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Things You’ll Need
Needle nose pliers
Window glaze tool
Stand on a sturdy ladder to reach the glass.Digital Vision./Digital Vision/Getty Images
Arched windows, while beautiful in design and high in character, can be difficult to repair when broken. With the arches at the top of the window, all work must be done at the top of a tall ladder. Additionally, the arch of the window itself makes replacement glass more tricky to come by. Use a sturdy free-standing ladder to reach the top of the arch. Ask a friend to help hold the ladder sturdy, and to hand you your tools as needed, but have your friend stand back for the first part of the project, when you're cleaning out the old glass from the window.
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Remove all broken glass from the sash. If the glass is simply cracked but still in one piece, you may be able to do this by removing the old glaze and glaze points. Use a utility knife and 5-in-1 tool to cut away the old glaze at the sides of the window, then remove the glaze points with needle nose pliers. If the glass has been shattered, wear thick work gloves and safety glasses. Remove old glaze with the utility knife, then reach in and start pulling out shards. To catch falling pieces of glass, lay a towel beneath the window, and spread a disposable tarp on top of it.
Remove all debris from the mullions around the window. Use the sharp edge of a 5-in-1 painter's tool to scrape out the old glaze, and use needle nose pliers to pull out old glaze points.
Hold a sheet of blank sketch paper or newspaper up to the empty arch in the window. Cut down the paper to fit inside the mullions as the old pane of glass once did. Leave a 1/16-inch gap between the edge of the paper and the window mullions. The paper should fit against the back of the lip of the mullion, but inside the sides of the mullion, just as the glass will. This paper is what you will take to the hardware store or glass shop to show the desired shape of your window pane when you order the new pane of glass. Cut down the sides of the paper with care, so that the paper is as close to the actual pane of replacement glass as you can get.
Take your paper and a shard of the old glass to your local hardware store. Order the piece of replacement glass. Show the old glass to the clerk at the store so they can try to order a similar glass for your window.
Slip the new piece of glass in the window to be sure that it fits. Do not attempt to fit a piece of glass that is too tight into mullions.
Insert the glaze points into the wood around the glass. Use the edge of the 5-in-1 tool, or the edge of the window glaze tool, to push the pointed tips into the wood so that the wider edges hold in the glass. There should be at least 3 glaze points per window side: one at each corner and one at the middle. If you wish to insert more glaze points for extra security, you may do so.
Roll out the window glaze into a snake shape and press the window glaze into the edge of the window pane so that it forms a seal over the edge of the window pane and the mullion.
Use the edge of the window glaze tool to make the edges of the window glaze straight and even. Carefully scrape away any extra glaze on the window.
Wait for the window glaze to dry according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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React has provided startups with consistency and a safe haven. To assist startups and established business owners in determining which framework to use, we've written a comprehensive essay that answers all of your questions regarding React.
In this blog, you will find out about how awesome React is and why we suggest React for Startups as well as major companies.
What is React?
Jordan Walke from Facebook built the React framework in 2011 and was first deployed on Facebook's News Feed in 2011.
The goal was to create a toolkit that would aid in the development of extremely dynamic and responsive web pages.
Instagram, which is a Facebook subsidiary, began using it in 2012.
The React JS project became open source in 2013, and since then, leading mobile app development organizations around the world have adopted it due to its versatility.
Business owners may use React JS to create web apps, mobile apps(react native), to create fast, modern, progressive web applications.
Why Cliffex Suggests React to Business Owners?
So, why should you choose React to develop your mobile or web app project?
Excellent user experience
React has excellent features that allows the creation of apps with excellent user experience. React uses virtual DOM and server-side rendering to create high performance and fast apps.
Cross-platform Mobile Apps (React Native)
React Native comes as a bonus when you use React.js in your project. Yes, you can use React Native to create cross-platform apps for Android and iOS.
Consider the case where you've created a website for your bakery. After some time, you may additionally support it with a mobile app built with React Native. Of course, you or your developer won't be able to reuse the web code. Even better, you'll be able to design the mobile app using the same architecture and technique. Doesn't it sound cool?
High performance (and fast) applications
It's simple to build high-performance web apps with React.js. React.js uses Virtual DOM instead of real Document Object Models, or DOMs (the standard system browsers use to render web pages). Virtual DOM renders only the bits of a web page that have changed, rather than the complete page. Developers don't have to waste time optimizing programmes before they're ready to use; the apps just work.
React.js is also useful for creating web pages that appear to be “fast” to users (which is not at all the same thing as a website being fast for a server). Data can be compressed using tools like Next.js for Server Side Rendering, and then “rehydrated” once the React.js runtime is loaded. All these attributes lead to high performance applications.
Popularity of React
According to StackOverflow’s 2018 surveys, React ranks #3 in most popular.
React ranks 2nd among the developers that loved it:
It ranks #1 on the list of most wanted tools:
Per the stateofjs.com survey for 2018, React ranks highly on the amount of users that have used it and would use it again.
- 64.8% used it and would use it again
- Only 6.7% of users would not use it again
- React: 119,425 Stars
- Vue: 124,544 Stars
- Angular: 44,175 Stars
When to use ReactJS?
Sites that rely extensively on user interaction with the elements will be the obvious choice. This is especially true if the status of components changes regularly - navigation arrives and disappears, users log in, content or, for example, buttons alter as a result of user interaction. React will be able to quickly manage each of these shifting states and dynamically deliver the content to end users thanks to Virtual DOM.
React is also a good solution if a website has a complicated structure that would be difficult to manage with a traditional, imperative approach. As the app grows, React will make it easier to keep track of all the interactions.
Technical Advantages of React
1. Reusable components
React JS uses a component-based structure that enables you to start with small components and progress to large components. For instance, you can start with small components like dropdown, button, or checkbox and then use them to create large wrapper components. You progress from one level of wrapper component to a higher level until you achieve one root component. The root component is your mobile application. Each component on React JS has a unique internal logic that determines how the component is rendered.
2. Great tool set for developers
When choosing a development platform, it is important to consider the available tools. You also need to consider their compatibility or usability with different browsers. One of the reasons why React JS is popular among front-end developers is its toolset. You need to differentiate between two toolsets when using React Js. The first toolset is React Developer Tools while the second is Redux Developer Tools.
You can install both toolsets as Chrome extensions, but their functionalities are different. You can use React Developer Tools to inspect components in their hierarchy and observe their states and current props. Redux Developer Tools, on the other hand, are great for observing dispatched actions and current states and changes on stores. You can modify stores and dispatch actions and view the changes instantly when using the Redux library.
All changes made with the Redux Developer tools are stored within the extension. Hence, you can move your application to any previous state for debugging purposes. One thing to note about the toolsets is that they are Chrome extensions. This means that they may not function in the same way when using other browsers. You may have to install Chrome on your device to enjoy the functionality of the developer tools.
3. Fast rendering with virtual DOM
The library uses virtual DOM, which is a DOM kept in memory. All view changes first reflected in the virtual DOM. An efficient difference algorithm will then consider the changes in the virtual DOM and pick the best method to implement the changes. The best approach, in this case, has the lowest amount of updates. The changes are applied to the DOM to minimize the write or read time.
The main advantage of the virtual DOM is the optimized performance and excellent results on the browser. However, the benefits go beyond the high performance. For instance, you can build your application on React JS and then render the components to other engines.
When you use React JS to develop mobile applications, you can easily test the functions of the applications. The simplicity of testing apps makes React JS more popular than Angular. One of the reasons why it is easy to test apps with React is that its views can be treated as functions of a specific state. Hence, you can manipulate all the states that you pass through React View.
You can then view the output and all the functions, actions and events to determine if the app is working as it should. React also comes with a list of test utilities to help you test its components. The tutorial explains in detail how to use each of the test utilities on your website or app.
Top Companies Using ReactJS to its full Potential
When it comes to its immense appeal, Facebook requires no introduction. A user base of more than 2.2 billion! Who doesn't have a Facebook account?
Yes, even Facebook, the creator of the ReactJS library, uses React — albeit this is self-evident. They have a webpage that is built with React and the script is integrated into the app code. Their mobile app was built with React Native, which is a step up in the React family and is responsible for displaying native Android and iOS components rather than DOM components.
React Fiber, a completely redesigned ReactJS version, was released by Facebook around the year 2017. This version has proven to be an essential component of every feature development project.
Instagram is a popular social media platform for displaying videos, photographs, and information, and it is widely utilized by both the young and the business world. The Instagram app has demonstrated the use of a variety of new features, and its API has performed admirably.
Instagram was built entirely with the ReactJS toolkit, allowing developers to benefit from its benefits. The ReactJS family was used exclusively in the development of the single-page web app. The Instagram site has fast performance and is quick to respond to different user-driven events thanks to React.
Geolocations, Google Maps, progressive loading, image/video delivery, and other features are available on the Instagram website.
When Twitter updated their entire website using current web technologies, they began using React. They are using React in their progressive web apps, which provide a wide range of capabilities such as an application, push notifications, and offline support.
ReactJS, Redux, and NodeJS are among the technologies used to create these progressive web apps.
Who hasn't heard of or used WhatsApp? Everyone is addicted to the app next door. React JS is used in this popular app because of its robust and safe performance. It develops user interfaces from Facebook using ReactJS as its primary engine. React is also used in the WhatsApp Web version for a better web experience.
Dropbox is one of the most popular file storage services that uses the cloud computing architecture. It has a large user base all over the world. With the help of file synchronization, users can save and share an unlimited number of files or folders.
Dropbox has just adopted ReactJS for their development activities. Dropbox engineers have noticed the many benefits that come with ReactJS — virtual DOM, smaller file sizes, and strong community support — and these are the reasons that Dropbox has chosen ReactJS as their preferred technology.
For Dropbox's hud, ReactJS was important in establishing the cloud-based online backup solution and different storage level offerings.
Atlassian is a well-known product development company with a slew of well-known products, including Jira, Confluence, HipChat, and others. Atlassian has used ReactJS and the ReactJS family in both internal and external applications. ReactJS is used in almost all of their single-page apps. Key characteristics of React, such as its reusable libraries and ease of deployment to all devices — desktop, online, and mobile — have impressed Atlassian developers.
HipChat has received a lot of positive feedback as a popular team communication tool around the world. While revamping its web edition, this team adopted ReactJS. HipChat's engineers chose React over others among their peers, describing it as a declarative, confident, and traditional framework. ReactJS has been used to revamp Jira's Dynamic Forms and the extension module for the Jira service desk.
Reddit is a famous online platform in the United States that provides a unified means for users to discuss, comment on, and post their own content/opinions. The portal is used by around 300 million people.
Reddit has been employing various components of ReactJS in the development of its framework, and their team has been praising the numerous features of React that have proven to be beneficial to them.
GitHub is the world's most popular software development platform, bringing together a large community of developers to create higher-quality software. It includes everything from open source chances to business-specific features; GitHub is capable of managing projects on its outskirts.
GitHub, being a vital and prominent platform, wanted to use ReactJS in its own development framework. GitHub developers have fully trusted ReactJS's quality and have fully realized its potential.
Zendesk is a software development firm that provides a SaaS-based suite with features such as issue recording and monitoring, help desk management, and customer care support, all aimed at making customer interactions pleasurable, easy, and successful.
Many Zendesk components have been built using the ReactJS framework and libraries. Zendesk has a Garden design system that uses React components and utilities to provide aesthetics, translations, and keyboard navigation.
There are many more organizations/applications benefiting from this amazing technology – ReactJS — than those listed here.
The list could go on and on, but the reasons behind ReactJS's popularity in the tech world are summarized in the preceding list. This fantastic technology is now being used by a growing number of enterprises.
The number of well-known companies that have adopted React demonstrates how far the technology has progressed.
The enormous potential of ReactJS to handle every form of web development is being extensively scrutinized, and it's no surprise that many well-known IT organizations are investing heavily in it.
As you can see from the headline, these digital behemoths grew even bigger by incorporating the benefits of react into their apps and websites.
ReactJS is a great complement to any project that requires component reuse, stunning user interactions, or insane animations. It is, nevertheless, a strong UI library for developing projects for small, medium, and even large-scale enterprises. That's why so many businesses rely on React to achieve their long-term objectives.
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The extent that parents would go to try and secure a place for their child in the school of their choice via DSA seems to have reached new heights. Some parents start serious training for their kids from the time they are in primary 1 while others sign their kids up for DSA-related enrichment courses to equip them with skills to ace the interviews.
I first heard about it 8 years ago when #1 was in P4. A group of us parents were sharing how worried we were that the cut-off aggregate for the schools we were keen on were out of reach for our kids with their mediocre grades.
A more experienced mum shed light on us ignorant newbie parents that there was this route called DSA which had recently been implemented. Our eyes lit up as this seemingly whole new opportunity opened up before us and we started to consider what sporting prowess our kids had.
For the uninitiated, the Direct School Admission (DSA) scheme was introduced by MOE in 2004. The rationale being:
I contacted the coach to arrange for a trial. He agreed that she had good ball sense and was agile. What she lacked was stamina, which could be built up. #1 enjoyed the game and looked forward to the weekly lessons.
After a few months, she improved by leaps and bounds and I asked the coach for his assessment. He said that she had the potential, and if we wanted a shot at DSA, she would need more intensive training and we would have to increase the lessons to 3 times a week, for 1.5 hours each. In addition, she had to run 2.4km on her own on the other non-training days. And that was for starters.
Was he trying to groom an Olympian? Not only did it sound like a financially draining plan, but where would she find time for all of that? There was so much more I wanted for them in their childhood years.
I gave the issue some serious thought. What were our priorities? Would we allow this to take precedence over other activities if things clash? Would the rest of the family have to work around her schedule? What about financial considerations? Is it justifiable? Would she be able to cope with both the academic and sporting demands during her P6 year? What do we do if she starts to crack under the pressure? Allow her to give it up?
So many questions came to mind and try as I did, I could not align myself with this strategy. I could foresee the possibility of reaching a stage where we would be at the mercy of this sport because of the effort and money which had been thrown behind it, and it would be too late. I didn’t want to embark on something I could not sustain comfortably for the whole family.
I am happy for our kids to pursue any interest with no strings attached, but I didn’t want to be held ransom to a choice I allowed to be made. With a big family, I had to be very focused on our priorities. I was also very aware of the underlying values being taught to the kids through our decisions. I didn’t think ‘spending excessive time and money through sport to gain entry into a school’ made the cut. If she was extremely gifted in it, that would be different.
Moreover, I didn’t want her to face a day where she would feel that she was a failure because she didn’t perform well enough to gain entry into the school. Because that is not what sport is about.
Before I decided to write this whole idea off, I wanted to get the complete picture. I called up the school we were eyeing on, and asked them how many places were they offering via squash DSA. The officer couldn’t give me an answer, but when I kept pressing her, she said probably 1 or 2.
Great. Thanks for making the choice easier for us.
Over the next 8 years, I watched as friends put their kids in competitive CCAs and ferried them around for extra ‘outside’ lessons and competitions to boost their skills.
The kids could sense that their parents are very stressed about their performance, and sometimes, it seems like all that matters to their parents are their achievements. If you hang around elite coaching centres, the atmosphere is tense.
It is no wonder that some kids start to feel that life seems to be one big competition. Everyone is fighting for limited opportunities. We have to win, win, win. Childhood is tough. Life is stressful.
Over the years, as I listen to some of my close mummy friends discuss the intricacies of DSA and plot their strategies, I did question if I was not trying hard enough to support my kids. However, what stops me from joining in the fray is that I have made my decisions based on our priorities and values.
When friends ask me for advice if they should try the DSA route, I point out another angle which they usually miss. At the end of Secondary 2, the students have to choose their subject combinations (in almost all schools). If your child is at the bottom band, he may not be able to select the subjects he wants because those with better grades get first pick.
Never would I imagine a day where one of my kids would gain entry into a school via DSA.
But #3 did!
Before we went for the try-outs, we had a long discussion about whether she would enjoy the sport as she would have to participate in it for 4 years. She was hesitant as she had never tried it in primary school before, but I have always known that she would love team sports, given her sociable and cooperative nature. She also enjoys most ball games and my instincts told me that it would be a suitable sport for her.
I wasn’t too worried that she would have to stick to it for 4 years even if she didn’t like it because I knew from the older girls that things have changed and you are not allowed to change CCA for 4 years irregardless of DSA or not.
Both #1 and #2 chose CCAs which were new to them and have learnt to embrace and excel in it over the 4 years, so I was all for them persevering in one CCA. I also discovered that all CCAs have stand-down periods before the exams so I wasn’t too concerned about her having insufficient time for revision.
#3 got selected into the school’s niche sport and as I predicted, she loves it.
Do I think DSA is a good initiative? Yes, but not the way it has evolved.
You bet I am.
Sane tip: Once you get admitted into a school via DSA, a place has already been reserved for you and you can’t change your mind after the PSLE results are released. Your child is also NOT allowed to transfer to another school for the entire duration of the course.
Save tip: Sometimes we make parenting way more stressful and expensive than it should be. I am quite certain that when the MOE mapped out this initiative, they never intended it to benefit the sports vendors, but our children.
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#8 – Paying tutors $250 an hour to do assignments?
#9 – I didn’t even know my child was being bullied, until…
#10 – How I got my son to do his homework without nagging
#11 – How #2 topped her level in English
#12 – DSA. Yet another initiative parents have warped
#13 – Tuition – First line of attack?
#14 – Why do exams have to be so stressful?
#15 – First day mix up!
#16 – The day I forgot to pick my son from school
#17 – No more T-score. Now what?
#18 – Tackling the new school year
#19 – She did it, without tuition.
#20 – So who’s smarter?
#21 – Why I do not coach my kids anymore.
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If you are a lender, techie, representative or most importantly a customer in BFSI Segment, I would take it for provided you should have heard the new neologism "Digital Financial". In my circle, I did chat with a number of people as well as surprisingly, no 2 persons appear to regard this in same fashion - well, this is kind of exaggeration, but you understand! This made me take a pause and believe what this could mean to a person like me that is an expert in the market, to answer if a associate, close friend, or someone at my box asks me regarding this. As a true CrossFit athlete I comply with a minimum of the first policy - tell every person you come across about CrossFit.
The factor I bring up CrossFit is not even if of my attraction or, also fixation. CrossFit is a bit of facility and discouraging to those inexperienced, but to place it simply it is stamina as well as conditioning program, which optimizes physical fitness. CrossFit specifies physical fitness itself in terms of 10 Continue reading parts - Cardiovascular Endurance, Stamina, Adaptability, Toughness, Power, Speed, Dexterity, Coordination, Precision, Balance. But, typically if you ask any of your good friends what is physical fitness, you might get numerous feedbacks. E.g. a jogger will certainly claim ability to run half-marathon, or a weight lifter could claim deadlift of a minimum of 1.5 x body weight, or a man right into yoga exercise may claim doing 108 Suryanamaskaras. Well, each of them may be right in their very own means. Your interpretation of fitness might be doing every one of those, or you can just state I am in shape sufficient if I have the ability to do my 9-to-5 task without taking any sick leave in an evaluation cycle.
On the very same lines, banks can analyze Digital Financial in their very own terms as well as in a similar way, people like you as well as me will certainly have developed some point of view based upon our own direct exposure.
Over the years, financial institutions of all sizes and shapes enhanced a whole lot by adapting to IT/ ITES (IT Allowed Solutions) and also they have accomplished varied degrees of success. However, because of absence of concentrated and also long-term method, production of disjointed systems, rapidly altering business and running scenarios, etc., the desired goals may not have been fully recognized. Several of those " stopped working" campaigns can have been driven by the establishment's desire to be an very early adaptor of a innovation or fad (betting on a incorrect equine). However, we could shed a big chance, if we don't recognize and bet on a winning steed. So, the trick is betting on the best horse, at a right time - i.e., when the chances are reduced. Usually, sectors use what is called a Hype Cycle to examine a brand-new modern technology or fad. If you are interested to understand what is a "hype cycle", please see Gartner's methodology. I will try to string together a few of the key facets of Digital Banking, as unlike most of the buzzwords, it is neither a single solution neither a innovation.
Just around the moment (2008-10) I spent concerning a year plus in Brussels, three big banks (Fortis, Dexia as well as KBC) which always encountered as exceptionally danger averse bankers from the BeNeLux area, started encountering major pressure and their value eroded significantly and also activated warmed discussions in the community - that assumed their money is always secure with the banks (either as a depositor or share owner). What really happened there, is extremely intricate. Secret aspects being, massive sovereign financial obligation floating between 84 to 99% of GDP, absence of Federal government for 533 days, etc. These activated liquidity problems. If you add to this various other upheavals in the banking market globally, it is easy to realize that the " depend on" within the system was under threat. How would certainly we build depend on? By being clear. Customers need (not desire!) openness in the entire system. Younger the client base, that need really felt is a lot more intense. This, when you look from the altering client experience and also expectations from retail market (Amazon, Flipkart), transport (Uber, Ola), food sector (Zomato, FoodPanda, ZaptheQ), you understand where the banking sector is. Customers have reset the expectations in regards to worth, experience, and alternatives. The Trick takeaway for the lender - Individual Experience - abundant, consistent, mobile (anywhere), secure, boosted worth.
Many people I have actually interacted with recently on this subject, opined Electronic banking or Mobile Banking as Digital. Yes, this is only the start of what could be Digital Banking. Most likely, they cover earlier collection of consumer assumptions. Carrying on, could we see a day quickly, where there is no paper in any of the banking purchases? When I say paper, I am not simply referring to currency! Couple of points which are already in practice in couple of banks and also gaining momentum throughout are - digitizing procedures within the financial institution (like client on-boarding, funding application), cheque truncation systems which enables you to take a image of the cheque on your mobile and send to your financial institution, and so on - there by bringing performance in decisionmaking, capacity to tailor procedures to specific customer needs, conserve some unnecessary trips to the branch, and so on. This might imply simply put, implementing record/ image management systems, business procedure monitoring and monitoring systems, incorporating these parts within the existing IT services. The Secret - digitizing internal processes.
Social Media in the last couple of years have actually brought largest effect across boundaries - be it, Tahrir Square revolution, Ice Bucket Obstacle, which mobile to acquire, how we order and also pay for lunch or identifying a fine dining place and also going Dutch while sharing the costs. Social network is currently bring interruptions in terms of which financial institution to depend on, what they can anticipate from a bank in terms of services, provide a voice to their frustration. Which subsequently suggests, banks have to be on the same Social network paying attention to their customers, marketing their services and likewise inevitably, bring in new clients, keeping the clients as well as more importantly, ending up being "The Goto Financial institution" if the customer has several accounts. As an example, what might not have been anticipated couple of years back, in Kenya, one of our distinguished client's Twitter take care of (@ChaseBankKenya) utilizes Twitter to attach, launch and also share CSR activities, and also address clients' inquiries and also issues extremely effectively. That is, The Reach aspect.
One more quiet thing taking place behind the walls in a financial institution is called Information Analytics or Big Information. These create extraordinary insights into consumer habits and choices, driving incredibly focused strategies. These additionally help customers to understand their spend analysis, intend their budgets, economic objective administration and so on
. Apart from these essential components, there are numerous others which might make the financial institution a lot more "digital" - chat as well as video conversation facilities to bring bank closer to the client when he/she requires it, or informing clients with online tutorials like monetary literacy, tax obligation preparation, and so on, incorporating various solutions and systems in the bank to reduce data replication and redundancy and also helping the financial institution make even more Straight With Processing systems there by lowering errors, price of operations, and also boosting performance in the entire system. Financial institutions can substantially increase seamless data exchange with others partners like governing bodies, customers, government bodies therefore making whole process a lot more transparent and also efficient.
Finally, the big inquiry is what should be accomplished from the big task checklist to call a bank "Digital Bank"? Much like in physical fitness, there is no single option or the best remedy. Each financial institution has to define its own method, execution strategy to reach the goal of customer pleasure, operation efficiency, as well as total share holders' boosted value.
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A big part of moving to a new place is being a tourist in your own home and not knowing who any of the local dignitaries were through the years. I was at Wildlife Week (yeah, we have that here) looking through old archives when I discovered the log cabin where Sam Houston taught. I had no idea who he was. All I knew was that I had found a tiny little mountain school house picture and was intrigued. I was about to find out just how extraordinary this man was… The Historic Sam Houston Schoolhouse is a one-room log building that sits between Knoxville and Maryville. It was built in 1794 and is named for Sam Houston, a man with a colorful life.
Sam Houston was born in Virginia but after his father’s death the family moved to Tennessee. It is here that Sam ran away from home and went to live with some Cherokee Indians. for about 3 years. Not wanting to work on the family farm or in the family store, he took to living in the woods with the Cherokees. One of the tribal chiefs adopted Sam, giving him the name of Co-lon-neh (the Raven). He lived with the Cherokees until he was 18 years old.
In 1813, the year after teaching school, Sam took a dollar from the drum head at the town well on Maryville’s main street – he had enlisted in the Army. He served in the 39th Infantry from July, 1813, until May 1818, when he resigned. While fighting along side of General Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, he was wounded. It was during this time that he and General Andrew Jackson met, becoming close friends.
Sam Houston had very little formal education, something not too uncommon in the time or the region. However, he studied law in Nashville, passed the Bar and became a Lawyer in six months. His military career pair with his new legal title set the foundation for his political career and in 1820, Sam ran for the office of District Attorney. He was elected District Attorney of Davidson District in Tennessee. He is the only person ever to serve as governor of two state of the United States and a major city (Houston, TX) bear his name. His accolades include:
- U.S Represnetative (TN)
- Seventh Governor of Tennessee
- General of the Army, Republic of Texas
- U.S. Senator (TX)
- Governor of Texas
Historic School House
As a way to pay off $100 in debt he owed at the general store Sam taught school in 1812 at the local school house.
I experienced a higher feeling of dignity and self-satisfaction from teaching in that little one room school house in Maryville, Tennessee than I did from any other office or honor I have ever held. – Sam Houston
He was 18 when he took the job as teacher. The school ran a term that began after corn planting in the spring, around May, and lasted until harvest and cold weather in the fall. Tuition at that time was $8.00 a term, payable 1/3 in corn, 1/3 in calico and 1/3 in cash.
The schoolhouse was constructed on Revolutionary War veteran Andrew Kennedy’s land by Kennedy, Henry McCulloch, the school’s first teacher, and neighbors in 1794. It is the oldest school in Tennessee, built two years before Tennessee became a State. It stands on the original site on which it was built, located in Maryville, Tennessee. The structure contains many of the original logs. It is built of hand-hewn poplar logs, typical of rural field schools in the 1700′s.
In the one hundred fifty-one years before its purchase by the state in 1945, the schoolhouse had a varied life. It served as school, church, and tenant house. The structure is now a Tennessee Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The care of the schoolhouse is entrusted to an eighteen-member board of directors, The Sam Houston Memorial Association.
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What is Lean?
Enhancing value for the customer is the essence of “Lean”. This means delivering what the customer needs, when it is required and at the best possible price. Lean offers a structured methodology that maximises value for the customer through the elimination of waste from an organisation’s activities. Lean examines the entire value stream. The value stream is described as the sum of all activities completed by an organisation to produce a product or to deliver a service.
The elimination of waste is a key underlying principle of Lean. It requires moving away from the traditional approaches to process improvement and instead focusing on the product or service provided to the end-customer. A culture of continuous improvement is key to any organisation’s sustained success in the elimination of waste. Instilling this culture is done by considering three aspects of the business:
PURPOSE PROCESS AND PEOPLE.
An organisation’s Purpose will be to thrive and grow. This will only be achieved by continuously providing value to its customers. Reviewing where the business is now versus where it needs to be is necessary; a gap analysis.
Having defined the organisations purpose, the next step is to define the Processes which will enable it to achieve its purpose, i.e. the steps which will maximise customer value most efficiently. Looking across the value stream; examine all process steps, see which add value and which do not. Eliminate all unnecessary steps if possible and if not look at how they can be streamlined.
People will be required to drive these processes. Consider what skills and training is required to enable them to perform the processes at the required level to enable customer satisfaction. Involve them in the improvement process; use their experience to drive day-to-day problem solving thus resulting in continuous improvement.
The implementation of Lean in an organisation typically leads to a number of benefits including an increased rate in:
- Customer satisfaction
- Return Business
- Job satisfaction
- Response to customer demands
Similarly, with the introduction of Lean, there is a reduction in:
- Cost to provide a product/service
- Time to market
- Cycles times
- Customer complaints
- Stress for stakeholders
Lean is the perfect business model for a company who is goal driven and seeks to eliminate waste from their workplace. Emphasis is put on the experience of the customer which ensures satisfaction. Identification of value versus waste from the customer’s perspective is a key principle in Lean. Waste is defined as “any activity which does not add value to the product or service provided for the customer”. The customer is the person who pays for the product or service. In relation to providing value to customers
Lean considers the following:
- Would the customer pay for the activity?
- Was the product or service transformed or improved by the activity?
- Was it done “Right-First-Time”?
If the answer is no, then value is not being added. This questioning must be continuously applied to ensure that all waste is made visible and the improvement opportunity is maximised. By interrogating processes within your organisation, you can reach the full potential of your organisation.
Lean provides a structure to companies that want to make it to the next level in business. It is an effective system that ensures the best result out of your resources. By implementing Lean, you can be certain that nothing is holding you back, allowing your company to thrive and grow at the pace it deserves. By maximising the value of your business, it proves itself invaluable to your customers who rely on excellent service. This increases customer satisfaction, which in turn increases revenue, which leads to a successful organisation. Implement Lean to ensure your company blossoms into a string, rewarding, and prosperous organisation. | <urn:uuid:7e7ef978-c021-4bf5-9f12-9f75d190edd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lbspartners.ie/insights/what-is-lean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938144 | 779 | 2.5625 | 3 |
When it comes to literacy development, there are not many methods better than simply reading aloud. According to the Bredekamp, Copple, & Neuman, 2000 study, it is the single most important activity for reading success and to boost reading comprehension. It not only provides children with an accessible demonstration of phrased, fluent reading but it also provides them with the immediate rewards of reading, developing the listener’s interest in books and piquing their desire to be a reader as they become more skilled.
Reading out loud can be a great tool for parents, as well as a great activity to share with children. Listening to others read can develop key understanding skills and reading comprehension, even if the child is not doing the reading themselves. Active listening can help kids familiarize with the different parts of a story as well as with different and integral parts of language. On that note, children can listen on a higher level than they can read – meaning that they can listen to books that are more advanced than their reading level. This can be extremely helpful when trying to boost your child’s reading skills, reading level, and generally interesting them in reading on their own.
For the most part, a child’s first experience with reading will be story time with their parents or something similar. By making story time a staple of your daily schedule, reading and storytelling can quickly become a very important part of your child’s life. However, parents can take it a step further, too.
Make Reading a Part of Your Lives
When story time has its own time and place, children find meaning for stories and reading in their lives. There are so many ways in which parents can make reading a part stor
of their child’s everyday world. Have books around, of all kinds. Give your kids a little library of their own, but even magazines and coffee table books around the house can pique their interest – one day, they’ll be able to read those things, too. Kids also learn from example, so if you read often yourself, children will develop an interest in reading, too. But overall, if shared story time is something that you do every night before bed, or in any part of the day, they become habits and the comfort they provide can help to ensure that your child is always interested in books, reading and learning.
Encourage Kids to Listen and Form Opinions
Reading aloud is one thing, but it can play a huge role when it comes to active listening. Active listening during story time can help build vital reading comprehension skills that kids will utilize once they can read more independently. Ask your kids questions about the story. Request an overview after every book or chapter. Have them tell you about their favorite characters and why.
Read Aloud – and Think Aloud, Too
In addition to asking kids questions about what you’re reading, asking them to share their thoughts and feelings can help them develop communication skills that can carry across verbal and written forms. Ask them to connect the book to their own life experience, to other books you’ve shared together, and even ask them to connect what they are reading to universal concepts like love, friendship, family, etc. Stories made personally for children can help with this process as they are submerged into the story themselves helping them connect with characters in the story.
Have Kids Read Along
As kids get older and begin to learn, they will surely be able to identify some of the words you’re reading – even if the book you’re sharing is a bit more advanced for them. If kids are encouraged to read along, even if they are still listening, different parts of their brain are being activated and utilized. Kids will have a better idea of the relationship between how words look and how they sound, and they may also develop a deeper understanding of how language flows and how stories develop as well. | <urn:uuid:0aa1b683-114d-437c-8dcd-45ca77b0343b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kdnovelties.com/blog/category/reading-and-imagination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968164 | 800 | 3.984375 | 4 |
What is the quality I seek in mountain images? What features? Mass. Weight. Largeness. Diffusions of light. Rolling forms. Linear patterns, lines that snake through the whole scene. Sensation of near and far. I am guessing. I am not altogether sure what the appeal is for me.
I don’t live near any mountains. I get source pictures for mountains from internet photos or books. More and more, I begin to make them up. Or I alter a photo source until my picture looks increasingly unlike its original. I ask myself if it’s real mountains I want or pretend ones.
Mountains have time in them. They’re old. Even “young” mountains are old (to us). Mountains suggest permanence. Jesus compared faith to moving mountains. In every religious tradition the mountain top is the place of visions.
Artistically, the forms are closely related to drapery. The old masters with their drapery studies might have been inventing mountain ranges. Gravity is the key in both instances — and light.
You can, like Albrecht Durer, punch a pillow and create some mountain ranges to draw. Or like Richard Dreyfuss’s character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, you can make mountains from your mashed potatoes. They are closer than you realize.
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Unique Group, an integrated subsea and offshore solution provider, has announced that the company has designed and developed its first Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), called Uni-Cat. With proven hydrographic survey capabilities, the Uni-Cat can be used effectively for bathymetry survey offshore and in shallow waters. It is designed to be used in locations where conventional survey methods are not feasible.
The Uni-Cat USV is purpose-built with a long-lasting battery, and the endurance of the boat can be customised to client requirements by mounting different sonars and ancillary sensors suitable for hydrographic missions, search and recovery, oceanography and monitoring as well as inspection surveys.
Sahil Gandhi, Chief Operating Officer at Unique Group, congratulated the team on the successful sea trials of Uni-Cat and further commented: “Our extensive experience over the past 25 years has uniquely positioned us to understand client requirements and expectations, thus incorporating them in our USV Uni-Cat to ensure clients save time and cost without compromising on the accuracy of the data collected.”
Uni-Cat has a 16-foot Cataraft platform and is designed to provide ease of mobility and operability in areas which are difficult to access. The boat integrates multibeam echosounders, ancillary sensors and communication links into a remote-controlled platform for rapid deployment. Uni-Cat also has a real-time positioning and obstacle warning alarm unit along with a heading sensor for safe and guided navigation. | <urn:uuid:2d4cec3c-581f-4368-b00d-84f183d661b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2019/04/new-usv-platform-launched-for-survey-applications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947834 | 308 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Buckling and postbuckling of carbon nanotube-reinforced composite cylindrical panels subjected to axial compression in thermal environments
Keywords:carbon nanotube-reinforced composite, cylindrical panel, buckling and postbuckling, temperature dependent properties, imperfection
This paper presents an analytical investigation on the buckling and postbuckling behavior of thin composite cylindrical panels reinforced by single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), exposed to thermal environments and subjected to uniform axial compression. Material properties of isotropic matrix phase and carbon nanotubes are assumed to be temperature dependent, and effective properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (CNTRC) are functionally graded in the thickness direction and estimated by extended rule of mixture. Governing equations are based on the classical thin shell theory taking von Karman-Donnell nonlinearity and initial geometrical imperfection into consideration. Approximate solutions are assumed to satisfy simply supported boundary conditions and Galerkin procedure is applied to derive explicit expressions of buckling loads and load-deflection relation. Effects of volume fraction and distribution type of carbon nanotubes, geometrical parameters, elevated temperature and initial imperfection on the nonlinear stability of CNTRC cylindrical panels are analyzed and discussed. The novelty of the present study is that closed-form results of buckling load and nonlinear load-deflection relation can be readily used to analyze the buckling and postbuckling behaviors of axially loaded CNTRC cylindrical panels.
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by Mitch Kokai
Senior Political Analyst, John Locke Foundation
James Madison is known as the Father of the Constitution. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. Constitution is the document Madison would have created if he had acted on his own.
Nor does it mean Madison had a single fixed view of the Constitution during the decades that he worked as a congressman, party leader, secretary of state, president, and political elder statesman. Barton College history professor and Madison biographer Jeff Broadwater emphasized those points during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
In the video clip below, Broadwater discusses Madison’s change of mind on key constitutional issues.
2:30 p.m. update: Click play below to watch the full 46:38 event.
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Today, forty years ago, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. In the last few days two pioneering pilots, one from World War I and the other from World War II have died.
Virginia Sweet’s obituary as published in the Boston Globe is short so here it is in its entirty.
Inspired by a story she read as a young girl about Amelia Earhart’s trans-Atlantic flight, Virginia Sweet became a pioneering female aviator in her own right.
She was a pilot with the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, ferrying every imaginable type of military aircraft from factories to air bases during World War II to free male pilots for combat overseas.
Sometimes Ms. Sweet was assigned to fly shot-up, barely functional aircraft in for repair. Thirty-eight of her fellow female fliers were killed during duty.
After the war, when these Rosie the Riveters of the skies no longer were needed, the nation essentially turned its back on Ms. Sweet and hundreds of Women’s Airforce Service Pilots like her.
The longtime Schenectady resident died July 12 at 88, two weeks after President Obama signed a law that offered recognition and Congressional Gold Medals, the highest award Congress can give to a civilian, to the WASP fliers.
Ms. Sweet prided herself on a five-decade flying record without an accident
Henry Allingham was one of the few veterans of World War I still alive when he died at aged 113. The New York Times obituary tells his story.
An iconic figure to many in Britain, Mr. Allingham did wartime service including stints on land, in the air and at sea. In 1915, he flew as an observer and gunner in the Royal Naval Air Service, hunting zeppelins over the North Sea. He was aboard one of the Royal Navy ships that fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, in which Britain lost 14 ships and 6,000 seamen.
Mr. Allingham was born in London in 1896. He lost his father to tuberculosis the next year. After his mother also died, he was raised by a grandmother. He became a trainee maker of surgical instruments before moving into the motor trade, training as a mechanic. After his wartime service, he worked until retirement for the Ford Motor Company. Judged to be too old to serve in combat in World War II, he was assigned to a project that sought to neutralize German magnetic mines.
The Associated Press news account of Mr. Allingham’s death has this wonderful account
He spent the war’s first months refitting trucks for military use, but when his mother died in June 1915, he decided to join after seeing a plane circling a reservoir in Essex.
Only a dozen years after the Wright brothers first put up their plane, Allingham and other airmen set out from England on motorized kites made with wood, linen, and wire. They piled on clothes and smeared their faces in Vaseline, whale oil, or engine grease to block the cold.
“To be honest, all the planes were so flimsy and unpredictable – as well as incapable of carrying large fuel loads – at the start of the war that both British and German pilots would immediately turn back rather than face each other in the skies if they did not enjoy height supremacy,’’ Allingham would later write.
As a mechanic, Allingham’s job was to maintain the rickety craft. He also flew as an observer on a biplane. At first, his weaponry consisted of a standard issue Lee Enfield .303 rifle – sometimes two. Parachutes weren’t issued. He fought in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of World War I. He served on the Western Front.
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What To Do If You Test Positive For Covid – The positive cases of COVID-19 are once again rising in most cities of the United States. Health experts have already declared it the 6th wave of COVID-19, and the president of the United States has also tested positive for the virus.
The United States is being infected with sub-variants of omicron, and the vaccine for COVID-19 is not much effective against the virus. That is why you need to learn what to do if you test positive for COVID. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released several guidelines on a similar situation.
We will take a look at each and everything suggested by the Center for Disease Control and prevention when they test positive for COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest everyone isolate as early as possible when they get tested positive for the virus. The CDC has released a separate set of quarantine and isolation guidelines for people who have tested positive for the virus.
These guidelines are for everyone, and your vaccination status is not going to change. The CDC believes everyone should follow the guidelines regardless of their vaccination status.
- First of all, you should isolate yourself for at least five days when you test positive for COVID-19.
- You should always wear a well-fitting mask whenever you are around others in your home.
- Kindly do not travel anywhere until the 10th day of your symptoms starts or you test positive for the virus.
- Kindly do not meet anyone who is immune compromised and more vulnerable to getting very sick from COVID-19.
- Try not to visit any public places without following full COVID precautions, including masks, hand sanitizer, and social distancing.
- In case you do not develop any symptoms whatsoever related to COVID-19, you can end your isolation after five days.
- If you develop any symptoms related to COVID-19 and you can spend 24 hours fever free without using any fever-reducing medicine, then you can also end your isolation after five days.
You can consult your symptoms regarding COVID-19 anytime you want. Most people are getting better from COVID-19 within five to seven days of their exposure to the virus. Still, some people might get very sick from COVID-19, and they might also require hospitalization and medical attention.
Another thing that is very important for you to understand is that there is a probability that you might infect others even if you have ended your isolation after five days.
Health experts around the world will suggest you keep following all the COVID protocols until the 10th to 15th day of your exposure to the virus. That means you should be using a face mask while you are around your friends and family.
Once you have isolated yourself, the second thing you can do is let everyone know in your circle that you have tested positive for the virus.
As per the guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, you should tell your office that you have tested positive for the virus. Your boss will ask everyone in your office to get tested for the same.
Apart from that, you should also tell your friends and family about your being tested positive for the virus. Your friends and their families might also have to get tested for the same.
Currently, the incubation period of COVID-19 is around three days. You can spread the virus to others for three days without developing any symptoms. As a precautionary measure, you can tell everyone you have met in the last three days that you have tested positive for COVID-19.
Once you have informed everyone in your circle, the next thing you can do is let your doctor know that you have tested positive for the virus.
Both dominating variants of COVID-19 in the United states do not impose much risk of severe illness. People can get better within five to seven days of starting the symptom, but in some cases, people might get severe symptoms and require hospitalization.
People with underlying health conditions and old age people should consult with their doctor as soon as they have tested positive for the virus.
Your doctor might be able to treat you at home without any hospitalization. Early treatment can also save you from developing severe symptoms of the virus.
Keep an eye on your symptoms.
The next thing you should do is keep an eye on your symptoms. Every health expert in the world will suggest that you keep a record of your symptoms and their severity. Even your healthcare provider will also suggest you do the same.
You should also keep a thermometer alongside your medication so that you can keep track of your fever. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest everyone keep an eye on their symptoms and call 911 or their healthcare provider if the symptoms get worse.
Even though the chances of anyone developing severe symptoms from COVID are pretty low, some chances should not rule out that probability.
Regular COVID Testing
Another thing that is very important for you is to keep yourself testing at regular intervals. Health experts around the world will suggest you to yourself each day in the morning.
You can home COVID tests for regular testing purposes. Even though these tests are not as accurate as RT PCR tests for COVID-19, they can provide high accuracy and faster results.
People who have not developed any symptoms related to the virus even after testing positive can end their isolation after getting a COVID native test.
By informing before your visit, you can also visit a nearby public COVID testing facility and get yourself tested with the regular RT PCR test; if you believe you do not have any symptoms related to COVID-19 and here at home, COVID tests keep coming positive.
Keep following the precautions to save yourself from reinfection.
If you have already tested positive for the virus, this doesn’t mean that you cannot get reinfection. The chances of anyone getting reinfection are low, but there is a probability, and the cases are rising at a rapid speed.
The Centers for Disease Control and prevention, along with the World Health Organization, suggest everyone keep following COVID precautions even if they have successfully recovered from COVID-19.
There are some cases where people have already received four doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and recovered from the infection, and they still get infected once again.
A recent study on the effects of reinfection concluded that there is a higher probability of anyone developing symptoms related to long COVID if they have reinfection.
Every time you get infected with COVID-19, you develop more chances of getting severe symptoms of long COVID in the future.
Vaccination guidelines after testing positive for the virus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest everyone get themselves vaccinated or receive the booster shots of the COVID vaccine even if they have tested positive for the virus in the past.
As a precautionary measure, you can wait around 90 days to get vaccinated or receive booster shots after receiving a positive test report of COVID-19. But, that is just a guideline rather than an illegal bounding rule.
Private pharmaceutical companies, including CVS pharmacy and Walgreens pharmacy, will allow you to get vaccinated after 14 days of your exposure to the virus.
If you have successfully recovered from COVID-19 and you do not have any symptoms related to the virus in the last 14 days, then you are eligible to receive booster shots or primary doses of the COVID vaccine from private pharmacies active in the United States.
Even if you check the official website of these pharmacies and try to create an appointment using their appointment scheduler tool, you will find that you can create an appointment if you have successfully recovered from COVID-19 and you do not have any symptoms in the last 14 days.
When should I consult with my doctor if I have tested positive for COVID-19?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do not stop you from consulting your doctor. You can immediately call your doctor and consult that you have tested positive for the virus. Immunocompromised and people who are struggling with chronic diseases are more vulnerable to developing severe COVID symptoms, and they should consult it as early as possible. | <urn:uuid:379d7586-b87f-468d-a46d-d98015775a01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://localnexus.org/what-to-do-if-you-test-positive-for-covid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958612 | 1,698 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Attitudes and laws against pit bulls soften
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For much of the past three decades, pit bulls have been widely regarded as America’s most dangerous dog — the favorite breed of thugs, drug dealers and dog-fighting rings, with a fearsome...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For much of the past three decades, pit bulls have been widely regarded as America’s most dangerous dog — the favorite breed of thugs, drug dealers and dog-fighting rings, with a fearsome reputation for unprovoked, sometimes deadly attacks.
Hostility toward “pits” grew so intense that some cities began treating them as the canine equivalent of assault rifles and prohibited residents from owning them.
But attitudes have softened considerably since then as animal activists and even television shows cast the dogs in a more positive light. The image makeover has prompted many states to pass new laws that forbid communities from banning specific breeds. And it illustrates the power and persistence of dog-advocacy groups that have worked to fend off pit bull restrictions with much the same zeal as gun-rights groups have defeated gun-control measures.
“Lawmakers are realizing that targeting dogs based on their breed or what they look like is not a solution to dealing with dangerous dogs,” said Lisa Peters, a spokeswoman for the American Kennel Club.
Seventeen states now have laws that prohibit communities from adopting breed-specific bans. Lawmakers in six more states are considering similar measures, and some cities are reviewing local policies that classify pit bulls as dangerous animals.
Pit bull advocates hail the changes as recognition that breed-specific laws discriminate against dogs that are not inherently aggressive or dangerous unless they are made to be that way by irresponsible owners.
The dogs’ foes complain that their message is being drowned out by a well-funded, well-organized lobbying effort in state capitols. The debate puts millions of pit bull owners up against a relatively small number of people who have been victimized by the dogs.
Ron Hicks, who sponsored a bill in the Missouri House to forbid breed-specific legislation, said he was surprised when nobody spoke against his proposal last month at a committee hearing.
“I figured a few parents would be there who would bring tears to my eyes,” the Republican said. “Would it have changed my opinion or what I believe in? No.”
A version of Hicks’ legislation was endorsed by a House committee last month and needs to clear another committee before a full House vote. The state Senate is considering a comparable bill, as are lawmakers in Utah, South Dakota, Washington, Vermont and Maryland.
In Kansas, the communities of Bonner Springs and Garden City repealed their pit-bull bans earlier this year.
Summer Freeman did not know there was a ban when she moved to Bonner Springs last year after a divorce. She panicked when an animal-control officer discovered her pet and told her she had 15 days to get rid of the dog named Titan or move out of town.
“I think of him like my son,” she said. “He’s my dog-son, I guess you could say. He’s at my hip all the time. He’s just a big baby that wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
Freeman was forced to leave Titan at a shelter in Lawrence for nine months until she successfully fought to overturn the law in January.
For dog owners and pit bull opponents alike, the battle is as deeply personal as any gun-control or religious issue. Each side accuses the other of lying, exploiting emotions and using bullying tactics.
Pit bull owners insist their dogs are harmless, loving family members that shouldn’t be blamed for something they didn’t do. To opponents, they are a volatile breed whose genetics drive them to kill more than two dozen people in the U.S. each year, many of them young children.
Popular television shows such as “Pit Boss” and “Pit Bulls and Parolees” on Animal Planet glorify the animals and minimize the tragedies that occur when pit bulls turn on humans, pit bull opponents say.
“Everything is telling us these animals are safe if you raise them right,” said Jeff Borchardt, a Stevens Point, Wis., man whose 14-month-old son was mauled to death a year ago by two pit bulls that tore the child from the arms of their owner, who was baby-sitting. “My son’s dead because of a lie, because of a myth. My life will never be the same.”
The two dogs that killed Borchardt’s son had lived with their owner since soon after they were born, were well-cared for and had no history of aggressive behavior, he said. Both had been spayed or neutered.
That contradicts the contention that only mistreated, neglected or abused pit bulls attack people.
Colleen Lynn, founder of DogsBite.org, pointed to a friend-of-the-court brief her organization submitted in a 2012 case in which the Maryland Court of Appeals declared pit bulls “inherently dangerous.”
“Appellate courts agree with us. Doctors and surgeons agree with us. That is credibility right there,” Lynn said. “We also have the support of three divisions of the U.S. military, huge, massive bodies in the U.S. government.”
The Marines, Army and Air Force all have banned dangerous dogs — including pit bulls and rottweilers — from their bases because of the “unreasonable risk” they pose to safety, Lynn said.
On the other side stand the American Bar Association and National Animal Control Association, which oppose breed-specific laws because they are discriminatory against a type of dog that isn’t really a single breed.
Three main breeds — Staffordshire bull terrier, American pit bull terrier and American Staffordshire terrier — along with mixes of those breeds are generally considered pit bulls. But many muscular, square-jawed, boxer-type dogs often are misidentified as pit bulls, making breed-specific bans hard to enforce.
And because fatal pit bull attacks are a rarity compared with other causes of death such as auto accidents, dog advocates argue that breed-specific bans amount to legislative overkill.
“All communities deserve comprehensive dog laws that demand responsible dog ownership and that hold reckless owners accountable when their poor decisions wind up getting other dogs or other people hurt,” said Ledy Vankavage, a top lobbyist for the Best Friends Animal Society.
Don Burmeister, assistant city attorney for Council Bluffs, Iowa, led the effort to pass a local pit bull ban that took effect in 2005. He recalled first reading about the issue in the July 27, 1987, issue of Sports Illustrated, which carried a full-cover shot of an angry pit bull baring its teeth. Across the top, it said “BEWARE OF THIS DOG.”
After the Council Bluffs ban went into place, the number of pit bull attacks that resulted in hospitalization plummeted from 29 in 2004 to zero the past few years — proof, Burmeister said, that breed-specific bans work.
The opposition to pit bull bans, he added, is a sign that many American pet owners have lost touch with reality.
“Fifty years ago, you could take a sick animal behind a barn and put it out of its misery,” he said. “That’s just the way it was done. Now they would investigate you for doing that. The emotional irrationality of Americans and their dogs has never been worse than it is today.” | <urn:uuid:90ec497c-e2f6-4a27-89a2-55503f71e597> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/lifestyle/pets/2014/03/11/20140311-attitudes-and-laws-against-pit-bulls-softe-ece/35363631007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971483 | 1,614 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Grade Level: High School
Civics examines the general structure and functions of U.S. systems of government, the roles and responsibilities of citizens to participate in the political process, and the relationship of the individual to the law and legal system.
Course Materials / Resources
Resources include YouTube video access and assorted websites.
National Standards Source
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Iain Duncan Smith has backed Boris Johnson’s claim that the EU has the same goal as Hitler in trying to create a political superstate, despite the remain camp branding the comments “offensive and desperate”.
The former mayor of London drew criticism on Saturday after making the link between the EU and the Nazi dictator in a newspaper interview. While he acknowledged the EU was using “different methods” to the Nazis, his incendiary comparison quickly enraged remain campaigners.
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Johnson, seen as the de facto leader of the leave campaign, said the past 2,000 years of European history had been dominated by doomed attempts to unify the continent under a single government to recreate the “golden age” of the Romans.
“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods,” he said.
“But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe. There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void.”
As the remarks were condemned as inflammatory and offensive by Labour and Tory remain campaigners, Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary, said Johnson’s interview was “rather good”.
Defending Johnson’s use of “historical parallels”, Duncan Smith said: “He talked about this nonsensical idea of trying to drive these different countries [together]. It’s a historical fact of life that if you go through Napoleon, Hitler, everyone else … I think the whole process of trying to drive Europe together by force or by bureaucracy ultimately makes problems.”
Responding to the comments, the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, said: “Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass.
“After the horror of the second world war, the EU helped to bring an end to centuries of conflict in Europe, and for Boris Johnson to make this comparison is both offensive and desperate.”
The former cabinet minister Yvette Cooper, a member of the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign, accused Johnson of playing a “nasty, nasty game”.
“The more he flails around with this kind of hysterical claim, the more he exposes his shameful lack of judgement, his willingness to play the most divisive cynical politics, and the emptiness of his arguments,” she said.
“One week it is dog-whistle attacks on President Obama. Now he is trying to liken the institution that has kept peace on our continent for decades with Hitler, who pursued the genocide of millions of innocent people.
“All because he is desperately seeking headlines for a desperate campaign. He should not try to play political games with the darkest and most sinister chapter of Europe’s history. The EU has played a critical role keeping peace in Europe ever since.”
Lord Bramall, the former chief of the defence staff, who took part in the Normandy landings, said: “I know only too well, this comparison of the EU and Nazi Germany is absurd. Hitler’s main aim was to create an empire in the east and violently subjugate Europeans. Any connection between that and the EU is simply laughable.”
Sir Eric Pickles, the Conservative former communities secretary, drew a comparison between Johnson and Ken Livingstone, a former London mayor, who was suspended from Labour for suggesting Hitler supported Zionism. He said: “If the last few weeks tell us anything: it is rarely a help to mention Hitler in support of an argument by an ex-mayor of London.”
Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader, said Johnson was “yet another tuppenny tin-pot imitation Churchill promising to ‘fight them on the beaches’ while weakening our defences and wrecking our economy.”
Owen Smith, a Labour shadow cabinet minister, said Johnson was “a cut-rate Donald Trump.” “It’s a ridiculous and facetious comment by a man who is apt to make ridiculous and facetious comments,” Smith told LBC. “I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.”
“I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.”
The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
Lord Lamont said the headline for Johnson’s comments was misleading, telling Murnaghan on Sky News: “I don’t think [Johnson] was saying people who favour the European Union were comparable to Nazis.
“He was simply saying that historically, from the Romans, Charlemagne, Napoleon, there have been all sorts of attempts to dominate Europe and these have all floundered because Europe is not naturally one entity.”
Asked if Johnson’s remarks were helpful to the leave campaign, Lamont said: “I don’t actually think what he said, as it was said, was so outrageous. I think the headline is misleading.”
Pressed on whether he wished Johnson had not made the comments, Lamont said: “I myself referred not so long ago but was very careful to say, ‘I’m not comparing people who support Europe to Nazis’, but it actually is a fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe.”
Johnson made the comments in a newspaper interview after touring the south-west on a Vote Leave battlebus, as speculation grows that he will make a move for the Tory leadership if Cameron resigns in the event of a British exit from the EU or narrow remain vote.
Cameron has always insisted that he will carry on regardless of the result, but many MPs believe he will have no choice but to resign if the country rejects his call to remain or only narrowly votes to stay.
In comments clearly designed to stoke tensions within the Conservative party over the referendum, Farage said he could even envisage a situation in which he would work for Johnson in government.
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Farage rejected suggestions that Johnson would not be serious enough to be prime minister if Cameron were forced to stand down. “Boris goes on surprising people. They say he can’t do this, he’s a joker – it’s like Ronnie Reagan. Could he do it? Yes. If you’d asked me six months ago, I’d have said no, but I’ve changed my mind,” he said.
Asked if he would like to work for Johnson if there were a vote to leave the EU, Farage said: “I love Boris, respect him, admire him; I’m a Boris fan. Could I work for him? Yes. Could I see a scenario if he was PM and he asked me to do something? I wouldn’t rule it out.”
In an interview with Peston on Sunday, he also revealed he would back Republican candidate Donald Trump for US president over Democrat Hillary Clinton while acknowledging he had reservations about him.
“You put me up against a wall, it’s got to be him, not Hillary – but I have reservations: encouraging people to beat up protesters, one or two things like that bother me. But I’ll tell you what: I think he’s going to win,” he said. | <urn:uuid:bc0fbbbe-45e2-4aff-9e3b-5d3530cc5c8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/15/boris-johnson-likens-eu-to-nazi-superstate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974574 | 1,647 | 1.585938 | 2 |
[A post first published at On History, the blog of the Institute of Historical Research.]
As a publishing format, the edited collection of essays has had a bad press. Collections are widely supposed to contain lesser work than scholarly journals; to be incoherent as volumes, no more than the sum of their parts; and to be less visible to potential readers once published. It’s often claimed that those who make decisions in relation to hiring, promotion, tenure and funding also share this opinion. To publish in or edit an essay collection is thought to risk being penalised for the format, before even a word is read.
But is this a fair assessment?
In my new book, The Edited Collection: pasts, present and futures (Cambridge University Press, £9.99), I attempt a defence of the format. I explore the modern history of the edited collection and the particular roles it has played. I then examine each component part of the critique, showing either that they’re largely unfounded or (if they are of real substance) that they may be resolved.
Though suspicion of the edited collection is found across the disciplines, it’s most trenchantly expressed from within the hard sciences in which both book chapters and indeed monographs figure little. (In 2014, 99.5% of submissions to REF Main Panel A — for medicine and biological sciences — were journal articles, leaving almost no space for alternative formats such as essays or monographs.)
In the arts and humanities, however, the picture is quite different. Here freestanding edited collections remain a far more significant publishing format, and one — moreover — that’s holding its own in relation to the alternatives.
Data from the Bibliography of British and Irish History shows that, as the scale of history publishing has grown, the relative proportions of monographs, journal articles and book chapters remained all but unchanged between 1996 and 2015. In the 2014 REF, for History, one book chapter was submitted for every 1.7 journal articles. As well as individual chapters, editors also submitted whole edited volumes for assessment as a unit; in the same REF one in five of the books submitted to Main Panel D was an edited volume.
But for historians, as for many across the humanities and social sciences, it’s not just a question of numbers.
In my book I adopt a case study approach to demonstrate the creative potential of the edited collection. The studies I explore show a rich interplay in such volumes, as scholars are brought together to add to—and to assess the state of—an issue, or indeed the current state and purpose of a discipline. On occasions this conversation has been confined within the academy; at other times it’s engaged other professionals outside with particular stakes in the matter under investigation. It has proved a natural vehicle for interdisciplinary enquiry. Such collections may either be the natural outgrowth of an existing group of scholars or the creation by an editor or publisher, sometimes bringing together those with opposing views. What emerges overall, however, is a profoundly communal and conversational endeavour.
One of my case studies is of a form of edited collection that is peculiar to history: the institutional history, and within this the histories of cathedrals in particular.
Several of the English cathedral churches date their foundation, or at least the building of their current structures, to the Anglo-Norman period. Consequently, as the end of the twentieth century approached, there was a series of cathedral histories, some of them tied to nine-hundredth or other anniversary commemorations. First off the mark was York Minster, with a volume of essays published in 1977 by the Clarendon Press. The initiative had come from the dean and chapter (the governing body of the minster), against a background of growing interest in its archaeology and its monuments.
An initial editorial committee included Owen Chadwick, regius professor of modern history at Cambridge (and also a priest and person of some influence within the Church of England), who also contributed a chapter. But the volume was also a local affair—edited by Gerald Aylmer, the first professor of history in the still young University of York, and Reginald Cant, canon chancellor of the minster. Most of the other contributors were university-based scholars connected either with Cambridge or York, but the early architecture was covered by Eric A. Gee of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, which was based in the city; the chapter on the minster library was by C. B. L. Barr, of the university library, in the custody of which the minster library was kept.
Since then, there has been a crop of similar volumes as the other ancient cathedrals have followed suit. Most of these volumes had some sort of connection with a local university, and involvement from writers associated with the cathedral itself. They have tended to encompass several disciplinary perspectives: national and local history, musicology, archaeology, bibliography and the history of art and architecture.
The combination of these perspectives has varied, however, as has the relative weight of contributions from the city in question and from the wider university sector. Oxford University Press published the volume for Canterbury Cathedral, the principal church in England, in 1995. More than a decade in the planning, the impetus had come both from the Press and from Donald Coggan, archbishop of Canterbury until 1980. All three editors were connected with Canterbury, including Patrick Collinson, regius professor in Cambridge but formerly professor at the University of Kent. However, the team of contributors was overwhelmingly academic and drawn from the universities.
By contrast, the 1994 volume for Chichester was composed of work from a more diverse and locally focused group. It was edited by the cathedral archivist, Mary Hobbs, with the assistance of a historian at the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education (now the University of Chichester), Andrew Foster. The deputy county archivist (in whose care much of the historic archive rests) dealt with the cathedral’s archives and its antiquaries, and Hobbs herself with the library. The chapters on the medieval and early modern cathedral were from specialists, as were those on the architecture and on the cathedral’s art. The twentieth-century chapters, in contrast, were by clergy with a connection with the cathedral.
The cathedral history, then, has been a meeting point of institutional and local history with religious history more broadly, and the concerns of historians of architecture, music, art and of the book. The edited volume has been found to be a useful — indeed, probably the only — means of brokering that interchange. | <urn:uuid:60a4dbb2-5b54-4fb1-9993-79e8065fd1fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peterwebster.me/category/anglicanism/cathedrals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963534 | 1,355 | 1.5 | 2 |
Online Learning More Effective than Face to Face
The results of a new Meta-Analysis & Review of Online Studies released June 26th 2009 by the U.S. Department of Education suggests that online learning at a higher education level, is more effective than face to face learning.
“The overall finding of the meta-analysis is that classes with online learning (whether taught completely online or blended) on average produce stronger student learning outcomes than do classes with solely face-to-face instruction.“ (pg.18)
Students in the study completed the same courses online and under face to face instruction and while online learning proved highly successful, the most effective of all was a “blended learning” solution combining elements of both online and face to face. Three factors emerged as variables in the contrasting types of learning: time, pedagogy and curriculum.
‘Time’ was one reason why online learning proves to be so successful, because it allows for students to go at their own pace instead of one pace for the whole group. The report states: “Studies in which learners in the online condition spent more time on task than students in the face-to-face condition found a greater benefit for online learning” (xv).
Another pattern that emerged was that video and quizzes in online learning did not seem to increase learning effectiveness. However, more interactive media and objects where the student was in the driver seat did: “Online learning can be enhanced by giving learners control of their interactions with media and prompting learner reflection.” (xvi)
There are far too many interesting findings for me to list here, but for a nice summary of the meta-analysis take a look at Scott Jaschik’s article The Evidence on Online Education, or click here for the full 93-page report. | <urn:uuid:4d7ef876-759c-4756-aa10-f965163988bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.litmos.com/blog/industry-news/online-learning-more-effective-than-face-to-face | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953222 | 375 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Why should I care?¶
“I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy?”¶
Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, we didn't always have the right to privacy. In several dictatorships, many still don't. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right inherent to all of us that we are entitled to without discrimination.
You shouldn't confuse privacy with secrecy. We know what happens in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That's because you want privacy, not secrecy. Everyone has something to protect. Privacy is something that makes you human.
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First, you need to make a plan¶
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This process of identifying threats and defining countermeasures is called threat modeling, and it forms the basis of every good security and privacy plan.
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Luxembourg's Ministry of Health has reported that a total of 23 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the Grand Duchy to date.
As of 26 July 2022, a total of 13,043 cases of monkeypox in 37 countries and areas in the European region had been reported to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). This represents an increase of 2,439 cases over one week.
The majority of cases concerned people aged 31 to 40 (5,222 / 12,735; 41%), particularly men (12,606 / 12,688; 99.4%). Of the cases with known HIV status, 37% (2,153 / 5,889) were HIV positive. The majority of cases presented with rash (7,259 / 7,663; 94.7%) and systemic symptoms such as fever, fatigue, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhoea, chills, a sore throat or headache (5,105 / 7,663; 67%). 339 people with monkeypox were hospitalised (6.2%), of which 131 required clinical care. One infected individual was admitted to an intensive care unit but for reasons unrelated to monkeypox. No deaths have been reported. 34 people with monkeypox were reported to be healthcare workers, although they had been exposed to the virus outside work.
In Luxembourg, a total of 23 cases of monkeypox had been confirmed up to 27 July 2022 inclusive. This represents an increase of nine cases compared to the previous week (fourteen cases). So far, all the cases detected concern men with an average age of 39. No one has been hospitalised. According to the Health Ministry, the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of these cases are very similar to the cases reported at the European level.
Concerning vaccination, a first delivery of vaccines from the HERA (the European Commission's Health Preparedness and Response Authority) order is planned for the month of August 2022. Luxembourg expects to receive 1,400 vaccine doses out of a total of 109,000 doses ordered by HERA. The Superior Council of Infectious Diseases (Conseil supérieur des maladies infectieuses - CSMI) is preparing recommendations on the vaccination campaign which will start as soon as the vaccines are delivered.
Luxembourg's Health Directorate has recalled the importance of protecting oneself against the virus and avoiding risky situations in order to limit its spread. Protective measures include washing hands regularly with soap, avoiding sharing bed linen and towels with infected individuals or those who have been in contact with infected individuals and use of protection in case of sexual contact. | <urn:uuid:949444af-8c5c-43cd-bddc-31a3fd84d002> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chronicle.lu/category/medical/41934-luxembourg-monkeypox-cases-rise-to-23-1-4k-vaccine-doses-expected-in-august | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952125 | 539 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Oxidative-stress-induced necrosis is considered to be one of the main pathological mediators in various neurological disorders, such as brain ischaemia. However, little is known about the mechanism by which cells modulate necrosis in response to oxidative stress. In the present study, we showed that Drp1 (dynamin-related protein 1), a primary mitochondrial fission protein, stabilizes the well-known stress gene p53 and is required for p53 translocation to the mitochondria under conditions of oxidative stress. We found that Drp1 binding to p53 induced mitochondria-related necrosis. In contrast, inhibition of Drp1 hyperactivation by Drp1 siRNA reduced necrotic cell death in cell cultures exposed to oxidative stress. Most significantly, we demonstrated that inhibition of Drp1 by the Drp1 peptide inhibitor P110, which was developed recently by our group, abolished p53 association with the mitochondria and reduced brain infarction in rats subjected to brain ischaemia/reperfusion injury. Taken together, these findings reveal a novel mechanism of Drp1 hyperactivation in the induction of mitochondrial damage and subsequent cell death. We propose that a Drp1 inhibitor such as P110 is a possible therapeutic agent for diseases in which hyperactivated Drp1 contributes to the pathology. | <urn:uuid:71585605-d812-4e03-9dc6-0625f045a879> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wwwqws.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/tech-docs/paper/580973 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950269 | 272 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Investigating compassion, attachment and psychological factors in relation to boarding school experiences
Hernandez, Lolly (Lauren)
Thesis or dissertation
- © 2021 Lolly (Lauren) Hernandez. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.
This thesis portfolio comprises of three parts:
Part one- Systematic Literature Review
The systematic literature review explored the psychological impact of boarding school. A systematic search of five databases found eight quantitative papers that met the inclusion criteria. The Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies (Effective Public Health Practice Project, 1998) was used to evaluate the quality of the studies, whilst narrative synthesis was used to bring the studies together. Four superordinate themes were identified: mental health difficulties, mental health strengths, relationships and emotional responses. The findings revealed a range of positive and negative psychological impacts, some of which did not appear to be solely associated with boarding school attendance. Clinical implications and areas for further research are explored.
Part two- Empirical Paper
The empirical report explored compassion, self-criticism and attachment style in adult ex-boarders, relative to adult ex-day students. Participants completed an online questionnaire consisting of measures of compassion, self-criticism and attachment style. They also answered questions related to their school environment. Participants also reported which experiences from boarding school had influenced them most in their adult life. Correlational and regression analyses aimed to explore whether there were differences between ex-boarders and ex-day students in terms of compassion, self-criticism and attachment and what factors may predict these three areas. Content analysis explored the common themes with regard to the influential experiences of the adult ex-boarders. The findings suggest that ex-boarders may struggle to experience others as compassionate and be compassionate towards others and be more likely to have insecure attachment styles. However, no differences in self-compassion and self-criticism between ex-boarders and ex-day students were identified. A range of positive and negative experiences were reported by ex-boarders to have influenced them in their adult lives. The results are discussed in the context of previous literature. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are also discussed.
Part three- Appendices
Part three consists of appendices relating to the systematic literature review and empirical report. It also contains epistemological and reflective statements.
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Protein ZMYND8 tied to suppression of prostate cancer tumor metastasis
Although it reads like European license plate number, a protein known as ZMYND8 has demonstrated its ability to block metastasis-linked genes in prostate cancer, according to a study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The findings, resulting from cell line and mouse model studies, are published in the July 28 online issue of Molecular Cell.
"These findings are important as cancer metastasis is a complicated process and is both devastating and clinically challenging," said Min Gyu Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology. "For metastasis, cancer cells acquire migratory and invasive abilities and so gaining new insight into how this occurs and how to stop metastasis is crucial. We believe this study opens a window into this process."
Lee's study centered on modification of proteins crucial to gene regulation, known as histones. Alterations in histone modifications, including acetylation and methylation, are frequently associated with cancer development. Lee's group looked at ZMYND8 as a histone "reader" that could possibly impact gene expression by recognizing these histone modifications known as histone "marks."
"It has been well documented that the effects of histone acetylation and methylation on gene expression can be mediated by specific binding proteins called 'readers,'" said Lee. "We identified ZMYND8 as a reader for histone marks called H3K4me1 and H3K14ac, both of which are tied to metastasis-linked genes."
The research group also noted that ZMYND8 cooperated with a type of histone mark "eraser" called JARID1D to suppress metastasis-linked genes.
"These findings are of special interest in light of our earlier study that JARID1D levels are lower in metastasized prostate tumors than in normal prostate and primary prostate tumors," said Lee. "This study revealed a previously unknown metastasis-suppressive mechanism in which ZMYND8 counteracts the expression of metastasis-linked genes by reading dual histone marks H3K4me1 and H3K14ac and cooperating with JARID1D." | <urn:uuid:3cb264bc-4235-4031-9c30-68afa4aac518> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-07-protein-zmynd8-tied-suppression-prostate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95228 | 461 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The central Chinese city of Wuhan took a battering during the summer floods of 1998. Even today, much of the outlying districts remain sodden and rebuilding work is still going on.
Some 370,000 people and soldiers were mobilised to combat the floods and 96,000 people were evacuated from their homes. City mayor Wang Shouhai declared that they had achieved a decisive victory in repelling the waters which had risen to within 30cm of their highest-ever recorded level.
Manufacturing industry has coped well in the circumstances. According to official figures, industrial output value grew by 10 per cent in the first nine months of 1998 compared with the same period in 1997. However, there has been an economic cost ?more than 1,100 enterprises stopped production in the summer, causing direct economic losses of Yn800m.
Most overseas-funded firms managed to maintain normal production. Many of them, including Coca-Cola, Citroen and Pilkington, are in Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (ETDZ), situated 15km from the centre of the city.
Third Yangtze bridge
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, is one of the most developed and progressive cities in central China. It is the infrastructural, commercial, industrial and financial centre of the province. Architecturally there is little of note but the 4m residents living in urban areas are regarded as friendly and open.
With its good communication links, Wuhan is at the crossroads of the national transport system. In 1997, Hong Kong's New World Group decided to funnel US$722m into the city's infrastructural facilities, as well as high-technology, tourism, industry and real estate ?34 per cent of the group's investment across the whole of mainland China.
Wuhan is working hard on its infrastructure. It is one of the biggest inland ports in China, with a cargo-handling capacity of 15m tonnes, and the ability to accommodate 5,000-tonne vessels. Ocean-going ships can sail directly to and from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Japan via the Yangtze River. Plans are also under way to develop a major new container facility at Yangluo. The two new berths will have a combined throughput capacity of 50,000 teu.
Wuhan's second bridge over the Yangtze, linking Hankou and Wuchang and completed by New World Development in 1995, has eased urban congestion. The authorities have begun the construction of Wuhan's much-needed third bridge across to Baishazhou. This six-lane bridge, designed to carry 50,000 vehicles a day, will cost US$170m to build. In late November the two main towers of the Wuhan Baishazhou Bridge were completed and the whole project should be ready by June 2000. It is expected to serve as a major traffic hub for the future 921(m-long Wuhan Ring Road, a project which it is hoped will also help alleviate traffic congestion.
A 20km expressway leading to Tianhe International Airport was opened in 1995. Wuhan also lies on the of the Beijing-Zhuhai expressway due for completion by 2000.
The World Bank has provided a US$156m loan to build several sewage disposal projects around Donghu and Moshui lakes. In the past few years, an annual 150m tonnes of industrial waste water and 500m tonnes of other waste water were being poured directly into the Yangtze and Han rivers, threatening the safety of drinking water for local residents. By the end of the century the city should be able to treat 197m tonnes of waste water a year. Sithe Energiesof the US and Marubeni of Japan invested US$450m to build a 600MW coal-fired power plant 120km south of Wuhan in early 1998. The third 1,200MW phase of Wuhan Yangluo thermal power plant, which requires US$1.2bn in funding, should also help lessen concerns about municipal power supply.
Pressure on the old Guangzhou-Wuhan railway ?a transportation bottleneck for many years ?has been relieved by the opening in 1996 of the 2,300km Beijing-Wuhan-Guangzhou line. But rail links with Shanghai remain circuitous and inadequate.
Charter flights to and from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong depart from the Nanhu and Wangjiadun air-ports. Tianhe Airport, opened in early 1995, has an annual capacity of 4.2m passengers and 33,000 tonnes of cargo. Built at a cost of US$181m, with investment from New World Infrastructure, it is China's first joint venture airport (see box).
Wuhan currently dominates two industrial sectors in China ?silicone and fibre optics. By 2000 China is expected to need 1.4m tonnes of silicone steel sheet, of which 300,000 tonnes will be required in the form
of oriented steel sheet. Currently, only Wuhan Iron and Steel Company nationally cart produce oriented steel sheet on a large scale. Its current capacity is 100,000 tonnes a year and land expansion of the plant is therefore a priority for the company, which announced profits of Yn400m for 1997. Towards the end of 1997 the firm merged with two other local steel firms ?Echeng and Daye ?to form a group with assets of US$6bn. Meanwhile the director of Tongda Steel Pipe Factory in Wuhan was sentenced to death in early 1998 for transferring more than Yn9m into his personal bank account.
The urgent future need for fibre cable wasrecognised in 1988, when Wuhan Changfei Optical Fibre was established by the Chinese Mitistry of Posts and Telecommunications and Wuhan city government, with the multinational Philips taking a minority share. Since then, fibre cable plants have been set up in other parts of the country, including Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, bringing total national annual capacity to more than lm km. Since 1992, Wuhan Changfei has exported in excess of 400,000km of optical fibre cable.
The number of foreign-invested businesses in the city was put at 3,391 in May 1998, with cumulative utilised investment of about US$4.4bn since 1984. One city initiative designed to cut investors' costs was the introduction of a unified fee collection system. The Wuhan Overseas Investment Fee Collection Centre, which collects only on an authorised list of charges, aims to curb the number of arbitrary fees which had mush-roomed to 229 at one stage. It is the only office in the city allowed to levy charges on overseas enterprises operating in the city.
One of the drawbacks for businesses settling in Wuhan is the city's tangled internal communications. Wuhan is made up of three cities which were once quite distinct ?Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang ?separated from one another by the Yangtze and Han rivers. Wuhan's two airports, its commercial centre and best hotels are all in Hankou, while its two State Council-approved investment zones are in Hanyang and Wuchang. Consequently, many foreign business people have cause to travel from one district to another almost daily.
Construction began on the Wuhan ETDZ in 1991 which is located to the south-west of the city centre on the edge of the Hanyang district. By the end of 1997 it had attracted 116 foreign firms with utilised investment of US$313m. These include Citroen, Coca-Cola, Pilkington Glass, Anheuser-Busch, Hyundai and the Taiwanese noodle-maker Master Kang. Some 30 companies have set up with investments in excess of US$12m and Wuhan ETDZ's total output value reached US$855m in New World places its trust in Wuhan from Cathay Pacific and two US firms, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) had banned foreign participation in the operation of mainland airports until Beijing eased restrictions on foreign participation in China's aviation industry. Airports are seen as politically sensitive as most of them were still under the control of the military.
The rift forced NWI to separate its Yn460m investment in a 40 per cent stake in an 18km airport expressway from the airport project itself. The investment in Tianhe air-port has not been shown in the company's balance sheet.
As China plans to complete the construction of 41 major airports by 2000, foreign capital is desperately needed. In May 1998 CAAC decided to raise the ceiling on foreign ownership in Chinese airlines from 35 per cent to 40 per cent, and to allow foreign Airport in Wuhan, Lnina-s first joint venture airport, has been selected by Beijing as a pilot project allowing operational participation by a foreign party. But Tianhe's `foreign' investor, New World Infrastructure (NWI) of Hong Kong, has yet to receive any revenue following its investment of Yn350m four years ago.
The construction of Tianhe Airport, with an annual capacity of 3.2 million passengers, was completed in 1995. Legal wrangling about NWI's entitlement and stake in the project started almost immediately after the company secured a contract with Wuhan government in 1994 to invest in the project. The group may have known it was in breach of the ban on investment in the airports sector but it believed that it would be protected by its close relationship with the local government.
Even as NWI fended off competing bids
participation in the operation of China's air-ports. CAAC now concedes that only when foreign partners are involved in the operation of the joint venture projects can their interests and returns be guaranteed.
Previously, foreign investment had been restricted to the construction of terminal areas, ground services, aircraft maintenance and locally situated hotels.
NWI said it had sound backing from the Wuhan government as NWI is one of the largest foreign investors in the city. NWI invested about Yn 1.6bn in three bridges in Wuhan ?New Yangtze Bridge, Han Bridge No. 1 and Han Bridge No. 2. NWI's parent company, New World Group, has invest ments in a Wuhan hotel, commercial property, land improvement and subsidised housing projects. Right across the mainland it is involved in a variety of infrastructural areas including power generation, container ports, roads and bridges, and water treatment.
1997. While there is a ready supply of land in the zone and strong official support, the logistics of getting to the zone can cause problems for workers.
Dongfeng Motor's venture with Citroen is by far the largest investment, with a planned total capital input of more than US$ l bn. It produced 30,000 cars in 1997 and aims at an eventual production capacity of 300,000 cars. It also began trials on the new Fukang ZX model in 1997. The venture announced plans in 1997 to manufacture heavy and medium-duty trucks at its Shiyan plant and light-duty trucks and diesel vehicles at its Xiangfan factory. The Wuhan plant aims to cut down on medium-duty trucks and focus instead on special-purpose cars. Dongfeng's parent company is to invest US$320m in its Xiangfan plant by 2000, including the construction of a 30,000-tonnes-a-year castings plant. As many as 35 factories in the Wuhan ETDZ produce components for this car assembly venture.
While the Donghu New-Technology Development Zone is less successful than Wuhan ETDZ, it does have the advantage of being located in the university district of Wuchang, where there are 23 universitiesand 56 research and design institutes. Describing itself as a `silicon valley in central China', the zone has attracted leading multinational names such as Xerox, NEC Mitsui, ABB and Philips.
The presence here of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications No 54 Research Institute ?one of China's premier optical fibre research centres is said to have been a factor attracting telecoms ventures such as Wuhan NEC and Changfei Optical Fibre. The zone also contains Rainbow Villas, Wuhan's sole Western-standard residential development. | <urn:uuid:93b7a167-f4fa-418c-a98a-0e95f27da7c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chinaeconomicreview.com/surviving-the-floods/?responsive=false | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957187 | 2,562 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Everything changes. Creation is in constant transformation and this process of growth and adaptation also includes human organizations, Movements like ours, do not escape this law.
The Global Catholic Climate Movement begins a new phase, with some changes that will allow us to better respond to the call of Pope Francis to care for creation.
To be more faithful to our mission with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, a new definition of objectives has been prepared: “To inspire and mobilize the Catholic community to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice”.
Dr. Lorna Gold, Chair of the Board of Directors, shares her perspective on the interpretation and meaning of this new mission that will guide the Movement.
What does this mean? Let’s break it down, starting with the first part: “To inspire and mobilize the Catholic community…”.
The creation of a mission must contain words with great meaning and significance, in this case, the word “inspire” literally means “to call to the spirit”. In order to truly inspire, we must first be filled with the Spirit ourselves; in order to inspire others, we must first be inspired or filled with the Spirit.
In this sense, the next important word, mobilization is what happens when people are inspired.
The next part: Caring for our common home… We’ve heard about this before, from Pope Francis in Laudato Si’. But, to review, what does it mean?
Caring for our common home is at the heart of the change Pope Francis invites us to in the encyclical Laudato Si’ where he asks us to care for all of us who inhabit our common home, especially the most vulnerable.
Caring for our home is essential for all of us. Without a home to live in, there is no future for any of us, especially the poorest.
We have to love our common home and, to do so, we have to know it, understand it. We do not destroy what we truly love.
Finally, what is new, “achieving climatic and ecological justice”? What does it mean and how will we know when it is accomplished?
It is important to note two aspects: firstly, the mission is expanding to include the concept of ecological justice, based on the spirit of Laudato Si’, where “everything is interconnected”.
In order to solve urgent problems such as climate change in a just way, it is absolutely necessary to recognize the existence of this problem; for this reason, keeping the word climate in our mission is the way to recognize it.
This transition reflects a broader vision that is consistent with Laudato Si’, which was the spark that motivated the founding of the Movement in the beginning.
In order to achieve justice, it is first necessary to recognize that injustice exists, in relation to climatic and ecological problems.
Mentioning the effort to achieve climatic and ecological justice generates a commitment to the most vulnerable who have the least responsibility in this crisis.
It means telling the truth and working to ensure a just, livable and sustainable future.
The new definition of the Mission of the Global Catholic Climate Movement is part of a broader synodal process that has been undertaken over the past two years.
As part of this process, a new definition of values, structures, and identity has also been addressed and will be published shortly.
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Taiwan is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a region that encircles the Pacific Ocean where plate tectonics are intensively active. However, compared to the nearby countries like Japan, Philippines and Indonesia where volcanic eruptions occur frequently, there have been no clear records of volcanic eruptions in Taiwan to date. Currently, the only areas in Taiwan where there are signs of volcanic activities are the Datun Volcano Group in northern Taiwan, the Guishan Island off the coast of Yilan, and the undersea volcanoes in the waters off north eastern Taiwan. Scientists have hypothesized that the current volcanic activities in Taiwan are related to the northward subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate, underneath the Eurasian Plate in the waters off the coast of northeastern Taiwan.
Recent studies on geomorphology and geology indict that the eruption activities of the Datun Volcano Group began approximately 1 million years ago, and continued until 200,000 years ago. Sequence stratigraphic analysis of pyroclastic rocks indicate that the Datun Volcano Group previously had seven phases of eruption sequence strata, with phase 2 to phase 4 covering the largest scale and range of eruptions, and phase 3 producing the most amount of volcanoes. The volcanic activities of Datun Volcano Group are related to the location of the fault structures. Lava is erupted through crevices along or created by faults; these crevices also provided channels for hot springs to flow through.
It is generally considered that the volcanic activities of Datun Volcano Group are related to the extensional collapse of environments set up by the late-stage continental collision in northern Taiwan. Sequence stratigraphic analysis of lahar sediments and studies on rock dating have determined that the peak of volcanic activities to be approximately eight hundred to two hundred thousand years ago. Results from helium isotope studies have also indicated that materials in the lower mantle have infiltrated upward to the Datun Volcano Group and concentrated earthquake swarms are also detected around Mt. Qixing and Dayoukeng, accompanied by occasional volcanic earthquakes. Dating of volcanic ash suggests that the last eruption of the Datun Volcano Group was approximately 6,000 years ago, which would classify the Datun Volcano Group as dormant volcanoes. However, as there is still magma activity within the crust of the volcanic region and possible future eruptions have not been completely dismissed.
Volcanic geological terrain
The appearance of volcanoes may be classified based on their type of eruption and different compositions: shield volcanoes, cone volcanoes and composite volcanoes (stratovolcanoes). Shield volcanoes are so named for their low-profile and flat appearances, with a large base and gentle slopes resembling a shield that laid flat on the ground. The lava flow of shield volcanoes are mainly composed of fluidic basaltic lava; there are no volcanoes of this kind in the Yangmingshan National Park as the volcanoes in the Park are composed mainly of andesite. Cone volcanoes have a steeper conical appearance; volcanoes that are formed from layers of pyroclastic cinders are called cinder cones. Volcanoes formed by the more viscous, less fluidic felsic or intermediate lava appear in an inverted bell-shape and lack distinctive craters. Mt. Shamao and Mt. Dajianhou are conical volcanoes in Yangmingshan National Park shaped like an inverted bowl. The shape of the composite volcano is conical, the upper slopes have steeper gradient, while the lower slopes are less steep. Composite volcano is formed from alternating layers of lava flows and pyroclastic rocks and is also known as a “stratovolcano." It is the most common type of volcano in the world, especially those that are found on island arcs. The volcanoes in the Yangmingshan National Park are mostly composite volcanoes, such as Mt. Qixing, Mt. Xiaoguanyin, Mt. Datun, Mt. Zhuzi and Mt. Huangzui.
As the underground magma rises to the surface to form a volcano, the peak of the volcano often forms a sunken basin that is called a volcanic crater. Volcanic crater can be divided into three kinds based on their mechanisms of formation: explosive crater, caldera and cauldron. An explosive crater is formed when the top of the lava channel explodes on the volcano, forming a sunken crater; the caldera is formed when the magma chamber become empty during the late stages of volcanic eruption. Without a supply of new magma, the chamber caves in on itself due the weight of the top rock layers, forming a sunken depression. A cauldron is related to a volcanic structure and is formed before a volcano erupts: as magma rises, the top of the magma chamber collapses to form fractures, and lava flows from vents within these fractures to the surface. Most of the major volcanoes in the Yangmingshan National Park feature explosive craters, however they have become less distinctive due to years of weathering and erosion.
Crater lakes are formed when rain water collects in the sunken craters; an example being the Xiangtian Pond in the Park. However, due to fractures in the ground, the pond would only manifest itself during periods of torrential rain falls. Creeks in the vicinity of volcanoes are often blocked by lava flow, and the resulting lake is called a barriered lake. Zhuzihu between Mt. Qixing and Mt. Datun was formed in this way. However its water has since drained away, the lake has dried up and is now used to grow vegetables and flowers.
Due to the influence of volcanic terrain, the creeks in the Park radiate outward in all directions. The creeks in the Park are short, steep and swift-flowing, creating many valleys and waterfalls. Some of the well-known waterfalls in the Park are Datun Waterfall, Juansi Waterfall, Fenglin Waterfall and Shengren Waterfall. The main creeks are Beihuang Creek that originates from the northern foothills of Mt. Qixing; the Nanhuang Creek that originates from the southern foothills of Mt. Qixing; the south-flowing Shuangxi Creek and the east-flowing Masu Creek. Water levels in these creeks vary considerably with seasonal rainfall.
After the volcanic activities ceased, residual heat still remained deep underground. As surface water seeps deep in the ground, heated and stored in rock layers with good permeability. Some of this water moves to the surface through fissures in the faults, forming hot springs. If the temperature of the hot water exceeds the boiling point, it becomes water vapor and rises to the surface, forming fumaroles. These activities are known as post-volcanic activities. Most of the hot spring and fumarole locations of the Datun Volcano Group are situated in a belt-like distribution that runs in a northeast to southwest direction. This may be due to the Xinzhuang Fault between Beitou and Jinshan, which is 18km long and 3km wide. The fumaroles are highly active in Dahuangzui, Xiaoyoukeng, Macao, Dayoukeng, Sihuangziping and Gengziping areas, and the most well-known hot springs of Yangmingshan are also located within these areas.
The hot springs of Yangmingshan National Park can be divided into three types according to their chemical composition: acid sulfate (white sulfur) hot springs, such as those at Dahuangzui, Zhuzihu, Sihunagziping and Gengziping; acid sulfate chloride (green sulfur), such as those at Macao and Dayoukeng; and neutral iron-bearing hot springs, such as those at Dingpi Bridge and Lengshuikeng, which have lower temperatures and mostly consist of indirect heated groundwater. One of life’s greatest pleasures is to soak in a steaming, silky-smooth hot spring set amid beautiful natural scenery. No wonder so many people make frequent trips up the mountain to visit these places regularly. The lure of a hot spring is too great to miss!
The main rock strata in the Park is composed of igneous and sedimentary rocks. Igneous rocks are primarily composed of andesite formed during the volcanic activities of the Pleistocene era. Its modes of occurrence include lava flow, agglomerate and tuff, with some basaltic magma and lahar sediments (volcanic mudflow). Andesite is a rock of intermediate composition, and usually contains minerals like hornblende, pyroxene, plagioclase and olivine. Andesite is further classified based on its mineral assemblage, such as the hornblende-pyroxene andesite, Two-pyroxene andesite and olivine-pyroxene andesite. Basalt is a mafic igneous rock, containing minerals like pyroxene, plagioclase and low quantities of olivine.
Sedimentary rock was formed from sediments in a shallow sea environment on the edge of Eurasia continent, during the late Oligocene to Pliocene Era. The main sedimentary strata include the Wuchishan formation, Mushan formation, Talio formation, Shihti formation, Nanchung formation and Kueichoulin formation. Igneous rocks are deposited on top of sedimentary rocks in an unconventional fashion (discontinuous time intervals). | <urn:uuid:8630f17e-66d6-4346-9d22-9df3060da409> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/main_en/docDetail.aspx?uid=180&pid=171&docid=10623&rn=17892 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946887 | 1,991 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Is Lifeline Screening A Ggod Idea
Lifeline Screening Evaluation – Do They Actually Work?
The Lifeline Screening program is an outstanding method to examine your health for various problems before they become a severe concern. Founded over 25 years earlier, the organization provides preventive screenings for a low cost. The procedure is FDA approved, and Lifeline follows state and CDC guidelines. The facility uses masks for everyone. Visits are limited, and temperature levels are taken prior to entering. Lifeline’s screenings are likewise non-invasive, so they are a terrific option for a preventive health check.
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Established in 1993, Life Line Screening is a preventive health screening facility that offers non-invasive health tests to identify risk elements for certain illness and health problems. Established in 1993, Life Line Screening has devoted to supplying outstanding health screenings at economical rates.
A free health screening can assist you prevent severe health problems. The Life Line Screening organization has actually developed a five-test bundle to diagnose the risk aspects of various diseases, consisting of colon cancer. A number of the tests can find health problems before symptoms appear. Additionally, you may be able to take home a colon cancer early detection package. You can reserve a visit by phone or online. The screening takes sixty to ninety minutes and is totally pain-free.
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It has been in town for a while, and many people ask their medical professionals about it. Many people presume that it will reveal their health issues and are disappointed with the outcomes.
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After a Life Line screening review, a doctor may suggest additional screening with your PCP. You can request the screening online or at a hassle-free area. A representative will walk you through the screening procedure and send you the results. The screening may take half a month or as much as 21 days. Later, the business will supply you with a verification message. You might have the convenience of being seen by the specialist when you book a visit.
What is the Life Line evaluating review? Life Line Screening is an independently owned business that offers economical health screenings for common persistent diseases. Considering that 1993, Life Line has helped millions of individuals live healthy lives. Its extremely qualified staff of medical professionals and lab technicians have the ability to provide the highest level of preventive care. Life Line Screening has actually evaluated millions of people and can help you too! If you want to remain healthy, get a Life Line Screening Review today.
A great financial investment for your health
Some of the reviews for Life Line Screening are radiant. If you’re questioning whether this type of screening is worth it, you ought to consider the risks of invasive procedures and the expense.
Before you go for the screening, you should have your medical history and any previous health conditions recorded. Otherwise, you can pick from numerous various bundles and call the Life Line toll-free number to schedule a visit. The screening procedure normally takes about half a month to two weeks.
Life Line Screening has assisted millions of people maintain a healthy way of life given that 1993. The company is genuine, with an A+ score from the Bbb. Life Line Screening assists identify disease early, avoiding it from spreading and becoming deadly. Lots of tests are consisted of in the Life Line Screening program, and they’re far less expensive than tests you’ll find at a hospital or center. Is Lifeline Screening A Ggod Idea
The AHA has actually set an objective to improve cardiovascular health in the United States by 2021. Eventually, it’s a financial investment in your health. Simply like Steve did, since Life Line Screening is an excellent financial investment for your health.
An excellent business
There are a number of things you need to keep in mind if you want to understand if Lifeline Screening is an excellent business to work with. Lifeline Screening does not require you to remove your clothing, however you must avoid creams or other lotions that might get on your skin. You will be given a report within three to 4 days of finishing the screening. Typically, the tests are finished with the assistance of a board-certified doctor. The results of this screening are reputable and will assist you comprehend the threat factors of different diseases.
Something to consider before picking a screening business is the quantity of time and expense involved. Traditional screening techniques can be lengthy, costly, and uneasy. Even even worse, they can result in unusual results. Life Line Screening has partnered with hospitals to refer patients for testing. Considering that more individuals are getting screened, that means more money for these healthcare facilities. Cardiovascular screening is especially lucrative for Life Line Screening.
A great business needs to use preventive screenings at an economical cost. In addition to regular health screenings, Lifeline screening will also screen for deadly development and stroke, as well as bone and joint health.
The screenings used by Life Line Screening will be quick, simple, and precise. There are more than 14,000 screening occasions each year. Why is Lifeline Screening a great company?
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The Best Stroke and Cardiovascular Illness Screening Lifeline are your physician’s order of blood tests. What does a Life Line test cost? And where can we get the finest screenings?
The finest stroke and cardiovascular disease screening Lifeline utilize the latest innovations to find neurological and cardiovascular illness. If the tests are negative, the patient will be directed to a doctor. Is Lifeline Screening A Ggod Idea
The Better Business Bureau has actually given Life Line Evaluating an “A+” score since 1996. It has a 2.5-star rating total and has actually attended to grievances to the complete satisfaction of consumers. It likewise has a 3.6-star rating on Facebook, where it has accumulated 387 reviews. Whether Life Line Screening is worth the cash depends on your requirements. It is recommended to talk about outcomes with your medical professional and insurer before choosing to undergo the screening.
The business behind Life Line Screening has partnered with healthcare facilities and surgical centers to promote the test. The outcomes of this screening may indicate irregularities that require follow-up care.
The Life Line Screening program is an excellent method to get evaluated for cardiovascular and stroke illness. The tests cost $60 to $149, and the program includes 5 screenings in a package for $149.
Your health insurance might cover some of the cost of a Best stroke and cardiovascular disease screening lifeline. There are other factors that ought to be thought about. The cost of a screening is normally about $135 or more. If you are healthy, the screening may not even be needed. You may already be at threat for cardiovascular disease, but you ought to still think about getting screened. You can conserve a great deal of cash by getting evaluated early.
A current study of 2.4 million individuals in Washington state found that over 26 percent of individuals received a test or treatment that was unneeded. This implies that the best stroke and cardiovascular illness screening lifeline aren’t just a marketing trick.
The cost of the Best stroke and heart disease screening lifeline is budget-friendly. A single carotid artery screening can run more than $1,000 if you don’t have insurance coverage, but Life Line Screening provides a five-screening package for simply $149. This is due to the fact that Life Line Screening is CLIA-certified, and the laboratory procedures remain in line with federal standards. In addition, this service screens for people who have no symptoms. Life Line Screening has actually screened more than 10 million individuals since 1993.
A stroke can be fatal if it’s not identified early. Screenings for heart disease and stroke can help recognize people at risk prior to they establish signs. Roughly 80% to 85% of strokes take place without a caution mini-stroke. Life Line Screening has actually been around for twenty years and has actually evaluated over 8 million individuals. The business has also developed a subscription program called the Neighborhood Circle that provides reduced prices and remarkable customer care.
The program works with health centers to provide screening services for patients who can not pay for the cost of other kinds of tests. The screenings range from $60 to $139 and can be bought separately or as a package of five for just $149. Its laboratory is accredited by the CLIA and follows federal guidelines. Lots of people are evaluated with no symptoms and Life Line has been running screening programs since 1993.
It’s important to keep in mind that while these deals might come on the letterhead of an insurance coverage company, they are not constantly precise. If the outcomes show that you’re at risk of a stroke, this screening is a lifeline.
A more complete image of your health is provided by cardiovascular illness screening. These tests can also supply you with crucial details about your danger elements for both conditions.
The carotid arteries in the neck are a risk aspect for stroke due to the fact that they carry blood to the brain. When among these arteries is obstructed, the brain is denied of oxygen and nutrients. A stroke is a dangerous condition with a low survival rate. An ultrasound test can detect obstructions in the carotid arteries, permitting medical professionals to intervene in time. Is Lifeline Screening A Ggod Idea
Typically, screenings for heart illness and stroke begin as early as age 20. Some people need more regular screenings.
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Are Best Stroke and Cardiovascular Disorder Screening Lifeline covered by Medicare or insurance? The answer to this question depends upon the coverage of your specific strategy. Your strategy may cover the screening and prevention program if you have original Medicare. If not, you might need to pay for the services yourself. Some Medicare plans deal prescription drug protection through their Part D plans. These strategies normally include cardiovascular medications and offer programs to stop cigarette smoking.
A lot of Medicare strategies will cover screenings and preventive treatments, including diagnostic tests and medications. However, the cost of the procedures you get outside of the preventive care is your duty. Luckily, Medicare covers most preventative services and treatments that are essential to prevent heart disease. For instance, if you have high cholesterol or high triglyceride levels, Medicare will cover the screening and treatment. Medicare will also cover your deductible and coinsurance.
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Each of the 93 cards in the gallery or dots on the map represent a segment of a single interview. These map dots do not represent literal location points; rather, they are intended as a figurative spatial representation of the contents of these interviews.
Exploring the Interactive Project
There are three main ways to navigate this interactive digital project: 1) through the concept map, 2) through the gallery view, and 3) through the interview archive. For details about the interactive gallery and map see the sections below.
The interview archive links to the full audio files for each interview. Each page that contains a complete interview will have an embedded media player and corresponding transcript. You can play or pause the audio file as you wish by clicking the embedded red play button (once you begin playing, the button will change to a pause button). The transcript will scroll along in sync with the audio. You can jump forward or backward in the full interview by clicking on any timestamp at the far left of the transcript.
Under each scrollable transcript is a list of related excerpts. Clicking on any of the titles will provide more details about a given excerpt.
Map Interaction: Our interactive map is based on Google Maps technology. It enables the same sort of panning and zooming that is possible in Google. To zoom: double click or use the plus/minus buttons on the top right. To move around the map (panning): click and drag your mouse. To re-set the positioning of the map and the zoom level: hit the reset button (circular arrows) at the top right of the map (under the plus/minus buttons).
Map Dot Colors: Each dot on the map represents an excerpt of an interview. The dots appear in different colors based on the active map legend, which is a filter for visualizing the dots. There are several unique legends to explore, including one for Congo Characters, one about Congo Spaces, and one about various Congo Traditions. Changing the active legend (drop-down menu at the top left of the map screen) will change the appearance of the dots.
In most cases, many of the map dots contain multiple values in any given legend. The first value listed determines the default appearance of the map dot. As you click through individual terms in the legend, map dot colors may change to reveal secondary and tertiary associated terms. Clicking the “Hide/Show All” button at the top of each legend restores all of the map dots to the page.
Map Legends: Clicking on a value in a map legend (either checking the box or clicking on the term itself) will hide all markers not associated with that value. To see markers associated with multiple values, check all of the appropriate boxes. To restore all markers, select “Hide/Show All” (the first value in the legend).
Gallery Interaction: The gallery view is made of topic cards, each corresponding to a marker on the concept map and representing an excerpt of an interview. The cards appear in different colors based on the map legend that identifies by Interviewee Name. You can either sort or filter to identify information contained in each topic card.
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Gallery Filter: Clicking on Filter by will also give a drop-down menu of unique values that each topic card identifies with. Click first on a value, then click on “Options” next to the “Filter by” button. This will bring up a pop-up window that allows for specifications of which topic cards to view. Check which values to view, click Apply, and the topic cards will filter out. For example, filtering by Ethnoracial Identity Discussed allows for several options: Afrodescendiente, Afro-Colonial, French Antillean, La Raza Negra, Spanish, or N/A. The topic cards can then be filtered by one or many of these options. To return to a view of all topic cards, click No Filter.
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Accessing the Full Interview from the Map or Gallery: Clicking on the green “Listen to the entire interview” button in the pop-up window will open up a new browser tab, where the entire interview and its corresponding transcripts can be accessed. As with the excerpt, you can play or pause the audio file as you wish. The transcript will scroll along in sync with the audio. You can jump forward or backward in the full interview by clicking on any timestamp.
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Life course, prevention and intervention
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Photograph by Eugenio Courret, 1881
|Birth name||Irene Morales Infante|
|Born||1 April 1865|
|Died||25 August 1890(aged 25)|
|Place of birth||Santiago, Chile|
|Place of death||Santiago, Chile|
|Buried at||Cementerio General de Santiago|
|Years of service||1879–1883|
3rd Regiment of the Line|
Santiago Pizarro (1878)
Irene Morales Infante (1 April 1865 – 25 August 1890) was a Chilean soldier who served in the War of the Pacific. She was born in a barrio of Santiago, and lived in poverty throughout her life, working as a seamstress from an early age. At the time the War of the Pacific began she was only 13 years old, and had been orphaned and twice widowed. Her second husband was executed by the Bolivian military for killing a soldier. She tried to pass herself as a man and enlist as a soldier in the Chilean Army. This failed, but she was given a position as an unofficial cantinière and military nurse, marching alongside the infantrymen to sell food and drink, and caring for the wounded after battles.
Despite being given a noncombatant role, she fought alongside the men of her unit in the battles of the Tarapacá Campaign in late 1879, at Pisagua and San Francisco. Her valor in these battles and her care for wounded men drew the attention of Chilean commander-in-chief Manuel Baquedano, who provided her with official recognition and the rank of a sergeant. She continued to serve in the army for the duration of the war and was famously courageous at the Battle of Tacna in 1880. After the war, she returned to civilian life and died in obscurity, aged only 25. Now considered one of Chile's greatest heroes of the war, her service only became widely known after her death.
Morales was born on 1 April 1865 in La Chimba, a barrio on the Mapocho River in Santiago de Chile, the daughter of carpenter Ventura Morales and Marta Infante. Her father died when she was young, and she moved with her mother to Valparaiso. There she started to learn her mother's trade as a seamstress until her mother married her to an older man in 1877, aged only 11. Her husband died during the first year of their marriage, and her mother died about the same time.
Left without any family, she headed for Antofagasta, then a port town in Bolivia that was booming due to the nitrate mines in the area. She travelled there as a steerage passenger, with a ticket she bought by selling nearly all of her possessions. While working there, she met Santiago Pizarro, a Chilean in his 30s who made his living in a Bolivian military band, and married him in mid-1878, aged 13. He was tried and executed on 21 September of that year for killing a Bolivian soldier in a drunken brawl. She found his body dumped by the side of the railway tracks and took a gold ring from his finger, which she wore for the rest of her life. Pizarro's execution was widely protested by the mostly Chilean population of Antofagasta, which resented what was seen as an unjust Bolivian government.
On 14 February 1879, Chilean forces entered Antofagasta to the welcome of most of the local population, beginning the War of the Pacific against Bolivia and Peru. Many locals enlisted in the Chilean Army, and Morales enlisted as a soldier to revenge her husband by disguising herself as a man and slipping in unnoticed amid the frenzy of patriotism.
Her deception did not last long, for Capt. Hermógenes Cámus saw through her disguise immediately—because of her curved figure and "feminine beauty," he said. Nonetheless, he allowed her to be an unauthorised army cantinière and nurse. These were the only positions available to women in the army at the time, and many women effectively served as both, which Morales did. As a cantinière, she sold food and drink to supplement soldiers' monotonous basic rations, staying with them at their camp and marching with them on operations, and since she was a nurse, she had to be present immediately after battles to concern herself with caring for the wounded.
Morales was first sent to Cámus's unit, the 3rd Regiment of the Line, which was at the front of Chile's campaigns during much of the war. Although she officially was not a soldier and was not supposed to participate in combat, this did not deter her from fighting alongside the men of her regiment. Indeed, she was noted for her great skill with a rifle. She fought at the amphibious landing and fierce ensuing assault on a Peruvian position of the Battle of Pisagua on 2 November 1879 and at the Battle of San Francisco on 19 November. She was looked up to by the men of her unit for her selfless nursing of the wounded after battles. She also put herself at risk several times to save captured Peruvian soldiers from being abused by her compatriots.
Hearing of her deeds, the commander-in-chief of Chile's military, General Manuel Baquedano, summoned Morales to meet him and officially authorised her to wear the uniform of a cantinière (as she had done so without authorisation before) and gave her the rank and pay of a sergeant (sargento segundo, lit. "second sergeant"). She later moved to the 4th Division, in which she served during the Tacna and Arica Campaign. At the Battle of Tacna on 26 May 1880, she continued to provide water to the exhausted men at the front lines after she received a slight wound herself. She was one of the first soldiers to enter the city of Tacna that evening, and soldiers of the Carabineros de Yungay cavalry regiment recalled her riding into the town on a horse, raising her rifle as they passed by and crying "Viva Chile!". After the battle, she was stricken for some time with an illness she picked up from prisoners of war she had cared for, and she wrote a letter to a friend of hers in Antofagasta, assuming she was on her deathbed. Nonetheless, later writers said she was present at the Battle of Arica two weeks later and ordered the mass killing of captured Peruvians, an account also inscribed on a Peruvian a memorial to the dead. During January 1881, she fought at the Battle of Chorillos and Battle of Miraflores and was among the Chileans who entered Lima after the city was captured.
While all her contemporaries in Chile recognised her heroism, and the common soldiers she served with looked up to her as the "nun of charity," some men said Morales had gone too far for a woman by taking up a rifle. Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna praised her for her dedication and bravery and for her hatred for those who killed her husband but in 1881 gave her the free advice that she should not put herself at such risk and should "return quietly to her poor home and restart the life of a real woman in manual labor, in caring for her relatives, in work with the needle and thimble, and exchange, after several years of adventures and passions, the revolver for her honored and beloved sewing machine." She did not follow this advice and remained in the army until the end of the war, fighting in the Battle of Huamachuco on 10 July 1883, the last battle of the war. Men like Mackenna were right to say she put herself at unusual risk for a woman at the time, for several other Chilean cantinières were killed after being captured by Peruvians during the war.
Later life and legacy
After the end of the war, Morales returned to her birthplace of Santiago. While few knew of her actions during the war, the men she served alongside remembered her well. When she appeared at the unveiling of the monument to the common Chilean roto at the Plaza Yungay, she received some of the most enthusiastic applause. After years of illness, she died in anonymity in the common room of a Santiago hospital on 25 August 1890, aged only 25. For her, widespread recognition came only after her death.
On 25 August 1930, 40 years after her death, Col. Enrique Phillips wrote an article dedicated to her in El Mercurio that brought her into attention, in which he praised her in the highest terms, saying: "The Judiths of Chile were many in that glorious time, but none exceeded in valour Irene Morales, the paragon of Chilean women." In the years after her death, a number of poems were written on her, including one by Rómulo Larrañaga, and she was featured in many works of patriotic literature. A street near the Plaza Baquedano in Santiago is named in her honour, the Calle Irene Morales. During the turbulent years of the 1970s, she was among the historical Chilean women embraced as symbols by both conservative and left-wing women's political organisations. In modern times, she has been described as one of Chile's "greatest heroes" of the War of the Pacific. Her remains are kept in the Military Mausoleum at the Cementerio General de Santiago, which is maintained by the Chilean Army.
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- Baldez, Lisa (2002). Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 0521010063. http://books.google.com/books?id=kevdZZZx1tQC&pg=PA93.
- Castillo Espinoza, Eduardo (2006) (in Spanish). Puño y letra: movimiento social y comunicación gráfica en Chile. Ocho Libros Editores. p. 79. ISBN 9568018239.
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- "Ruta Historica Representada en el Cementerio General" (in Spanish). Santiago. 4 September 2013. http://www.cementeriogeneral.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65:ruta-historica-representada-en-el-cementerio-general&catid=6:cementerio&Itemid=3. Retrieved 12 September 2014. | <urn:uuid:4738adc7-feea-41dd-9173-54df45430fc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Irene_Morales | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951797 | 3,163 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Did you notice the change in the Compliance paradigm in the last few years?
- Companies Act compliances got digitized with Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- Income Tax Returns got digitized and refunds became faster.
- Reporting to Reserve Bank of India for Foreign Direct Investment got digitized
- Application for Trademarks all over India got digitized
- Social security compliances like PF, ESI etc. are online
- Shops and Establishment Licenses are issued online by a lot of States
- Stamp duties are paid online by a majority of the states
- STPI / SEZ Compliances are online
- ……and the list is endless and is growing by the day.
The above digitation has definitely helped by replacing the long queues at the office of the regulators and have also reduced the “out of pocket expenses” considerably.
Did you also notice the trend in the penalties for non-compliance?
- The penalties under Companies Act, 2013 are up from a few thousand rupees to a range of Rs. 1 Lacs to 1 crore or more.
- FEMA contraventions are liable for up to 300% penalty of the amount involved.
- TDS and GST non deposits carry huge interest and penalty.
- Many non-compliances now carry imprisonment provisions for Directors and Key-Managerial Personnel and also threaten cancellation of business license
You may not have noticed this, but with digitization and e-Governance, the job profile of the regulators and government officers is fast moving from managing records to stricter scrutiny and oversight, now enabled by Computer Aided Sampling.
Departments have started sharing information and data. Some of you may have received show-cause notices from the Revenue Department for non-payment of stamp duty based on forms filed for on allotment of shares with Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
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The Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups (YAN)
YAN is a collective organisation made up of the Landcare groups in the Yass region of NSW. Its purpose is to facilitate the development of Landcare in the region and to represent regional Landcare with Government bodies such as the Yass Valley Council and South East Local Landcare Services, Landcare NSW, Non-Government Organisations such as Greening Australia and Landcare Australia and the regional community.
In addition to supporting member Landcare groups YAN arranges field days, workshops and seminars and manages on-ground projects where these have interest and relevance across the region (see Events and Action Plan). Membership of YAN is free and YAN has limited funding available to support Landcare related activities that benefit the Yass region. (see Action Plan).
Within the Yass area there are four active Landcare groups. All maintain an active program and welcome new members.
The Landcare Group members of YAN are:
- Bowning/Bookham Landcare Group
- Binalong Landcare Group
- Murrumbateman Landcare Group
- Yass Landcare Group
- Sutton Landcare Group
- Friends of Yass Gorge
In addition, YAN maintains a close relationship with neighbouring Landcare groups and networks.
The focus of Landcare in the region comprises a healthy mix of identifying and promoting priorities for:
- sustainable and productive farming
- improved management of the urban and rural interface
- protection of the regional environment for the long term benefit of the immediate region and the wider areas impacted by it.
YAN sponsors a number of annual Landcare awards at both group and regional level, including the John Betts Yass Region Landcare Awards (more detail provided under the Awards heading). | <urn:uuid:5021cee0-cfbb-4d01-9092-074d75100609> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yan.org.au/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925922 | 367 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Stewart Park was originally part of the James Renwick estate. It was military lot No. 88 which had been granted to Andrew Moody of the Revolutionary Army on July 9, 1790. It was then sold to James Renwick on December 12, 1790 and remained in that family, undeveloped, for 104 years. In the early 1890's, two separate events occurred that resulted in what is known today as Stewart Park.
- Land was purchased by the Cascadilla School to develop athletic facilities followed by the construction of a trolley line to the lake and the development of an amusement park by the Cayuga Lake Electric Railway Company.
- The purchase of 40 acres between the Cascadilla School property and the hamlet of Port Renwick was developed into Renwick Park which opened to the public in 1894.
The park contained a zoo, a merry-go-round, and the renovation of the dance pavilion for use as Ithaca's first vaudeville theater. In 1908, due to the decrease in ridership, the Cayuga Lake Electric Railway Company was dissolved and the Renwick Park and Traffic Association was formed to replace it. Sometime around 1915, trolley access to the park was discontinued. At this same time, 55 acres south of the park were set aside as a bird sanctuary and maintained by the Cayuga Bird Club. This area was named after the club's president upon his death in 1927 and became known as Fuertes Bird Sanctuary.
In 1915, the park officially closed and was leased by Theodore and Leopold Wharton for use as a film studio until 1919. In 1920, there was a renewed interest in the park for use as a lakeside municipal park by the then mayor, Edwin C. Stewart. The City purchased the park from the Renwick Park and Traffic Association in 1921. One month before the park's formal opening, Mayor Stewart died and the park was renamed Stewart Park in his honor. In 1923, the City purchased the Cascadilla School property which was incorporated into the park. A Master Plan for the park was completed in 1934 and the present layout of the park, although the master plan was never completed, reflects many of the ideas presented in that design.
Today, Stewart Park is a regionally active park with several facilities including pavilions (available for rent), tennis courts, a playground with several play structures including a carousel, athletic fields, a duck pond, a spray pool, a municipal golf course, and a bird sanctuary. Stewart Park also has an array of trees growing in it. Visit the Virtual Tree Tour for a list of the trees and descriptions.Friends of Stewart Park has more information about the park: Friends of Stewart Park
- Are there public restrooms available at parks?
- Are the park facilities accessible for wheelchairs?
- Are there grills available for public use?
- Can I bring a gas grill to the park?
- May I set up a tent?
- Is there swimming at the parks?
- Can I launch a boat or kayak?
- What do we do in the event of an emergency?
- Are dogs allowed in Cass & Stewart Parks?
- Are kayak rentals available?
- Is fishing allowed?
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Players show interest in taking part through competitive gaming and earn a lot of money through those winning. This kind of participation is getting increase among most of the youngsters. Youngsters show a wide number of interests in competing with multiple players at a single time. Players who are new to this field will struggle in winning the game which they take part. Incase if the players know the tricks they can implement in the gaming and take effective steps in acquiring winning. The game winning will be the only motive of all the players who ever take part. The competitive games will create a wide interest among most of the players. Some of the methods that involve in earning large amount of money include,
- Attainment of goals in gaming event
- Active participation in money earning technique
- Grasping more information about pay day games
- Increasing the participation among many players
Attainment of Goals in Gaming Event
The attainment of goals in gaming is much easy if the players start following according to the guidelines provided in internet. The participation in gaming event will predict a clear idea about the gaming and lead a pathway for attaining success. The gaming event participation will train up most of the players and gives up a various number of ideas for further winning aspects. While making goals players must be much and more careful in taking the next step. All the players whoever take part in this gaming must take additional practice before giving up their participation. Through the gaming participation players will have a chance to acquire various number of play methods which will be useful for their future.
Active Participation in Money Earning Technique
The active participation towards this football gaming may increase the interest present within them. The money earning technique will create a confidence among many players whoever gain up a wide number of practice from online sites. While players take part in this draftkings heavy competition they themselves will predict a large number of attentions. This attention itself will predict a pathway to attain success. That player who plays in the motive of attaining success will not have any of the chance in grasping more information about gaming.
Grasping More Information About Pay Day Games
The focus towards grasping multitude information about gaming among youngsters is getting increase at a wider level. Most of the new entry players will show interest in getting practice from the experienced players. Pay day games will create a heavy competition among each player and results the game in an unexpected level. While making participation in this gaming team cooperation is most important at the time of taking up goals. Each goal holds up different value and importance of this gaming must be spread among worldwide level. Most of the players will not know the importance of payday gaming and participation gets reduce at a high level.
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The increase of participation among many players must be insisted at a wider level. Until the insertion of interest is made players will not take concern efforts in attaining the winning aspect. The attainment of winning in gaming activity will take a large amount of time. At present there are many people who do not know the thrill winning situation and take effective steps from most of the online reference sites. The reference to online site is the only right situation which may help players to acquire quick success at the expected level. The complete elimination of money earning technique must be made among each individual player. | <urn:uuid:4bbd50c0-625f-411a-9732-b97d7a998531> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amazingonly.com/why-to-players-take-part-in-competetive-gaming-in-money-earning-technique/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957694 | 659 | 1.898438 | 2 |
June 20, 2012 — More than 80 new lawsuits have been filed over side effects of Plavix (clopidogrel), a popular anti-clotting drug used by millions of people worldwide to prevent strokes and heart attacks.
The manufacturers of Plavix, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi Aventis, are accused of failing to warn consumers and doctors about the serious risks of serious gastrointestinal bleeding. The companies are also accused of making false claims about the effectiveness of Plavix compared to aspirin.
The newest Plavix lawsuits were filed in Illinois and New York, including lawsuits filed on behalf of 64 different plaintiffs in St. Clair County, Illinois Circuit Court on May 24. Another 18 different people filed lawsuits in New York on May 30.
Many of the plaintiffs in these lawsuits are arguing that Plavix is no more effective than aspirin, and yet it is far more expensive and also exposes users to greater risk of serious side effects — including gastrointestinal bleeding. Furthermore, some plaintiffs say that the manufacturer of Plavix failed to warn them that Plavix is not effective for everyone. | <urn:uuid:42bfcfb1-9e9f-4bd5-b6f9-6b26492c65e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.schmidtlaw.com/more-than-80-new-plavix-lawsuits-filed-in-illinois-new-york/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956737 | 228 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Help develop fine motor skills by matching the bee to its hive using the pincer grasp or the forceps. It also reinforces colour recognition and counting. Suitable for children aged 3 years and up.
Each hive measures 5 x 5.7 x 4.5cm.
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PlanToys = Sustainable Play
PlanToys create safe wooden toys that enhance development for children, especially during their first five formative years when freedom to play and proximity to nature is so important.
All of PlanToys' toys are manufactured from decommissioned natural rubber tree plantations located within 20 miles of their factory. Generally, after 25 years, rubber trees no longer produce latex so PlanToys then give them new purpose and turn them into their toys for children! They also apply no fertiliser to the soil three years prior to cutting the trees down in order to ensure their purity.
With a strong mission to create a sustainable world, PlanToys scrutinise every single step of their production line, as well as other activities, as they are wholeheartedly committed to minimising environmental impacts.
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A generous cheque from the tennis champion has stopped the impending expulsion of the historic Orthodox place of worship
That Novak Djokovic has always put his money where his mouth is, is a well-known fact and best documented by the numerous charitable causes he is involved in. Now he also puts it where his heart is: the small Serbian chapel in the Port district of Nice, where the Djokovic family frequently worships, is menaced by the pending sale of the building it is located in and its looming shutdown.Now the Serbia-born Monaco resident has stepped up to pay the legal fees, thus gaining a temporary reprieve for the opposing parties to find a compromise, and allowing the chapel to remain open and operational.
In an emotional Instagram post predating his intervention, the current Number 1 player in men’s tennis writes,
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Stefan and I visited a very special Serbian church in Nice. It’s a small place where the Serbian community and culture are nurtured. Families get together every second Sunday and spend real quality time together. Teachers volunteer to play with kids – they read a story and then create a theatre like show to breath life into the words they read. Stefan and I were participating in it as a Red Haired Lion and little Lamb 🦁🐑 It was wonderful to be part of this special day where Serbian families gather and share beautiful moments ❤️😃🙏🇷🇸
Located at 3, rue Fodéré, kitty corner from the north side of the Catholic Notre Dame du Port church, the small Serbian chapel has occupied a former coal storage depot on the ground floor of an unassuming Niçois residential building for the past 50 years. Dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, it belongs to the Eastern European diocese of the Patriarch of Serbia.
The cultural-religious association managing the chapel was summoned to court by the owner’s six heirs who were claiming a lease that expired on August 31, 2018. The court, however, rejected their request for eviction following the sale of the building to developers. Arguing there is no urgency, the district court will decide on the claim by Christmas. The association’s spokesman Bertrand Boissou told Agence France Presse in a statement, “We are hopeful to come to a financial agreement… we are interested buyers but we don’t agree on the price of about 250,000 euros. The Serbian diocese is now looking for funds.”
Deeply devoted to his faith, Djokovic was awarded in 2011 the Order of St. Sava of the First Degree, the highest distinction of the Serbian Orthodox Church, for his continued support of members and sanctuaries of the church.
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Washington, 17 June 1999 (RFE/RL) - In this edition of the RFE/RL Health Report, we will bring you up to date on efforts by the United Nations to make the work place safer for the world's labor force, and an initiative to encourage European governments to address the health problem of obesity.
UN Agencies Sound Alarm Over Occupational Illness
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) are calling for immediate, "ethically correct and economically sound," measures to improve the working conditions of the world's labor force of some 2.5 billion people.
Experts at both of these United Nations agencies contend that unless working conditions are improved, governments will face serious and costly consequences. According to the WHO and the ILO, the global burden of occupational diseases and injuries may increase considerably in the first half of the 21st century. Contributing factors include the increasing transfer of industrial processes to developing countries and improved reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses worldwide.
In a speech at the joint WHO-ILO conference on work-related illnesses held earlier this month in Helsinki, WHO occupational health office director Richard Helmer said the developing world is home to 75 percent of the world's work force. Many of these countries, he said, "lack the technical and social infrastructure to provide protection for their working and non-working populations against hazards of physical, chemical, biological, psychosocial or ergonomic (the process of fitting the job to the worker) character."
Helmer said that what is an economic blessing today, "may lead to considerable deterioration in the health status of working populations of the developing world tomorrow." The UN says evidence already suggests that hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are employed in conditions that breed ill health and are unsafe. According to Jukka Takala, Chief of the ILO's Health and Safety programme, each year work-related injuries and diseases kill an estimated 1.1 million people worldwide. Takala said the number includes around 300,000 fatalities from an estimated 250 million accidents in the workplace.
In addition, the ILO says that more than half of the workers in industrialized countries complain about stress in the workplace. The WHO says job stress and overwork have been associated with sleep disturbance and depression. It says there is enough scientific evidence to suggest that prolonged exposure to job stress is associated with several types of chronic health problems, including cardiovascular diseases, particularly hypertension, and psychological disorders.
The UN agencies say the cost of occupational diseases and injuries is enormous. National and international reports indicate that in 1997, the global economic losses resulting from them reached an estimated four percent of the world's gross national product.
European Health Experts Call For Action On Obesity
London - The current issue of the British Medical Journal reports that European obesity specialists are undertaking an initiative urging their governments to tackle the rising epidemic of obesity in many countries.
According to the Journal report, The European Association for the Study of Obesity announced a series of recommendations for putting obesity on governments' agendas at its annual conference last week in Milan. Members agreed to work with governments to implement measures to improve the management and prevention of obesity and to increase public awareness of diet and physical activity.
In announcing the project, association president Japp Seidell said: "This is the first effort to take action on obesity in Europe. We are not sure where it will lead, but the first step is to achieve a fundamental change in the way we think about obesity." He said that in most European countries, obesity is not seen as a priority and the cost of managing patients is often not reimbursed by government and other health plans.
The Journal noted that the association's initiative has been signed by the national organizations for obesity from 24 European countries. It calls for governments to recognize that obesity is a major cause of ill health and that it poses a high social and economic burden. It further calls on governments to begin the process of developing comprehensive national and European strategies for action on obesity, to support research, and to increase the provision of health services with professional staff qualified to treat obesity.
U.S. Study Says Exercise Helps Smokers Stop
Chicago - Researchers in the United States have published a report which says that an exercise program combined with behavioral training is twice as effective as course work alone at helping women quit smoking.
In a report in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from the Miriam Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island said exercising three times a week also prevented otherwise sedentary women from gaining as much of the weight that often accompanies quitting smoking.
The study divided a group of 281 non-exercising women smokers into two groups. One group exercised and the other did not, while all participated in a classroom smoking cessation program.
The study found that those who exercised were twice as likely to quit smoking and that they gained less weight than those who did not, and the results held up one year later.
WHO Report: More Die From Automobile Pollution Than Road Accidents
Geneva - A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) says automobile traffic is the fastest growing source of pollution in Europe, and the WHO says that in some countries, more people are dying from air pollution than from traffic accidents.
The report said long-term air pollution from cars in Austria, France and Switzerland triggered an extra 21,000 premature deaths per year from respiratory or heart diseases, more than the total number of annual traffic deaths in the three countries. The report showed that air pollution from cars caused 300,000 extra cases of bronchitis in children, 15,000 hospital admissions for heart disease and 162,000 asthma attacks in children in the three countries.
The report's findings are being discussed at this week's meeting of more than 70 European health and environment ministers in London. Officials from the 51 members states of the WHO European region are to debate a new charter on transport and the environment. They will also be asked to sign a binding protocol on water and health to halt the re-emergence of diseases such as cholera and typhoid. | <urn:uuid:54c976b5-85ef-44b2-bc35-8adbc0f30077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rferl.org/a/1091552.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95585 | 1,245 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Helping Children with Loss
A FOUR-WEEK COMMITMENT
A LIFETIME OF BENEFITS
An interactive program that teaches adults how to effectively help children cope with the death of a loved one, divorce, pet loss, moving, and many other life stressors.
Most adults want to do whatever they can to protect the children in their care from the painful moments and events that touch their lives. In trying to “protect” them, however, we often do not realize that we are inadvertently passing on to them the same bits of “misinformation” on dealing with grief that we learned as children.
Grief is Emotional, not Logical.
Stop and think for a moment about what you learned about how to cope with emotionally painful events when you were a child. Chances are that your parents gave you a list of logical-sounding reasons why you should not feel sad.
Time heals all wounds
Don't feel bad
Be strong for others
Replace the loss
Bury your feelings
Delayed Grief is Cumulative & Cumulatively Negative
Did any of those reasons honestly make you feel any better? Probably not! The problem is that grief is emotional, not logical. Burying the normal and natural emotions that arise from loss events and difficulties only delays healing our pain. Eventually, it becomes too great a burden to bear, and as we carry it into adulthood, it results in negative behaviors towards ourselves and others, often with devastating impacts.
Learn Tools to Help Them Today and For the Rest of Their Lives
The Grief Recovery Method®
Learn effective tools to cope in an emotionally healthy way with whatever grief may impact the life of a child. As they grow to understand the nature of grief and the appropriate role their emotions have to play in dealing with loss, they will carry the principles into their adult life, benefitting future relationships.
Your participation in this program can make a real difference for generations to come!
This program is not only designed to help parents, but teachers, school counselors, and anyone who has children under their care. These skills can be of enormous value no matter what loss a child has experienced, including but not limited to the loss of a parent, grandparent, sibling, a divorce in the family, or even the loss of a pet.
The essence of the program is teaching children that giving voice to their emotions is healthy and acceptable and that there are adults who are willing and eager to let them express what they feel. Neither children nor adults can heal what they are not allowed to feel.
What To Expect
FOUR WEEK ONLINE PROGRAM
Helping Children with Loss Program via Zoom (link to be provided)
Unlike the other programs offered by the Grief Recovery Institute, which focus on taking specific personal loss action, this educational program is designed to give you the tools to help children.
Each of the four meetings in the program will last between two and two and a half hours.
While you may come into this program with a specific loss in mind that has impacted your child, you will be led through the process of looking at all of the emotional losses that could touch a child’s heart and how to help them work through these issues.
Participants will be guided through “When Children Grieve,” as well as how to utilize this information in helping each child with their individual loss issues.
Even though you are working in a group setting, your personal focus will be on learning how to work individually with your own child or children under your care.
As part of the process, you will work with sample situations you will face in listening to a child and being able to offer effective assistance in dealing with their emotional feelings.
We sometimes break into small groups to cover the weekly assignments. If more than one family member attends this program, they will be in separate groups to assure a greater sense of privacy and the chance to better process what they are learning.
These groups include a weekly commitment to total honesty and absolute confidentiality so that you can comfortably share your feelings.
Helping Children with Loss Can Be Life-changing!
As an Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, certified and trained by The Grief Recovery Institute, I’ll guide you throughout the program in a group educational setting with other parents and people regularly working with children.
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WASHINGTON – Microsoft has announced a new excel feature which would bring a revolutionary change in while dealing with taxes, payroll, and other important number crunching work. According to Microsoft, in the new Excel app, you can simply take a picture of the number table which could be moved into the appropriate boxes within Excel. In the initial stage, only the Android version will be available while there will also be an iOS version of this app available on the app stores.
In today’s time as people use their phones more often than their laptops. Hence, it becomes easy for them to do all the payroll related work on their phone by using various software. Boston payroll services are one of the popular in this field which offers payload software to make things easier for people leading organizations. With the help of a new Excel app, it would be too easy to do this at home only. Now, there will not be the requirement of an ugly and big spreadsheet. It is possible now to scan a bunch of numbers on papers and use Microsoft Excel to automatically read the numbers and translate them into spreadsheet form.
This new app will be beneficial to both individuals and an organization. For a single person, it will make tax seasons less stressful. A person doesn’t need to add so many spreadsheets. And for those who have employees working under them, then it will be easy to take details like payroll, benefit, and other benefits into a specific location. | <urn:uuid:8f5cd3ab-3ebb-44af-b2a1-0b536b7dbd04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oneworldherald.com/2019/03/13/new-microsoft-excel-feature-will-save-money-and-time-on-taxes-and-payroll/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95372 | 291 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Does your organization require your materials to be DFARS or Domestic? Have you seen these terms at work but aren’t sure exactly what they mean? Like most of the materials world, there is a lot of technical language and detail about what qualifies as DFARS or domestic. In this article we will break down the “5 Things You Need to Know About Domestic and DFARs” and provide links to materials that meet their respective requirements.
1. What defines materials as domestic?
You would assume materials must be manufactured in the United States to be considered domestic. However, it might actually have been mined and initially melted in a foreign country. To quote this official document, (Q10/A10) “The foundry location where final smelting is accomplished establishes domesticity.” Check the Mill Test Report/MTR to see the origin of where your materials ore was melted and where the piece was manufactured.
2. What does “DFARS” stand for?
DFARS is short for “Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.” Technically, it is a list of regulations that the Department of Defense finds acceptable to use in DoD projects. If a nation complies to these rules, it is known as DFARS Compliant. However, many people just refer to them as DFARS countries.
It may read as straight forward, but in fact there are numerous exceptions to the rules and what specialty metals the DoD will accept. You can scan their extensive rules here.
3. Who needs to know the difference?
Anybody who is producing parts or materials for federal or government jobs should be informed on what DFARS and Domestic requirements are. Also, many private companies prefer materials from compliant countries.
4. Why do these designations matter?
- It’s the law in the US that if the DoD requires DFARS, and you have to comply.
- The DoD insists upon these requirements for a lot of projects.
Any private companies or customers that also require Domestic/DFARS are doing so out of personal preference.
5. How do I know if a material is DFARS compliant, domestic, or both?
The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Tech, and Logistics publishes the list of DFARS compliant countries on their website that should serve as a master list, and any disputes should be directed here. We have a table below to provide a quick visual reference.
DFARS Compliant Countries as of July, 2019
|Finland||Netherlands||U.K. and N. Ireland|
Additionally, your Mill Test Reports (MTRs) will tell you where your material is from. We provide free MTRs for most of our metals and you can request DFARS or Domestic materials in the order notes. As always, if you have any product specific questions connect with our support team via chat or phone during the week.
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Visitor research survey
To successfully grow our tourism sector while preserving the island’s pristine environment, we need to understand why visitors choose to visit and return to the island.
Our Visitor Research Program aims to provide tourism organisations, operators and others associated with tourism on the island with a clear understanding about visitor expectations and behaviour.
The project is overseen by the University of Queensland and includes research into:
- why visitors come to Minjerribah
- the activities they enjoy
- their spending habits
- travel needs
- marketing influences.
This information will help with the development of products, services and marketing activities tailored to meet visitor expectations and attract more business to the island.
The studies will also inform future investment in tourism infrastructure and development of a comprehensive marketing strategy for the island.
The 3 reports prepared by the University of Queensland as part of the research program have now been finalised:
Improve understanding of current visitor market
Improve understanding of potential visitor market
Provide advice for targeted marketing and visitor experience development
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A new photo was released today, 6th February 2022, to mark the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. The picture shows a smiling Queen with one of he famous red boxes; these despatch boxes are sent on a daily basis to Her Majesty and contain confidential documents relating to official government business.
This particular photo was taken at Sandringham House earlier in the week. The Monarch sits alongside a framed image of her late father, George VI.
She is wearing two diamond ivy leaf brooches, which were a gift from her late mother, Queen Elizabeth (better known as the Queen Mother) on the-then Princess Elizabeth’s 21st birthday.
The photo comes after the release of Her Majesty’s Accession Day message, in which she recommitted her life to public service, and also expressed her desire that The Duchess of Cornwall become Queen Consort in the future.
This year’s Accession Day is an historic occasion, marking the first Platinum Jubilee of a British Monarch, and while the country and Commonwealth celebrates, it is a poignant day of remembrance for The Queen, as it is the anniversary of her beloved father’s death.
It is likely that today’s photo release will be the only sighting of Her Majesty, as The Queen generally prefers to spend the day privately, mourning her father; this is also the first year she marks the occasion without the support of her late husband, Philip, who passed away in April 2021.
The red despatch boxes are an iconic emblem of British constitutional monarchy; the boxes are sent by the Monarch’s private secretaries and contain details of important Government activities. The Queen receives these boxes on a daily basis, with the exception of Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. While some papers are merely sent on an informative basis, others require Elizabeth’s signature for approval.
Despite the great technological changes seen during her now 70-year reign, The Queen continues to receive the ‘red boxes’ from her Private Secretaries.
The boxes are currently made by Barrow Hepburn & Gale, a British leather goods company dating back to 1760; the company prepares goods for not just the Westminster-based Parliament offices, but also government departments in Scotland and Wales. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also traditionally poses with a red briefcase when presenting the Budget.
The Monarch’s boxes are traditionally red; there are claims that this tradition dates back to another famous Prince Consort, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. It is said that Albert favoured the colour as it featured on the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha coat of arms.
However, as the ‘red box’ predates Victoria and Albert’s reign, the red colour may have another origin. It is said the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, once received a specially-made red briefcase filled with black pudding from Francis Throckmorton, representative of the ‘original’ Elizabeth (I). Although royalty was generally associated with the colour purple, some say that red became a royal colour following this exchange.
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Through his advocacy work, recent Conestoga Journalism graduate Saifullah Muhammad speaks with the Honourable Bob Rae, former Ontario premier and former interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and now Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar, almost daily. He’s met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland too many times to count, and he’s had the opportunity to sit down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on three occasions.
Saifullah Muhammad graduated from Conestoga’s two-year Journalism diploma program making him the first Rohingya to be professionally trained as a journalist.
All this, and Muhammad, a Rohingya refugee, has only been in Canada since 2016. Now, with the Conestoga credential he received at spring convocation, he also has the distinction of being the very first Rohingya to be professionally trained as a journalist.
The Rohingya are members of the Muslim minority in Myanmar. More than 700,000 fled to Bangladesh in 2017 alone following the Myanmar government’s most brutal genocidal campaign against Rohingya civilians to date, which according to a UN report, “brutally and systematically violated the human rights of ethnic minorities throughout the country.”
In Bangladesh, more than 1 million Rohingya remain stateless and homeless, and live with the trauma of the violence they have encountered.
Muhammad described the situation as dire. His own parents have lived in a refugee camp since 1992, but he managed to leave the camp to attend school, secured a scholarship for a university in Thailand, and later moved to Malaysia where he taught at a UN school. Mohammad is fortunate despite living in a refugee camp for 15 years: most youth in the camps have no access to education.
In 2006, the first few Rohingya families arrived in Kitchener. Since then, many others have settled in the city in an effort to stay together and share a common culture.
Muhammad estimates more than 300 of the nearly 500 Rohingya refugees living in Canada call Waterloo Region home, with the vast majority seeking skills training at Conestoga. He believes approximately 50 Rohingya youth have either graduated or are enrolled at the college.
Like Muhammad, other students from his community have fled violence, and most still have family members living in refugee camps. Collectively, they want the world to know what’s going on in their community, but of the 3.5 million Rohingya, not one holds a journalism credential.
“Originally I wanted to study English, but I had community leaders around the world encouraging me to pursue journalism. We have many citizen reporters. Some Rohingya youth launched Rohingya Vision TV and received training from AP on how to write basic news stories, but none were trained professionally,” said Muhammad.
Enrolling at Conestoga provided Muhammad the opportunity to develop skills to help shed light on the ongoing refugee crisis. And he did this while also serving as an advocate for his community.
He writes a blog, has co-authored an editorial in the Toronto Star, lends time to other associations and agencies, and consults frequently with the Canadian government to support its response to the Rohingya crisis.
He helped found the Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative, held a rally in Toronto that welcomed 10,000 supporters, and has been invited to speak at the House of Commons and the Senate, the UN General Assembly, the European Parliament and an education conference in Dubai.
He’s also a father of two and is committed to supporting Rohingya youth. He hopes to bring students here so they can contribute positively to Canadian society and wants to establish scholarship funds for his community both here and abroad.
“It’s not a burden,” said Muhammad when asked about the pressure he may face as the voice of his people. “We have everything here, but our brothers and sisters need our voice. I’m trying to give back to my community and it’s a pleasure to do it.”
Speaking engagements and advocacy work left little time for Muhammad to focus on his studies, but he managed to meet his deadlines and thanked Conestoga faculty member Larry Cornies for his guidance and encouragement.
“I think faculty feel a responsibility to all students, regardless of their age or background or intention,” said Cornies. “But it’s a rare thing to come across a student as passionate as Saifullah about the power of journalism to inform, motivate and help solve big problems. Good students bring out the best in their teachers and so, yes, I certainly felt an extra obligation to help him achieve his aims, given the importance of his cause and how focused he was on it.”
In addition to sharing their stories, Muhammad would also like to bring peace to his community and has been accepted into the University of Waterloo’s Master of Peace and Conflict Studies program. He credits his success at Conestoga for helping him gain admission to the program.
“I can’t imagine that after living my whole life as a refugee, being a newcomer to Canada, working consistently for the community, supporting family and travelling to different places to speak at conferences about the Rohingya people, that I would be able to maintain good grades in the program. However, at the end of my studies at Conestoga College, I feel an immense feeling of pride and accomplishment.”
Saifullah Muhammad graduated from Conestoga’s two-year Journalism diploma program with distinction and was listed on the Dean’s honour list. He was also named the winner of the Waterloo Region Record student award for Most Dedicated Journalist.
“I have no doubt that Saifullah will achieve his goal of becoming the first professionally trained journalist from his community to report on the crisis it faces,” said Cornies. “In many ways, he has already achieved that. Once his journalistic training is paired with graduate work in peace and conflict studies at UW, his voice and profile will become even more influential, despite his soft-spoken manner. I hope the world hears it.”
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Muhaimin, Muhaimin Department of Biological Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
Vol 42, No 1 (2022) - Articles
Exploring the factors affecting pre-service science teachers’ actual use of technology during teaching practice
All articles published in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, unless otherwise stated.
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SAN ANTONIO – Building rockets and making them reach a certain altitude in a certain amount of time, all while competing against other students across the country, takes some work.
And, the students at the Krueger School of Applied Technologies are putting that work in during and after school.
Richard Giblin, a Krueger School of Applied Technologies eighth-grade student, explains when you are building a rocket, you need to think of everything.
“When we’re building this rocket, we have all these constraints in mind,” said Giblin. “We’re actually using a simulation of what a real-world environment is, where they are building in constraints, we have to build to these constraints, in order to be allowed to compete in the competition.”
The Principles of Applied Engineering class is all about project-based learning and students like Richard Giblin also have an extra “advanced engineering” project that lasts for the entire school year -- and that’s building a very large rocket.
“They flew a smaller rocket before to collect data,” said Tracy Thomas, Krueger School of Applied Technologies instructor. “And now, they are using that data to make the bigger one and to make predictions.”
Thomas said all their projects are built online first, before they are built “for real.”
“This uses a CO2 as a power source,” said Tobi Sakim, a Krueger School of Applied Technologies eighth-grade student. “We use a program to design it. And, before that we have to research about cars in general.”
The students work as a team and that means everything from sawing, to building, to using physics.
“We have very high-level physics,” said Thomas. “Remember, these are eighth graders and they are doing some high level kinetic energy calculations and trying to crunch data from our practice flight so, they can actually make predications for the full scale flight that will be more powerful and it’s a safety issue so, they make sure our numbers are good.”
The students are also involved in community outreach to promote STEM careers and they are making presentations to students their own age and younger.
“What will stick with me the most is the presentation skills Ms. Thomas has taught us,” said Hanna Femmel, a Krueger School of Applied Technologies eighth grade student.
“Because we have had to do a bunch of outreach events and during those events, we have to teach, and you learn a lot about how to speak to other people.”
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WHAT DO WE NEED IN ORDER TO REST WELL?
HOW CAN WE OPEN UP SPACE FOR OTHERS TO REST WELL?
▼ scroll ▼The work of caring for societies starts with caring for ourselves and each other. Rest is as essential to our communities as it is to our bodily health, and it is under constant threat from neoliberal pressures that demands constant work in order to justify individual life. Meaningful rest intervenes in that current: it offers a necessary break, however short-lived, from the daily rhetoric that says you need to work, earn money, do do do despite a global pandemic – climate crisis – ongoing systemic oppression based on race, class, and immigration status – economic downturns – mass unemployment – housing precarity – hyper police state – mental health needs – illness - and so on...
Finding rest may involve building communities of care that nurture shared moments of leisure, listening, and togetherness. It may mean taking a day off from work if possible, or asking others for help, or creating ways to recharge. (Sometimes, finding rest may mean noticing how the ways you move through the world may make you complicit in systems of oppression.) And, we need not work alone – we can do this together, in solidarity.
Rest is a necessary aspect of life and a collective responsibility. Each of us has a role in ensuring that all of us have space, time and invitation to rest. And, our needs and access to rest vary based on intergenerational as well as day-to-day circumstances. Folks may be facing everything from midnight worries to family demands, health challenges, insufficient income, housing precarity, and any number of stressors compounded by intersecting and often systemic injustices. Let's meet each other where we are, tune into each others' needs for rest, and seek ways to make rest possible for everyone.
We hope this portal serves as a nudge and a nest for rest in this very moment, as we are, together.
▼ scroll ▼We are honored to share stories, books, articles, conversations, memories, and somatic impressions that have provided valuable inspiration in developing a collective rest practice. We celebrate alternative modes of inquiry from anecdotal storytelling, movement research, and other media and practices alongside more academically typical books and articles, acknowledging the complex and very human traditions of rest that inspire us.
Passionflower is a nervine. Make tea with its vines to help support your nervous system, release tension and induce good sleep
“One of the few memories I have before migrating across the pacific was resting in my grandparent’s house. I would spend whole afternoons in the south-facing room, lying on my back as one or two of the mothers or family friends gossiped while rhythmically patting my stomach with their knowing hands, worn from decades of chores. Nowadays it’s become a healing memory I revisit often to remind my body what it feels like to be held communally, outside of capitalistic expectations.”
“Rest is Resistance.” The Nap Ministry by Tricia Hershey
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Daily eye massages we would do in elementary school
“Every evening, after coming home from work, my mom would drop all her bags onto the couch and then go upstairs to take off her bra and work clothes. She wouldn’t talk to anyone until she had changed into her comfortable clothes. I would usually follow her to her room and I can still see her there, standing next to her bed, doubling her arm back behind her body to unsnap her bra, and then pulling it off through the armpit holes of her shirt and flinging it onto the floor. Later in the evening, she would always tell us she was going to bed, but her light would stay on for an hour or two while she would read. Propped up with a few weirdly shaped pillows, with her book resting on her thighs. My dad would fall asleep next to her with the light on, while she continued to read. Often I would curl in next to her, with my own book, and we would read together until 11 pm or midnight even. Then she’d turn the light off and kiss me on the farhead. My mom always told me that she learned to read so much from her mother. So, I’m realizing, reading is my body’s rest lineage.”
Statements Towards the Establishment of a Proof-of-Rest Protocol by Emilie M. Reed
Drinking a glass of hot milk then immediately take a shot of vodka!
Love Letters 2 Your Body by Malcolm-x Betts
The Right To Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
“The Refusal of Work” by Deleuze, Marx and Politics
Make tea with valerian or catnip, herbal sedatives good for calming the nervous system and sleep
“My dad would work long hours in construction with low wages as a non-English speaker. When he came home, he would shower and get set up to work on these big bright spacious oil paintings that I have to this day. I like to think it was his way of resting the soul”
"Dreaming as Sustained Thinking", and Social Dreaming Matrix practices, by G. Gordon Lawrence
The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams ed. by Deidre Barrett and Patrick McNamara (includes many entries on historical and contemporary cross-cultural collective sleep / dreaming traditions)
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
“My 93 year old grandma falls asleep wherever and whenever she wants. After waking up, mid afternoon, after dinner… everybody respects that her aging body needs rest. When I’m there, I nap with her. We relax together and fall asleep sometimes on the couch, her bed, or the comfy chairs in her living room. She snores and I laugh, until I’m snoring too. There’s no alarm clock. We have all the time in the world.”
▼ scroll ▼You’re here.
Settle into a cozy place for a bit—a bed or couch or floor.
Maybe lie down outside with your shoes off.
Find something small and substantial for this moment.
Or take a bath, a walk... we'll be right here when you're back.
Take a moment to acknowledge how that feels in your body, to be here.
Find the lowest part of your body.
Breathe into it feeling. Hereness.
Thaw out the parts of your body that have been most in contact with your digital devices. Maybe you wiggle your fingers or roll your eyes.
Let float all the information you have been holding.
Loosen your mind.
What senses have been longing for you to check in? Move your tongue, touch the material around you, hold your heart for a bit.
Breathe into it again.
Breathing is what keeps us alive.
So that we can do the good and important work together.
And rest is part of that work too.
Ease yourself in.
Make love to rest.
Sometimes, our exhaustion is our loneliness.
But we do not have to be alone in our exhaustion.
When we rest we tell ourselves that we love ourselves, and that we deserve care.
We love you, yes you, and you deserve care.
Are there things you do to unwind and surrender into trusted arms?
Are there things you wish others would do for you in order to rest?
To lull you into remembering the ways you already know rest?
Murmur these strategies.
Tell rest your secrets.
Make this space your wishing well, held by all the other bodies beaming in...
holding you just as you are.
We got each other.
▼ scroll ▼virtual care lab is an open assemblage of people exploring presence, connection and collaboration in digital contexts. We hold creative exchanges of joy, grief, breath, ideas, resources, and expansive forms of community care. Our projects have included many unconventional virtual gatherings, focused discussions, participatory performances, and online portals that celebrate experimentalism and invite people to explore risky or raw ideas, question things, get real, and reinvent identities, myths and protocols for ourselves, together.
We created this collective rest portal as part of the 2021 4S Annual Meeting. We will hold a public gathering on Fri, Oct 9 to practice resting with each other through meditation and social dreaming.
Portal contributors: Alice Yuan Zhang, Sara Victoria Suárez, Elenie Chung, hannah rubin, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Marcus Brittain Fleming.
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Index CFDs (contracts for difference) are a type of derivative product that allows traders to speculate on the price movements of stock market indexes. Unlike traditional stocks, CFDs allow traders to trade without owning the underlying asset. This makes them a popular choice for trading indexes, allowing investors to take positions in multiple assets simultaneously.
In this article, we will look at how index CFD trades work and discuss some key features that make them attractive to traders, you can also click here to read more.
Index CFD trades are one type of contract for difference (CFD). Essentially, a CFD is an agreement between two parties to exchange the difference in the value of a financial product at the end of a contract period.
Index CFDs are based on an index, which is a statistical measure of the performance of a group of assets. For example, the S&P 500 is a popular stock market index that measures the performance of 500 large publicly traded companies.
When you trade an index CFD, you are speculating on the direction in which the underlying index will move. If you think the index will rise, you will buy (go long). If you think the index will fall, you will sell (go short).
Index CFDs are a popular trade method because they offer exposure to a wide range of assets with a single trade. Investors can also trade them on leverage, increasing potential profits (but also losses).
Let’s look at some of the features of CFD index trading that make it attractive to traders.
CFDs allow you to trade on the price movements of underlying assets without having to own the assets themselves.
CFDs are traded on margin, meaning you only need to put down a small deposit to open a position. This margin makes CFDs an attractive proposition for many investors, as it allows them to gain exposure to a much more comprehensive range of assets than would be possible if they were buying the underlying assets outright.
However, it is essential to remember that margin trading does come with a high degree of risk, and you can lose more than your initial deposit if the market moves against you. For this reason, it is essential to familiarise yourself with CFD trading before attempting to take on any position.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have long used contracts for difference (CFDs) to hedge their positions in the underlying asset. A CFD is an agreement between two parties to exchange the difference in the price of an asset. For example, let’s say you are long on a stock currently trading at $100 per share.
You could enter a CFD with another party to sell the stock at $105 per share. If the stock price falls to $95 per share, you will make a profit on the CFD, offsetting your loss on the stock.
Conversely, if the stock price rose to $115 per share, you would make a loss on the CFD, offsetting your gain on the stock.
Traders can use CFDs to hedge stocks and other assets such as commodities, currencies, and even interest rates.
CFDs are available on various markets, including indices, forex, commodities, and shares. Online brokers offer CFD trading through their platforms and must provide access to various analytical tools and resources to help traders make informed decisions.
CFD trading is a leveraged product, meaning traders can control significant positions with a small amount of capital. This leverage can amplify profits and losses, so it is essential to approach CFD trading cautiously and use stop losses to limit risks.
However, with proper risk management, CFD trading can be a profitable way to participate in the financial markets.
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During the catastrophe that befell in crossing the flooded Sarsa river, the companions of the Guru and his family were scattered in different directions. Mata Jit Kaur, Mata Sahib Kaur and their two female attendants, Bhai Mani Singh, Dhana Singh and Jawahar Singh, were all together in one group. Jawahar Singh who was an inhabitant of Delhi, took this whole group to his house in Delhi. Guru’s old mother and his two younger sons, went with Gangu Brahman to his village Saheri near Morinda. Gangu worked in Guru’s kitchen for twenty-one years. Guru’s mother, Mata Gujri was carrying money in a bag. Seeing Mata’s money, Gangu got tempted forgetting that he ate Guru’s salt for twenty-one years. As Mata Gujri was half-asleep, Gangu stole the money and shouted,”Thief, thief,” to create the impression that some thief stole the money. Mataji encountered Gangu and told him that she did not see anybody else entering the house. Upon this he tried to defend himself by saying that he was being blamed because he had given shelter to the homeless and the outlawed. Instead of admitting his guilt, he ordered them to leave his house. Gangu finally handed them over to the police officer of Morinda who in turn took them to Wazir Khan, the viceroy of Sirhind. They were imprisoned in a tower.
|Guru Ji with his four sons- Ajit Singh, Jhujhar Singh, Zorawar Singh & Fateh Singh. (Courtesy T.S.Randhawa)|
Next morning the two children, Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh, were presented in the court of the viceroy. Wazir Khan reflected that if the children became Mohammadans, it would be a glory to his faith- Islam. He, therefore, told them that if they accepted Islam, he would grant them an estate, would marry them to the princesses and they would be happy and be honored by the Emperor. The nine years old Zorawar Singh replied,” Our grandfather, Guru Tegh Bahadur, parted with his head but not with his religion and he ordered us to follow his example. It is best that we should give our lives to save the Sikh religion and bring down God’s vengeance on the Turks,” continued Zorawar Singh,”O viceroy, I spurn your religion and will not part with my own. It has become the custom of our family to forfeit life rather than faith. Why do you seek to tempt us with worldly ambitions? We shall not be led astray by the false advantages of your offer.”
Wazir Khan could not endure such an outspokenness and got very angry. He decided that he must put these children to death. Sucha Nand, a Hindu minister supported Wazir Khan by implying that their arrogant words were uncalled for. He ignited Wazir Khan’s anger by saying that when these children grew up, they would follow their father’s foot steps and would destroy enemies. Therefore, this progeny of a cobra must be smothered in time. At that time, outspoke Nawab Sher Mohammad Khan of Maler Kotla,” O viceroy, these children are still drinking milk in the nursery, and are too young to commit an offence and know not good from evil. The holy Quran does not allow the slaughter of innocent and helpless children. Therefore be pleased to release them.” In spite of his appeal, the Qazi confirmed that the holy law would give the infidels the choice between Islam and death.
It is said that in order to bring the children to submission to Islam, they were made to enter, next day, through a very small door while the Quran was displayed on the other side. The idea was that as the children would enter the door with their heads down, they would then be told that they had bowed to the holy Quran and thereby to Islam. When the children saw that trap, the seven years old Sahibzada Fateh Singh threw his feet first instead of his head while entering through the small door. Throwing the feet towards the Quran meant an insult to Islam. Wazir Khan, therefore, could not conquer the nine and seven years old children of Guru Gobind Singh. When every effort failed to convert the children to Islam, it was finally ordered that they should be bricked alive in the wall. A wall was, therefore, built step by step on their tender limbs until it came up to the shoulders of Sahibzada Fateh Singh. The executioner advanced with his sword, and asked whose head he should chop off first? Upon this Sahibzada Fateh Singh said,” Listen O executioner, since the wall has reached my shoulders first, therefore cut off my head first.” Sahibzada Zorawar Singh exhorted,”No, you cannot cut off his head till you do mine, because I am the eldest and therefore, I have the right to go first. Cut off my head first.” Hearing such a strange debate, the wholeassembly of Wazir Khan’s court was stunned. The small children were ridiculing the angel of death. The chronicler states that Sahibzada Fateh Singh’s head was cut off first. Therefore, that place is called Fatehgarh Sahib to commemorate the memory of the young children. When this news was delivered to Mata Gujri in the tower, where she was waiting for them, she breathed her last on the spot. This treacherous event took place on the 13th Poh, Sambat 1762 ( 27th of December, 1705). A rich Sikh called Todar Mal cremated the bodies of the Guru’s mother and her grandsons. A Gurdwara stands to symbolize their memory.
As Nura Mahi narrated the tale of woes, Rai Kalla and other listeners were torn with grief and wept bitterly. The Guru was unruffled and remained as composed as ever. When Mahi finished his distressing story, the Guru thanked God for the glorious and triumphant end of his sons. He then addressed to the Almighty,” O God, Thou gavest me father, mother, and four sons. They were all Thy trust to me. Today I have been successful and happy in restoring that entire trust back to Thee.” While the Guru was listening to Mahi’s story, he was digging up a shrub. He then pronounced,”As I dig up this shrub by the roots, so shall the Turks be extirpated.” The Guru also remarked,” No, my sons are not dead. They have returned to their Eternal Home. It is Sirhind that shall die.”
The Guru resumed his march to Hehar where he spent two days with Mahant Kirpal Das, a hero of the battle of Bhangani. The next stop was Lamma Jatpura. It was here that Rai Kalla who was accompanying him, took leave. Realizing that the territory around Rai Kot was not suitable place for meeting the enemy’s challenge, the Guru directed his Sikhs towards the Jungle Desh, the land of Brars. On the way he passed through the villages of Manuke, Mehdiana Chakkar, Takhatpur and Madhen and reached Dina, in Ferozepur district.
At Dina a devoted Sikh, Rama presented the Guru with an excellent horse which he accepted for himself and gave his former horse to Bhai Daya Singh. His arrival soon became known to the people of the area and they began to rally around him. Some of the influential people who met the Guru at Dina were Shamira, Lakhmira and Takhat Mal, grandsons of Jodha Rai who had rendered material assistance to Guru Har Gobind in the battle of Gurusar. Param Singh and Dharam Singh, grandsons of Bhai Rup Chand, also came to him. The viceroy of Sirhind heard that the Guru was entertained by Shamira and his brothers. He wrote to Shamira on the subject and ordered him to arrest and surrender the Guru. Shamira replied that he was only entertaining his priest, who was merely visiting his Sikhs and harming none. Shamira however, feared that the viceroy would send his troops and arrest the Guru, so he sent a spy to obtain information of the viceroy’s movements and proceedings.
The Guru stayed at Dina for some days. It was here that he wrote his celebrated ‘Zafarnama’, or Persian epistle to Emperor Aurangzeb. It was in fact an exquisite reply to the letters of the invitation to the Guru which he had received from the Emperor. The letter is characteristic of the sublimity of the Guru and each line is pregnant with stimulating truths and righteous indignation. He wrote to the Emperor that he had no faith in his solemn promises in the name of God and oaths on the Quran. The fact remained that he, the Emperor, on all occasions violated his sacred promises and proved false, mean and treacherous. The Guru wrote,”What though my four sons were killed, I remain behind like a coiled snake. What bravery is it to quench a few sparks of life? Thou art merely exciting a raging fire the more.As thou didst forget thy word on that day, so will God forget thee. God will grant thee the fruit of the evil deed thou didst designThou art proud of thine empire, While I am proud of the kingdom of the Immortal GodWhen God is a friend, what can an enemy do even though he multiply himself a hundred times? If an enemy practice enmity a thousand times, he cannot, as long as God is a friend, injure even a hair of one’s head.”
The letter was sent through Bhai Daya Singh and Dharam Singh to the Emperor and they delivered it to him in Daccan. This letter awakened the Emperor’s dormant conscience and evoked in him a sense of true repentance. It cast such a miracle effect on him that he began to pine and soon confined to bed. Aurangzeb dictated this letter to his son when death was at hand, in which he acknowledged his defeat in the life that he led:
“Whatever good or bad I have done, I am taking it as a load upon my head to the Great
UnseenI am totally in the dark about the destiny that awaits me. But what I know is that I
have committed enormous sins. Canst tell what grim punishment is in the store for me”
|Mother and sons of Guru Gobind Singh, after the Anandpur battle, reach Sirhind, where the princes, Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh were bricked.|
While staying at Dina, the Guru visited a few places in the neighborhood. In the meantime he came to know that his whereabouts became known to the viceroy of Sirhind and he was, therefore, anxious to find a suitable place where he could best meet the challenge of the enemy. So he left Dina and visited many places such as Bander, Bargarh, Baihbal and Saravan etc. At Saravan the Guru gave his people a little practice in arrow shooting. Next he proceeded to Jaito, Kotla Maluk Das, Lambhawali and then reached Kot Kapura .Realizing that the pursuing enemy had come too near, the Guru asked Chaudhri Kapura, a Brar Jat, to lend the use of his fort to him for a few days. Fearing the wrath of the Mughals, he refused to oblige him. From there the Guru reached Dhilwan Sodhian where one of his relatives received him with great warmth and cordiality. It was here, as the tradition goes, that one of the Prithi Chand’s descendants, Kaul visited the Guru and presented him clothes. The Guru took off his blue robe which he had been wearing since he left Machhiwara, and tearing it piece by piece burned it in fire. The historic words that he is said to have uttered on his occasion are memorable:
“I have torn the blue clothes which I wore, and with that the rule of the Turks and Pathans is at an end.”
Chaudhry Kapura being repentant of his disgraceful act, came to see the Guru and asked for his forgiveness which the Guru did. Then he provided him with a good guide, Chaudhry Khana with whom the Guru marched westward in the direction of Dhab Khidrana. On the way he passed through Ramina, Mallan, Gauri Sanghar and Kaoni.
Meanwhile a large number of followers had rallied around him. The forty Sikhs who had deserted him at Anandpur and had given a disclaimer to him, were taunted by their wives who would not let them enter into their own homes. They came back to reinforce the Guru’s small army. One brave lady, Mai Bhago brought them to the aid of the Guru along with a large contingent of other Majha Sikhs. He had taken up his position on a sandy hillock at Khidrana in the district of Ferozepur. The Mughal army advanced towards his camp, but before they could attack him, they had to encounter a contingent under Mai Bhago and Jathedar Mahan Singh. A fierce fighting ensued. They were all overpowered but not before they had shown their mettle as the toughest fighters whom the experienced Mughal commander had ever known in his life. The Guru from his position of high altitude about two miles from the place of the battle, discharged arrows with fatal effect against the Mohammadans who could not see from what quarter destruction was raining on them. As the tank at Khidrana was dry, Mohammadan army was in great state of distress for want of drinking water, thus, Wazir Khan decided to return without striking a blow on the main body of the Khalsa with Guru Gobind Singh. The Guru became victorious.
After the departure of the Mohammadan army, the Guru decided to see the battle field and went about wiping he faces of both dead and wounded, and praising their unsurpassed valor. He found out that forty Sikhs including their leader Mahan Singh, who had given him disclaimer at Anandpur, all but Mahan Singh, died fighting bravely. Mahan Singh was still alive but was on his last breath when the Guru told him to open his eyes and said,” Mahan Singh, ask for any boon you desire from an empire to salvation.” After opening his eyes, Mahan Singh was delighted to see the Guru and replied,” O true king! We are sinners because we disclaimed you at the time of need at Anandpur. The doors of Heaven are closed for those of us who had departed ahead of me. O Lord, grant us your Grace and disregard that disclaimer.” It is recorded that the gracious Master took out that disclaiming document, which he carried on his vest during all these times, tore it up as a sign of forgiveness and reconciliation. Mahan Singh saw this with his own eyes and then breathed his last as happy, forgiven and emancipated soul. The souls of forty were also emancipated. Those forty Sikhs are called Forty Mukte-the Saved Ones or Emancipated Ones and are remembered in our daily prayers as Forty Muktas. Khidrana has since that time been called Mukatsar or the tank of salvation. The Guru then found Mai Bhago who inspired these forty Sikhs. A little aid revived her and she was blessed by the Master.
From Mukatsar the Guru moved to Rupana, Bhander, Gurusar, Thehri Bambiha, Rohila, Jangiana and Bhai Ka Kot. Then he proceeded to Sahib Chand and to Chatiana where Brars who had fought for him demanded the arrears of their pay under threat of blocking his onwards march. By the grace of God it so happened that a Sikh from the neighborhood brought enough money about the same time which enabled the Guru to pay off all the arrears. However the leader of the Brars, Chaudhri Dana was extremely sorry for the arrogant behavior of his people and refused to accept any payment for himself. On the request of Chaudhri Dana, the Guru then went to his native place Mehma Swai. Reaching there he encamped at a place which is now called Lakhisar. From there he visited other places in the vicinity. On the request of Chaudhry Dalla, the Guru then decided to move to Talwandi Sabo. On his way he passed through Chatiana, Kot Sahib Chand, Kot Bhai, Giddarbaha, Rohila, Jangirana, Bambiha, Bajak, Kaljhirani, Jassi Bagwali, Pakka Kalan and Chak Hira Singh, and reached Talwandi Sabo now called Damdama Sahib or Takhat Damdama Sahib. This place appealed to the Guru so much that he assumed a permanent residence there and lived at this place for nine months and nine days.
By this time all restrictions against the Guru by the Mughal government had been removed. On receipt of Zafarnama, the governors had been ordered by Aurangzeb to cease all molesting activities against him. It was here that the Guru’s wife joined him. When she arrived, he was seated in a big gathering of his disciples. Addressing the Master, she asked,
“Where are my four sons?”
The Master replied,
“What then if thy four are gone?
They yet live, and shall ever live- the Khalsa,
Millions of our dear brave sons.”
|Guru Ji with his followers- Gilded panels at the Darbar Sahib|
The peaceful period at Damdama Sahib was put to best possible use by the Guru. He laid abiding foundations of Sikhism in the Malwa tract. Large crowds came from far and near and presented a spectacle of New Anandpur. The Guru extensively visited the neighboring areas. Many old and hereditary Sikhs were baptized and brought more thoroughly into the Khalsa. Dalla, the chief of Talwandi; Tiloka, the ancestor of Nabha State; and Rama, the ancestor of Patiala State, are outstanding examples. Besides new converts were also made in large numbers.
The Master sent for the Adi Granth from Kartarpur, near Beas, in order to incorporate Guru Tegh Bahadur’s hymns in it. The original copy was with the Dhirmalias and they refused to part with it and rather remarked that if Guru Gobind Singh was the Guru, he should make one himself. It was, therefore, here that Guru Gobind Singh dictated the whole of Granth Sahib as it stands today, to Bhai Mani Singh. The sacred volume concludes with ‘Rag Mala’ (1430 pages). It appears that ‘Rag Mala’ does not form an essential part of Guru Granth Sahib. Macauliffe writes,
“A Mohammadan poet called Alim in A.H. 991 (1583 A.D.) wrote a work in 353 stanzas generally
from four to six lines each, called ‘Madhava Nal Sangit’, which purports to be an account of the love
of Madhava Nal and a lady called Kam Kandala. The Rag Mala, which forms the conclusion of Guru
Granth Sahib and contains a list of rags and raginis and their subdivisions, is a portion of Alim’s work
extending from sixty-third to seventy-second stanzas. It is not understood how it was included in the
sacred volume. The rags mentioned in it do not correspond with the rags of the Granth Sahib.”
This sacred volume is called ‘Damdama Sahib di Bir’. This Bir was installed at Hari Mandar Sahib but it is not available NOW. It is not known whether it has been destroyed or taken away by Ahmed Shah Abdali when he plundered the town of Amritsar during one of his raids.
The order of the Nirmala Sikhs was also created here with a view of giving the Sikhs a band of the Sikhs exclusively devoted to the study and preaching of the Sikh faith. The Guru’s Darbar here was as splendid as it used to be at Anandpur. Quite a large number of poets and scholars gathered around in his court. Due to all of his, Damdama Sahib became a famous educational center. The Guru also reorganized his forces. His strength had increased considerably. Besides regular followers, he had also taken some Dogras and Brars into his service. | <urn:uuid:6638420d-3211-454b-8fd1-3e2efd3330c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allaboutsikhs.com/sikh-gurus/guru-gobind-singh-ji-v15-1710/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.985192 | 4,445 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Here at Look we believe that poems are good for you! They can help us talk about how we’re feeling, help us understand our emotions and can enable us to make ourselves understood to other people.
So, with the help of some pretty awesome authors, we have launched the Look Loves Poems Challenge! Every Sunday, one of our authors will announce the theme of the week and will post a poem on that theme, online. We want everyone in our Look Community – as well as their friends, grandparents, next-door neighbours, and posties – to be inspired by that poem and to respond by either sending us a poem that you have written yourself, or one that you simply love, that fits the theme.
You can either send us your poems via email or, even better, send us a film of yourselves reading them which we can share on our website, across our social media, and on our YouTube channel.
In doing this, we hope to spread a little sunshine, perhaps even inspire others to write, and to find their own voice. If you can’t send us a film, don’t worry – we have a host of lovely poets and actors who have volunteered to read the poems aloud so we can keep sharing these lovely videos. In fact, check out this lovely message from Look’s friend and awesome author Marcus Sedgwick, who is helping us launch the challenge:
(Ed: We met prize-winning author (and absolute legend) Marcus Sedgwick when he was researching his brilliant book, She Is Not Invisible. The book explores obsession, trust, and coincidence and is a page-turning thriller about 16-year-old Laureth Peak’s mission to find her missing father. A mission made all the more difficult by one fact: Laureth Peak is blind. If you haven’t read it yet, you need to! Order it here).
Remember! You have one week to respond to the challenge before we launch the next theme. If you’re writing your own poem, don’t worry too much about making it completely perfect – the real point of this challenge is to get people writing and sharing their words. We’re not looking for the next Tempest or Zephaniah (although that would be pretty awesome!!); we want people to experience the amazing sense of achievement that comes with getting a poem that starts as a tiny seed of an idea, to a finished piece of writing that can be shared with, and enjoyed by the Look Community.
Please email your videos or written poems to email@example.com, with your name and any information about you and/or the poem that you would like us to know.
Each Sunday, head to Look’s YouTube channel, to find out the theme of the week. Here’s Marcus again with his poem that has inspired our first theme, Friendship:
To follow the project online, follow the #LookLovesPoems hashtag!
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Destiny Pharma plc
(“Destiny Pharma” or the “Company”)
Destiny Pharma opens IND for its novel anti-infective drug XF-73 ahead of commencing US clinical trials
Brighton, United Kingdom – 26 February 2018 – Destiny Pharma (AIM: DEST), a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel anti-microbial drugs, which address the global problem of anti-microbial resistance (AMR), today announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an Investigational New Drug application (IND) for the Company’s lead clinical drug candidate, XF-73. This is being developed for the prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal infections such as Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Neil Clark, Chief Executive Officer of Destiny Pharma, commented:
“Destiny Pharma is one of only a small number of UK biotech companies which have antibacterial drugs at the clinical stage of development. We are pleased to open the IND and are looking forward to starting the clinical programme and reporting the Phase 2 data in 2019. The US is the largest potential market for this drug candidate and XF-73 could be the first drug approved for the US FDA’s newly defined indication of “prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal infection”. We look forward to continuing to advance XF-73 through clinical development.”
XF-73 has been developed from Destiny Pharma’s novel, antimicrobial “XF” drug platform. Unlike most antibiotics, XF drugs have not been seen to generate bacterial resistance in industry-standard microbiology tests to date and therefore have significant potential to address the global threat of AMR. XF-73 has been shown to kill bacteria very rapidly and therefore may be an effective new treatment in the reduction of bacterial infections in hospital patients, including those caused by MRSA. XF-73 is administered topically as a nasal gel whereby it reduces the nasal carriage of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus which is the source of many post-surgical bacterial infections. Approximately a third of all patients across the world have this nasal carriage as they enter surgery and it is has the potential to be a very valuable market due to the millions of surgical procedures carried out each year.
As stated at the IPO in September 2017, under the new IND, Destiny Pharma will now complete certain standard Phase 1 studies in the US and will also be able to finalise the study design of the Phase 2 clinical trial. This Phase 2 study will evaluate the nasal anti-staphylococcal efficacy and clinical safety of XF-73 compared to placebo in pre-surgical patients at risk of infection. The study design will be closely related to the successful 2016 clinical trial, which was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (part of the US National Institute of Health) and demonstrated the clinical efficacy of XF-73 versus placebo in reducing nasal Staphylococcus aureus carriage in healthy volunteers.
Following a review of clinical trial data, XF-73 was awarded Qualifying Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) status in October 2015 by the US FDA. Within the QIDP award, the US FDA also confirmed a new US disease indication for XF-73; namely the ‘Prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal infections’. This represents a new US market for which no existing product is approved. QIDP status identifies XF-73 as a drug that is intended to treat serious or life-threatening infections, including those caused by antibiotic resistant pathogens. Destiny estimates the potential global market for XF-73 to be over one billion US dollars.
MRSA is one of the most prominent superbugs and a major cause of hospital associated infection and featured in the WHO’s ‘most dangerous’ list of superbugs published in 2017. The WHO followed US and European guidelines in 2016 by recommending the screening and decolonisation of MRSA and all strains of Staphylococcus aureus in pre-surgical patients undergoing high risk surgeries in a step designed to help prevent such infections.
For further information, please contact:
Destiny Pharma plc
Neil Clark, CEO
Simon Sacerdoti, CFO
+44 (0)1273 704 440
Simon Conway / Victoria Foster Mitchell
+44 (0) 20 3727 1000
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Philip Davies / Will Goode, Corporate Finance
+44 (0)20 7894 7000
XF-73 is a synthetic anti-microbial active against all tested Staphylococcus aureus strains, including drug resistant strains. By acting via a cell-surface mechanism it affects the bacterial membrane permeability and integrity, leading to cell death. XF-73 has already been through five successful Phase I/IIb clinical trials showing rapid antibacterial action.
XF-73 is indicated for the prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal infections. In the US, there are approximately 40 million surgeries per annum alone where the patient is at risk of a post-surgical infection. However, within this large population there are particular groups who are at an even higher risk of infection due to the nature of their surgery or the procedures and/or their specific hospital environment in which they are treated. These higher risk surgical procedures include cardiovascular, orthopaedic and other complex surgeries. Destiny Pharma estimates that this totals approximately 14 million US surgeries per year, with this figure set to rise within the context of an ageing population.
About Destiny Pharma
Destiny Pharma is an established, clinical stage, innovative biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines that represent a new approach to the treatment of infectious disease. These potential new medicines are being developed to address the need for new drugs for the prevention and treatment of life-threatening infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, often referred to as “superbugs”. Tackling anti-microbial resistance has become a global imperative recognised by the WHO and the United Nations, as well as the G7 and the G20 countries. For further information, please visit https://www.destinypharma.com | <urn:uuid:a0df2890-8ac8-4fc3-87f0-442216b1f17b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.destinypharma.com/2018/02/26/destiny-pharma-opens-ind-for-its-novel-anti-infective-drug-xf-73-ahead-of-commencing-us-clinical-trials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.917438 | 1,436 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Effective early childhood education paves the way for school success and better life chances. This is a well-researched fact. Yet, a high percentage of young children in our country do not experience quality early childhood programs. One reason for this failure is the misconception that staff with minimum professional training and poverty line salaries are enough to deliver effective early childhood education. The truth is that better educational outcomes for children, especially those who begin life at social and economic disadvantage, require skilled, professional, well-compensated early childhood teachers. One of the first pioneering research studies to look at the outcomes of quality early childhood education, focused on the children who attended the
Perry Preschool Project (Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1962-1967). This was an experimental project that sought to raise the academic achievement and overall school success of preschoolers from low-income families. Following the Perry Preschool children into their adult years, the longitudinal study found measurably better high school and life outcomes for the children. It also demonstrated considerable economic benefits to society, with an estimated 7 to 10 percent return on each dollar invested in the preschool project. The positive outcomes for children coupled with the economic benefits became a primary justification for greater investment in early childhood education for children living in poverty, in the USA and many other countries. What did the Perry Preschool teachers do? As two of them, here is a summary of the ideas and practices that influenced our work. To begin with, we believed in the intelligence and capacity of all children to learn and were deeply committed to their growth and success. We understood that children’s best learning requires caring, empathetic relationships with their teachers. We recognized the integral connection of the children’s minds
and their social and emotional abilities. We also believed that learning experiences must incorporate the strengths of their families and the wider community. Perry Preschool required teachers to have college degrees in early childhood or primary education. Then, our knowledge and skills grew through weekly teacher meetings and professional development experiences on the job. These ongoing opportunities enabled us to regularly plan and assess our work and to actively shape the curriculum. By engaging in intentional teaching, we created individualized learning experiences within the framework of our program goals, taking into account each child’s individual developmental needs and life experiences. We balanced the use of child-initiated and teacher-directed learning experiences, and created new activities while also incorporating ideas from existing curricula. Building relationships with and working with the children’s families was another essential element of our Perry Preschool work. We knew that we needed the knowledge parents and other family members had about their children. We also understood that the family’s vital role in their children's development would continue long after our time with them. Each teacher worked with a group of individual families and their child each week at their homes. Through the weekly 1-2 hours, we built the communication and trust invaluable to working together for the benefit of the children. The Perry Preschool families connected to our racially diverse group of teachers and to our commitment to their children. They learned how to educationally support their children at home and at school. In turn, teachers gained better understanding of each child that only a family’s perspective can bring. The Ypsilanti administrators encouraged the teachers to use our knowledge, experience, and creativity. We were NOT expected to inflexibly implement a one-size-fits-all curriculum that did not take into account the needs of the children, families, and communities. Rather, we were empowered to act as professionals—and paid accordingly at the same rate as the elementary Ypsilanti school teachers. Early childhood programs shortchange children when teachers must unquestioningly carry out a one-size-fits-all curriculum, rather than be able to professionally shape the curriculum to the children they serve. Unfortunately, in too many early childhood programs, teachers are treated as non-professionals, especially in preschools and pre-K programs for children living in poverty. And, too many early childhood teachers receive poverty line or below wages. What the Perry Preschool teachers did all those years ago has become the touchstone for effective early childhood education today. Unfortunately, too many today claim that Perry Preschool’s high-quality teaching costs too much to expand to all communities. However, when all children have access to well-prepared teachers, children, families, communities, and society at large get a high return on the investment. And, it can be done because it is being done. Many of today’s high-quality early childhood programs do incorporate the best educational and professional teaching practices used at Perry Preschool. Some states and communities have raised quality standards for teachers while supporting the professional development of a diverse early childhood workforce. It’s worked well for parents, children and taxpayers. The failure to act on the need for high-quality programs harms our children and our nation’s future. What’s lacking is not the knowledge or capacity to expand high-quality early learning to all our children, but the will to do so in the richest country on earth. This is a problem that can be solved—especially when providers, educators and policymakers commit themselves to what works for children Anything less is doing less for children who deserve so much more.
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How to talk about stress, trauma, and loss: Kick the Elephant out of the Room
Instead of avoiding hard topics, become part of a culture that avoids avoidance. Learn how to discuss stress, trauma, loss, & other hard topics with loved ones.
The expression “ignoring the elephant in the room” describes our tendency to avoid talking about huge, impossible-to-overlook situations that might be painful or awkward. Many of us are taught growing up that the polite thing to do is to ignore the elephant in the room and stay on topics we deem “safe” like the weather. Others of us are so sensitive to the needs of others that we worry about saying the wrong thing.
We worry that if we bring up a touchy topic - like a friend’s miscarriage, a family member’s health challenge, a divorce - we’ll remind that person of their pain. But when we avoid these topics, we risk making the people in our lives who are struggling feel under-supported and even invisible.
Instead of avoiding hard topics, we invite you to become part of a culture that avoids avoidance. You can make sure the people you care about feel seen by inviting them to talk about the challenges they face. Providing that opportunity genuinely matters—decades of research show that social support in hard times can improve mental and physical health.
- Tip #1Name the elephant
Although the elephant in the room can loom large, it can also be surprisingly easy to kick out. Simply naming it usually does the trick. You don’t have to have the perfect words, just a willingness to say, “Hey, I know you’re dealing with x. I’m here if you want to talk.” Delivering that message has real power to show people they’re not alone.
- How to do it
“How are you?” can feel like a generic greeting that only offers space for “Good, and you?” as a response. Instead, ask questions that show you’re truly interested in how your loved one feels. Making a small shift to ask, “How are you holding up today?” or “How are you, really?” acknowledges that your loved one is dealing with something out of the ordinary and invites a real conversation about it.
If you’re not sure what to say or wish you’d spoken up sooner, you can be up-front about that. It can be as simple as saying, “I keep talking about the weather because I’m afraid of saying the wrong thing. But I don’t want to ignore what you’re dealing with.”
If you aren’t especially comfortable talking about feelings, that’s okay. If your friend, family member, or loved one is on your mind, that’s reason enough to start a conversation and, just like anything else, confronting difficult emotions takes practice and, for most people, gets easier over time.
- If connecting in person feels overwhelming, you can try a text message, email, or phone call. Those options can help you and your loved one feel more in control of the depth and pace of the conversation.
- Difficult conversations about trauma or loss often feel easier when people stay busy with another task. If talking face-to-face feels like too much, try talking while walking, cooking, or working on a project together.
- Don’t expect an immediate response or a response at all. When you bring up a difficult subject, be prepared to postpone the conversation if the other person is busy, distracted, or around someone with whom they’d rather not share details. It’s also possible that someone who’s hurting won’t want to talk about their experience right away, or even at all. If they seem reluctant to open up, don’t push them.
Even if your loved one doesn’t want to talk about what they’re going through, your attempt to kick the elephant out of the room still matters. It shows you see the challenges they’re facing and that you won’t leave them to face them alone.
- Tip #2Listen and witness, instead of fix
When someone we care about is in pain, we naturally want to make the pain go away. That desire can lead us to rush into attempts to solve their problems. Unfortunately, some problems can’t be solved—a death, illness, injury, overwhelming stress, or trauma can’t be “fixed.”
Even when a problem is solvable, plowing ahead with suggestions can leave people feeling unheard. So can attempts to cheer them up, which can make people feel like their problems are being minimized.
- How to do it
- 1Instead of offering solutions, ask open-ended questions that help you understand their experience, like “What’s on your mind?” or “What has been hard this week?”
- 2As you listen, check your understanding by reflecting back the emotions you hear. Try something like, “Juggling medical appointments and parenting sounds really draining” or “It sounds like not knowing what comes next has been scary.”
- 3Resist the temptation to dive into problem-solving—your job is simply to express empathy and acceptance. Instead of comments that begin with “You should…” try “I know I can’t fix it, but I’m here for you no matter what.”
- 4Watch out for sayings that minimize pain, like “Everything happens for a reason.” Instead, make space for hard feelings by saying, “That sounds really heartbreaking” or “The pressure you’re under sounds overwhelming.”
- 5Often, just feeling truly heard is enough to make negative emotions less painful.
Kicking the elephant out of the room starts when you acknowledge the challenges a person is facing instead of pretending everything is normal. You can’t wish the elephant away, but you can say, “I see it and I see your suffering.” Opening the door to the first conversation is the hardest step. Once everyone has admitted there is an elephant in the room it becomes much easier to start coaxing it out the door.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 1 of 10
Slow down and feel your feelings: Lean into the Suck
- None of us want to be sad, angry, or scared. But research shows that letting yourself fully experience your emotions can help you start to heal.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 2 of 10
Focus On The Basics: Breathe, Eat, Sleep, Move
- During life’s hardest moments, it’s critical to focus on the self-care basics: sleeping, eating, breathing, and moving. Learn more today.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 3 of 10
It’s Not Your Fault & It Won’t Always Feel Like This
- During difficult times, it’s easy to fall into mental traps, such as the “3 P’s.” Remember that it’s not your fault, & this feeling won’t last forever. Learn more.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 4 of 10
How To Be Practice Self-Compassion
- Self-compassion can help you get through hard times with less pain. Learn how to practice self-compassion & be kind to yourself.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 5 of 10
How To Ask For Help: Kick the Elephant out of the Room
- Don’t ignore the elephant in the room — kick it out. Learn how to open up, have difficult conversations & ask for the help you need.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 6 of 10
Avoid Avoidance & Accept Negative Emotions
- The battle to push bad feelings away will make your life smaller over time. Learn how to accept & embrace negative emotions during life’s hardest moments.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 7 of 10
How To Practice Gratitude & Spread it to Others
- During hard times, practicing gratitude may not feel natural or intuitive, but it can make a difference. Learn more.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 8 of 10
How To Build Your Support System
- During hard times, everyone needs extra support. Learn how to build your support system of friends, family, & other loved ones.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 9 of 10
Struggle, Grief & Joy Can Co-Exist
- Positive & negative emotions don’t cancel each other out, & you don’t have to be done with pain to make space for joy. Learn how grief & joy can co-exist.
Caring for yourself: Lesson 10 of 10
Post-Traumatic Growth: Build a meaningful new normal
- Learn more about post-traumatic growth & creating a more meaningful life after hardship.
Supporting others: Lesson 1 of 4
Mobilize their Support Team: Find Support For Others
- In life’s hardest moments, people often need more support than any one person can give. Learn how to find & mobilize support for a loved one facing adversity.
Supporting others: Lesson 2 of 4
Show up and Support in Specific, Concrete Ways
- When someone is going through a hard time, even the smallest acts of support can be significant. Learn about specific, concrete ways you can support others.
Supporting others: Lesson 3 of 4
Help people cope: Be There for the Long Haul
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OLDER people in Stratford are being urged to add their voices to those demanding action against climate change.
Former Stratford District Council deputy leader Trevor Russel says older people ‘have a massive stake in the issue’ as well as being directly affected by extreme weather.
The chair of Warwickshire Older People’s Forum said: “Young people have largely forced the pace on climate change, understandably so because they are the future and their future will be pretty bleak and blighted if current trends aren’t reversed.
“But older people also have a massive stake in this issue.
“We are already significant contributors to climate change and will leave an even bigger carbon footprint as the population ages faster.
“My generation also suffers disproportionately from weather extremes especially when living alone and isolated. We have a vested interest in tackling this problem because we ourselves are directly affected. But our children and grandchildren are also affected.
“So my generation has a moral responsibility to demonstrate, in every sense of the word, that we intend to leave them with a healthier environment than our parents left us. That requires older people to summon up the same passion as those leading the fight for urgent action on climate change, become green activists and directly campaign alongside young people.”
And Mr Russel is also calling on councils to help lead the way in combating climate change.
He added: “Councils must take ownership of the agenda and develop plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.
“They need to work with local groups – including older people’s organisations – to agree realistic local targets, set firm timelines to achieve them and lead a community-wide coalition to do so.”Stratford District Council declared a climate emergency at a council meeting on Monday (July 15) and is set to discuss how it can take action locally against global warming.
Mr Russel insisted it was not a political issue but a ‘matter of survival’.
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Kawasaki Global Environmental Vision 2050
Kawasaki Establishes Global Environmental Vision 2050 Pursuing Three "Frees": CO2 FREE, Waste FREE and Harm FREE
In light of the Paris Agreement enacted to restrict global warming and the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations,
the Kawasaki Group has announced that it will collaborate
toward the realization of a sustainable society in the future,
and formulated the “Kawasaki Global Environmental Vision 2050.”
The embodiment of the Group’s environmental management is based on the three visions of
“CO2 FREE,” “Waste FREE,” and “Harm FREE,” and the Group will contribute to controlling global
warming, promoting a recycling-oriented society and protecting biodiversity toward the year 2050.
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Why Did Indira Gandhi Have Gayatri Devi Jailed During Emergency?
We take a look at Gayatri Devi’s time in prison, and her relationship with Indira Gandhi.
(This story was first published on 23 May 2018 and has been reposted from The Quint’s archives to mark Gayatri Devi’s birth anniversary on 23 May 2022.)
The third Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi, was sent to Tihar Jail in July 1975, where she spent nearly six months during the Emergency imposed under the direction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
“Tihar Jail was like a fish market. Filled with petty thieves and prostitutes screaming,” Gayatri would recall later. On 23 May, Gayatri Devi’s birth anniversary, we take a look at her time in prison, and her relationship with Indira Gandhi.
At the height of the Emergency, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had several people imprisoned. Opposition leaders, journalists and others she viewed as a threat were incarcerated during the Emergency, many for offences under the now dead Maintenance of Internal Security (MISA) Act.
Among those targeted by Gandhi was the then Princess of Cooch Behar, third Maharani of Jaipur, Rajmata Gayatri Devi. Gayatri Devi was thrown in Tihar Jail in 1975, shortly after Indira Gandhi declared Emergency.
But who was she and why did she earn a place on the list of many people considered “enemies” by Indira Gandhi?
Who Was Gayatri Devi?
Gayatri Devi was born into royalty in 1919. The daughter of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan and Indira Devi, the rulers of the kingdom of Cooch Behar, Gayatri grew up in the lap of luxury.
After a 6-year courtship with Maharaja Sawai “Jai” Man Singh II, the ruler of Jaipur, which began when she was just 12 years old, she married Man Singh, to become his third wife, and the Maharani of Jaipur.
She refused to abide by the purdah system which Man Singh’s first two wives agreed to. Gayatri Devi, who was also featured on Vogue magazine’s list of 10 most beautiful women in the world, proved repeatedly through her life that she was more than just “beautiful” royalty.
In 1962, Gayatri Devi contested the Lok Sabha elections from Jaipur, and won by a landslide majority, 192,909 votes out of 246,516 – 78% – a world record margin according to multiple reports at the time.
Gayatri Devi contested on the Swatantra Party’s ticket, the party founded by C Rajagopalachari, the party that was the primary challenger to the Congress Government’s Sharda Devi.
What Drew Indira Gandhi’s Ire?
Gayatri Devi and Indira Gandhi knew each other from their youth. Both, as young women, attended school at Patha Bhavana, the school founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Khushwant Singh writes:
“Indira could not stomach a woman more good-looking than herself and insulted her in Parliament, calling her a bitch and a glass doll. Gayatri Devi brought the worst out in Indira Gandhi: her petty, vindictive side.”
A report from The Independent, while describing Indira and Gayatri’s relationship, stated that:
“Her [Gayatri] presence in Parliament was to the great irritation of Indira Gandhi. While the two attended Patha Bhavana together, Mrs Gandhi hated princely privilege even more than her father.”
Further, when Indira Gandhi and Gayatri Devi were at Patha Bhavana together, Gandhi reportedly had major problems with Gayatri Devi’s “beauty and unabashed display of wealth”, adding to the derision she felt towards royalty.
Additionally, after the landslide victory in the 1962 Lok Sabha polls, it was evident that Gayatri Devi was a political juggernaut, a force to be reckoned with.
So, in 1965, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri offered Gayatri Devi a chance to join the party. Gayatri Devi, who had contested on the Anti-Congress plank, refused, and the Swatantra Party would go on to ally with the Jan Sangh, winning Lok Sabha elections in 1967, but losing the assembly elections in Malpura constituency to Damodar Lal Vyas.
Disdain for Royalty
Nowhere was the disdain that Indira Gandhi felt towards royalty more evident than the Indian government’s policy changes under her leadership. In 1971, privy purses were abolished by the 26th amendment of the Indian Constitution.
Privy purses were payments made by the Central Government to former princely states as a part of their agreement to integrate with India in 1947, and subsequently surrender their ruling rights in 1949.
After a drawn out legal battle, privy purses were finally abolished by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, in 1971, putting a dent in the coffers of erstwhile Indian royalty.
On 25 June 1975, a day after the Supreme Court upheld the Allahabad High Court’s verdict declaring Indira Gandhi’s election as Prime Minister null and void, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, pushed by Gandhi, declared Emergency in India.
The arrests of opposition leaders, journalists, and those Gandhi considered her “enemies” was the next step after declaration of emergency.
Gayatri Devi, who was in Mumbai at the time for medical treatment, was informed that she could be arrested after her treatment was complete. She returned to the capital soon after, and paid a visit to the Lok Sabha, where the opposition benches were empty, devoid of opposition members.
Gayatri Devi’s home on Aurangzeb road was raided by income tax officials, who informed her that she was facing arrest under the COFEPOSA (Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act), for alleged undeclared gold and wealth.
Gayatri Devi’s Life in Prison
Gayatri Devi was thrown in Tihar Jail in July 1975, where she spent nearly six months during the Emergency.
She shared her cell with Shrilatha Swaminathan, an NGO worker who was imprisoned for organising farmhouse workers who worked on the border areas of Delhi, including those who worked on a farmhouse owned by Rajiv Gandhi.
While in prison, the Rajmata gave lessons to the children in Tihar Jail, arranging for slates and textbooks. She also helped set up a Badminton court for the children.
Her time in prison took a toll on the Rajmata’s health. A few weeks after arriving at Tihar, she developed a mouth ulcer. Prison authorities reportedly took three weeks to allow her a dental appointment for treatment.
The location of her cell, between the men's and women's wards, meant she got to hear sounds from both sides.
“The women inmates engaged in frequent slanging matches, with their children constantly howling. From the other side of the wall came the sounds of political slogans and patriotic songs as well as demented screams and maniacal laughter.”
Her health deteriorated further during her time in prison, with the Rajmata reportedly suffering from gallstones.
Eventually, she was released on parole, reportedly on a number of conditions laid down by Indira Gandhi, which remained in force till the 1977 elections.
The order for my release came in January 1976. I wanted to invite Naveen Patnaik and others for a drink to celebrate my release. But the idea was dropped because Biju Patnaik, Naveen’s father, was still in jail.Gayatri Devi, in an interview with the Times of India
After her release, she retired from politics and wrote A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur, an autobiography that was released in 1976.
As a result of her declaring the Emergency, the thousands of arrests, and the forced sterilisation programme that was carried out under her government, Indira lost the 1977 elections to the Janata Party, a party cobbled together with multiple opposition parties, to oppose Gandhi and the State of Emergency in the country. Gayatri Devi never returned to politics. In 1999, the Cooch Behar Trinamool Congress nominated Devi for the Lok Sabha elections, but she failed to accept the nomination.
Gayatri Devi died on 29 July 2009, surrounded by her close friends and family, after a battle with paralytic ileus and a lung infection.
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Remme Aims to Revolutionize Cyber Security
Replacing Passwords with User Authentication – The New Cyber Security Approach from Remme
Businesses all over the world are losing billions of dollars to hackers. This is because most of the cyber security technology available today is prone to human weakness. For instance, it is easy to guess a password, and if not you can always generate one.
Bulletproof User Authentication
Remme is a startup cyber security company that seeks to eliminate the need for passwords at all. In their place, it has introduced blockchain cyber security technology that utilizes user authentication. This means that no one else but you can access your devices and platforms.
Remme has been on the market since 2015, and already its name is becoming popular in the industry. It caters to a wide range of businesses, but mostly companies that have to secure their clients’ sensitive data. However, anyone can use it, including small businesses and individuals.
Remme has two core strengths. Firstly, it utilizes new technology that is hack-proof, so it guarantees client data security and averts any possible losses or damages to their businesses. Secondly, it has its own utility token to ensure optimal efficacy for users, and possible profits for investors – this is the new Remme token.
Introducing the Remme Cryptocurrency
Remme is also venturing into the cryptocurrency market with its new token. It plans to use the token for powering all operations within its ecosystem, and hopefully to gain more utility outside as time goes by. It is also required for gaining access to Remme PKI protocol and DApps.
Remme is headquartered in Ukraine, and the token complies with all the financial guidelines of the EU. It is built on the Ethereum platform, and its abbreviation is REM. It is still a new cryptocurrency as it was just released 3rd December 2017. The ICO lasted for about one month, ending on 1st January of this year. That said, it is still available for purchase for anyone who works with Remme or anyone who seeks to profit from the token’s appreciation.
One unit of Remme is currently valued at $0.04. £1 billion GBP of this currency will be produced, and public sale has already started.
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Your two dogs seemed to get along so well. But now all of a sudden they seem to hate each other.
Max attacks Bailey periodically. And your household is very stressful now.
This is not totally uncommon. In fact a few days ago I got an email addressing this very issue:
We got our puppy potty trained, crate trained, obedience trained, but now he’s attacking and fighting with my older dog. I never thought this would be an issue. I thought my dog’s would be best pals, but now I’m looking for tips on how to stop dogs from fighting. What should I do?—C.C.
It’s important to discover why the fights are occurring so that you can attempt to fix the problem.
In this article, I’ll discuss why dogs may fight as well as how to prevent it. Also, I’ll deal with what to do if a fight occurs.
It’s important to prevent fights from occurring, if possible.
Why Household Dogs May Fight
There are many reasons why dogs in the same household fight. Even dogs who have been together for a while may start to fight.
When a new dog joins the family, there’s always a period of adjustment. Sometimes fights break out for various reasons.
As the stress increases in a dog’s life, fights are more likely to occur.
The following are some of the likely reasons dogs in the same household may fight.
To Maintain the Hierarchy
In the wild, there’s a separate hierarchy for male and female dogs. In our homes too, there’s a greater likelihood of fighting between dogs of the same sex.
There’s also a greater likelihood of non-neutered dogs fighting each other.
1. Guarding Their Owner
Dogs may guard many resources. Resources include things that are valuable to the dog.
Of course, we’re a very valuable resource to our dogs. We give them attention, feed them, walk them, play with them, train them, take them out to socialize them, and give them great treats and chews.
So some dogs guard their owners and the space around them.
When Fido in the same household gets too close to the owner, Max may attack. And Fido may fight back.
Both dogs–and the owner–may be injured in such a skirmish.
2. Guarding Other Resources
Some dogs guard other valuable resources against other dogs. Of course, food, treats, bones, and toys are seen as important to many dogs.
There’s also a threshold distance beyond which a dog won’t attack. However, if another dog gets too close, the dog with the bone will attack.
The distance at which a dog will attack varies by the dog.
3. Change in a Resident Dog’s Health or Age
Some dogs may sense that another dog in the household has become ill. And the healthier dog sometimes will attack the sick dog.
Another scenario is when a dog matures and challenges the older dog.
4. Changes in the Household or Routine
Any change in members of the family, such as when one leaves for college, can cause stress in a dog’s life.
Even changes in routines, such as occur when someone gets a new job, can be very stressful for a dog.
Some dogs find such changes very difficult and can’t adjust. As their stress level increases, so will the propensity to fight.
5. Changes in the Canine Social Group
When a dog leaves the home or a new dog joins, there’s a period of adjustment.
A more confident dog may have passed away and a new hierarchy is established between the remaining dogs. Or a new dog may challenge the established hierarchy.
6. Redirection When Dogs Become Overstimulated
Sometimes a dog will become too aroused by an event and attack whatever is nearby–including another resident dog.
Even though the stimulus is unrelated to the other dog, an attack can occur.
This can also happen when the owner or a visitor arrives or departs or even when the mailman delivers mail.
7. Underlying Anxiety
Some dogs with a stress or anxiety disorder may attack another dog when their stress crosses a threshold.
This can, for example, happen when a dog is noise sensitive. Even though he may be alright with regular household noises, if a new noise–like that from a delivery truck–occurs, he may become overstimulated.
And he may attack a nearby dog.
Some dogs have separation anxiety and, because they are overly stressed when an owner departs, may attack another dog.
8. Improper Socialization
A dog who was improperly socialized may be more likely to attack another dog. He might not properly read another’s body language.
For example, the other dog may be enticing him to play. But the unsocialized dog reads it as an attempt to fight.
9. Play May Escalate
Sometimes dogs may be playing appropriately. Then, the play escalates. One dog becomes too rough. A fight may break out.
10. Enclosed Spaces
When reactive or overly-stimulated dogs are in enclosed spaces, like during a car ride, dogs may fight.
11. Social Aggression
In social aggression, neither dog will defer to the other. This is not dominance and isn’t dependent on the dog’s age or breed.
12. Reaction to a Shock Collar
A dog who’s shocked with a shock collar is a stressed dog. Whether the owner is shocking the dog or the dog’s shocked on an invisible fence, he may fight with a nearby dog.
Not only is the dog stressed but he may also associate the pain with the nearby dog.
My husband was walking our rescued Lhasa apso Linkin when a pug attacked. Luckily, the dogs were separated quickly.
It turned out that the pug’s owner shocked the dog with an electric collar whenever a dog passed his home. He didn’t want the pug to leave his property.
Of course, there are better ways to keep your dog safe. And the fallout from the shock collar was obvious. The poor pug was very defensive against passing dogs.
13. Medical Reasons
Sometimes a dog may be in pain and, if the other dog gets too close or bumps into him, the dog in pain may attack.
There are many other reasons, such as a change in a dog’s thyroid levels, that can account for the way he behaves.
Warning Signs of a Fight
Read each dog’s body language. Of course, you have to look at the whole picture as no one sign necessarily indicates that a dog may fight. Separate them before things escalate to a fight.
Some of the body language that a dog shows prior to fighting:
- Baring teeth
- Ears raised high
- Raised hackles
- Stiffened body
The weaker dog may show signs of submission like tucked tail or flattened ears.
How To Prevent Fights
There are some measures you can take to help prevent fights. It’s better to prevent them than to have to stop them after they occur.
People and dogs can become injured when there’s a fight. Also, a dog will remember that he’s been attacked. It may be very difficult–if not impossible–for them to get along afterwards.
I’ve had as many as seven dogs at the same time (a Belgian tervuren shepherd, a shih tzu, a golden retriever, two shih tzus, and two Lhasa apsos). Three of them (the golden and Lhasas) were rescues.
It was quite a group with various natural instincts.
I always managed their environment and introduced a new member very carefully in order to avoid fights.
All play and interactions were observed. And if I saw that things started to get too rough, I would redirect the dogs to something else, like coming to me.
I don’t believe that dogs should “work it out.” There’s too much at stake. They may become severely injured.
A person attempting to break up a fight can too. And the dogs may never be able to live together again.
Depending on why they are fighting, there are various measures you can take.
Manage the Dogs’ Environment
If resources are an issue, you should do the following. Feed them separately. Give them high-value things like bones separately. Keep things that they’ll guard out of reach.
PRO-TRAINER TIP: In any case, when the situation cannot be managed successfully, it’s important to get professional behavioral help. Make sure to hire a behavior specialist who uses positive reinforcement and who has successfully managed such issues in the past.
I recommend getting professional help when a dog is guarding a person. It’s too dangerous to potentially have a fight between a dog with people nearby.
Also, don’t let dogs take bones or other desired objects from each other if there’s a chance they’ll guard them. They should have them separately as long as they don’t guard them against you.
Limit Rough Play
It’s great if your dogs play properly together. But don’t let things escalate to the point where a fight might occur.
Don’t let one dog mount another or get too rough pinning another. Even chase games can escalate when one dog reaches the other. And the chased dog may fight.
Train your dogs to come to you no matter what. A reliable recall is crucial. So, if you see things escalate, you can interrupt the play and praise and reward each dog with a small treat for coming to you.
Let the dogs settle down before allowing them to play again.
Redirect to something else to do if they’ve played long enough and are getting tired. A dog who is too tired will be more stressed and, therefore, more likely to fight.
Right now, I have a golden retriever, two shelties, an Aussie mix, and a Lhasa apso who all play together at various times.
They have different play styles and energy levels. I make sure I’m present and watch them playing.
If they’re getting too revved up or start to get rough, I call them over and praise and reward. If I think they’ve played long enough, we stop and I redirect them to something else to do, such as a puzzle toy. Luckily, this group doesn’t guard objects.
Give Each Dog His Own Space
It’s important that each dog who has had disagreements have his own space. Usually, this is important for any dog so that conflicts don’t arise.
So give them individual crates and beds.
Encourage Calm Behavior
Calmly praise and reward calm behavior. At first, work with each dog individually. Work without distractions, then add them as the dog is able to handle them.
Then, once each dog understands what’s expected, you can work with them together.
I believe in teaching a “settle” command, in which the dog learns to settle and be calm on cue.
It also helps if you can send them each to a place individually, such as two beds on opposite sides of the room.
Choose Dogs of Opposite Sex
This is just a tip some people recommend. As a general rule, male and female dogs are more likely to get long than two dogs of the same sex will.
Of course, there are many variables such as the dog’s genetics and socialization that play a role in whether he’ll get along with another canine.
And, if you want more than two dogs, this isn’t possible.
Allow the Dogs To Have Some Down Time
It’s important for dogs to not always be “on.” They need rest and some time alone.
Giving them such time will help them not be stressed and will help prevent separation anxiety.
(If they already have separation anxiety, it’s important to deal with that issue separately.)
It’s important for dogs to be trained. A trained dog has more confidence and understands what’s expected of him.
It can also help stave off any potential fights. You can call your dog to you. You can have him do a sit or down stay. Or any other behavior that helps him settle down.
Exercise is important for all dogs. But it can also help to avoid fights between dogs.
A dog who’s too excited can go over threshold. Then, even if he doesn’t start a fight another dog may.
My Aussie mix puppy Millie is a very high-drive dog. So, before she plays with my four-year-old Lhasa apso Ralphie, I make sure she’s had a sufficient amount of physical exercise.
Otherwise, she’d be too much for him. But, once she’s played ball for a while, she’s not too rough for Ralphie and he enjoys playing with her.
So it’s important to give your dogs an appropriate amount of exercise for their age and breed.
Mental exercise is as important to help tire out your pup. You can teach your dog tricks or give them puzzle toys.
Walk Dogs Separately
Sometimes dogs fight when they’re walked together. They may be very excited and stressed by sights and sounds around them. Some dogs redirect aggression at each other then.
In that cars, either walk them separately or have two people walk them at a safe distance apart.
Of course, you can hire a professional behavior specialist to work with the issue.
Don’t Leave the Dogs Alone Together
If your dogs have already fought, do not leave them alone together, as they may fight.
Even if they’ve never fought, if a dog is a recent addition, you won’t know how they’ll get along. So, better safe than sorry.
Use Counter-Conditioning and Desensitization
You want to change the opinion of the dogs towards each other. They should see each other and think that great things happen when the other appears.
That is, they get a great treat like a flow of pieces of chicken, when the other appears.
You can be in place with one dog on leash. I recommend putting each dog in a well-fitted harness for this exercise, because a tight collar can convey that something’s wrong.
Then, a helper appears with the other dog at a distance at which neither is reactive.
Pro-Trainer Tip: Use only very high-value treats for these exercises. Small pieces of chicken, hot dogs, Happy Howie’s meat roll, or cheese are great for this, as most dogs find them highly desirable. Use these treats only for these behavior management exercises.
When the dogs notice each other, they get a constant flow of the treat.. Then the dog with the helper goes out-of-sight and the treats stop.
Alternatively, the first dog can go out-of-sight and the dog with the helper remains.
Do this training exercise for a very short time, such as 20 seconds a time. Do three repetitions in each session.
If either dog goes over threshold and becomes reactive, end the session. Next time, do a shorter session or at a greater distance from each other.
Make sure that the dogs have received a sufficient amount of exercise before doing these behavior exercises.
Over time, you can decrease distance between them if the behavior modification is successful.
Engage in Enjoyable Activities Together
It’s important that the dogs have positive opinions of each other. So have them engage in safe, enjoyable activities together.
If they enjoy walks, have a helper to walk one of the dogs. Walk them parallel to each other but at a distance where neither is reactive.
Block the Outside View or Sound
If your dogs tend to fight when looking out the window, block the view. Some dogs go over threshold when they see something outside the window.
Some get overstimulated when they hear outside noises. So play a television or radio or white noise machine.
Be Calm in the Dogs’ Presence
Dogs read our body language and scent. I know it’s difficult when you have two or more dogs who may fight, but, as much as possible, be calm.
And don’t use a high-pitched voice that may over-stimulate the dogs.
Use Holistic Aids To Help Lessen Stress
There are many such devices you can use to help the dogs be calmer. There’s a product called Adaptil which comes in a plug-in or spray. The chemical in it is supposed to mimic the dog’s mother and can have a calming effect on dogs.
There’s also the Rescue Remedy in the Bach Flower Essences that can be put in a dog’s water or on something you give him to eat or on his tongue. This also may help de-stress a dog.
There’s even a CD called Through a Dog’s Ear that has calming music that’s been studied to help relax dogs.
Check with your vet before giving any internal products.
In any case in which household dogs don’t get along, I recommend that they have a veterinary check-up to determine whether there’s any physical problem.
In addition to a check-up, your vet may want to run tests such as a full thyroid panel or bloodwork.
How To Break Up a Fight
If there’s any chance you’ll be injured, try to get help. I realize that in some situations this may not be possible. So have certain devices ready in case this may occur.
But be advised that no method is guaranteed to work. It really depends on the dogs involved.
And any method may backfire and the dogs may become more aggressive and even redirect aggression on the person attempting to break up the fight.
This is why I really recommend first cutting off any possible fights before they begin.
Use a Bucket of Water or a Hose
If the dogs start to fight, dousing them with water may break it up.
Use Something To Separate Them
Get anything handy like a trash can lid, a chair, or a broom to separate them if possible.
Make a Loud Noise
Sometimes making a loud noise will distract them and cause the dogs to separate.
You can bang pans together, ring the doorbell, blow a whistle, use an air horn, or slam a door.
Throw a Blanket Over Them
Sometimes this can cause them to separate. Some dogs will stop fighting if they can’t see the other dog.
Use a Spray Made For the Purpose
There are citronella sprays such a Direct Stop or Spray Shield that can help break up some dog fights. Or if you have pepper spray, that may work.
Separate Them If You Have Two People
This is a last resort, as the dogs and people involved are likely to be injured. I highly recommend the other methods and would not personally use this, though some trainers recommend it.
This is called the wheelbarrow method. Each person grabs one of the two dogs by his rear legs and lifts them up and apart.
Be aware that the dogs may turn on the people, with horrible consequences.
LAST RESORT: Rehome a Dog
If you’ve tried everything but your dogs still can’t get along, you may want to consider rehoming one.
I know that this is a horrible thought. The dogs are our family.
But if you are unable to manage the situation and the dogs fight, each dog lives a very stressful life. And they may also become severely physically injured.
I rarely recommend this, as the situation can often be managed. But, in some cases, rehoming may be the kindest thing for everyone involved.
What Should You Do After a Fight?
Calmly remove the dogs to separate safe places.
If they know obedience commands, tell them to go to their crate or bed. Or have one in a sit or down stay while you lead the other to another location.
Check for Injuries and take the dogs to the vet if they’ve been injured. Note that some injuries may be internal and not visible.
What NOT To Do: DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME
The relationship between our dogs can be very complex at times. We need to learn what their interactions and body language mean so that we can manage their interactions.
It’s best to separate dogs before they go over threshold and fight.
There are some things that should not be used because of the risk of injury. Also, many of them don’t work and can make the situation worse.
Don’t Suppress a Growl
Even when you see one of your dogs growling at another, it’s best to redirect them away from each other.
Call one over to you. Send them to their individual crates or beds. Do whatever you can do to calmly separate them.
If you suppress a growl or other sign of aggression, it won’t change the dog’s mindset. Instead, it will teach him not to express a warning before he attacks.
Don’t Try To Pull Them Apart
Generally, doing so can cause grave injury to the dogs and the person attempting to separate them.
As stated above, some people recommend using the wheelbarrow method and have two peopl;e, each pulling one dog apart by their rear legs.
Some people even attempt to pull the dogs apart by their tails.
But this can cause injury to the dogs if they continue to fight or they may turn around and redirect their aggression on the people attempting to separate them.
Don’t Reach in and Attempt To Separate The Dogs
Even though we may instinctively want to do so, it can result in serious injuries.
Also, of course, no one should put his face near dogs fighting as can occur when attempting to separate them.
Don’t Use A High-Pitched, Excited Voice
Using a high-pitched voice or scream will probably over-stimulate a dog, leading to or escalating a fight.
Don’t Let the Dogs “Work It Out”
Years ago, people used to believe in letting dogs fight to work it out between them.
This is dangerous for both dogs and for nearby people.
Also, the dogs may never get along after such a fight.
It’s better to prevent fights than to intervene when one occurs.
Read each dog’s body language and calmly separate them before things escalate.
Obedience training and behavioral work are important in maintaining a peaceful household.
If a fight has occurred, attempt to break it up safely, such as by dousing the dogs with water or making noise.
I recommend hiring a behavioral expert to work this very serious issue through.
Have you dealt with your dog’s fighting?
If so, what did you do?
Tell us about your experience in the comment section below.
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Prince Charles’ favourite hunt has been banned from its traditional New Year meet – over health and safety fears.
The Beaufort Hunt in the Cotswold village of Tetbury, Glos., has been stopped following concerns of ”contact between riders and hounds with the general public”.
The hunt met with its hounds and horses on the town’s Rail Lands on the first Monday after Christmas.
But Tetbury Town Council asked the hunt to submit an “improved risk assessment” over this year’s meet, which “did not fully address concerns” over the narrow site.
Councillors have decided to ban the hunt from using its land completely after a vote on Monday (Dec 10).
Peter Martin, former deputy mayor, said the final debate “was very polarised and bordered on the surreal at times”.
Mr Martin, who raised the issue with the council, added that the “result has serious ongoing implications for hunts all over the country”.
He said: “In the end the quieter more rational voices won the day.
“The hunts have created a culture of exceptionalism around themselves whereby the public in general – and institutions like Town Councils in particular – simply assume what they are doing is not only legal but acceptable ‘in the countryside’.
“Very few question this or probe the details of what is actually happening with hunting, and those that do – like me – are vilified, intimidated and sometimes actually assaulted.
“The hunts hide behind a mask of respectability so they can continue to get away with killing animals and breaking the law right in front of our eyes, hiding in plain sight and buying us off with cheques to charity.
“I think the public are wising up to this and are now putting pressure on their democratic institutions to do something about it.”
The Rail Lands was previously formed of rough open ground but has since been developed into parkland with a community arts centre.
Announcing the ban, town clerk Stephen Holley said: “The decision to refuse consent was made on the grounds that the Hunt’s second Risk Assessment did not fully address concerns over the narrow site and contact between riders and hounds with the general public, including families with small children and pushchairs.
“Whereas the Rail Lands were previously rough open ground, they have recently been developed into attractive parkland with the Goods Shed Arts Centre as a focus for community activity.
“As a result of that development, the nature of the site on which the Hunt meets has changed, although the Hunt activity has not.
“In addition, the Council was conscious of the reputational damage associated with public protests and the risk of disorder.
“It was also aware of the National Trust’s experience of reputational damage following its decision to allow a Hunt to meet on one of its properties.”
Local resident Chris Giles said: “Clearly the site is not suitable for large numbers of horses, hounds and the hunt’s quad bikes.
“There was no event or traffic management plan at all despite the hunt proposing to enter and exit the site via the roads with fifty horses and a pack of hounds.”
Prince Charles is said to have purchased Highgrove, his home in Gloucestershire, to be close to the Beaufort Hunt and the polo clubs in which he played.
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Hand tools and fabrication machines
How will this artificially intelligent label maker work? The idea is as follows: take a picture of the stuff that needs a label, let AI detect the objects in the image and print out the labels on a piece of sticker paper. Let's get started!Project VideoHardware
To create our label maker, we'll be using a number of components, all attached to a Raspberry Pi as you can see in the Fritzing Diagram above.
For this project we used a Raspberry Pi 3B+, but it should also work perfectly with a Raspberry Pi 4.
If you're new to Raspberry Pi's, there's a great getting started tutorial right here.
Raspberry Pi Camera
As described above, the idea is to take a picture of the stuff that needs organizing. A great way to take pictures with a Raspberry Pi is by using a Raspberry Pi Camera. There's an excellent getting started guide about connecting and using a Pi Camera right here.
Adafruit Mini Thermal Receipt Printer
For the printing of the labels, we'll be using the Adafruit Mini Thermal Receipt Printer as it's an excellent way to print a bit of text. To learn more about the printer and how to set it up, check out this great learning guide by Adafruit.
This little receipt printer can print on rolls of thermal paper which is great, but then the labels aren't sticky. After some research, we discovered that rolls of thermal sticker paper meant for Paperang pocket printers have the same size as the rolls for the receipt printer, so we gave it a shot. Turns out it works brilliantly!
Last but not least, we'll need something to trigger the photo making and label printing. We chose for an arcade button we still had lying around, but you could of course use other types of buttons or things to start the label making process. It's surprisingly difficult to find a good tutorial about wiring up an arcade button. We ended up using the wiring instructions from this arcade button guide and combined them with the code example provided in this button guide.Code
With all our hardware tested and wired up, we'll need to write a bit of python code to make everything do exactly what we want it to do. No worries though, the complete code is added to this step!
DeepAI DenseCap API
The only part of our label maker we haven't really covered so far is the AI part. To label the objects in the image, we'll be using the DeepAI DenseCap API. Our code sends the taken picture to DeepAI and we get an array of labels back. To use this API, you'll need to make a free account on the DeepAI website and copy-paste your API key into the part of the code that says 'YOUR-API-KEY-HERE'.
In short, the provided code does the following:
In a never-ending loop, it will check if the button has been pressed.
If the button is pushed:
- The LED inside the arcade button will be turned on
- A unique filename will be made using the current date and time
- The Pi Camera turns on for a moment and takes a picture, which is given the unique filename
- The picture is sent to the DeepAI DenseCap API
- We wait to receive a JSON array containing captions of all the objects detected in the image
- We take the first caption, as that is the caption the AI is most certain of, and print that using the thermal receipt printer
If the button isn't pressed:
- Turn the LED inside the arcade button off
We've got our electronics working, now we just need to put them in something to keep all the bits together!
We measured the dimensions of the hardware and drew a box pattern based on this template on some scrap cardboard. We cut out the template as precisely as possible with a metal ruler and a utility knife.
We folded the box and found a nice place to put all the electronics.
To adjust the box to the label maker hardware we:
- Made a hole in the front for the lens of the Raspberry Pi Camera
- Used a giant needle to thread a bit of rope through the front of the box and through the attachment holes in the Raspberry Pi Camera to hold it in place
- Made a big round hole in the top for the arcade button
- Made a rectangular slot at the top for the labels to come out
- Added a cardboard platform to position the thermal receipt printer at the top of the box
- Made a small hole in the back for the two wires to exit
With all the holes and adjustments made, we first attached the Raspberry Pi Camera and the arcade button. Once these more fiddly parts were set, we glued the walls of the box together, but made sure to keep the top open. We assembled the hardware and used some flamingo duct tape to securely close the box at the top.Label All the Things!
The time has come, we can finally efficiently label all the things!
For starters, we thought The AI Label Maker should label itself. Maybe it was because we used the Not-So-Smart-But-Very-Wholesome-Yet-Slightly-Creepy Mirror to take the selfie, but somehow the label turned out to be "the window is white"?!
We've been having a great time labelling all our possessions and we'll be taking suggestions of stuff to label and sharing more of the generated labels on our Twitter and Instagram over the next couple of weeks!
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Police work is a career field that relies on apprenticeship in order for new people to learn skills and become highly qualified. In the last few years, our nation saw several examples of bad things that happen when police departments choose the wrong people to lead new officers. What we rarely see are the great examples of leaders who understand their role in the communities they serve. These corporals and sergeants do more than lecture to new officers about the importance of respect and community oriented responses to situations. Rather, these police leaders show their trainees how to interact with the public in a positive way that fosters cooperation instead of resistance. Police departments with quality leaders create trust in their communities based on mutual respect. These leaders walk the talk that Sir Robert Peel introduced in the 1800s. In these departments, officers do the right things because they see the rewards of treating people with respect, listening to people’s concerns, and their actions align with what they say they value.
Setting an example is a powerful tool that establishes trust with others. Your actions broadcast to how you expect your followers to behave. When your actions align with your personal and organizational guiding principals, you begin to create a culture of character that speaks louder than anything you, or your organization says. People judge us not but what we say is important; they judge us by what we show them is important through our actions. As a leader, your example should be your sharpest tool.
There are several ways leaders can sharpen their tool of positive example. Start by remembering the power of your example. As a leader, people emulate your behavior, which becomes the organization’s culture. If you treat others with honor and respect regardless of job, title, or position, those who follow you will act respectfully as well. When you keep your work space neat and tidy, it tells others your value order over disorder. Others will notice those times you step up to lend a hand with the dirty work demonstrating servant leadership. Your example builds a stage from which you project the values and guiding principals others come to know are important. When your behavior is aligned with organizational principals, you speak with authority when you both recognize the good work of those who follow you as well as those times you make corrections.
Another way to sharpen your example is to listen to what others say about your behavior. Others will talk about your behavior. Their comments let you know if you are engaged in behavior that sets a good example. Behavior that is out of line will be the subject of jabs in meetings, or sarcastic remarks over lunch. When you implore others to complete job performance evaluations on time and your direct reports’ evaluations are all over due, you might hear things like, “About that, when will my eval be completed?”, or “You mean like the way you finish evaluations?”. These comments may be said in a way that sounds funny. The real message is you need to set the example and complete the evaluations for your followers on time. They notice when you do not.
Your boss and peers are other vehicles for information about your behavior. They may comment your behavior seems off track. Even when you are a highly competent leader with good character, you will have days that are hard. In those times, your boss will likely cut you some slack. Your peers may express concern. As you continue to allow those difficulties to effect your behavior, you will find your peers express disdain and your boss becomes frustrated. Listen for those little clues for those you trust to change what is becoming unacceptable behavior back to actions aligned with the organization’s values.
Learning is another way to sharpen your tool of example. Whether it is a professional development event hosted by your employer, or a book you read and apply, when others see you learning, they know it is important for them to continue learning as well. By applying what you learn, you become a stronger leader and a better person. You reinforce the importance of learning by taking time to chat with those who recently attended a training event or other development task. Approach the conversation as a learner rather than a boss checking up on whether the person attended the seminars or spend the day on the beach. Doing this shows others you understand anyone can learn something from everyone. As a result, your power to influence others increases.
Setting an example is the single biggest thing you can do to develop character and demonstrate competence. Setting a good example shows others you know what you are asking them to do can be done. Good examples provide leaders power to influence others because they treat people with respect, ask questions that acknowledge their skills, and demonstrate the leader is willing to engage in the painful and enjoyable activities every organization has. These behaviors create trust with those who follow and lead you. You know if your example is aligned with organizational guiding principles by listening to others. Whether it is a direct report, a peer, or your boss, each provides clues about your behavioral alignment. Sometimes the feedback is direct and sarcastic. Other times, the feedback is received from another’s observations about the team’s performing. Learning provides you opportunities to demonstrate to others the importance of learning, and also provides tools to help you better evaluate your leadership actions. Learning also provides you the opportunity to acquire new skills to become a better leader. Model the behaviors you expect of others, and soon you will find they follow the example you set. Your example becomes the basis for trust with others.
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Last Updated on October 30, 2021 by Marco C.
As a new dog owner, do you understand the differences between AKC and CKC, and which of them gives the best services for the breed you want?
The American Kennel Club (AKC) and Continental Kennel Club (CKC) are the two of the most prominent clubs responsible for registering dog breeds worldwide.
The AKC is one of the oldest dog registration clubs going back to the 1880s. The CKC is much younger established in 1991. Dogs were the first pets to exist as pets since time immemorial.
They were kept as pets for various reasons but mainly their attitudes towards their master and helping in activities like guarding and hunting. These activities made them stand out above all the other pet animals.
The AKC and CKC are the two leading dog registration clubs that give an account of approximate breeds they recognize. Both clubs provide strict standards even though they are pretty different from each other.
In this article, we will discuss what each club stands for and its unique differences.
What Is The American Kennel Club – AKC?
AKC is a dog registration club founded in the 1880s. It was the first of its kind and for a long time, thus the popularity. AKC did not face competition until the 1990s when the CKC was formed.
This club is famous for its strict registration policies that govern the breeding of dogs. They do not allow inbreeding even if a dog is registered with them. If they realize that the policies of a certain breed are not being followed, they are quick to suspend its registration.
The AKC mixed breed registration is a No, and all its members understand that. Due to their strict registration policies, they have only 150 recognized breeds registered. They only register pure breeds and ensure this is done the right way by conducting constant DNA checks.
The American Kennel Club only allows breeding between registered AKC parents. This is a strict criterion that they follow to recognize a new dog breed. They also keenly monitor the cleanliness of the kennels and the dog’s DNA.
The pricing plans for registering with the AKC are different from the CKC. They charge both for litters and the canines, unlike CKC that does not.
What Is The Continental Kennel Club – CKC?
The Continental Kennel Club is a dog registration club. Only a mother should be registered as a member of CKC, while the father can have a certificate from any other organization recognized by this club.
Founded in 1991, it has a large number of recognized breeds, approximately 450 breeds, and they allow registration for both mixed and pure breeds. It is popularly known as the American Dog Factory attracting more dog breeders due to its lenient standards and increased facilities.
It is one of the biggest AKC competitors that allows inbreeding; they have faced backlash for saying they don’t care about the quality of the breed. These lenient measures have led to concerns from owners on mixing their dogs.
For registration, the CKC requires 3 photos and a signature for proof of a new breed. This is essential for owners to be able to recognize and retrieve their dogs.
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The Differences Between AKC and CKC
The differences in AKC and CKC are evident even if these two clubs undertake the same work.
|Full name||American Kennel Club||Continental Kennel Club|
|Established||Since the 1880s||In 1991|
|Registered breeds||150 pure breeds||450 dog breeds|
|Charges||For registration of canines and litters||For registration of canines only|
|Fees||Their fees are higher||Their fees are low as they charge for canines only|
|Parents||Both parents must be registered||Only the mother needs to be registered|
|Breeding||They only registered pure breeds and does not allow inbreeding||They register both pure and mixed breeds and allow inbreeding|
|Breeding parents||Both parents must be a pure breed||The mother is the only registered one; the father can be of a mixed breed|
|Rules||The rules are very stringent to avoid inbreeding, therefore have parents of pure breeds only.||The rules are lenient and do not follow the closed registry policies|
Which Is Better AKC Or CKC?
Having seen the various differences between AKC and CKC it is evident that one is more strict than the other. As a breeder, it is essential to do your research well before registering with any of the clubs.
Weigh both pros and cons of both clubs keenly before you choose where to register your dog. Remember everything, no matter how good it is, has its pros and cons – the secret is to choose the one with the most pros and fewer cons.
Can A CKC Dog Be Registered In AKC?
The AKC has very stringent rules and to be able to fit within their registration takes a lot of discipline from the breeder. You must be willing to allow your dog to go through a DNA test to verify the purity of its breed.
If you are all about 100% pure breeds, you can be, registered by both clubs. However, you must ask both companies for their consent to be registered with the other club.
These furry friends are a man’s best friend and this is not going to change any time soon. Currently, more and more dog registration clubs are coming up with most helping with dog breeding.
The AKC and CKC are the most prominent ones and require strict adherence to their standards and specific rules for dog owners before registration. Most people who have not been able to keep up with the AKC rules have registered with the CKC and vice versa.
Overall, there is a place for every breeder in these registration clubs. Though the differences in AKC and CKC are evident, each breeder can find a place to belong in these clubs.
So whether you are all about pure breeds or mixed ones, both have a place and can be registered in America in these prominent dog breeding and registration clubs.
Is your dog breed CKC or AKC registered? Please share with us your experience in the comments. It could enlighten us and a million others out here.
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Program: #07-08 Air Date: Feb 12, 2007
One of the two massive reconstructions for the Festival was the operatic oratorio by Marco Marazzoli written for Queen Christina of Sweden, after her stunning conversion to Catholicism; we'll hear a performance by the ensemble Le Poeme Harmonique.
We will also direct listeners to their web site, which will provide more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival (www.rnmusic.nl).
For its 25th anniversary, the entire 2006 Festival was dedicated to the early Italian 17th century.
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2006 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht.
NOTE: All of the music on this program was performed by the ensemble Le Poeme Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre. It is dedicated to one work, the vast opera/oratorio by Marco Marazzoli (c.1602/5-1662),La Vita humana ovvero Il trionfo della pieta. As the program notes:
The conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden was a welcome surprise for the Counter-Reformation. With her embrace of Catholicism, she turned her back on the Protestant empire which her father Gustav II had so painstakingly conquered, giving the Catholic clerics a golden opportunity to show the success of their efforts by welcoming Christian to Rome in the grandest way possible.
Her entry into the mother church was given added luster with many grand receptions and several operas. For her baptism in Antwerp, she asked for a reprise of Zamponi's Ulisse nel'Isola di Circe (originally for the marriage of Philip IV). In Innsbruck, at the Hapsburg court where Christina attended masses for the first time, Antonio Cesti composed L'Argia in her honor. And finally, in Rome, the winter of 1655/6 was entirely devoted to the illustriuous convert, that opera season dubbed "carnevale della regina." On Jan. 31st, the premiere of La Vita humana ovvero Il trionfo della pieta was held in the Teatro alle Quattro Fontane at the Palazzo Barberini, with room for 3000 spectators.
The Barberinis had come to power during the reign of their Pope Maffeo as Urban VIII; at the same time Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi became well known for his literary efforts. He combined the Spanish theatrical tradition with the Italian commedia and created a new genre. While La vita humana was written as a sacra rappresentazione (a genre already out of fashion), in this work the questions of life are presented by easily recognizable personae.
Human life (Vita humana) struggles with the choice between the pleasures of the world on the one hand and a devout life an heavenly bliss on the other. Engravings from the time reveal the original staging: the first scene shows two robust fortresses representing each camp, with Vita's narrow and winding path in between. Special effects were used in the second act as Vita enters the garden of Pleasure where a fragrant cart of flowers gives off a beautiful scent and a fountain spouts real water...and, of course, there were fireworks at the end.
As was expected, Christina is honored in the opera's prologue, but Rospigliosi added another clever homage--when Vita longs for Pleasure, Innocence conjures up the image of St. Birgitta of Sweden, who came to Rome in 1349 and founded a religious order. The spectacle was not wasted on the guest of honor; after the public premiere, she asked for a second (private) performance, and just days later name Marco Marazzoli her musica da camera. And her friendship with Rospigliosi would lead to the founding of the first public opera house in Rome, the Tor di Nona.
MARCO MARAZZOLI (c.1602/5-1662): La Vita humana ovvero Il trionfo della pieta.
HUMANA: Claire Lefilliatre, s.
INNOCENZA: Camille Poul, s.
COLPA: Isabelle Druet, mz.
INTENDIMENTO: Jean-Francois Lombard, a.
PIACERE: Arnaud Marzorati, b.
Le Choeur de Chambre de Rouen
Le Poeme Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, conductor.
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Plight of the possum
Looks like the death knell may have been muffled a bit for the New Year’s Eve Possum Drop at Clay’s Corner up in the N.C. mountains.
The folks in the Opossum Capital of the World have a reverence for the ubiquitous marsupial. The annual event features some praying and Christian singing, honoring of war veterans and a review of some former possum queens before they lower the guest of honor in a cage to usher in the new year.
Not long ago a judge said lowering possums as a celebration of anything goes against the man-possum compact. "Citizens are prohibited from capturing and using wild animals for pets or amusement," Judge Fred Morrison wrote in his ruling. "Hunters must afford wild animals the same right Patrick Henry yearned for: 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'"
That means we are not allowed to be amused by possums, but we can sic our hounds on them, chase them up a tree and blow them into limbo and a stewpot. That’s legal. Lowering ain’t. Clay’s Corner folks say the show will go on within the bounds of law. I’m on pins and needles to see what they come up with.
If I were a possum, I’d like to be one at the Clay’s Corner event. He gets fed pretty well, kept in comfortable conditions and once the festivities are over, he’s released back into the wild to joust with buzzards over carrion. Let’s face it, being lowered in a cage is not quite the equivalent of riding Thunder Road at Carowinds.
I can’t help but believe the possum drop is a little more, well, considerate of this creature which many zoological experts say roamed the earth side-by-side with dinosaurs. Possums are generally shy. You are not apt to be attacked by one. Possums usually wait until night to go about their quest for food and supporting their general lifestyle. They will climb a tree or play dead just to avoid you. They eat our leftovers. They eat other dead animals along the roadway. Why else do you think you see so many dead possums in the road? If you are lost in the woods and can find some possum tracks, just follow them. Eventually they will lead you to a hard surface road. It’s pretty much a given that when Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park Bomber, was on the run, he subsisted on possum meat. Why do you think he was such a slippery quarry for the feds? Rudolph is in a cage forever and is not likely to be lowered in any New Year’s Eve countdown, which should keep Judge Morrison happy.
The plight of the possum was brought to mind recently when, during a meeting to determine what stories we would put into the next edition, one of our highly educated and sophisticated associates asked if I had ever heard about people shooting mistletoe out of trees with a rifle or shotgun. The question was not surprising. I am often called upon to comment on the ancient ages, unexplicable behaviors, erratic statements of the disenfranchised, and the antics and social mores of southern culture.
“Well, sure I have,” I replied. I took a deep breath and collected my thoughts preparatory to lecturing on my personal attempts at harvesting mistletoe and a collateral story I once heard. I was just before holding forth when I realized the meeting was moving quickly ahead without me.
As a youth, I shot — make that tried to shoot — mistletoe out of oak trees for Christmas garnishments. I had a business plan under which I would harvest tons of the parasite and make a goodly profit selling it, enough to finance my Christmas habits. Of course, that’s when .22 cartridges were only pennies apiece. The only chink — and it turned out to be a chink large enough to drive a Peterbilt through — was that I was a lousy shot. I could blame the sights on my rifle, the cross winds, the devious sun, the icy temperatures on my fingers, but in the end, the 20/100 vision got me.
I once got into a stray conversation with a top flight (he claimed) mistletoe shooter. He pontificated at length about the proper ways to harvest-by-firearm. He advised against the .410 shotgun (“tears up your product too bad.”) He stuck with a Henry .22 of which he was particularly proud. As bad as I was at shooting mistletoe, he was much better, he boasted. I can take any man’s braggadocio to a point, but when the topic of entanglement arose, he took the cake.
“When you shoot a large bunch and it gets caught in the limbs and branches and won’t fall out, how do you get it down? Keep shooting?” I asked.
That’s when he told me he had trained a possum to fetch such pesky mistletoe. He claimed his supple marsupial chum could crawl out on any limb, grab the prize, and drop it to the ground. He returned to the companionship of his human to claim the only pay he expected — sweet potatoes and ripe persimmons in season.
I guess if Hercules could clean the Augean stables, a man can teach a possum to fetch. I’d pay a bushel of sweet ‘taters to see it though, wouldn’t you?
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Red cherries, especially the ‘tart’ variety is a superfruit, high in photochemical known as anthocyanins and in common with other fruits and vegetables red in colour, it has been shown to be of benefit to individuals who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. It has the ability to reduce pain and inflammation and contains two of the most potent anti-carcinogenic properties, isoquercitrin and queritrin.
Cherries are native to Asia and are related to the plum, peach, apricot, and almonds to name a few, the wild variety of which is known to be poisonous. It is high in Vitamin A, C, pectin and potassium which play a significant part in the prevention of heart disease. It also helps to reduce high blood pressure, lowers LDL cholesterol and is effective in reducing belly fat. It also protects the walls of the arteries and retards the sticky build-up of plaque within them.
In scientific studies, red cherry extract has shown to be as effective as non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs with none of the associated side effects. It also has the ability to reduce the pains associated with muscle aches and strains after undertaking strenuous physical exercises and the pain and inflammation which occur in cases of gout and other joint pains caused by the accumulation of urate crystals in the synovial fluid (joint fluid).
The deep red colour of the cherry contains flavanols which not only protect the plants from disease, but research has shown that when ingested in sufficient quantities it also protects the human body from disease. Flavanols have high levels of antioxidants which help to neutralize free radicals. In recent years, cherry juice has hotly rivalled the very popular carrot juice for its healing and disease prevention properties. Recent research has uncovered evidence to suggest that red cherries also contain melatonin which is a naturally occurring enzyme, necessary to maintain the body’s sleep pattern.
Twenty cherries contain sufficient anthocyanins to neutralise the enzymes which cause tissue inflammation. However, health experts recommend a daily dose of two tablespoons of concentrated cherry juice, equivalent of 50 to 60 cherries diluted in 250ml of water. The fruit can be preserved and eaten in many ways, dried, candied, juiced, tinned, glazed, frozen or fresh and can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes.
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Shocking, unbelievable, unacceptable: Congress on India-China faceoff
New Delhi, June 16, 2020
The Congress has termed as "shocking" the news of killing of three Indian soldiers including an officer by the Chinese side at the Line of Actual Control in Galwan Valley.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, "Shocking, Unbelievable & Unacceptable! Will the Raksha Mantri confirm?"
The Congress has been raising the issue and demanded clarity on it. "Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi had also questioned about the stand-off but we're snubbed by the government," he said.
An Indian Army Colonel, the Commanding Officer of an infantry battalion, and two soldiers were killed during a clash with Chinese troops at one of the stand-off points in the Galwan Valley on Monday night.
Indian Army in a statement said that during the de-escalation process, which is underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place on Monday night with casualties. "The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers," Indian Army said.
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The Camelot Index was developed by Reports founding editor Hal Hovey several years ago. It is based on the premise that most people share a common set of preferences: fewer taxes are better than more, small class sizes are better than large, low death rates are better than high, less crime is better than more and so on.
Many studies incorporate such preferences, but they often focus on just one area. For example, a study may attempt to identify the “healthiest” state but ignore the fact that health care isn’t delivered in a vacuum; it may be traded off with something else.
The Camelot Index brings together measures of economic vitality, health, education, crime, society and government. In the current Index, many states rank consistently across measures, while others do quite well on some measures but not on others. The historic dominance of the Plains continues, with four states ranking among the top five (but once again, not at the very top). | <urn:uuid:4a4883dd-2433-4488-8a58-0f66eccdb7b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ffis.org/state_policy_reports/vol-28_is-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965411 | 199 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The 14 tons manufactured in Syria are suspected to be the work of the Jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
Italian police are investigating the origin of 14 tons of amphetamines manufactured in Syria, a cache intercepted Wednesday that could represent a world record. The seizure, made at the port of Salerno (south of Naples), has a market value of one billion euros, according to a statement by Italian police that says it is the “largest seizure of amphetamines in the world”.
According to the investigation led by the Naples prosecutor’s office, the drug was found in three containers, containing industrial paper cylinders and machinery, with some 84 million tablets inside.
These multilayer paper cylinders, about two metres high and with a diameter of 1.40 metres (probably made in Germany), made it possible to conceal the tablets placed in the inner layers without being detected by a scanner.
The tablets were sealed with the symbol “Captagon”, a drug classified as a narcotic, also known as a “jihad drug”, according to the researchers. “It is known that the Islamic state finances its own terrorist activities mainly through the trafficking of synthetic drugs produced in Syria, which has become the world’s leading producer of amphetamines in recent years,” the Guardia di Finanza statement said. | <urn:uuid:e0ab856a-9d80-49e0-888c-b9dec598973f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theallineed.com/news/20200703/the-largest-amphetamine-seizure-in-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974569 | 278 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Vascular Plants of Poland. An annotated check - list. 2020. 526 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.- Bilingual (Polish / English).
A new edition of the critical list of Polish vascular plants (the previous one was published in 2002 as part of the series Biological diversity of Poland, as volume 1). The new list includes 7,400 Latin names and 5,760 names of Polish species and subspecies, a total of over 4,400 taxa, 500 more than in the previous edition. Apart from the list, there is also an outline of the systematics and indexes of generic names with an indication of belonging to Polish families and names with references to Latin names. Text in English and Polish. | <urn:uuid:2deda6f1-eac1-47e8-96f1-a43c69559198> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koeltz.com/en/vascular-plants-of-poland-an-annotated-check-list-2020-526-p-hardcover-bilingual-polish-english | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922077 | 155 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The Facultative Carnivore
How choosing a diet of exclusively meat–not plants!–can restore your health.
(A hypertext book-in-progress)
Some low carb dieters are turning to an all-meat, “zero-carb” diet, claiming it can take your health to the next level. This book explains why that’s not actually crazy, whether and how to try it out, and what the science really says about meat and plants.
Even before the Atkins Diet heyday in the 1970’s, many popular weight loss plans have leveraged the fat burning power of ketosis to enhance results. Nonetheless, misplaced concerns about the health effects of animal fat and protein have led to a movement toward more plant-based approaches, even within the low carbohydrate diet community. Moreover, there is widespread misunderstanding of the metabolic state of ketosis itself, leading to fears about long term effects.
It may come as a surprise then, that a growing number of people, dissatisfied with the failures of conventional medicine and meeting only partial success with low carbohydrate diets, have found astonishing health benefits from eschewing plants altogether in favor of a diet consisting of exclusively meat and other animal sourced foods. While the necessary research required to verify the robustness of these results has yet to be carried out, the number of anecdotes is too large to ignore, and includes numerous reports of full or partial remission of common conditions considered incurable, such as arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and recurrent depression.
In this book, I describe my own journey from my mostly vegetarian and eventually vegan beginnings to my current carnivorous lifestyle. In an unexpected turn of events, a whimsical foray into eating only meat eliminated not just my excess weight, but all symptoms of my then-progressing bipolar disorder. Faced with this perplexing result, I turned my study from mathematics, linguistics, and cognitive psychology to the subjects of nutrition, physiology, biochemistry, and anthropology. Drawing from these fields, I will show how:
- Recommendations to eat a large and varied amount of fruits and vegetables are based on inconclusive and questionable science
- Heavy reliance on animal sourced foods, including animal fat, was critical to the evolution of our brains
- Ketosis is not only natural, but is normally involved in human brain development before and after birth
- Evolutionary forces shaping plants have resulted in some less than savoury health effects
- Removing plants from the diet altogether may improve your health
But first, I will walk you through the basics of a carnivorous diet of the type I have thrived on for a decade: how to start, what to eat, and what not to worry about.
The word facultative comes from faculty, meaning “ability”, or “choice”. Intuitively, it sounds like facultative carnivore should mean an animal that merely has the ability to eat meat. In fact, biologically, a facultative carnivore is primarily a meat-eater, and does not thrive without animal foods. What makes a carnivore facultative is its special ability to subsist for a time on just plant foods. It’s a useful adaptation for survival. Humans, like dogs, are facultative carnivores.
However, we do as humans have choice in what we eat, whether to thrive or merely survive. I am a carnivore by choice; a facultative carnivore in both senses.
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The training is very intensive and teaches therapists not only how to offer a treatment that is effective and of high quality, but also how to address any emotional issues that can be “hidden’ inside the face. This to be able to deliver not only physical but also emotional healing.
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Back and Body Massage are the most in demand treatments in a spa everywhere in the world. It means it is not only an important source of revenue but also it focusses the importance of delivering those massages in the best possible way. The key for delivering an optimum massage is to develop the emotional intelligence of the therapist . Aleksandrowicz System® provides therapists with very effective, injury free techniques that can be tailor made according to clients needs. It teaches how to be consistence in delivering massage day after day without burn out but with postural awareness and self confidence. How to continuously offer the human experience to clients, communicate powerfuly and stay motivated and curious. | <urn:uuid:e6bee6e9-bd3f-4ef2-8f29-bd47b568fcc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beata.website/spa-training | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.944357 | 874 | 1.578125 | 2 |
“Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.”
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PCP offers a full package to deliver AR solutions.
The primary application is to use images in your publication to trigger multimedia presentations like video, response mechanisms or even “Buy It Now options”, all picked up by the camera in a Smartphone or tablet.
We can create a ‘skinned’ App or a channel within a generic app which will be free for your readers and subscribers to download on either Apple or Android.
We can offer advice on easy to use instructions for readers and users.
AR content can be added to anything you print. Once a marker has been created and uploaded the video it triggers can be updated. For example sections of a catalogue could be updated every week.
Rob Grass – Business Development Manager at Precision Colour Printing said:
“Augmented Reality is a great method to help your customers really experience what your product has to offer. It delivers a unique experience no other method can, demonstrating your product and brand as if it was really in the room with the consumer. It makes customers feel like they’re part of the story and experience.”
“It can also help drive traffic to your website.”
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Now this may be a idea that is very tough for most people, and I have struggled with it for a long time myself. As you know, there are so many things that people,we hear, read, and see about which,that give us momentary determination. I observed a feature about a successful business man and am excited about doing the same. Seeing as he overcame the odds, I presumed that I possibly will too. This is conjointly the identical when it attains to diets, or studying something that may perhaps come very handy in the near by future such as a foreign language. Generally the dilemma is that even though we see or reed about the results, these stories regularly leave out the mental state and the laborious work that these individuals went through in order to achieve what they now know.
There are plenty of times I remember when I set off on a fresh routine, just to get pessimistic a few days later and turn back around. This became exceedingly unmistakable after I started going back to the gym, I think I started and stopped around three times until I finally got got myself to stick with it. Now, even after numerous months of scheduled exercise any advance in volume is met with exceptional resistance by both my mind and body. A couple of months back I moved from a three to a six day per week routine and am still experiencing the pain of that commitment.
In order to better Imagine what I am talking about, I would like for you to think about the space shuttle for a minute. In the onset in order to lift of there are huge additional fuel rockets hooked up to it in order to lift it off of the planet. After a few miles into space, these rockets come off and the rocket is able to push the extra way with its own boost. The moment in space the use of fuel is minimum as the propulsion takes over. The only time fuel is employed at that point is when the crew has to make steering adjustments. Effectively, our bodies are the same.
Whenever we initiate a new undertaking, whether it is learning a new skill or beginning a new strategy we hit the gravity barrier. In the middle of day one and day ten we defy gravity. This is where all of the positive imagining and energy has to be employed in order to not stop or diverge from our original plan. Just after day ten we come upon resistance, such as what is the point or wasn't it much less difficult to just not waste time. At day twenty we finally commence feeling slight resolution as our mind begins its acclimation process and begins to get rid of its grip and leave us alone. This commonly last until about the thirtieth day when the program we embarked on grow to be a pattern. This is now straightforward to do, and continues as such aside from if we insert on one more routine. If you can always remember this detail, it will be much easier to get by those times when you are just so ready to just throw in the towel on your dream.
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Is travel to Spain still restricted?
U.S. citizens can travel from the United States to Spain: On non-essential travel (such as tourism or business) if they show they are vaccinated or have a recovery certificate.
Can British citizens still travel to Spain?
Under the Spanish government’s current measures, you can only enter Spain from the UK for tourism purposes if you can show valid proof of meeting the vaccination requirements set out above or a medical certificate certifying that you have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 6 months prior to travel.
Are Spain allowing tourists 2021?
Travellers from most European Union and Schengen Area countries are allowed to enter Spain without being subject to the quarantine requirement as long as they have low infection rates.
What are the Covid rules in Spain?
social distancing of 1.5 metres. obligatory use of face masks in enclosed public spaces and at some large outdoor events (see Use of facemasks) abide by any safety measures put in place by establishments such as hotels, bars, shops and restaurants to reduce the risk of COVID-19.
Do you need a Covid test to fly to Spain?
Yes, if you meet the requirements to enter Spain, you may travel, presenting a document/certificate certifying vaccination against COVID-19, a negative diagnostic test or recovery against COVID-19, according to the provisions of current legislation relative to the health controls to be carried out at the points of …
Do I need a Covid test to fly within Spain?
All passengers in a country or risk zone (except for children under 12 years of age) must provide one of the following supporting documents with the requirements established by the health authority: be vaccinated against COVID -19, recovered from COVID-19 or a diagnostic test (such as PCR or rapid antigen test), …
Can I still travel to Spain after Brexit?
Will I need a visa to travel to Spain after Brexit? The majority of UK citizens will not need a visa to travel to Spain. The country still permits visa-free access to British visitors for up to 3 months for tourism and business purposes. However, British nationals will soon need a visa waiver to enter Spain.
Can I travel to Spain after Brexit?
You will not need a visa to travel to Spain after Brexit if you plan on staying for fewer than 90 days, even though Britain left the European Union and its transitional arrangements at the end of 2020. This is because there is a visa-free travel arrangement between the EU and the U.K. for short-stay visits.
Can I travel to the Canary Islands from the UK?
Travellers who reach Spain’s Balearic and the Canary Islands from the UK are required to present a valid vaccination certificate in order to be permitted entry without being subject to additional entry rules, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
Is Spain on the amber list today?
The Government has announced the results of the latest travel review, with key European destinations like Spain, France, Portugal and Greece remaining on the amber list.
Are the Canary Islands on the green list?
Year round sunshine and the Canary Islands’ green list status make Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura a popular option for half term and beyond.
How long can I stay in Spain?
In other words, if you visit Spain for a short period of time without having a residence permit, whether your country of origin required you to apply for a tourist visa or not, you can stay for a maximum of 90 days before you actually have to leave or obtain a legal residence permit.
Is it mandatory to wear mask in Spain?
It is mandatory for people over the age of six to wear a face mask in the following circumstances: a) In all enclosed public spaces and enclosed spaces open to the public. b) At large outdoor events where attendees are standing.
Do you have to wear a mask on the beach in Spain?
Outdoors in natural spaces where it is possible to maintain a safety distance of 1.5 m. This includes beaches, mountain trails and you also don’t need to wear a mask when sunbathing on the beach or by the pool, as long as the safety distance is respected.
Are the shops open today in Spain?
Opening hours of shops in Spain
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As I meet with clients, I often discover a misconception about what a Will accomplishes. “If I have a Will in place, then I can avoid probate, correct?” is the sort of question and assumption I frequently encounter. While a Will serves several important functions and is a key component of most estate planning, it does not avoid probate. In fact, the only way that a Will is utilized is through the probate court. It is an effective and important tool—but will NOT keep your property out of probate. Fortunately, there are several tools and strategies that can indeed streamline your estate planning, avoid probate and help you accomplish your planning goals. These often include a trust, a beneficiary deed or other strategies, but of course every individual and every situation is different and requires individualized attention and planning. | <urn:uuid:5f7f037c-a1dd-4e77-87f5-9bdc18cf25d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sch-law.com/articles/?p=311 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960106 | 170 | 1.742188 | 2 |
A recent segment of WRAL’s Tar Heel Traveler recaps the story of a mummy nicknamed “Spaghetti,” that became a bit of an institution in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Spaghetti was the name posthumously given to the mummy of Consetto Formico, a carnival musician murdered in 1911 during the carnival’s visit to nearby McColl, South Carolina, just under 8 miles away from Laurinburg.
Cansetto’s father brought his son’s body to McDougald funeral home in Laurinburg where it was embalmed. However, the body was never buried because Formico’s father did not return with the rest of the bill he had promised to pay. The body was eventually moved to the garage of the funeral home, where it became a local (and macabre) tourist attraction.
In the early 1970s, the sensational story made its way to Congress, and two representatives attempted to pressure the funeral home, still owned by the McDougald family, into burying the body. The WRAL segment credits Congressman Biaggi with the final burial of the mummy, but an article from the Greensboro Daily Times October 12, 1978 gives the impression that the funeral home resented the intrusion of Congress. Two years later, the body was finally buried after members of the local community offered to pay for it. The article states:
“The politicians became interested, particularly an Italian congressman from New York. He and Rep. Charles Diggs (D-Michigan) tried to pressure Hewitt into burying Spaghetti. At one point, representatives of the state attorney general’s office came around. Then the Italian congressman sent $15 by mail (postage paid by the U.S. government) to pay for the burial. Hewitt [McDougald] sent it back. The only message was ‘This stamp paid for by McDougald’s.’ Finally, in 1972, a group of townspeople headed toward the aging brick mansion which serves as a funeral home. They wanted to buy the top of the line, put Spaghetti in it and bury all the publicity.”
Spaghetti was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Laurinburg, but unfortunately, all the publicity was not buried. According to the Greensboro Daily Times article, Spaghetti’s corpse was listed for sale in a 1978 catalogue put out by a Wisconsin company called Freak Enterprises. | <urn:uuid:530ef438-b3e3-4e30-88ef-7623e4b00784> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/2009/01/20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974799 | 510 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Agile User Experience & User-Centred Design
We do not have any public dates for this course at present but we can run any of our courses at your premises. Contact us for details.
Agile development can be extremely effective in producing business-focussed solutions but special care must be taken to include user experience and usability through user-centred techniques.
This one-day course shows how to integrate User-Centred Design with Agile methods such as Scrum to create great user experience. The course builds on our research into empathizing skills and takes an 'emotionally intelligent' approach to selling UCD within technology-led teams.
On this page:
Full day (9:30 pm to 5:00 pm)
You will learn how to address usability and user experience within an Agile team through the persuasive use of user-centred design techniques and quantitative evidence.
- Understanding Agile, users and the relationship between them
- Promoting empathy with UCD techniques (empathetic design)
- Knowing what evidence will be most effective (persuasive facilitation)
- Adding value to an Agile team with UCD
- Extensive bibliography and further reading
- 'Up-front' versus Agile UCD
- Conceptual models
- User stories
- Usability testing
- UX maturity of Agile teams
- Outsourcing UCD activities
- Adding value to the Agile team
- Design maps, sketches and wireframes
Usability, UX and UCD practitioners trying to integrate UCD activities within Agile teams. (Managers and others are welcome to attend, but some familiarity with UCD techniques is required.)
- I attended your workshop and wanted to let you know that some of your ideas have been extremely helpful for my company. We've done a complete 360 from waterfall to agile and everyone's loving it. Thanks!!! -- Maria Emerson, User Experience Manger
- Excellent, well paced
- Fully met my needs on how to use UX techniques in Agile development
- Instructor was very, very good at presenting and very knowledgeable
William Hudson is a User Experience Strategist who consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design, user experience and usability. He has over 40 years experience in the development of interactive systems, initially with a background in software engineering. William was the product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensable tool in major film studios. He has specialized in interaction design and human-computer interaction since the late 1980's. William has written and taught courses that have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He is the founder and principal consultant of Syntagm, a consultancy specializing in the design of interactive systems established in 1985.
William has presented papers, talks and tutorials at a number of international conferences including CHI, UPA and Nielsen Norman Group Usability Week.
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WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Web Services Problem Determination
An IBM Redpaper publication
Note: This is publication is now archived. For reference only.
Web services-related problems can occur when your application acts as a Web services client to a remote Web service or as a Web service that is accessed by external clients. Symptoms of a Web services problem would include:
- Web services errors and exceptions that appear in the JVM logs
- Unexpected Web services behavior
- Problems with Web services tooling, such as the Java2WSDL and WSDL2Java scripts
- Error or warning messages that begin with WSWS.
This paper covers problems that occur during development of Web services applications (WSDL2Java errors) and deployment of these applications to WebSphere Application Server. It also covers problems that occur in the Web services engine.
It does not cover problems with Web services gateway, service integration bus, WSIF, or Web services security.
It is applicable to WebSphere Application Server on distributed platforms, i5/OS, and z/OS.
Problems that occur during development
Problems deploying Web services applications
Problems that occur during runtime
Collecting diagnostic data
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How can research project impact be meaningfully related to the SDGs and their indicators?
Frequently, a project’s contribution to the SDGs is summarised as a tick-box exercise. This means that much of the project team’s contextual knowledge and assumptions about causal links remain implicit. This in turn risks reducing the ability to maximise the potential for a robust case for support and could also lead to much impact being lost in the translation between the global goals, expected project outcomes and contextual determinants of development impact.
There is an MS Team Space for the SDGs at Warwick. Staff and students at Warwick can access the space directly using this link.
Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Jeffrey D. Sachs1, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Mariana Mazzucato, Dirk Messner, Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Johan Rockström
Nature Sustainability, September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0352-9
This is a widely cited article that presents a way of approaching the complexity of the SDGs by breaking them down in to six transformations that it describes as the modular building blocks for sustainability. The changes to social, economic and political activity, it suggests, will transform the use of resources, contributing towards the SDGs. There is a really useful section on implementation, and we were pleased to see a focus on stakeholder engagement and co-design.
In September 2020, Warwick launched its first report in to the Sustainable Development Goals. The report was a first milestone in a commitment to promote further engagement from the academic community and invite a broad and inclusive range of stakeholders to start a conversation about sustainable development. In November 2021, Warwick's SDG Advisory Group launched its second report on Warwick's contribution to the SDGs. The report highlighted that there was already a lot of excellent research at Warwick which addresses specific individual SDGs but that it was harder to identify research projects that explicitly targeted multiple, interconnected goals. The second report was an attempt to provide some inspiring examples of work which broadly adopts a nexus thinking approach. | <urn:uuid:bf165cd7-e44d-4ed6-b569-740181520fe5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/resources/sdgs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.926693 | 597 | 2.28125 | 2 |
There is a fence all around the kindergarten and the gates are always closed. Only the adults are allowed to open the gate and parents only let their own children out of the kindergarten area.
Scarves, nacklaces and strings
There have been serious accidents in Norway where children have gotten stuck in jackets-, strings on a hat or scarves. We will therefore ask you that strings will be removed and that the children only use loose balaclavas around their necks instead of scarves.The children must not be wearing long necklaces of different kinds as decoration or for playing.
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Soundarapandian was firm in his idea. “Thalaiyva (addressing his boss Sri Sukurama Chetti), this is the only way we can send our goods to Europe and hit the EIC where it hurts the most. Otherwise, workers of Bengal and our own people will go hungry without any work. Since generations, their family knows only cultivation, weaving and dyeing.”
Sri Sukurama Chetti, however, was worried. The East India Company (EIC) had helped his family to export the famous Bengal and Salempuri textiles in European markets directly without the Arab middlemen. This had resulted in phenomenal increase in the family wealth. But now, with the new regulations placed in London in 1701 and the EIC’s ever tightening grip on sea routes in the Bay of Bengal, his access to Europe was dwindling. The EIC had placed huge taxes on textile exports and any export to Europe had to be done on their ships which were even costlier. He knew he had to do something.
He turned to Soundarapandian. “But why Sundar? (he always called him by this name) Why do you trust this pirate?”
“Thalaiyva”, said Soundarapandian, “Zubair Pasha has a long history of enmity with General David Burns. Burns has thwarted many of his attempts of looting EIC merchant ships, but he has also been successful many times. He was shot in the arm once by Burns and he holds a personal grudge. That aside, his contacts in Ceylon and Arabian Sea are beyond compare. He is the only one who can do this.”
Sri Sukurama Chetti took a deep breath and clutched the gold pendant tied to his necklace. An image of Lord Murugan was inscribed in it. He believed it gave him strength in tough situations and this was something which would decide the family’s future and that of scores of people engaged in the textile industry in Bengal and South India.
Finally he spoke up. “Let’s do it”. I will ask Amarenda Goswami (textile baron of Bengal and trading partner), to set up a meeting with Zubair Pasha. You take Taraknath and meet him secretly and tell me what he says.”
Soundarapandian was elated and bowed down and bid him goodbye. 3 months later, he met Taraknath at Tamraplipta (present day Tamluk). Taraknath had a worried look.
“What’s the matter Tarak? Did the wife scold you again”?” asked Soundarapandian with a laugh and patted his back. “Don’t start again, Sundar!” replied Taraknath with a smile. “She might scold me, but we both know that it is for my own good. I was worried about our meeting.”
“Why? Is he not coming?”
“It is not that. He is coming. But what I have heard is that he is a nutcase. Only God knows what he will say to our proposition”.
Zubair Mohammad Pasha was the most feared pirate in the Bay of Bengal. His fiery eyes, huge moustache and beard, which hung till his belly, could send shivers down anyone’s spine. People swore by his immense physical strength and cunning ways of giving the British EIC the slip. He considered himself Robin Hood to the poor villages which dotted the coast of Bengal, Orissa and the Arakanese province of Burma. The EIC had placed a bounty on his head, but he always managed to avoid being caught. The only man who could get close to him was David Burns, but then too, Zubair Pasha fled with only a gun-shot to his arm. Since that day, Zubair Pasha had only one aim – to kill David Burns.
Soundarapandian spoke first. “Pasha Bhai.” he began, “our textile exports….”
Zubair Pasha raised his hand and bellowed “I know what you want from me. Tell me what do I get in return?”
Soundarapandian and Taraknath looked at each other in surprise. Looking at their faces, Zubair Pasha continued, “You want your textile products to reach Europe and you know that only I can deliver them, so you have come to me, correct? So, I ask again, what do I get in return?”
“What do you want Pasha Bhai?” Soundarapandian asked seeing that Taraknath was too scared to open his mouth.
Zubair Pasha leaned forward and whispered – “The head of David Burns!! Can you get that for me? Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!!!” His laughter rang out in the darkness. For a moment, Soundarapandian recalled Taraknath’s words – “he is a nutcase”. “But that’s how pirates are supposed to be, weren’t they?” he thought.
Zubair Pasha then straightened up and spoke with a serious tone. “I hate the British as much as you do. David Burns is the only thorn in the Bay of Bengal who can stop my ships. Keep him busy while I go past Chennapatinam and enter the French waters of Ceylon. After that, no one can stop me. As far as my payment, I trust Sri Sukurama Chetti to be fair in his dealings.”
Soundarapandian could not believe his luck, but was cautious. “Pasha Bhai, hope you remember the British EIC outpost in Hooghly and Calcutta…” he started, but Zubair Pasha waved him off. “That is my problem, not yours. You ensure all goods are loaded onto my ships in Tamralipta. That way we will avoid Calcutta port & Fort William and sail into the Bay of Bengal immediately. I will load the next consignment in Pulicat and set sail for Ceylon. Inform Sri Sukurama Chetti to keep David Burns busy at Fort St. George, 1 day before I reach Pulicat. He should go to Fort St. George so that David Burns himself, has to be present and keep him occupied for next 3 days Once I reach Ceylon, I will get in touch with my Arab associates who will deliver your goods to Venice and onwards to London.”
Sri Sukurama Chetti looked happy after hearing the news. He went to the prayer room, bowed down to the family God – Lord Murugan and said a silent prayer. On opening his eyes, he ordered –“Sundar, please take extra 10 caskets of gold and 10 caskets of silver and donate to the Bargabima temple (also called Bheemakali Temple) in Tamralipta. Take the blessings of the Mother Goddess and return successful.”
The year 1720 – Soundarapandian, after the holy “Pongal” festival, set sail to Tamralipta to get the fresh consignment from Bengal. He had given clear instructions to Taraknath – only finished products were to be handed over. These included Murshidabad silk, Bengal cotton, tangail, tant, and other exotic clothes. Soundarapandian already had had a taste of David Burns before he set sail as the latter raised serious questions about the journey and path to be taken. He was shown documents which stated that the journey was towards Bali for procuring raw cotton, but being experienced navy general, he had his doubts. The clout of Sri Sukurama Chetti worked and the voyage finally started, but Soundarapandian had the last words of David Burns ringing in his ears – “pray to your God that I don’t catch you smuggling”.
Soundarapandian met Taraknath on disembarking at Tamralipta and was put up at the guest house, built by Sri Amarendra Goswami, near the port as per normal protocol. The next morning, both went to pay obeisance to The Mother Goddess at Bargabima Temple. Taraknath had made arrangements for a small puja in name of Sri Sukurama Chetti. Soundarapandian requested to add the name of Zubair Pasha. The head priest – was taken aback, but took his request and all prayed for the success of the mission, which was dangerous and also life threatening. Once the puja was over, he then took Soundarapandian and Tarakanath to the temple’s basement where the donations, sent by Sri Sukurama Chetti, would be kept. The caskets were carried by 40 temple priests. No other person would be allowed inside. At the centre of the basement, A 10 feet idol of Mahishasura Mardini and the walls were painted with stories of The Mother Goddess and Devi Kali. The head priest pressed both his palms together, said a small prayer and bowed down before the Mother Goddess. Then he touched the palm of Her hands one by one and then he touched the big toe and pulled it forward. To everyone’s amazement, the central floor gave way and showed a spiral staircase going down.
“Come this way” said the head priest with a smile. “This is the place where all the temple’s donations are kept and used for the well-being of those who need it”. Soundarapandian had never seen such treasures in his life. He and Taraknath placed bowed down to the head priest as a mark of respect and prayed that the good work will continue.
After having the sacred “Prasad” of the temple, Taraknath took him to his house, where a sumptuous Bengali spread consisting of Padma Hilsa (Ilish to locals) cooked in yellow mustard “jhol” (gravy) and plain white rice, dhokar dalna, Aam chutney, paapad and paayesh, was laid out. Soundarapandian felt elevated to heaven and forgot his worries during that time.
“Thank you very much Didibhai, (sister) that was a very wonderful meal” said Soundarapandian to Sabitri Devi as he washed his hands and rinsed his mouth after the meal.
Sabitri Devi, true to her traditions, said with a smile, “Bhalo thako Dada. Aashche bochor abaar aashbe”, (“Be well brother, come again next year).
They, then, went to check the goods in a nearby warehouse. These would be loaded onto Zubair Pasha’s ships at night. Zubair Pasha, true to his word, was right on time, and the loading was done within the next 3 hours. The plan was that Soundarapandian would sail rapidly to Pulicat & wait for Zubair Pasha.
Meanwhile, Sukurama Chetti had requisitioned 6 ships from Bali laden with silk, indigo dyes and other goods from Bali & French controlled Indo China (present day Vietnam). The plan was to get David Burns busy in checking these ships while Zubair Pasha slips away unnoticed. The six ships docked at Fort St. George exactly 1 day before Zubair Pasha was to dock at Pulicat. Sri Sukurama Chetti, himself went to Fort St. George to meet David Burns and clear the goods.
“Well, well, well! Look who is here! The great Sri Sukurama Chetti himself! And why do I have the honour of your presence?” David Burns guffawed at the top of his voice. A veteran naval general in the East India Company, David Burns had quickly risen up the ranks and now was the head of the EIC operations at Fort St. George.
“You know well how to honour and insult someone at the same time” Sukurama Chetti thought to himself.
They sat over coffee and conversation was direct to the point. Sukurama Chetti knew that any kind of drama and David Burns will know smell something fishy. Since the owner himself had come, David Burns had to stay for the entire procedure to get over (as was the rule laid down by EIC). The whole exercise took 3 days and Sukurama Chetti said that he would come the next day to collect the consignment.
“You will come to take delivery?? exclaimed David Burns. “Why? Send someone else, now that all formalities are over.” But Sukurama Chetti shook his head, “No, I need to be here.”
David Burns was left pondering. “Need to be here”?? Never in the past 30 years did Sukurama Chetti come to collect his goods. “What’s happening?” he thought to himself. He immediately informed coast guard vessels to spread out as much as possible and report on any suspicious movements in the high seas. He would stay awake the whole night & wait for news. And what a news it was! 10 ships commandeered by the infamous Zubair Mohammad Pasha laden with “raw material” from Bengal had docked in Pulicat and then started out to the high seas.
David Burns clicked his tongue – “You shouldn’t have done this Sukurama. I will come to you after I deal with this pirate.”
At the stroke of dawn, David Burns, commandeering 5 battleships, confronted Zubair Pasha’s fleet of 2 pirate ships and 8 freight vessels in the middle of the Bay of Bengal. The message was simple – surrender, give up all documents & goods, name the trader and there would be no death penalty.
Zubair Pasha’s answer was even simple. “FIRE!!!” A huge ball of fire from the cannons boomed into the 1st battleship and it started to sink. A cry of panic rang among the EIC soldiers as they jumped into the water and swam to the nearby ship. Zubair Pasha laughed in his trademark style and thundered “you thought I will come unprepared?” He moved his sword across his throat and pointed at David Burns.
“It’s your neck today, my friend, and I will be most happy to cut it” whispered David Burns, to himself, then bellowed his orders – “FIRE AT WILL” which was echoed to all the battleships. Zubair Pasha was ready, he ordered his men to fire rope arrows towards the EIC ships so that the pirates can jump on and fight with swords. The pirate army swung with ease into the EIC ships and started the battle of swords. Blood flowed like water while the cannons kept on firing. The freight vessels narrowly escaped the firing line as per plan laid out by Zubair Pasha, but the barrage of gunshots had killed many men. Once he was satisfied that they were out of reach of the firing line, he quietly swung through a rope to the ship commandeered by David Burns, killed 3 soldiers and dislocated the right arm of another. Face to face with David Burns, he said – “Stop all the firing. It is now between you and me. Winner takes all.”
With a wry smile, David Burns ordered his men to cease fire. Once the firing stopped, an open space of 20×20 sq.ft. was created in the middle of the EIC battleship. Zubair Pasha revealed his arm, which had been wounded by Burns in his previous encounter. Burns acknowledging the same and pointed to his head. With a war-cry that would scare away any warrior, both charged at each other. The duck and slash were swift to the blinking eyes, the surprise on the face remained as the head rolled for a while and stood stationery a few feet away.
Zubair Pasha had had his revenge. All the EIC soldiers immediately dropped their weapons and were seized by the pirates. However, Zubair Pasha allowed the survivors to board one remaining EIC ship (others had already sunk) and instructed them to go back to the mainland. He would be halfway to Ceylon by the time they disembarked at Fort St. George and reported the events.
Zubair Pasha and Sri Sukurama Chetti were true to their words. The consignment was smuggled into Europe and London within the same year, thanks to the network set up by the Arabs. Sri Sukurama Chetti got his money’s worth, but also earned the wrath of the EIC, which increased taxes on all sources of the family income. He would later have to completely stop export of textiles because of their tightening grip. Zubair Pasha was paid through donations to Barghabima Temple, Sri Jagannath Temple (Puri) and the Htukkanthein monastery in the Arakanese State of Burma. His followers would not go hungry for the next 50 years.
The British Government in London passed the Calico Act of 1721 which banned all imports of textile raw material from India and South East Asia which dealt a severe blow to the local industry and daily wage-earning weavers and dyers. Europe then looked towards the New World (the Americas) where slaves were used in cotton and other textile manufacturing units to produce cheaper and higher quality garments. The events leading to the year 1757 in Bengal, saw the EIC starting to collect taxes from three districts and the total control of agricultural output of the region.
In the 1760s, with the invention of “picking stick” and “flying shuttle”, which sped up the process of production of cloth, the Indian handloom products saw decline in demand.
The story of Soundarapandian, Zubair Pasha and David Burns were somewhere lost in history, but remains to be told in folklore of the coastal areas of present-day Tamil Nadu.
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By: Robert Serreyn
Question? Is there a setup time at the beginning of the millennial kingdom?
In fact, THERE IS a 45 day period that Jesus Christ uses to establish the Kingdom upon his return.
There are some bible teachers THAT TRY to teach that there is a 75 day or just a 30 day period, but scripture DOES NOT SUPPORT such teaching ONLY a 45 day period fits.
The figuring of the 45 day time period in Daniel:
– Chp. 8:14… 3 years, 2 Months, and 10 Days “Than shall the sanctuary be cleansed”
– Chp. 12:11… 3 years, 7 months (Length of time from the Abomination – Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14).
– Chp. 12:12… 3 Years 8 months, and 15 days – Blessed is he that waiteth
NOTE: The word DAYS does not appear in in the Majority Text, the Hebrew reads Evenings and Mornings. This is referring to the sacrifices offered – One in the Evening and One in the Morning (see Exodus 29:39). The Evening and Morning sacrifices constituted one day. Therefore, having 2,300 evening and morning sacrifices would constitute 1150 days, which would equate to 3 years, 2 months, and 10 days.
REMEMBER: The Jewish calendar ONLY HAD 30 days in each month.
Since all figures are referring to the last half of the Tribulation Period, there must be a reason why they all differ. If we subtract 3 years, 2 months, and 10 days in Daniel 8:14 from 3 years, 7 months in Daniel 12:11, this would account for the time shortened as recorded in Mat-thew 24:21,22; since Matthew is speaking of the same period of time (the Tribulation Period) as Daniel, which would be 4 months and 20 days.
If we compare Verse 11 (3 years, 7 months) with Verse 12 (3 years, 8 months, 15 days) of Daniel, Chapter 12, we see an extended length of time of 45 days. This can be accounted for, as there are several things that transpire at Christ’s return to establish the Kingdom. The Tribulation Period is now ended with Christ’s Return, and this is what He accomplishes in the first 45 days after His arrival as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
During this 45 day time period, there are many things that will be going on…such as…
In the first 30 days:
– Chaining of Satan in the bottomless pit….. Revelation 20:1-3
– Judgement of the Nations….. Matthew 24:30,40,41, Chp. 25:31-34,41, 2 Timothy 4:1
– Battle of Armageddon….. Revelation 14:14-20, Chp. 16: 10-16, Joel 3:1-4, 9-16
– Saints recieve Resurrected Bodies….. Daniel 12:2, John 6:39,40. Revelation 20:4,6
During the 15 days:
1. 7 Month, 1st Day: Feast of Trumpets (Re-gather Israel). Israel was to sound the trumpets: (Leviticus 23:23-25). This is how they were used in the Old Testament concerning Israel.
a. To assemble the people (Numbers 10:2,3) with 2 trumpets.
b. To gather the leaders of Israel (Numbers 10:4) with 1 trumpet.
c. To “Forward March!” (Numbers 10:5,6)
d. To go to war (Numbers 10:9).
e. Blown at the solemn feasts (Numbers 10:10).
In Matthew 24:30, 31, the sound of a trumpet will be heard to summon the saved in Heaven (Those awaiting their resurrected bodies) to accompany His return. The saved of Israel will be re-gathered-those in Heaven and those alive at the end of the Tribulation-and the Kingdom will be established. Israel’s land-promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, will now be occupied and enjoyed. (Ezekiel, Chapter 48)
2. 7 Month, 10th Day: The Feast of Atonement (Israel’s sins forgiven.) (Romans 11:26,27; Leviticus 23:27).
During the last 3 ½ years of the Tribulation, two-thirds of all the Jews in Palestine will be killed by the Antichrist (Zechariah 13:8,9). In the rest of the world, outside of Palestine, only one out of ten Jews will survive. (Isaiah 6:11-13 and Amos 5:1-3) After all of Israel’s persecution for disobedience, at last God says,
“They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” (Zechariah 13:9)
3. 7 Month, 15th Day: The Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) The Millennium. (Leviticus 23:33-44; Zechariah 14:16-19).
This feast was celebrated as a remembrance of Israel’s wilderness journey and God’s miraculous protection and preservation for 40 years.It will be observed throughout the Millennium as a reminder of God’s providential care, protection and preservation since they were formed as God’s chosen people. Their unfaithfulness throughout the millenniums could never make God become unfaithful to His promises concerning them.
The Tribulation will be cut short by 4 months, and 20 days. In Daniel 12:11, we have 3 years, 7 months. In Chp. 8:14, we have 3 years, 2 months, 10 days. Since both are in reference to the last 3 l/2 years of the Tribulation Period, we can see a difference of 4 months, 20 days; thus, illuminating Matthew 24:21, 22.
(Matthew 24:21,22) For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. (22) And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Comparing Daniel 12:11 with Daniel 12:12, we have the difference of 45 days or a month and a half. The reason we divided this into 30 days and 15 days is because of the three feast days; which, prophetically, have not yet been fulfilled; whereas the first four have. These seven feasts as recorded in Leviticus 23 and etc., are types of future fulfillments.
The Feast of Passover (Exodus 12) is fulfilled in Christ’s Crucifixion.
1 Corinthians 5:7 states, “For even Christ our passover is sanctified for us”.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread….. fulfilled in Christ’s sinless life and enjoins the Christian to lead a clean life as stated in I Corinthians 5:7a, “Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump”
Even Judas said in Matthew 27:4, “I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood.”
The Feast of First Fruits….. fulfilled by Christ’s Resurrection as stated in I Corinthians 15:20,23. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.”
The Feast of Pentecost….. fulfilled fifty days after Christ’s Resurrection by the giving of the Holy Spirit. “Pentecost” means Fifty, as the Holy Spirit came exactly as promised-fifty days after His Resurrection. (Acts 1:3,4), This, therefore, leaves the last three feasts of “Trumpets,” “Atonement,” and “Tabernacles” to be fulfilled in type,These three feasts cover a period of 15 days.
The Feast of Trumpets….. beginning the 1st Day of the 7th Month (Leviticus 23:23-25)
The Feast of Atonement….. beginning the 10th Day of the 7th Month (Leviticus 23:27).
Feast of Tabernacles….. beginning on the 15th Day of the 7th Month, making a total of 15 days.
The Feast of Tabernacles will continue on, once a year, into and throughout the Millennium (Zechariah 14:16-19).
The remaining 30 days will be occupied with the Old Testament Saints receiving their resurrected bodies; Christ chaining Satan for a 1,000 years; Christ victorious in the Armageddon battle; and Christ judging the Nations in preparation for His Kingdom Reign.
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to know IS Jesus Christ as savior, just simply believe that Jesus Christ went to the cross and DIED and shed his blood, was BURIED and three days later RESURRECTED from the dead to pay for your sins.
-Christ DIED for you – Romans 5:8
-Christ PAID your sins in full – 2 Corinthians 5:21,1 Peter 2:24
-BELIEVE (Trust In Completely) in Christ ALONE as the complete payment of sin for salvation – John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Ephesians 2:8,9
“For the wages(payment) of sin is death (eternal torment in hell); but the GIFT(salvation) of God is eternal life THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord”. Romans 6:23
IT IS THAT SIMPLE – THE GOSPEL TRUTH
For a MORE DETAILED explanation please read Dr. Max Younce book titled ” I Know Who Holds Tomorrow” by Dr Max Younce.
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Walks and events in the Island's countryside
There are many walks and events in the Island's countryside... and even a few in the town as well. This page is where you will find information about these walks, most of which are free to attend.
"Wight Summer Walks" and "Wight Winter Walks"
This is a programme of outdoor events and guided activities for all ages. Join local experts as they share their knowledge and special understanding of Island wildlife, conservation, landscape, history and rural economy. It's a chance to explore the Island's unique countryside and coast during friendly outings in the company of fellow walkers. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust produces this programme twice a year, and produces a Wight Summer and Wight Winter programme.
The Histree Trails
The Isle of Wight Histree Trail Project ran from 2006-2009. The project was dedicated to finding and recording the Island's special trees, collecting local stories and researching local heritage. A series of trails were created to guide walkers around groups of trees in publicly accessible places.
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While both materials do have slightly different properties, either one will work in the scenario mentioned. In-fact, any sling with the UIAA stamp of approval will likely have a working strength of 22kn - more force than you will ever be able to generate by falling if being belayed by a rope.
The latter part is important, because the rope (among other things) is what will absorb the energy of your fall in this scenario, not the sling. Again, just to elaborate: Your rope is designed to catch the impact of your fall, a sling is not. In the videos presented by DMM you can see what happens when the sling is forced to absorb the impact of a fall, and it's not pretty.
The question of what material to choose from will depend on the conditions more than anything else. Materials like Dyneema are lighter, and won't absorb as much water as Nylon in wet weather, making them the ideal choice for applications where weight or weather is a primary concern, like mountaineering for example. They also have the lowest melting point from all the climbing fabrics though, so will probably need replacing sooner.
On the other hand, Aramids (Technora, Kevlar etc..) can be just as strong, and have the highest melting point of most materials, upwards of 500C celcius. This makes them perfect for those long rappels, or hauling and rescue scenarios like firefighting. They also happen to have a much worse shelf life when it comes to UV degradation (from exposure to the sun) however. Nylons fall somewhere in between on both counts.
Ultimately, any UIAA approved sling can be expected to hold the force of a falling second when being belayed by a rope; and if switching leads, you can always use the climbing rope itself to tie an anchor also.
Here is a link to the properties of some common materials as further reading: http://www.marlowropes.com/technical/physical-properties.html
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Students seldom get the opportunity to study history out of the classroom but our range of outdoor history resources gives teachers the ability to deliver active and cooperative learning as part of their history curriculum.
Included in our resources is a range of timelines from different periods in British and world history covering Ancient Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Victorians, WW2 and history during living memory. These boards give students the challenge to work in small groups or pairs to complete a blank timeline of your chosen period where they will need to write down the major events and their dates in the correct chronological order. All you need to do is provide them with the historical resources from which they can gather their evidence.
In addition, our Who Am I? boards give pupils the chance to put together evidence from what they have learned about specific historical characters. This includes everything from creating a birth to death timeline, facial portrait drawing and a range of information that puts the character into historical context.
These resources are a great way to give pupils enjoyable outdoor history activities that will engage reluctant learners and inspire those that require a greater challenge.
As part of our Switch range, all these boards are interchangeable and can be taken down and stored when not in use.
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The aim of this study was to investigate demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with risk for patient and family problems over the course of 1 year in a largely low-income and rural pediatric oncology population. Caregivers (n = 163) completed the Psychosocial Assessment Tool 2.0 up to 4 times during regular clinic visits. Multilevel modeling examined change over time, as well as demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with psychosocial risk. Results suggest that pediatric oncology patients with caregivers of lower educational attainment and financial difficulties are at significantly greater risk for psychosocial problems, and should be offered early psychological intervention.
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- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
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The Person & the Court
DRED SCOT & ROE V. WADE
In 1833 a surgeon in the U.S. Army, Dr. John Emerson, residing in St. Louis, Mo., purchased from one Peter Blow a piece of property with the name of Dred Scott. Scott was a black man of African descent, and he was at that time about 33 years old. He had been born in Virginia in 1799, born a slave to the Blow family.
Now this was not, of course, unusual in those days. A slave was a valuable asset. In large numbers, they were primarily property of the wealthy, but certainly those of solid middle-class means could afford to own one or two. Slaves were major assets, not unlike large farm animals of the day, or expensive machinery of our own time. They were elements of status, but more than that, they were expected to produce income for their owners. Though human, they were nevertheless property and they were treated and disposed of as such. Their humanity wasn’t the issue. The issue was whether these humans, these people, had any rights or protections under the laws of the U.S., or whether they were merely property, to be dealt with as such. No, said the U.S. Supreme Court, black Africans, or blacks of African descent, slave or free, cannot be citizens, cannot sue in Federal courts, have no rights and no protections under the laws of the land. This decision was settled law.
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Canada, Australia and New Zealand continue to defy the odds as house prices move further into unaffordable territory.
Are these house prices justified?
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From 1970 to 2020 New Zealand house prices grew the fastest, going from 100 on the index to about 7,500, growth of 75-fold.
The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) was 9.01 percent for New Zealand, 7.91 percent for Australia, 6.89 percent for Canada, 5.56 percent for the U.S. and 3.2 percent for Germany and Japan. The average inflation rate for the last century has been 3.10 percent.
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Speakers at the event at Highview Baptist Church, a megachurch in Louisville, took aim at Senate Democrats and their use of a parliamentary maneuver called a filibuster to prevent the confirmation of several judges the Democratic minority views as extreme...
The Freedom and Faith speakers condemned the conservatives for charging that people opposed to Bush judicial nominees were against 'people of faith.' They said they were fighting to reclaim the moral high ground from religious conservatives who, they charged, wrongly defined their faith as the only true form of Christianity.
About 1,700 attended the event at Highview, while several hundred joined a 'Freedom and Faith' counter-rally at the Central Presbyterian Church in Louisville. Speakers declared that it was the leadership behind Justice Sunday, not the judiciary, that was arrogant." | <urn:uuid:0a339fa3-6e81-4b0f-bd2d-e1e4c73e3dee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hwpi.harvard.edu/pluralismarchive/news/justice-sunday-divides-christians-over-judiciary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977065 | 254 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Pictures Of Dragons For Children
Pictures Of Dragons For Children. There are a plethora of dragons in ya and middle grade fantasy novels, and there are plenty of story options for younger dragon lovers, too. And their own dragon to bond with.
Tape several episodes, and show them to the children, discuss the problems solved in each episode. Download and print these simple dragon pictures coloring pages for free. And their own dragon to bond with.
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The World Of Knights And Dragons Is A Popular World For Boys.
“dragon tales” on pbs is a very good show for the younger set. A tiny house dragon can't puff fire and desperately wants to. Supercoloring.com is a super fun for all ages:
The Printable Activity Pages Currently Available On This Site Are Word Search Puzzles, Dot To Dot Printables, Dragon Coloring Pages, A Dragon Shaped Maze Puzzle, Counting Mazes, Cryptogram Puzzles And More.
See more ideas about elementary art, art lessons, teaching art. You can also ask your child to tell a story about the dragon in the picture. Summoned by the king, young drake is chosen to be a dragon master along with a few other kids.
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Tape several episodes, and show them to the children, discuss the problems solved in each episode. A brave girl called robyn decides to investigate when a dragon is terrorising a village. Browse 2,416 of dragons for kids stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images.
Each Has The Heart Of A Dragon.
Chinese dragons are legendary mythological creatures in chinese mythology and folklore. Dragon coloring pages for toddlers, preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children to print and color. Browse 2,420 of dragons for kids stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. | <urn:uuid:23dcfd38-498c-4a92-8550-2e43fc6fdf3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arflowery.com/coloringpages/pictures-of-dragons-for-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.84623 | 476 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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MB KEY PROG 2 FEATURE
1.MB Key Programmer communicate with key via IR and RF in Mercedes Benz Security Protocol ( That’s meaning you can use it for all type keys and if there is any new key with private mcu no problem )need only to update.
2.MB Key Prog working with small key (old and new) using in car since 1997 up to 2005 – without keyless system. You can program newkey (or used) in car and program old key if its not work more.You need read and program eeprom of CPU from Steering blocking module. Desolder and read via programmer two CPU from Electronic Ignition Control Module.Load these eeproms to program. Desolder NEC CPU from the key. Soldering it on the device, select the No. of key and program it. Solder all CPU on their places and start the car. You can program new keys without the car – only with EISand steering blocking module.You can read these CPU with other programmer. new model small key is available programming all small key model for all years models W220 -W211 – W230 – W203 -W215 – W210 – W209. | <urn:uuid:deb71190-bf7d-477c-95db-a0ce95ec2937> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://txsglobalstore.com/shop/mercedes-benz-diagnostic-tools/mb-key-prog-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.886467 | 256 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The CMAA page of English Hymns in the Commons has some interesting work. Please have a look and tell us all what you think of the texts. Jeffrey touted it on his latest post on his new blog asking why Catholics keep singing poor music. I’ve visited this page before, but took a closer look this morning.
It fascinates me that the movement that touts the sung propers to the near-exclusion of everything else (unlike the GIRM) would gravitate to the hymn form instead of the antiphon-plus-verses structure. It might look more like the St Louis Jesuits and most contemporary fare, but let’s all concede that structurally, contemporary music is much closer to the stated ideal for the Eucharist than hymnody.
At the very least, I would think reform2 hymn writers would use an antiphon from the propers, then offer a metrical version of a psalm text. That could be developed into a repertoire that would overtake the dominance of hymnody in non-contemporary circles.
So I looked at a promising title like Vincent Uher’s “Bright Torches in the Darkest Night,” but was way disappointed:
Bright torches in the darkest night,
The saints of God as lights yet shine.
Lord let our witness rise with theirs,
And through their prayers give grace divine.
A dimly burning wick were we,
But now our faith fills with thy fire.
For thou art all consuming love
Thy perfect will our hearts desire.
Unite thy saints through every age,
And cleansed from sin lift us above.
O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
One God in glory, one in love
A nice thought: saints are torches, but we are dim candles. I don’t know that light rises as much as it spreads, but I would have hoped that the image continued at the end of the first verse instead of that questionable phrase suggesting the saints as a source of grace.
Second verse distraction: the singular wick and the plural “we.” Third verse distraction: “cleanse,” a water image, instead of keeping the fire burning. I would have liked to see the thread of this hymn developed a bit more: four or five verses and the incorporation of something of the title’s metaphor in the final doxology.
Kathy Pluth has a catechetical hymn that starts:
O taste and you will see
the goodness of the Lord:
the Body and the Blood.
I’ve never liked the “preachy” texts, be they “The Mass Is Ended” or “Anthem.” At the very least, the assembly could be singing first person plural. Oh, wait. That would make the words about “us.” I see why this text is sung from the point of view of the cantor or choir.
And later on:
To those who would be filled,
this food is life indeed.
To give it Life Himself was killed,
and we from death are freed.
Some concern about what gets capitalized and what doesn’t. I’m more concerned about the texts being pretty heavy with “small” words. Could we “show” instead of “tell”?
This material is decent enough, but not up to the standards of today’s published hymn texts, work by people like Genevieve Glen or Ralph Wright or other post-conciliar folks. The tunes are probably a little better than texts at CMAA, but overall, you’ll get what you pay for. The CMAA material is free. And you have to probe to find a questionable theological expression. And with four-part harmonizations, it doesn’t look like Gather or Spirit & Song. And maybe that says what it’s supposed to say.
Commentariat, please look over the texts and let’s see what you think. My intent here is not to pile on Mr Uher or Ms Pluth. Will crowding out the publishers and their editorial committees give us a larger body of mediocrity? Or does the cream have the chance to rise to the top? Do you see any cream in the CMAA Commons? | <urn:uuid:e6667737-3156-40f6-ace9-b4920cc71706> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/some-new-hymns-why-these/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94743 | 926 | 1.96875 | 2 |
I’ve been dabbling a bit with electronics lately which is something I did quite a lot as a kid. Here’s a couple of things I built some time ago to help.
The first which is still in use now is my project box. This is made from sheets of pine which are simply glued and pinned together. It has a drawer for components and a storage box at the top for tools with a simple lid held in place with a couple of battens. The box is about 25 years old now and has survived several house moves. I typically tape it shut before packing.
The origional design had a wooden soldering iron stand which broke of one time I was moving house and got replaced with a more conventional iron stand and I added some cable holders on the side but typically the iron lives inside the box now.
The drawer in the bottom has some nice features, it has a clear perspex base set into a slot in the sides which allows you to see the contents from below. The handle of the box is a square with bevelled edges this has proved very reliable of the years.
The second thing I put together was a project board made from some bent perspex. This allowed me to design small circuits on one of the two breadboards and have them powered from an external supply that plugs in to a socket at the top. I created an “antistatic” tray and drawer from packaging and the antistatic one has tinfoil lining and can be earthed with a croc clip. I added a selection of terminal posts around the sides of the board for connecting up the power and a small multi-meter I had at the time. I also added a couple of cheap meters that can be used with resistors to measure voltage or current. Some chock block on the front allows for connecting to other ciruits.
I’ve not used this for some time as it’s been hidden away in storage. I found it quite recently so perhaps it will be returned to use? | <urn:uuid:9e358e4d-0f64-460e-9ab2-32f561b3cee5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.workshopshed.com/2013/06/tools-for-electronics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.98101 | 416 | 1.8125 | 2 |
1 FY + 3 UY
1 foundation year (if required) + 3 undergrad years
Overall IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Writing and Speaking; minimum 5.5 in Reading and Listening (or recognised equivalent).
The BSc Computer Science will allow you to develop a wide and practical skillset in computing with strong programming and mathematics skills, as well as softer skills in project management, presentation and teamwork. You will also have a portfolio of work that you can present to potential employers. Depending on the specialisms you choose in the final stage of the degree, you can direct your learning towards particular areas of interest such as machine learning, web development, data science and video games.
With the BSc Computer Science, you will be qualified for a range of computational and mathematical jobs in the creative industries, business, finance, education, medicine engineering and science. Typical job titles include application programmer, software engineer, creative coder, video game developer and systems analyst.
In this module, you’ll undertake a substantial independent project that allows you to demonstrate a wide range of skills such as project planning, management, research, software implementation and written presentation. If you are enrolled on a specialist pathway as part of the BSc, you’ll be expected to undertake a project in your specialist area. You will integrate your knowledge gained throughout the degree and use skills acquired in other modules in the implementation of your final project. The work will consist of a combination of research and software development. You will be expected to use methodologies from various components of computer science, including your specialist pathway if appropriate.
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Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a relatively new and advanced subsegment of the fluorescence spectroscopy market. FCS can provide a wealth of very specific physiochemical information that is most useful to those in biology and related sectors.
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a relatively new and advanced subsegment of the fluorescence spectroscopy market. FCS can provide a wealth of very specific physiochemical information that is most useful to those in biology and related sectors. Recent technical advancements have allowed the FCS market to begin to develop rapidly.
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy demand for 2011
FCS measures the fluctuation of fluorescence of very small particles and molecules, and can provide both the concentration and size of the particles or molecules being analyzed, as well as a wealth of other physiochemical information. FCS systems are typically integrated microscopy systems, but some are sold as stand-alone detectors that can be connected with a microscopy system of choice. Configurations and system prices can vary widely, largely depending on the number and types of lasers used.
FCS can determine properties such as diffusion coefficients, average concentrations, and reaction rates, and it is attractive for drug discovery and development applications. One of the biggest strengths of the technique is characterizing the mobility-related parameters of relevant biological molecules. The strongest demand for this relatively new technique is still largely centered on academic institutions performing basic research.
Although first developed in the 1970s, early systems were extremely complex to operate and faced a number of performance limitations. Technological improvements that came about in the mid-1990s allowed for the development of much more user friendly commercial instruments. The annual worldwide market for FCS is still less than $5 million, but it should have strong double-digit growth over the next several years as more competitors enter the segment and it becomes a more widely accepted analytical technique.
The foregoing data were based on SDi’s market analysis and perspectives report entitled Global Assessment Report, 11th Edition: The Laboratory Life Science and Analytical Instrument Industry, October 2010. For more information, contact Stuart Press, Vice President – Strategic Analysis, Strategic Directions International, Inc., 6242 Westchester Parkway, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90045, (310) 641-4982, fax: (310) 641-8851, www.strategic-directions.com. | <urn:uuid:4bf79f80-434e-4217-8a85-5532efae1b8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spectroscopyonline.com/view/market-profile-fluorescence-correlation-spectroscopy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.928561 | 502 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Fertilizers are chemical or natural substance which is added to the soil or land so as to increase fertility. Organic fertilizers are fertilizers extracted from animal manure, plant extracts as well as minerals and vegetable matter. Since organic fertilizers are derived from natural substances, therefore, damage to the environment is less of a concern. Organic fertilizers are rich in growth hormones and micro nutrients as well as help to reduce the risk of diseases in humans, as they find their way to food as well. Due to depletion of soil quality, use of fertilizers is being propelled to help farmers to increase crop production, as well as the surge in crop acreage and requirement to increase crop production is encouraging farmers to use organic fertilizers. Organic fertilizers are selected according to the requirement of the nutrients by the crop. They have gained status globally, as they help in increasing the quantity as well as improve the quality produced.
Some of the key players in the global Organic Fertilizers Market Growth Research are:
Tata Chemicals Ltd. (India)
Midwestern BioAg (U.S.)
Coromandel International Limited (India)
Agrocare Canada (Canada)
Italpollina S.p.A. (Italy)
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (U.S.)
Suståne Natural Fertilizer, Inc. (U.S.)
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Globalization and urbanization are key factors for the growth of this market. Furthermore, the admiration of organic fertilizers and its involvement of nutritional attributes as well as extra micronutrients are encouraging the growth of the liquid fertilizers market. The consumer’s willingness to pay for organic foods as well government’s policies and rules towards the organic fertilizers is expected to play a significant role in the growth of this market during the forecast period. Additionally, the augmentation of the product development together with research advancements are other significant reasons for the increasing growth of the Organic Fertilizers Market Growth Research during the forecast period 2017-2023.
The global Organic Fertilizers Market Growth Research is regionally segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the World (RoW). Europe region accounts for major market share followed by Asia Pacific for the Organic Fertilizers Market Growth Research. Ample availability of land for farming under organic cultivations as well as consumer willingness to pay for the organic foods, will drive the growth of the market in the European region during the forecast period. In Asia Pacific, strong government policies that contribute to the growth of organic fertilizers as well as large agricultural land area, will drive the growth of this market in this region. However, in European region, significant growth is expected in Germany, France and Italy due to increasing health and environmental concerns, over the forecast period 2017-2023.
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The Himalaya Drug Company announced the launch of Q-DEE mouth dissolving tablets ─ Q-DEE immunity and Q-DEE cramps. According to the company, Q-DEE Immunity helps relieve the early onset of flu and common cold symptoms such as sore throat, cough, sneezing, and nasal congestion. It also helps in strengthening the immune system. Q-DEE Cramps help reduces discomfort during a woman’s monthly cycle and eases abdominal cramps.
Conventional tablets follow certain protocols such as specific administration time and need for water, while mouth dissolving tablets are easy to consume, convenient to carry, and taken on-the-go. Q-DEE tablets from Himalaya usher the new era of formulations that quickly dissolve within 180 seconds, leading to a faster onset of action, it said.
“We, at Himalaya, aim to offer well-researched herbal solutions to consumers for their well-being. Today, with fast-paced lifestyles, consumers are looking for quick, yet effective results. The mouth dissolving tablets range from Himalaya disintegrates rapidly and dissolves in the mouth, eliciting quick action. The pocket-friendly packaging aims at providing easy consumption. Q-DEE Immunity and Q-DEE Cramps are instant, on-the-go solutions that provide quick relief from the respective conditions,” said Anil M Jiandani, business director, Pharmaceutical Division, The HimalayaDrug Company.
He further adds, “We are all exposed to trillions of germs daily. The risk of infections is much higher in poorly ventilated and crowded areas. Repeated infections due to lack of immunity are a health hazard and may be associated with acute exacerbations such as cough, cold, sneezing, and sore throat. Hence, Q-DEE Immunity comes in as a handy and quick solution. Q-DEE Cramps offer quick relief to women suffering from cramps, allowing them to manage their work and routine, without any discomfort.”
The launch of Himalaya Q-DEE Immunity and Q-DEE Cramps is the first in the range of Q-DEE Mouth Dissolving Tablets ─ a step towards providing Ayurvedic solutions in a convenient format. The company soon plans to launch more mouth dissolving tablets for other health conditions as well.
Q-DEE Immunity Mouth Dissolving Tablets are formulated with the native extracts of Tulsi, Yashtimadhu, Lodhra, and Shanta, which are known to strengthen the immune system and help provide relief from common respiratory symptoms of the flu and common cold. These mouth dissolving tablets have no artificial flavors or sweeteners, or colors to retain their typical herbal appearance, taste, and palatability.
Q-DEE Cramps is developed with Cinnamon and Licorice’s extracts, which are known to relieve muscle spasms. Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) is a common problem in women. The pain and cramps impact a woman’s quality of life, personal health, and work productivity. Therefore, it helps ease abdominal cramps and other associated symptoms such as sweating, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea that occur just before or during monthly cycles.
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