytometry.
Fig. 3. Flow cytometry validation of the antigen-specific T cells detected by PCR and NGS.
- dCODE Dextramer® (HiT) technology enables the generation of highly multiplexed antigen specificity data in a single experiment, allowing high-throughput epitope discovery and efficient neoantigen screening
- Following identification, positive hits can be validated by flow cytometry and further analyzed using single-cell platforms for multi-omics analysis
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ore than twenty years have passed since my revered friend Bunsen called me one day into his library at Carlton House Terrace, and announced to me with beaming eyes that the publication of the Rig-veda was secure. He had spent many days in seeing the Directors of the East-India Company, and explaining to them the importance of this work, and the necessity of having it published in England. At last his efforts had been successful, the funds for printing my edition of the text and commentary of the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans had been granted, and Bunsen was the first to announce to me the happy result of his literary diplomacy. 'Now,' he said, 'you have got a work for life—a large block that will take years to plane and polish.' 'But mind,' he added, 'let us have from time to time some chips from your workshop.'
I have tried to follow the advice of my departed friend, and I have published almost every year a few articles on such subjects as had engaged my attention, while prosecuting at the same time, as far as altered circumstances would allow, my edition of the Rig-veda, and of other Sanskrit works connected with it. These articles were chiefly published in the 'Edinburgh' and 'Quarterly Reviews,' in the 'Oxford Essays,' in 'Macmillan's' and 'Fraser's Magazines,' in the 'Saturday Review,' and in the 'Times.' In writing them my principal endeavour has been to bring out even in the most abstruse subjects the points of real interest that ought to engage the attention of the public at large, and never to leave a dark nook or corner without attempting to sweep away the cobwebs of false learning, and let in the light of real knowledge. Here, too, I owe much to Bunsen's advice, and when last year I saw in Cornwall the large heaps of copper ore piled up around the mines, like so many heaps of rubbish, while the poor people were asking for coppers to buy bread, I frequently thought of Bunsen's words, 'Your work is not finished when you have brought the ore from the mine: it must be sifted, smelted, refined, and coined before it can be of real use, and contribute towards the intellectual food of mankind.' I can hardly hope that in this my endeavour to be clear and plain, to follow the threads of every thought to the very ends, and to place the web of every argument clearly and fully before my readers, I have always been successful. Several of the subjects treated in these essays are, no doubt, obscure and difficult: but there is no subject, I believe, in the whole realm of human knowledge, that cannot be rendered clear and intelligible, if we ourselves have perfectly mastered it. And now while the two last volumes of my edition of the Rig-veda are passing through the press, I thought the time had come for gathering up a few armfulls of these chips and splinters, throwing away what seemed worthless, and putting the rest into some kind of shape, in order to clear my workshop for other work.
The first and second volumes which I am now publishing contain essays on the early thoughts of mankind, whether religious or mythological, and on early traditions and customs. There is to my mind no subject more absorbing than the tracing the origin and first growth of human thought;—not theoretically, or in accordance with the Hegelian laws of thought, or the Comtian epochs; but historically, and like an Indian trapper, spying for every footprint, every layer, every broken blade that might tell and testify of the former presence of man in his early wanderings and searchings after light and truth.
In the languages of mankind, in which everything new is old and everything old is new, an inexhaustible mine has been discovered for researches of this kind. Language still bears the impress of the earliest thoughts of man, obliterated, it may be, buried under new thoughts, yet here and there still recoverable in their sharp original outline. The growth of language is continuous, and by continuing our researches backward from the most modern to the most ancient strata, the very elements and roots of human speech have been reached, and with them the elements and roots of human thought.... | <urn:uuid:09cf2784-be94-4b12-895c-b13be182bc0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digilibraries.com/ebook/chips-from-a-german-workshop-volume-i-essays-on-the-science-of-religion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971799 | 894 | 1.84375 | 2 |
WIJK EN AALBURG • Wijk en Aalburg is said to be home to one of the oldest equestrian federations in the Netherlands. In 1922, the Land van Heusden en Altena Equestrian Society was founded as a national riding association. This year they have something to celebrate, which is their centenary. A special and respected age for the association.
While it is clear that the association was founded in 1922, the exact date is unknown. The initiator of the Command Union was the clerk of the Heusden Subdistrict Court. At that time, people could become members at the age of 14, provided they had access to a horse working for a farming company. “That is why the sons of farmers in particular were very active at the time,” says Antoinette van Reswijk, the association’s secretary since 2016. During World War II, the association had a hard time. “During the war, the Germans confiscated many horses. Many horses were also sent to Germany from this region. It was a difficult time for the club, but after the war it recovered,” says Van Reswijk.
In 1970, another difficult time followed. There were only five members left in the association, the life of the association was temporarily halted and survival hung by a thread. Four years later, a number of former members breathed new life into the club, so the club’s life has continued at full speed since then. The riding club was very active in the 80’s and 90’s. And the well-attended competitions organized at that time on the plains of Wijk and Aalburg, are proof of this.
The equestrian association Land van Heusden en Altena is still very active today. “We are a relatively small association with 39 members, ten of whom are donors and three honorary members. 26 people are active members. We have never been bigger,” says Van Reswijk, who immediately added a comment. fun. In a club of one hundred members, it is difficult to get to know everyone. Our club is much smaller and knows us better.” According to Van Rijswijk, the association does not necessarily need to become much larger than that. “If only we could survive.”
The club from Wijk en Aalburg has fairly young – mostly female – members. The youngest active member is 9 years old and the oldest is 40 years old. There is only one male member. “We actually miss the guys, especially when we have to pitch the tent,” Van Reswijk says with a laugh. “It’s best not to do this only with women. Fortunately, my father is also active within the association.”
Members of the equestrian federation Land van Heusden and Altena own a horse of their own and settle on it elsewhere. There is no place for this on the rental site in Wijk en Aalburg, at 34 Veldstraat. All activities take place on this site, for example, dressage lessons are given on Wednesday evenings in the club. Twice a year, members can participate in the official dressage competition. In addition, a training match is organized every year, for both members and non-members. Because of the Corona pandemic, it hasn’t happened in the past two years, but a fun activity is usually organized monthly by the equestrian association. Consider a clinic or fun activities for children.
On Saturday, June 11, the association organizes a special holiday in honor of the anniversary. In the morning there is a breakfast club for all members including supporters and children. There is also a bingo game for kids. In the afternoon, different clinics will be presented and there will be a raffle for amazing prizes. Next, there is a reception for all (former) members, stakeholders and other invited guests, followed by a sumptuous barbecue. (Former) members can register for this fun day at www.lvhea.nl. On Friday, May 27, the club will hold a fun children’s evening in the afternoon for all Altena children. “This year’s afternoon is so free and so much fun because of the anniversary,” Van Reswijk says excitedly. “There will be a lot to do today, like games about horses, playing in a rubber castle, crafts and eating french fries.”
Initiator: Mr. W. Ruitinga
First official match: 1927
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Imaging deep and non-invasively through biological tissue is one of the main challenges of modern microscopy. As a light beam travels through tissue, it is attenuated both by scattering and absorption events. The behavior of both processes differs spectrally: with increasing wavelength, scattering decreases while absorption increases but possesses local dips in the near-infrared spectral range. Imaging deeper in tissue thus can be achieved using a light source centered within these regions of decreased water absorption, called biological optical windows, as has been shown both in multiphoton microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT) at 1.3 µm and 1.7 µm. In their latest work, Zhu et al. explore the optical window centered at 2.1 µm for OCT brain imaging, and demonstrate its potential for non-invasive imaging through the skull, a dense and highly scattering tissue with moderate water concentration. The authors highlight a significant reduction in the attenuation coefficient of bone tissue at 2.1 µm compared to 1.3 µm, enabling imaging of superficial cerebral cortical vasculature through the intact skull in anesthetized rats. Lastly, owing to the high water absorption at 2.1 µm, the authors present another feature of this optical window by performing direct spectroscopic measurements of water content of bone and cortical tissue.
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late 13c., "disordered in intellect, demented, crazy, insane," from Old English gemædde "out of one's mind" (usually implying also violent excitement), also "foolish, extremely stupid," earlier gemæded "rendered insane," past participle of a lost verb *gemædan "to make insane or foolish," from Proto-Germanic *gamaidjan, demonstrative form of *gamaidaz "changed (for the worse), abnormal" (source also of Old Saxon gimed "foolish," Old High German gimeit "foolish, vain, boastful," Gothic gamaiþs "crippled, wounded," Old Norse meiða "to hurt, maim").
This apparently is from the Germanic intensive prefix *ga- + PIE *moito-, past participle of root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" (source also of Latin mutare "to change," migrare "to change one's place of residence"). In Middle English usurped the place of the more usual Old English word, wod (see wood (adj.)).
The meanings "beside oneself with excitement or enthusiasm, under the influence of uncontrollable emotion" and "enraged, furious, beside oneself with anger" are attested from early 14c., but the latter was deplored by Rev. John Witherspoon (1781) as an Americanism. It now competes in American English with angry for this sense. Of animals, "affected with rabies, furious from disease" from late 13c.
To do something like mad "recklessly, as if mad or crazy" is by 1650s. Phrase mad as a March hare is attested from 1520s, via notion of breeding season; mad as a hatter is from 1829 as "demented," 1837 as "enraged," according to a modern theory supposedly from erratic behavior caused by prolonged exposure to poison mercuric nitrate, used in making felt hats. For mad as a wet hen see hen.
Mad money, which a young woman carries for use in getting home when she and her date have a falling out, is attested by 1922; mad scientist, one so eccentric as to be dangerous or evil, is by 1891. Mad Libs, the word game (based on the idea in consequences, etc.), was first published in 1958
word-forming element denoting action, quality, or state, attached to an adjective or past participle to form an abstract noun, from Old English -nes(s), from Proto-Germanic *in-assu- (cognates: Old Saxon -nissi, Middle Dutch -nisse, Dutch -nis, Old High German -nissa, German -nis, Gothic -inassus), from *-in-, originally belonging to the noun stem, + *-assu-, abstract noun suffix, probably from the same root as Latin -tudo (see -tude).
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Introduction and general instructions for studio use
To get the cardiovascular system going and warm up the muscles at the beginning of the workout, we recommend the following cardio equipment. These are just as suitable for endurance training as for cool-down after the training session.
For the targeted strengthening of individual muscles or muscle groups, strength machines are one of the basics in fitness training, along with training with your own body weight.
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- Abdominal trainer (07)
- Back trainer (08)
- Lateral Rowing Machine (13)
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Kids love imitating what their mother and father do. Cooking is not an exception – in the event that they see you put together your day by day meals within the kitchen, it’s natural for them to feel curious and need to attempt it out. Functional meals and healthy recipes related with it are extremely popular in west Europe and in United States of America, however the lider in manufacturing of such meals is Japan. The flaxseed and fat free yogurt are each icing on the cake for this sweet but healthy blender treat.
1) You can use non-stick cookware to cut back the oil used for cooking. It’s tasty and very wholesome, fruit for power, greens for minerals, and seeds fulfilling the physique’s wants for wholesome fats. Yummy Carrot Soup: having an attractive orange coloration and a fresh fruity taste, the soup may be prepared by boiling the carrots, cloves, garlic along with some orange juice and lemon juice.
3 Fast And Straightforward Healthy Recipes For Kids
Have you ever ever questioned why stores like Whole Foods, Dealer Joe’s, and mom and pop shops that target organic and recent produce are still doing nicely in at this time’s monetary turmoil? All wholesome soup recipes can have the same effect in your well being as hen soup does. Here are 3 fast and healthy recipes for teenagers that I think your little ones will eat up in no time. The second simple healthy recipe is a favorite Chinese dish for take out.
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This is a tasty various to the traditional chicken and rice dish that pairs lean, boneless rooster breasts with lengthy grain wild rice and Swiss cheese for a dish that can is wholesome and hearty. three) Heat oil in pan, and cook dinner the turkey, add onion, and garlic until it’s cooked. This fast and easy recipe not solely gives you delicious cookies however will even leave your children asking for extra. Moreover, fish, corresponding to salmon and sardines, comprises omega-3 fatty acids which are known to advertise wholesome retinas.
Having a healthy colon is the important thing to long term health and discovering good colon wholesome recipes is one way to help keep your physique wholesome. three) If recipes require you to add oil, you can use oil sprays or apply oil with a sprig brush. You should notice that “low fat” doesn’t all the time equate to “wholesome.” Actually, if you happen to had been to eliminate fat from your food regimen completely, you’d die.
Some spices are exceptionally healthy, like: turmeric, curry, ginger, cumin, garlic and fresh parsley. Studies show that on common, youngsters obtain around thirty-eight % of their daily energy from fats. It is very important eat healthier, to eat fewer energy and to keep moving.
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Katwe-Kikorongo Geothermal Power Plant is a 200MW geothermal power project. It is planned in Western, Uganda. The project is currently in permitting stage. It will be developed in multiple phases. Post completion of the construction, the project is expected to get commissioned in 2024.
|Project Type||Total Capacity (MW)||Active Capacity (MW)||Pipeline Capacity (MW)||Project Status||Project Location||Project Developer||Geothermal||200||–||200||Permitting||Western, Uganda||AAE Systems; Katwe Geothermal Power Project|
The project is being developed by AAE Systems and Katwe Geothermal Power Project. The project is currently owned by Katwe Geothermal Power Project.
Katwe-Kikorongo Geothermal Power Plant will run at a temperature of 150 Degree Celsius.
Post completion of the construction, the project is expected to get commissioned in 2024.
Power Purchase Agreement
The power generated from the Katwe-Kikorongo Geothermal Power Plant will be sold to Uganda Electricity Transmission under a power purchase agreement at the rate of $0.08kWh. The offtake capacity is expected to be 200MW.
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“IT’S VERY IMPORTANT we have strong government oversight,” or so said Boeing’s chief executive Dennis Muilenberg when he testified before Congress last week, summoned to explain how two of his company’s Boeing 737 Max planes crashed four months apart, taking the lives of 346 people.
But the story of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 is one of a company — and too often, an American corporate culture — more focused on profits than safety and far too capable of thwarting regulatory oversight.
For Boeing, the 737 Max was a business imperative — a more fuel-efficient version of its traditional 737 plane, built to compete with the company’s increasingly formidable competitor, Airbus.
The new planes required larger engines, but such a change affected how the aircraft would handle during flight. So Boeing devised a software program called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, that would make adjustments to the aircraft if the new engines caused the plane to pitch upward.
But Boeing was worried that installation of the MCAS software could force customers into costly and time-consuming training of pilots.
The company went to inordinate lengths to keep pilots and the FAA in the dark about MCAS. Pilots weren’t briefed about it, and Boeing even pushed the FAA to take MCAS references out of the plane’s flight manual.
In both the Lion and Ethiopian Air crashes, neither of the pilots knew about MCAS or appeared to understand why the nose of the plane was consistently being pushed down. In a report by Indonesian authorities, the MCAS system was judged the primary cause of the crash.
John Cox, the chief executive of Safety Operating Systems and a long-time accident investigator, told me Boeing fell victim to a corporate culture of “groupthink” and relied far too much on long-standing assumptions about pilot reactions in the cockpit — assumptions that turned out to be wrong.
It’s a view shared by Richard Aboulifia, vice president of aviation at Teal Group, who said that Boeing’s “culture is the biggest factor here.” He said Boeing’s failure to put people with engineering knowledge in leadership positions exacerbated the problem.
Some inside Boeing did raise concerns. In company emails, released this week, employees asked as early as 2015 if MCAS could malfunction because of a single faulty sensor, which was a factor in both crashes. Plans to include an MCAS warning alert in the cockpit were dropped. It was instead made optional.
Both Cook and Aboulfia warned of placing sole blame on Boeing for the crashes — or losing sight of how safe air travel has become. “There were,” says Cook, “numerous opportunities for the manufacturer, regulators, operator, pilot, maintenance technician, and repair facility to intervene.” Indeed, one of the more shocking elements of the Lion Air crash is that the plane had been having problems for several days and yet no alarm bells were raised inside the company.
Nonetheless, when assigning culpability, Boeing’s decision-making stands out. And it wasn’t just a matter of cutting corners in the development of the 737 Max.
Boeing had successfully lobbied Congress, over the years, to neuter regulatory agencies and give the company more responsibility to monitor its own safety procedures and, in effect, regulate itself. So when it came to MCAS, Boeing had almost complete control of its approval.
Had the FAA been better informed about the system, a recent report of US and international regulators suggested, the agency likely would have given the software far greater scrutiny.
Rena Steinzor, a law professor at the University of Maryland who studies the regulatory system, says the Boeing fiasco speaks to a larger problem.
The agencies that are responsible for conducting oversight and keeping Americans safe not only lack authority, they don’t have the institutional know-how to even understand the systems they are regulating. “They’ve been under attack and underfunded for so long,” are increasingly “demoralized and decimated,” and are watching their best employees depart, says Steinzor.
Rebuilding these agencies will probably take years — particularly after the deregulatory fever of the Trump administration. But Steinzor says that a federal criminal investigation, currently underway, could hasten change. While clearly Boeing didn’t intend to kill passengers, “willful blindness” or “grossly negligent” conduct can and should be prosecuted, says Steinzor.
The Justice Department has more aggressively pursued such prosecutions in recent years. And the simple threat of a criminal penalty, Steinzor says, could force the company to take health and safety more seriously.
However we get there, it’s clear that change is required — not just at Boeing, where Muilenberg made $23 million last year and stubbornly holds onto his job, but in corporate America writ large. The foxes can no longer guard the henhouse.
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If you are interested in learning about cannabis as medicine, you are bound to come across specific terms, jargon, or names that are important to learn about but which maybe new or even strange to you. This is especially true if you want to consider the currently available scientific literature to determine if cannabis is posited to work for a particular condition or not. One of those terms is cannabinoid. You’ll find it as a stand-alone term or expressed with various prefixes to indicate significant differences: endo-, exo-, phyto- pharmaceutical- and synthetic-cannabinoids. In this article we will explore each of these terms, what they mean and how they differ and why each of them is important especially when it comes to generating medical and therapeutic effects.
What is a Cannabinoid?
In general, the term cannabinoid is derived combining two words i.e., cannabis and the suffix -oid taken from the ancient Greek –oeides meaning likeness to indicate alike. As such, the meaning is straightforward: “like or similar to cannabis.” Cannabinoids are further defined by where or how they are sourced. If they are sourced or made by the body itself, they are termed endocannabinoids. The prefix endo- is taken from the Greek éndon meaning inner or within. The most studied and arguably significant endocannabinoids are anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG). Cannabinoids sourced outside the body are referred to as exocannabinoids. The Greek prefix exō- meaning external or outside. These include phytocannabinoids (phyto- from the Greek word phyton meaning plant), those made by the pharmaceutical industry (prescription drugs), and those that are produced artificially (synthetic cannabinoids). Additionally, you may also have come across the term cannabinomimetic, which indicate compounds that mimic the effects of cannabinoids. A couple of commonly known examples of the latter would include Echinacea or Copaiba oil for example. As an easy to remember reference, we have included this table of definitions:
(Produced within the body)
(Produced outside the body)
|2-Arachidonoyl Glycerol||Synthetic cannabinoids (man-made)|
General Differences Between Groups of Cannabinoids
Here are few general differences or characteristics between the broad types or groups of cannabinoids that help to better understand their importance recreationally and of course in the clinical setting.
- Endocannabinoids are produced naturally by our bodies. You can consider endocannabinoids essential compounds that help to maintain overall balance and resilience. Lower endocannabinoid levels are associated with ill-effects.
- Plant-based cannabinoids have been part and parcel of recreational and medicinal purposes for thousands of years. Phytocannabinoids in all their forms have become an essential tool in the clinical setting.
- Man-made versions play substantial roles in research where they are used to help us understand how to harness and direct their impact on the human body and mind. However, man-made cannabinoids are also readily available for purchase on the internet and have found their way into several recreational products many of which have been implicated in severe injury and even death [see warning about synthetic cannabinoids issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)at the end of article].
- Pharmaceutical cannabinoids can either be plant-based or entirely synthetic. They are available by prescription wherever legal and have been used extensively and effectively in treating diverse patient populations suffering from chronic illness typically poorly served by other pharmaceuticals.
Specific Differences Between Groups of Cannabinoids
The differences between groups of cannabinoids are defined by:
- Where they are produced (which as you have seen also determines their specific name)
- The impact they have physiologically and psychologically
- Their therapeutic potential
- Their potential to produce adverse effects
- Where we are likely to encounter them
- Their unique pharmacodynamics (what the drug does to the body) and pharmacokinetics (how body processes the drug) measured by their affinity for corresponding receptor sites (Ki).
The latter measure (Ki) has significance because some cannabinoids bind to certain receptor sites while not with others. Furthermore, some cannabinoid binds to certain receptor sites with different intensities. For instance, numerous synthetic cannabinoids used in recreational products have a high impact at CB1 receptors and as such are responsible for numerous serious effects including organ failure and death. In direct contrast natural cannabinoids have either a very mild or moderate impact at CB1. Scientifically, these impact variations of different cannabinoids are measured in terms of affinity or efficacy. Affinity is a measure that describes if and how tightly a specific cannabinoid binds with a specific receptor. Efficacy on the other hand is a measure that is commonly used to describe the ability of a cannabinoid to activate a receptor once binding has occurred and with it the effects that is subsequently being generated such as producing an anti-inflammatory response for example. How is affinity or efficacy measured? Simply put, there are four categories of measures ranging from strong, moderate, weak, to very weak.
|Means of production||Endogenous (naturally occurring)||Plant-based||Man-made||Man-made|
|Plays a role in||Self-regulation||Clinical setting||Clinical setting||Research, (some recreational products)|
|Impact on||Mind and body||Mind and body||Mind and body||Mind and body|
|Therapeutic potential||Moderate-high||Moderate- high||Moderate- high||TBD|
|Ki||239.2nM at CB1 439.5nM at CB21||25nM at CB1 35nM at CB22||THC moderate,3 CBD very weak4||~0.25nM at CB1 ~0.40nM at CB25|
|Affinity/Efficacy associated severe adverse effects potential||N/A||Low-moderate risk (in some THC-sensitive people)||Low risk, moderate risk in some THC-sensitive people||High risk|
|Access||Mind-body training||Dispensaries, home grown||Prescription drugs (Rx)||Researchers, internet|
As such, the more we know and understand the different effects that each grouping of cannabinoids can produce the more we are able to create the precise effects we deem therapeutic, recreationally desirable and avoid those we consider adverse. The more we learn to harness cannabinoids the more we can generate a predictability of effects. Due to the abundance of individual cannabinoids to cover all of them would be beyond the scope of this article. However, to highlight the uniqueness of each group we chose one of each to take a closer look. Here we review the endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA), the phytocannabinoid delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the man-made HU-210, and the pharmaceutical cannabinoid Sativex.
The first endocannabinoid was isolated and revealed to the scientific community in 1992 by Rafael Mechoulam at the International Cannabis Research Society Symposium. The team decided to name the compound “anandamide” by combining the Sanskrit word for “bliss,” ananda, and the scientific word amide, describing an organic chemical compound. You may also find it under its nickname “the bliss molecule.”
Our bodies produce and degrade (break down) anandamide on an as-needed basis to maintain or establish balance (homeostasis). To date, nearly 200 studies have examined the properties of AEA, with more than a dozen of them being clinical trials conducted on humans.
The scientific literature points to a handful of receptor sites (CB1, CB2, PPAR-α and -y, TRPV1, and 5-HT/serotonin receptors) through which AEA is posited to produce its effects on body, mind, and emotions. Anandamide is a weak agonist at both CB1 and CB2 receptor sites (at CB1 ~240nM and at CB2 ~440nM). But this does not mean that its therapeutic actions are weak. Its effects play a therapeutic role in mitigating pain, improving mood and cognition, and reducing inflammation and oxidative stress for instance.
In the presence of the corticosteroids (steroidal hormones involved in several functions such as stress responses), the body increases its production of anandamide, which may account for the way in which anandamide boosts the antidepressant effects of exercise.
Additional health benefits of anandamide include a potential for reducing depression, fear, and anxiety as well as contributing to social play behavior, making it relevant in the treatment of psychiatric disorders characterized by impairments in social behavior such as autism or schizophrenia. Anandamide enhances the experience of pleasure derived from food. Several pre-clinical trials have shown that AEA can destroy numerous types of cancers in the laboratory including the potential for preventing metastasis.
AEA Has Shown Proven Effects in Clinical Human Trials for These Conditions
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Phytocannabinoids Cannabinoids (Plant-based)
Plant-based cannabinoids are almost exclusively associated with cannabis.1 Currently, research has chronicled the existence of more than 150 cannabis-based cannabinoids that are typically divided into 10 main and distinct sub-groups:
Phytocannabinoid Groups (Alphabetically)
|Cannabichromene (CBC)||Cannabinol (CBN)|
|Cannabidiol (CBD)||Cannabinodiols (CBND)|
|Cannabielsoin (CBE)||Cannabitriol (CBT)|
|Cannabigerol (CBG)||Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ8-THC)|
|Cannabicyclol (CBL)||Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC)|
Of all the known phytocannabinoids to-date only four have been tested in the clinical setting. Of these, Δ-9- Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ -9- THC) and Cannabidiol (CBD) are the most studied cannabinoids. For instance, by December 2021, more than 192 clinical trials (i.e., conducted on humans) directly examined the effects of THC. In fact, both THC and CBD have demonstrated therapeutic effects potential in the treatment of numerous, especially chronic patient population (see list below). Two of the new commers to the clinical setting are Tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) explored as potential treatment options for patients challenged by metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes, and Δ-8- Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ-8-THC) in the treatment context of nausea and vomiting for example.
Here we briefly review Δ-9-THC.
Δ-9- Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol is the primary mind-altering constituent of cannabis, responsible for generating complex changes that occur physically as well as mentally and emotionally. The chemical structure of THC was discovered in 1964 by two Israeli scientists, Raphael Mechoulam and Yechiel Gaoni. THC is a multi-target cannabinoid that binds to receptor sites in all organ systems and as such weaves a complex web of specific effects that are relevant to a great number of different patient populations, especially those that share chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and chronic pain.
Researchers have identified more than 50 pharmacological actions that affect body, mind, and emotions that are realized via the modulation of a diverse group of THC-sensitive receptor sites that include, but are not limited to: CB1, CB2, GPR18, GPR 55; opioid receptor sites (via allosteric modulation); various transient receptor potential channels (e.g., TRPA1, TRPV2, TRPM8; numerous neurotransmitter receptor sites activation via (+ or -) allosteric mechanisms (e.g. serotonin, glutamate, epinephrine), as well as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR-gamma).
More practically speaking, THC-abundant cannabis plants or products (chemotype I) have proven effects that dependent on a patient’s sensitivity to THC and can range between a powerful therapeutic or an adverse effect. Therapeutic examples include bronchodilation (CB1 inhibits cholinergic contraction of bronchi), appetite stimulation, down-regulation of the body’s own immune responses, and potent analgesic properties in cases of central pains. As such they have been employed therapeutically in patients with asthma, HIV/AIDS-related anorexia, rheumatoid arthritis, or spinal cord injuries (for more examples see list below). On the other hand, the scientific literature clearly suggests caution for patients with pancreatitis, individuals with vulnerabilities to developing psychotic events, adolescents, or during pregnancy for instance. Due to space here is a listing that covers diseases from A-C only.
THC Has Shown Proven Effects in Clinical Human Trials for These Conditions (A-C only)
More than a hundred of synthetic cannabinoids have been produced, characterized, and studied to better understand the complex workings of the ECS in the context of the healing arts. However, many of these compounds can be purchased legally on the internet; and sadly, many end up being sold in unregulated and dangerous ways to customers unfamiliar with the very real and potential dangers to their health and well-being. Those with the biggest practical implications in medicine are synthetic cannabinoids that show up in “street drugs” such as “Spice,” K2, or synthetic marijuana, for example.
Here we review one of those synthetic cannabinoids: HU-210. HU stand for Hebrew University and 210 is a designation to differentiate between various HU-based compounds. HU-210 was created in 1988. You may have come across news reports that clearly implicate synthetic cannabinoids in overdoses so severe that they caused organ failure and death. The reasons why many synthetic cannabinoids are dangerous when compared to their naturally occurring counterparts has to do with the concept of binding affinity. Both naturally occurring and synthetic cannabinoids bind with endocannabinoid receptor sites such as CB1. However, the latter bind with an affinity that is significantly higher, with direct and potentially devastating consequences of resulting effect. When comparing THC with HU-210 you will notice that THC binds with moderate affinity, which is high enough (no pun intended) to induce changes in cognition (even hallucinations) but not high enough to kill. In direct contrast, the affinity of HU-210 (a purported ingredient in “Spice”) is about one hundred times higher at the same receptor site, thus it can cause increasingly potent effects in the central nervous system and any other bodily system that contains CB1 sites that can include organ failure and death.
At the writing of this article 49 pre-clinical trials have been published directly examining the effects of various HU-related compounds. Clinical trials remain wanting (as previously mentioned but worth repeating [see warning about synthetic cannabinoids issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)at the end of article].
Pharmacological products containing cannabinoids currently correspond to or are analogues of the three cannabis chemotypes I, II, and III. A chemotype I contain predominantly THC, a chemotype II contains relatively equal amount of THC and CBD (roughly in ratios between 4:1 and 1:4 respectively), and a chemotype III contains primarily CBD with only small or trace amounts of THC. Since we covered THC and CBD in the previous sections here, we will review the cannabis chemotype II variety.
They represent a class of drugs that are produced and standardized from either man-made or plant-based materials. For instance, Nabiximols, trade name Sativex (brand names Almirall, Almirall Hermal, Mevatyl) is a plant-based extract from cannabis. Sativex is a standardized pharmaceutical product that delivers relative equal amount of THC and CBD in a sublingual spray (each actuation delivers ~2.7mg THC and 2.5mg CBD). Sativex is legal in twenty-five countries around the world.
To-date 33 clinical trials have directly examined the effects of Nabiximols in the clinical setting.
Nabiximols (or analogues) Have Shown Proven Effects in Clinical Human Trials for These Conditions
To conclude, the differences between the various groups of cannabinoids can be summarized by one common and practically relevant factor. The impact they have on the human body. Endocannabinoids are essential to inducing homeostasis (balance). And there are several steps we can take to support a healthy ECS such as getting enough sleep, eating healthy food, exercise, reducing stress naturally by practicing a mindfulness technique of your choice.
Phytocannabinoids, whether in plant or pharmaceutical form, have become an essential stress relieving agent around the world and a much-appreciated novel remedy in the clinical setting. In the academic or research setting man-made cannabinoids continue to provide researchers with the ability to better understand the detailed underpinning of the ECS. When it comes to synthetic cannabinoids in any other context consider the advice of the CDC (see the following link or the text in the grey box below): https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/chemicals/sc/default.html
Warning! The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has received reports of multiple cases, including some deaths, of severe bleeding among people who have used contaminated synthetic cannabinoids. Other states also have reported similar cases. If you have purchased any of this product, which go by names such as (K2, spice, and synthetic marijuana) do not use it. Throw it out. If you have used any of these products and start experiencing severe, unexplained bleeding or bruising, please have someone take you to the hospital immediately or call 911. Do not walk or drive yourself. Tell your health care or emergency care providers that you have used synthetic cannabinoids. Even if you don’t have symptoms, tell your medical care provider about any synthetic cannabinoid use if you are having a medical procedure. Learn more about the IDPH cases here. See CDC’s two recent Clinical Action alerts here and here
Endnotes to Table: Cannabinoid—An Overview
1. McPartland JM, Glass M, Pertwee RG. Meta-analysis of cannabinoid ligand binding affinity and receptor distribution: interspecies differences. British Journal of Pharmacology. 2007;152(5):583-593.
4. Pertwee R. G. (2008). The diverse CB1 and CB2 receptor pharmacology of three plant cannabinoids: delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol and delta9-tetrahydrocannabivarin. British journal of pharmacology, 153(2), 199–215.
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Karan Johar, Ayushmann Khurrana, Anil Kapoor extend their support to PM Modi’s campaign against plastic
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a mass movement against the use of plastic. Modi is trying to scrap plastics by 2022. He will launch the campaign with a ban on six plastic items on October 2 on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The six items include plastic bags, cups, plates, small bottles, straws and sachets. This initiative my Modi has been lauded by common men as well as the Bollywood celebs.
Taking to his Twitter handle, Karan Johar wrote: “as citizens of not just our incredible nation but also of the world we have to support this extremely important cause” .
The initiative by our honourable Prime minister @narendramodi to eliminate the usage of “single use plastic “is formidable and as citizens of not just our incredible nation but also of the world we have to support this extremely important cause ….our environment defines us…..
— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) August 28, 2019
Ayushmann Khurrana tweeted, “Climate change is real and all of us should ensure we do our bit to protect the environment.”
— Ayushmann Khurrana (@ayushmannk) August 28, 2019
Bhumi called it a “great initiative” started by PM Modi and wrote, “We need to stop the use of single-use plastic.”
— bhumi pednekar (@bhumipednekar) August 28, 2019
Anil Kapoor has also extended his support to the movement.
The initiative by our Honourable PM @narendramodi ji to curb ‘single use plastic’ is a step towards a cleaner, healthier & brighter future. Let’s pls work together to preserve & protect our environment. Please stop using single use plastic! 🙏
— Anil Kapoor (@AnilKapoor) August 29, 2019
Dia Mirza’s tweet.
Maharashtra was the 21st state in #India to ban single use plastic. We know ‘bans’ don’t work. Because implementation is short lived. BUT People ARE refusing #SingleUsePlastics 💚🙌🏼 Can the plastic industry be encouraged to do better? @narendramodi https://t.co/oEIHhNkvmL
— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) August 28, 2019
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The challenges facing Africa’s political growth and socio-economic development are daunting. Yet over the past few years, there has been increasing evidence showing that Africa’s tide of despair is turning. With eyes set on a vision of an Africa free from poverty, free from conflict and fully integrated into the global economy, governments, businesses, development organisations, international groups, coalitions, partnerships and individuals throughout the continent have made significant strides in working towards an African renaissance.
Africa’s path to development will however be a long and arduous journey. Speaking about the New Economic Partnership for Africa (Nepad) Ross Herbert, Head of Nepad’s Governance project, commented that one of the partnership’s greatest challenges is that, even if Nepad and Africa as a whole were to do everything right, “we may still find ourselves far behind because the world is simply progressing at a much faster pace”.
But the efforts made in this past year alone bear evidence that Africa is taking its greatest strides yet towards socio-economic and political transformation.
Economic good times
The IMF recently reported that the economies of the sub-Saharan African region are experiencing the best period of sustained growth in Africa since independence. The economy in this region grew by 5.7% in 2005 and is projected to rise to 6.8% in 2008. In the past 10 years, 15 African countries have had sustained positive growth rates of 4% or more. According to the IMF report, the strong economic growth as well as the “substantial progress being made in reducing poverty rates reflects a potent combination of a favourable external environment, sound policy implementation and the rising openness of sub-Saharan African economies”.
The United Nations World Investment Report announced in October that foreign direct investment (FDI) into Africa has doubled in the past two years bringing it to a record total of US $36 billion (approximately R250 billion). This growth can be attributed to the search for primary resources and by a generally improved business climate, says the report.
In 2005, the developed nations dropped $40 billion of debt (13.5% of total developing world debt) owed by 18 of the world’s most impoverished nations. But debt relief and economic growth will mean nothing without an improvement in African governance.
Africa’s international profile for peaceful elections, democracy and good governance is slowly becoming more positive.
Two-thirds of sub-Saharan countries have had democratic elections in the past 5 years, with 21 democratic elections being held this year alone. There has also been a considerable decrease in the number of wars on the continent.
In September, Sierra Leone held its presidential elections. Internationally the country is still largely remembered for its 11-year long civil war that ended in 2002 in which tens of thousands were killed, millions were displaced and at least 10 000 child soldiers were created. It was predicted that the 2007 elections would incite another blood bath. Yet, contrary to these expectations, Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as Sierra Leone’s president in a free, fair and peaceful election.
“Sierra Leone’s turnaround is a grand affirmation of the future of the continent,” says Washington Post journalist John Prendergast. “This country and other nations such as Liberia, South Africa, Mozambique and Burundi are beginning to tell a story of Africa that is radically different from the ‘conventional wisdom’. They are defying both history and outsiders’ low expectations for the continent.”
The radical transformation of telecommunications in Africa is underway.
Africa has been rated fourth in broadband penetration, ahead of Latin America and Asia Pacific, among six continents that were sampled by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2007.
Companies in the public and private sector – such as Eassy, Seacom and the Nepad Broadband Infrastructure Network – are embarking on what will be the biggest ICT project undertaken in Africa. The project will bring much needed, affordable, high-quality, broadband internet connectivity to Africa.
In addition, the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative aims to equip schools in Africa with ICT equipment in the form of computers, phones, fax machines, copiers, etc. and provide internet connectivity. So far, the initiative’s demonstration project has linked 96 schools in 16 countries to the internet via a satellite network.
This incomplete list of progress achieved by the continent shows that though we may still have a long way to go, the Africa of the future will be a far cry from the Africa of the past. And Africans themselves are starting to believe it. A Gallup Poll of 2005 that found that Africans were the most optimistic people in the world. The rest of the world is slowly starting to see that Africa is finally, hopefully, on the right track.
Africa’s progress – Fast Facts
- The Ghana Stock Exchange regularly tops the list of the world’s highest-performing stock markets.
- Botswana, with its A+ credit rating, boasts one of the highest per capita government savings rates in the world, topped only by Singapore and a handful of other fiscally prudent nations.
- Africa leads world tourism growth. In 2006, Africa achieved twice the rate of global growth in the tourism sector.
- The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has launched the biggest cash prize in the world in which US$5 million is given to a former African head of state that has shown remarkable leadership during his tenure. Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano was recently announced as the first winner of the prize.
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Winter doesn't officially begin until Dec. 21.
But with daylight saving time and the crazy weather we’ve seen lately, it sure feels like the old man has arrived. The shorter days and freezing temps can make it fairly easy to start feeling a little blue. (Video via NBC)
That feeling is often referred to as the winter blues, but you should also be on the look out for more serious conditions like Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD.
According to WebMD, SAD has feelings of depression much like the winter blues, but it's more difficult to treat and reoccurs from year to year. KTVI explains a few signs to look out for if you think the winter weather might be bringing you down.
"This disorder is characterized by severe depression, extreme fatigue ... so they sleep 10-15 hours a day. ... When they're awake they get a lot of cravings for carbohydrates so they gorge on carbohydrates. "
While symptoms of the winter blues and SAD are similar, you can suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder in any season. Though in the summer and spring you'll see different symptoms like insomnia, loss of appetite and weight loss.
Dr. Robert Levitan explained to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, "Seasonal depression is about 80% in women and only 20% in men." In the U.S. about 6 percent of the population or roughly 18 million people.
Untreated depression can have a long list of adverse effects on your health. Including an increase in risks behaviors like abusing drugs or alcohol, difficulty maintaining personal and professional relationships and making poor choices when trying to overcome other health problems like a heart attack or stroke.
So, if you are feeling down in the dumps don’t ignore it. There are actually quite a few steps you can take, even at home, to combat feelings of depression.
One of the main culprits of winter depression is a lack of sunlight. While it is possible to get too much sunlight, there are so many benefits to sufficient exposure.
According to Medical Daily just 15 minutes of sunlight can help you get a better night's sleep, increase mood, lower blood pressure and provide vitamin D.
If you do catch a sunny day, go outside and soak up some rays. But there are options for the gloomy days too, including something called light therapy.
Light therapy devices including boxes and visors mimic natural light and can help boost your mood. (Video via YumaLite)
"I get up in the morning, I sit down at a table and use my light box while I read the morning paper. Twenty minutes in the morning is just enough to get me going each day. Light therapy really, really made a huge difference." (Video via Discovery)
Exercise is also a good tool. Just an hour of exercise outside can heat up the body and help boost your mood. That hour has about the same effects as two hours of light therapy. (Video via YouTube / Lisa Andrews)
Also, don't forget to take your vitamins. Multivitamins are good because they include needed nutrients and supplement the missed vitamin D.
Other than a lack of sunlight, the temps can often keep us from wanting to go out and socialize. Being around loved ones can really help improve your mood.
So if you're making plans, think about what you're going to wear. Lifehacker reports bright colors also have an effect on mood. But it's also noted, "This tip isn't a cure for the seasonal affective disorder. It's a simple and easy way to beat the monotony of the season."
WNEP talked to a psychologist who has one last tip. Stay busy instead of concentrating on what you can't do because of the winter weather.
"Try to plan for activities that you might be able to do in the spring, like planting your garden. Try to look forward to those things."
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Coral Castle Museum
This quirky monument is one of Greater Miami’s more unusual attractions. Giant pieces of coral rock were carved into a variety of objects by Edward Leedskalnin in the 1920s, as a tribute to unrequited love. The construction techniques behind this mystery garden of fantastic coral sculptures continue to baffle experts and visitors. This attraction has been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.
A Venetian-style lagoon carved out of coral rock, this historic landmark and swimming pool features caves, stone bridges and waterfalls. Operates year-round. Call for information on rates and hours of operation. Children must be 38 inches tall or show proof that they are 3 years old. Open 7 days a week from Memorial Day through Labor Day, closed Mondays during the rest of the year.
Enjoy 38 acres of entertainment, great shows and exhibits. Home of Lolita, the Killer Whale and TV superstar Flipper. Laugh with the island adventures of Salty the Sea Lion and thrill to the power, grace and beauty of the Pacific-white sided dolphins performing with a Killer Whale. Rescued Florida Manatees find a home here and see endangered Sea Turtles and Nile Crocodiles at Discovery Bay. Salty’s Pirate Playground is a favorite stop for kids. Open daily 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Adults $38.95, children (3-9) $28.95. Taxes not included.
Escape on a jungle safari. Explore the wilds of South America, Asia and Africa. Witness crab-eating monkeys diving for treats. Delve into the lush, tropical Amazonian rain forest filled with hundreds of exotic monkeys. Also contains one of the richest fossil deposits in Southern Florida, with more than 5,000 specimens. New exhibit includes rare Amazon parrots, the Cameroon Jungle and the Mandrill Baboons. Offers continuous presentations, snack bar and gift shop. Open daily 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults $29.95 plus tax, children (3-9) $23.95 plus tax, seniors (65 and older) $24.95 plus tax.
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Vizcaya was built by agricultural industrialist James Deering, who wintered on the property from 1916 to 1925. Today, the extraordinary European-inspired estate and National Historic Landmark includes a house filled with art and furnishings, and 10 acres of gardens on Biscayne Bay. Open 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily except Tuesdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Adults $15, Miami-Dade residents $10, children (6-12) $6, children under 5 free.
Coral Gables Merrick House
This is the boyhood home of George E. Merrick, founder and developer of the City of Coral Gables. This historic landmark originally began as an 1899 frame house, and was added onto in 1907. The house has been restored to the 1920s period and filled with the Merrick family’s art, furniture and personal treasures. The park is open to the public on Wednesdays and Sundays for guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Suggested admission, which includes the guided tour, is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors/students/group tours, $1 for children ages 6-12, and free for children under 5 years old.
Biscayne Nature Center
Offers hands-on marine exploration, coastal hammock hikes, fossil-rock reef walks, local history lectures and beach walks. Marine exploration trips scheduled at low tide only. All trips led by naturalist guide. Reservations required. Call for tour information and reservations.
Schnebly Redland’s Winery
This winery in the Redland tropical countryside offers tours and wine tastings around natural coral waterfalls surrounded by lush tropical foliage. Visitors can compare the taste of lychee, passion fruit, carambola, guava and mango wines, just to name a few. This is the southernmost winery in the Continental U.S., handcrafting tropical wines without using grapes. The Grand Tasting Room has a Southern plantation agricultural style. The building is 5,000 square feet and has a view of the tropical courtyard, waterfalls, winery and Grand Tiki, Waterfall Tiki and more than 20,000 square feet of connecting Tikis. They host weddings and corporate retreats. Buses are welcome.
Ancient Spanish Monastery
Built in Segovia, Spain in 1141, the Monastery Cloister is the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst brought the pieces to America, and in 1952 Miami developers reassembled the monastery on its current site. Open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Adults $5, children (under 12) $2, seniors (55 and older) $2.50, students with valid I.D. $2.50.
This new facility allows visitors to slip into a wet suit and for an up-close adventure with dolphins. With two different programs there is something for everyone. For the ride of a lifetime, enjoy the Dolphin Odyssey, a deep-water experience including a dorsal tow on one of the dolphins. Or book a Dolphin Encounter, a shallow-water experience where guests touch, feed and play with the dolphins. Looking for more of a behind the scenes experience, enroll to be Trainer for a Day. In this day-long program, guests experience how the facility keeps these marine mammals healthy and happy, plus enjoy a Dolphin Odyssey and get up close with the sea lions.
Art Deco Historic District
The nation’s largest 20th Century National Register Historic District. The area features more than 800 historic buildings erected during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and contains a variety of architectural styles. Walking, bicycle and private group tours are available. Walking tours of the district depart every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. from the Art Deco Welcome Center, $20. Self-guided audio-tour available daily, $15. Private group tours are also available.
Miami Science Museum
This Smithsonian Institute Affiliate features a Wildlife Center with rare birds of prey and reptiles, fascinating Planetarium shows and a brand new Energy Tracker exhibit featuring an interconnected trail of hands-on exhibits that explore everything from basic energy principles to the future of renewable energy. Visitors can dance on a huge Energy Dance Floor that captures their energy and converts it to electricity, or rocket themselves 10 feet in the air on the Human YoYo! Live science demonstrations and theater shows daily. Museum store on-site. Centrally located via U.S. Highway 1 and Metrorail (Vizcaya Station). Laser shows every first Friday of the month. Open daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Box Office closes at 5 p.m. Adults $14.95, Seniors (62+) & Students $10.95, Children (3-12) $10.95, Children under 3 – Free. Miami-Dade County Adults $12.70, Seniors (62+) & Students $9.30, Children (3-12) $9.30, Children under 3 – Free. Members – Free. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas day. In 2014, the legacy continues, as MiaSci moves to a new world-class, state-of-the-art 200,000-square-foot facility in the heart of Downtown Miami.
Jungle Island is an interactive zoological park in Watson Island, Miami, Florida, United States. It was originally Parrot Jungle and moved from its original suburban Pinecrest to its present location. It has been a must see area attraction for over 75 years. Resting on 22 Acres with exotic birds and wild life. Featuring Kangaroo Konnection, petting barn, shows and more. Hours: Monday –Friday 10am -5 pm Saturday- Sunday 10am-6pm Admission: 1 day Adults $34.95 Seniors $32.95 Children $26.95 Under 2 years Free all prices are plus tax. Parking Fee: $8.00 | <urn:uuid:21cc2549-24d2-4b48-ad47-28b55eee534c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.realtyempire.net/area-attractions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.905949 | 1,909 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Subtitle: The Ultra Hyper Totally Amazing Push Me Pull You Supercavitating Surface Effect Flying Machine · Part II
“Excuse me, surely you are related to the Deer Family, are you not?”
“Yes,” said the pushmi-pullyu—“to the Abyssinian Gazelles and the Asiatic Chamois—on my mother’s side. My father’s great-grandfather was the last of the Unicorns.”
# In Violation of the Laws of Thermodynamics
The Push-me-pull-you is a perpetual motion machine in strict violation of the Laws of Thermodynamics. There will be consequences.
The three Laws of Thermodynamics are:
- You can’t play unless you bet, and you can’t win. An increase in energy in a system is the same as the energy given to a system in the form of heat or work. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed. The amount of energy given to a system is the same amount of energy taken from the surroundings. In other words, you can’t get more energy out of something than you put into it.
- The most you can hope for is to break even. Given a pair of systems touching with different temperatures, heat will flow from hot to cold until the temperature of the systems becomes equal. Energy flows from a more energetic system to a less energetic system, and entropy always increases.
- You can’t break even and you can’t stop playing. When a system has a temperature of absolute zero (on the Kelvin temperature scale) the entropy is zero. Entropy is the energy that cannot be used to do work. Entropy approaches a constant as the system temperature approaches absolute zero.
The Push-me-pull-you is a boat with two propellers connected by a drive shaft. One propeller is above the water and spins with the wind. It turns the drive shaft which rotates a second propeller in the water. If you let the air propeller face the wind, then it will cause the propeller in the water to pull the boat forward into the wind. Now the apparent wind speed is the speed of the wind plus the speed of the boat, so the air propeller spins faster, spinning the water propeller faster and moving the boat more quickly through the water - into the wind! Now the apparent wind is even greater, so the boat goes faster and faster!
Turn the boat so it faces downwind, and then drag forces on the boat will begin to push the boat in the direction the wind is blowing. Now the propeller in the water spins because the boat is moving in the water, and the air propeller spinning acts as a blower, causing the boat to go faster downwind.
The Push-me-pull-you is clearly a perpetual motion machine violating at least one of those Laws of Thermodynamics. But if your ancestors are Abyssinian Gazelles and Unicorns maybe you’ve got some magic.
# An Iceboat Faster than the Wind Downwind
Is it possible for a boat to sail downwind faster than the wind? If the boat heads directly downwind, then at best, it could reach the same speed as the wind if no other drag forces were acting on the boat. A balloon floating in the air travels at the same speed as the wind, but a boat would have trouble achieving wind speed because of the drag forces of the water on the hull.
Ice boats speed along at many times the true wind speed when sailing at an angle to the wind direction. According to this article, “Iceboats can sail as close as 7 degrees off the apparent wind. Ice boats can achieve speeds as high as ten times the wind speed in good conditions.”
If the iceboat sails at an angle to the true wind direction with velocity vector , then the sailor will feel an apparent wind force in the opposite direction, . Combine with the true wind vector to get , the apparent wind on the iceboat (shown as the red vector). The boat will only be able to sail within some angle to this apparent wind vector. If we assume (which seems more reasonable than the from the link above), we can use the law of sines to calculate the other angles in the triangle,
For the iceboat, the angle between the boat direction and the apparent wind is , and we have sides , the wind vector, and , the boat travel direction. Using the law of sines, we can calculate angle ,
Using the larger of the two possible solutions (see “The ambiguous case of triangle solution”) for means , which is the angle between the boat direction and the true wind vector. The downwind component of the iceboat velocity vector is , meaning the iceboat travels more than times the speed of wind downwind! The apparent wind velocity is for this example.
# Push-Me-Pull-You Physics
In 1752 Leonhard Euler discovered Bernoulli’s Principle of Fluid Dynamics,
Daniel Bernoulli had earlier discovered that the pressure and the velocity of a fluid are inversely related, which means as the velocity of a fluid increases the pressure drops. Euler extended this concept to include the density and included a third term, , to account for a change in height of the flow.
Water is considered to be an incompressible fluid. Imagine filling a container with water and then trying to squeeze the container after sealing it. Intuitively, it’s obvious the total volume won’t change no matter how hard you try to compress the container. It turns out that air is mostly incompressible as well if the speed is not too high. This means that the air density remains constant even as the velocity and pressure change.
For the Push-me-pull-you, the height of the stream of air through the wind turbine, and the height of the water through the propeller doesn’t change much. The equation can be simplified to the form Bernoulli discovered,
where is the dynamic pressure, , is called the static pressure, and is the total pressure which remains constant.
Using Bernoulli’s Principle we can calculate the change in pressure through the wind turbine. In 1978, B. L. Blackford published a paper titled “The physics of a push-me pull-you boat”. It wasn’t the first to talk about connecting a wind turbine to a propeller to move the boat directly into the wind, but his paper is an early example. The equations here are based on his paper.
Far upstream and far downstream of the wind turbine, the pressure is . The wind speed upstream is , and downstream it’s . Directly in front of the turbine, (to the left) the pressure is and the speed is while just behind the turbine (to the right) the pressure is and the speed is . Using Bernoulli’s Principle,
Taking the difference,
The change in pressure is half the density times the difference of the squares of the air velocities upstream and downstream of the turbine.
In the previous post, Betz the Limit, we found the force of the wind on the turbine,
The power extracted by the turbine is
where is the wind velocity through the turbine.
The same equations can be applied to the propeller in the water by using the density of water, . Usually, currents are flowing, but we can take the reference frame to be a particle of water, so the boat moves relative to that point. In any case, the wind speed and the boat speed will generally be quite a bit faster than the speed of the water.
In the picture above, the wind turbine connects to the propeller through some mechanical linkage, and for this analysis, we’ll assume there is no energy lost. It’s not a bad assumption - most drive trains have efficiencies above 95%, and often 98%. More importantly, we need to account for the efficiencies of the wind turbine and the propeller, neither of which can exceed the Betz Limit. As the wind moves through the turbine (or the water through the propeller), the speed of the fluid changes. Let’s call the ratio of the wind speed at the turbine, , to the upstream windspeed, ,
The force on the wind turbine is
Conservation of mass requires that at every point in the stream tube the area times the velocity (times density) must remain constant,
Using Bernoulli’s Principle (),
The pressure change across the wind turbine is the difference of these two equations,
The force on the turbine is the power times the swept area of the turbine,
Momentum must also be conserved, so
Using these two formulas for the force on the turbine,
Multiplying both sides by and factoring out the density gives
We can use the conservation of mass equation above to solve for the downstream velocity, , in terms of the wind speed upstream of the turbine, ,
This is a quadratic equation in , which we can solve using the quadratic formula. Let and ,
The second solution, happens only if nothing happens to slow the wind down, and no energy is extracted.
# Power Extracted and Net Forward Thrust
The downstream wind velocity through the turbine has slowed to
so the force on the turbine is
Power is force times air velocity at the turbine,
Differentiating the power with respect to the parameter ,
which has a critical point at , giving the maximum efficiency
which is the same result we found in Betz The Limit. Using ,
The same equations can be derived for the propeller, except we’re assuming the water speed is zero before the propeller applies thrust. This means that the water speed downstream is twice the speed at the propeller.
Taking the difference between the thrust of the propeller and the force on the wind turbine gives the net forward thrust,
This case assumes ideal efficiencies and no mechanical losses. Under these conditions, if
the net force will be positive and the boat will move forward. Since then
or, the ratio of the wind turbine diameter to the propeller diameter needs to be more than .
# Faster than the Wind in Any Direction
Mark Drela is Director of the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel and a professor in the AeroAstro department at MIT. His interest in the push-me-pull-you concept led him to write “Dead-Downwind Faster Than The Wind (DDWFTTW) Analysis.” Assume the boat is in motion and the boat velocity is greater than the wind velocity.
Power is force times velocity, , but there will be some loss due to inefficiencies. For the water propeller
and for the air turbine
which can be rewritten as
The efficiency factors and appear on opposite sides of the equal sign in these two equations because power is being taken from the water with efficiency , while the wind turbine puts power into the air with efficiency .
The apparent wind velocity at the air turbine is the difference between the boat velocity and the true wind speed . Although the transmission gear efficiency is usually quite high, some loss will occur, so the power at the air turbine will be less than the power at the propeller,
Substituting and into ,
The available force to push the boat downwind is the difference between the force generated by water on the propeller and the force generated by the air turbine,
For the net force on the boat to be positive, this condition has to be true:
Reversing the wind direction, the same analysis is possible, but the apparent wind velocity at the air turbine is . The power extracted by the air turbine becomes
and the power provided by the propeller is
The gearing results in power loss from the air turbine to the propeller,
The net force is the force of the propeller minus the force on the turbine,
As in the downwind case, if
then the boat will move directly into the wind.
# Enough With All of the Physics Equations!
Is there a more intuitive way to understand how a boat can go downwind faster than the wind using an air turbine connected to a propeller? The Greenbird is a wind-powered land vehicle equipped with a wing sail able to reach 126.2 mph. The physics are the same as described for iceboats above, but by carefully minimizing drag and maximizing the power derived from the wing, the team set the world land speed record.
Rick Cavallaro and his team built the Blackbird achieving downwind speeds three times the wind speed, using a turbine geared to the wheels. When the vehicle begins moving downwind, the wheels turn which drives the turbine. The air at the turbine moves backward relative to the position of the cart causing it to accelerate. This makes the wheels turn faster, turning the turbine blades faster. The key is to understand this from the point of view of the person sitting in the cart. To the driver, the wheels spin due to the forward motion of the vehicle, while the turbine blows the air backwards relative to the vehicle.
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Updated: Mar 6
Storm Arwen arrived full-on, on 26th November 2021. It created massive devastation to trees (see earlier blog) https://www.rothburytrees.uk/post/the-devastation-caused-by-storm-arwen-trees-of-rothbury-and-surrounding-areas
7th December brought Storm Barra, followed by Malik on 29th January 22, Corrie on 30th January, then Dudley. The rising temperatures caused by climate change are causing our weather to become ever more unpredictable and severe.
We were just recovering from the expected chaos from Dudley, 14th February, when we had the serious, life-threatening news about Storm Eunice (February 18th). Storm Eunice came with the unusual RED warning, in parts of Britain, from the Met Office.
"Red Warning: Dangerous weather is expected and, if you haven’t already done so, you should take action now to keep yourself and others safe from the impact of the severe weather. It is very likely that there will be a risk to life, with substantial disruption to travel, energy supplies and possibly widespread damage to property and infrastructure. You should avoid travelling, where possible, and follow the advice of the emergency services and local authorities" Met Office.
Storm Eunice did indeed cause tragic loss of life. Trees were damaged and uprooted, one quite shockingly, in Bude, Cornwall: Huge tree torn down by Storm Eunice in shocking clip as locals left devastated - Mirror Online
We now await the next storm, Franklin, then Gladys. (For more names, see: UK Storm Centre - Met Office).
But, the question we were pondering is, just what happens to all the trees that are felled by winds?
Michael Boxall, a man who knows more than most about trees, forestry, and nature, writes this month in our local Community and Church newsletter, Over the Bridges, about Coquetdale trees felled by Arwen. This superb article is reproduced, with kind permission from Michael, below, and can also be read in the magazine here: Over the Bridges - Online Edition
Notes from Coquetdale
The fingerprints of Storm Arwen will be visible for many years, not least in the rotting root plates and trunks of windblown trees which will never be cleared away, but this will not be such a bad thing. I remember, as a nature reserve warden in Hampshire, having to deal with the results of the 1987 and 1990 hurricanes. There were panic-driven rushes to “repair” the dreadful devastation and money was thrown into replanting schemes, in many cases for which there was no need. I can understand commercial plantations being replanted. They are a crop and source of income to their owners. Urban trees also. But more natural woodlands may be better left alone beyond clearing rides and trackways. Nature has “repaired” such damage countless times in the past with no assistance from us and given the opportunity will do so again far more thoroughly than we can. Unless there is an urgent need for action just sit back and watch for a few years. The scars will soften, regeneration of trees, shrubs and herbs will occur wherever light reaches the woodland floor and wildlife, in general, will benefit. Vertical root plates provide nest sites for birds and insects such as mining bees, the timber will be colonised by rotting fungi and become food for the larvae of woodboring beetles which will in turn be sought by woodpeckers. A whole new web of life will develop if allowed to do so. Some fallen trees will continue to grow, their side limbs becoming new vertical trunks and all will become increasingly right with the natural world, though the untidiness may offend some human minds which prefer everything to be neat and orderly. It is a great shame the storm felled so many old trees. They support a wide variety of lichens and fungi and offer cavities and crevices for birds, bats and insects to utilise, which their younger brethren have not had time to develop. Our activities in the past have ensured there are few older than middle-aged trees to take their place and absolutely nothing can be done to remedy this situation. Indeed, even now, for a variety of reasons, old trees continue to be felled, some justified, some definitely not. Planting millions more trees may help restore biodiversity and slow climate change, but the right species and only in the right places please. We must not destroy already important habitats. Michael Boxall
Unfortunately, not many woods will be left to develop in Mother Nature's time and ways. As Rachel Bell reported for the BBC on 18th February, the forestry sector has been working hard, and continues to work hard, to clear the trees which are quickly stripped and chopped up. In Scotland, where she is reporting from, the sawmill at Mosstodlock is processing around 4,000 tonnes of timber a week! What happens to the millions of trees lost to the storms? - BBC News
An article written in the Newcastle Chronicle on 17th February brings some hope and comfort. Daniel Hall tells us about a project: The Kielderhead Wildwood Project, which found an important and iconic 110 year old pine uprooted by the storms. He describes the new life which is growing from this "...the fallen tree is set to leave a legacy, with young shoots from the branches of the fallen tree, as well as the six still standing, will be grafted onto a new batch of saplings for planting at a later date". You can read the article here: New life to come from one of Kielder's oldest trees destroyed during Storm Arwen - Chronicle Live
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North Shore (Oahu) – at the North Shore, there is a spot for people of all skill levels. The best time for beginners is during the summer season, as the winds are not as strong and the waves are less dangerous. However, visitors should not miss Turtle Beach. It is a beginner-friendly place with small to medium-sized waves.
This spot gets its name from the presence of turtles in the area. During hatching season, visitors can see baby turtles swim into the ocean. Turtle Beach gets crowded quickly, so it’s best to go early.
The cost of a surfing lesson is $145 for 2 hours for 2 people, from $180 for 2 hours for 1-on-1 classes; $95 for group lessons for 2 hours. The fee includes the use of surfboards, leash, rash guards, and booties.
Additional Surf Spots
- Maui is known for its clear waters and strong winds. This is a playground for experienced surfers. Tourists should check out Lahaina Breakwall for advanced-level surfing. Although it is not recommended for beginners, it is an excellent place to watch the pros do their thing. This place is also a popular spot for surf schools. All visitors should be careful of the coral reefs, especially during low tide, as it can injure surfers. Cost: from $52 for 90 minutes, which includes surfing gear
- Big Island is not as popular among pros and surfing experts as Oahu and Maui, but it should not be overlooked. Honolii Beach Park is popular among locals and professional surfers but is not ideal for swimming. Kahaluu Beach is the place to go for beginners. Cost: from $103 for small groups; 2 hours Other activities: picnic, snorkeling, paddleboarding
- Kauai is the perforce surf spot for all—from beginners to advanced surfers. They get a good combination of waves, including sets of small waves, followed by bigger waves. Kealia is popular among tourists and locals. It is recommended for intermediate to advanced surfers. Cost: from $109 for 2 hours (group)
The weather in Hawaii can change dramatically within a day. Tourists are advised to keep themselves updated with the daily weather forecast as it can affect plans for the day.
Watch out for warnings about shark sightings, reefs, and strong currents. Signs are posted all around the beaches. Likewise, heed the instructions and warnings of the instructors before heading out into the ocean. No one wants to ruin their trip by getting injured!
The Best Time To Visit
It is surf season all year round in Hawaii. Because of its unique geography, it gets winds from all directions. However, keep in mind that surfing conditions between the northern shores and the southern shores vary.
October to April is winter surf season on the northern shores. Winds and rains bring powerful waves and strong currents. Waves can reach up to 30ft in height, which might be manageable for professionals. However, for beginners visiting during this time of year, it would be best to stay at the southern shores.
May to October is summer surf season at the southern shore. Waters are calmer water but may still get large swells. Beginners who will visit the island during this time of year should stay at the northern shores for gentler waves. July to September is best for advanced-level surfers.
Generally, beginners should visit when the waves are tamer, while experienced and professional surfers can visit during winter for a challenging surf session.
Hawaii has year-round tropical weather, with temperatures ranging from 72 to 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Visual Artist Knowledge Bennett displays a gallery of thought-provoking pieces
When artists make art they expose themselves to examination by others. Even artists who create without emotion or connection to the individual pieces of art, such as an airbrush artist who produces one hundred of the same design over and over, daily, eventually there will be a piece of the artist personality laced inside of one of those designs. A swirl on the end of the letters, his favorite ghosting effect. His essence will remain in the paint.
When the artist is motivated and pushed by external motivations, he will create the opportunity to display his art. He will put his innermost into each specialized piece. Depending upon the contents of the artist, that essence might vary.
“I’ve always thought it to be the responsibility of the artist to help restore a degree of dignity, integrity, and sense of humanity,” explained visual artist Knowledge Bennett, owner of the new Know Contemporary Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Fusing contemporary images with large-scale screen printing, Bennett’s work makes statements concerning the realities of our current society, focused on the African American experience.
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