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A collection of tips on how to begin buying property, makes the perfect starting point for a beginner to begin buying property, somewhat easier. Below is just such a collection, which will, hopefully, assist the eager novice into eventually becoming a pro, when it comes to buying property.
If you have the financial wherewithal to do it, then when you are buying a house go for a fifteen year fixed mortgage rather than the thirty year fixed. Doing so may cost more on a month to month basis, however, over the course of the thirty years you would have ended up paying many thousands of dollars more in interest on the thirty year mortgage.
To find a new home, you should look on the internet for classified ads. You can also go to a local real estate agency and look at their selection of homes for sale. The more ads you look at, the more likely you are to find something you want.
Information about how much other homes have sold for is available though a realtor and should be considered when figuring out an amount to offer a seller. You should also consider the money that you will have to spend to make any repairs or modifications to the home. Factor these numbers in when considering how much you are comfortable spending on a particular home.
When leasing real estate you need to be aware that professionally managed real estate companies and individual homeowners generally come under the same rules, but many individuals may not know that. If you rent from an individual, make sure they are aware that they have to keep your deposit in a separate account that would not be touched if they filed bankruptcy or lost a lawsuit.
Figure out how much you can afford by using an online calculator. It is fast and easy. This will give you a realistic idea of home prices that you can afford so that you can look for the right mortgages. Sometimes a buyer has an overly optimistic view of the type of house he can buy.
Now is the perfect time to purchase a home. As a result of the housing market downturn, banks are lending at super low rates. Today, it is possible to attain a 4% interest rate on your mortgage loan. If you are in a position to purchase real estate, now is the time to act!
When you are considering buying a house, don’t just consider how many bedrooms and how many baths, especially if you are looking at it as an investment. Just as important, is to consider the neighborhood, the school district and the financial situation of those living around you. All of the aforementioned things, can affect the value of the home and thus, the return on your investment.
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Among the routine aspects of car engine care are checking the engine oil level as well as the levels of transmission fluid. It is not only reliable road performance you need to consider but the essentials of maintaining the right oil level in the engine.
Driving around with low levels of engine oil can cause long term damage to the engine components, possibly leading to very expensive repairs.
To measure oil levels it is best to park the car in a level position, not on a slope, and to switch off the engine. After about 5 minutes lift the oil dipstick from the engine compartment and wipe it with a clean cloth or tissue. Place it back in the engine, remove again and make a note of the oil level, which should be at least halfway between the low and high mark points.
This is also a great time to consider whether your car engine needs an oil change. If the oil on the dipstick is black it suggests the oil contains sooty particles, which can affect engine performance. So this would be a good time to drain the old oil and add some fresh oil.
A clear, light brown coloured oil is about right and so you can go ahead with a top-up, if the level is too close to the minimum notch on the dipstick. When you add fresh engine oil slowly, give the oil a chance to settle and then check the level again before closing the oil compartment cap.
Another important aspect of car engine care is ensuring there is sufficient anti-freeze (engine coolant) which dissolves with added water and flows from the reservoir through the radiator panel, helping to stop the engine from overheating.
It is best to refer to the car owner’s manual which will show you where the tank or reservoir for engine coolant is located. A key point is to allow the engine to cool down before topping up with anti-freeze because after the engine has been running the closed system carrying the coolant will be under pressure.
Also consider checking the level of engine coolant, perhaps an hour or so after you top-up, in case there is a leak. If this is not resolved there is a risk of damage due to the engine overheating. During icy, cold winter months when temperatures plummet, you steam engine model kit may want to consider increasing the concentration of anti-freeze in the system.
Ensuring transmission fluid levels are satisfactory and topped up when necessary is another are to be aware of when carrying out regular car engine care. This is a key part of the engine as the oil is responsible for lubricating essential processes such as power transmission to the wheels and enabling smooth gear changes.
Depending on what model you have, the transmission fluid may either be checked by you using the user’s manual or it is better for the authorised car dealer to carry out the procedure. If you have manual transmission, take out the dipstick with the car in neutral and engine running, checking the level and making sure it is near the “full” mark.
The fluid should be pink to clear in colour, so if you notice the fluid is darker and containing particles, you may need to change the fluid. It is best for a garage mechanic to drain the system and put in fresh fluid.
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The head of the World Health Organization has criticised drugmakers’ profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in rich countries get vaccinated against Covid-19 before older people in poorer countries.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus kicked off WHO’s week-long executive board meeting — virtually from its headquarters in Geneva — on Monday by lamenting that only 25 vaccine doses have been provided in a single poor country, while over 39 million doses have been administered in nearly 50 richer nations.
“Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest income country — not 25 million, not 25,000 — just 25. I need to be blunt,” Tedros said. He did not specify the country, but a WHO spokeswoman identified it as Guinea.
“It’s right that all governments want to prioritize vaccinating their own health workers and older people first,” he said. “But it’s not right that younger, healthier adults in rich countries are vaccinated before health workers and older people in poorer countries. There will be enough vaccine for everyone.”
Tedros, an Ethiopian who goes by his first name, nonetheless hailed the scientific achievement behind rolling out coronavirus vaccines less than a year after the pandemic erupted in China, where a WHO-backed team has now been deployed to look into origins of the coronavirus.
“Vaccines are the shot in the arm we all need, literally and figuratively,” Tedros said. “But we now face the real danger that even as vaccines bring hope to some, they become another brick in the wall of inequality between the worlds of the world’s haves and have-nots.”
He noted the WHO-backed COVAX program, which aims to get vaccines out to all countries, rich or poor, based on need, has so far secured 2 billion vaccine doses from five producers and options on a billion doses more.
“We aim to start deliveries in February,” he said. “COVAX is ready to deliver what it was created for.”
That target date could be a tall order, because a key producer of vaccines for the developing world — the Serum Institute of India — has not confirmed a date and predicted that its rollout might not happen before March or April.
In his opening remarks, Tedros aired some of his toughest public words yet toward vaccine makers, criticizing “bilateral deals” between them and countries that the WHO says can deplete the effectiveness of the COVAX facility — and went further to raise the issue of profits.
“The situation is compounded by the fact that most manufacturers have prioritized regulatory approval in rich countries, where the profits are highest, rather than submitting full dossiers to WHO,” he said.
That appeared to allude to a shortage of data the U.N. health agency says it has received from vaccine makers so that the WHO can approve their shots for wider emergency use.
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Globeducate schools are fulfilling a group-wide commitment made in 2019 that all schools in the group would become Eco-Schools. Despite challenges raised by the pandemic, almost half of the group´s schools are now Certified Eco Schools.
Across seven of the nine countries Globeducate works in, 22 schools are now Certified Eco Schools, with 20 more schools already progressing on their Eco-Schools journey and pending certification, and three more schools registered to start the Eco-Schools programme in September.
The commitment that all Globeducate schools would become Eco-Schools was made when the group unveiled its mission to prepare each student to become a global citizen who can shape the world, and the Globeducate Agenda, bringing to life a call to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 in 55+ schools, to 28,000 young people. At the same time, Globeducate announced a unique partnership with WWF, one of the key charities involved in helping to shape the United Nations SDGs.
Pramod Kumar Sharma, Senior Director of Education, Foundation for Environmental Education and Eco Schools Global Programme Coordinator until 2022, said: “I am happy to see that Globeducate has taken education for sustainable development (ESD) as a core value. It shows their commitment to the purpose of quality education – preparing for the world we live in. ESD is no longer a choice but an imperative in a world facing complex crises in form of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
“Scenarios of doom and gloom create anxiety and powerlessness. Eco-Schools engage young people in positive action projects (handprints) in their school and community through the transformative seven steps to acquire valuable skills in problem-solving. The purpose is to make a difference now and continue to do the same in their communities and workplaces.
“I congratulate the schools for the progress they have made on this journey and achieved the Green Flag. The work does not stop with the label but becomes more engrossing to inspire generations that keep the flag flying high!”
An example of some Eco-Council action is the work carried out by Agora Lledo International School in Spain, which worked on a project gathering material that is often discarded in schools, such as plastic pens, board markers and other equipment, to send to Terracycle which recycles it and converts the weight to funds, which the school can then donate to a charity of their choice.
Monica Fontán, Assistant Education Director for Globeducate, supports the international and bilingual schools group´s Eco Schools coordinators and said, “Since we embarked on our Eco Schools journey in 2019, our schools have been confronted with many challenges posed by the pandemic.
“As we simply could not fail to continue to find ways to participate in this programme, our Eco-Councils met regularly online and they continued to evaluate and plan so that as soon as school campuses reopened, they were able to put their codes and action plans into action. The students and their Eco-Schools Coordinators should be very proud of their achievements and commitment to date.”
Student-led initiatives have included bug hotels, vegetable gardens, school composting stations, recycling stations, bee-keeping, banning single-use plastic in school, second-hand uniform sales, and campaigns to save water and energy. A school in Portugal, Nobel Algarve British International School installed more than 200 solar panels after their Eco-Council researched the viability of the project and presented it to the senior management.
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Our schools specialise in a variety of recognised highly respected international curricula including the English National Curriculum (EYFS to A Level), International Baccalaureate (PYP to IBDP), and the national curricula of Canada, France, India, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal and Spain.
Our students achieve high grades and are accepted into higher education programmes at 50 of the world’s top 100 universities.
Being a member of Globeducate brings many benefits for our schools, students and teachers. We are an official partner of WWF (World Wildlife Fund), and also work with Eco-Schools in each country, as well as LEGO® Education and, in our ICS schools, Arts International.
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Have you felt that sharp pain in your teeth from taking a sip of a cold drink? Tooth sensitivity is a very common occurrence, but it could indicate a more serious dental health issue. Want to know more? Keep reading––we will tell you about what causes tooth sensitivity and how you can combat it.
What makes my teeth feel sensitive?
Sensitivity is caused by erosion of or damage to your enamel. Enamel is the protective outer layer of our teeth that protects our soft dentin and pulp layers. It is one of the hardest tissues produced by the human body, but it is still susceptible to erosion. Unlike other tissue in our bodies, like bones, enamel cannot repair itself; once it is damaged, only your dentist can help prevent further damage to both the enamel and interior of the tooth. Erosion of enamel can lead to sensitivity and further develop into cavities if left untreated.
Common ways that your tooth enamel is damaged:
What you eat can impact your oral health. Foods and beverages that are high in sugar and acidity can damage your enamel over time––this includes coffee, wine, candy, and even fresh fruit! There is a close relationship between diet and oral health, and taking care of what you eat can help keep your mouth healthy. Our tips for minimizing damage to enamel?
- Brush and floss your teeth a minimum of twice daily
- Drink lots of water before and after consuming acidic or sugary foods
Wait and drink water before brushing your teeth after an acidic or sugary meal
2. Direct trauma to the teeth
While this is most common in sports, especially contact sports like hockey and football, direct trauma to the teeth can happen to anyone. If you play sports, we recommend wearing a mouth guard, which is custom-made to protect your teeth. Dental trauma should be taken seriously to avoid even more costly interventions in the future. If you experience damage to your teeth, call us right away to find out what to do next. Types of dental trauma can include:
- Chipped or broken teeth
- Dislodged teeth
- Trauma to the gums
- Chipped or broken filling
Grinding and clenching your jaw, especially in your sleep, is a common cause of enamel damage. If you experience dull headaches, sore jaw, and poor sleep habits, you might be suffering from bruxism without being aware. Only your dentist can see the telltale symptoms of bruxism and recommend an appropriate treatment. Common causes of bruxism can include:
- Health conditions such as Parkinson's Disease
- Drug use
Saskatoon, sensitive teeth can be mediated with good oral care habits.
If you suffer from sensitive teeth, schedule an appointment––regular dental visits are the best method for prevention and care. Visiting your dentist twice annually can help alleviate the pain of sensitive teeth and prevent further damage. Regular cleanings and fluoride treatments can bolster the strength of your enamel and help maintain your oral health. Schedule your appointment today and take control of your sensitive teeth. | <urn:uuid:ffc77296-5c78-4017-ba7e-d88e678dd02d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://centremalldentists.com/2018/11/15/whats-causing-my-sensitive-teeth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.935204 | 645 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Because everyone has a unique ear canal, much like a fingerprint, which makes it difficult to find a one-size-fits-all solution for ear protection, researchers from ÉTS University and IRSST used AI and modeling to help manufacturers create earplugs that will properly protect workers.
Noise exposure is responsible for 22% of worldwide work-related health problems. Excessive noise causes hearing loss and tinnitus and can lead to cardiovascular diseases. Earbuds help prevent these problems, but today's options are uncomfortable and do not fit all ears equally. Researchers set out to find a way to help manufacturers create more comfortable and effective earbuds.
The structure of ear canals was analyzed to find correlations between shapes and the effectiveness of three commonly used models of earplugs. Earplugs must fit properly in the ear canal and exert pressure against the walls of the ear canal to create a tight seal. But too much pressure causes the user pain.
To find the best compromise between comfort and efficiency, it is important to understand the relationship between shapes of both the ear canal and the earbud. Researchers created 3D models of volunteer workers’ ear canals by injecting molding material into the ear canals. The molds were scanned with measurement software and established the geometric characteristics of the ear canal.
The noise attenuation of the three earplug models was measured using two mini microphones that were installed in and around the earplugs. Statistical analysis and AI algorithms were used to categorize the morphology of the participant’s ear canals and test the noise dampening abilities of the earplugs.
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♦ The wonders of a winter walk.
This charming outing delights in many ways. First, the entire story is told with s-words, adjectives, verbs, and nouns: scruffy, slosh, and, best of all, standstill, as the two beachgoers, an adult and a child, encounter something special. Read more closely, it's a poem with a pleasing rhythm and repetitions and a balanced, grammatical structure (explained further in an afterword). The text sits directly on full-bleed illustrations with just one or two lines to a spread, sometimes only a word. Pacing is also indicated with ellipses and page turns. "Slow steps--shuffle, straddle, saunter...sand" take the pair to the beach. Later there's a "Steady step, solid step, shaky step...stumble," and finally "Swift steps--scamper, scuttle, scurry...shower" before bedtime. Lechuga's illustrations, done in an appropriately wintry, bleached-out palette, add depth and detail. The two have pale skin and straight light and darker brown hair for child and adult respectively. They dress appropriately for a cold winter walk. The adult's A-shaped figure suggests possible pregnancy. The child carries a doll, which also wears a knitted cap. The beach they visit is full of wonders. Most astonishing are the crabs--who return, in this well-rounded tale, in a shared bedtime story. The winter landscape and changing sky are carefully depicted with added watercolor textures. One striking scene is a spread full of seabirds taking off as the girl approaches. "Super!"
Splendid for storytimes or snuggles.
-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Charles Trevino is the program coordinator of the American Sign Language interpreter training technology program at Lone Star College in The Woodlands, Texas. He was inspired by ASL poetry when creating the structure for this, his first picture book.
Maribel Lechuga is the illustrator of Ten Beautiful Things. She has always felt an attraction to drawing and art, and she was fascinated by cartoons of the 1990s. She studied art at the prestigious Escuela de Arte 10 (Artediez) in Madrid. www.maribellechuga.com
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As a growing company, Nature Research is able to publish ever more papers in astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science. But these papers are published in separate journals, directed at different parts of the community, across independent websites. And there is often more to a paper than meets the eye, whether it is a fascinating back story or a glorious image that didn’t fit in the journal.
With this integrated Community site, it will be easier to engage with the editors and other members with similar interests. The idea is to provide a forum to complement the journals collectively. We hope that people will enjoy browsing posts from editors, authors and contributors from the public and taking part in discussions or information sharing. These posts can contain text, images or video.
We’re launching with a limited number of ‘channels’ and we will be adding categories as the site becomes more populated. As examples, ‘Behind the paper’ posts are written by the authors of recently published papers, ‘On the road’ will cover conferences and site/lab visits, and no astronomy website would be complete without a ‘Gallery’ of images. In this case, we will be including images submitted as cover art (with the authors’ permission of course).
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929 Pine Street929 Pine Street
Former S.H. Smith Tourist Home
Alice Kessler had this residence built in 1913 and lived here with her son, Samuel Hiller, and his sisters, Simmie Hiller Smith and Bernice Hiller Fambro. Smith, a dressmaker, welcomed both famous travelers and college students from Allen University into her home and also taught sewing in her basement while employed as a home demonstration agent. Listed in the Negro Travelers’ Green Book from 1938 until 1967 as the "Mrs. S.H. Smith Tourist Home," visitors included musicians Cab Calloway, Father Divine, and Duke Ellington.
After Smith’s death in 1955, her daughter, Delores Hiller Frazier, continued this legacy while also renting out the second floor to civil rights activist Beatrice McKnight and her family. Frazier and her husband, Benjamin, one of eight African American men to desegregate the Columbia Fire Department, enrolled their son, Jablanski, and daughter, Cheryl, in Hand Middle School in 1964, where they became part of the first class of children to desegregate Columbia’s public schools. This residence remained in the family until 2019. | <urn:uuid:fee125a9-2bee-4d15-97ac-69f864ec01a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.historiccolumbia.org/online-tours/lower-waverly/929-pine-street | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961121 | 248 | 2.015625 | 2 |
“The Lowline is a plan to use innovative solar technology to illuminate an historic trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of New York City. Our vision is a stunning underground park, providing a beautiful respite and a cultural attraction in one of the world’s most dense, exciting urban environments.”
– Lowline project
How fitting a name in answer to the already popular High Line of NYC.
I have been an early supporter of the Lowline and finally donning my Kickstarter Tee shirt, I had the opportunity to visit the Lowline Lab down on Delancey & Essex. As I emerged from subway and walked the streets of this lower east side, it was not hard to imagine what the city must have been like years ago in this lost quadrant of time, with its polished grit and scattered markets of low rise buildings. I must admit, as a NY’er, we tend not to travel much from quadrant to quadrant–my own being Hell’s Kitchen. In a peculiar way, NY’ers mimic so many of the dystopian sci-fi societies we read about, siloed into self-contained communities reminiscent of Hugh Howey’s Wool series.
If you are not careful, you will breeze by the lab’s opening with its undressed foyer of concrete floors, black curtains and little else. I was greeted by a smiling volunteer handing out cookies and eagerly willing to answer questions about this fantastic project. There is a collection jar for donations, cool Lowiine stickers for my already crowed MacBook cover and pamphlets of the project. Then it was time to follow the exhibit where you step behind a curtain and read a few stationary billboards about the history of the site, the project, designers… and yes… contributors 😉
The technology is fantastically simple yet highly complex and elegant. It concentrates the light from above and shoots it down tubes where reflectors receive and disperse the light onto ceiling tiles that seem to be as organic as the plants they feed.
Don’t try to look into the light source from above–it is blinding and more powerful than any spotlight I have ever seen; so bright it seems powered in this dark space. Click on the image to the right for a better look as it enters from the ceiling. I was amazed at how much light showered onto the lab exhibit from one source. This technology should be used in every building in NYC. For about the first ten minutes, I observed the technology. It was as beautiful as it was technical, making sure to diffuse the light evenly yet spot certain areas to accent and showcase the living lab, making it easy to forget that these plants have not seen the outside in almost a year.
For about the next half hour, I enjoyed the exhibit, studying the plant varietals and the design of cascading layers of plywood adorned with mosses, bromeliads, Rattlesnake plants, stick plants, etc. During the second round of the
Kickstarter campaign, my contribution awarded me the opportunity to pick a plant
(Rattlesnake plant) and give it a name–which I chose Nori
, after my protagonist in an upcoming sci-fi novel called Silversides
. Eventually, I will get to pick where in the lab and where in the finished Lowline underground park, Nori will take up permanent residence. I found this a
bit ironic because my protagonist, Nori, was named after a seaweed and for my love of Phycology–study of seaweed– as a former marine biologist. However, the snakeplant was so beautiful and does reflect a slight attribute of my protagonist. I am looking forward to one day seeing Nori in the Lowline Park of NYC.
It was easy to get lost in thought and during my visit, something very profound hit me. As a writer of hard sci-fi, what better a place to study the technology of living under artificial means? I thought back to all the novels I have read, where societies lived under ground or were tucked away in star ships for generations in space, but very few of those stories ever really brought out the true mechanics of living away from natural light. Sure, the locals are described beautifully but most of the feeling I got as a reader was the longing for being back in natural light.
Standing in the Lowline Lab provided me with a real-life experience I would not have received otherwise. I stood there with my arm outstretched into the splash of light, it was cooler than I thought it would have been and the earthiness of the air around me was absent. Yet when I looked up into the main source of light coming through the ceiling, it was blinding and the thought of reaching into that beam projected images of my hand being vaporized. That’s when I felt the tap on my shoulder, “It’s time to leave,” she said. “Come on… let’s go outside…”
I am going to suggest to the Lowline they set up some WiFi, power strips and writing nooks for writers in the Lab/Park. I will see if there is any equipment I can donate from a few companies I know. This is and will be a working lab for not only the project of the Lowline, but for any hard sci-fi writer. Try and get to the Lab before March and Don’t miss this opportunity to get involved in this project–it is truly fantastic.
140 Essex Street
(between Rivington and Stanton Streets)
Lower East Side – New York City
Subway: J/M/F Essex Delancey Street
Saturday and Sunday
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The Challenge Funding that will enable the repair and upgrading of hundreds of signalised junctions across England has taken a step forward with detailed plans for works submitted to the Transport Technology Forum.
39 transport authorities are receiving between £250,000 and £500,000 extra maintenance grant from the Department for Transport to improve traffic signals to tackle road user safety, air pollution and congestion. This process is being managed for DfT through the TTF.
Since being told of their awards last August, the authorities have been drawing up and submitting detailed plans about how they will use the money. These include full site refurbishments of signals, upgrading detectors or recalibrating Urban Traffic Management and Control systems.
Liverpool City Council is one authority improving its UTMC, as well as installing a CYCLOPS junction which full segregates cyclists from general traffic, thus improving safety for all road users and encouraging active travel.
“This round of funding will enable us to renew two ageing junctions, providing high quality active travel infrastructure as well as helping us meet our NetZero Carbon 2030 target” said Mufu Durowoju, Divisional Manager, Network Management at Liverpool City Council. “We are looking forward to working with the DfT as part of this scheme as well as participating in future funding opportunities to improve the infrastructure across Liverpool”
The 2022 Transport Technology Forum Conference will be held in Liverpool from 17-19 May, where the traffic signals funding projects will be presented to the audience of public and private sector delegates meeting in person to discuss the latest transport technology innovations and how the TTF’s Technical Working Groups are delivering best practice.
The Traffic Signals Funding project is provided by the Department for Transport as additional local roads and integrated transport funding and managed through the Transport Technology Forum with support from the Local Government Roads Innovation Group, LCRIG.
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You want methods and materials that work. That’s why we use the A Beka Book curriculum to provide comprehensive, quality curriculum and materials written from a Christian perspective. Now more than ever, each child needs a strong foundation in both academics and character. Our goal is to provide the children in our care the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in today’s world.
During your family’s orientation here at Camelot Christian Academy, we will provide a school handbook which gives an overview of the high standards of behavior we expect from each of our students. Included is also a copy of our operating policies.
At our elementary school division we limit the size of our classes to ensure that we can provide optimum child to teacher ratios. Limiting our class size allows our teachers to provide each child with more individualized attention. Children are allowed to learn at their own pace with the same teacher throughout their time with us. As your child progresses through each grade level, the teachers can effectively monitor the student’s progress and offer specialized instruction as needed. Parents are responsible for ordering the required A Beka Book materials for their child. Additional Christian based material will be incorporated into each child’s curriculum.
Elementary classes begin each morning promptly at 8 AM. Class dismissal is at 2:30 PM. We do offer a wonderful inexpensive after school enrichment program where each child can take advantage of our tutoring program, use the time to complete homework assignments, and participate in enrichment activities provided by our staff.
The elementary division is open daily except for dates noted on our calendar. A copy of our calendar will be provided at orientation and the calendar is always kept up to date on our website. The daycare will be open daily except for major holidays. Any child who needs daycare during school closings may attend for a small fee.
Progress Reports will be given out every 4 weeks, Report Cards will be given out every 9 weeks. All parents should review their child’s report card to determine their child’s progress. The report cards will indicate where the student is doing well and where a child may need additional parental assistance.
Additional classes and tutoring are available during the summer months for any student that needs additional help in a subject. Classes will be Monday through Friday from 8 AM until 12 PM. Summer camp is available in the afternoons from 12 until 5 PM.
All students aged three and up will begin their classroom day by stating pledges to the American flag, the Christian flag, and to the Holy Bible. Each day after the pledge, a letter of the alphabet will be highlighted and a bible verse using that letter will be learned. The verses the children learn will be recited at graduation.
Throughout the year the children participate in many special events, parties, and celebrations such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, field trips, and birthday parties. Parents are encouraged to participate and be active in all of our special activities.
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Colonies take Mr. Chamberlain's proposal. We should, of course, be delighted if it satisfies the Colonies, but we fear that to grant, even in the rough, and with special exceptions, Free-trade with England, would turn out to be too great a sacrifice for them. If the Canadian suggestion asked a much greater sacrifice on the part of the Mother-country than on the part of the Colonies, Mr. Chamberlain's suggestion asks, we fear, a much greater sacrifice on the part of the Colonies than on the part of the Mother-country. They will not bear direct taxation, and they will not find it easy, we think, to get the revenue they need by taxes on imports, if they exempt all the principal articles of English manufac- ture which compete in any way with the infant manufactures of their own territory. | <urn:uuid:e0774ff3-b62c-45c2-a58f-fc3cd0ea2a17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/28th-march-1896/3/we-shall-be-deeply-interested-to-watch-how-the-gre | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942427 | 186 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The Economic Times
Even before the global financial system was rocked by the events of the past few weeks, India Inc faced an array of challenges: high interest rates, inflation at around 12%, a stock market operating far below the year's highs and slowing GDP growth.
But in the turbulence lies opportunity. Economic turmoil creates more opportunities for companies to move into leadership positions than any other time in business. About 24% more firms moved from laggards to leaders in the 2001 downturn compared with the subsequent period of economic calm, according to an eight-year global study by Bain & Company that analysed the net profit margins and sales growth of more than 2,500 companies.
Meanwhile, around a fifth of those in the top quartile of financial performance in their sectors dropped to the bottom quartile during the period. By comparison, only three-quarters as many companies made such dramatic gains or losses after the recession.
Indian firms that can navigate economic turbulence effectively—by heeding warning signs and reacting quickly—are also likely to improve their competitive positions, as turbulence becomes a defining characteristic of the business environment.
Consider Intel Corp., which managed to pull away from Advanced Micro Devices Inc, its rival in the chip business, during the 2001 recession. Heading into the downturn, AMD's heavy investment in product design was paying off, with AMD's revenues growing three times faster than Intel's.
Then the recession hit, catching the entire industry with too much capacity. As AMD's lack of profitability prevented it from investing in new production facilities, Intel seized the advantage. It invested in new facilities with state-of-the-art production capability and spent heavily to advertise its P4 processors. In the ensuing years, Intel's relative cost position improved dramatically while AMD had to slash 15% of its workforce. The momentum AMD had built quickly evaporated and a re-energised Intel remained the industry leader.
How can Indian companies take advantage of turbulence and a slowing economy, as Intel did? First, they need to realise that conventional approaches often don't work. Many industry leaders fall from the top during downturns or turbulent times because they assume that a strong market position is an insurance policy against trouble. That approach breeds overconfidence.
Executives postpone taking precautions or reach for the same levers they pulled in the past—like hedging their bets by diversifying. When the downturn hits hard they usually over-react. They slash costs and staff indiscriminately, cut capital expenditures, squeeze suppliers, and avoid strategic acquisitions. Then when conditions improve, they must spend heavily to regain momentum.
The better approach: slow in, fast out—like a good driver heading into a sharp curve. Winners in turbulence tend to brake quickly heading into a downturn by managing costs carefully and consistently. They focus on what the company does best, reinforcing the core business and spending to gain share. That allows them to speed up at the top of the curve, when the economy starts to turn for the better.
Companies that are prepared—or which brake early—tend to capture a disproportionate share of industry growth and profits during slowdowns.
Four principles can guide companies through turbulent conditions:
Boost the core: As turbulence hits, a company should focus on areas where it has a competitive advantage and avoid ill-considered diversification. Diluting focus when times are tough can subject the company to more volatility, not less.
To build upon their strengths, companies first need to know their starting point by performing a diagnostic of their business as turbulence builds. By identifying their core strengths and weaknesses, businesses can develop a clear definition of their core business and strategy—this will give them a reliable yardstick to measure new strategic options.
During the 1990-1991 US slump, toy-maker Mattel maintained a clear picture of its business needs. It reduced capacity, eliminated costs, and refocused manufacturing and marketing resources on its core brands: Barbie and Hot Wheels. By tending to its core, Mattel was able to grow despite the downturn.
Change lanes in time: We have seen that companies faring poorly during downturns exhibit a common response: they overreact, then hang on and "stay the course" even when the road is rougher ahead. The lesson? If your strategy is not working, review it. Winning firms react to trouble early, scrapping ideas that aren't working and turbo charging those that are.
Reacting to wrong moves slowly can allow competitors to muscle in. Take US supermarket chain Kmart: during the recession of the late 1980s, it diversified to hedge its bet on a struggling core discount retail business. But its acquisition of unrelated retail businesses drew much-needed resources and attention away from Kmart's core. By the time it unloaded these unrelated businesses, Wal-Mart and Target had made inroads into its markets.
Keep thinking ahead: Envisioning alternative scenarios is necessary to take advantage of turbulence—but it's not enough to create opportunities. Managers need to monitor events, taking accurate and timely measures as one of the alternative scenarios emerges. They need to prepare action plans for its onset. And once the downturn hits, they need to change course rapidly when required.
One company that prepares well for slowdowns is US-based industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric. Its top management spends a disproportionate amount of its time planning. They re-examine growth targets, recalibrating them to reflect changes in the business climate. Each business unit develops alternate future scenarios and plans actions that will deliver targeted results to improve performance under each scenario.
Emerson reacted early to the onset of the 2001 US downturn. The company repositioned its cost structure, asset base and business makeup; built new facilities in low-cost locations; and accelerated some new product development and engineering programmes while terminating others. It remained profitable through the downturn, with its stock outperforming benchmarks.
Hunt for deals: Another characteristic of companies adept in a downturn - they make bargain acquisitions to build up their core, even when it means taking calculated financial risks. As markets improve, they are well-positioned to accelerate. Consider the deals made by Ambuja Cements Ltd—then Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd—during the 1998-1999 slowdown in the cement industry.
Instead of retreating into a shell, India's then fifth-largest cement maker by sales acquired an ailing Modi Cement Ltd, taking advantage of the target's low valuation. It then turned Modi Cement around. Today, Ambuja Cements is India's second largest cement manufacturer by profits, and one of the country's most efficient cement producers.
Turbulence will surely find any company's weaknesses. But economic downturns reward strength as well. Companies have a surprising amount of control over how they can react when they enter a downturn. Those that are prepared usually find a way to manoeuvre effectively through it—and that sets them up to move ahead.
The author is a Partner in the India office of Bain & Company. Co-authored by Darrell Rigby, a Bain partner in Boston and the head of Bain's Global Retail Practice.
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JULY 28, 2014
“When a crime is not punished, people feel it is safe to do wrong.” This proverb is proving true in Ukraine, where a rising number of Jehovah’s Witnesses are victims of hate crimes. Jehovah’s Witnesses are grateful that the government of Ukraine guarantees freedom of worship, yet they are alarmed that hate crimes against them are increasing and that authorities are allowing perpetrators to act with impunity.
Since 2008, there have been 64 physical assaults in Ukraine against Jehovah’s Witnesses while they were engaged in or had just completed religious activity. Sixteen of these assaults were committed by Orthodox priests.
From 2008 to 2013 there were also 190 acts of vandalism against Kingdom Halls and perpetrators made 13 attempts to destroy the buildings by arson. During 2012 and 2013, acts of vandalism against Kingdom Halls doubled compared to the previous four years.
The severity of the attacks is also increasing. In 2012, two Kingdom Halls in the Donetsk Region were completely destroyed by fire. In 2013, two incidents of physical assault caused injuries so severe that the victims required extended hospitalization.
The Witnesses have turned to the authorities for protection but have found no relief because the authorities have not conducted prompt and effective investigations or acted to appropriately punish the offenders.
Inaction by Authorities
Vandalism. The police fail to respond or are slow to respond when an incident is reported. If a criminal report is filed, authorities often refuse to initiate proceedings or delay in doing so. Even if legal action is instituted, either the prosecutors fail to charge the perpetrator or the courts impose only a token punishment. From 2008 through 2012, authorities brought no criminal charges against the perpetrators in the 111 incidents of vandalism.
Physical attacks. Police often do not investigate the attacks properly or make efforts to identify the perpetrators. When proceedings are instituted, authorities seldom charge or punish the offenders. When courts do punish perpetrators, punishments imposed are not commensurate with the crimes because the attacks are not classified as hate crimes.
This scenario of impunity emboldens the perpetrators to continue the pattern of violence
Beating of Oleksandr Tretiak
A particularly egregious attack occurred on November 26, 2013, against Oleksandr Tretiak, a 41-year-old Witness who was returning home after engaging in religious activity. Three men viciously beat Mr. Tretiak for over 20 minutes. He identified the attackers as Ruslan Ivanov; Anatoliy Dovhan, a retired lieutenant colonel of the police; and Evheniy Ihlinskiy, Dovhan’s son-in-law and a traffic officer. Mr. Tretiak managed to escape and was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries, including multiple cuts and bruises, a craniocerebral injury and a broken nose.
Despite his condition, the investigator characterized the crime as a “minor” bodily injury inflicted by three “unidentified” persons. After two weeks in the hospital, Mr. Tretiak was prematurely released—a longer hospital stay would have compelled authorities to designate the attack as more than a “minor” crime. His severe injuries required that he be readmitted to the hospital the very next day. In total, he spent 23 days in the hospital.
Recently, charges were brought against Ruslan Ivanov, one of the attackers, but only after he fled. Mr. Tretiak fears that the perpetrators may target him again. He states, “I am convinced that the attackers were motivated by religious hatred for Jehovah’s Witnesses and intended to kill me.”
Will Officials Respond?
Ukraine is a country where over 150,000 of Jehovah’s Witnesses have enjoyed freedom of worship for years and where officials have proved helpful with past difficulties. The Witnesses hope that law enforcement officials in Ukraine will properly investigate criminal acts and prosecute the perpetrators so that they no longer act with impunity. | <urn:uuid:ec9c2b5e-5d0e-46b9-96d7-e1c582d2dc1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/ukraine/religious-hate-crimes-impunity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964767 | 809 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Written by Sant Kirpal Singh, December 4, 1952
I send out my heartful love to you this day. I would have conveyed the same to you in person but due to certain unforeseen circumstances that has not been possible. Though I am not with you in person but I am always with you in spirit.
The highest aim of a man's life is to know one's self and to know God, but on the contrary he is attached to 'woman and gold' all the time. The latter things were given for use only and he had to make the best use of them. He is enjoying what he should haveused only, whereas he simply talks about what he should have enjoyed. That makes him unhappy in the world. He is living, as it were, in a house on fire, viz., a body which is decaying every minute, and he is exulting over it out of ignorance. If he but knows as to how to transcend it practically at will in lifetime and attune himself to the 'All Pervading Spirit' – the Word – through the Grace of a Master who is Word Personified, he would be happy here and hereafter. The Saints say what they see with their own eyes whereas the priestly classes and orders say what they record in books. The two therefore do not agree. The latter have already been afraid of the former lest they should lose the source of their livelihood. The latter therefore did their best to prevent the spread of the way of the Saints. We should see things with our own eyes what the Saints preach and not to be led astray by mere hearsay. Every moment of our life is most precious. We should not fritter it away in useless pursuits, but devote it in the search of self and God. | <urn:uuid:458716e3-0a80-4209-96e4-a46b6fe2db4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kirpalsingh-teachings.org/index.php/ro/mesaje/christmas-messages/125-christmas-message.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.98084 | 363 | 1.71875 | 2 |
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – The Santa Clara Valley Water District is taking a drastic step to make sure the Los Gatos Creek will not run completely dry this year.
Water officials said they need to reduce flows from Lexington Reservoir to Los Gatos Creek by more than half, so there's enough water to keep at least some the creek wet until the winter.
Otherwise, as Santa Clara Valley Water District spokesman Marty Grimes said, the reservoir may not have enough water for the creek by the end of October.
"Our intention is to keep at least part of the creek wet and flowing as long as we can," Grimes said.
Extreme Drought Conditions Force Santa Clara County Water Officials To Let Los Gatos Creek Go Dry
Los Gatos Creek is primarily fed by water released from Lexington and Vasona reservoirs.
The new reduced flows will result in parts of Los Gatos Creek going dry over the next few days. Grimes said that's bad news for fish in the creek, but there's not much that can be done about it.
"We've been talking with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and we don't have a plan to try to capture any fish because there is really no suitable habitat to put them," he said. Officials said moving fish to the limited remaining streams could negatively impact the fish that are already there and that are already under considerable drought stress.
Water captured in Lexington Reservoir is used for groundwater recharge. Water released from Lexington Reservoir percolates into groundwater basins as it flows down Los Gatos Creek or is diverted to a system of groundwater recharge ponds. Currently, no water from Los Gatos Creek is being diverted to the groundwater recharge pond system due to the low flows. Ultimately, water released from the reservoir is pumped from the groundwater basin through municipal and private wells to be used as drinking water.
Water officials said creeks are drying up throughout Santa Clara County due to the drought and they continue to urge customers to voluntarily cut their water usage by 20 percent.
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You need an administrator for your company, but don’t know who to choose? This article will give you the necessary information to guide you!
What is an administrator?
The administrator of a company is its “conductor”. It is he who is in charge of the governance, organization and monitoring of the structure.
The role of administrator is crucial for the proper functioning of a company. It is important that the work is done rigorously, since he or she can be held personally liable for the company’s debts if there has been negligence on his or her part.
The only condition required by law to appoint a director is that he or she must be a Swiss resident.
In particular, the director will be responsible for :
- Managing the company;
- Organising the company with the laws in force and drafting articles of association (read this article for more information);
- Establishing the accounting and finances;
- Supervising that the management of the company is done in accordance with the established rules;
- Writing the company’s annual report;
- Convening the meeting of partners and execute the decisions;
- Informing the judge in case of over-indebtedness;
- Managing the shares and the shareholders.
These tasks can of course be distributed among the managers if there are several of them. This will have to be laid down in the company’s articles of association.
Who can be a director of my company?
We mentioned it above, but the only legal requirement for a director is to be resident in Switzerland.
Most often, companies choose a member of the board of directors or one of the owners.
The company depends heavily on its director.
As roles can be shared between the managers, their responsibilities are lightened.
More and more companies, especially SMEs, are using an external person to administer their structure.
A lawyer is frequently hired to take care of the company’s tax charges.
The responsibilities of the directors should be set out in the company’s articles of association.
In conclusion, the choice of director is very free. However, this position is of paramount importance for the proper functioning of the company. It is therefore a choice where it is essential to clarify the responsibilities and above all to choose the right person or persons, who will have to correspond to your company’s DNA.
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The newest identification out-of neurological sense is utilized in every respect out of further interoceptive education and practice, because it’s the essential feeling away from feeling. The capacity to select sensations is also very important to engaging in another aspects of interoceptive feel (supply, suffered desire, and appraisal). Verbally identifying and you will discussing sensory feel facilitates focus on backlinks ranging from real and you will emotional sensations as well as the internal cues linked to an individual’s personal solutions so you’re able to be concerned. Significantly, new member verbalization regarding nerve knowledge of brand new classes implies that the fresh new therapist are informed on the consumer sense and this assists new specialist to support the training and you may healing techniques.
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The next step about growth of interoceptive sense is actually learning to carry attention to internal system experience. This involves learning to desire attract inside human anatomy. Because this is often an unidentified layout, we teach numerous techniques to provide different knowledge and you will pathways for opening interoceptive experience. Such actions were: (a) attending to and you will impact the sensation and flow out-of exhaled inhale through the system, (b) having fun with purpose to feel the fresh softening regarding regions of muscle stress, and (c) bringing awareness of a particular area of inner human body (e.grams., in to the bust, neck girdle, abdomen, etc.) I begin with exercises that focus on brand new movement regarding air (means a great) and you may intentionally attending to softening within the a location which is holding pressure (approach b). This type of training https://datingranking.net/tr/tendermeets-inceleme/, directed from the specialist, create the initially exposure to effect internal sensation, just like the mindfulness reflection habit of focusing the newest feelings out-of breathing. Then, we instruct the client to create conscious attract inside a specific internal area in the body (means c). To achieve this, the fresh new counselor provides verbal and tactile recommendations to market the new consumer’s aware focus on a particular part of the interior system; typically we start with the upper tits as it’s a great relatively easy area to get into immediately after which relocate to portion you to definitely are more difficult for the customer (e.g., an area of problems). For all such first opening procedures, brand new specialist analyzes whether or not the buyer is prosperous for the getting attention to the fresh aspects of one’s body and processes utilized (age.g., disperse from inhale), and you can if far more training is necessary. It review for this reason courses the therapist’s practise measures and focus on potential pressures the consumer may go through in learning to access interoceptive good sense. These types of individuals exercises commonly be really-put suggestions for self-care that are incorporated daily life in order to facilitate care about-worry and you may regulation, as utilized in several MABT knowledge reflecting the latest frequent accessibility MABT experience in life together with seen helpfulness ones skills/methods (Rate, 2005; Rates ainsi que al., 2011, 2012; Price and you can Smith-Di).
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It’s been a well-known sore point for Facebook that it does not generate the same enthusiasm among 13- to 24-year-olds as its rivals. TikTok, the Chinese-owned social video app, is one of the fastest-growing platforms of all time. Sandberg said that, by Facebook’s estimation, the app has already topped 1 billion users worldwide.
TikTok says it has 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. Facebook apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, reach 3.14 billion users a month.
Losing its cool?
Facebook is still the dominant social network, but there are signs that it has lost its cool factor among teens. Last month, a report from Sprout Social, a social media analytics firm, said Facebook usage among teens has “dropped in favor of YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat.”
Last year, a Pew Research report said that Facebook “no longer dominates the teen social media landscape as it once did.” Pew found that 51 percent of U.S. 13- to-17-year-olds use Facebook, down from 71 percent in 2015.
Facebook has been trying to build its next hit product to capture youthful internet trends. This summer, Instagram introduced Reels, a TikTok-like video feature. Facebook also bought Giphy, a GIF-generation service. Facebook has mimicked Snapchat by developing augmented reality and Bitmoji-style avatars.
Campus could offer a new reason for, at least, the college set to keep checking in on the platform. The exclusivity—needing a college email to enter—was one of the factors that made Facebook attractive in its early days, after it was co-founded in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room.
Campus rolled out on Thursday to a select group of colleges and universities, before it opens to more schools.
The Campus section is within the Facebook main app and directs participants to a News Feed customized for the specific college the user attends. Students are granted access only to the happenings on their campuses, not a hodgepodge of content from all colleges.
There is also a campus directory, which is the type of product that motivated Zuckerberg to build Facebook in the first place. When it was still TheFacebook.com, Zuckerberg described the site as “an online directory that connects people through universities and colleges through their social networks there.” | <urn:uuid:aef29cdb-b8cf-4a7b-989f-da1f0d579e16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://durac.info/facebook-looks-to-recapture-its-youth-and-college-students-with-campus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962204 | 502 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Whether you are interested in Classical, Pop, or Jazz Flute lessons we can match you with the right teacher for the age, skill level, style, and goals for each student. Flute lessons are a perfect way to get that head start for school band, help you move up to first chair and take your playing to the next level.
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We take the time to learn about each student's needs and goals and then match the “right” flute teacher to the student. No matter the age, style or skill level we have a teacher that is the right fit for each student.
Age to begin lessons:
The most important thing to consider about when to start flute lessons is the size of the instrument. It can be hard for young children to play the flute simply because they are too small to hold it correctly. Generally, children 10 and up can start flute lessons.
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Many student and intermediate models can be purchased or rented at a reasonable price. Flutes can be very expensive and it is a good idea to rent first and see how the student likes it before purchasing a new flute.
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Hiking your intake of protein may be necessary for certain populations, such as weight lifters and other athletes, the belief that there's no such thing as too much protein is off the mark. You may be at risk of too much protein in your diet if you follow a low-carbohydrate or zero-carbohydrate diet, or replace carbohydrate foods with protein foods.
If you do decide to make the switch to one of the ever-popular high-protein diets out there, what can you expect? Here are some of the more common side effects you might encounter.
Protein is, chemically speaking, complex. Because of this, your body has to spend a lot more time and energy to break down this particular nutrient than it does when dealing with carbohydrates and fats. As a result, all of that protein can build up in your system, leading to stomach pain, discomfort, and other digestive issues.
At the same time, when protein is finally broken down into its various amino acids, these need to be processed by your liver. Once that's done, the resulting byproducts have to pass through your kidneys. All of this filtration requires a lot of water. If you don't increase your water intake while also taking in more protein, it's possible that you will become dehydrated.
Along with all the other problems that comes with dehydration, you will likely experience constipation - worsening the digestive issues associated with high-protein diets.
Generally speaking, high-protein diets are typically also low-carb diets by necessity and design. When you first start to reduce your carb intake, however, you will likely experience a frustrating phenomenon that goes by many names. Whether you call it the low-carb flu, keto flu, Atkins induction flu or anything else, this likely isn't a pleasant experience.
Despite their bad reputation, carbohydrates are your body's primary choice in fuel. When you take that fuel away, though, several biological changes have to take place before you can start running on fat instead. While this change is taking place - which normally takes about two weeks - people commonly experience fatigue, mood swings, cognitive impairment, and reduced athletic performance.
What happens when your diet regularly exceeds recommended protein levels for long stretches of time? Depending on the amount and type of protein you consume, you may end up experiencing complications.
According to National Kidney Foundation, eating too much protein may stress kidneys and contribute to pre-existing kidney problems, high levels of protein in the urine, and kidney stones. Getting plenty of exercise and drinking water can help the kidneys flush wastes out of your system more effectively. Make sure you talk to your doctor before beginning a high protein diet if you have ever experienced kidney problems.
Another issue regarding getting too much protein is leeching of calcium from the bones. The acids released by the body as it digests protein are absorbed with the help of calcium. If you aren't getting enough calcium, your body will take it from your bones. A Nurses Health Study even showed that women who ate more than 95 grams of protein were more likely to have broken their wrist than were women who ate less protein.
Heart Problems From Animal Proteins
While it's a popular belief eating too much protein causes cardiovascular disease, new research shows that a high protein diet that emphasizes vegetable sources of protein is protective to the heart. While both sources of protein have an equal effect on the body, according to Harvard School of Public Health, the protein package is what is likely to lead to heart problems. Animal proteins tend to have high levels of saturated fat, which may contribute to heart disease.
Cancer From Animal Proteins
The same Harvard School of Public Health report suggests that the type of protein you eat may affect more than your heart. Diets high in red meat protein such as beef may lead to higher incidences of cancer.
Low-carbohydrate dieters often seek to fill in gaps left by starchy carbohydrates like rice and pasta with protein; however, even low-carbohydrate diet proponents like Dr. Michael R. Eades suggest too much protein in the diet can be deleterious to the diet's primary mechanism, ketosis. Dieters can fill in gaps with low-glycemic vegetables and healthy fats.
One disadvantage of high protein diets you may not have considered is an impact that goes beyond your personal fitness. This negative effect is the amount of energy it takes to produce a protein-rich, animal-based diet. In The Omnivore's Dilemma (2007), author Michael Pollan explains that raising one cow in a standard factory farm uses roughly 35 gallons of oil. If you are at all concerned with the size of your carbon footprint, choosing to forego a high protein diet in favor of a more moderate plan is an easy way to reduce oil consumption.
Protein is an essential building block of human tissue. It functions in every part of the body, and you need to eat enough to maintain health. However, regularly eating too much protein may lead to an array of health issues ranging from kidney problems to certain types of cancer. Regardless of whether you are eating additional protein for improved athletic performance or as part of a low-carbohydrate diet, your body needs a balance of macro and micronutrients. To that end, a healthy diet contains proteins, fats, and carbohydrates and includes a variety of foods from across the spectrum of color. By maintaining your protein at 30 percent or less of your caloric intake, you can help keep your macronutrients in balance and your body functioning optimally.
You need protein for health, growth and healing, but once those needs are met, there are few added benefits to a very high-protein diet. According to the USDA Supertracker, an average adult woman needs approximately 46 grams of protein per day. If you are actively building muscle through an athletic training program, you may need more, perhaps as much as 77 grams per day. If you're consuming significantly more than the RDA for protein, you may be putting yourself at risk for some of the problems that can come from eating too much protein. Finding a balance that allows you to get the protein you need along with other valuable nutrients is the best way to ensure optimum health and fitness. | <urn:uuid:5ee25001-343d-4a16-b7ac-03f5b874d964> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lovetoknowhealth.com/diet-and-nutrition/side-effects-of-too-much-protein-in-the-diet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95967 | 1,324 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Modern businesses everywhere are relying on IT more and more to power their work. In the past, jobs were often long and required staff to deal with. But, nowadays, computers can handle a lot of this work. By cutting out people and using computers you can save a lot of money. But, you can also save time, as well. Computers will often work faster than people, and will be less prone to errors.
The first step to IT supremacy is figuring out which jobs can be handled by a computer. If you have dedicated payroll staff, for example, their job may be able to be handled by a machine. Of course, this seems cold, but saving money like this can be just what a company needs. It can also provide new companies with a way to operate like much larger ones. Be practical, though. It’s unlikely that your entire organization can be automated. Sometimes, there are jobs that computers simply can’t do.
Once you’ve figured out which jobs can be handled by a computer, you need to find the tools to allow you to do it. Simple Google searches will yield a lot of results. But, they may lack the detail you require. At this point, it could be worth getting a professional IT consultant onboard. Companies like Mustard IT an IT consultancy can provide you with all of the information that you need to build yourself an IT empire. The can advise you on software choices, and even help you to determine what can be changed.
When it comes to upping your computer usage, you will probably need some new hardware. Single servers can be more effective when it comes to managing data than computers, sometimes. This will depend on the data that your use, though. Once your systems are all up and running, you may want to protect them, as well. Having power backups is an extremely important tool for a business to have. A consultant can help you to make these choices. So, you don’t have to go out and learn about networking.
Of course, a lot of the services that you need servers for can also be handled with online tools. Services like Office 365 for Business allow you to host your entire business on Microsoft servers. A consultant can help you set up a system like this, and make recommendations on the best tools to subscribe to. Online collaboration tools like this can be very powerful. They allow your entire company to be connected, and, they even allow your users to share work. So, instead of using paper, you can move entirely onto digital storage.
The environmental and cost saving benefits of IT are too large to ignore. You can save your business thousands, over the years. You will also make your staff’s lives easier. They won’t have to deal with paperwork anymore, and instead, will be able to do all of their work from a single computer. Hopefully, this post has inspired you to do just that. It’s not easy getting a company into the modern age, but it’s certainly worth a try. | <urn:uuid:54c9a87f-acc1-42ac-af45-b66ecdc698f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bizzbeginnings.com/using-it-to-its-full-potential-within-your-company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962917 | 622 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The EU’s economic governance must drive climate action for a just transition, not austerity, writes Isabelle Brachet.
On 19 October, the European Commission will launch the review of the EU economic governance framework, which includes the common rules limiting Member States’ debt and deficit.
This is a key opportunity to ensure that public spending in Europe better incentivises a just transformation of our economies and societies. It is also a key opportunity to avoid austerity again.
During the recent Week of Debate on Europe’s fiscal future, the Nobel prize winner economist Joseph Stiglitz called out the EU’s set of public finance and fiscal rules, so-called “Stability and Growth Pact” a “Non-Growth and Instability Pact”. It’s time indeed for a deep rethink of the EU economic governance.
Current rules were designed to ensure economic stability in the EU and in the Eurozone, and this remains a valid objective. However, they are definitely not fit to respond to today’s social, economic and environmental challenges.
The current rules under the “Stability and Growth Pact” are built on two main numerical rules: National debt shouldn’t exceed 60% of member states GDP while annual budget deficit shouldn’t exceed 3% of their GDP.
These rules were suspended during the pandemic until December 2022, to allow member states to spend for their people and economy. When reapplied, they will excessively constrain public spending at a moment where climate action urgently requires public investments.
It is clear that private finance should play a key role to invest in climate action. However, the depth and urgency of the transformation we need, requires more than the sole mobilisation of private finance. Public spending and investments should encourage and leverage private investments in climate action.
They should support climate-related policies, measures and investments which can’t generate sufficient short-term returns to attract private investors, such as public transport infrastructure and adaptation.
Last but not least, public spending is needed to support low-income people to afford the transition and benefit from it. The role of public finance is pivotal.
Therefore, the reform of the EU’s economic governance framework needs to ensure that public spending for socially just climate action is encouraged, and not restricted by rigid rules.
If we fail to reform the EU economic governance framework in a way that encourages increased spending for climate action and the debt and deficit rules are reapplied by the end of 2022, Europe will not only risk its own economic recovery, but it will miss the train of the transition.
There is also another element to take into account in the upcoming review of the EU economic governance: Respecting the 3% and 60% rules is supposed to guarantee that public debt is sustainable (i.e. that creditors are confident that a country will be able to repay it).
Nevertheless, today, climate risk is not taken into account in determining whether member states’ debt is sustainable.
Climate change-induced disasters trigger public spending, from responding to wildfires or floods, to supporting farmers or people who lost their homes and livelihoods. As recently highlighted by the IPCC, even under the most optimistic scenario, extreme weather events will intensify till mid-century.
Determining the sustainability of public debt should take into account climate risks, and requires a more granular analysis than GDP percentages which are not evidence-based.
Economy is more than just numbers and budget lines. It impacts our lives, our future and cannot be decided behind closed doors. That is why the new EU economic governance framework must be designed in a participatory and transparent way.
It is time to move towards a European Union where macroeconomic and fiscal rules serve the fight against climate change and inequality, rather than the pursuit of percentages and indiscriminate GDP growth. | <urn:uuid:f26c9608-13c7-4163-bf47-90799f5f3ebd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old-caneurope.lademo.be/fiscal-reform-and-why-it-matters-for-climate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94658 | 791 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The average Australian school classroom has changed a great deal in the last decade. From primary school to high school, curricula have moved beyond being restricted by the traditional tools of learning and incorporated more technology-based tools and skills.
Today we see students being introduced to new age skills sets like 3D Printing and facilities connected through the Internet of Things (IoT). Soon coding could become the next language prerequisite. As the IoT and all things technology now fast become the norm, connectivity and personalisation have taken on new significance. For schools that embrace these first, they will clearly be able to reap rewards as parents seek out what ‘edge’ schools can offer in terms education and facilities. We can expect to experience extensive changes to school facilities as a result of IoT services. Climate control and energy saving measures are a starting point. (Read more on the facilities aspect in our next article or see how we have helped Mercedes College in South Australia with energy savings).
A good starting point to enhancing the core service of teaching institutions (education) will be responsive and creative solutions. Teaching staff, students and developers can work together to integrate obvious tools like Google docs and SmartBoards with IoT capabilities. Making the appropriate investments in Cloud technology is another starting point drawing from pilot programs that have been running around the world so far. The pivotal methodology here being, to approach these as tools to improve the teaching experience. Not as all-encompassing solutions that fix everything.
Sensory technology can help students overcome physical disabilities and emerging neuro sensor technology can assist teaching staff better help students with learning disabilities. Distance learning, interactive presentations as well as the tools and platforms to collaborate in real time without the physical barriers of most hardware or geographic location can all benefit this cause. It’s all about using IoT as a channel for a better, more efficient learning experience.
There’s a lot of current media speculation on how IoT will revolutionise the study experience. The truth is, no one exactly knows the extent. While students are not going to have their own personal curriculum delivered to them any time soon and replace the actual need to turn up to class (remember those theories about computers completely taking over classrooms some two decades earlier?), incorporating the tech to current teaching methodologies is already (very successfully) being practised.
Technology and education have come to a point of harmony now where replacing the teacher or making the teaching process faster is not the objective anymore (rightfully so). It is about making the delivery of education and its features, better. To do so, schools of tomorrow should look towards emerging technologies today.
Keen to know more about how IoT technologies can be incorporated into your school? Get in touch with our Electrical Technologies team and we will be sure to offer some actionable insights. | <urn:uuid:583f7936-01ff-4a48-8213-534a1e97cd91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://programmedblog.com.au/iot-australian-schools-start/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951794 | 564 | 2.9375 | 3 |
There are a number of different licenses that are used in Bacula. If you have a printed copy of this manual, the details of each of the licenses referred to in this chapter can be found in the online version of the manual at http://www.baculasystems.com.
It is possible that some of it may still be marked as copyright Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. by error, but due to the dual copyright, for these purposes it should be considered copyright Bacula Systems SA with All Rights Reserved. In addition, there are parts which are copyright Bacula Systems SA, and parts which contain Bacula Systems' trademarks.
All source code listed under Copyright Bacula Systems SA as well as all code falling under the dual license (see above) is available only to users with a valid Bacula Systems subscription agreement, and may not be redistributed without explicit written permission from Bacula Systems SA.
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General Job Description Purpose:
The purpose of this job description is to communicate the responsibilities and duties associated with the position of Maintenance Technician. It should also be noted that responsibilities and duties might not be specifically addressed.
General Position Summary:
The Maintenance Technician is to assist the Maintenance Supervisor in maintaining the physical integrity of the community. This involves ensuring a safe, secure and comfortable living environment for residents, visitors, and staff. The Maintenance Technician will carry out assigned duties in a safe manner and other duties as requested by the Maintenance Supervisor. In the absence of the Maintenance Supervisor, the Maintenance Technician will assume all maintenance responsibilities.
The Maintenance Technician will conduct all business in accordance with company policies and procedures and all state and federal regulations (such as Lead Based Paint, ADA, Fair Housing, HAZCOM Program, OSHA, etc.).
Must be knowledgeable of all pertinent laws and EPA and OSHA regulations.
Must be aware of the condition of the property at all times and take immediate steps to correct any unsafe condition.
Schedule and perform routine preventive maintenance on all appropriate equipment as directed by the Maintenance Supervisor and the Community Manager. Inspect and maintain all tools in excellent condition.
Must be aware of all utility meter cut-offs, apartment and fixture cut-offs, and sewer clean-outs.
Perform work area clean-up and safety related duties.
Ensure that storage areas remain locked when not in use.
Diagnose and perform minor or routine maintenance or repair, as directed, involving the following on a daily basis:
1. Electrical and plumbing
2. A/C and heating systems
4. Water irrigation systems
5. Stairs, gates, fences, patios, railings
6. Tile, carpet, and flooring
7. Roofing, gutters, fasteners
8. Interior/exterior lights
9. Fireplaces, ceiling fans
10. Gas fixtures and appliances
11. Shutters, doors, cabinets, windows, sliding glass doors
12. Boiler, gas and electric
13. Door locks, P.O. boxes and locks
14. Security systems
15. Ceiling leaks
17. Pool areas, tile, hot tub/spa, pool furniture
Inspect and help coordinate all needed market-ready repairs and services. Assist market-ready staff as required to meet deadlines.
Report all major repairs and need requisitions to Maintenance Supervisor prior to any expenditure of funds.
Change locks and make keys.
Remove and transfer heavy appliances and equipment from storage area to apartment (or vice versa) as circumstances warrant. Assist in moving abandoned furniture, appliances, etc. to dumpster when necessary.
Respond to any other requests made by the Maintenance Supervisor, Community Manager, Regional Maintenance Director, Regional Manager, or other company official as needed.
Education, Knowledge, Skills
- Current Certifications in EPA, CPO, Mold Class
- Minimum of 3 yrs experience in property management
- High School Diploma required
- High level of proficiency in written, verbal, and arithmetic skills
- Ability to plan and juggle multi task environment and lead maintenance team
- Ability to earn future designations as required by Industry standards, EPA regulations, OSHA requirements, etc.
- Must possess solid knowledge of carpentry, electrical, plumbing, etc. information as required by daily operations
- Must pass FCM Maintenance Skills Competency Test
The majority of time during a typical work day is conducted out on the property, requiring the ability to walk great distances, lift up to 75lbs., climb and be comfortable performing roof work, operate heavy machinery, and withstand extreme outdoor temperatures. A small portion of time will be spent in an office environment, maintaining records and vendor/supply ordering. The associate must have his or her own hand tools and some equipment as dictated by needs of the community and Regional Maintenance Director. In addition, the associate must have a smartphone device where apps can be utilized (First Communities will provide a cell phone allowance to support this requirement) and reliable transportation. | <urn:uuid:d283401d-bea9-43de-89ff-584e0f7fabee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.startwire.com/jobs/marietta-ga/maintenance-technician-4035704399?source=seo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.912021 | 851 | 1.765625 | 2 |
While knowing your physio is important in living your best everyday life, it is essential for professional athletes. Talking to us today about his time as an Olympic triathlete and beyond, is Greg Bennett, now motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur. We dive in with Greg describing his incredible career, his journey to where he is now, and how he realized that it was time to retire. Greg has a passion for life and gives every opportunity his all, and he explains why this is so good for his (and potentially your!) mental health. We also hear about the state of introspection achieved when doing a triathlon, the thoughts that went through Greg’s head when racing, and what the different triathlon formats are. Greg also shares how has maintained his identity post retiring, how he continuously builds his relationship with his wife through positivity, why helping yourself inspires others to help you, and the importance of grounding yourself in the modern world. We wrap up the episode with some anecdotes about the crazy training regimes Greg did in the ’90s, how the approach to an athlete’s training has changed and the importance of nutrition and good sleeping habits from a retired athlete’s perspective. For a fascinating discussion, some great tips and tricks on how to get into visualization (no matter the task: race or life event), and the benefits of being resilient, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to Greg Bennett, and his incredible journey as a triathlete and beyond.
- How Greg realized when enough was enough, physically.
- Why doing everything to your full potential is key to your mental health and emotional wellbeing.
- The introspection that doing a triathlon opens within people.
- Breaking down the distances in different triathlons, and the formats Greg enjoyed.
- The thoughts that go through your mind during a triathlon, and the lessons Greg learned along his journey.
- How visualization helped Greg.
- What Greg feels set him apart as an athlete: talent, hard work, and opportunity.
- Why resilience is so key to being a professional athlete, and how early life experiences can shape this characteristic.
- How Greg has maintained his identity through his retirement: his family, his health, and his work.
- Why putting yourself out there motivates others to help you, and Greg’s advice on helping yourself.
- Greg’s tips on visualization during both physical and static training.
- Why being “Always on” nowadays is so bad for us, and how Greg and Andrés ground themselves.
- How Greg met his wife, Laura, and his appreciation for her and what they have together.
- Why people should sit down with their partners to talk about their strengths.
- Looking back at the diet and fitness trends Greg used to go through in training in the ‘80s.
- Approaching weight in athletes, and the differences between male and female athletes.
- The difference in nutrition from being a professional athlete to being a retired one.
- Why sleep and evening routines are so crucial to productivity.
- How knowing his physio has helped Greg as an athlete.
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First, in all services, military leadership qualities are formed in a progressive and sequential series of carefully planned training, educational, and experiential events—far more time-consuming and expensive than similar training in industry or government.">
The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not purport to reflect the position of the US Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense.
One assumption at the core of this blog is that military service—particularly service in the crucible of combat—is exceptionally effective at developing leaders. Why? It’s nurture, not nature.
First, in all services, military leadership qualities are formed in a progressive and sequential series of carefully planned training, educational, and experiential events—far more time-consuming and expensive than similar training in industry or government. Secondly, military leaders tend to hold high levels of responsibility and authority at low levels of our organizations. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, military leadership is based on a concept of duty, service, and self-sacrifice; we take an oath to that effect. We view our obligations to followers as a moral responsibility, defining leadership as placing follower needs before those of the leader, and we teach this value priority to junior leaders. Our leadership extends to caring for the families of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines, especially when service members are deployed. When serving in crisis conditions where leadership influences the physical well being or survival of both the leader and the led—in extremis contexts—transactional sources of motivation (e.g. pay, rewards, or threat of punishment) become insufficient. Why should a person be motivated by rewards when he might not live to enjoy them? Why would a person fear administrative punishment when compliance might lead to injury or death? Soldiers in such circumstances must be led in ways that inspire, rather than require, trust and confidence. When followers have trust and confidence in a charismatic leader, they are transformed into willing, rather than merely compliant, agents. In the lingo of leadership theorists, such influence is termed transformational leadership, and it is the dominant style of military leaders.
Contrast the military leader value set reflecting service to the one that currently exists in some US businesses. Are we likely to see business leaders placing the well-being of their shareholders and employees above their own? Yesterday, February 4, 2009, in a swift response to public outrage, the Obama administration imposed a cap of $500,000 in pay for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money from the US Government. From a military perspective, a half million dollars is a generous sum, more than double the compensation of a four star leader in charge of a theater of war. But the quantity of compensation isn’t as relevant as the message to followers that, when times were tough, the leader put his or her personal well being ahead of theirs. Such perceptions of a military leader in combat would render that leader mistrusted and ineffective in the eyes of soldiers forever. Why should business leaders expect anything else on the part of people desperate about the loss of their equity or employment or lifestyles? The current economic environment, partly caused by a crisis of self-service leadership, has created belt-tightening reminiscent of a world war, with budgets slashed, travel funding restricted, training programs cut, personnel layoffs, and other draconian, cash-saving measures in place. CEOs have to start leading like generals—even if that means living a lifestyle in common with their troops.
The best leadership—whether in peacetime or war—is borne as a conscientious obligation to serve. In many business environs it is difficult to inculcate a value set that makes leaders servants to their followers. In contrast, leaders who have operated in the crucibles common to military and other dangerous public service occupations tend to hold such values. Tie selflessness with the adaptive capacity, innovation, and flexibility demanded by dangerous contexts, and one can see the value of military leadership as a model for leaders in the private sector.
In your own development as a leader, have you found value in putting other people first? Did it seem out of place in competitive, results-oriented businesses? Did it powerfully influence people, or did it merely suggest weakness? And have you had role models in business who you see as effective because of their servant leader orientation? | <urn:uuid:b3d87d0a-ced7-4f5d-9a58-7ad9f4a823ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hbr.org/2009/02/why-the-military-produces-grea.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964361 | 888 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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Shockwave Therapy, properly called Extra-Corporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) is a therapy that has been recently adapted from human medicine for use in the horse. We have had excellent success using it to improve the prognosis of high suspensory ligament injuries. In fact it is one of the only treatments that is effective for this injury.
ESWT has also been used to help treat back problems, splints and even navicular syndrome.
We are one of few veterinary practices with a shockwave machine designed specifically to be used in horses. We are happy to accept referrals for shockwave treatment from any local practices. Our machine is fully portable, and there is no need for you to travel your horse for treatment.
How Does Shockwave Work?
The machine generates pressure waves that are directed towards the damaged structure using the hand-held device. These pressure waves have been shown to help with improving blood supply, improving the horse’s natural repair mechanisms. They have also been shown to have an effect on the nerves supplying pain sensation, and make them less sensitive to pain. This gives a pain-killing effect in addition to stimulating healing.
What Will Happen?
We normally recommend shockwave therapy be performed on 3 occasions, with a week between each treatment. This may vary for the treatment of different conditions, and your vet will discuss a specific treatment plan with you.
On the day of treatment, your horse will be examined to ensure sedation can be safely used. Although the procedure is not painful, it can be quite uncomfortable for the horse, and sedation is usually necessary, especially when working on hindlimbs. Ideally the area to be treated should be shaved, to allow for optimum transmission of pressure waves through the skin, and ultrasound gel will be applied to the area.
The vet will then perform the treatment, which normally takes 10-15 minutes to carry out. No specific aftercare is required, although food must be withheld until the sedation has fully worn off. Occasionally the area can be a little tender for 24-48 hours after treatment, but this is not commonly seen. | <urn:uuid:e483ab88-16b0-4b73-8c83-5073b00b843e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://equine-vets.com/services/shockwave-therapy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951356 | 431 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) on Wednesday posted a “stunning tweet” admitting 1 of every 5,000 COVID-19 vaccinations cause “serious side effects.”
Although likely an “underestimation” due to voluntary reporting, according to Alex Berenson, the admission implies almost 300,000 Americans and Europeans have experienced a severe adverse event after receiving a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine.
Translated, the tweet says, “One in 5000 people is affected by a serious side effect after a COVID19 vaccination. If you suspect an adverse reaction, get medical attention and report your symptoms to @PEI_Germany.”
The Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), which uses the handle “@PEI-Germany” is Germany’s federal institute for vaccines and biomedical drugs.
The figure came from a PEI safety report summarizing suspected cases of side effects and vaccination complications that were reported to PEI between Dec. 27, 2020, when Germany launched its vaccination campaign, and March 31, 2022.
During that time, 172,062,925 vaccinations were administered in Germany — of those, 17.1% were Spikevax, 7.4% were AstraZeneca, 2.1% were Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and 0.1% were Novavax.
During the same time period, PEI received 296,233 reports of suspected side effects. The reporting rate was 1.7 per 1,000 vaccine doses for all vaccines combined and 0.2 serious reaction reports per 1,000 doses.
So, the 1 in 5,000 people experiencing a serious reaction is actually 1 in 5,000 doses.
PEI on Thursday corrected its tweet to reflect accurate numbers. According to @PEI_Germany, “the reporting rate for serious reactions is 0.2 reports per 1,000 vaccine doses,” the Tweet read.
“The German admission today marks at least a small — and long overdue — step toward honesty from public health authorities on the COVID jabs,” said Berenson, a New York Times bestselling author who writes regularly on Substack.
Reacting to the updated tweet from Germany’s Health Ministry, one person said, “It’s even worse, it’s 1 DOSE, not one in 5,000 people …”
Another person tweeted, “Not severe in 1 person in 5000. 1 in 5000 doses was a heavy effect. So: If you have 2 doses, your risk is even higher.”
“It comes down to the same thing! 1 report per 5,000 doses = 0.2 report per 1,000 doses! Makes at least 38,000 severe cases! Dark figure unknown! Incomprehensible!” another tweeted.
“Can you explain then why the benefits in children and young adults should outweigh the costs?” another asked.
Germany seeks to identify previously unknown risks of COVID vaccines
According to Euro Weekly News, Germany’s Health Ministry announced the numbers because it’s forming a new COVID-19 vaccine adverse reaction registry seeking to identify previously unknown risks after vaccination.
According to data from PEI, more side effects were reported following Novavax, with AstraZeneca, J&J, Moderna and Pfizer’s Comirnaty following respectively.
The reporting rate for adverse events was lower after booster shots when compared with primary vaccination.
According to PEI, the reported rate of frequent adverse reactions include myocarditis (1.3 cases per 100,000 people), tachycardia (8.19 cases) and lymphadenopathy (11.52 cases).
Approximately 1% (2,810) of cases resulted in death, 4% of cases reported permanent damage, 33% had not recovered during the reporting window and 14% were unknown.
By the end of the reporting period, 31% had recovered and 17% were improving.
A total of 5,862 suspected adverse reactions were reported in children and adolescents.
Of the 5,862 reports, 186 suspected adverse reactions occurred in children under 5, and 124 occurred in children between ages 15 months and 4 years old.
Sixty-one suspected adverse reactions were reported in infants whose mothers were vaccinated while breastfeeding. There was one report of a newborn dying on the day of birth but it was determined to be unrelated to the shot. | <urn:uuid:71c7aade-4b06-4300-9109-a97607a587d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geopolitic.org/2022/07/23/stunning-1-in-5000-covid-shots-caused-serious-side-effects-german-health-officials-admit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961449 | 941 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Fetal-neonatal iron deficiency acutely alters hippocampal biochemistry, neural morphology, and electrophysiology accompanied by a downregulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). These changes provide a cellular and molecular basis for observed short-term learning and memory impairments. However, the etiology of residual, long-term hippocampal neurotransmission abnormalities and learning impairments after treatment remain unclear. Because BDNF modulates learning and memory, we assessed its expression in 65-d-old formerly iron deficient (FID) male rats that had been iron deficient during the fetal-neonatal period and treated with iron since postnatal day 7. BDNF-III and -IV mRNAs and BDNF protein expression remained down-regulated in FID rats when compared with the always iron-sufficient rats. Expressions of BDNF activity-dependent downstream targets (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase and immediate early genes c-fos, early growth response gene 1 and 2) were reduced in FID rats. In turn, hippocampal expressions of direct targets of early-growth response genes, including hypoxia-inducible factor 1, dual-specificity phosphatase 4, IGF 2, and myelin basic protein were also diminished in FID rats. Collectively, fetal-neonatal iron deficiency lowers hippocampal BDNF expression and function beyond the period of iron deficiency. These findings may underlie the persistence of learning deficits seen after fetal-neonatal iron deficiency. | <urn:uuid:86576424-013d-47a3-ad12-c43734746400> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/long-term-reduction-of-hippocampal-brain-derived-neurotrophic-fac | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.907768 | 318 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The Feast of All Saints
Revelation 7:9–17; Matthew 5:1–12
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A saint’s life is nothing other than the Beatitudes in action (Parsch, The Church’s Year of Grace, Vol. 5, 320). This is what St. John saw in his vision. He saw a great multitude, which only God could number, of the poor in spirit made rich by the grace of Jesus Christ. The kingdom of heaven is theirs. He saw the comfort of those who mourn, and the satisfaction of those who hunger and thirst. Every tear has been wiped from their eyes, for they have left behind all that is crooked and warped and wrong. Everything has been made right. They have come to their reward. They have fought the good fight of faith. They have run the race set before them and obtained the substance of the hope within them. They are not dead, but purified and gathered around the Lamb who has freed them by the outpouring of His blood.
Knowing this in some ways makes their absence more palatable. But only a little. Death has lost its sting, but the scars that sting left behind are still tender. Even though we do not mourn as those without hope, we still mourn. We still desire to see them, to catch a glimpse of their faces and smiles, to hear them laugh or sing, to smell their smell.
For all those who fell asleep in Jesus, who believed and were baptized, who kept the faith, who suffered all even death rather than fall away from it, you will see and hear and smell again. And you will recognize them. You will know them and they you. For when St. John sees the great multitude he can tell that they are from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages. He can discern the differences. They’re not faceless. They haven’t lost their humanity and become angels. They are more human now than they ever were while here. They are more themselves now, than they ever were before. For they are now without sin. They have set aside what is corruptible and put on what is incorruptible. All has been made right. They are satisfied. They do not mourn. They are filled with mercy, pure in heart, perfect in peace. You will know them. If fact, I think you will know them all. Those you’ve never met. For they are so fully themselves, so fully who God always meant them to be, that you can’t mistake them—babies conceived but never born, children you’ve never held, relatives you only know by name, saints from all times and places. You will know them all, and gather with them all, and raise your voices together in full-throated praise to the Lamb who was slain but lives.
Now, you still mourn. You still await the comfort promised to you. You still hunger and thirst for righteousness, for the consummation of all things, for things to be made right, for the crooked to be straightened, for the humble to be exalted and the proud to be humbled. You still long for God’s mercy to be showered upon you, for your hearts to be purified so that you, too, may see God, not in a mirror dimly, but face to face. But consider this: The only difference between them and you is that they have already passed through death, and you must still abide in it. Your day will come. Your sins will end. Your sorrow will flee. And even now, like them, you are blessed. A saint’s life is nothing other than the Beatitudes in action. You, no less than those who have gone before you, are saints of the holy Trinity. For you belong to Him. you bear His name in Holy Baptism, His body and blood in the Holy Communion, His Word in your ears and upon your hearts. The kingdom of heaven is yours.
And you are here today to receive anew the forgiveness of sins, to be absolved, to hear the Word, to pray and praise your God, and finally to join in the most direct communion, to eat His Body and drink His Blood, when He joins you to Himself, with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven.
The great multitude that John saw was not simply those who had already come to heaven while He was exiled on Patmos. If it were we could expect that St. Mary and his friends and loved ones who had gone before him, and also all the saints of the Old Testament, were there. They were, of course, but there was more. For John saw the culmination of creation. He witnessed the great multitude after the resurrection on the Last Day. When he was transported to heaven he was also transported out of time. So he saw people who weren’t even born yet, like St. Augustine, Martin Luther, and his own great-grandchildren.
This means that he also saw you. What he describes in chapter 7 is not about them, the saints of God. It is about you. These are your people. You are there. That is your future, foretold in God’s Holy Word and seen by St. John. So it doesn’t matter what happens on Tuesday, what they say about you at work, who wins the World Series or the State Championships, or whether your cancer returns or not. What matters, what endures, is that the Lamb who was slain lives. He will bring you home. Yours is the Kingdom of Heaven. Yours is blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might. You, too, are the poor in spirit made rich by the grace of Christ. Salvation belongs to our God. And you belong to Him. Salvation, therefore, is yours by grace through faith because of Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
In the meantime, come and gather around the Lord’s table, His Altar and His throne. Come with angels and archangels, and the whole company of heaven. Come with Steve and Cora and Neil. Come with spouses, children and friends both here and at rest. Come and feast on the Lamb who was slain but lives. And in this, you indeed are Blessed. For a saint’s life is nothing other than the Beatitudes in action. Amen. | <urn:uuid:5caccf44-20c3-4a84-af0d-7982ec10d8e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://immanueltuscola.org/sermons/the-feast-of-all-saints-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.981221 | 1,338 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Lentil – Dal Curry Recipe, Sri Lankan Way is a delicious daal an example of Sri Lankan cuisine.
A delicious smoothie of carrot, apple and orange blended in water was a surprise for me.
Surprised as my thought was always that a smoothie is made with milk.
It was then I learnt that a can be made from raw fruit or vegetable with water, dairy and ice. You may add sweeteners of your choice.
I think that a smoothie is healthier than a juice. A smoothie contains dietary fibre and since it is thicker than a juice so it is more filling. Green smoothies are considered a healthier alternative but I will shy off the commercially made smoothies.
People who swear by smoothies consider that the body needs the vitamins, minerals and enzymes that raw food contains. Not getting enough of these will leave you malnourished by the lack of nutrients and smoothies fill in the gap.
But personally, as long as I have functional teeth I will prefer to chew and eat my fruits and vegetables. I love the crunch and the flavours of a fresh fruit or vegetables an occasional smoothie or juice is fine with me.
The burst of flavours that this smoothie gave I think I will make it yet again. Looks like I am converted to a smoothie lover!!
Carrot, Apple and Orange Smoothie
- 1 small Carrot scraped and cubed
- 1 small Apple cubed
- ½ Orange segments removed
- Water to blend
- Ice cubes crushed
- Add carrot, apple, orange and ice to the blender.
- Blend adding water as needed.
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For nearly 50 years, the Laser has been an exceptional racing and recreational sailing dinghy. Speed and simplicity of design are in its DNA, and thus it’s the perfect choice for both the seasoned racer who’s looking for high performance, and the novice who just wants a boat that’s easy to transport, rig, and sail.
But there’s more to the joy of sailing small dinghies than knowing the fundamentals of tacking and jibing or learning to recognize the signs of sea and sky. Sailing is an art and a science. It’s a pursuit that fully engages both the head and the hands, and so becoming an excellent sailor means mastering the details, which means understanding your boat. And there’s no better way of getting to know your boat than learning to maintain it yourself.
For some, the idea of sailboat maintenance and repairing even a small dinghy seems daunting. Not everyone is naturally inclined toward working with their hands. If that’s you, my hope is that this post will inspire you to try. You certainly shouldn’t attempt every repair on your own, especially on difficult jobs or on larger, more complex boats. But minor repairs on a Laser offer the perfect introduction to basic dinghy maintenance and will give you a knowledge of your boat that will make you a better and more informed sailor.
In this post, we’ll focus on three maintenance fundamentals: patching damaged sails, locating hull leaks, and fixing simple cracks and chips in the gelcoat.
Sailboat Maintenance Tasks
Patching a Sail
Imagine you’re all set for a great day of sailing on your favorite lake or bay. You unload the hull from your trailer, set up the mast, unfold the sail…and find a hole or tear in the sheet that’s only going to get worse if it’s not repaired before you get out on the water.
DIY emergency repairs are usually a pretty simple matter, and if done properly they’ll easily get you through your day without making matters any worse. Of course, tackling that problem in the moment first requires that you be prepared, so it’s always helpful to have a basic sail repair kit on hand. For small issues like this, your new best friends are an adhesive-backed sail repair tape like Dacron and a pair of scissors.
Just apply the Dacron tape to one side of the tear or hole, use your scissors to trim any frayed material on the opposite side, then apply another length of tape to that side as well. You can find Dacron tape at your local marine supply store.
For permanent repairs, you can fix small holes and tears in relatively short order with your trusty scissors, a bit of the same kind of fabric that your sail is made of, some basting tape and thread, and a simple zigzag sewing machine. Just cut a patch of fabric that is at least one inch larger than your rip or hole, and then attach the basting tape to your patch and place it over the damaged area of the sail.
Once your patch is securely in place, use the sewing machine to make zigzag stitches around the perimeter. Next, turn the sail over and use the scissors to trim the frayed edges of the sail fabric. Properly done, this patch should last you a good long time.
Looking for potential leaks in your Laser is usually a pretty straightforward affair. Starting with the simplest solution first – just pull the drain plug from the transom and raise the bow of the boat. Any water in the hull will quickly flow out. Next, make a visual inspection of the hull and all hardware attachments, looking for obvious holes or breaches.
Another option for leak detection is to pressurize the hull. For this test, you’ll need a pump, a piece of electrical tape (or in a pinch, chewing gum will do fine), a sponge, and a bucket of soapy water. Locate the bleed hole under the toe strap near the bow and cover it with your electrical tape or chewing gum. It’s probably not necessary that I mention you actually need to “chew” this gum first, but I’ll make that clear in the interest of being thorough!
Once the bleed hole is covered, pump some air into the bunghole in the transom. You’re not filling up a tire, so don’t overdo it! Now get your sponge full of soapy water and walk around the dinghy, applying the soapy water liberally all over the hull, deck, and of course over all of the fittings. You’re looking for soap bubbles from air being forced through any tiny cracks or holes through your solution of soapy water. You may have seen this same technique used at your local car mechanic’s shop when they’re looking for a hidden leak in a tire. The principle is the same. Find the bubbles and you’ve found the leak. Just don’t forget to remove the electrical tape or chewing gum from the bleed hole.
Fixing Scratches and Chips in the Gelcoat
While fiberglass provides structure and strength to the hull, the gelcoat protects it and gives it its color, durability, and shine. Most gelcoat repairs are easy enough for the novice, but more extensive damage should be inspected and repaired by an experienced boat restoration and repair professional.
Step 1: Prepare the Surface
Begin by thoroughly washing the damaged area of the hull with soapy water and then rinsing it clean. If necessary, remove any existing oxidized gelcoat with a rubbing compound so you can accurately match the color. Wipe the surface down again and dry it completely, and then mark off the repair area with masking tape. Next, sand the damaged area with 220 grit sandpaper and then wipe it down with acetone.
Step 2: Match the Color
Using a white gelcoat paste to start, experiment by adding small amounts of the coloring agent until you get a pigment that’s as close to the color of the hull as you can manage. Don’t drive yourself crazy trying to match it exactly. Once you’ve got a gelcoat paste color that’s pretty close to the hull color, mix enough to make your repairs.
Step 3: Fix the Damage
Use a putty knife and the gelcoat you’ve just prepared to fill in the damaged areas, making sure to overfill just a bit so that the paste will completely cover the damaged area as it dries. Make sure to cover the repair with wax paper or a curing agent like Evercoat.
Allow the final coat to cure for at least 4 hours, though it’s best if you just let it cure completely overnight. Then wet sand the repair starting with 220 grit sandpaper, finish up with 600 grit sandpaper, apply marine polish, and you’re done!
Lin and Larry Paraday, famous in the sailing world for circumnavigating the globe both east and west in small sailing vessels, had a saying: “If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.” Obviously, they were speaking as adventurers who often had to depend on their own skills and wits for survival, and not as most of the rest of us for whom sailing is just a weekend passion. But that quote does say something that speaks to the resilient and self-sufficient streak that runs deep in the heart of almost every sailor.
Do you need to know how to fix your boat in order to be a great sailor? Maybe not. But the real essence of sailing is about learning how to problem-solve in the moment. Solving the problems constantly presented by the wind, the currents, the crew, the boat, and not least of all your own limitations, is fundamental to sailing and to sailors.
Sailboat maintenance and knowing how to care for your boat will add more tools to your skillset bag when it comes to problem-solving and grant you one more way to enjoy and explore what it means to be a sailor.
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Norwegian diplomats want bulkers to stop loading phosphate in Western Sahara but their jawbones are their only weapon.
25 June 2007
By Bob Rust
Norway wants bulkers to stop loading phosphate in Western Sahara but the country's diplomats say “moral-political” jawboning is all they can do about it.
Bergen shipowner Kristian Gerhard Jebsens Skipsrederi (KGJS) is running into domestic criticism for its part in the commodities export trade of the Moroccan-controlled territory.
Norway's foreign ministry says it would like to help more but can only offer advice.
Political opponents of the trade are spotlighting tomorrow's scheduled unloading of Gearbulk's 52,000-dwt open-hatch bulker Bulk Saturn (built 2003) at Bluff, New Zealand, after calls at Whangarei and Tauranga carrying a load of phosphates from Western Sahara. London-based Gearbulk is 60% owned by the Norwegian company.
Norwegian idealistic organisation Framtiden i vare hender ("The future in our hands") has been tracking the ship.
The disputed trade and the opposition to it have roots that go back to the period of European colonialism.
The United Nations has considered the area a non-self governing territory for more than 40 years, since before the time Spain handed it over to Morocco and Mauritania.
Starting in 1975 the two Northwest African countries were allied in a bloody war against the rebel Polisario Front and the native population. Mauritania eventually withdrew its claim in favour of Morocco, which still wields control over the large territory and its natural resources.
Australia is the main importer of Western Saharan phosphates. Supporters of the Polisario Front there have argued for a national ban on the imports but Australian fertiliser and agriculture industries have countered that Western Sahara is the only possible supplier of phosphate of the quality and quantity Oz farmers need.
In Norway, the foreign ministry indicates that its heart is in the right place but its hands are tied.
“We can offer moral-political challenges but we cannot support the challenge with action,” foreign ministry spokesman Jorn Gjelstad told Norwegian press bureau NTB.
He added: “When business activity violates the interests of the local population we believe it violates international law. Our clear line is that we advise against this type of business activity.”
In Australia, the foreign ministry takes no such position and has only warned Australia's phosphate importers to seek legal advice before importing anything from Western Sahara because of "international law considerations".
Last year the Polisario Front and the corresponding Western Saharan government in exile had some success in negotiating licenses that give oil companies exploration rights that they can exercise once the Moroccans are out.
However, only the Moroccans are able to supply non-hypothetical raw materials from Western Sahara for now.
A group of Saharawi political prisoners today filed a legal complaint against Morocco in to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
The Saharawi student activist Mohammed Layichi has been on hunger strike for almost a month.
A group of friends for Western Sahara consisting of representatives from all nine political parties was established today in the Norwegian parliament
What is being done to prevent that Norwegian salmon production undermines food security in West Africa? The Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara has challenged Norway's 40 largest aquaculture companies. | <urn:uuid:7ccef006-38b2-4755-b55c-2f61f49b5f58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vest-sahara.no/en/archive/540 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941986 | 713 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Environmental Stewardship at Kent
Kent School is committed to environmental stewardship, which is focused on two primary goals:
1. Establish a culture of sustainability that is aimed at understanding environmental challenges and the everyday actions necessary to address those challenges.
2. Ensure all students are exposed to environmental concerns while examining the institutional practices implemented at Kent to drive sustainability. A Kent School graduate will have the knowledge necessary to identify environmental issues and take the steps necessary to build a more sustainable future.
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to examine environmental issues and construct an action plan to strengthen the School’s leadership position in environmental stewardship. All are involved in the following practices:
Reduce Green House Gas emissions through conservation and on-site generation of clean renewable energy (Solar Photovoltaic Systems). Bring renewable energy production into the classroom to study the various processes used to create renewable energy and the positive impact this has on the environment.
Use campus gardens and purchase from farmers in Litchfield County and upstate New York in order to serve sustainable, local food in our Dining Hall. Study the importance of sustainable processes used to purchase, prepare and dispose of waste. Heighten awareness and help reduce Kent School food waste.
Through environmental science classes, self-study of renewable energy monitoring systems, discussion with Dining Hall managers, a tour of existing geothermal systems, assessment of local ecology and participation in conservation challenges the review of environmental challenges becomes part of every student’s Kent School education.
Upgrade campus facilities with more efficient windows and lighting, expand the recycling program throughout campus and eliminate of trays in the Dining Hall.
Establish a procurement process to ensure the responsible use of environmental resources. Partner with vendors to drive environmental sustainability.
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Tampa, FL – Beautifully Unblemished Vitiligo Support Group, founded by Tonja Johnson, will host a celebration in honor of World Vitiligo Day (June 25th)
Beautifully Unblemished is committed to promoting Vitiligo awareness and providing valuable resources to help people deal with the impact that vitiligo has on their lives. They also provide a safe environment to share emotions and have discussions with people dealing with many of the same issues.
When: Saturday, June 26, 2021 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Where: Mission BBQ
5602 West Waters Ave, Tampa FL 33614
Who: Individuals with Vitiligo, their families and friends
Media should RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Vitiligo is a condition that causes some or all areas of the skin to lose color. The color of your skin depends on melanin. If a person has vitiligo, the cells that produce melanin stop functioning or die. Anyone can be diagnosed with vitiligo, but it is sometimes more noticeable in people with darker skin.
People diagnosed with vitiligo have no way of knowing how much pigment they will lose or how rapidly it will or will not diminish. Although, vitiligo isn’t life-threatening, it is life altering in many ways. While there is no cure there are communities and groups like Beautifully Unblemished, who provide support and resources for individuals and their families with Vitiligo.
Vitiligo can set in during childhood, making the process of learning about your body and identity even more difficult. People with vitiligo are often bullied because of their looks, but they also get many insults from people who are not necessarily trying to hurt them. | <urn:uuid:fcf5c0da-0345-46b1-aa64-6d22dbd9a36d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tampabaynewswire.com/2021/06/19/beautifully-unblemished-vitiligo-support-group-to-host-world-vitiligo-day-celebration-98932 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959533 | 373 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Social media activity is now providing an important new data point for financial start-ups to use when evaluating whether or not someone is eligible for a loan.
A Chicago-based startup called AvantCredit has raised a $20 million series B round for its personal loan service that uses machine learning algorithms to assess credit-worthiness. AvantCredit closed a $34 million Series A round earlier this year. It’s taking a page out of the ZestFinance playbook — lending to underserved markets at rates less usurious than traditional payday-loan providers — although that company now acts only as an underwriter rather than an actual lender.
ZestFinance, the machine learning meets personal loans startup from former Google CIO Douglas Merrill, has raised a $20 million series C round. The company’s model analyzes more than 70,000 variables in trying to provide good loans to folks with bad, or no, credit.
Lending firms like Zest and Kabbage are doing a better job than jobs at deciding if a person or small business should receive credit. Their advantage is thousands of data signals that banks don’t even consider.
Is the world of big data one in which information about us allows us to personalize services and benefit from that personalization, or is it one in which our data is used against us by companies and governments?
Even if you don’t agree with ZestFinance’s business, it’s hard to argue with its grasp of big data and applied mathematics. Now, the company has added a human touch to machine learning in order to make its models for assessing repayment risk even more accurate.
By becoming an underwriter for some of the world’s largest banks and credit card companies, ZestFinance might actually be able to achieve its goal of using big data to supply the underbanked with needed credit. It’s not altruism by any means, but here’s how it works.
ZestCash, the startup co-founded by former Google CIO and VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill to provide short-term loans to the underserved, has changed its name to ZestFinance and its business model, as well. Now essentially an underwriting service for lenders, can ZestFinance remain ethical? | <urn:uuid:d3af77dd-4b14-4224-a76d-69dd6035945d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.gigaom.com/tag/zestfinance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958514 | 474 | 1.882813 | 2 |
How do the national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest work?
Each country is de facto represented by its respective public broadcaster. It is at easch broadcaster's sole discretion to determine who will represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest.
There are three common ways to select a participant for the Eurovision Song Contest:
- Through a televised national selection: Through one or more television shows, the public can take part in the selection of the country's representative. The most successfull televised national selection format is Melodifestivalen in Sweden, which features four live shows in different cities across the country, a second-chance show and a spectacular final;
- Through a full internal selection: Artist and song are being selected internally by a committee appointed by the broadcaster;
- Through a mixed format: Often, an artist is appointed by the broadcaster, while the public can help choose their song during a live television show;
The EBU strongly encourages participating broadcasters to engage the public with the selection of a participant for the Eurovision Song Contest. | <urn:uuid:317e4391-dcf8-43b7-b849-07183c7d2703> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eurovision.tv/about/in-depth/national-selections?filter=Ukraine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936015 | 217 | 2.75 | 3 |
Ensure coronavirus patients not denied beds, get prompt treatment: Health ministry to pvt hospitals
New Delhi, Sep 12: The Union Health Ministry on Saturday urged private hospitals providing COVID-19 treatment to ensure that patients, afflicted with the viral disease, are not denied beds and they get prompt care.
The ministry, in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and AIIMS, New Delhi, at a virtual conclave with private hospitals providing COVID-19 treatment emphasised the collective goal must be to have a health system that is available, affordable and accessible to all.
During the meeting, the importance of timely treatment of comorbid patients to reduce fatality was stressed upon. Hospitals were encouraged to protect healthcare workers by adopting all practices on infection prevention and control and keep the staff motivated, the health ministry said.
Hospitals were also asked to ensure seamless admission of patients. The importance of evidence-based treatment protocols and reducing heterogeneity in treatment of COVID-19 patients was also underscored, it said.
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan inaugurated the virtual conference.
"He reiterated the government''s resolve to ensure that COVID-19 patients must not be denied beds and must be provided prompt treatment," the health ministry said.
"The collective goal must be to have a health system that is available, affordable and accessible to all. He highlighted that the aim of the Centre along with the states and Union Territories is to achieve a mortality rate of less than one per cent," the ministry said.
The conclave was organised to provide a platform for discussion on clinical protocols and best practices in COVID-19 management towards reducing avoidable deaths.
According to the ministry, while COVID-19 has posed unprecedented challenges to the country''s healthcare systems, there have been proactive responses from the government as well as the private industry.
"The conclave was organised to share the best practices and effective treatment modules being implemented by the public and private sector hospitals in the country."
The health ministry also encouraged the hospital representatives to share their key concerns and challenges being faced while managing COVID-19 in their facilities.
The best practices included discussion of the teleconsultation sessions conducted by AIIMS, New Delhi, through the e-ICU, Centers of Excellence (CoE) and clinical grand rounds to enhance the clinical management capacities of the ICU doctors in various states and union territories, the ministry said.
This, supplemented by various other focussed strategies of containment, prevention, early identification, has resulted in higher recoveries and steadily declining mortality.
At the meeting, senior doctors from private hospitals also shared their experiences and challenges about their battle against COVID-19.
Concerns about the delayed referral of patients from smaller facilities and financial stress owing to the lack of health insurance were also discussed. The conclave was attended by more than 150 hospital representatives, senior doctors and clinicians from across the country, the ministry said.
ICMR Director General Prof Balram Bhargava, AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal, FICCI President and Apollo Hospitals Enterprises JMD Dr Sangita Reddy, Chair, FICCI Health Services Committee and Chairman, Medica Group of Hospitals Dr Alok Roy were also present at the meeting. | <urn:uuid:042faa3d-0bc9-42a1-a377-728cba643705> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oneindia.com/india/ensure-covid-19-patients-not-denied-beds-get-prompt-treatment-health-ministry-to-pvt-hospitals-3148168.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956646 | 692 | 1.625 | 2 |
Hypochondria in the Corona Pandemic: The Fear of Leaving the House
In Molière’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”, the main character Argan amuses the audience with his obsession with the doctor. He constantly has various doctors prescribe various remedies for non-existent diseases, which confirm his delusion in order to make a profit from it. The truth is, hypochondria isn’t all that fun, especially in times of a global pandemic
During the past two years, mental health has received a lot of attention. In particular, people with depression and other mental illnesses suffered from the isolation of the lockdowns, for many it was stress and loneliness that triggered such an episode in the first place. But one particular group has not felt represented at all: hypochondriacs. At least that’s what we were told star-Reader Sina.
Sina is disappointed with the media coverage. Most of the time, the media were about so-called lateral thinkers, or about people who have economic worries as a result of the consequences of the pandemic – “I don’t want to downplay any of that, but there is no talk at all about the people who are afraid of Corona, who find our measures far too lax and therefore hardly ever leave the house,” says the young woman. Because her illness limits her so much that her quality of life has deteriorated massively.
It all started for Sina about ten years ago, when she was lying on the bed in her shared room and felt pain in her left arm. Then she did what everyone advises against: Googling. And when she suddenly had the symptoms of a heart attack on the screen, she rushed to the emergency room – and it wasn’t to stop at this visit. After that she went to see her first cardiologist. “I now have six general practitioners, three cardiologists, three gynecologists and two dermatologists. I have regular check-ups there, about every two weeks.” The doctors know that Sina suffers from hypochondria. Some are less understanding, others show understanding. Since then, Sina can no longer count how many times she has been to doctors and the emergency room. “So 300 to 400 times determined”.
When the pandemic paralyzes
Since then, Sina has had two therapies, after which she had the illness well under control. She was diagnosed with hypochondria, generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. In practice it looks like this: “I have a symptom and then I get into it, then the panic sets in, and so on. If there is pain in the leg, it is a thrombosis. Pain in the head, it is almost like a cerebral hemorrhage”, like the young woman. At some point you will know how to deal with it. But then – then came Corona.
The pandemic set her back completely, reports Sina. It would no longer be possible to meet friends – if so, then only if everyone had done a PCR test beforehand. Her family is very careful, so she could see her dad from time to time. Unfortunately, her mother does not believe in the pandemic and got caught up in conspiracy stories. Therefore the contact was broken off. And Sina also had to give up her previous job. Fortunately, today she has an understanding employer who allows her to work from home. Otherwise, she does a test every day, isolates herself at home, hardly dares to go outside and panics if her boyfriend – with whom she lives together – had contact with the corona virus at work.
Those affected are convinced that they are suffering from a serious illness
“People with hypochondria—or a hypochondriac disorder—believe they have a serious illness,” explains Dr. Alexander Spauschus, chief physician at the clinic for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at the Schön Klinik Hamburg. Those affected then also felt the corresponding symptoms, such as headaches or abdominal pain, and think that this must be due to a physical cause. They are then firmly convinced that this must be a brain tumor or colon cancer.
This in turn is followed by repeated clarification in various medical specialties: “The exciting thing that happened then – unfortunately – was that statements that would normally calm us down – that the internist, gynecologist, neurologist says: ‘You have nothing’ – just doesn’t have this calming effect,” Spauschus continues. As in the case of Sina, this then leads to patients regularly visiting different doctors in the same specialty. At the same time, the abnormal sensations are anxiously observed and usually used to confirm the suspected diagnosis. A vicious circle arises.
The first clue is avoidance
Another important point is avoidance, says Dr. fun “If it comes to avoidance, then that is an indication that help is urgently needed,” said the expert. These are things that were actually good for you and that you suddenly avoid out of fear. As in Sina’s case, not seeing his friends anymore. Then you should at least talk to your family doctor, whether the symptoms could have another cause, i.e. open yourself to alternative explanations. “As soon as people are willing to at least look at an alternative psychological explanation and to consider whether this could apply to them, then the disease is almost conquered. But that is exactly what is difficult for those affected,” says Spauschus.
Definitely don’t google symptoms
Both the expert and Sina advise: just don’t google it. Simple advice, actually, but Dr. Google is quickly consulted and likes to spit out disturbing diagnoses. It is better to distract yourself, for example by moving. “The symptoms appear when I’m sitting on the couch at home,” explains the young woman. And then you also need medical support – but on a mental level. “First of all, psychotherapy is the drug of choice,” says Dr. fun Medications are secondary. “What you can do yourself, in addition to behavioral therapy, are relaxation exercises such as progressive muscle relaxation.”
The expert also advises exercise: “I’m talking about endurance activities, i.e. swimming, cycling, walking. Walks are completely sufficient. It would be important to last at least half an hour to three quarters of an hour. Two, three times, better four times Week. So that the pulse is a bit taken by surprise. But it’s not about reaching your limits.”
Look for offers of help
Sina also wants to do another therapy and advises every person affected by hypochondria to do the same – even if the path is sometimes arduous. “I’ve been looking for therapy for a year and a half and I’ve called 632 people and everyone said ‘no’. I know that because I keep an Excel spreadsheet,” she says. It is well known that there are scandalously few free places in psychotherapy in Germany. Many sufferers search for months or years.
In general, the 30-year-old hopes that there will be more tolerance for mental illnesses, including hypochondria, in the future. Because a person who suffers from hypochondria is not just exaggerating, they are often in such a really bad way that they are paralyzed. As long as a pandemic is still raging in the world, Sina will stay at home for the time being – because she currently only feels safe there. | <urn:uuid:ef37b6f4-6adf-4a66-9062-6fa462b466ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dnbegallery.org/hypochondria-in-the-corona-pandemic-the-fear-of-leaving-the-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976372 | 1,577 | 1.546875 | 2 |
In the United States, “there are no biosafety rules or regulations that have the force of law,” he said. “And that is in contrast to all other aspects of biomedical research.” There are enforceable rules, for example, for experiments with humans, vertebrates, radioactive materials and lasers, but none for research with pathogenic organisms.
Dr. Relman, who also advocates the need for independent regulation, warned that legal restrictions as opposed to directives or more flexible regulations could also pose problems. “The law is cumbersome and slow,” he said. For example, at one point in the development of biological warfare laws, Congress banned the possession of smallpox. But the language usually said Dr. Relman also appeared to ban possession of the vaccine because of its genetic similarity to the virus itself. “Trying to fix it took forever,” he said.
The current HHS directive also does not provide many guidelines for working with scientists in other countries. Some have different guidelines for research into gain of function, while others have none at all.
Dr. Johns Hopkins’ Gronvall argued that the US government cannot dictate what scientists do in other parts of the world. “You have to manage yourself,” she said. “You can’t sit on everyone’s shoulder.”
Even if other countries are insufficient in terms of research policies to gain functions, said Dr. Lipsitch that this shouldn’t stop the United States from developing better ones. As the world leader in biomedical research, the country could set a good example. “The United States is sufficiently central,” said Dr. Lipsitch. “What we do is really important.”
Ironically, the pandemic has put deliberations on such issues on hold. But there is no question that the coronavirus will affect the shape of the debate. Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, said the idea that a new virus was flooding the world and causing millions of deaths was hypothetically plausible before the pandemic. Now he has seen what such a virus can do.
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USCG Conducts Operation Safe Crab
With crabbing season fast approaching, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) has announced that it is again conducting its Operation Safe Crab. The USCG Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Program was started in 1991 to assist commercial fishermen in identifying and eliminating potential safety hazards that might cause injuries or fatalities. Beginning in 2010, with the Authorization Act, it became mandatory that all commercial fishing vessels operating farther out than three nautical miles have a dockside examination after October 15, 2012.
The USCG is conducting dockside examinations of the crab fleet in ports from Monterey, California to Crescent City, California between November 6th and the 8th. The California crab season is set to start on November 15, 2012. This season covers the central coast between Avila-Morro Bay, California and the mouth of the Russian River. The northern coast season starts on December 1, 2012, running from the Russian River to the Oregon border.
Part of the Operation Safe Crab program involves USCG personnel walking through the docks, visiting with crab vessel owners and operators and explaining what lifesaving equipment is required for their vessels. They also inform them of pot loading practices, which affect stability and watertight integrity. These dockside examinations have served to dramatically reduce injuries and fatalities, as well as identifying problem areas that need addressing.
Statistics from the 11th USCG District indicate that almost one third of the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) and life rafts on the vessels had been installed incorrectly in the past. Correcting these deficiencies is relatively easy and by doing so many lives can be saved. For vessels with more serious safety violations, the Coast Guard can prevent them from operating until the corrections are made. Some of those discrepancies would include overloading, lack of watertight integrity, missing essential life-saving equipment or having non-functioning EPIRBs.
The USCG encourages all California commercial crab fishermen to contact their local USCG Fishing Vessel Safety examiner to set up an examination of their vessel or ask any questions they might have. Once this examination is completed by a Coast Guard Fishing Vessel Safety examiner, any future at sea boarding by the USCG will be considerably reduced.
Even under the best of circumstances, working on a commercial fishing vessel is dangerous work. It is said to be one of the most perilous jobs in America. Sometimes the resulting injuries and fatalities are said to be caused by uncontrollable acts of God. Other times they can be traced to safety violations by independent fishermen who have historically resisted change and regulation.
If you or someone you know has been injured on a commercial fishing vessel or lost a loved one who was a seaman, you need to seek the advice of a Washington maritime lawyer.
Seattle Maritime Attorneys, John Merriam and Gordon Webb, have helped victims of commercial fishing accidents seek recovery for their injuries or the loss of their loved ones. Our firm has nearly 50 years of collective experience in handling maritime and admiralty law cases. John Merriam has worked as a seaman for 12 years and the Gordon Webb has worked as a fisherman and boat builder.
Contact us through our website or call us directly on our toll free line at 877.800.1007 to set up your confidential, no obligation consultation. All cases are handled on a contingency basis so that you will never owe us a fee unless we make a monetary recovery for you.
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About Maria Fernandez
I will teach you to speak Spanish
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In the US, cancer treatment is more expensive for patients younger than 65, according to a Kaiser Permanente study.
A Kaiser Permanente study suggests cancer costs in the United States are higher for people under age 65, and costs increase with disease stage. In an analysis published in JNCCN, researchers report that approximately 50% of new cancer diagnoses occur in people younger than 65. Yet, most cost projections are based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results–Medicare data, which are typically limited to populations 65 years of age or older.
“It is important to improve our understanding of cancer costs for US adults of all ages. To make our findings as relevant as possible to other researchers and health systems, we focused on the most common cancers in the US across the age spectrum: breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer,” said lead author Matthew P. Banegas, PhD, MPH, a health services researcher with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon.
The authors found average 1-year costs for lung cancer ranged from $50,700 (stage I) to $97,400 (stage IV) among patients younger than 65. The average 1-year costs were $44,000 (stage I) to $71,200 (stage IV) among patients aged 65 and older (reported in 2015 dollars and adjusted for inflation). The 5-year costs followed the same pattern. In general, it was more expensive to treat lung and breast cancers than colorectal or prostate cancers. However, care was more expensive in later stages for all types.
The study evaluated data on 45,522 adults diagnosed with cancer between January 1, 1988 and December 31, 2007 with at least 30 days of continuous health plan eligibility from January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2008. Patients were from Michigan, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington.
“We felt there was a major gap in research on cancer care costs,” Banegas told Cancer Network. “The cost estimates in our study can serve as a resource for future research and for policy-makers. Researchers can use our estimates in comparative-effectiveness and cost-effectiveness studies to improve the quality and breadth of their analyses.”
Banegas said these findings will also benefit health system policy-makers and oncology program leaders. The researchers structured their study specifically to help inform stakeholders about potential costs of care for individuals with cancer. “Our findings about the high cost of cancer care for adults under 65 should be of great interest to clinicians, healthcare systems, and employers, as they consider their investments in prevention and early detection for this population to avoid high future costs,” said Banegas.
According to Banegas, the growth in cancer care costs has placed an increased burden on society. A growing body of research shows much of these costs are being shifted to patients and families, leading to severe financial hardships from cancer. Banegas said the healthcare system must address this issue before costs of cancer care become even more unaffordable. | <urn:uuid:5c266138-e402-4dbc-bb47-45486330b127> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cancernetwork.com/view/higher-cancer-costs-younger-patients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964798 | 627 | 2.875 | 3 |
A robust ALD-protected silicon-based hybrid photoelectrode for hydrogen evolution under aqueous conditions†
Hydrogen production through direct sunlight-driven water splitting in photo-electrochemical cells (PECs) is a promising solution for energy sourcing. PECs need to fulfill three criteria: sustainability, cost-effectiveness and stability. Here we report an efficient and stable photocathode platform for H2 evolution based on Earth-abundant elements. A p-type silicon surface was protected by atomic layer deposition (ALD) with a 15 nm TiO2 layer, on top of which a 300 nm mesoporous TiO2 layer was spin-coated. The cobalt diimine–dioxime molecular catalyst was covalently grafted onto TiO2 through phosphonate anchors and an additional 0.2 nm ALD-TiO2 layer was applied for stabilization. This assembly catalyzes water reduction into H2 in phosphate buffer (pH 7) with an onset potential of +0.47 V vs. RHE. The resulting current density is −1.3 ± 0.1 mA cm−2 at 0 V vs. RHE under AM 1.5 solar irradiation, corresponding to a turnover number of 260 per hour of operation and a turnover frequency of 0.071 s−1. | <urn:uuid:cd120144-58b7-44e3-949a-a16d7eb94d24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/sc/c8sc05006f | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.888862 | 278 | 1.90625 | 2 |
State program helps people with disabilities remain in the workforce
When Scott Cebery experienced sudden pain in his lower back and legs, at first he didn't realize how much it would change his life.
But less than an hour later, the 51-year-old farmer from Price County lost the use of both legs. A hospital exam showed he had contracted Transverse Myelitis; a disorder caused by inflammation of the spinal cord.
"I was in bed when it hit me," Cebery said.
With therapy, he was able to regain enough strength to get around with a walker and then a cane. But farm work would be difficult because walking on uneven ground or in the woods where he had a logging operation was nearly impossible.
Still, Cebery, now 64, is able to take care of his herd of beef cattle and 185 acres of crops used to feed the livestock.
“You've got to do what you like to do,” he said.
He credits his ability to continue farming to help he received from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. The agency's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation helps people with disabilities remain employed or find work.
Over the last five years, the agency says, it’s assisted around 100 farmers.
Cebery uses a utility vehicle provided by Vocational Rehabilitation to get around the farm and move cattle between pastures. He also has a skid-steer loader operated with hand controls for hauling equipment and feed.
“It’s hard for me to carry much of anything and walk,” he said.
Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection estimates there are about 39,000 farmers in the state with some type of physical limitation or disability. Some farmers might not consider a health issue as a disability even though daily tasks become increasingly difficult.
"We have adaptive technology that can help," said Amy Pechacek, Secretary-Designee of the Department of Workforce Development.
The assistance is available for all kinds of occupations, even office work where someone might need a hearing aid or an enhanced computer screen.
"We will come up with an individualized plan," Pechacek said.
When assisting farmers, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation partners with the AgrAbility program, a collaboration that includes University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, to assess needs and provide adaptive technologies.
Initially, Cebery said, it was a difficult decision for him to seek out help.
"I kept thinking everything would get better and I wouldn't need it," he said.
Still, "everybody had great ideas of things I had never really thought of, which really surprised me," he added.
There are limits on how much assistance the program can provide. It might offer to retrofit a tractor with hand controls, for example, but not replace the entire machine.
"We aren't going to build someone a brand new farm," Pechacek said.
The first step, for farmers or anyone else, is to reach out to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for a workplace assessment and consultation with medical professionals to determine what's needed. The agency has 42 offices around the state and can be reached by calling 1-800-442-3477.
There's no charge for an evaluation. You may be required to share the cost of some services but a counselor will address that in advance.
The agency's goal is to help people with disabilities, minor or severe, remain in the workforce.
"It's a great way to make folks more self-sufficient when they're facing hard times," Pechacek said. "We have gone in with some amazing adaptive technology." | <urn:uuid:3d6bf859-c32c-4090-bec7-f6cab4378e64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2022/07/21/state-program-department-vocational-rehabilitation-helps-disabled-people-remain-workforce/10048725002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976642 | 761 | 2.3125 | 2 |
By Erik Flesch
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday March 6, 2003
On Sept. 11, a group of men seized control of four commercial airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of one of America's tallest and most important skyscrapers. The World Trade Center collapsed into a crumpled, smashed and twisted heap, burying or incinerating the corpses of 2,800 murder victims.
What were the hijackers' principles? Hatred for the secular, objective foundation of American freedom, hatred for the individualistic ethics behind American capitalism, hatred for reason and science and the technology it produced, hatred for the American men and women who live to experience the joy of their own life and achievement; in short, hatred for the values built in steel and concrete as New York's twin towers.
And, sick as it is, it appears those terrorists' desire to "deconstruct" America will forever be immortalized by Berlin-based Studio Libeskind in several small, smashed-looking cultural buildings encircled by five short, sloping, angular buildings and the world's tallest spire. The plan, designed by the notorious deconstructivist architect Daniel Libeskind, an anti-rationality activist who morally equates America's bombing of Hiroshima with the Nazi Holocaust, was selected by a New York committee last week as the blueprint to redevelop the World Trade Center site.
Any "academic" architect could tell you exactly who this Libeskind is. For more than 20 years, the Polish-born architect was nothing more than a radical theoretician who taught at more than 40 colleges, and whose architectural output largely consisted of quasi-experimental architectural models and illustrations and rants on how "the pathos of production and the dreamlike routines configure into a substance that is not identifiable on any drawing board."
His first real project, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, opened in 2001 ¸ a titanium-covered zinc zigzag with spiraling walls, sloping floors, a windowless Holocaust Tower and symbolic jagged lines of windows, which Libeskind intended to disorient the visitor.
Then he took on the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, Britain, a splintered globe he designed to be "emblematic of the earth shattered by conflict." He wrote, "We are living in the world after the Holocaust and after Hiroshima and we are all survivors, we have transformed death. It is rational thinking that has led to this endpoint and obviously it failed."
Perhaps you are picking up on what kind of an anti-reason kook this Libeskind is. And his architecture has an explicitly political agenda; nearly every one of his commissions has been a government-funded museum. According to Libeskind, "By dropping the designations form, function, program and engaging in the public and political realm, which is synonymous with architecture, the dynamics of building take on a new dimension."
Indeed, his design does reveal a new dimension ¸ one completely at odds with the philosophy of the fallen towers. The World Trade Center was not constructed to be a political icon; it was a building with a function. It housed the activities of thousands of individuals conducting the business that delivered the financial life-blood to nearly every town on Earth. And the daring, rigid, serious, elegant, vertical lines of the World Trade Center towers reflected the gravity of the work that went on there.
The architecture displayed certainty: certainty of its own function as its stable standard of reference, and certainty about the ability of its architectural language to deal with nearly any force reality could throw at it. In short, the World Trade Center was built on the principle first identified by American architect Louis Sullivan: Form follows function.
But Libeskind despises this philosophy and wishes to redefine architecture as "a document of the unpredictable and an acknowledgement of the uncertain."
Not everybody is buying his nonsense. Even developer Larry Silverstein, who owns the lease on the trade center site, is not commenting on the elements of the plan after saying earlier this month he was not satisfied with the plan. So how did Libeskind get the commission?
Phony patriotic bromides. "The sky will be home again to a towering spire of 1,776 feet high," he wrote. But the Antenna Tower offers no workspace to human beings, devoting the tower instead to gardens. His two large public places, the Park of Heroes and the Wedge of Light, are designed to pay "perpetual tribute to altruism," the view that one has a moral duty to sacrifice one's own life, liberty and happiness to others.
His rhetoric can't camouflage the deconstructive reality of the design: This is no monument to American freedom nor to the independent, rational, productive values of the people who died there. Americans must speak out against this symbol of modern nihilism before construction begins and urge New York to acquire a symbol of the opposite view: a serious, tall skyscraper fit to replace the towers we lost to terrorism. | <urn:uuid:3bf9b447-7021-4e7c-bba4-d131edb413e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wc.arizona.edu/papers/96/110/03_2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955304 | 1,023 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Line of Best Fit with Desmos
Understanding that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables, construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. For example, interpret a slope of 1.5 cm/hr as meaning that an additional hour of sunlight each day is associated with an additional 1 cm in mature plant height.
How do you draw a linear best fit line?
Drawing a straight line on a scatter plot so that the number of points above and below the line is about equal (and the line passes through as many points as possible) can be used to approximate a line of best fit.
What are best fit lines?
A straight line will result from a simple linear regression analysis of two or more independent variables, and it will run through a scatter plot of data points that best expresses the relationship between those points.
What is the equation of the best fit line?
The equation = bX a describes the line of best fit, where b is the slope and a is the intercept (i.e., the value of Y when X = 0).
Is line of best fit always straight?
Depending on how the points are arranged on the Scatter Graph, a line of best fit can be either a straight line or a curve.
How do you draw a line of best fit on geogebra?
In Geogebra, find the best-fitting equation.
- Go to Geogebra.org.
- Click on Geogebra Math Apps.
- Select Spreadsheet.
- Enter your data into the spreadsheet.
- Click in the graph area, then right-click and select Graphics.
- Change the x- and y-mins and maxes to represent your data points in the Basic tab.
How do you explain a trend line?
A trendline is a line drawn over pivot highs or under pivot lows to show the current price direction. Trendlines are a visual representation of support and resistance in any time frame, showing price direction and speed, as well as describing patterns during price contraction.
What is the slope of the best fit line?
The slope of the line is equal to the difference in y-coordinates between points divided by the difference in x-coordinates between points. Choose any two points on the line of best fit, which may or may not be actual scatter points on the graph. Subtract the first point’s y-coordinate from the second point’s y-coordinate.
How do I find the slope of the line?
You can find the slope of a line by finding the rise and the run. The rise is the vertical change between two points, and the run is the horizontal change. The slope equals the rise divided by the run: Slope =riserun Slope =riserun
How do you tell if a regression line is a good fit?
The closer these correlation values are to 1 (or u20131), the better our regression equation fits the data values; if the correlation value (the “r” value that our calculators spit out) is between 0.8 and 1, or else between u20131 and u20130.8, the match is considered good.
How do you end a line on Desmos?
You can add a restriction to the end of your equation in curly brackets to limit the domain or range (x or y values of a graph). In the example graph above, the line y=2x is restricted for x values between 1 and 3.
What is the equation of a diagonal line?
The slope-intercept form, also known as the y = mx b form, is a method of writing a line’s equation using the slope and y-intercept. | <urn:uuid:39936a6e-00fd-445b-a6c2-4cbfb622b52f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pdhdrawings.com/lessons/often-asked-how-to-draw-a-line-of-best-fit-on-desmos.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.90924 | 782 | 3.59375 | 4 |
ZIP Code 58386 has segments in 2 Counties (Benson, Pierce).
The ZIP Code maps and database are updated 4 times per year.
Database updated: July 1, 2022, Maps updated: May 5, 2022.
|Total Population||124 (100%)|
|Population in Households||122 (98.4%)|
|Population in Families||96 (77.4%)|
|Population in Group Quarters1||2 ( 1.6%)|
|Median Household Income||$60,044|
|Average Household Income||$72,002|
|% of Income for Mortgage4||0%|
|Per Capita Income||$33,110|
|Total HU (Housing Units)||93 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||50 (53.8%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||7 ( 7.5%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||36 (38.7%)|
|Median Home Value||$100,000|
|Average Home Value||$127,500|
|Housing Affordability Index3||0|
|Average Household Size||2.14|
|Average Family Size||3|
GROWTH RATE / YEAR
|Median Household Income||0.89%|
|Per Capita Income||1.43%|
|Owner Occupied HU||-0.4%|
The table below compares 58386 to the other 384 ZIP Codes in North Dakota by rank and percentile using July 1, 2021 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Total Population||# 346||10th|
|Population Density||# 334||14th|
|Median Household Income||# 256||34th|
|Housing Affordability Index||# 33||9th|
|Per Capita Income||# 305||21st|
|Diversity Index||# 124||68th|
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“I want to write a book, but I’m not sure about what. I don’t have a clear idea. Can you help me?”
That’s a common question I get from people.
And the answer is yes, I can.
That’s what this article is about, actually.
So keep reading to learn how to come up with a book idea.
Note: I am focusing here on nonfiction. The process for fiction writing is totally different.
Why should I write a book?
Unlike writing a novel, which comes from the desire to tell a story inside of you or express yourself through literature, writing a nonfiction book serves a higher purpose than the book itself.
What do I mean by that? That unless you are a professional writer making a living out of your books, the purpose of writing a nonfiction book is to use it as a marketing tool for your main professional activity.
You can write a book for a variety of reasons:
- Promote your work or product
- Establish your authority in your industry
- Earn credibility
- Get speaking engagements
- Obtain more clients
For example, Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, used several of his books to promote his board game Cashflow, or his seminars.
I advice the students of my course on business book writing to do the same, to write a book as a medium and not an end.
Ask yourself the right questions
So, if the book is the medium, what is the end? That is the right starting point to come up with a book idea.
1. What do you want to accomplish in your business or career? What is your ultimate goal?
2. Who do you need to reach to accomplish your objective? Who is your target audience?
3. What do you need to teach them or show them to make that happen?
The answer to the third question is your book idea. But first you must answer the other two.
Let me me give a personal example. Some years ago I was running my own life coaching business in South America. Here’s how I answered the questions:
1. My goal was to move from in-person seminars to online on-demand courses. That meant I was going to compete with many other life coaches out there and I needed to establish myself as an expert.
2. I wanted to reach young professionals in their mid 20s and early 30s who were struggling with finding their purpose in life.
3. I needed to teach them how to create a plan for their lives and the steps to reach their life goals.
So the idea for my book, El Arte de Cumplir tus Sueños (The Art of Making your Dreams Come True), was born.
The goal was not to make the book a bestseller but to promote my online courses (which have a higher price point than the book). I actually gave the ebook away for free in many occasions to generate leads for my courses, which were advertised inside the book.
However, the book itself provides a lot of value, so people who can’t afford the course can still get a lot from reading it.
I was already speaking and writing blogs about the topic, so writing the book was easy. In fact, in my course, I teach my students how to turn their blogs into books.
See what I’m doing there? I’m using this article to promote my course without telling you to buy it, while still providing value. You can either decide that the information in the article is enough or you may be curious about the course and click on the link.
That’s what a book can do for you as well.
More ways to come up with a book idea
If you want to establish yourself as a thought leader, a book becomes your new business card. Adding the word “author” to your byline makes it way more interesting and opens doors for media interviews and more.
Don’t believe me? Just look at how many podcasts start with the host saying, “Mu guest today is the author of… and an expert in…”
You may already been an expert on something, but unless you have published a book on the topic, it’s hard to prove it.
What if you don’t have a business goal but still want to write a book?
Then, think about this:
- Is there something you know (a process, a series of lessons, philosophy) that can help others?
- Is there a story worth telling (your career success, your startup growth) and lessons to be learned from that story?
- Is there a trend that will disrupt your industry and you have some insights about it?
Grab a pen and a paper (or just a blank document) and start answering the questions outlined in this article. Then brainstorm some possible topics and even titles for your book!
And when you are ready, here are three ways in which I can help you:
1. Sign up for my free email course How to Finally Start Writing your Book. This mini-course will provide a simple plan to stop procrastinating and start writing daily. Sign up here.
2. Grab my course, Write your First Business Book in 90 Days. Learn the 7-Step System to Write a Book Fast. This course will guide you to write your business book in 90 days, even if you have little or no time to write, you’re not a skilled writer, and your book idea is half-baked. Buy it here.
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THE TALE OF TOM KITTEN - Book 11 in the Tales of Peter Rabbit & Friends
The tale is about manners and how children react to them.
Tabitha Twitchit, the cat, invites friends for tea. In order to prepare, she washes and dresses her three kittens for the party, but unwisely let them play in the garden while she gets on with the preparations. Within moments the kittens have soiled and lost their clothes while scampering about the garden. The Puddle-Duck family, Mr Drake, Jemima and Rebeccah, pick up the clothes and put them on. Then waddle off to the pond to swim. Tabitha comes out to call the children in and is "affronted" by what she finds. She sends the kittens to bed, and tells her friends the kittens have the measles. Once the tea party is underway however, its "dignity and repose" are disturbed by the kittens romping overhead and leaving a bedroom in disorder. How did the Puddle-Duck family fare swimming in clothes? Well you’ll just have download and read this story to find out.
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THE HERE AND NOW
By Daniel Jacob
Someone on our Discussion Board had mentioned recently, the idea that philosophical ponderings are fine, but “the here and now must reign supreme.” It was a good statement, a powerful statement, and certainly politically correct in Metaphysical circles.
When I read this, the primary question I found myself asking is “Which HERE?”.......“Which NOW?” Which level of our Multilinear, Multidimensional Experience must reign supreme? The physical level? An ideal? An emotional focus? After all, it’s all there.....it's all happening NOW, albeit at different levels of density. What would be our qualifier(s) for precedence?
If we consider ourselves but Citizens of a Single Universe, and 3D is seen as our primary modality for experience, the answer would be simple: “Whatever is before us.” The Recons refer to this as “The Dominant Tone” within any context of reality. Our MANDATE for that moment, you might say. This is why folks solidify into a single universe. To make things simple, accessible, clear.
There are no standard answers, only choices. Our graduation into becoming Citizens of Multi-D brings with it a whole new set of perceptual options. To lay out a philosophical premise (i.e. “How I think things should be”), actually involves spinning into existence an entire REALM of Reality. Just because Our Realm doesn't immediately manifest as physical does not negate that. It only means that our Soul Self has no difficulties with it---no objections that need to be examined or explored, up close and personal.
In “How Universes Are Formed,” the Guides give us a breakdown on what creates a 3D context of reality. Basically, 3D is considered by them to be "the training wheels of the Multiverse," a place to go and work things out. THUNDERDOME, you might say: "Two (or more) concepts enter, ONE (unified) CONCEPT leaves." We wrestle with things until we're done. Then, we focus elsewhere. Meanwhile, back in that first universe of perception---the story plot continues, on and on, in everyway imaginable, forever. It's called THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPLETION. For All That Is to truly be All That Is, that principle must be in play.
Once again, the Multiverse calls out to a sensitive soul, like a well-dressed woman of the evening. "Do you want a date?" she asks?
"No, thanks......" he replies. "I am married (to my concept of the world as I see it)."
"Who told you THAT was the only world you needed to live in? Don't you like some variety, from time to time?"
"What is your name?" he queries.
"Who do you want me to be?" she teases back.
On and on it goes. We move from our absolutist positions (our groundings of "fact"), through the 4D Corridor, and into any other premise we dare to explore. We are only as "captive" as we care to be. But it does get lonely, moving from time to time.......place to place. And so we "settle" for awhile, like Moses in the wilderness, waiting to find the burning his bush. He meets the Shiek of Midian, takes one of his seven daughters for wife, and proclaims: "I will dwell in this place."
Then one day, out of the blue, a voice calls to him from the shadows. "Do you want a date?" it says. Another burning bush, waiting to be explored! If the wife is wise, she'll go along too. Lady Multiverse offers a group rate.........
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It is about the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Latin American country, which is intended to protect biodiversity in a national park with a specially responsible guard.
According to media reports, a regional court in Colombia has ordered President Iván Duque to be put under house arrest for five days.
The Ibagué court also fined Duque 15 legal minimum wages, as reported by the Colombian newspaper “El Espectador”.
Accordingly, the head of state failed to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that the government should set up a guard to protect a national park. According to the TV station Caracol, animals and plants from the protected area of Los Nevados National Park, which is important for the water supply, were traded.
Duque reportedly assured in a speech in Montería that his government was committed to preserving biodiversity. Together with his officials, he is committed to protecting Nevados Park. “Today we experienced an inexplicable act,” he said, referring to the house arrest order, which he described as unconstitutional.
The immunity of the head of state had been disregarded by the court, the newspaper El Tiempo quoted Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz as saying. Colombia’s well-known criminal lawyer Iván Cancino wrote on Twitter that the only authority for any appeal against a president’s decision should be the Constitutional Court. | <urn:uuid:f0741a6e-fb5d-43ae-9ee2-b96ff4b1082d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blogbookworld.com/media-reports-house-arrest-ordered-for-colombias-president-duque | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977333 | 283 | 2.34375 | 2 |
"Leaving Shame I Felt For Being Treated For Mental Health Behind"
I'm Marla Lynn. I titled my drawing "Leaving Shame I Felt For Being Treated For Mental Health Behind." I felt ashamed for years for seeking help for depression because I felt I would be perceived as broken and not considered to be valuable to anyone. I learned that was my own perception. I show a girl in the drawing looking back at the pain and moving towards brighter days. I drew the color picture of an Alien Woman holding her world in her strong arms. I lost my cat Sweetie in Dec 2020 and included her. The wing I drew represents my spirituality. I'm ready for the future because I am well educated and equipped and a strong woman | <urn:uuid:9ac403c8-3c34-4935-8cdb-e2bb8498ea32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mindingyourmind.org/livetotell/leaving-shame-i-felt-for-being-treated-for-mental-health-behind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955598 | 170 | 1.5 | 2 |
Installing virtual box guest additions in ubuntu
I have not using VirtualBox for a while and since I been using EXSi VMware for my VMs and I turning back to use VirtualBox now.
If you are newbie and wondering what the heck is VirtualBox, it just same as VMware but VirtualBox is an open-source, cross platform virtualization software that allow you to run multiple guest virtual machine simultaneously and they provide a set of driver and application which can be installed inside guest operating system (I talking about VirtualBox guests addition).
The Guest Additions offer several useful functionalities and in this post, I will show you how to install on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. The same technique apply for any debian-based distribution, including Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
First of all open your virtual-box and install Ubuntu into the vm machine then reboot, if you already done this. Just skip this step.
Open the Oracle VM VirtualBox software, run the VM we created and after a while click
Device > Insert Guest Addition CD imagefrom the dropdown list.
By default, OS will prompt you to run the auto-run script. Click cancel since we don’t have the essential package to compile the modules.
Open terminal and run
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)as sudo user
When finished installed the required package, head back to the mounted CD that contain Guest Addition software. Normally, ubuntu will show on your desktop or you can check
Just press “RUN SOFTWARE” button, it will spawn xterm windows or you may run
sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --nox11from there.
- Reboot the Ubuntu guest for changes to take effect with
$ sudo shutdown -r now. Once the virtual machine is booted, log into it and verify that the installation was successful and the kernel module is loaded using the lsmod command
$ lsmod | grep vboxguestand you should see something. If No output means that the VirtualBox kernel module is not loaded.
Now that VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed on the Ubuntu guest machine, you can enable Shared clipboard and others good feature. This should be easy task, If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. | <urn:uuid:d7aa8aac-d698-4a66-a690-f65f243b4368> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://robbinespu.gitlab.io/posts/virtualbox-guest-ubuntu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.849025 | 520 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons.
This is where the latest fashion trends are made.
A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase their upcoming line of clothing during Fashion Week.
Nowadays Fashion Shows have become a part of Corporate Companies to promote their products. We PURPLE 7 – THE EVENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY have splendid experience in organizing such shows. Be it, Ramp, Fashion Models, Stylists, Media and anything you can imagine, we are there to organize it.
In a typical fashion show, models walk the catwalk dressed in the clothing created by the designer.
The clothing is illuminated on the runway by the lighting. The order in which each model walks out wearing a specific outfit is usually planned in accordance to the statement that the designer wants to make about their collection. It is then up to the audience to not only try to understand what the designer is trying to say by the way the collection is being presented, but also visually deconstruct each outfit and try to appreciate the detail and craftsmanship of every single piece.
Occasionally, fashion shows take the form of installations, where the models are static, standing or sitting in a constructed environment.
A wide range of contemporary designers tend to produce their shows as theatrical productions with elaborate sets and added elements such as live music or a variety of technological components like holograms, for example. | <urn:uuid:ae72beed-61ea-4d70-97a8-d75a1f4daef7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.purple7.in/fashionshows/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970431 | 293 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Simon Parker braves the rain and wind to see Shetland’s wonderful wildlife and stunning landscapes minus the summer crowds.
Shetland Islands, also called Zetland or Shetland, group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland, 130 miles (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland, at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom. They constitute the Shetland Islands council area and the historic county of Shetland. Among the settlements on Mainland, the largest island, is Scalloway, a fishing port. Lerwick, also on Mainland, is the islands’ largest town and commercial and administrative centre. | <urn:uuid:2c5bfb9a-a65b-4ec8-b77c-d06c5ea879dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://boomers-daily.com/2022/01/12/scotland-views-shetland-islands-in-winter-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.919224 | 139 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The mini-course and mini-ebook explains collateralized loans (MakerDAO and Aave on the Avalanche and Ethereum network) and futures, with which we can enjoy our Bitcoin investment without having to sell Bitcoin.
What is the course about?
Even the most hard-core Bitcoin HODLers sometimes have to pay rent, mortgage, utility bill or school tuition for their kids. Selling Bitcoins not only comes with negative emotions of parting with your precious satoshis, but often other inconveniences such as taxes and tax declarations that make the situation even worse. I can’t help you with Bitcoin taxation, there are other experts for that, but what if we could find a way to pay the rent, the mortgage, the electricity, the hardware wallet, and the kids’ school without having to sell the Bitcoin in the first place? We could avoid a potentially taxable event altogether. Please note though, that I do not know the laws of country where you have potential tax obligations. This is a technological overview of lending options, not tax advice. For tax advice, seek a licensed professional.
Also please note, that most of the projects I talk about explicitly forbid use by citizens or residents of United States of America. Sorry, dear yankees, we love you, but your government makes it so hard to create compliant services, that most projects and companies just exclude you and serve customers that live somewhere else.
Let us first examine how it is possible that rich people do not pay (a lot of) taxes. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others have, of course, enough money to pay the best accountants and the best tax-optimisation schemes that work and allow them not to pay taxes and at the same time not end up with a fine or jail time. Their companies often use these tax schemes, but we are talking about individuals now.
The reality is often surprisingly simple – those who do not earn an income do not have to pay income taxes. Those who do not realize capital gains do not pay capital gains tax. A common way billionaires finance their lifestyle is by borrowing. They go to a private bank and say “I own shares in my company and would like to use them as a collateral and take out a loan”. Of course, if they give the bank $10 million worth of stock, they can borrow a lower value – say $1 million or $5 million (this ratio is called LTV – loan to value and it protects the lender against sudden drops of the collateral’s value). The advantage of this approach is not only tax-related, but the shares that are pledged to the bank as a collateral allow the owner to keep the stock’s voting rights, for example, so they don’t lose control of their company. If the value of the shares plummets, the bank can call on the borrower to repay the loan or replenish the collateral. If the owner fails to do so, the bank will sell the shares on an open market (this is in many countries a taxable event for the shareholder if the sale occurs at a price higher than the purchase price). Can we take a similar approach in the cryptocurrency environment? Thanks to the emerging DeFi (decentralized finance) environment, it is possible. Bitcoin maximalists may have an unpleasant aftertaste when reading these words, but I remind you of your alternative – sell your Bitcoins and maybe even pay a tax.
What will you learn
How to take out a crypto loan and stay exposed to bitcoin growth. The exact steps are described in the e-book and selected parts are also in the form of a video tutorial with screencasts – borrowing via MakerDAO (Oasis Borrow) and end-to-end via Aave on the Avalanche network (from installing the metamask, charging with Bitcoins to a successful loan).
As this industry is rapidly evolving, the web interface of these products may look different over time, the essential principle of operation is what I will show you. The version of Aave shown is version 3 of March 2022.
The ebook is in PDF, epub and mobi formats. It can also be read as you go through the course online through the web interface after you login. | <urn:uuid:2661ac91-9a84-4c9d-b854-3d1634cea0c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hackyourself.io/product/how-to-harness-the-value-of-bitcoin-without-having-to-sell-it-ebook-mini-course/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950607 | 870 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) claims can be particularly tricky due to the shifting nature of the diagnosis. Greater awareness around mental health is helpful, but there are several factors that greatly impact a patient’s outcome. The challenge with PTSD claims is in identifying the circumstances that could lead up to a future diagnosis. Unlike a physical injury, PTSD is not something that gets diagnosed on day one of a claim; rather, it develops over time.
Here are a few examples of the types of PTSD cases Sedgwick’s claims teams may see, and how we respond:
- Margaret, a retail pharmacist who was robbed at gunpoint while working at the pharmacy, has been off work ever since the incident. She was not leaving her home and not driving her car at all secondary to feeling unsafe. Sedgwick’s behavioral health solutions (BHS) team was engaged to provide support and immediately started direct communication with Margaret and her treatment provider to explore and provide trauma psychoeducation and coping mechanisms to address her anxiety and agoraphobia. The team worked with Margaret’s care provider to develop a gradual return to work plan alongside therapy appointments to acclimate her slowly and supportively back into the workplace.
- Kathy is a flight attendant who was physically assaulted by an irate passenger. Kathy sustained physical injuries, including a concussion and suffered from Acute Stress Disorder, eventually turning into a PTSD diagnosis. Sedgwick’s BHS team helped coordinate the appropriate care for Kathy’s physical injuries and kept in contact with her neurologist. We were also able to connect Kathy with an EMDR trauma-focused therapist two times a week to address her initial symptoms with early action. Kathy received psychoeducation and coping training, and her care teams coordinated regularly to provide ongoing support, access to care and the appropriate health services to provide a safe return to work opportunity. Eventually, Kathy was able to successfully return to work after some test flights and a final evaluation from her care providers.
- Insurance investigator Bob was injured in a motor vehicle accident. His car was struck by another car on a two-lane highway, and the other car then collided with a truck that was following Bob’s car. Although Bob survived the crash with minor injuries and some neck strain, the other driver was killed instantly in the crash and Bob witnessed the traumatic scene when he left his car to try to help the other driver. Sedgwick’s BHS team was engaged quickly to find a trauma/EMDR therapist and a psychiatrist to address Bob’s severe stress symptoms following the accident. This psychoeducation gave Bob guidance on case-specific self-help techniques to incorporate into his life while he waited for a referral for clinical care and return to work readiness preparation. The BHS team stayed engaged with Bob’s care providers throughout his treatment.
In each of these examples, Sedgwick’s behavioral health solutions team followed several key guidelines to ensure effective PTSD treatment with positive outcomes.
People affected by PTSD have a better chance of recovering and returning to work quickly if early intervention steps take place, rather than waiting for the person’s symptoms to introduce themselves. In these cases, patients may eventually report heightened and fearful responses to everyday stimuli, re-living the event in their thoughts or dreams, or experiencing survival guilt about the event. By the time patients report these trauma symptoms, they’ve lost crucial recovery time. Some patients may not even report their symptoms at all.
There are different ways to determine how early PTSD may be a factor in a claims case. Sometimes, care providers can evaluate the case based on the description of the traumatic event – common cases include those involving assault, mass casualty events or large accidents where people witnessed traumatic events at the scene. Providers can anticipate the need for mental health support so that if PTSD symptoms begin to form, patients are already receiving counseling, so the mental health impact won’t be as severe.
As claims technology improves, artificial intelligence (AI) models can assist claims services and case management experts in determining early ways to identify claims that are a more complex clinical circumstance. AI technology has improved to begin to recognize potential PTSD patterns earlier in the life cycle of claims and can flag these claims to management experts much earlier. With further evaluation, claims providers can intervene and initiate PTSD care steps sooner, reducing the overall time and cost of care while getting the patient back to work sooner and healthier.
Right providers, right treatment plan
It’s important to identify PTSD symptoms as early as possible, but it’s equally important to ensure that the patient is getting the right kind of help for their unique circumstance. Just as a patient wouldn’t visit a spine surgeon to address a cardiac issue, Sedgwick’s BHS team helps ensure that patients are referred to the right provider with the right experience.
Providers are not created equal in the psychiatry space – each mental health expert has their own specialties, fee schedules and insurance guidelines. In the above examples, our team worked with care providers to match each example PTSD case with multiple mental health specialists with specific expertise to match the patient’s needs and ensure providers accept workers’ compensation plans.
What’s most encouraging is that there are many resources available for people that experience traumatic events on the job, especially with the right care team and protocol helping process their claims. There are many treatment options available to address PTSD symptoms in a therapeutic environment where patients can continue to live their lives and eventually reengage with society and their job.
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Telligent Community forums include tools to moderate public forums to correct misplaced or tangential discussions or to prevent a discussion from continuing.
NOTE: Permission requirements for each action are provided in parenthesis. If users have the Moderate and Review Abuse permission, they will see notifications related to moderation, only for the scope for which they have the permission (e.g. group or forum level).
When a new thread is directly related or a duplicate of another thread, the two threads can be merged together via joining. To join one thread to another, navigate to one of the threads and choose More > Join:
Within the join panel, specify the thread to join this thread to by searching by name or copying/pasting its URL or ID directly into the Join to discussion/question box. If you'd like to notify the author of the join, ensure that Notify author by email is checked, then click Join.
Links to the thread that was joined will redirect to the joined thread.
When a reply to an existing thread is tangential and should likely have been created as a new thread for its own discussion, it can be split into its own thread. To split a reply into it's own thread, navigate to the reply, and select More > Split:
Within the split panel, specify the forum in which the new thread should be created by searching by name, ID, or by copy/pasting the URL of the forum into the Split to forum box. Once a forum is selected, choose whether to notify the author via the Notify author by email checkbox and click Split.
The new thread will be created. Any replies to the reply being split will move into the new thread.
Sometimes a thread would be better placed in a different forum. As a moderator, you can move the thread and correct its placement. To move a thread, navigate to the thread, select More > Move:
Within the move panel, you can select what you want to move the forum thread as (to move to a different forum, select Forum Thread. You can also convert this thread into an idea for an ideation application). Assuming you're moving the thread to a new forum as a forum thread, select the target group in To by searching by name, group ID, or group URL. Once a group is selected, you can select or search for a forum within that group using the In box. With your target selected, click Move to complete the move.
The URL of the original thread will redirect to the new URL in the new target location.
If a discussion has gone on too long or has become unuseful or if you want to promote creating a new thread to continue an abandoned discussion, the thread can be locked to prevent additional replies from being added. To lock a thread, navigate to the thread, select More > Lock. The thread will be immediately locked.
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Forecasters at Colorado State University are calling for a slightly below-average 2017 Atlantic hurricane season in their inital forecast released Thursday - thanks in part to some unexpected conditions.
"The tropical Atlantic has anomalously cooled over the past month and the far North Atlantic is relatively cold," said the report:
"We estimate that 2017 will have 4 hurricanes (median is 6.5), 11 named storms (median is 12.0), 50 named storm days (median is 60.1), 16 hurricane days (median is 21.3), 2 major (Category 3-4-5) hurricane (median is 2.0) and 4 major hurricane days (median is 3.9)."
There is also a below-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the United States coastline and in the Caribbean, though as always, forecasters urge preparedness as it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an "active season" for those in danger.
The CSU forecasting team will update their forecast on June 1, the start of the 2017 hurricane season.
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Transforms everything in a MIDI controller
Translates your musical percussive gestures into MIDI data
Analyzes your execution and gives augmented expressivity
and many more
3 control signals
Here we use a contact microphone to capture LIVE the different gestures executed on a table.
Then we use those gestures to make music in the DAW.
producing different timbres on the surface.
Playing kick and snare sounds using finger and a sushi stick.
time elapsed between hits.
Controlling the pitch by how fast the hits are (faster the hits, lower the pitch).
how hard the hits are.
Controlling cut off filter, sample length and pitch with velocity.
Simple. For everyone.
It's simple: you put your gear,
we provide the software.
Use your sound card.
Nowadays every sound card can reach low-latency performance.
Install Virtual Controller
in your machine
and run your favourite DAW.
Tap to sound.
Attack transient will be detected and transformed into MIDI data to let you play with.
Use your microphone.
Feed the plug-in with an audio source. Use whatever type of microphone you have, even a very cheap one:
- contact mic
- condenser mic
- dynamic mic
- drum triggers
- pre-recorded material an so on...
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Here’s a video that the Independent Oil & Gas Assn. is putting out on hydrofracking, the first in what promises to be a series:
The Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York has released the first video in a series designed to educate New Yorkers about the economic and environmental benefits of increased natural gas development in upstate regions, including the Southern Tier.
The 30-second preview released today is available on IOGA’s Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/IOGA-of-New-York/134897089872518), and is part of a series that will be released in the coming weeks.
“It is IOGA of NY’s educational and ethical obligation to communicate with the public, other stakeholders and elected officials by offering fact-based informational materials and presentations,” said Brad Gill, IOGA of NY’s executive director. “‘Fuel for Thought’ is one way we can continue to do that and, at the same time, highlight the great benefits that increased natural gas development will have on New York, its residents and communities.
The segment released today features John Conrad, a senior hydrogeologist and president of Poughkeepsie-based Conrad Geoscience Corp., and Dennis Holbrook, executive vice president of Norse Energy, with offices in Buffalo. Both are IOGA of NY members. | <urn:uuid:f33621bd-e933-41d2-94a8-3df5e23e2abc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/79139/gas-drillers-movie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940629 | 294 | 1.703125 | 2 |
February 2018, Robin Quirke
In September of 2017, PolicyInteractive (PI) surveyed 860 Oregon registered voters, asking them questions regarding climate change mitigation policies. Two of the survey questions explored public support for redirecting a portion of Oregon transportation fuel taxes toward climate mitigation actions, such as improving public transportation and helping people relocate closer to work (thus less distant commuting), showing strong support for this tax redirection. Digging deeper, PI ran a similar survey in November and December of 2017, once again resulting in survey respondents showing strong support for fuel tax reallocation, but when respondents were also informed this would require their state’s constitution to be amended, support for partial fuel tax redirection waned. The following commentary outlines the state constitutional limit on fuel tax allocation and discusses the implications of current public opinion on these issues. Survey was in English only.
September survey showed support for reducing car travel
The September 2017 survey found that 67% supported redirecting around 10 – 50% of the existing highway fuel tax going towards investments “reducing the need for car travel, such as improving public transportation, affordable housing near employment centers and innovations in how we get around.”
A closer look
In November and December 2017, PolicyInteractive asked the same question with a different sample of 1103 registered voters from Oregon, Colorado, California, and Washington. These states were selected because each share similar constitutional limits on fuel tax allocation, as well as similar political culture to Oregon. This second survey found 65% supporting at least 10% of the fuel tax going towards reducing the need for car travel. But, when also asked if they would still support this if it required the state constitution to be amended, support dropped to 37%. Of those who did not support amending the state constitution, 41% said the state constitution should be left alone (see full results here; methodology is located at the end of this page). This indicates a puzzling conundrum of support for policy change but lack of will to amend a state constitution to make the change possible. What is the story behind the state constitutional provisions on fuel tax expenditures?
Oregon’s constitutional limit of fuel tax allocation
In May of 1980, Measure 1 passed, effectively limiting the use of Oregon vehicle taxes of any type exclusively to building and maintaining highways. The specific Oregon constitutional language states “[…] use of revenue from taxes on motor vehicle use and fuel […] shall be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, maintenance, operation and use of public highways, roads, streets and roadside rest areas in this state” (Article IX Section 3a). For this ballot measure, 64% of voters voted ‘yes’ and 36% voted ‘no,’ preventing Oregon from using state vehicle taxes for public transportation or carbon dioxide reduction measures, prohibiting funding for any project not directly associated with building or maintaining roads. (Additional report by PolicyInteractive’s Tom Bowerman and 350.org can be found here.)
Measure 1 funded by the highway construction industry
The State of Oregon’s “Summary Report of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures” for the 1980 primary elections reveals that the majority of campaign contributions for Measure 1 came from companies and agencies involved in building and maintaining roads and highways, including the Asphalt Pavement Association of Oregon, as well as several quarry, sand, and gravel companies, all organizations that assuredly stood to profit from such a constitutional limit.
Should highway funding expenditure stipulations be in the state constitution?
The U.S. Constitution has 27 ratified amendments, while amendments adopted “by the people” have occurred in the Oregon Constitution 446 times and has 62 instances of repealing original laws and amendments. The U.S. Constitution has approximately 9,000 words (including the amendments), state constitutions average 26,000 words, and the Oregon Constitution has over 60,000 words. The Oregon Constitution includes details considered by many as inappropriate for a constitution and better suited for a statute book; for example, requirements in elder care facilities and retirement plan requirements for state employees. The Oregon Constitution is an ever-expanding document, not nearly as static as the U.S. Constitution. Initiative and referral activists often prefer installing statutory type policies in state constitutions because it prevents the legislative branch from altering them without a direct referral to a popular vote of the people. However many citizens do not understand this nuance, but rather perceive a state constitution as something of a sacred document that should not be altered. Furthermore, it appears that it is far more likely to add, rather than remove or alter, a state constitution, based on the ever-ballooning size of Oregon’s version.
Moving with the times
However, the U.S. Constitution as well as the Oregon Constitution have been amended as social norms have shifted and laws have changed. In 1857, the authors of the Oregon Constitution did not anticipate that several of the laws they included would one day be considered culturally abhorrent, like the Oregon Constitution’s Article II, Section 2, eventually amended in 1912, 1914, and 1924 concerning right of all majority aged citizens to vote:
In all elections, not otherwise provided for, by this Constitution, every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of 21 years, and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months immediately preceding such election; and every white male of foreign birth of the age of 21 years, and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in this State during six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States one year preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law.
Although not as astounding as limiting the vote to White males, at the time of Measure 1, voters were not aware of the reality of climate change, and the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The advocacy group Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates (AORTA) has advocated for many years to expand fuel tax allocation limits. In 2011, AORTA proposed the following to Oregon legislators:
- Provide state matching funds for high-speed rail in Oregon
- Provide funds for bicycle and pedestrian facilities outside of road right-of-ways
- Provide funds for intercity bus service, especially in rural areas
- Provide alternative transportation options for those who cannot drive
- Reduce demand on the state lottery for funding Connect Oregon IV
- Reduce demand on the highway network
- Reduce traffic congestion
- Reduce oil consumption
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Survey designed and conducted by PolicyInteractive Research, Eugene, Oregon. This opt-in online survey was in English and ran November 30 – December 23, 2017. Two primary respondent sources were used for this survey: 1) non-probability internet sample using the crowdsourcing site Mechanical Turk (N = 504); and 2) internet non-probability sample administered survey with addresses provided by Research Now, a full service marketing and research company based in Dallas, TX (N = 599). Respondents who answered they were not registered to vote or not living in either Oregon, California, Washington, or Colorado were disqualified. All four of these states have constitutional limits on fuel tax allocation.
Full unweighted results and survey questions found here.
PolicyInteractive adheres to the Standards of Practice of the American Association of Public Opinion Research and is a member of AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative.
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Now Appearing: The Virtual Universe of George Blaha
When I first encountered George Blaha’s recent work a few years ago, I was fooled. Images of sculptures, paintings and reliefs were presented in a gallery-like environment with clean, white walls. I was impressed with their scale, ambition and degree of sheer visual invention. The dimensions and materials used were listed in detail. But wait, how could he afford to make sculptures from precious metals and how many assistants does he have in order to be able to fabricate some of the more complex works? I was tricked. The work exists only in the cyber-world, created on Carrara, a 3D imaging program used primarily by animators.
These virtual objects exist as enormous files on the hard-drive of the artist’s computer and smaller versions are freely shared on Facebook. The pieces can also be exhibited as large, high-definition prints, which reveal an opulence of detail not visible in their Internet version. These avatars of art objects are extremely convincing in the way that they simulate the color and texture of the various materials that are said to comprise them. We call these works “virtual,” but I believe that Blaha would argue that they truly exist and are no less “real” than actual paintings and sculptures. Insubstantial images proliferate in our world like an army of ghosts: images on movie screens, televisions and computer monitors. We take them for granted and accept that they are not “real” though the dancing electrons and light waves are no less (or more) real than the atoms in a bar of solid lead.
There are other tricks and mysteries at play in his work. Each piece is based on an idea or ideas and part of the pleasure of viewing them is figuring out the puzzles. He says that he considers his pieces to be like hieroglyphics, multi-faceted images that engage the viewer’s imagination in deciphering and reconstructing them. He wants to “restore the magic of the picture,” in a contemporary world where we are inundated with an endless barrage of meaningless images.
Both form and content in Blaha’s work reflect his broad range of interests and research. These include: world religions (Tibetan Buddhism in particular), mathematics, graphs, maps, diagrams, typography, architecture and high and low manifestations of visual culture in general.
Surprisingly, he does not draw his inspiration from other digital artists. Instead, he cites sculptors and mixed media artists as kindred spirits: Richard Artschwager, Tom Friedman, Richard Tuttle and Charles Ray among others. What these artists have in common is their use of unusual, often humble materials and that they often challenge the viewer’s habits of perception and preconceived notions of what is real. This is an over-simplification, but it would take another long essay to explore the similarities and differences between these artists and how they connect to his work.
Let me give a few examples of Blaha’s work. The material for Net Prophet is listed as “orange plastic net fencing.” This is a cheap material that I associate with construction sites, unorthodox for traditional art making. The form of this piece suggests a floating figure: a ghost or perhaps the image of Christ ascending into heaven. The holes in the netting show that it is empty and appears as if it is draped over an invisible person or object. This contains at least two paradoxes: it is both solid and empty and is composed of a material that is usually considered ugly that, in this context is quite beautiful, like some richly-patterned fabric. The punning title suggests a sacred subject, rendered in a surprisingly humble material. It seems odd to speak of material, since the real material of the piece is bytes of stored information rendered visible by electricity. The artist, in speaking of this work quotes the Heart Sutra: “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”
In contrast, another piece is listed as “Rare, late twentieth century gem-studded, silver art reliquary,” a description that also functions as its title. This virtual object appears to be a box constructed from precious materials. On further inspection it reveals itself to be based on the floor plan of an art gallery. The “gems” represent the precious art objects displayed within. The floor plan is itself “golden” in that it is divided up based on the proportions of the “golden section” and a triangle with sides derived from the square roots of two, three and five.
The precious and the cheap are interchangeable in Blaha’s virtual world. In Chrysler Building; Downsized, a model of the Chrysler Building, considered to be a masterpiece of architecture in the Art Deco style, is digitally squashed and has a surface applied to it that makes it appear to be constructed from old cardboard boxes. Yet somehow, a trace of elegance remains in this “debased” re-imagining.
A similar odd substitution of materials happens in the piece titled, Reconstructed early twentieth century Russian folk wickerwork. This twisting architectural composition is inspired by Russian Constructivism, in particular, Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the Third International, a structure that, had it been erected, would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower. This icon of modernism echoes Blaha’s work in that it existed only as a model; it was never built. The use of wicker refers to the taste for folk art and crafts, the work of common people rather than elite artists in early twentieth century Soviet Russia. The artist’s spiraling basketwork “sculpture” illustrates connections between weaving and steel-beam construction and suggests to me a hybrid of Noah’s Ark and the Tower of Babel, a vast and mysterious edifice made of natural materials.
The sacred and profane are interchangeable in Blaha’s work, as are the concepts of “high” and “low” art. A2Z is a structure based on the Kabbalist’s Tree of Life that also resembles molecular models and “bead and bar” jewelry worn by people with body piercings. The top of the virtual construction, described by the artist as “ceramic,” looks like a swollen nipple stretched by multiple piercings. If you zoom in on this area, what at first seem to be vague markings turn out to resemble the face of Jesus from the Shroud of Turin and writing, some legible, some not. The readable part is a quote from St. Francis of Assisi: “What you are looking for is what is looking.” The sadomasochistic aspect of the piece calls to mind the bloody cruelty present in some Christian art: crucifixions and the grisly martyrdom of saints. In the context of the piece the quote can refer to voyeurism, or a call to be present in the moment, a surprisingly Zen Buddhist thought when attributed to a Catholic Saint.
Some of Blaha’s images represent strange translations, for example: Leroy esta muerto, VIVA LEROY, (Leroy is dead, Leroy lives.) You can also read this as, “The king is dead, long live the king” in a translation that mixes archaic French (Le Roy) and Spanish, so that it references both “the king” and some ordinary guy named Leroy. High or low, everyone dies.
To create the piece he has imported his own signature in script into Carrara and spun it 360 degrees around a horizontal axis. The resulting image resembles the king of a chess set. The fact that it is lying on its side indicates checkmate; the king is dead (from the Persian, shah mat). It casts a soft shadow on a featureless void, above which it appears to float. This is a meditation on death, the transition of our flesh and living energy into some other form, physical or spiritual depending on one’s beliefs.
There are several of these “translations,” for example: Recycled cymbals arranged in the form of the sound wave for Phat! The title partially explains the piece: a graphic image of the sound wave pattern created when the word “phat” is spoken, is spun around an axis, creating a form that resembles a stack of cymbals of varying sizes.
The word “phat” in hip-hop lingo from the late nineteen-eighties means “cool” and may be an acronym for “pretty hot and tempting” according to The Urban Dictionary. It may also be derived from certain “fat” musical beats that have presence. “Phat” is also a syllable in the Tibetan language that means, “crack” as in a crack of thunder. In Tibetan Buddhism it is associated with the Bodhisattva Vajrapani, holder of the thunderbolt (vajra), who is traditionally depicted dancing wildly, surrounded by a halo of flames. Phat is the crack of Vajrapani’s thunderbolt cutting through the walls of ego and delusion.
This is more than a pun because it sets off a rich chain of associations: the crack of thunder with the crash of cymbals, a dancing deity and the whirl of break-dancers, beats that have “presence” and the spiritual process of cutting through delusion to achieve “presence in the moment.” “Cymbal” is also a homonym of “symbol,” another interesting bit of wordplay.
Sometimes the translated information is hermetic, inaccessible to the viewer unless the artist chooses to explain it. Ship of State, for example, was generated from a Sanskrit syllable used as a seal on a sacred Buddhist text. Even if you can read Sanskrit, and I cannot, it would be impossible to “read” it in the three dimensional image generated from it. The billowing form suggests both a flag rippling in the wind and a sailing ship, so the pattern of the American flag superimposed on this ship-like form makes the elegant visual joke that comprises what is visible in this work. Yet it still contains that additional hidden element. It’s like the secret knowledge concealed within the design structure of the pyramids.
The hermetic content in Blaha’s work reminds me of certain African sculptures; works that contain hidden sacred materials that were part of the ritual of their making, that are not visible to the viewer. The presence of these concealed elements gives the object power that is believed in and felt by its maker. I think that he hopes that these built-in elements, though unknown to the viewer, will be perceived indirectly: they will be felt because of the effect of their presence on the artist in the act of making the work. In other words, knowing that that these elements are present aids the artist in giving life and energy to his work, and he has faith that this energy will be manifest to the viewer though its source is invisible.
Having had the hidden content of certain works explained to me makes me wonder if all of Blaha’s work might contain hidden meanings. Even if I feel that I have divined all of the complexities of a piece, there may still be countless other nuances that I will never decipher. This is another aspect of his project of “restoring (or re-evoking) the mystery.”
Getting back to the work… the title CORPORATE LOGOS.psd is a pun because it refers to “logos,” icons that represent corporations or brands, and also Logos: Greek for “word” and “reason.” In Christian theology Logos refers to the word of God and also the principle of divine reason and creative order. “Corporate” refers to corporations but perhaps also to its Latin root corpus, meaning body. The piece is an assembly of various symbols and punctuation marks that appear to be cast in metal (“polished brass” is what the artist tells us). These seem to be mounted on a wall, like a logo in the lobby of a company’s headquarters. The marks and symbols are put together in such a way to create an emoticon representing the Buddha in meditation. The stomach of the Buddha is made by an “@” surrounded by brackets. Blaha uses the “@” to signify “presence in the moment, where you are ‘at.’” The brackets represent the viewer, his or her frame of reference.
Shiva is a view from the back of what seems to be a statue of a bald, naked person of indeterminate sex. The figure is covered from head to toe with dark moles, as though he or she were suffering from an aggressive skin cancer. On closer examination, the malignant moles are actually negative images of galaxies, a photograph of an expanse of space superimposed on the human form. The Hindu god Shiva is both the destroyer and the lord of the cosmic dance. Shiva is also a name for the seven days of mourning for the dead in Judaism. This strange visual pun leads us from thoughts of death to a meditation on the vastness of the universe and our tiny place and span of life within it.
Laughing at a joke and having an aesthetic experience have in common the element of surprise. The punch line is not what we expected and an artwork or piece of music is particularly satisfying if it shows us something new, takes us to a different place, revealing the harmony of elements that we would expect to clash.
There is humor in much of Blaha’s work: funny or punning titles, visual puns and sometimes-outrageous choices of materials in unexpected combinations. Having them exist in cyberspace liberates the artist from the limitations, the difficulties and expense of “actual” fabrication. A flying saucer can be covered with dinosaur skin or a giant archway constructed of silly putty.
Humor also seduces the viewer into contemplating religious notions that he or she might resist as preachy if presented in a serious or deadpan manner. Humor can also have rough edges. The court jester is the one person who can confront the king with uncomfortable truths. Blaha wants to unmask the world, revealing to us the fact that appearances are illusory. Life is like a dream.
If there are jokes in Blaha’s work, they are often cosmic jokes that can make you laugh and then gasp the next moment. A cosmic joke has the same relationship to comedy that the concept of the sublime has to beauty: an appreciation of an object or phenomenon that combines both wonder and apprehension.
I think that the real cosmic joke is that, on this planet, this tiny mote in a seemingly endless expanse of space and time, we regard any of this seriously or that we take any given moment of our brief existence lightly.
November 17, 2012
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Welcome to Coaches Corner – a column for CSA coaches to provide insight, advice, and anecdotes. This week we welcome Princeton Women’s Assistant Coach, Hesham Aly. Below, Hesham offers a helping hand in facing the challenges transitioning from junior to college squash.
Junior squash is a uniquely exciting period in any player’s career. As rewarding and enjoyable as that time can be, it can also be filled with stress and heartbreak.
Squash opens up a world of opportunities – offering the chance to meet new coaches and friends, grow as a person and an athlete, and be recruited to represent some of the top academic institutions in the world at the varsity level. However, as with all other big milestones in life, transitioning from junior to college squash comes with its own set of challenges.
Therefore, my goal is to provide insight on some of the challenges players face in college squash and give a few useful tips geared towards optimizing your performance so that you can come into college feeling prepared and motivated to tackle the challenges and transition with ease.
Challenge I: The Mindset
Over the last 10 years, the level of junior squash in America has improved dramatically. This growth combined with the increasing presence of talented international players in U.S universities makes competition for recruiting spots at the top institutions fierce. In such a competitive and high-stakes environment, the recruiting process can be extremely stressful for many high school students and even leave some players feeling burnt out by the end of it.
During the time between receiving your letter of acceptance and the start of university, it can be easy to fall into a passive mindset. Once the stress of recruitment is over and you know where you are heading, it’s natural to want to take your foot off the gas. While you should celebrate your accomplishment, it is important to take steps to continue improving your game and prepare for your college squash career.
2. The Growth Mindset
Even though the particular causes of burnout are different for each individual, the effects of it are somewhat the same. Identify and do what is required in conquering burnout, and work on getting your passion back! Develop the growth mindset necessary to be best prepared in tackling the challenges ahead. As a growth-minded player, you should:
i. have a training plan set towards a higher goal and should follow through with the established plan
ii. be eager to take command of your own progress and to actively adapt and improve
iii. get excited thinking about opportunities to improve, such as training or competing
To meet the expectations set forth by your coach and the aspirations of your team, you will require an active growth mindset to ensure that you are improving with your team. Ultimately, maintaining behaviors that will help keep up your momentum will allow you to hit the ground running when it is time to be a university student-athlete!
Challenge II: Adapting to a New Workload, Coaching Style and The Tools Needed
- Training smarter
So, you made it to the start of college! Some of the next challenges you will likely face are differences in workload and coaching styles between junior and college squash. With the busy schedule that accompanies being a full-time student, the time allocated for training is fixed and may be shorter than you are used to in juniors. This means that training “smarter” will be necessary for your ongoing improvement.
Training smarter means devising systematic training plans that will allow you to achieve higher long-term goals more efficiently within a restricted time period. Goals such as winning a national title or even moving up your team ladder get broken down into smaller, shorter-term milestones which are then further divided into several focus points that are achievable within individual sessions. There are nuances, however, when it comes to assigning goals for each session.
A common mistake that players make is that they try to achieve too much within a short amount of time. In addition to inducing a negative and self-defeating mindset, this often slows down their long-term progress and removes the joy that should come from practice. Instead, you should focus on a maximum of two or three points per session and adapt your focus points to take into account your physical and mental conditions for each day. This is important because you need to notice yourself moving forward towards your goals. Trying to achieve too much in one session will scatter your attention, and you will end up only noticing what is going wrong, failing to give yourself credit for what is going right. While improvement is by no means a linear process, having a focus in each session will make sure that you are making progress towards your goals.
Visualization is another skill that can help you train smarter. Your college days will be incredibly busy with classes, homework, friends, and the general stress of settling into a new place. One way to use the skill of visualization is before practice. Visualize yourself in the upcoming practice session achieving your session’s focus point. It will help sharpen your mind and allow you to train with more intensity because you are attempting to recreate the simulation from your mind. Visualizing before practice will also help you to recognize the school day is over and that it is now time to think about and play squash.
It is a skill that gets better the more you practice it and can completely transform your ability to concentrate your efforts and allows you to review yourself by acting as a point of reference. Any time you spend visualizing will be time well spent. It could be your activity while walking to the courts before practice, you could incorporate it in your warmup, or you can visualize before going to bed to prepare for the next day.
3. Attitude Shift
In college squash, practice no longer revolves around you as it did in junior squash. In the new team setting, you will need to adopt a more mature attitude that incorporates your role as a team player. While it is a lot of fun to always have great players to hit with, you will not have a coach commenting on your every shot as in 1-on-1 sessions. On days where you are not feeling your best, you will find ways to motivate yourself to give your practice partner a good hit, and they will do the same for you.
Adopting an attitude of personal responsibility and learning to hold yourself accountable for each session’s quality are what will mainly determine the speed of your progression and what you extract from each session. A simple example of personal accountability could be running for every ball regardless if the coach is looking or to self-assess your performance during water breaks. On particularly tough days, it might be enough just to prove to yourself that you can get through the session, and that will be a great accomplishment. “Just getting through” should not happen every practice, however, and often you will feel better having played and leaving what you can on the court.
4. Maximizing Practice Time and Habits
If you have properly worked on the previous points, then you should be able to make any assigned drill work for you by finding ways to work on your focus points within those drills. Squash is a game that relies heavily on a player’s habits. The more skills you are able to automate through daily repetition, the more mental space you are able to free up for more pressing matters, like being present-minded when it is match day.
It is in your best interest to create strong and reliable habits technically, mentally and physically. Sessions are normally 2 hours in duration, which includes the warm-up, cool-down, water breaks and the coach explaining each drill, so only around 75 minutes is actual play. Maximizing what you gain from that time is up to you. Optimize your warm up time by including some visualization as well as your cool down with a quick self-review of your performance in that session. Joking around with the team should be kept in the locker-room; practice time should mean business to you!
5. Adjusting to a New Coach
Many players coming from junior squash have mainly worked with one squash coach. Adjusting to your new coach and understanding their training philosophy will take some time. However, the faster you build synergy and trust, the better your practices will be. I advise spending some time getting to know your coach, communicating your goals and being open to the coach’s changes and suggestions to your game. Ask the coach what their short and long-term expectations are of you and use these as motivators.
Challenge III: Time Management
You made it to the end of the semester! Unfortunately, you now have 100 pages to read, 2 papers to write by tonight and a presentation tomorrow. It feels like too much of a stretch to think of squash right now. While college will have periods of higher academic workloads, this situation can be avoided with a variety of time management strategies. Successful student-athletes plan out their semester (months, weeks, and days) and adhere to their timetable.
Finding a balance between academics, sport and social life is not easy to figure out. However, based on your priorities, it should motivate you to complete each task in the assigned time so as to not interfere with the next. If you are serious about squash, set weekly time slots for lessons or extra ghosting sessions with your coach, and get more direct feedback. An interrupted training schedule due to poor time management, procrastination or exhaustion from lack of sleep will affect the quality of performance and if this becomes a regular occurrence, then it will ultimately affect the trajectory of your long-term progress.
Overall, college squash offers an experience like no other, providing world class education and the chance to continue growing and competing in squash alongside some of the most talented student-athletes in the world, who will most likely be your lifelong friends. Despite having its own set of challenges, the pros of college squash far outweigh them and are definitely worth it. Coming into this new chapter with an enthusiastic and growth-based mindset will be imperative in facing these challenges and making the most out of your college experience. By having a proactive mindset, optimizing your practice, and effectively managing your time, you will be better equipped in transitioning from junior to college squash. | <urn:uuid:f86ce78b-2ca9-4c94-93b4-e6c4f6cd7f09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://csasquash.com/2022/06/22/coaches-corner-transitioning-from-junior-to-college-squash/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964106 | 2,096 | 1.695313 | 2 |
More than 2,000 garment workers in Bangladesh are celebrating a new collective bargaining agreement that includes a 10 percent pay increase—double the amount required by law—and creation of a committee to prevent violence and harassment on the job. The pact, negotiated by the Hop Lun Apparels Ltd. Sommilito Sramik Union (HLALSSU), is retroactive to January.
The new agreement comes as many garment workers in Bangladesh and around the world are being laid off without pay because major fashion brands are canceling orders due to lack of demand during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“The guarantee of promotions for women to the higher posts and the establishment of the sexual harassment committee will empower the women and provide safeguards against sexual abuse and harassment in our factory,” says Aklima HLALSSU president.
Under the new contract, Hop Lun will set up a day care facility for workers’ children younger than age six, who will be guaranteed quality care and education. Factory management will provide free ultrasound tests for all pregnant workers, subsided food in the factory canteen, and guarantee a minimum of 20 women workers will be promoted annually.
Under Bangladesh law, women workers are entitled to 16 weeks’ maternity leave, yet employers often do not grant garment workers the required leave. The new contract provides enforcement of the law.
“It is because we have a strong union that we could maintain a good relation with the factory management and sign this collective bargaining agreement,” says Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation (SGSF) General Secretary Nahidul Hasan Nayan. “That is why, during this COVID-19 crisis, Hop Lun factory maintained the highest standard of safety for its workers and has provided each and every employee with proper protective equipment.”
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Honorable Mention for Arch Out Loud’s Home 2021 Competition
The Bronx Culture Container is an initiative that reassesses the dual problems of affordable housing and cultural production in New York City. The project, simultaneously a housing system that can be replicated elsewhere and a site-specific counterproposal to the City’s transition from a locus of cultural production to one of cultural consumption, utilizes typologies of housing (co-living, live-work spaces, studios, etc.) combined with cultural spaces to instigate a commoning of arts programming. The project thus serves as a model for collective living that is integrated into the cultural milieu of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.
Situated adjacent to the Bronx Documentary Center, the Culture Container juxtaposes housing typologies (towers, courtyard housing, etc.) to create idiosyncratic moments that imbue variety and complexity into forms created by repeated, modular units. The form and organization of these units result from a reexamination of their internal logics and the redistribution of their internal programming (kitchens, dining and living areas) to larger, collective spaces that are meant to be shared between inhabitants. The intention of this redistribution is to simultaneously create greater housing density in the stressed housing fabric of New York City while creating a new cultural commons while simultaneously producing truly “public” housing. | <urn:uuid:b8329d4d-deb1-452a-8f43-f587d5cb4e4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kevinhai.com/Bronx-Culture-Container | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.913172 | 273 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Es Devlin & Machiko Weston to produce artwork commission to mark the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
To mark the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 2020, (IWM) Imperial War Museums have commissioned a new work from leading artist Es Devlin working in collaboration with her long-term studio colleague Machiko Weston.
This week’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London include War, refugees, embassies, water, and snakes.
Lie on a bed, landscapes break apart, Croydon, what we hang in our homes, a petrol station, a car crash and motherhood.
Terrorism, anxiety, steel, colour, pumpkins and shadows.
A giant tapestry, Russian propaganda, protests, drones, hands on painting, emerging artists and Thunderbirds.
Carvaggio, war movies, colourful glass, a lone house and the American west.
The empty shell of Hangar 17 at JFK Airport became a storehouse of memories when it was filled with the material cleared from the World Trade Center site following the September 11th attacks on New York City. | <urn:uuid:705cb9bc-cbae-461b-82f4-e70cf3ff397b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wbim.org/index-1489.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.911822 | 243 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The most critical part of any building is the roof. That is because it protects the entire structure from hush weather conditions such as heavy rain fall and strong winds. Furthermore, it also provides insulation which makes the environment comfortable to live in. Even though materials used for roofing are supposed to give you years of services, most of them do not last for long as they should. However, there are various warning signs that homeowners can be on the lookout for to prevent further damage.
Moreover, you also need to be aware of the fact that the entire roof structure does not age at the same time. Some sections of the roof age faster. This is usually seen in areas that experience hot temperature such as Phoenix, Arizona. Below are sevens signs that show your roof needs replacement.
1. Dark And Dirty Spots Forming In Some Sections Of The Roof.
Algae and stains usually cause roof discoloration. Stains may be found on most areas, but algae is known to grow on certain areas of the roof structure. If the algae is not prevented at an early stage, it will start eating away the organic shingle base. However, you can be able to prevent such damage by hiring a licensed roofing contractor to inspect your roof. If the algae is detected before it causes serious damage, you can be sure that your roofing material will last as long as it should.
2. Missing Or Cracked Parts Of The Roofing Material.
The most common roofing materials used today is asphalt shingles. This roofing material is made of fiberglass and asphalt. The finishing of the material is done using granules, which covers all sides. Granules are also used to enhance the texture and color of the finished product. Besides enhancing the looks of the product, granules are also used to protect this particular roofing material from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. When the material is damaged, granules will start falling off from the roof, and the material will quickly degrade because of the sun’s temperature.
The shingles will also start to curl up on the bottom edges. The second sign that you should be on the lookout for is cracked or missing tabs of the shingles. What cause the shingles to crack or come out is strong winds. In case your home is experiencing such problems, you can seek advice from a professional roofing contractor on what you should do
3. Increase In Utility Bills.
Today’s real estate developers design homes that are energy efficient and this is achieved using insulation. Most structures nowadays are designed with a central cooling and heating system for regulating indoor temperature. However, if warm air builds up inside the attic, it can result to increase in utility bills. Roofing structure that is properly installed features an ample ventilation that runs along the eaves and ridge of the building. The main reason why the roofing structures are damaged at an early stage is because of lack of insufficient ventilation. During winter when ice dams occur, homeowners are forced to deal with icicles, which extend from the gutters. However, roofers can assess the ventilation and make it better by installing extra vents.
4. Forming Of Mold And Stains On The Inside Part Of The Material
Leaking of the roof also causes discoloration on drywall. The area which is mostly affected by this problem is the bathroom. Because of this reason, it is advisable to conduct an inspection on a regular basis to prevent further damage. However, some leaks can remain an identified for a long period until the damage worsens. However, by hiring a professional roofing contractor, your roof can be inspected and have all the minor issues fixed at an early stage.
5. Blistering Of The Outside Paint.
Blistering of the outside paint indicates roof damage. This usually occurs round the gable ends and the overhangs. It is easy to spot blistering paint, and you do not need a roofing contractor to detect such issues. However, a regular inspection should be done to make sure that the paint is well intact on each side of the home. Excessive attic heat also causes the paint to peel off and form bubbles under the eave and on the edge of the gable. However, this can be prevented by enhancing air circulation inside the house. You can improve air circulation using attic fans, ridge vent and bathroom exhausts.
6. Leaking Of The Attic After Heavy Rains
You can also inspect the condition of the roof by climbing in the attic when there is a high storm. Once in this position, look for exposed attics which makes it easy for homeowners to access the rafters. You can use a flashlight on the plywood and rafters to identify darks spots that have formed because of roof leakage.
7. Sheathing And Shingles Decay
Sheathing decay usually occurs in older homes. Furthermore, you can spot this problem from the ground, and you do not necessarily have to climb on top of the roof. When some the sections of the roof start sagging, it is advisable that you consider roof replacement to prevent major problems. It is not easy to identify such a problem in some structures and in this case you might be required to hire a roofing expert to locate the problem and offer a reliable solution.
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At Christ Church Academy we believe that learning a language is a valuable life skill. We use topics, stories, authentic materials and videos to engage pupils in their language learning and to allow them to discover the Francophone world. Pupils also learn valuable language learning strategies that will help them throughout their further schooling and later life when learning new foreign languages.
Pupils work towards the French trip in Year 8 in which they are able to put their skills into practise and immerse themselves in the French language and culture.
Lunchtime Supervisor Vacancy
(term time only) - Starting pay £9.60 p/hr Christ Church Academy are looking to appoint enthusiastic staff to work as part of our team supervising pupils during the lunch break, ensuring a safe environment in which their developmental and welfare needs are met. Experience of working with childr...
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Retrieved August 10, 2022, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/philo-of-alexandria-c-15-bc-c-ad-50/v-1
Philo of Alexandria is the leading representative of Hellenistic-Jewish thought. Despite an unwavering loyalty to the religious and cultural traditions of his Jewish community, he was also strongly attracted to Greek philosophy, in which he received a thorough training. His copious writings – in Greek – are primarily exegetical, expounding the books of Moses. This reflects his apologetic strategy of presenting the Jewish lawgiver Moses as the sage and philosopher par excellence, recipient of divine inspiration, but not at the expense of his human rational faculties. In his commentaries Philo makes extensive use of the allegorical method earlier developed by the Stoics. Of contemporary philosophical movements, Philo is most strongly attracted to Platonism. His method is basically eclectic, but with a clear rationale focused on the figure of Moses.
Philo’s thought is strongly theocentric. God is conceived in terms of being. God’s essence is unreachable for human knowledge (negative theology), but his existence should be patent to all (natural theology). Knowledge of God is attained through his powers and, above all, through his Logos (‘Word’ or ‘Reason’), by means of which he stands in relation to what comes after him. In his doctrine of creation Philo leans heavily on Platonist conceptions drawn from reflection on Plato’s Timaeus. The conception of a creation ex nihilo (‘from nothing’) is not yet consciously worked out. Philo’s doctrine of human nature favours the two anthropological texts in Genesis 1–2, interpreting creation ‘according to the image’ in relation to the human intellect. With regard to ethics, both Stoic concepts and peculiarly Jewish themes emerge in Philo’s beliefs. Ethical ideals are prominent in the allegorical interpretation of the biblical patriarchs.
Philo’s influence was almost totally confined to the Christian tradition, which preserved his writings. He was unknown to medieval Jewish thinkers such as Maimonides.
Runia, David T.. Philo of Alexandria (c.15 BC–c. AD 50), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A081-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/philo-of-alexandria-c-15-bc-c-ad-50/v-1.
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Many celebrities are outspoken about their struggles with different mental health issues. Here's a list of some celebrities and their experiences to help remind you that anyone can struggle, and you're not alone.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
"In an interview Leonardo recalled how he let his OCD symptoms go, and how this quickly worsened his OCD. He explains, “I remember my make-up artist and assistant walking me to the set and going, ‘Oh, God, here he goes again. We’re going to need 10 minutes to get him to the set today because he has to walk back and step on that thing and touch the door in a certain way and then walk in and walk out again.’ I let myself do it because I wanted that to come out.”
SINGER / ACTOR
"Singer and actor Justin Timberlake has said that he suffers from both attention-deficit disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. "You try living with that," he laments. "It's complicated." Timberlake's OCD behaviors include an obsession with lining objects up and feeling that he absolutely must have a certain food item in the house at all times."
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
SINGER / ACTRESS
“I [...] developed PTSD as a result of being raped and also not processing that trauma,” she told Oprah."
“Mental health is a medical condition. It should be treated as a medical condition, it should not be ignored,” she said. “I take an oath as a commitment today, with you, it's 2020 and for the next decade and maybe longer, I'm going to get the smartest scientists, doctors, psychiatrists, mathematicians, brain surgeons, and professors in the same room together and we're going to go through each problem one by one and we're going to solve this mental health crisis.”
"I know those families and my fans, and everyone there experienced a tremendous amount of it as well," Grande said of suffering the symptoms of PTSD. "I feel like I shouldn't even be talking about my own experience -- like I shouldn't even say anything."
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
"... he reminds himself that despite how all-consuming anxiety can be, the feeling won't last forever. 'All pain is temporary,' he explained. 'Sometimes it lasts two hours, sometimes it lasts a day and sometimes it lasts five minutes. The point of the song is that no matter how long that lasts, you can come out the other end stronger and you come out of the other end always.'"
"While Oprah still battles anxiety today; it's something that has affected her throughout her entire life. She recently revealed that when she was a child she was sexually abused. The abuse she suffered happened for several years, which really took a toll on her mental and physical health. This experience changed the way she looked at her life and she was never the same after it. Her anxieties were rooted in the abuse she dealt with for years until she finally got professional help. These experiences caused her to have bad self-esteem and an anxious feeling when dealing with some people."
Major Depressive Disorder
SINGER / ACTRESS
"'As I grew older, I found a way to release myself from those darker thoughts through music. Music was my way of overcoming a lot of pain and anxiety. If you give yourself to your creativity and imagination, it can help you overcome almost anything and really enable you to feel free and powerful.'... 'I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life, I still suffer with it every single day,' she explained."
"James Franco, who covered OUT's September issue, told the magazine that he struggled with depression early in his career. "I have a very addictive personality," he said. 'When I was a teenager I got over certain addictions, and that's when I started acting, at age 17. I really threw myself into it, and that became everything, to the point where I didn't even socialize. And then after, like, 10 years of that, at age 27, I realized, man, I'm so depressed. On the surface my life seems pretty good -- I have a career and everything -- but I feel isolated and lonely.'"
Seasonal Affective Disorder
"O’Donnell also says she suffers from seasonal affective disorder, often called SAD, which causes her to feel depressed during the fall and winter. 'Like in The Wizard of Oz, the color goes out,' she says. 'That is what happens in depression. Everything gets gray.'
No one should fear the stigma of taking medication for depression, she says: 'It saved my life.'"
"Demi was relieved when she finally got the diagnosis. 'I went into treatment and I was able to work with incredible doctors who helped me figure out that I was, in fact, bipolar, she says. 'It was a great feeling to find out that there wasn’t anything wrong with me. I just had a mental illness.'"
“Until recently I lived in denial and isolation and in constant fear someone would expose me,” she says. “It was too heavy a burden to carry and I simply couldn’t do that anymore. I sought and received treatment, I put positive people around me and I got back to doing what I love — writing songs and making music.”
Autism Spectrum Disorder
"I am a 44-year old autistic woman who has a successful international career designing livestock equipment. I completed my Ph.D. in Animal Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana and I am now an Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Early intervention at age 2 1/2 helped me overcome my handicap.
Two of the subjects covered in this chapter are the frustration of not being able to speak and sensory problems. My senses were oversensitive to loud noise and touch. Loud noise hurt my ears and I withdrew from touch to avoid over-whelming sensation.
I built a squeezing machine which helped me to calm my nerves and to tolerate touching. At puberty, horrible anxiety “nerve” attacks started and they became worse with age. Antidepressant medication relieved the anxiety. In the last section of the chapter directing my fixations into constructive activities and a career will be discussed along with the importance of a mentor. My skill and deficit areas are covered in detail. All my thinking is visual, like videos played in my imagination. Even abstract concepts such as getting along with other people are visualized through the use of door imagery."
But Hannah, who was diagnosed with autism as a child and suffered from “debilitating shyness” as a result of the disorder, says the best thing in her life now is growing comfortable in her own skin.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
"'I simply couldn’t sit still, because it was difficult for me to focus on one thing at a time,' Phelps recalls in Beneath the Surface. 'I had to be in the middle of everything.'
That was especially difficult at home. When he was 7, Phelps’ parents divorced. He says, 'As I began to grasp that my dad would be away for a long time, I needed something that could grab my attention.'"
"When it comes to the traditional expectations of a pop star in Hollywood, Solange Knowles shatters the glass ceiling as a woman of color who also happens to be diagnosed with a disability that affects 10 percent of the U.S. population: ADHD. Knowles has been outspoken about her ADHD, educating people about her disability.
'I was diagnosed with ADHD twice,' Knowles said. 'I didn’t believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.'"
Borderline Personality Disorder
ACTOR / COMEDIAN
"Davidson had some genuine (and some funny) things to say about what it’s like living with BPD, from how he’s in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) — 'It’s steps, it’s thought processing, you have these thoughts, you have these feelings, you have these urges, you’re going to freak out. Try waiting it out 10 minutes. Try going for a walk.' — to his fear of abandonment — 'When people say they’re leaving and coming back, I get a really big fear that they’re not coming back.'" | <urn:uuid:708400b7-f874-449d-b1d5-16f12e3c01af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sophrosynementalhealth.com/copy-of-how-to-help-a-friend | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978226 | 1,851 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has produced a series of consensus statements on issues related to the care, management and prevention of diabetes.
IDF Consensus Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome
Last update: 29/07/2020
The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome provides physicians with the tools to quickly identify those at risk and also to compare the impact across nations and ethnic groups. | <urn:uuid:c8e1d909-6e2e-4ebf-ba39-9eaf1a3514ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://idf.org/e-library/consensus-statements/60-idfconsensus-worldwide-definitionof-the-metabolic-syndrome.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.866481 | 119 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Encrypt all data partitions or targeted partitions across one or more disks with AES-256 encryption for both used and unused sectors.
Restrict ability to decrypt drives.
Keep data at rest safe.
Keep devices safe by requiring passwords or smartcard authentication to boot drives.
Supports UEFI-based and Linux-based preboot environments.
Centrally manage users with access to device drives.
Use the Unified Endpoint Management console to manage full disk encryption and enforce preboot authentication.
Easily help users recover forgotten preboot authentication passwords.
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A DEVICE that requires drivers to pass a breathalyzer test before it will start the vehicle ignition system must be incorporated into all new cars sold in Spain from July.
The Alcolock system is connected to the ignition and requires the driver to blow into a breath-testing instrument before getting behind the wheel only allowing the vehicle to start for those below the legal drink driving limit.
Despite stiff penalties of those found over the limit including fines and even prison sentences, drink driving continues to be a concern causing around 4 out of 10 deaths in road traffic accidents across Spain according to government figures.
New cars purchased from July will have the attachment pre-installed.
Drivers blow for five seconds, and can drive if the result is normal.
However, even detecting a faint trace of alcohol the device will prevent you from starting the car for one minute to repeat the test. Afterwards if the breath alcohol level is above the limit (0.25 milligrams per litre), the car will stop for half an hour.
The device is already proving to be effective in the battle against drink driving throughout France and Germany, where the system is already compulsory.
- Extra police will patrol streets in crackdown on stag and hen parties in Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol
- U-TURN CAMPAIGN: British fintech guru calls for Spaniards in the UK to have licences immediately revoked until driving fiasco…
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An MBA or an MSL can help you level up your career. But, which degree should you choose?
MBA or MSL: Which degree is right for you?
The opportunity and decision to pursue a graduate business degree can be life-changing. Additionally, it is significant in helping to advance your professional and personal growth and development. At Concordia University Wisconsin & Ann Arbor (CUWAA), we offer both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Science in Leadership (MSL). Both the MBA and MSL are designed to prepare you for your next career move.
With an advanced degree you’ll develop the comprehensive managerial and leadership skills you need to execute organizational change, drive strategic initiatives, and develop high-performance teams—the qualifications today’s employers are actively looking for in candidates to fill the top levels of leadership. Both degrees focus on your employability, flexibility in learning, and regional mobility.
Using an MBA or MSL to advance your career
What an MBA can offer you
The MBA covers a broad range of topics that focus on the big picture of the organization. The curriculum focuses on practical applications for decision-making in the dynamic business environment.
Choosing a concentration
Students choose to focus their studies in one of many concentrations available, including:
- Communications & Public Relations
- Healthcare Administration
- Human Resource Management
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Management Information Systems
- Nonprofit Leadership & Public Administration
- Sport & Entertainment Business
- Strategic Marketing
- Sustainability Management & Analytics.
Undoubtedly, as an executive, manager, small business owner, or future leader, the MBA provides a rigorous study of business strategy and decision-making, ensuring you are able to effectively lead teams and the organization.
What an MSL can offer you
Overall, the MSL has a specific focus on leadership with emphasis on understanding yourself as a leader, leading teams, and leading organizations. This degree program combines theoretical study of leadership with the practical techniques and skills required in today’s organizations. Specifically, the MSL will enable you to discover your leadership strengths and integrate your technical competencies to lead your team and organization. Finally, the program also focuses on building your competencies to lead organizational change efforts and achieve organizational outcomes.
Both the MBA and MSL focus on developing core competencies expected from your employers. CUWAA degrees enable flexible learning opportunities with courses aligned to industry needs and expectations. You’ll join a vibrant community of learners working to become impactful business leaders. Complete your MBA or MSL and prepare to analyze, lead, and make decisions to solve complex business problems and help to create sustainable competitive advantages.
Do you want more information?
As a Christian university committed to delivering a 5-star student experience, we are here to answer any questions and provide more information as you contemplate the next stage of your education and to advance your career. We recently had a webinar to help you decide which program is right for you.
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The Vidyard Chrome extension allows you to create and share videos, even when your internet connection unexpectedly drops in quality or fails altogether.
When creating a new video, the Chrome extension temporarily keeps your recording in the area of your computer's local storage utilized by Google Chrome.
If you experience network problems while making a video, the recording will continue as normal. Vidyard will hold on to the video in your computer's local storage until your internet connection improves. You will then have the option to recover the video.
What to expect when a video fails to upload
Should the quality of your internet connection drop, recording will continue as normal. Once recording has finished, Vidyard will display the following Chrome notification:
Check your internet connection. It may not be performing optimally.
Recover your video
Once you have regained an optimal internet connection:
- Re-open the Chrome extension. You will be prompted to either Recover or Discard your recording.
- If you choose Recover, your video will begin to upload
- You may not immediately see the thumbnail or be able to seek throughout the video. Wait momentarily for the the video to finish encoding.
If your video still fails to recover, check the upload speed on your internet connection again.
You can also attempt to reload the Chrome extension or restart your browser altogether (command + q on Mac, or ctrl + shift +q on Windows). Then try to recover the video again.
Frequently asked questions
What if I have no space in local storage?
If you do not have available space in local storage, Vidyard will not prevent you from recording. However, should your internet connection fail, you may not be able to recover the video.
If Vidyard is unable to save your recording locally, you will be alerted by a Chrome notification indicating that Your local save space is low:
How much local storage space do I have available?
You can check how much local storage space is being utilized by Chrome in the browser console.
- Right click anywhere on a browser page and click Inspect
- Choose Application from the console menu
- Click on Clear storage. This tab will indicate usage and available space. Make space accordingly.
- Force quit the Chrome browser and re-open to try again
- If using Windows: select the red X button or alt+f4 on your keyboard
- Is using Mac: press cmd+q on your keyboard
How much of my local storage space will Vidyard use?
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Recently I was talking to a colleague in her 20s and we started to talk about interests. I started to bring up my interests in financial independence, investing, and going on my podcast and audiobook binges related to those subjects.
Throughout this conversation I realized that her financial mentality is exactly the same as it was for me when I was in my 20s. The biggest differences are she did not have the massive amount of student loan debt and she had the luxury of living with her parents right out of school.
Hindsight is 20/20 right? Looking back I remember telling myself that I was young in my 20s and I could think about saving and investing later. What blew my mind is that my colleague literally told me that. It was hard to believe someone actually saying that because it almost validated what I thought back in my 20s.
I am not a financial advisor so the money advice I shared was meant to be simple. I at least hope that my insistence made her think twice about her current financial mindset.
4 simple money advice I shared with my (younger) colleague
Don’t wait to save, start now
- Pretty simple rule, but this is not as obvious as it may seem. The concept of saving was certainly not obvious to me in my 20s. I always heard about paying yourself first. It took a decade out of school before I took this seriously. Now in my mid 30s, this concept of saving is common sense.
- It does not matter if you are living with a roommate, living with your parents, or in your 60s, I do not believe in any kind of excuse about age or wages. In the case of my colleague, her excuse was “I am only in my 20s, I can always start later”. Being able to live with your parents should also be considered a blessing for a variety of reasons. You are more likely to save a ton on rent, groceries, and time (assuming home cooked meals). Take advantage of this time to also put away money so you can enjoy it later.
Contribute to your company 401k or retirement account
- There are numerous pre and post tax benefits by contributing to a retirement account. If you are lucky enough to work for a company that offers a company match 401k up to a certain percentage, then you must contribute to your company 401k up to your company match at a minimum.
Reconsider buying something just because it’s on sale
- I heard this over and over again during my conversation with my colleague. If your favorite Louis Vuitton handbag or Prada shoes has a rare sale for 10% off, you are still spending money. I think Dave Ramsey said it best when he defined maturity as being able to delay gratification by thinking about the long term impact.
Focus on paying off debts
- The example I gave to my colleague was about two different types of debt. The first was about student loans because I had massive amounts to pay back and the second was credit card debt. If you have any kind of debt, one of the most important financial goals is to focus on paying off debt. I learned the hard way by defaulting on my loans and doing other money moron financial mistakes. My colleague lives with her parents so this is an absolute no brainer. You are accumulating so much by default because you are most likely saving on rent, groceries, and most likely time. Having a credit card is not a big deal as long as you are responsible. You need to pay off your credit card every statement and you will be in good shape. | <urn:uuid:b94782fb-b1c3-44c7-9baf-0a103f693d55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.omgmymoney.com/general-investing/4-simple-financial-advice-to-a-colleague-in-their-20s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985246 | 745 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Updated: 17 March 2007
Posted: 22 August 2003
RPVs, UAVs, & Drones
With UAVs being the future of recce(and fighters!), I've started collecting info and links(1) on these unmanned aircraft.
With UAVs all over the news these days, it's all the talk.....There is NOTHING new under the sun read Marvin Bixby's exploits flying the DC-130 and launching Teledyne Ryan RPVs over Vietnam.
Manufacturers, some of the biggies, and some companies you may never of heard of....
UAV News, whats up with UAVs......
UAV Patches and Insignia
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For years, I’ve had an issue with the word “sacrifice.” Something about it never sat well with me and the irritation only seemed to grow the deeper I delved into my consciousness.
I started listening to how people were using it-how I had probably used it myself before I started paying attention.
The way the word was thrown around often seemed to be accompanied by an undercurrent of false humility. The idea that every sacrifice was a noble act.
But that didn’t seem to be what I was observing.
We’re quick to say “I sacrificed for the sake of (fill in the blank).” My family, my kids, my job... That sounds noble enough until you really break it down. What some of us really mean to say is “I sacrificed myself. I abandoned my heart. I neglected my soul.”
The unsaid is what has always been unsettling to me. The reframing of practical, soul-sucking choices as honorable is far too commonplace.
More often than not, it’s fear that keeps us from advancing in a particular direction. It may be fear of failure or fear of disappointing others. Our very being is calling out to us but rather than heed that voice, we call it a wrap and label it as sacrifice. This inaccurate renaming of our fear distances us from truth.
Some time ago, I was ready to do away with the word but a closer look made me rethink things. The Latin root, sacrificium, means “to make sacred.” Herein lies the missing piece that ties everything together.
Real sacrifice honors the sacredness of your being.
Sometimes you do trade the short-lived pleasure for sustained meaning. Pass up the good for the great. The point is that it ultimately leads to the highest good for ALL parties involved.
As far as I’m concerned, self-sacrifice isn’t sexy. And that doesn’t mean I’m uncompromising or selfish. It only means that I am unwilling to betray the divinity of my being. I am unwilling to occupy a constricted space in the breadth of my potential because I’m afraid to venture out.
The myth of sacrifice provides convenient refuge. Having had it drilled into our heads that sacrifice is noble, we often do it at the expense of our truest selves. But there’s nothing sacred about relegating oneself to a protracted state of non-resonance.
What is too easily named sacrifice is often devoid of the sacred element and amounts to nothing more than fear or reluctant obligation.
As author and teacher, Amy Oscar says, “When I am afraid that I am going to disappoint someone, I am already disappointing someone. Me.” When we act based on that fear, it is a moment of self-sacrifice.
To move through the world with any level of awareness is to take notice of these moments. It is then we have the opportunity to make sacred choices.
Here is where we practice the good kind of selfish-not for the egoic self, but the highest self. Here is where we reclaim sacrifice as sacred territory. Here is where we remember that no so-called “sacrifice” is ever worth the price of your soul. | <urn:uuid:6a82eb12-baaf-4ced-afeb-e88626c4a3dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-myth-of-sacrifice_b_57866958e4b0b107a2403559 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966737 | 687 | 1.570313 | 2 |
by Shawn Brasseaux
Nearly everyone in Christendom is convinced that Acts chapter 2 is “the birthday of the Church the Body of Christ.” Does this overwhelming consensus agree with God’s Word, or is this just a denominational viewpoint courtesy of religious tradition? Let us search the Scriptures to see what Almighty God has to say about this often-confused topic.
Firstly, remember, whenever you see the word “church” in the Bible, it does not necessarily refer to the Church the Body of Christ. “Church” simply means “a called-out assembly.” There are three “churches” in Scripture: the Mosaic Church, the Messianic Church, and the Mystery Church.
The Mosaic Church is mentioned in Acts 7:38, when the Prophet Stephen refers to the nation Israel as “the church in the wilderness.” The LORD had just called out Israel from Egyptian bondage. Certainly, that “church” had nothing to do with the Body of Christ—it was the nation Israel, a separate and distinct entity. This Mosaic Church derives its name from Moses, the man whom God used to lead Israel from Egypt to the edge of the Promised Land.
The Greek word ecclesia (often translated “church”) is correctly translated “assembly” in Acts 19:32. The King James translators did not use the word “church” here because it was not a group of believers, but rather a mob of pagan worshippers who were angry with the Apostle Paul after he spoke against their mythological goddess Diana. Again, “church” does not always mean “a group of believers;” likewise, “church” in the Bible does not always refer to the Church the Body of Christ. The context determines the definition of the term.
Religious tradition has made such a mess of Matthew 16:18. Let us read it as it appears in the King James Bible (Jesus Christ is speaking to Peter): “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” This is neither the Roman Catholic Church nor the Church the Body of Christ. Continue reading in verse 19, “I will give unto thee [Peter] the keys of the kingdom of heaven….” The Lord Jesus Christ has just appointed Peter as the head of the “Messianic Church.” The “rock” is the fact that Jesus is Messiah/Christ (Peter’s profession in verse 16). Again, this is not the Body of Christ because the Messianic Church is comprised of those Jews who have trusted Jesus as their Messiah, Christ, the Son of the living God—this includes those believers from John the Baptist’s ministry and Christ’s earthly ministry (see Matthew 16:15-17). According to Luke 12:32, the Messianic Church is also known as the “little flock,” the believing segment of the nation Israel that will inherit the earthly kingdom promised in the Old Testament.
When the book of Acts opens, this Messianic Church still exists. In Acts chapter 2, Peter is the chief speaker (remember, he is the head of the Messianic Church and the keys of Israel’s kingdom have been given to him). Do not be confused when Acts 2:47 says “the church”—it is the mishandling of this verse that contributes to the erroneous idea that this is the Church the Body of Christ. Acts chapter 2 is not a reference to the Body of Christ; remember that this is the Messianic Church, what Jesus Christ promised to build back in Matthew 16:18.
Here are 12 reasons why the “church” in Acts chapter 2 is not the Church the Body of Christ:
1. ACTS 2 INVOLVES JESUS CHRIST’S EARTHLY MINISTRY.
The Bible says in Hebrews 2:3-4: “ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?” According to the Holy Spirit speaking through the writer of the book of Hebrews—it is a Jewish book!—the early Acts period is a continuation of Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry (which was also Jewish; Matthew 10:5-7; Matthew 15:24; John 4:22; Romans 15:8). Read Acts 1:4-5: “ And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” Jesus Christ was referring to John the Baptist’s words in Matthew 3:11: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.” In His earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus Christ promised to send the Holy Ghost (see John 14:16-18; John 15:26; John 16:7)—this promise was fulfilled to Israel in Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter 2 is linked to Jesus’ earthly ministry, which was confined to Israel (see Acts 2:22).
2. ACTS 2 INVOLVES ISRAEL ONLY.
The chief speaker of Acts chapter 2 is the Apostle Peter, an apostle of Israel (Matthew 10:1-7; Matthew 19:28; Galatians 2:9). Peter was sent to minister to the nation Israel (Matthew 10:5-7). Undoubtedly, Peter’s audience in Acts chapter 2 is Jews only, the nation Israel (Acts 2:5,14,22,29,36). On four occasions, Peter says that he is speaking to, “Ye men of Judaea” (verse 14), “ye men of Israel” (verse 22), “men and brethren” (verse 29), and “the whole house of Israel” (verse 36). The Holy Ghost is leading the Apostle Peter to speak (verse 4), and the Holy Ghost is well aware that He is speaking to the nation Israel. Indeed, Acts chapter 2 is to Israel and about Israel. The Church the Body of Christ is made up of neither Jew nor Gentile (Galatians 3:28; Galatians 6:15; Ephesians 2:11-18; Colossians 3:11); therefore, the Body of Christ is separate from the nation Israel and not related to Acts chapter 2. It is apparently clear that we are still in Jewish-Gentile distinction of “time past” of Ephesians 2:11-12 here in Acts chapter 2. Some may argue that the term “all that are afar off” in Acts 2:39 refers to Gentiles, but they are incorrect because the context does not allow this definition. Actually, we find this term in Daniel 9:7 and it refers to scattered Jews around the world. It has no reference to Gentiles, either in Daniel 9:7 or Acts 2:39.
3. ACTS 2 INVOLVES PENTECOST, A JEWISH FEAST DAY.
Acts 2:1 says “when the day of Pentecost was fully come.” This is a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. The Body of Christ is separate from Israel’s prophetic program (see Romans 16:25-26). Also, Pentecost is one of the three major Jewish feasts (Leviticus 23:15-16). We members of the Church the Body of Christ are not bound by the laws and feast days of Judaism (Romans 6:14-15; Galatians 4:9-11; Colossians 2:16), so this further proves that the group of believers in Acts chapter 2 is not the Church the Body of Christ. The Spirit of God would never lead a member of the Church the Body of Christ to be under the law (2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:18).
4. ACTS 2 INVOLVES PROPHECY, NOT MYSTERY.
According to what the Holy Ghost through Peter said in Acts 2:16-21, the events of Acts chapter 2 are fulfilled Old Testament prophecy: “ But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” The Prophet Joel (2:28-32) prophesied the supernatural events of Acts chapter 2 in relation to Israel’s restoration—we do not have these signs, miracles, and wonders in the Body of Christ and the Dispensation of Grace. The strange astronomical phenomena recorded in Joel and Acts chapter 2 will be fulfilled after our dispensation (see Matthew 24:29-30; Mark 13:24-26; Luke 21:25-28; Revelation 6:12-14). Again, the Body of Christ has no relation to the Old Testament because the “mystery” (our Dispensation of Grace) was “kept secret since the world began” (Romans 16:25; Ephesians 3:5; Colossians 1:26). The risen, ascended, and glorified Lord Jesus Christ revealed our mystery dispensation first and only to the Apostle Paul (Romans 16:25-26; Ephesians 3:1-9; Colossians 1:25-29). We do not find ourselves outside of Paul’s epistles of Romans through Philemon.
5. ACTS 2 INVOLVES “THE LAST DAYS.”
We return to Acts 2:17: “ But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:” Notice the expression “in the last days” in verse 17. Acts chapter 2 does not record the first days of anything—there is no “church birthday” here. Acts chapter involves “the last days.” The “last days” of what? Israel’s prophetic program was winding down in Acts chapter 2, but God interrupted that program in Acts chapter 7 to introduce the mystery program (our Dispensation of Grace).
6. ACTS 2 INVOLVES JESUS CHRIST BEING RAISED TO SIT ON DAVID’S THRONE.
When the Apostle Peter preached in Acts chapter 2, notice what the Holy Spirit said through him in verses 29-31: “ Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.” We have no relation to David’s throne; we are Gentiles saved apart from the nation Israel (Romans 11:11-12). When the Holy Spirit moved the Apostle Paul to write to us, he wrote that Jesus Christ was raised “for our justification” (Romans 4:25)—he made no reference to David’s throne like Peter did.
7. ACTS 2 INVOLVES A GOSPEL THAT IS NOT VALID TODAY.
The Apostle Peter preached in Acts 2:38 when his audience asked how to be saved: “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” This is certainly a works-religion gospel, and it was valid in Israel’s program—it is problematic when people try to apply it to us because it does not belong in our dispensation. After all, Jesus Christ had said in Mark 16:16 that faith and water baptism were necessary for salvation in Israel’s program. Peter is in perfect accordance with his commission. Israel will not receive forgiveness of sins until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ (Acts 3:19). Jews must repent (change their mind about who Jesus Christ really was) and be water baptized in order to receive forgiveness and the Holy Spirit. When the Philippian jailer asked Paul what he must do to be saved, Paul said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). Unlike Peter’s ministry, in Paul’s ministry, there was no reference to water baptism or repentance. We receive the Holy Spirit by trusting the Gospel of the Grace of God—Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection as sufficient payment for our sins (1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Romans 4:24-25)—and God the Father seals us with the Holy Spirit instantly (Ephesians 1:12-14). Romans 4:1-8 makes it abundantly clear that no works save us. Acts chapter 2 does not apply to us because its Gospel message does not apply to us—it is a false gospel for us and we should reject it as such (Galatians 1:6-12).
8. ACTS 2 INVOLVES ISRAEL’S APOSTLES AND ISRAEL’S TEMPLE.
According to some of the closing verses of Acts chapter 2, these believers continued in “the apostles’ doctrine” and were “with one accord in the temple” (verses 42,46). The “apostles” in this case are Peter, James, John, and the other nine apostles from Christ’s earthly ministry—these apostles of Israel were never sent to minister to the Church the Body of Christ (recall Matthew 10:5-7; Galatians 2:9). Furthermore, temple worship has no relation to us the Church the Body of Christ because we are not under the demands of the Mosaic Law (Romans 6:14-15; Galatians 5:1-5). We believers are the Temple of God (1 Corinthians 3:16), and God does not dwell in temples made with hands (Acts 17:24).
9. ACTS 2 INVOLVES A PRE-EXISTING GROUP OF BELIEVERS.
“Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2:41). The Bible says that there was a pre-existing group of believers in Acts chapter 2. It is not a new Body of Christ; Acts chapter 2 was simply a continuation of the Messianic Church that we discussed earlier. Again, there is no “birthday” of anything in Acts chapter 2.
10. ACTS 2 INVOLVES SIGNS, MIRACLES, AND WONDERS.
Read Acts 2:43: “And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.” Is there “fear” in local churches today because of miraculous demonstrations? “The Jews require a sign” (1 Corinthians 1:22a). Mark 16:15-20 talks about how signs were to follow those that believe in Israel’s program, and Acts chapter 2 is a confirmation (see Hebrews 2:3-4). These miracles belong with Israel, and they do not apply to us. We have something better than miracles—we have the completed Word of God, the Holy Bible (1 Corinthians 13:8-13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17).
11. ACTS 2 INVOLVES COMMUNAL LIVING.
Did you ever notice the communal living found in Acts 2:44-45? Who does this today, except perhaps the cults? “ And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.” These Jewish believers sold everything they had and gave the money they received to the twelve apostles for distribution to the poor (in perfect accordance with what Jesus said in Matthew 19:21-24 and Luke 12:31-34)! This was selfless, spontaneous living for the good of their fellow Jewish believers. Do you know of any Christian today who has sold all his or her possessions and given the money to a preacher or a local church? I seriously doubt it, so yet again, the Bible proves that Acts chapter 2 has nothing to do with the Church the Body of Christ.
12. ACTS 2 INVOLVES LEGALISM.
As we stated earlier, the Spirit of God would never lead a member of the Church the Body of Christ to be under the law (2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:18). Yet, legalism abounds in Acts chapter 2—repentance and water baptism for salvation and forgiveness (verse 38) and obeying the apostles’ doctrine in the Temple (verse 42,46). Jesus said that Israel’s 12 apostles were to preach and teach the Law (Matthew 5:17-20). We have no relation to legalism because Paul says that we are under grace, not law (Romans 6:14-15).
Despite what the denominationalists and religionists claim, the Church the Body of Christ did not begin in Acts chapter 2. To say that it did is to ignore all of the verses that we briefly outlined in this study. Acts chapter 2 is not our pattern; we must ignore the modern-day cries to “go back to Pentecost to get the Holy Ghost and the fire.” If we want to have God’s power and learn God’s information to us, we must go to Paul’s epistles of Romans through Philemon. We must leave Acts chapter 2 in Israel’s program where it belongs, or we will confuse everyone and ourselves, and make our Christian lives vain and miserable. So, when did the Church the Body of Christ begin? Please see our study here dedicated to answering that very question! | <urn:uuid:222c97dc-e813-4478-ade5-4c287d1f9688> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ambassadorsfortherisenchristministries.org/2009/08/22/did-the-body-of-christ-begin-in-acts-2/?replytocom=72 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946835 | 4,160 | 2.125 | 2 |
Bible Verses about Love
1 Chronicles 16:34 Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.
Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
1 John 4:16-18 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.
John 15:9-10 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!
1 Peter 5:6-7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Colossians 3:14 Above all, be loving. This ties everything together perfectly.
Ephesians 4:2-3 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4: 8 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
John 15: 12-13 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. | <urn:uuid:933c0a90-dd43-4b52-855e-fe00607e085d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stmarysprimarykettering.co.uk/page/?title=Bible+Verses+about+Love&pid=289 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942603 | 411 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Tampa Bay ranked among the top 10 large metro areas for college-educated young talent on the move. The latest Census data reveals that young people aged 25 to 29 are increasingly more mobile and willing to move to new cities, very often in new states, in search of jobs.
Florida leads the nation in high school seniors taking Advanced Placement exams at nearly 50 percent. Florida also ranks sixth in the nation for the percentage of students who score a 3 or higher on the AP exam at 23.9 percent, compared to the national average of 18.1 percent.
Tampa Bay is home to MacDill Air Force Base, the only military installation that hosts two, four-star Combatant Commands, the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. MacDill contributes $5 billion annually to the greater Tampa Bay economy.
AMAZING PARKS AND RECREATION
Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Park was named among America’s Best New Parks by The Atlantic Cities. Completed in 2011, the waterfront park serves as a more natural connection between the water, downtown, and the new Children’s Museum and Tampa Art Museum. Tampa Bay’s beloved public spaces spread throughout the region provide gathering places for families, friends, colleagues, and events from small to large scale.
LOW COST OF DOING BUSINESS
According to a KPMG business cost study, the Tampa Bay market is the nation’s lowest cost large market for Corporate Services, International Financial Services and Shared Services – a testament to strong business, financial and data services sector in Tampa Bay. KPMG’s 2012 Competitive Alternatives study measured 26 significant cost components over a 10 year planning horizon. Bottom line – Tampa Bay is a great place for business. | <urn:uuid:8f0f4717-b07b-4714-9457-e2993841fdbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gasthomes.com/floridas-relocation-guide-to-moving/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.922201 | 383 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Montreal To Host The 150th Anniversary Of Lacrosse Celebration In 2017
Canadian Lacrosse Association – MONTREAL, QC (June 15, 2016) – The Canadian Lacrosse Foundation (CLF) is proud to announce that Montreal will host the 150th Anniversary of Lacrosse Celebration, June 16-18, 2017.
The festivities will feature a variety of educational and cultural activities for participants of all ages and will serve as a once-in-a-lifetime event to honour and celebrate the history and cultural significance of Canada’s national summer sport.
“The Canadian Lacrosse Foundation is very proud to take a leadership role in this celebration,” says Jim Burke, chairman of the Foundation. “We are excited to put together an event that will help us showcase the role that lacrosse has played in the development of our country over the past 150 years.”
In 1867, the year of Canadian confederation, the National Lacrosse Association, predecessor of today’s Canadian Lacrosse Association, was founded in Kingston, Ont., becoming the country’s first national sport governing body. During that conference, the organization also adopted its first set of written rules, which were created a few years earlier by Dr. William George Beers, a Montreal native who is generally referred to as the ‘Father of Modern Lacrosse’. This transitioned a folk-game into a formal sport.
While lacrosse had been played for hundreds of years by the First Nations, this development was one of the most important in the history of lacrosse.
Montreal, a city that played an important role in the evolution of many sports, will make an ideal host for the upcoming celebration. In addition to being the birthplace of the ‘Father of Modern Lacrosse’, Montreal has had many other significant impacts on the sport.
In 1834, a group of local businessmen brought lacrosse players from Kahnawake and Akwasasne to play exhibition games in front of spectators. This was the first known “contained” game as it was played within the boundaries of the Ville St. Pierre racetrack. As the sport grew in popularity, local clubs began competing against nearby First Nations in exhibition matches, some of which were observed by members of the Royal Family, including Prince Edward in 1860 and Prince Arthur in 1869.
Many of the 150th anniversary festivities will take place on the campus of McGill University, an area that is rich in lacrosse history. Some of the earliest lacrosse games in Montreal were played there and in 1925, it was recognized with a historical marker as the Hochelaga National Historic Site of Canada, recalling a former Iroquois village located to the left of the main entrance of the university on Sherbrooke Street.
Lacrosse has been played on the school’s campus by men since the early 1870s. The men’s varsity lacrosse team folded during World War I, however they relaunched in 2001 and have experienced tremendous success ever since, capturing the Baggataway Cup national championship in 2012 and 2015.
“This historic milestone is important not just to celebrate the 150th anniversary but also to reflect upon and to learn about lacrosse’s evolution over hundreds of years as The Creator’s Game, beginning with the Iroquois people who have lived in the Montreal area for thousands of years,” says Tim Murdoch, head coach of the McGill lacrosse team.
The celebrations will also be supported by First Peoples’ House, the Indigenous student service centre at McGill. They will be counted upon to help promote the event, recruit volunteers, and organize a marketplace for local Indigenous vendors and artists.
The 150th celebration will have several components, the most unique of which will be the presentation of re-created games that will showcase the transition of lacrosse from Traditional Game to Victorian Sport. These re-enactments, featuring authentic traditional sticks and wardrobe from that period, will help illustrate the evolution of the sport, the formalization of rules, and the various First Nations rituals that often occurred before and after games.
A series of lectures and presentations on a variety of lacrosse topics, featuring numerous authors and academics, will also be part of the event. This will be supplemented by an interactive exhibit of lacrosse artifacts and photos from the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Their travelling exhibition will highlight the history of the sport and the individuals that have helped shape the game.
“As far as we know, this will be the first time that such an exhibition of the history of lacrosse has been taken on the road,” says David Lancaster, chairman of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. “Our hope with the exhibition is that we can use the past to inspire people about lacrosse today.”
The Québec Lacrosse Federation, Kahnawake Lacrosse, and Westmount Lynx Lacrosse organizations will be running a variety of tournaments to help expose attendees to the different forms of the sport, including both field and box lacrosse.
The Canadian Lacrosse Foundation will use this event to educate people from around the world on the impact that Canada has had on the sport of lacrosse.
“Today, lacrosse is played in some 54 countries throughout the world. We hope this event will allow people to see how the game was developed over the past 150 years and how it has influenced Canada and the other lacrosse playing nations,” says Jim Burke, chairman of the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation.
Upon its creation in 1867, the National Lacrosse Association established the motto “Our Country – Our Game”.
“As Canadians, we should be proud of our national summer sport,” says Joey Harris, president of the Canadian Lacrosse Association. “In celebrating the 150th anniversary, we want to give lacrosse the exposure that it deserves so that a new generation of Canadians can grow up playing this sport that we all love so much.”
About the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation
The Canadian Lacrosse Foundation is a charitable organization established as an initiative of the Canadian Lacrosse Association to address the long term health and growth of lacrosse as Canada’s National Summer Sport. The Foundation’s prime directives are a) to advance the public understanding of the role of lacrosse in the history and cultural development of Canada; b) to educate and instruct lacrosse coaches and officials on the rules of the game and player development; c) to provide lacrosse programs to support the physical, mental and emotional well-being of aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities and troubled youth; and d) to receive or maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom, from time to time, to qualified donees under the Income Tax Act (Canada). The Foundation will accomplish this objective through the administration of an endowment fund; the capital in this fund is protected and the proceeds generated from the investments will be used to support the objectives of the Foundation. The Foundation will work towards these objectives by managing the endowment fund, by product sales and by establishing innovative programs.
For more information, please contact:
Communications and Marketing Coordinator
Canadian Lacrosse Association
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The air is a bit cooler, the light fading a bit faster, and it might seem like the time is upon us to pull up anchor. But in fact, fall on the East End is one of the most ideal times to get out on there aboard your boat and enjoy the sea, sound and surround waterways. Follow these boating safety tips to ensure a great day on the water.
Other than the colors of leaves in the trees onshore and needing to dress more warmly, what’s different about boating in the fall? Well, quite a bit, according to the BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water, especially when it comes your safety aboard.
One big issue is there are fewer boats—often the quickest pathway to a rescue—on the water, so flagging down a good Samaritan just got harder. So what’s your plan to stay safe? Here are five fall boating safety tips.
- Always leave a float plan. It could be as simple as advising a family member or friend where you’re going, what time you expect to return, and picking a time for them to act if you fail to call or text them to advise of your safe return.
- Be certain your VHF is working, and if the antenna is on a folding mount, ensure it is in the upright position before you leave the dock.
- While using a cellphone aboard your boat to summon emergency help has become common, it requires boaters to remember to ensure their phone is fully charged and remains dry. For nonemergency on-water towing and assistance, download the free BoatUS App, which connects you to the closest local TowBoatUS towing captain.
- Ensure you know where your signaling equipment is located such as handheld flares or aerial signals. They should be in good condition and not expired. Boaters often forget to ensure their boat has the required sound-producing device.
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Friday September 27, 7:30-9:30pm
Fireside Room, Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston, Palo Alto
“Power to Heal shows both the destructive legacy of racism in American health care and the potential for collective action to redress these wrongs. We should be inspired by Medicare’s role in desegregating our nation’s hospitals, and should insist on further reform…to address the systemic racism that plagues patients of color to this day.” Dr. Claudia Fegan, National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program
As we as a society continue to struggle with persistent, systemic racism and the urgent need for universal, affordable healthcare, Fourth Friday will take a close look at a little known, but remarkable connection between the two issues.
Power to Heal recounts a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
Before Medicare, disparities in access to hospital care were dramatic. Less than half the nation’s hospitals served black and white patients equally, and in the South, 1/3 of hospitals would not admit African-Americans even for emergencies.
Using the carrot of Medicare dollars, the federal government virtually ended the practice of racially segregating patients, doctors, medical staffs, blood supplies, and linens. Power to Heal illustrates how Movement leaders and grass-roots volunteers pressed and worked with the federal government to achieve a greater measure of justice and fairness for African-Americans.
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Quirky Question #286: Best Practices on Restroom Access and Terminology for Transgender Employees
Question: There has been a lot of news coverage lately on restroom policies related to transgender employees. Can you provide some guidance on how to structure our restroom-use policies to be both lawful and respectful of all employees? More generally, can you help me understand the appropriate, respectful terminology in this area? I certainly don’t want to offend anyone on purpose, and I also don’t want to do so by mistake.
Answer: by Scott Selix
You are certainly correct that there has been a lot of heated commentary and political debate surrounding this subject. Fortunately, the legal answer to your question about restroom policies is pretty well-settled. In short, if employers have bathrooms that are segregated on the basis of sex, employers should allow employees to use the restroom associated with their gender identity, and should not require employees to use the restroom associated with their sex assignment at birth.
Before we get there, though, let’s clarify some terminology. Using correct terminology is important not only to be respectful to all employees, but also because the EEOC has held that a company can be liable if a supervisor deliberately uses improper or discriminatory terminology when addressing or referring to a transgender employee. See Lusardi v. McHough, 2015 WL 1607756 (EEOC Apr. 1, 2015). “Transgender” is an umbrella term used to describe persons whose gender identity or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. GLAAD, GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Transgender Issues (2016); American Psychological Association, Answers to Your Questions about Transgender People, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression, p. 1 (2014).
The term “transgender” is an adjective and not a noun (e.g., “he is a transgender male” generally is acceptable, while “he is a transgender” or “he is transgendered” generally are not). GLAAD, GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Transgender Issues (2016). Transgender individuals may also prefer to be referred to as “transsexual” or “trans,” though “transgender” generally is the preferred term and should be used unless specified otherwise by the individual. Id. “Transvestite” and “tranny” generally are considered derogatory terms and should be avoided. Id. The terms “biological” or “genetic” also should be avoided (e.g., “she is biologically male” or “he is a genetic female”) in favor of “sex assigned at birth” (e.g., “her sex assignment at birth was male” or “he was designated female at birth”). It is also important to remember that a person’s gender identity or gender expression is not necessarily related to the person’s sexual orientation. A transgender person may be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or asexual. Id.
“Gender identity” and “gender expression” are more specific terms. “Gender identity” refers to a person’s internal sense of being male or female (or, in some instances, both or neither, to varying degrees). “Gender expression” refers to the way a person communicates gender to others, including through clothing, behavior, mannerisms, hairstyles, names, voice, or other body characteristics. It is important to remember that the subjective way in which one interprets another’s gender expression may not necessarily match the person’s gender identity. When referring to a transgender individual, always use the person’s chosen name and his/her chosen pronoun (i.e., “he” or “she”). GLAAD, GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Transgender Issues (2016). Whenever possible, ask transgender people what pronoun they would like you to use. If it is not possible to ask for a pronoun preference, use the pronoun associated with the person’s gender expression. Id. Never put quotation marks around a person’s chosen name or pronoun when writing, and don’t use “air quotes” when speaking. Id. Also, whether a person has undergone (or even begun) treatment (e.g., counseling, hormone therapy, or sex reassignment surgery) should not be a consideration in recognizing a person’s gender identity. See, e.g., Lusardi, 2015 WL 1607756, at *8; GLAAD, GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Transgender Issues (2016).
As we’ve noted in response to a previous question, Title VII generally protects transgender employees from discrimination in employment. But there are inherent privacy and safety considerations concomitant with sharing a restroom or locker room with a coworker that are not present when, for instance, sharing an office or cafeteria with a coworker, regardless of either person’s gender characteristics. Indeed, Title IX–which (like Title VII) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, but applies only to educational institutions that receive federal funding–recognizes that institutions may have “separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.” See 20 U.S.C. § 1686; 34 C.F.R. § 106.33.
Based mainly on these privacy and safety concerns, the Minnesota Supreme Court held in 2001 that an employer’s policy requiring employees to use the bathroom associated with their sex assignment at birth (which the court referred to as “biological gender”) did not run afoul of Minnesota state anti-discrimination laws. See Goins v. W. Grp., 635 N.W.2d 717 (Minn. 2001). While Goins technically remains good law in Minnesota, its holding was based entirely on state anti-discrimination laws and is no longer consistent with recent federal decisions and guidance. Because most employers have to comply with both state and federal law, you are safer – and being more respectful – following the federal rule and allowing employees to use the restroom associated with their gender identity. You should not require employees to use the restroom associated with their sex assignment at birth.
Of particular relevance is a recent decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In that case, a transgender boy (an individual designated female at birth, but who identifies and/or lives as a male) sought to use the boys’ restroom at his elementary school, which the school district initially allowed. Grimm v. Gloucester Cnty. Sch. Bd., 822 F.3d 709 (4th Cir. 2016). But after receiving numerous complaints from concerned parents, the school board held two public meetings to discuss the issue. After receiving input, the school board constructed individual, private bathrooms that all students were allowed to use, and then segregated shared restrooms based on sex assignment at birth. The student sued, arguing the school’s refusal to allow him to use the shared restroom associated with his gender identity constituted discrimination on the basis of “sex” in violation of Title IX. As noted above, Title IX allows institutions to have “separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.” Thus, the sole issue was whether “sex” as used in the exception for separate restrooms “on the basis of sex” meant (a) sex assignment at birth or (b) gender identity. In large part deferring to an interpretation from the Department of Education, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that “sex” at least included “gender identity,” such that segregating restrooms on the basis of sex assignment at birth (and thereby prohibiting transgender students from utilizing the restroom associated with their gender identity) is impermissible under Title IX. Id.
One argument the school raised in Grimm was that it needed to balance the privacy concerns of all students (including non-transgender students), and that it satisfied Title IX by providing separate, individual facilities for anyone uncomfortable using the restroom associated with their sex assignment at birth. The court rejected this argument, holding that the denial of the right to use the shared restroom associated with a person’s gender identity was discriminatory regardless of whether individual restrooms were also provided. Id.
While the Grimm decision directly applies only to educational institutions subject to Title IX, there is little doubt its logic applies to other anti-discrimination laws, including Title VII. First, Grimm’s major holding simply defined “sex,” a term that is used throughout anti-discrimination statutes. Thus, its definition of “sex” as including gender identity appears to be equally applicable to all anti-discrimination laws that reference “sex,” including Title VII. Indeed, the EEOC has stated that Title VII requires that if employers provide segregated bathrooms, employers must allow employees to use the bathroom associated with their gender identity. Lusardi v. McHough, 2015 WL 1607756 (EEOC Apr. 1, 2015). Likewise, OSHA has issued a bulletin stating that its Sanitation standard (1910.141) requires the same. See OSHA, A Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers, p. 2 (2016). The Department of Justice agrees. See DOJ Ltr. dated May 13, 2016.
Many states and territories have enacted laws or published guidance that specifically state employees must be allowed access to restrooms based on their gender identity. These states and territories include California, Colorado, Delaware, Washington D.C., Iowa, Vermont, and Washington.
As an alternative to shared restrooms, employers may wish to provide single-occupancy, gender-neutral facilities. Employers can comply with federal and state anti-discrimination laws by exclusively providing these single-occupancy facilities (i.e., by doing away with shared facilities altogether), or by providing them as an alternative to shared facilities that are segregated on the basis of gender identity. As noted above, however, providing single-occupancy facilities as an alternative to shared facilities segregated on the basis of sex assignment at birth is not permissible.
So far, cases and guidance have been very careful to limit application of these principles to shared restrooms and toilet facilities. See, e.g., Grimm, 822 F.3d at 734 (“[T]he majority . . . cabins its entire discussion to ‘restroom access by transgender individuals.’”) (dissent). The issue of segregated locker rooms and shower rooms–where privacy concerns may be even greater than for restrooms and toilets–is slightly less clear. However, the logic of Grimm and related guidance appears to apply to the same extent to these facilities. Thus, for those employers who provide locker rooms and showering facilities to employees, employers should have either (1) single-occupancy, gender-neutral facilities; (2) shared facilities segregated on the basis of gender identity; or (3) both.
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Sessional Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Written Submissions Received Volume 2 Issues associated with the progressive entry into the Northern Territory of Cane Toads October 2003
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Environment Australia Part I Written Submissions Cane Toad Inquiry Report Volume 2 108 2. institute strict quarantine measures in designated areas, e.g. islands or peninsulas, to keep them toad-free as long as possible; 3. educate people to reduce the likelihood that they will transport cane toads to new areas; 4. try to conserve breeding populations of species threatened with extinction by cane toads, through translocation or captive breeding if necessary and appropriate; 5. conduct research to obtain more information about environmental, social, cultural and economic impacts in order to guide priorities for future impact mitigation measures; and 6. increase co-ordination and momentum of research and control measures. Biological control of cane toads CSIRO was commissioned by the Commonwealth in 1990 to undertake and manage a cane toad research program. The Commonwealth provided $1.25 million over three years with some of the States contributing a further $90,000. In 1993 the Commonwealth provided additional funding of $2 million, which finished in December 1996. In 1996/1997, the first year of the Natural Heritage Trust, the Commonwealth provided $120,000 to fund the program to June 1997, to finalise some work not previously finished. Although much valuable research was undertaken in this period between 1990 and 1997, no methods were identified that would specifically target cane toads and enable broad-scale control of them in Australia. In summary, while the research identified viruses from Venezuela that would control cane toads in Australia, laboratory trials showed that the same viruses also killed native Australian frogs. In late 1998 the then Minister for the Environment, Senator the Hon Robert Hill, sought a reassessment and further national commitment to undertaking research into the biological control of cane toads. Based on this initiative a new CSIRO research project, also funded from the Natural Heritage Trust, began to investigate a mechanism to disrupt the development of tadpoles to sexual maturity. Since 2000 the Commonwealth Government has provided to CSIRO nearly $1.5 million from the Natural Heritage Trust to support that research program. The research being undertaken by CSIRO may take up to 10 years to complete and there is no guarantee that this research will result in a biological control method to control cane toads. The project is progressing well with CSIRO advising of success in isolating possible genes and viruses that could be considered for use in preventing cane toad tadpoles from developing. Further details about the project are at Attachment F. Quarantine toad-free areas Until an effective biological control of cane toads is developed, the only method of conserving an entire ecosystem from the impact of cane toads would be to exclude cane toads from the area by natural or artificial barriers and quarantine measures. This would not be economically or practically feasible on a large scale but may be warranted in specific, small areas of northern Australia, particularly those that are suitable for conservation of species most at risk from cane toads.
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More than 300 email messages sent and received by Hillary Clinton on a private server housed in her New York home have been turned over to various intelligence agencies to determine if they could contain classified information.
Officials conducting a review of the emails Clinton turned over to the State Department, said 5 percent of the messages reviewed so far -- 1,500 documents -- contain possible secret information. The messages will be analyzed to determine if they can be released per an existing schedule set up to make the emails concerning unclassified State Department business public.
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According to an Associated Press story, of the more than 3,000 emails released so far, 63 that previously were unclassified have now been classified and censored.
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The annual inflation rate in Hungary picked up to 13.7% in July of 2022 from 11.7% in the previous month, surpassing market expectations of 13.1%. It was the highest inflation rate since July of 1998 and well above the central bank’s target ceiling of 4%. Upward pressure came mostly from prices of food & non-alcoholic beverages (28.8% vs 23.1% in June); alcoholic beverages & tobacco (11.1% vs 6.9%); furnishings & household maintenance (14.9% vs 13.8%) and restaurants & hotels (18.4% vs 17%). The annual core inflation rate rose to a 25-year high of 16.7%, above market forecasts of 14.8%. On a monthly basis, consumer prices inched up by 2.3%, compared to a 1.5% advance in the prior month. source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office
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List Views, a feature available in the Dashboard, provide a powerful way to view the data stored in your Slates. We’ve given you a lot of flexibility when designing your slates, and List Views come with customizability as well.
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- For Number and Date fields, you can configure Less Than, Less Than or Equal To, Greater Than, and Greater Than Or Equal rules, allowing you to create ranges of acceptable values for a slate to be included in your view.
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How to create a live system to work on the documentation¶
There are several ways how to setup your development environment, here are the currently used once by the testing team:
For now here is the link to Trevor's vagrant box setup, this might be merged here in the future!
- Make sure the Windows Subsystem for Linux is enabled on your machine
- Download the Cloud image
- Get the actual disk out of the image (extract rocky-8.5-docker.tar)
wsl --import <machine-name> <path-to-vm-dir> <path-to/rocky-8.5-docker.tar> --version 2to create the machine
wsl -d <machine-name>to initially login to the machine
dnf -y updateto update the system
dnf -y install git python39-pipto install Python 3.9 and pip
python3.9 -m pip install -U pipto update pip
- Clone the repo
git clone <path-to-git-project>
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- Sometimes you will need to switch the branch here
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python3.9 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
- If you just want to look at the output run
mkdocs serve 2>&1 | tee ./mkdocs.serve.log
To develop then, the easiest way is to use VS Code with the Remote - WSL, where you have to open the repo in the container (click on the Remote symbol on the lower left, 'Open folder in WSL...').
And finally run
mkdocs serve 2>&1 | tee ./mkdocs.serve.log in the terminal of this VS Code session. Then you are ready to start changing stuff!
From the root of this repository on a machine with Docker installed, run
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WordPress is one of the most popular content management system available today and undoubtedly the best. It is overtaken all other CMSs in terms of usage.
More than 60% CMS based websites are using WordPress. Here are some of the points that has made WordPress so popular.
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Inequalities in health between social groups have long been a dominant feature of British Society. Evidence suggests that people in the lower social scale suffer from ill health more than the middle and upper classes. This essay aims to address the reasons for this trend by primarily looking at evidence found in the Black Report, Acheson Report and the Marmot Review and by evaluating the explanations given to support the evidence.The concept of social class is wide ranging – people can move between classes or have character/ occupational traits that cross more than one class.
(Giddens, 2001: p282) described Social Class as ‘A large scale grouping of people who share common resources which strongly influence the type of lifestyle they are able to lead. ’ Government statisticians have measured Social Class using the ‘Registrar General’s Social Class’ (RGSC) scale.First used in Britain in 1911, the census divided people into six social classes based on the occupation of the head of household; Men were allocated on basis of their occupation, Married/cohabiting women on basis of their partner’s occupation, Children on basis of their father’s occupation and Single women on basis of their own occupation. Following the 2001 census the scale used to measure class changed to the ‘National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC)’.The change of scale reflected the changing nature of occupations, the growth of middle class professions, the levels of social esteem that these jobs attracted and it ranked the occupations according to the level of responsibility that the job entailed. The Black Report published in 1980 was a report commissioned by the Labour Government. It used the Registrar General scale as follows; I) Professional II) Managerial/Technical III (NM) Skilled (non-manual) III(M) Skilled (manual) IV) Partly Skilled V) Unskilled VI) OtherTo show the health inequalities of people in Social Class V compared to those in Social Class I.
It demonstrated that although the health of the nation had improved since the introduction of the Welfare state, there were still large divides between the social classes, with the people in social class V suffering more from poor health. It is evident from the life expectancy rates that people in Social Class V live shorter lives than that of people higher social classes. The Black Report revealed that class differences are found at birth, childhood, adolescence and in adult life.Average life expectancy is a useful summary of the impact of disadvantages and advantages on a person’s life due to their class. In 1980 a child born to parents in social classes I – II will live on average five years longer than a child born into social classes IV – V. The risk of death during birth and the first month of life in class V was double the risk in class I. In 1977 Babies born into class III(M) had one and a half times more risk of mortality than babies born from parents in social class I and for every one male infant death in class I there were almost two deaths in class III(M) and four deaths in class V (Table 2).
There were more cases of children dying with diseases of the respiratory system and infective parasitic diseases in the lower social classes. See Graph 3 . Adult males and females in class V had one and a half to two times the risk of death than those of the same age group in social class I. From the sample range of 15-64 years from when the Black report was compiled, people in the earlier ages had the greatest mortality rate within the different classes as Table 4 indicates.The premature deaths in Britain was systematically linked to socio-economic class, it was a trend that was not new or unusual when the report was commissioned and is still a factor in today’s society. The Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report (also known as the Acheson Report), was a report published in 1998 by the Labour Government. The Acheson Report reiterated the evidence found in its predecessor the Black Report, that there are considerable disparities between health and the social classes.
The Acheson report also used the Registrar General Scale to support its findings, although the report did take note of the level of education, the residential area and the ability to own assets as a factor of defining social class. The Acheson report found that death rates had fallen between the years 1978-1998, but the differences among the top and bottom scale had widened. For People in the lower social classes, mortality rates were three times higher in 1990’s than they were in the 1970’s. See table 5. This is due to a significant decline in the higher social classes mortality rate than in the lower classes.Premature Mortality (death before the age of 65) was considerably higher for those in social class V, Heart Disease was the prominent reason for premature death. See table 6.
A link to such a large percentage of people dying due to heart disease could be linked to the problem of obesity within the lower classes. Although life expectancy had risen and people were living longer, they were not necessarily living healthier lives. In 2010 the Government ordered ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ (The Marmot Review) The report used the NS-SEC method of gauging social class.In England the report discovered that people living in the poorest areas were on average more likely to die seven years younger than those living in the wealthier neighbourhoods. See graph seven. More worryingly the report found that there is still a problem that was addressed in the Acheson report 13 years previously – that people in the lower social classes and living in poor areas have a greater level of living a life with a disability, some 17 years more than in the wealthier classes and regions.To summarise, people not only die sooner in the lower classes, they also spend their shorter life with a disability.
The Marmot Review explained the disparity as ‘Differences in health do not arise by chance, and they cannot be attributed simply to genetic makeup, ‘bad’ behaviour, or difficulties in access to medical care, important as these factors may be. Social and economic differences in health status reflect, and are caused by, social and economic inequalities in society.The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), set up by the World Health Organisation, concluded that social inequalities in health arise because of inequalities in the conditions of daily life – the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age – and the fundamental drivers that give rise to them: inequities in power, money and resources. There are four main explanations as to why socio economic status affects health so greatly. One reason is Measuring Artefact (Townsend and Davidson, 1982: 154) both class and health are artefacts of the measuring process, and ny observed relationship must also be an artefact. Variations in diagnosis, certification, classification and coding processes have been identified as contributing to observed health relationships (Bloor et al. , 1987).
Class related health differences are merely the result of the biases involved in the measurement and recording of the data obtained in the reports. Further reports such as the Acheson Report have rejected this explanation as the evidence was deemed to be consistent and used long ranging data to back up the claims made. Another explanation is the Natural / Social Selection.This perspective argues that health status can influence social position. It is suggested that those who are healthy are more likely to be upwardly mobile and those who are unhealthy are more likely to drift into the lower social classes (Nettleton 2006, p182) In other words it’s ill health that causes people to lead a life of poverty – people cannot hold down a full time job if they have a chronic medical condition that leads to them needing to take time off work sick, therefore it’s not poverty itself that’s the cause of a person’s ill health, rather ill health causing poverty.However, most health problems emerge when people enter adulthood often after commencing full time education and career choices have been made making this hypothesis less likely. Cultural explanations suggest that the lower social classes prefer a less healthy lifestyle.
(Nettleton 2006, p 183)They eat more foods that are high in fat, smoke more and take less exercise than the upper and middle classes. (Our Healthier nation, 1998) commented that a sense of control over life and having optimism for the future is good for health.However people in the lower classes may have an underdeveloped locus of self control; their fate starts and ends with the life chances they were born with. ‘Those who are more deprived in society will, because of their position relative to others, experience more depression and anxiety which, in turn, may be associated with lower levels of well being and poorer health (Graham. E, et al 2000, p 177). Leading to a feeling of hopelessness at the hand they were dealt with in life, low income, deprivation and social exclusion all influence smoking levels.It’s harder to stop smoking when worrying about making ends meet (Our Healthier Nation, 1998, p 16) this creates a self fulfilling prophecy which in turns leads to a life of deprivation and ill health.
The Materialistic explanation blames living in poverty as the reason for ill health. ‘Those on low incomes, live in poorer housing conditions, in more polluted areas with fewer facilities, can afford less of many of the more palatable forms of healthy food and are often employed in the most heavy and hazardous industries (Blane et al. 998). Poor housing conditions, lack of resources, higher risk occupations, limited access to transport links all impact negatively on health. Although this reason isn’t the answer for all the ill health in society (some conditions are more prevalent in the upper classes, such as prostate cancer) there is little dispute that the poorest regions of Britain have the worst cases of ill health and mortality. It is evident that Social class is made up of variables, such as; occupation, education, social status, background and wealth.Each person in society has their own history and it would be naive and stereotypical to say that every person in a lower social class smokes, eats badly and doesn’t take any exercise.
Similarly, not every person in the upper classes lives a life without becoming ill at any time. All of these factors can influence a person’s health and lifestyle choices. It is hard to over look the evidence, coupled with the material explanation, that people will have a shorter life, more prone to ill health than that of the wealthier, elevated social classes. | <urn:uuid:ead8341d-069b-4753-a113-ab0d9968bba8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://successessays.com/nursing-sociology-how-class-affects-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96355 | 2,170 | 3.53125 | 4 |
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