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Discussion of a master's thesis in the College of Computer Science and Mathematics
Discussion of a master's thesis in the College of Computer Science and Mathematics - Software Department entitled (Techniques for discovering copies of program codes)
On Monday, the College of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Mosul, a master's thesis (Techniques for Detecting Copying Program Codes) was discussed by the student Yasser Muhammad Khazal, under the supervision of Prof. Dr.. Asma Yassin Hammou
The letter presented by the student, Arif, dealt with the types of copies that occur in the programs and the techniques available for its detection, as well as the steps of the process of detecting copies according to the technology used.
The study dealt with the use of text-based and token-based techniques in detecting the types of structural transcription (exact transcription, transcription with renaming), and the use of a hybrid method to detect the third type of transcription (modified transcription). ).
The study aims to design and implement a tool to detect cloned codes in building smart phone applications written in the Dart language, which has become widespread in recent times by using the Flutter Framework, as it is used to build smart phone applications for the Android operating system and IOS operating system with the same code.
The discussion committee was chaired by Prof. Dajan Bashir Taha and A.M. Dr.. Zaki Ablahad (Member) and Prof. Dr. Nektel Moayed Idan (Member) and Prof. M. Dr.. Asmaa Yassin Hammou (Member and Supervisor) | <urn:uuid:03e98601-1102-4b4d-b060-56af07b1727d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uomosul.edu.iq/news/en/computerScience/85721 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.924913 | 328 | 1.648438 | 2 |
One of the most controversial issues in the United States is over Medical Marijuana.
Many experiments test the validity of the drug as a medicine, and results of these experiments receive much praise but also some critique. The DEA and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) are battling over the issue. The underlying matter that cannot be ignored is that marijuana proves to be a useful medication for many patients, especially those with wasting diseases such as AIDS and cancer. In 1996 California passed Proposition 215, which allowed the use of medical marijuana (4444).
Since then, six other states have made medical marijuana legal; Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, and Washington. Santa Cruz in California has gone even further, “allowing the medical use of marijuana with a doctor’s note certifying that the patient has a condition for which marijuana is considered helpful, including AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, anorexia, chronic pain, arthritis, and spastic diseases (22222). ” Santa Cruz law allows growing marijuana so it may be sold for the cost of production. This way, medical users do not have to resort to buying at street prices.
The government made it a requirement that all medical studies on marijuana be paid for by scarce grant money from the National Institute of Health (NIH). In recent years, scientists have tried to persuade the NIH to grant them money for medical studies on marijuana, only to be turned down. Only three studies have been approved by the NIH. On May 22, 1999 the Clinton Administration loosened that restriction, allowing researchers to buy Government-grown marijuana for their research, as long as they can fund themselves. Chuck Blanchard, who is the chief counsel for McCaffrey (director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy) says, “Before, the problem was if you wanted marijuana, you had to not only show that it was high-quality research, you had to show that it was more important than other competing applications for NIH funding. Now, as long as you are willing to show that it is high-quality research and also provide your own funding, you can have access to medical marijuana (66666)”.
The decision of the Clinton Administration came two months after a government-sponsored study concluded that “the active ingredients in marijuana, called cannabinoids, appeared useful for treating pain, nausea, and severe weight loss in AIDS patients (666666). ” No evidence of marijuana being a “gateway drug” was found. The study also came up with some surprising results. It found that treating glaucoma through marijuana was not as useful as we thought. The drug does reduce eye pressure, but the effects are short-lived. The same study found that marijuana was effective in relieving muscle spasms due to multiple sclerosis (888888).
At the 13th International AIDS Conference on July 13, 2000, Dr. Donald Abrams of the University of California released the results of the $1 million study of marijuana on AIDS patients. Abram’s concern was “to determine whether the chemical components of marijuana in any way interfered with the body’s ability to break down components of protease inhibitors”. Protease inhibitors are relatively new antiviral drugs that help HIV patients retain a healthy immune system. Abram found that there was no interference between marijuana and the protease inhibitors in any of the 62 patients.
Also, Abram’s experiment found that marijuana increased the appetite of the HIV patients. The patients who smoked marijuana (three times a day for 21 days) gained an average of 7. 7 pounds, while patients who took Marinol (pill containing active ingredients of marijuana including THC) gained an average of 7 pounds. After the experiment, Dr. Abrams said, “It’s exciting.
It’s historic. It confirms that all the states that have allowed patients to use medical marijuana have not made a serious mistake. ” SABIN Other studies have found that marijuana indeed has medicinal value, as well as some risk. “The US National Institutes of Health and an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences have concluded that the active ingredients in marijuana can ease the pain, nausea, and vomiting of cancer and AIDS. It also is prescribed for certain glaucoma patients (555555).” The NIH, the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, and San Mateo County will all be sponsoring future . | <urn:uuid:1c303f1c-af53-4058-9761-ebce0d818fca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artscolumbia.org/medical-marijuana-essay-3-111069/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961508 | 911 | 2.5 | 2 |
Nov 07, 2015
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What is My DNS Server? 4 Methods to check DNS Server IP
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DNS Servers: What Are They and Why Are They Used?
How Do I Find The DNS Provider Of My Domain? - Intermedia Sep 28, 2018 How to find DNS address of website - Windows Command Line Do you need to find DNS address of a website from command prompt? Learn how to use Windows command nslookup to find DNS addresses. Run below command to find DNS address. nslookup DomainName An example command below that finds DNS address for this website. C:\>nslookup www.windows-commandline.com Server: UnKnown Addr How to View DNS Cache and Flush DNS Cache in Windows 10 Nov 08, 2017 | <urn:uuid:508ddf96-e379-4eb6-8f09-aee9c332d2a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://torrenthqqkj.netlify.app/nigg13850la/how-do-you-find-the-dns-server-tuh.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.874844 | 328 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Louisiana and the First Amendment
April 17, 2014 § 12 Comments
It seems that the Louisiana House of Representatives is poised to vote on a measure that would designate the Holy Bible as the “official state book” of Louisiana. Technically, this would have as much weight as the designation of the brown pelican as the official state bird of Louisiana. But, in practice, this would pack a major wallop.
But is it legal? The First Amendment of the Constitution states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And while this refers specifically to the United States Congress, the Constitution of the United States applies to the states and local governments as well (similarly, the constitutions of the various states can impact upon federal law and practices). In other words, the designation of the Holy Bible as the Official State Book of Louisiana appears to violate the part of the First Amendment that reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” in that it appears to give preferential treatment to Christianity over all other religions.
Louisiana is an overwhelmingly Christian state insofar as religious identification goes. Somewhere around 90% of the state’s population identifies as Christian. The next religious identification is no religion, at 8%, while Muslims, Buddhists, and Jews are all less than 1% of Louisiana’s population. So clearly Louisiana is a Christian state in practice. But, I’m not entirely sure it can identify as such officially.
Before someone gives me hell for saying that opposition to the Bible being designated the official book of Louisiana tramples religious freedoms, it doesn’t. That’s not how “the free exercise” of religion works under the Constitution. The free exercise of religion does not grant the right to trample upon others’ rights, nor does it allow for official religions. The First Amendment simply states that the state itself cannot impede on the free practice of religion. However, the courts maintain the right to mediate what religion actually is and how it might be practiced.
The measure has yet to pass the House of Representatives, let alone the state Senate, though I’m sure Governor Bobby Jindal would sign it into law. IF that were to happen, it will be interesting to see what comes next, whether the ACLU or any other organisation would threaten legal action. And if it were to get as far as the Supreme Court, even with the court’s recent right turn (the Roberts court has been remarkably centrist), I don’t see how it could uphold such a move by the Louisiana state government.
I find this larger discussion of the Constitution interesting given my new research project, which examines the role of history and memory in far right political circles in the United States. Central to this project is an understanding of the Constitution, as well as the intentions of the men who wrote it in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and its subsequent implementation, practice, and interpretation since. | <urn:uuid:0bcd5d2d-bf79-4fa9-97dd-acb2e1cfce1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://matthewbarlow.net/2014/04/17/louisiana-and-the-first-amendment/?replytocom=1105 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954854 | 650 | 2.125 | 2 |
What is the Ohio History Center? If you are looking for a complex answer, you will not find one here. The answer is that the Ohio History Center is the U.S. state of Ohio connecting the present day to the past. Yes, the answer is that simple. If you are still confused, you can visit the Ohio History Center and see for yourself. It consists of the museum that displays the history of Ohio and the Ohio Village which is a living history village that takes you back in time to the Ohio of yesteryear. History comes to life at the Ohio History Center.
Some of you are saying, “Wow! This looks like a very fascinating place. This place is about the history of Ohio, but there is a problem. There are no railroads here. Therefore, I will be making no history with this place.”
The place is called the Ohio History Center. It is a place of history that leaves no stone unturned. That includes the history of the railroad.
As mentioned, the Ohio History Center consists of a museum and an outdoor living history village.
Let us begin with the museum. As mentioned, it displays the history of Ohio. One of the exhibits is ‘Ohio Through Time’. Here, you will find many displays to include models of trains. One of them is a carved wooden model of ‘The General’, a famous locomotive used during the American Civil War which was also made into a movie. Other models include the ‘Dewitt Clinton’ and, of course, the ‘Buckeye’. If you make your way to the Ohio Village you will pass by a streetcar.
As you enter the Ohio Village, the first thing you will see is the caboose from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The caboose is only on display and not open to see the interior. The other thing you will see is an old train depot. It is also not open to the public and is currently used as an entryway to the village from the parking area.
Along with the village and museum, you can also make an appointment to visit the library which has a vast collection of books on history to include the history of railroads.
Now, what was it about you saying that you were not going to visit the Ohio History Center because there are no railroads there? You officially have a reason to visit the Ohio History Center. By the way, you do not have to be a resident of Ohio to enjoy the Ohio History Center.
The Ohio History Center is located at e. 17th Street in Columbus, Ohio. It is just off Interstate 71 north of downtown, and, for you Ohio State University fans, it is right next to MAPFRE Stadium. Parking is on site, and both the museum and village are handicap accessible. You can get more information at https://www.ohiohistory.org/, and you can also check out the other historic sites across the state of Ohio. | <urn:uuid:046c5f56-07fd-40d2-b57f-962ba8844159> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johncowgillstoriesoftherailroad.com/2020/07/30/the-ohio-history-center-columbus-ohio/?like_comment=799&_wpnonce=6327574a48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97149 | 613 | 3 | 3 |
Why data management is now top priority for businesses
04 April 2017
New research reveals that nearly half of UK companies are not compliant with the 1998 Data Protection Act, let alone being anywhere near ready for the introduction of GDPR next year.
This latest study comes in the wake of two large brands being fined by the ICO for contacting customers that were off limits.
Flybe was found to have sent more that 3.3 million emails to people that had opted out of communications asking them if their details were correct. The airline was fined £70,000 for breaching Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
And Honda was found to have sent almost 300,000 to customers asking them for permission to contact them. They were fined £13,000.
Both organisations were prospecting for future consent (probably in advance of GDPR) but by doing so contravened the PECR. What this shows is that the ICO is taking a hard stance on compliance and organisations will have to put more emphasis on their data management and processing, including permissions, storage and suppressions. We have recently been in contact with the ICO to clarify the role of suppression in GDPR and will be able to advise on this in due course. | <urn:uuid:9e93d1ff-5c1b-4d4f-9019-b251d182ce82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mortascreen.com/news/why-data-management-is-now-top-priority-for-businesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984834 | 250 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Are you a dedicated lover of coffee, just like me? Then you will know the struggle of choosing one between iced latte vs. iced coffee.
For someone who doesn’t drink much coffee, it might seem trivial. But for a person who loves to drink coffee, the difference matters a lot.
It’s a constant struggle for me to choose one when I go to a café. Now, the struggle gets easier when you learn the differences between both of them. They are hard to pick up, so stay focused as I take you through them.
What Is An Iced Latte?
Before we get into the differences let’s learn their individuality first. So, what is an iced latte?
A latte is the type of coffee that uses an espresso coffee shot with some steamed milk and a topping of foam.
Now, if you prefer to have flavor then you can add some vanilla or mocha in there.
When you add some ice into the usual latte you get an iced latte. That’s pretty much it.
- Ingredients Amount
In a typical latte, you will find around 175ml to 240ml steamed milk for every espresso shot.
This means if you are using two shots of espresso you have to double the milk amount. W
whether you choose the lower number or higher number depends on your taste.
A usual cup of latte would have two espresso shots in them. That’s how they go in the coffee shops. Just remember espresso shot is the main ingredient for any coffee you make.
And the specialty of latte is the steamed milk and foam toppings.
- How Is The Taste?
Taking a sip of iced latte coffee is unlike anything else. The espresso shot in the latte will give a caffeine kick.
The steamed milk brings out the sweet and creamy texture of the coffee. And the foam on the topping just binds both the tastes together and takes it to another level.
What Is An Iced Coffee?
To put it simply, an iced coffee is just coffee made with water and some added ice. Keep in mind that the coffee here is normal brewed coffee. There is no specialized coffee for this purpose.
- Ingredients Amount
What makes a good iced coffee? The first thing to make sure is you are brewing a strong coffee.
You will need to brew something stronger than a regular cup of coffee for your iced coffee.
Because apart from the water there is added ice which eventually adds up more water in the coffee.
- How Does It Taste?
The reason you are going for an iced coffee rather than a regular coffee is the coldness of ice. When you take a sip, it might come as a surprise but iced coffee tends to be stronger than regular coffee.
While you might not notice that instantly, it’s something that will surely catch you off guard when you drink both regularly.
Differences Between Iced Coffee And Iced Latte
There are a lot of differences between an iced coffee and an iced latte. You will need different ingredients, different tastes, a different method of making.
I will start with how you can make iced coffee and iced latte. This way you can try them out and learn the differences in yourself. Let’s get going then.
- How To Make An Iced Latte?
I don’t know if there is any universal way of making a latte. I will be sharing my recipe and the way I learned it.
I have tried enough latte from different cafes and the taste is pretty similar to that. So, you can rest assured of this recipe.
- I start off making an iced latte with some ice on the glass. This way it doesn’t get messy while making the coffee. You can add them later if you want.
- Then, you have to take two shots of espresso. Now, keep in mind that this is for a general serving of a coffee mug. Also, I like to drink strong coffee. You can try it out with a single shot of espresso. But make sure it’s espresso and not any other coffee.
- After that take some milk and pour them into the glass. Use the amount I described earlier in this article. Also, add some sugar according to your taste. This is optional. If you don’t want sugar you can avoid it.
- If you have a shaker to shake the coffee then use it. It blends all the ingredients properly and gives it an enriched taste. Once you get that out of the shaker you will see a foamy topping in your coffee. That’s when you know your iced latte is ready.
- Now, pour the coffee in a glass and serve it to yourself.
Following this procedure properly will give you a perfect cup of latte. What does it taste like? With perfection, you can get a bit of caramel-like taste from your iced latte. Watch this video to learn how to make it.
- How To Make An Iced Coffee?
The typical coffee recipe is pouring the ingredients into a cup and mix them. However, that doesn’t help you in any way, right? So, just follow along with my way of making the tastiest iced coffee.
- The core ingredient of iced coffee is strongly brewed coffee. You have to brew a stronger coffee than your regular coffee for a perfect iced coffee.
- Now for the brew, you can either go for a regular brew or cold brew. That’s up to you. If you want a strong caffeine kick from your coffee then cold brew is the way to go.
- After brewing the coffee, you can add some water or some milk if you want. You can also add cream to your liking. These are required for the taste and form of the coffee.
- Finally, end things up with some ice cubes on the glass.
Now, watch this short video to see how to prepare it.
This whole coffee can become an energizing drink for you. As you get a kick of the caffeine with some added punch from the ice. It’s refreshing and energizing in the summer.
Now, aside from the different methods, there is some difference you can notice in them.
- The Ingredients
One of the core differences is the ingredients you use in both these coffees. For a perfect latte, you have to use espresso shots.
Otherwise, you can’t even call it a latte. Whereas for an iced coffee you just need to use regular brewed coffee. This works for both regular brew and cold brew.
Coming to the other ingredients, you will need to have some steamed milk in a latte. That is another component that makes latte the coffee it is.
So, there is no ignoring that. On the other hand, steamed milk isn’t compulsory in an iced coffee. You can use any liquid like water or cream or any form of milk.
Another aspect of the latte is the foam. You can’t call it a complete latte if there is no foamy texture on it. The combination of an espresso shot, steamed milk, and foam is what latte is about.
Whereas, for an iced coffee, you don’t need to have any of that. Just regular coffee brew made with ice can be an iced coffee.
- Ease Of Preparation
It might be hard to digest but making a latte is much easier than making iced coffee. The reason is you don’t have to do any brewing for a latte.
You can take some espresso shots, add milk, sugar, and ice that’s it you have made a perfect iced latte.
On the other hand, you have to brew your coffee beans for a perfect iced coffee. It will take some time away from your day.
Especially, if you are someone lazy like I am, you would probably prefer a cup of iced latte over an iced coffee.
- Taste And Effect
Here, it’s mostly about the caffeine effect for each coffee. On paper, espresso shots have more caffeine than regular brewed coffee. And if you are making the same amount then a latte might be stronger.
However, that depends on what kind of coffee beans you are using. Depending on that the strongness of your coffee will change. Sometimes a latte can feel strong and sometimes an iced coffee will feel more caffeinated.
- Required Time To Make
It might seem like none of them needs too much time to prepare. But that’s only true for the latte. If you want to enjoy a perfect glass of iced coffee you will need to put 7 to 8 hours into them. Shocking, right?
Well, I was shocked too when I found this out.
So, the reason for this is that it can take up to 8 hours for a regular coffee to blend in properly. Only then you can get the true taste of coffee. Whereas for the true latte experience you can spend some minutes on it.
Well, now you know the differences between iced latte vs. iced coffee. As you can tell by them if you are a coffee freak you would love to try both.
For a stronger taste, you can go for a latte but that comes with some added fat too. And for a less caffeine experience, you can brew some coffee and make an iced coffee for yourself.
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The college of Architecture and Design published this newsletter, entitled Perspective, in Fall of 2005. It includes the announcement of John McRae’s appointment as Dean of the College and an obituary for professor Marian Moffett in addition to information about UT's hosting of the Southern Architecture Conference, faculty activities, student work, alumni news, and other topics.
The college of Architecture and Design published this newsletter, entitled Perspective, in Fall of 2001. It includes an announcement of Professor Stroud Watson's receipt of the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture and articles on the Studio in Sustainability, national awards won by students, and faculty research.
The Illustrations for White of McKim, Mead, and White collection spans the years 1764 to 1976 with the bulk of the material from 1890 to 1906. The collection consists of photographs and illustrations collected by former University of Tennessee Architecture professor Lawrence Wodehouse for his 1988 publication, White of McKim, Mead, and White.
University of Tennessee Architecture students created this handbook to document their proposals to fill the gaps in city structures created during city development that they observed during a 1990 trip to Poland. The handbook includes a summary of student experiences, group schedules, design drawings and blueprints, photographs, and statements from students about their purpose and method.
This collection houses official records and other materials documenting the University of Tennessee's School of Architecture between 1967 and 1991.
This collection houses a report written by the Dean of the School of Architecture in 1969 and an Alumni Directory published in 1981.
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FeGoo and Sustainable Travel
One of many things that made us set up FeGoo was the years of travel we have under our belts and the impact that it causes to the land, air and people. The world is massive place with so many great places to explore, but we should all travel a bit more sustainably. One small change is one step in the right direction and if millions of people took just one step the impact will be huge!
What is sustainable travel?
The World Tourism Organization defines sustainable tourism as “development [which] meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunity for the future. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social, and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity, and life support system.”
Other buzz words are responsible travel, eco-tourism and green travel. These terms, along with sustainable travel encompass the idea of being more conscious of how we travel. They seek to minimise negative impacts on the environment and aim to have a positive impact for local communities and economies.
Here are a few ways you can travel more sustainably :
• Start at home– before leaving on your next adventure think about what you are packing and taking with you, especially in your wash kit.
All of our body care products are made using natural, organic ingredients and have been designed to have minimum impact on the environment.
• Buy local– When travelling, it can be tempting to find and go to shops or restaurants that remind us of home (McDonalds, Costa, Subway just to name a few). While there is nothing wrong with this, I’m sure you didn’t travel half way across the world to eat and buy the exact same stuff you can get back home. Where is the adventure in that?
We travel to explore and discover exciting new things, so get out there and do just that. Support local souvenir shops, eat where the locals go and try a new dish. The best part is that by doing this, you are not only supporting sustainable travel but by avoiding tourist hotspots, your wallet will be a lot fuller, helping you to stretch your dollar even further.
• Think before you haggle– It can be tempting to haggle at the local markets and is the culture in places like South East Asia, it’s important to keep the bigger picture in mind and ask yourself, if saving that extra bit of cash is worth it. That 40 Thai Baht (£1) might not be a lot for you, but it could mean a meal for that person’s family. You had enough to hop on a plane, book a hotel and come over with spending money, who really needs that little bit of money more?
• Minimise your footprint– Think twice about accepting that plastic bag while overseas. Why? In developing countries, waste management is a major problem and we can unwittingly contribute towards it. The locals may not understand the impact that waste has on their environment or have effective waste removal set up in their communities.
• Stay in locally owned accommodation– Opting to stay in locally owned accommodation, which can include guesthouses, B&B’s, Airbnb’s or you could even couch surf. Doing this you are helping support local business and helping boost their local enconomy, rather than going to a foreign owned hotel or resort company.
• Don’t Give to beggars– This is a tough one because seeing a child or even an adult beg on the streets pulls on any decent person’s heart strings. However, part of travelling responsibly is keeping in mind that some are doing it because it is easy money and that there are children being taken out of school and forced to beg on the streets (remember Slum Dog Millionaire). Obviously, this is not the case for everyone, but if you want to help out, buy the person food or something to drink instead.
• Use Public Transport– Making use of public transport is a way you can reduce your carbon emissions footprint. Instead of a taking a taxi, grab a bus ticket and travel with the locals. It’s a great way to see the place you are staying in and keep your budget healthy. Alternatively you could hire a bike and start exploring.
• Final Point, Travel with a SMILE and spread the GOOD VIBES – You are a tourist after all in their country, smiling is free and when you smile at others, it gives them a boost of happiness! It will change the way they perceive you and you may even make their day just from a smile.
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A man who built a home in a part of Nut Glen above Ramsey has no right to live there and must leave, a court has ruled.
Daniel Richardson, who has lived in the woodland for over two years, has cleaned up the area, grown his own food and lived off river water, was accused of trespassing by the gov.
The case, to determine who owned the land, was heard by Deemster John Needham on September 29. Deemster Needham ruled that Mr Richardson has no right to live on the land and has given him three months to leave.
Mr Richardson argued that the land which his home was built on was not owned by anybody. During the case, he pointed to confusion between a landowner Mr Holland and DEFA as to who owned what parts of the glen. In building his home, Mr Richardson built on land which he believed to be ‘no man’s land’.
In his judgement, Deemster Needham said that, in defence of Mr Richardson, ‘prior to the involvement of the experts [heard from in the case] no one was sure of the exact position of the boundary’.
Against this, DEFA, using a variety of old maps, deeds and digital mapping, set out to prove that the department did indeed own the land which is directly next to Mr Holland’s land, thereby removing any argument that Mr Richardson had built his home on a ‘no man’s land’.
Ultimately Deemster Needham ruled that the land is in the possession of the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture and rejected any defence based on adverse possession.
He added: ‘I find that Mr Richardson has no valid defence to the Department’s claim and I issue a possession order. As to the enforcement of such an order, I shall hear further submissions. One must balance the difficulties of this being Mr Richardson’s home against the length of time of this trespass and the rights of the landowner. Without fettering my discretion I can indicate that, perhaps erring on the more generous side to Mr Richardson who will find it hard to reconcile himself with the requirement to move from this lovely Glen that he has tended, a period of about three months is reasonable in the circumstances but I keep an open mind in that regard.’
Deemster Needham also praised Mr Richardson for his work in improving the environment where he was living, his work in putting together and for the way he argued his case before the court.
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Lou Gehrig provided plenty of offense while Lefty Gomez usually set down the opposition for the New York Yankees. The Hall of Famers were teammates from 1930 until Gehrig was forced out of action.This Official American League (Harridge) baseball is signed by both pinstriped heroes. Normally Babe Ruth pushed Gehrig to a side panel as the Bambino always received sweet spot status.
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They’re cute; they’re cuddly; and they are almost impossible to control. Welcome to the wonderful world of raising a toddler!
After turning into cheeky, demanding, stubborn mini-versions of yourself, they know exactly how to push your buttons. But aside from the unexpected meltdowns, they also make every day a challenging, fun, exciting adventure.
So how can you not only survive life with a toddler, but relish it? We have no idea! But these tongue-in-cheek tips may help point you in the right direction:
1. Start as you mean to continue
When you wake up in the morning, dump out every single item in your closet and throw everything around the house. That way any mess your toddler makes through the day – and there will be plenty of mess! – will only be minor in comparison to yours.
2. N-O spells NO
Explore the various ways to say ‘no’. That way you won’t feel like you are repeating yourself all day. The next time your toddler asks for chocolate for breakfast or tries to dip dolly into the food colouring, try:
- Not at this stage
- Forget it
- Thumbs down
3. Batten down the hatches
There’s a whirlwind on legs coming down the hallway so hide the baby powder. Hide the baby oil. And most especially, hide the nappy cream.
4. Make plans
Make an appointment for the middle of the day. That way, you can be sure your child falls asleep in the car two minutes before you arrive at your destination.
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5. Change your name to ‘Dad’
And let your partner know that he is now known as ‘Mum.’ This will reduce your stress levels immensely.
6. Don’t sacrifice your me-time
Plan all beauty routines, showers and toilet needs for 3am. Enjoy this alone time because it’s all you’re going to get.
7. Beat them at their own game
Check out these 5 ways to handle toddler tantrums for some great ideas on dealing with the dreaded public meltdowns. And if all else fails, hiding under a box until they stop screaming always works too.
8. Start the bedtime routine at 3pm
Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is a little premature. If you start at 3pm, you will have some hope of getting them into bed by 7pm.
9. Lower your expectations
Sure, the house is a disaster, the laundry has been in the washing machine since 7am, there are broken crayons mashed into the carpet and your toddler is currently going through your makeup bag, but, hey, everyone is alive. Everyone is happy. You did your job.
This post was first published on 23 April 2015.
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Have you ever wondered what your net worth is? Net worth is not a figure that arises in day-to-day decision-making, but being aware of how much you are worth is essential to your long-term financial health. Here’s an overview of what goes into figuring out your net worth.
Net worth means the value of all your assets minus all your liabilities. You can find net worth calculators online that help you remember what to include in the calculation and then do the math for you, or you can sign up for a service like Personal Capital that will help you track all of your financial accounts.
Assets include all the valuable things you own. Some of these are obvious: cash, bank accounts, the full market value of your home, the current market value of your car, investments, retirement accounts (even if you can’t access them yet), and any valuable objects that could be sold. Additional asset possibilities include the value of business interests that you own, as well as the cash value of life insurance policies.
These include debts, such as a mortgage loan, student loans and credit card debts. Liabilities include your auto loan, but they don’t include routine bills that you generate simply by living, such as utilities or insurance.
This may simply be evidence that you’re a young earner just starting out in life. Many times a lucrative professional life begins with a substantially negative net worth because people make big investments in their homes and educations early in their careers. However, if you’re well into your peak earning period and still showing a negative net worth, it’s probably time to revisit your spending habits and bring that number into the positive zone. Here are some good tips on how to reduce your debt.
Your salary isn’t calculated into your net worth, but a healthy salary is a big factor in making your net worth larger with every passing year. Earning power is one of the most important tools you have for improving your financial situation.
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
by Alexandra Harris
Reviewed by Jed Perl
The New Republic
Can the masterworks of T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf be discussed in the same pages as the perfectly delightful but infinitely less significant work of the photographer Cecil Beaton and the graphic artists Rex Whistler and Edward Bawden? I certainly did not believe this could be done well, until I read Alexandra Harris's new book. There is no question that Romantic Moderns is calculated to please Anglophiles. But Harris, a young English art historian, does not coddle her core audience. She knows how to wipe the cobwebs off subjects that are too often treated in a parochial or even a trite way, such as John Betjeman's poetry, Osbert Sitwell's autobiography, and Vita Sackville-West's gardens. The result is a new map of English culture in the second quarter of the twentieth century. The landscape may be familiar, but nearly all the landmarks, whether large ones or small ones, have been cast in an unexpected light.
Harris has absorbed an enormous amount of information about cultural experience in Great Britain in the decades leading up to World War II, and she carries her knowledge lightly. She explores the novels of Elizabeth Bowen, Daphne du Maurier, Henry Green, and Evelyn Waugh, discusses the growing interest in Georgian and Victorian styles among poets, illustrators, architects, and landscape designers, and deals with the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and the literary criticism of F. R. Leavis. All the while, we can sense the darkening social and political situation, a world where the nineteenth-century dreams of never-ending social, political, and technological progress were becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Harris moves through this daunting range of material -- from high modern to popular entertainment and from the immortal to the merely charming -- with remarkable confidence and ease. Her fine-spun analysis is just right for English society, which was at least for a time somewhat insulated from turmoil on the continent, where the ideological temperature tended to be higher and competing artistic viewpoints were far more likely to be seen as adjuncts of social and political ideas. But the skill with which Harris navigates the English scene may also have broader implications, offering unexpected perspectives on the relationship between tradition and modernity in the twentieth century.
Radicalism in the arts, with its search for root causes, can be more closely aligned with conservatism than many people imagine. Harris opens Romantic Moderns with a crisis within England's visual arts avant-garde, when the painter John Piper rejected a nonobjective vision in favor of a growing enthusiasm for earlier strains in English art, ranging from Romanesque sculpture to the picturesque landscape. What is remarkable about Harris's book is her refusal to simplify artistic debates, so that she has no trouble seeing that for John Piper "abstraction ... always fed his other interests" and "landscape was not the antithesis but the ally of abstraction." While Piper's vision of "a machine-age but with tassels belonging to old-fashioned doorbells" evinced what Harris calls an "unusually elastic idea of modernity," this was by no means exclusively an English idea. Let us not forget that Picasso and Braque had already, in their Analytic Cubist paintings, mingled hard-edged, angular structures and decorative flourishes -- even tassels. Everywhere in Europe, even as artists embraced what Harris calls "an international language of form," there was a yearning for "the lure of eccentricity, locality, difference." Was not Brancusi, that giant of Parisian modernism, immersed in Romanian folk imagery? Harris's approach will be of interest to anybody who cares about the classicizing and historicizing impulses that were integral to the arts of France, Italy, Spain, and Germany, and often reflected not a rejection of modernity but a fresh view of its possibilities.
Harris is comfortable with a bewildering range of ambitions and achievements. She shows how in England the sharply defined forms of International Style architecture helped to precipitate or at least to clarify a revaluation of the purity of Georgian architecture. She writes admiringly of the unabashed romanticism of Rex Whistler's murals for the dining room in the old Tate Gallery, with their "colonnaded palaces and terraces, urns and statues, serpentine lakes, and mountains ethereal in the distance ... enveloped in a blue-green haze." She underscores the strong sense of the English countryside that pervades Eliot's Four Quartets. And she remarks that Woolf's Between the Acts "has often been read as a novel of disintegration in which art fails and language fails and a rich pasts gives way to a meaner present." While Harris appreciates this strenuously modernist reading, she insists on seeing Between the Acts in the context of a resurgent romanticism that ascribed new importance to the English countryside and traditional village life and was reflected as well in the drawings and watercolors of Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. "In Between the Acts," Harris writes, "a few square miles of England are claimed with a vividness that comes from Woolf's long, deep acquaintance with the Sussex landscape. She delights in the naming of fields and villages, and in the rehearsal of local knowledge."
Harris's discussion of Between the Acts is accompanied by a survey of shifting attitudes toward landscape painting among critics and artists. We see that Roger Fry -- the great apostle of formal values who was a friend of Woolf's and whose biography she wrote -- was never really able to appreciate the Romantic landscape tradition. And then we see how Fry's friend and disciple, Kenneth Clark, became increasingly attuned to the work of Turner and Constable, and was moved to observe of Fry that "purity is a dangerous word to apply to such a complex and vital matter as art."
Every era has a kaleidoscopic richness, and Harris is a connoisseur of the multiplying, sometimes seemingly contradictory ways in which creative spirits reacted to the times in which they lived. She suggests that the mood of England in the late 1930s -- when life was, as Woolf observed, "rather like sitting in a sick room, quite helpless" -- could provoke responses as various as the austere geometric abstractions of Ben Nicholson and "the massed statistics" in George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier (1937). There is something almost novelistic in the way Harris manages to bring these strands together. She sees more connections than most people do. In a chapter entitled "A Break for Refreshments," which describes a growing English interest in good, simple food, she touches on Marinetti's Futurist cookbook, the culinary tastes of the French painter Jean Helion, Joseph Conrad's introduction to his wife's A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House, and she comments of Virginia Woolf that "even her most abstract novel, The Waves, is set largely in restaurants, amid crumbs and greasy knives and the very physical paraphernalia of eating." Rarely have I read a book in which social and cultural experiences are described with such a light, sure, lucid touch. Alexandra Harris recaptures the humanity of modernity.
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The following is from Blessed Columba Marmion’s masterful Christ, the Life of the Soul. In the larger context, Abbot Marmion is considering the mystery of holiness, first in God, then in men. After speaking of holiness considered as an attribute of God (i.e., in the Divine Nature), he goes on to consider holiness in the Trinity:
Human reason can arrive at establishing the existence of this holiness in the Supreme Being, holiness which is an attribute, a perfection of the Divine nature considered in itself.
But Revelation brings us a new light.
Here we must reverently raise the eyes of our soul even to the sanctuary of the Adorable Trinity, we must hear what Jesus Christ, both to nourish our piety and to exercise our faith, has Himself willed to reveal to us, or to teach us through His Church, about the intimate life of God.
There are, as you know, Three Divine Persons in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, three distinct Persons, but all three having one and the same Nature or Divine Essence. Being infinite Intelligence, the Father perfectly knows His perfections, He expresses this knowledge in One Word, the living, substantial Word, the adequate expression of what the Father is. In uttering this Word, the Father begets the Son, to Whom He communicates all His Essence, His Nature, His Perfections, His Life: Sicut Pater habet vitam in semetipso, sic dedit et Filio habere vitam in semetipso [John 5:26: As the Father has live in himself, so also has he given the Son to have live in himself”]. The Son also belongs entirely to His Father, is entirely given up to Him by a total donation which pertains to His nature as Son. And from this mutual donation of one and the same love, proceeds, as from one principle, the Holy Spirit Who seals the union of the Father and the Son by being Their substantial and living Love.
This mutual communication of the three Persons, this infinite loving union between themselves assuredly constitutes a new revelation of holiness in God: it is the ineffable union of God with Himself in the unity of His Nature and the Trinity of Persons.
At this point in the text there is a footnote, and with this footnote we will conclude the Blessed Abbot’s thoughts. Here is where he answers the question Why is the Holy Ghost called “Holy”:
Let us here state, for the sake of those more initiated in theological questions that each Person of the Trinity is identical with the Divine Essence, and consequently is holy, with a substantial holiness, because each only acts conformably to this Essence considered as the supreme norm of life and activity. It may be added that the Persons are holy because each of Them gives Himself to and belongs to the Other in an act of infinite adhesion. Lastly, the Third Person is especially called holy, because He proceeds from the Two Others through love; love is the principal act by which the will tends towards its end and is united to it; it designates the most eminent act of adhesion to the norm of all goodness, that is to say, of holiness, and therefore, the Spirit, Who, in God, proceeds through love, bears pre-eminently the name of holy. This is the text of St. Thomas who exposes this beautiful and profound doctrine to us. Cum bonum amatum habeat rationem finis, ex fine autem ipsum bonum amatur, quod Deus est, eminentem quamdam obtineat bonitatem, QUAE NOMINE SANCTITATIS EXPRIMITUR… Igitur Spiritus quo nobis insinuatur amor quo Deus se amat, Spiritus Sanctus nominatur. Opiscula selecta, t. III, C. XLVII. It is to be seen from all this that we gain a more profound conception of Divine sanctity by considering the Trinity of Persons.
The Latin text of St. Thomas, which Abbot Marmion’s book leaves untranslated, is as follows. I am including the surrounding text as well:
“Since good that is loved has the nature of an end, and since the motion of the will is designated good or evil in terms of the end it pursues, the love whereby the supreme good that is God is loved must possess the supereminent goodness that goes by the name of holiness. This is true whether holy is taken as equivalent to ‘pure,’ according to the Greeks (the idea being that in God there is purest goodness free from all defect) or whether holy is taken to mean ‘firm,’ in the view of the Latins (on the score that in God there is unchangeable goodness). In either case, everything dedicated to God is called holy, such as a temple and the vessels of the temple and all objects consecrated to divine service. Rightly, then, the Spirit, who represents to us the love whereby God loves Himself, is called the Holy Spirit. For this reason the rule of the Catholic Faith proclaims that the Spirit is holy, in the clause, ‘I believe in the Holy Spirit.'” | <urn:uuid:708745e7-5bc5-4d1b-9ea1-98879f96c0a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicism.org/why-is-the-holy-ghost-called-holy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942624 | 1,108 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Photojournalist Arthur Rothstein captured this street scene during his April 1937 visit to Mobile. Shown lining the street is one of the most common types of houses during the late 19th and early 20th centuries — the shotgun house, so named because one could stand in the front door and shoot buckshot straight through the house and out the back door. According to John S. Sledge, architectural historian with the city of Mobile and MB contributor, “Surviving examples … are concentrated south of Canal Street along the river and north of Downtown.”
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On May 31, 1831, Eliza Ann Gardner was born. As a Black abolitionist, religious leader, and activist for women’s rights, she was an important figure in the anti-slavery movement.
James and Eliza Gardner had a daughter named Eliza Ann Gardner in New York City. The family relocated to Boston, where her father worked as a shipping contractor when she was a little girl. The abolitionist movement in Boston had its nexus in their West End district. Abolitionists educated her in the only public school for black students in Boston at the time. 20 North Anderson Street, where her parents lived, was a station on the Underground Railroad. In addition, she was a distant cousin of W. E. B. Du Bois.
Due to the paucity of educational and professional alternatives available to African-American women, Gardner decided to pursue a career as a seamstress despite her scholastic prowess and several scholarships. While working as a seamstress and then as a boarding housekeeper, Gardner was engaged in her church and the anti-slavery struggle as a young lady. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips were among those she met and worked with throughout her time as a social activist.
While this was going on, she was also serving as Boston’s Sunday school superintendent for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. For the purpose of raising finances to send missionaries to Africa, she established the Zion Missionary Society in New England in 1876. Originally called the Ladies’ Foreign Missionary Society, the Ladies’ Home and Foreign Missionary Society was named after Gardner. She ran into opposition in 1884 when the male-dominated AMEZ Church opposed the formation of a women’s association. Her fundraising attempts failed.
The status of women in the church was successfully defended by Gardner at the church’s quadrennial conference. She stated:
“I hail from Old Massachusetts, where we have stated that everyone, not just men but women too, is made free and equal. After the fall of man, we were placed beneath your feet, and we were meant for submission to your will. We cannot assist you in New England if you continue to speak about the supremacy of men.”
When the church allowed women to become pastors, she was influential in pressing them to “strengthen [women’s] efforts and become a power.”
She served as the chaplain of the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America in 1895, during a time when female chaplains were uncommon. She was a founder member of Boston’s first black women’s organization, the Woman’s Era Club of Boston. In 1908, she was a guest of honor at the biannual conference of the National Association of Colored Women Clubs in New York City. She’s never been married and has never had children. On January 4, 1922, Eliza Ann Gardner died of coronary thrombosis.
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According to Wikipedia, Prarabdha Karma are the part of sanchita karma, a collection of past karmas, which are…
Resentment, guilt, anger and other negative emotions act as blocks on the awareness that flows through us. And they are not useful to us in any way.
One of my favorite mentors Bob Proctor summarized having guilt and resentment as looking at a rear view mirror. When we are able to forgive all that has happened in the past , we are able to look forward and build the future the way we want.
Only recently I started looking at my life and all the resentment I had towards others. Slowly I tried to see it from the other person’s perspective and forgive them for what they have done. When I did that I started to feel more free.
Bob Proctor again says “Resentment is like blowing sand at somebody, it only blows back at us. ” If you did feel someone has wronged you, there is no need for us to set it right. There are universal laws in motion that will take care of it. All we can do is simply forgive them and move on.
Rhonda Byrne who is the famous creator of “Secret” in her recent book “The Greatest Secret”, talks about welcoming. Whenever a negative emotion arises, welcome it and give it a hug like a long lost friend. Usually when negative emotions come up, we feel so scared that we resist them. Instead if we welcome them, they usually flow right through us.
Lester Levenson who was given a very grim diagnosis and just a few months to live, followed this welcoming technique for a few months to become enlightened.
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Linda Pearce looks at a new education program from the AIS, the Female Performance and Health Initiative that addresses how periods and pregnancy impact performance.
It started with a confession. A light-hearted one. Sitting with Olympic diver Anabelle Smith at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, this 35-year veteran of sportswriting admitted to a personal first: an interview about menstruation.
Nor was it familiar territory for Smith, although—just as the world is awakening to the importance of women’s health in optimising performance and avoiding injury—the Rio bronze medallist is becoming more accustomed to discussing what has, until recently, been a subject mentioned only sparingly.
Just as mental health is no longer taboo, it’s time to talk about periods in sport.
When they stop and why. How commonly they are managed with hormonal contraception, and how necessary that is, or isn’t. The risks involved. The myths. The pain and whether it should be tolerated—the answer is no, for it may be a symptom of other conditions. The impact of the monthly cycle on performance, which is a work in progress. And the potential longer-term implications.
Period talk beneficial for Australian sport
The education process is being led by the Australian Institute of Sport through its Female Performance and Health Initiative. Launched this month, it is designed to provide information about an area that has been chronically under-researched and discussed.
“Every female goes through the same challenges; as much as we’re all different and our bodies are all different and we’re never going to look the same we all go through similar things,’’ says Smith, also a triple Commonwealth Games and former world championships medallist.
“So people who are fearful of having conversations don’t realise the person next to them is probably having the exact same thoughts, and if we can open those channels and reduce the stigma around talking about female health issues, I feel there’ll be a lot more success in avoiding problems down the road.
“The more everyone is on the same page and athletes can feel safe and comfortable in that space and talk about anything, then I think it’s just going to be very beneficial for Australian sport.’’
The project lead is Dr Rachel Harris, the Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Paralympic and national water polo teams, who has helped to develop seven menstrual health education modules to assist athletes, coaches, parents and support staff.
Part of the aim is to make what have often been hard conversations a lot easier—especially when one considers that around 90 per cent of Australian high performance coaches are male. “That’s just the state of play in Australia and the world at the present time,” says Dr Harris. “But having said that, a lot of our female coaches also need education in this space, too, around what is normal and what isn’t.
“We absolutely know that things like menstrual dysfunction can impact people from a psychological perspective. But also, say, if you have endometriosis and you’ve got lots of pain, or if you have heavy bleeding and it interrupts how you’re training and competing, it’s going to have an impact on performance.’’
The phase one modules cover the truths and fallacies around the menstrual cycle—including an explanation of RED-S syndrome, which is the mismatch of the amount of fuel coming in with the energy being expended, which increases both the incidence of injury and illness, and the likelihood of longer-term consequences such as bone strength and fertility. Other subjects include hormonal contraception options and puberty.
The second phase, coming later in the year, delves into areas such as breast and pelvic floor health, plus returning to sport after pregnancy, with Dr Harris noting approvingly that even the fact that the latter is increasingly relevant is a positive sign of the times and a nod to the greater support contributing to lengthening elite careers.
Potential for performance improvements
The word is already spreading: here and abroad. Following the lead of the world champion US national soccer team, Chelsea Football Club and the English national team have been tracking menstrual cycles and adapting training and diet accordingly, taking into account issues that can contribute to soft tissue injuries—the link with ACL tears is already well-documented—in what has been described as a “bespoke” approach to tailoring individual programs. Closer to home, the Brisbane Lions AFLW team is also on board, monitoring recovery and cycle-related data, and seeing the potential for improvement in performance and injury-prevention.
Among teens, anything that can assist with maintaining participation rates—especially in these Covid-impacted times—is important, too. Body-hugging leotards and swimsuits may be part of the issue, or the fear of wearing cricket whites during heavy menstrual bleeding.
“It’s such a hard time for anyone, going through adolescence, but there’s a lot of other factors going into it as well, and if you’re also worried about how your body looks or you’re worried about your uniform, it can be a real challenge,’’ says Dr Harris.
Netballer Beryl Friday recently added another element—the Indigenous kind. She tweeted in early April after a disappointing post-period gym session and a conversation with a teammate that she would be interested to know if there was indeed a link between menstruation and training performance.
A long Twitter discussion followed, to which an appreciative Friday added: “Periods can be such a shame topic in our mob, it’s often not discussed openly and contraceptive use can even be frowned [upon]. I myself don’t even feel openly comfortable talking about periods with my own mother and sisters in the vicinity of my brothers and dad. Let’s remember this before we treat our Indigenous girls the same as everyone else.”
A long overdue conversation
On a personal note, being involved in writing three AIS athlete case studies provided some fascinating insights. Not just from Smith, who ended up in hospital with blood clots as a side-effect of the contraceptive pill, and now opts to deal organically with the regular mood swings, fatigue and other impacts of her monthly cycle rather than trying to manage it with artificial hormones.
There is also four-time world champion para-cyclist Emily Petricola, who is balancing severe PMS with Multiple Sclerosis and thus requires methods of contraception that assist with the former while not exacerbating the symptoms of the latter, and notes wryly that sometimes it’s tempting just to wish for an early menopause.
Yet the most dramatic story is that of Laura Harding, the 2018 world junior sailing champion who kept asking her doctor why she was not menstruating despite being in her late teens. Tired of being fobbed off, she eventually sought an ultrasound. It revealed she had been born without a uterus—due to a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome that affects just one in 5000 females.
With the help of the Victorian Institute of Sport’s medical team, 21-year-old Harding Is now trying to use this recent knowledge of her condition to best advantage as an athlete building towards a potential Olympic debut in Paris in 2024.
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Protein features are: EGF calcium-binding; EGF-like calcium-binding; EGF-like calcium-binding, conserved site; EGF-like region, conserved site; EGF-type aspartate/asparagine hydroxylation site; Epidermal growth factor-like; Epidermal growth factor-like, type 3; Growth factor, receptor; LDLR class B repeat; Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor class A repeat; Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor class A, conserved site; Six-bladed beta-propeller, TolB-like.
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This letter dated January 3, 1950, from United States Senator William Langer to Frank Fox acknowledged receipt of Fox’s previous correspondence concerning the eviction from his property. The letter states Fox needs to pay the balance of his contract and encloses a copy of the wire received from Superintendent of the Fort Bert Agency R.W. Quinn in regard to the matter. The letter concludes that Langer regrets “that this report isn’t more favorable at this time.” No enclosure is included in the letter. The letter is marked with the handwritten annotation “Fort Berthold Agency.”
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Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish, Garrison Dam, Elbowoods
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William Langer, Frank Fox, R.W. Quinn
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Over 3,000 people – including asylum seekers and trafficking survivors – have been held in Scottish police cells for up to 72 hours under immigration powers over the last five years.
The Home Office has been condemned for creating “a parallel world” of unsuitable asylum accommodation in hotels across Scotland where, critics claimed, asylum seekers have been left without adequate support or the oversight of Scottish authorities.
Scotland’s Children and Young People’s Commissioner has written to the Home Office's accommodation provider, calling for an “urgent review" of a Glasgow mother and baby unit for asylum seekers.
Almost 400 asylum seekers are still being housed in budget Glasgow hotels rooms by Home Office contractor Mears and living on just over £1 per day.
Organisations supporting asylum seekers have expressed concerns for the well-being of asylum seekers moved from flats into hotels in Glasgow.
Torture survivors living on £5 a day in Glasgow are being forced to travel for miles to get power to heat their homes, according to support workers.
Serco's new lock changes will see about 300 people made homeless across Glasgow within months, with charities claiming they were given no warning.
Serco has been fined millions of pounds by the Home Office for failing to meet the terms of its contract to provide accommodation for asylum seekers in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily on the male gaze of the female body. Numerous female fashion photographers worked for influential magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, thus shaping the style of their time. Using exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the photographic image from the 1930s to the present day: from the fashion magazine to the showroom and the coffee table book to videos and digital self-staging in social media today.
On display will be works by: Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Petra F. Collins, Corinne Day, Cass Bird, Madame d'Ora, Charlotte March, Ute Mahler, Sarah Moon, Amber Pinkerton, Regina Relang, Alice Springs (June Newton), Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, and Yva. | <urn:uuid:5dde6c82-0ffe-4957-81a5-730d3496bdff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.slovart.cz/cizojazycne-knihy/fotografie-a-film/fotografie-vseobecne/female-view-women-fashion-photographers-from-modernity-to-the-digital-age.html?page_id=29634 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.91805 | 198 | 2 | 2 |
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Lunch & Learn: Building a Network of Priority Waters
July 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
Hear how TU’s new Priority Waters initiative is helping focus our impact on important coldwater streams to care for and recover our native and wild fish and the ecosystems that sustain them. Keith Curley, Vice President for Eastern Conservation, and Rob Masonis, Vice President for Western Cosnervation, will highlight the planning that has taken place – including input from TU volunteers, local, state and federal partners and many other stakeholders – to map a network of shared Priority Waters and begin developing comprehensive conservation strategies for each. Lunch is included in all CX3 “all inclusive” registrations or available as a separate purchase.
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How to be happy in a world full of conflicts both large and small.
In all his books, Guus Kuijer shows complete solidarity with children’s hearts and souls. He understands better than anyone else that children just want to be happy. But in a world of conflicts both large and small, that’s not always easy, as Polleke, one of the best-known characters in Dutch children’s literature, knows only too well.
In this collection (2009), we follow Polleke’s everyday adventures over the course of five books, with her COMPLICATED DAD (CD), her mum, who’s doing it with her teacher, and her Moroccan boyfriend, Mimoun. In this complex multicultural society, the rebellious, witty Polleke, who wants to follow in her father’s footsteps as a poet, manages to stand firm. She has the support and understanding of her grandparents, and also finds comfort in the expressiveness of language. Her candid poems might be short, but they help Polleke to fathom her own feelings. | <urn:uuid:6db6fa73-5be0-4438-ae35-499e9e6a4be4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.letterenfonds.nl/nl/boek/1303/polleke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958666 | 230 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The Apprenticeship Technology major is designed to capitalize on a registered apprenticeship program with the addition of general education and career development coursework culminating in earning an A.A.S. degree. Technical skills, combined with a college degree, will open up future career or educational opportunities, such as shift leader, supervisor, superintendent, or other management positions, as well as increase earning potential.
Effective Fall 2022
Contrary to most other Penn College programs, students enrolled in this program will need to already possess full-time employment in a technical career field. As such, students will enroll to increase their ability to receive promotions and to bolster their earning potential. Additionally, many employers already fund apprenticeship training and college coursework. This would allow interested employers to provide both in a combined format which would be an effective recruitment and employee retainment strategy. Graduates of this program will most likely seek out supervisor positions in their technical area. Examples include:
- SOC 49-1011 – First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers. O-Net projects 1,980 annual openings in PA for this position until 2028. This is a 5% growth.
- SOC 47-1011 – First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers. O-Net projects 2,620 annual openings in PA for this position until 2028. This is an 8% growth.
Recommended High School Subjects
One year of general mathematics, one year of basic algebra, and one year of science. Coursework with an emphasis on communication (oral and written) is advantageous.
Special Admissions Requirements
This program is open to individuals who are currently enrolled in, or have completed, a Registered Apprenticeship (from any U.S. state or the U.S. Department of Labor) with at least two years (4,000 hours) of on-the-job training and a minimum of 288 hours of classroom instruction.
Individuals who have completed a Registered Apprenticeship program should submit their nationally recognized Certificate of Completion of Apprenticeship. Individuals currently engaged in a Registered Apprenticeship should submit a fully executed copy of their Apprenticeship Agreement Form.
Special Equipment Needs
Given that this is an online major, students must have access to a computer with consistent internet access. Technical recommendations are as follows:
- Windows 10 or higher, or equivalent Mac
- Intel® Core™ i5 or i7 (5th generation or higher)
- 8+ GB RAM
- 250GB+ Solid State Disk (SSD) drive
- Webcam and microphone (required)
- High speed internet connection (cable or DSL recommended)
- Chromebooks and other devices running ChromeOS are prohibited.
All incoming students must meet placement requirements in math. Students are expected to remediate any deficiencies as explained in the College Catalog (see https://www.pct.edu/catalog/admissions-policy).
Given the 39 credits awarded for the completion of a qualifying Registered Apprenticeship program, this degree program will not accept additional transfer coursework.
Program GoalsA graduate of this major should be able to:
- explain the relationship between personal goals/objectives, academic subject matter, and the apprenticeship program.
- apply critical-thinking skills to reason logically and to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information in a variety of academic, personal, and professional situations.
- employ effective oral and written communication in a variety of personal and professional situations.
- demonstrate appreciation for the social, cultural, and natural environments and for diverse cultural beliefs and behaviors.
- recognize the inter-relationships of various disciplines.
- use planning and organizational skills essential to academic and professional success.
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Lourmarin is a calm and peaceful village located in the lush rural foothills of
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- What is the similarity between “ping” & “traceroute” ? How is traceroute able to find the hops.
- What is the command used to show all open ports and/or socket connections on a machine?
- Is 300.168.0.123 a valid IPv4 address?
- Which IP ranges/subnets are “private” or “non-routable” (RFC 1918)?
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- What is command used to show the routing table on a Linux box?
- A TCP connection on a network can be uniquely defined by 4 things. What are those things?
- When a client running a web browser connects to a web server, what is the source port and what is the destination port of the connection?
- How do you add an IPv6 address to a specific interface?
- You have added an IPv4 and IPv6 address to interface eth0. A ping to the v4 address is working but a ping to the v6 address gives you the response
sendmsg: operation not permitted. What could be wrong?
- What is SNAT and when should it be used?
- Explain how could you ssh login into a Linux system that DROPs all new incoming packets using a SSH tunnel.
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- What is IPoAC (RFC 1149)?
- What will happen when you bind port 0?
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Real estate funding is a rising area in immediately’s world. It has many benefits over investing in stocks and bonds, for example: The rate of return on actual property is significantly increased than some other funding. The only disadvantage is that you don’t have any control over the price you pay for real property. For instance, if the neighborhood the place you’re looking at shopping for goes via a property growth, it is prone to cost extra. Alternatively, if it goes by way of an actual estate downturn, it can cost much less.
The rationale for that is that actual property is land consisting of the homes and buildings on it, and its underlying natural resources like water, minerals or plants; an intangible asset of the identical sort as its tangible assets. Therefore, actual property is each a source of revenue and a source of threat. A key driver of actual estate funding is the condition of the real estate market, which is the most vital driver of the financial system.
There are two predominant categories of actual estate, which embody residential and commercial actual estate. In residential actual property, the class includes residence buildings, condominiums, row houses, townhouses and cellular properties. In business real estate, the primary classes are workplace buildings, strip malls, inns, hospitals, industrial centers, buying centers and workplace buildings. Although there are some exceptions, these two categories dominate the actual property market.
The growth of real estate funding has depended largely on the condition of the actual property market. In periods of financial stress, folks have a tendency to drag again from investments in stocks and bonds, and focus their consideration on actual property. In periods of economic stability, they are likely to spend money on durable assets like residential properties and companies. Because of this, the demand for residential properties often remains robust. Since actual property includes many non-fairness types of investments, the residential real estate funding is among the safest forms of real property funding.
The second major category of real estate is commercial real estate. This class includes workplace buildings, buying centers, hospitals, office complexes, motels, and other forms of real property development. Real property builders focus their consideration on ensuring that there’s adequate industrial property accessible for lease. Because of this, industrial actual property development entails numerous planning and coordination with different local authorities agencies. One of the most important points within the realm of business actual property growth is zoning laws. Zoning rules be sure that the undertaking will likely be able to suit into the designated zoning space and stay viable.
The third vital driver of the true estate trade is dwelling shopping for and dwelling selling. In durations of economic stress, people have a tendency to reduce their house purchases so as to reduce their financial losses. But when people are buoyed up by an increase in real property prices, they come out with renewed vigor when it comes to residential purchase. So actual estate buyers play an essential function in the house buying and selling enterprise. That is the rationale why the actual estate industry is taken into account to be one of many world’s most profitable industries.
The fourth important driver of the actual property industry is the construction and renovation business. In recent times, residential and commercial properties have been the key drivers of the gross domestic product (GDP). But along with the development of different tasks, the sector has also seen a rise in residential construction and renovation activities. And the real property and building industries form an necessary segment of the general gross home product (GDP) throughout the world.
And the fifth vital driver of the actual property business is a property management and leasing. Property administration deals with the administration of the real estate property whereas leasing is related to the rental activities. The two complement each other since administration of property enhances its resale worth and leasing helps the proprietor to achieve an optimal occupancy price. Aside from these main sectors, there are many different industries that kind part of the actual estate business. These embrace the banking, insurance coverage, communications, training, medical, wholesale and retail, leisure, vehicles and technology, communications, software program, tourism and hospitality, commerce and distribution, and banking and insurance sector. The truth is, the actual property and property administration and leasing are literally thought of as two sides of the identical coin, with property administration taking care of the residential and business properties, and leasing making certain that the residential and business properties are utilized totally.
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Greek negotiators and their European counterparts have blinked, having tiptoed up to the cliff of European disunion, looked down, and decided not to take the plunge. Global markets have collectively exhaled in relief as a result of a deal arrived at over the weekend that buys Greece more time to turn things around and pay its debts.
What’s depressing is that we will likely see this drama play itself out again, as we have before, whether or not the actors on stage are Greece and the European Union, or some other over-indebted nation and its creditors. There may be elements to this story that are particular to the dynamics of the Eurozone, to be sure, but there is a more fundamental, less discussed, problem that needs resolving: the excessive reliance of nations on debt as a means of financing their development.
The Greek debt crisis is so similar to other debt crises of the past it’s haunting. Developing countries load up on loans from over-eager banks and other creditors based on rosy growth projections that do not materialize. Unable to meet their repayment obligations, they default or seek debt forgiveness. If the crisis is big and systemic, other governments and multilateral financial institutions (in this case, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) bail out banks trying to prevent a financial crisis that may cause large economic disruption. Pundits on both sides make loud noises. There is a usually a “moral hazard” camp arguing against any bailouts, opposed by an “extraordinary times require extraordinary measures” faction eager to do what it takes to avoid ruinous financial contagion. Rewind, pause, repeat. The pattern is all too familiar and a bit too frequent.
The fundamental problem is an excessive reliance on debt as the method to finance public spending. Such inflexible IOU’s shouldn’t be the only means available for sovereign nations to raise capital to invest in their growth and development. Like enterprises in the private sector, sovereign states should also be able to raise equity funding, which involves selling a stake in their future to investors eager to participate in, and benefit from, their success. This would give these states more room to maneuver when times get tough, and give their creditors a better return when things go well.
Consider the differences between Greece and Uber. If Uber wants to raise money to finance its expansion, it can go to a bank to seek a loan, or it can sell that equity stake to investors willing to share both the upside and downside risk, aligning their interests with those of the company. Short of selling shares in individual state-owned enterprises, there are surprisingly few avenues for sovereign nations and investors to partner up, and there is no good reason for Uber and other start-ups to have more financing options than an emerging sovereign nation does.
A traditional loan requires a fixed repayment, regardless of circumstances. Sure, different borrowers, including governments, pay different interest rates depending on their track record and prospects, but essentially once a debt is contracted, they do not repay more if outcomes exceed expectations, and their liabilities aren’t diminished if things sour. Lenders have generally looked to government debt as a relatively safe, conservative investment, which is why so many pension funds and individual investors in this country choose to invest in municipal bonds and Treasury bills.
That’s the theory, of course, but as the Greek case shows, the international financial system has gone too far in privileging debt over other financing options, with utterly predictable results. Once again, creditors and borrowers — not to mention the people of Greece and elsewhere in Europe who weren’t in on the decision to enter into these agreements — are entangled in a messy, time-consuming, and destabilizing drama emanating from a supposedly unimaginable default. Equity-like deals, where investors fully become invested in a country’s fate, are often made only after a costly default process, when some investors acquire “bad debt,” after a default. The value of the bad debt can rise and fall dramatically, depending on a nation’s performance. For instance, after defaults by Latin American countries, such as Argentina, in the 1980s, these countries’ old debt obligations were swapped for what were called “Brady Bonds,” which allowed investors to trade the debt for other financial instruments at deep discounts from their contractual values. The market values of Brady Bonds rose and fell with the economic performance of these countries, which means investors and sovereign debtors’ interests became somewhat aligned.
It would be far better to design an equity-like, risk-sharing arrangement between sovereign states and creditors from the outset, in which the required repayment were automatically lowered in bad times and scaled up in good times. For example, the repayments could be linked GDP growth, or to market prices of commodities that a country exports.
Finding new ways to package and sell risk-sharing equity stakes in a nation’s future would better align the interests of sovereign borrowers and its foreign or domestic creditors. The concern that countries receiving equity capital might be tempted to minimize their resources or performance to lighten their obligations, is likely not relevant for small, growing countries. The consequences for reporting bad outcomes frequently would cause investors to lower their expectations of countries’ potential for growth and thus lower the valuation of their assets when any future financing is being negotiated. The hit that a country’s reputation would take for inaccurate reporting would simply be too high.
We should think of small, growing countries such as Greece (whose performance was healthy prior to the financial crisis, recession, and austerity of recent years) the way we think of promising, but volatile, tech start-ups. They should be financed with less debt, and more equity, perhaps even with riskier options — like stock-call options that are worth zero when performance is poor, but deliver outsized returns when things go well. This more diversified approach to sovereign financing would provide growing nations with natural shock absorbers. Their creditors would profit handsomely in good years, but countries like Greece would conversely benefit from some relief in bad years, as opposed to forcing a crash of the international financial system on account of a debt straightjacket they have forced themselves into.
In the meantime, regardless of what happens in Greece, a continued overreliance on debt to finance the expansion of developing economies will only mean that the next time—and there will be a next time—will be no different.
Bhagwan Chowdhry is a professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and co-founder of the Financial Access at Birth initiative. His website is http://bit.ly/bhagwan
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Although we see the Sun every day and we feel its heat and energy, we still have a lot to learn about this miraculous celestial object. Not only that it supports all life forms on Earth, but it’s assuring the orbits of seven other planets, several dwarf planets, an asteroid belt, and numerous natural satellites including our moon.
The space probe Parker has been sent near the Sun so that it will gather some new info about our star. Now it has the first data and it gladly brings it to the public.
The probe is within 23 million miles close to the Sun
The distance of 23 million miles (or 37 million kilometers) may sound like a vast distance, but at an astronomical scale it means practically nothing. The Parker probe has been launched a year ago, in August 2018. Its mission lasts for seven years, and the goals are studying the stream of highly charged plasma leaving the sun (called the solar wind), and the outer atmosphere (called the corona).
Nour E. Raouafi, Parker Solar Probe project scientist, stated:
Parker Solar Probe is crossing new frontiers of space exploration, giving us so much new information about the sun,
Releasing this data to the public will allow them not only to contribute to the success of the mission along with the scientific community, but also to raise the opportunity for new discoveries to the next level.
The Parker Solar Probe had until now two flybys: on Oct. 31-Nov. 12, 2018, and on March 30-April 19, 2019. After the second flyby, the engineers were able to send home a bigger amount of data from the spacecraft.
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It is 1947 in post-war Tokyo and the police are confronted by a locked room murder in Akimitsu Takagi’s The Tatoo Murder Case. The book was one of several Japanese mysteries I got for Christmas from my husband. If the others are as interesting, he and David, the owner of Mystery on Main in Brattleboro, choose well.
Akimitsu Takagi was born in 1920. According to both Wikipedia and eNotes, he studied metallurgy, but became a mystery writer when a fortune teller told him that was where his future lay. He was a prolific writer up to the 1990’s; he died in 1995. Only three of his books, including Tattoo, have been translated into English.
As with all good books, one learns a great deal. Post-war Japan and the destruction in Tokyo are prominent. At one point, we visit a house untouched by the war while the house next door is destroyed. And I learned a lot about the art of tattooing. Did you know that people with full-body tattoos have a shorter life span because the tattoo interferes with circulation? Picking up facts like that is one reason I love good mysteries.
In the shadowy depths of Mount Togakushi in Nagano Prefecture, there lived three powerful, wicked sorcerers who were masters of the black arts of magic and enchantment. These mysterious magicians were known as Tsunedahime, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru, and their legendary exploits have been the subjects of folk tales, Kabuki plays, woodblock prints, and some of the most spectacular Japanese art tattoos ever created.
This is the tragic story of three of those tattoos.
I’m not certain if that preface was written by Takagi or not, but assume that it was. The folklore behind the tattoos plays as big a part in the story as the art of tattooing itself. At the time of the mystery, tattooing is illegal in Japan, but there is a flourishing underground. Tattooing is an art to the Japanese who are contemptuous of the random tattoos sported by the occupying Americans. Their tattoos are referred to as sushi after a kind of rice featuring vegetables and other things scattered at random in flavored rice. (Sushi refers to the rice and comes in many forms, not just rolled in seaweed or topped with fish.) A good tattoo should be an entire picture and tell a story, not just be random names of girlfriends, flags, and anchors!
The Tattoo Murder Case provides a glimpse into a different culture and time as well as a fascinating mystery.
Photograph of Takagi from Wikipedia.
Photograph of book cover from Amazon.
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The cynical, systemic avoidance of responsibility with regard to the welfare of children in the United States is now better illustrated than in the practice of corporal punishment in schools.
"The US Department of Education declared school corporal punishment is a matter for the states to decide. This is a win for the states. Let us systematically rescind corporal punishment.
"In the twenty-two (22) states which permit corporal punishment, departments of education say it's a matter for local school districts to decide.
"School districts where corporal punishment is practiced say their policy reflects the will of the community expressed through their elected school boards.
"When school children are injured by corporal punishment, no one seems to have a strategy to address the problem. Instead, the parties engage in a well-practiced ritual of circular buck-passing which leaves the school administration essentially a law without them and children unprotected. Let us not allow this type blind attitude harm another child. Let us systematically rescind corporal punishment in schools in your state, in your district in your community.
Corporal punishment causes emotional as well as physical damage, which can not be resolved through traditional talk therapy. Healing emotional damage from corporal punishment needs to specifically focus on the afterfeffects of physical violence. If left unhealed the emotional damage continues to plague the person for a lifetime. Hitting, paddling, smacking, whacking, bopping, or any form of physical assault against a child is violence, because the act violates the child's sacred body boundaries.
Furthermore, when a parent or other authority figure, which the child is totally dependent on, uses corporal punishment, the child is betrayed in the worst way possible. "I love you, therefore, I hit you," is hypocrisy. It is hypocrisy because love and hitting (hurting) can not co-exist simultaniously. It is hypocrisy because the same act against an adult is considered assault and battery and the perpetrator is subject to arrest and possibly a jail sentence. Why then, when so much is at stake, do we assault our children when we protect adults from the same violent act? The answer is quite simple, but too lengthy to include in this article.
Dr. Frank Putnam of the National Institute of Mental Health and Dr. Martin Teicher of Harvard Medical School studied 170 girls, 6-15 years old-half had experienced corporal punishment, half had not-for seven years. The girls who practiced corporal punishment had symptoms such as abnormally high stress hormones, which can kill neurons in brain areas critical for thinking and memory, and high levels of an antibody that weakens the immune system.
Teicher completed a series of brain studies on 402 children and adults, many of what experienced corporate punishment. His finds revealed that corporal punishment creates arrested growth of the left hemisphere of the brain which can hamper development of language and logic and arrested growth of the right hemisphere of the brain at an abnormally early age.
The AMA and APA ignore these studies. Why do the AMA and APA ignore these studies and other noted researchers' work-for example: Judith Herman, MD? The answer lies within the denial theory-if we do not believe it, it can not hurt us. The irony is "Facts do no cease to exist because they ignored," and the tragic results follow.
The results are:
"Children who parents or other authority figures use corporal punishment to correct unacceptable behavior show more antisocial behavior over a long period of time, regardless of race and socialeconomic status, and regardless of whether the mother provides cognitive stimulation and emotional support (Gunnoe & Mariner, 1997; Kazdin, 1987; Patterson, DeBaryshe, & Ramsey, 1989; Straus, Sugarman, & Giles-Sims, 1997).
(Strausberg et al., 1994; Straus, 1994; Straus & Gelles, 1990;
"Corporal punishment increases the likelihood of children assaulting the parent in retaliation, when they are older (Brezina, 1998).
"Corporal punishment sends a message that violence is a viable option for solving problems (Straus, Gelles, Steinmetz, 1980; Straus, Sugarman, & Giles-Sims, 1997).
"Children who are spanked regularly are more likely over time to cheat or lie, be disobedient at school, bully others, and show less remorse for wrongdoing (Straus, Sugarman, & Giles-Sims, 1997).
"Corporal punishment adversely affects children's cognitive development. Children who are spanked perform poorly on school tasks compared to other children (Straus & Mathur, 1995; Straus & Paschall, 1998).
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Sustainability isn’t just a fad, or at least we can hope that it will become more than that. Because developing a healthy and safe world for our children and grandchildren to live in will require an approach to sustainability that stretches across generations. In other words, it’s never too soon to introduce your child to ethical consumerism.
Fortunately, brands like Mon Coeur are demonstrating that shopping ethically doesn’t mean having to make sacrifices for quality. Their line of ethical clothing design merges together fashion with practicality:
A Brand That Understands the Needs of Toddlers
Up until now, the market for sustainable children’s clothing has been pretty sparse. And in that sparse market, it can seem that the brands that are out there haven’t really taken the considerations of toddlers to heart. What separates Mon Coeur from the other names is that it was founded by a mother. Louise Vongerichten Ulukaya founded the clothing company while she had a young son.
That perspective is at the heart of the Mon Coeur experience. The immediacy of Ulukaya’s situation means that she’s well-positioned to develop clothing that speaks directly to the needs of parents and their toddlers. As a result, the line focuses on clothing that’s easy to get on and off, constructed to be durable enough to handle the chaos of a young child, and designed with a fashion-first philosophy.
Recycled Materials Made the Right Way for Your Toddler
There are quite a few ethical certifications in the clothing industry, but they won’t exactly tell you much about a brand unless you’re already well-versed in them. The standards established by these certifications and their levels of jurisdiction can vary wildly. As a result, you’re largely left in the dark as far as comparing ethical clothing brands is concerned. That’s why it’s important to dig deeper into the values of a company and determine exactly what they mean by sustainability.
For Mon Coeur, that means making sure that their fabrics are made entirely from recycled materials. This includes cotton that has already gone through industrial manufacturing and polyester repurposed from used bottles. That’s a rarity in children’s clothing, but it extends to the other materials used in Mon Coeur’s clothing as well. Everything from the decorative embroidery to the labels is made from fully-recycled materials. As a result, Mon Coeur maintains the feel and meticulous quality of a boutique brand without cutting any corners in terms of sustainability.
Ethical Construction From Top to Bottom
Sustainable design is a complicated subject since it has to account for everything from the products being used to the nature of the supply chain. In other words, it’s hard to get a sustainable clothing brand off the ground and running the right way without putting firm principles in place first.
That’s something that Mon Coeur understands. Their production chain is centralized in Western Europe, and that helps minimize the number of emissions put off during the shipping process while also ensuring that everyone involved in the manufacturing and production process is paid a fair and adequate wage. It also ensures that all the materials are held to the generally thorough certification and approval processes that the European Union has in place.
Sustainability isn’t about a single brand of clothing. It’s about finding a way of life that has a positive impact on the world without jeopardizing your standards of living. According to Mon Coeur, that balance is possible. Their toddler clothing can make you feel good about your impact on the environment while also ensuring that your kid looks like a million bucks.
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Embraer’s new midsize Legacy 500 business jet has made its maiden flight.
The aircraft is the first in its class to incorporate fly-by-wire technology and full height cabin. The fourth in what the manufacturer calls a clean-sheet design, the Legacy 500 boasts a range of 3,000nm, a cruise speed of Mach .82 and maximum operating altitude of 45,000 feet.
Embraer president of executive jets Ernest Edwards said of the new aircraft: “This is the aircraft that will move us from industry player to industry leader. The Legacy 500 breaks through the traditional midsize jet envelope to offer something that has never been done before. It is hard to overstate the importance of fly-by-wire technology. Fly-by-wire does for business aviation what GPS has done for navigation. It will empower more precision, efficiency, safety and comfort every time the aircraft flies.”
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Without limits or bounds: Your inner self
In yoga therapy, there is a focus on the five koshas when working with clients. It is an interesting multilayer approach to health utilizing a framework that assists the therapist in applying a holistic action plan to benefit the client. As a yoga therapist, it is our aim is empower the client to live life to the fullest.
In the system, there are five koshas or sheaths: the physical body, the energy body, the mental body, the wisdom body, and the bliss body. Sometimes people compare these sheaths to the Russian babushka stacking dolls. We are complex beings with many layers, and just as we peel an onion, we can peel away our own layers to help us discover our true selves. The koshas are interconnected and interact with one another, with each subtler than the previous one. Examining the koshas can lead to empowerment and self-discovery and help you gain a deeper understanding of your true nature and your place in this world. Understanding your koshas may help you deal with certain mental and emotional patterns, situations, relationships, and thought patterns.
The outermost sheath is the Annamaya Kosha, the physical body. It includes skin, muscles, connective tissue, fat, and bones. Balancing of this kosha might include body awareness through yoga poses.
The Pranamaya Kosha is the energy body. It includes fluid, movement of blood, lymph and cerebrospinal fluid, and the circulatory movement of breath through the respiratory system. It is said that this kosha controls our bodily and spiritual rhythm. Imbalances in this kosha may include energy blockages, lack of breath awareness, and difficulty breathing. Bringing the Pranamaya Kosha into balance may include pranayama, breath awareness, connecting to nature, and chakra meditation. This sheath moves you from your physical to your emotional layer.
The third layer, the Manamaya Kosha, is the mental body and dives into our minds, emotions, and nervous systems. The Manamaya is the control center. It is easy to get stuck in this kosha when your mind takes over with repetitive thoughts like “this is how it should be” or “I am not good enough.” The cumulative effect creates an imbalance that may lead to anxiety or depression and even bind us to behavioral patterns such as addiction. Efforts to refine and balance this kosha include meditation, silence, and reciting mantras.
The Vijnanamaya Kosha is sheath of wisdom and inner knowledge. It goes a step beyond the automatic and reflexive functioning of the mind. Here our subconscious mind pulls in realizations and profound truths. Operating from this level, we are connected to our inner wisdom, the “witness,” or “observer” that helps us to tune into our natural intuition, act with intention, learn to focus, and stabilize the mind. Imbalance in this kosha may include the inability to see the bigger picture, stress, feeling lost, constantly seeking power, and materialism. It can be thought of as the “more, more, more” syndrome. Balancing techniques may include focusing inward through meditation, yoga nidras, visualization, and mindfulness practices.
The Anandmaya Kosha is about our blissful body and is connected to our true self or true nature. I believe it is the practice that comes just before we find the ultimate path to our bliss. It is reaching the peace and tranquility that lies within all of us.
Take a few minutes to think about your koshas. Perhaps try a yoga pose and think about how it affects you physically, externally and internally. Then think about how your breath affects your body and draw your breath to areas that are tight or have tension. Then coordinate your movement with an inhale and an exhale. Perhaps you can sit quietly for a few minutes and recite a mantra like “I am full of light and love” or focus inward to stabilize the mind to access intuition. Studying and understanding the koshas is a process, and it is one of the assessment tools that yoga therapists utilize to help clients live their life to the fullest and discover their limitless potential.
Ashton Graham is an educator, book publisher, photographer, cowgirl and yoga enthusiast. She is currently studying to become a certified yoga therapist and lives on a ranch in West Texas. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The Democrats of 2021 are determined not to let the COVID crisis go to waste. Instead, they want the extraordinary government spending that marked the past year to become America’s new normal. President Biden has proposed: 1) increasing discretionary spending by $1.5 trillion next year, 16% more than the current level; 2) spending an additional $2.3 trillion on infrastructure—very broadly defined—over the next eight years; and 3) an additional $1.8 trillion in federal spending and tax credits over the next ten years for a variety of social welfare purposes.
A trillion here, a trillion there. The question is not how soon we’re talking real money. In the belief that if something can’t go on forever, it won’t, the economic question is how soon before we’re talking real consequences: higher taxes, inflation, and interest rates, leading to stagnation and, ultimately, an America that is “a kinder, gentler place of permanent decline,” in the words of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
Debt’s Steady March
We first need to address the political question about the correlation of forces—popular demands, underlying sentiments, resonant ideas—that determine fiscal policy. The coronavirus pandemic did not bring about a new political reality. Rather, it continued and fortified the polity’s established disposition. Prior to the past decade, total federal debt stood just short of $10 trillion, 68% of the Gross Domestic Product. That baseline was more than twice the 32% level of 1981, the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio since 1940. By 2019, after a recovery that was initially sluggish but then became robust, the debt had grown to $22.7 trillion, a sum equal to 107% of GDP. It marked the eighth straight year in which the federal debt was greater than GDP. Previously, the most recent breach of the 100% red line had been from 1945 to 1947, when a much smaller, less affluent country borrowed heavily to secure victory in World War II.
Over the past 13 years, the American people tried every political configuration made possible by our Constitution and two-party system. We had a Republican president, George W. Bush, and a Democratic Congress after the 2006 midterm elections. 2008 brought a Democratic president, Barack Obama, and a Democratic Congress. The elections of 2010 yielded a Democratic president and a divided Congress, with a Democratic Senate and Republican House of Representatives. In 2014, two years after reelecting the Democratic president, the voters chose a Republican House and Senate. That alignment gave way, in 2016, to a Republican Congress and a Republican president, Donald Trump. In 2018, however, the voters once more endorsed a divided government and Congress with a Republican Senate and Democratic House.
Then, in 2020’s first weeks, the coronavirus pandemic began. In response, Congress enacted laws over the ensuing year to stabilize and stimulate the economy, the first of which spent $2.2 trillion and the second a miserly $900 billion. By the time of the third, which will spend $1.9 trillion, the voters had cycled back to a Democratic president and a (narrowly) Democratic Congress. This total of $5 trillion in new federal spending, none of it offset by any new or increased taxes, exceeded the $4.5 trillion of total federal outlays in 2019, the fiscal year that ended less than six months before anyone had heard of COVID.
Irrespective, then, of which party was running things or how power was shared among the elected branches, the one constant was that federal spending and borrowing increased relentlessly. There is no way to reflect on this record and discern an inchoate electoral majority that will demand or even tolerate fiscal restraint. Absent a robust constituency favoring government contraction, democratic fundamentals guarantee that government will expand.
This tells us, in the first place, that the Tea Party movement, which emerged spontaneously in 2009, turned out to be a Tea Party moment. Its populist energies were catalyzed by federal bailouts, stimulus spending, and the proposal for what came to be known as Obamacare. The Tea Party objections against ramping up government redistribution were, in part, moral: Journalist Rick Santelli ignited the uprising by asking on CNBC, “How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage who has an extra bathroom and can’t pay their bills?”
The motives were also fiscal. The raisons d’etre of Congressman Paul Ryan’s various “roadmaps” were the beliefs that: 1) federal spending could not exceed, permanently and increasingly, federal tax revenues; and 2) that federal spending could not be controlled without curtailing entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare in particular. In 2019 those two behemoths distributed $1.7 trillion, 38% of all federal outlays. Interest on the national debt, $375 billion, represented another 8% of federal spending. Self-government becomes a tenuous proposition in a republic where nearly half of public expenditures are effectively beyond the reach of elected legislators.
This is why the Tea Party’s motives were also constitutional. From Gadsden flags to the study of America’s founding, the Tea Party evinced a concern for reconsidering the proper scope of government. Which matters should be handled by the federal government, which by the states, and which ones were best left to private citizens acting without government funds or regulations? In asking such questions, the Tea Party repatriated the exiled ideas that the federal government had neither the ability nor the authority to solve every problem, and that some “problems” were dissatisfactions inherent in the human condition.
Within the decade, however, conservative populism shifted its focus from Big Government to nationalism and political correctness. We’ll need more time, perspective, and information to say how much of this change Donald Trump caused and how much he merely discerned. In any case, the Trumpist brief that the Deep State was corrupt and unaccountable differs from the Reaganite contention that Big Government is illegitimate and unsustainable. The futility of the Tea Party movement became clear when, after six years of Republican denunciations of Obamacare, a Republican president and Congress could neither summon the courage to repeal it nor devise an alternative to replace it. Whatever the Tea Party’s abstract thoughts about the proper limits of government, conservative populists turned out to have nothing more than mild objections to the welfare state, as such, but a strong aversion to conferring its benefits on the undeserving, such as slackers and illegal immigrants.
The Great Progressive Experiment
For all that, Democratic celebrations about a “big government revival” and “fundamental reorientation of the role of government” are premature. It remains to be seen how much of President Biden’s spending proposals can be passed in a Congress where the Republican minority is completely opposed and the slender Democratic majority is not unanimously in favor. Democrats’ apprehensions rest on the well-grounded fear that the 2022 elections will find voters rebuking rather than endorsing the Biden agenda, returning congressional Democrats to the minority as a result.
The votes to be cast by Congress and the country during the Biden era will cause Democrats to be apprehensive for two reasons. First, popular skepticism about government is based on doubts that government programs can actually alleviate the problems they purport to solve. Doing things is not the same as accomplishing things. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society gave way to Republican victories in five of the next six presidential elections for several reasons, one of the biggest being that the extravagant talk and spending about Model Cities and Head Starts yielded few clear improvements and much demonstrable harm. Thus, Obama administration advisor Steven Rattner worries that if the Biden Democrats botch the implementation of the new initiatives they enact, then voters who cannot find “actual real results” will revert to seeing government as “the enemy again.” Increasing the budget and scope of government programs does not guarantee beneficial outcomes if, as Yale law professor Peter Schuck has argued, “federal domestic policy failures are caused by deep, recurrent, and endemic structural conditions.”
The second reason to doubt that the public is ready to demand or even accept a dramatic increase in the scope of government is the dog that doesn’t bark—the argument for more government that Democrats no longer make. Joe Biden was completing his second term in the U.S. Senate when Democrat Walter Mondale promised the American people in 1984 that he would raise their taxes if elected president . . . and then went on to lose 49 states to Ronald Reagan. Biden was one of many Democratic politicians scarred by the experience. Like every Democratic presidential nominee of the 21st century, he ran on a promise to confine any federal tax increases to the most affluent Americans. In Biden’s case, the cutoff point was $400,000 of household income, which exempts 95% of the country from any tax increase.
The implication for Democrats is as clear as it is ominous: voters are amenable to the Democrats’ domestic agenda, but only if someone else pays for it. That someone else could be a rich person or a big corporation. In the case of deficit financing, the someone else is a future taxpayer, who will pay for today’s outlays plus the accrued interest. When even the political party explicitly in favor of activist government takes this position, America winds up with one of the lowest levels of taxation among developed countries, barely half as much as the European social democracies that Democrats want to emulate. But a welfare state limited to what can be financed by soaking the rich or borrowing is one that will never approximate the comprehensive benefits packages offered in western Europe.
What no Democrat has been willing to argue for 37 years is that the party’s proposals are so beneficial that the typical American will be better off because of them, even taking into account the higher taxes that finance the programs. Democratic politicians and activists certainly believe that their proposals possess those virtues. It’s just that they cannot see a way to talk enough voters out of their skepticism to make a platform like Walter Mondale’s electorally viable.
That problem, in turn, is not rhetorical but governmental, which takes us back to the problem of implementation. If some of the Biden proposals are enacted and go on to be smashing successes at enhancing the national quality of life, these achievements might create enough political space for Democrats to raise the subject of government programs that require higher taxes on most people, not just a small, wealthy minority. But the prospect of that high reward carries with it a high risk: if the Biden programs do not succeed in ways that vindicate the idea of expanding government, the failure will, in Steven Rattner’s words, “set back the cause of progressivism for several more decades.” | <urn:uuid:1099c59b-7a71-4911-9ce7-5ce8cdd77333> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawliberty.org/is-big-government-here-to-stay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957189 | 2,249 | 2.09375 | 2 |
For companies that are concerned about the security and integrity of their data, an onsite data backup plan is simply not enough. Disasters such as major cyber attacks or physical fires can wipe out the digital or physical records, costing companies money both in terms of lost opportunities and time spent replacing data. Customer satisfaction is also significantly reduced when a company is incapable of fulfilling its duties due to a loss of data.
The Best Solution to Data Storage Security Concerns
The best way to make sure that crucial files are always available is to use offsite data storage. Companies can store data in a remote location using disk drives and other forms of removable storage media.
With offsite data storage, crucial data is encrypted and compressed so that it can be stored at a lower cost. The data is often connected to a network, such as the Internet, allowing for organizations to immediately access data after an emergency.
Saving Money with Offsite Data Storage
Managing the offsite data storage point can be be expensive, which is why some companies offer data storage services. Multiple companies can store their data on the same server, allowing for a reduction of costs. Companies have access to customer support, giving them the peace of mind to know that someone will always be available to help when there is an emergency.
Backup operations are also carried out automatically, which ensures that there is never a time when the data is not secure. This frees up time and attention and allows it to be allocated to tasks that have a more direct impact on the profitability of the business.
Many offsite data storage services offer a variety of storage options based on the needs of the company. For data that must be retrieved quickly, the best option is to use disk storage. However, for data that does not need to be accessed very often and for which security is a high concern, tapes are a better form of storage. Tapes are also much more cost-effective. Regardless of which option is used, the data is typically encrypted to reduce the chance of unauthorized access. | <urn:uuid:978654e1-97ca-4ede-adfb-bef376d619e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ssbrm.com/the-importance-of-offsite-data-storage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960973 | 411 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Spirea Nipponica Rhs. Suitable for growing in pots and containers. ( 4 customer reviews) a spreading, deciduous shrub.
The cultivar 'snowmound' has gained the royal horticultural society's. Japonica, although at one time s. Banks and slopes, cottage/informal, beds and borders, low maintenance.
Suitable For Planting In Sunny And Partially Shaded Locations.
It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by rhs. Spiraea nipponica 'white carpet' the rhs award of garden merit (agm) helps gardeners choose the best plants for their garden. The genus formerly included the herbaceous species now segregated into the.
Easy To Grow In Any Soil So Long As It Is Moist.
Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 4 customer ratings. It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by rhs experts. Japonica, although at one time s.
In The U.s., But Apparently Not In Europe, It Is Sometimes Marketed.
Compact and easy to grow, it makes a fantastic low hedge. The cultivar 'snowmound' has gained the royal horticultural society's. In this previous view bumald spirea was regarded as a hybrid between two species and named s.
This Shrub Is Deciduous So It Will Lose All Its Leaves In Autumn, Then Fresh New Foliage Appears Again Each Spring.
Rhs plants for pollinators plants. The rhs award of garden merit (agm) helps gardeners choose the best plants for their garden. When young it is a slender, slightly arching, shrub, but.
Otherwise Known As Tosa Spirea, You Won't Be Disappointed By What This Deciduous Shrub Has To Offer.
Spirea japonica ‘goldflame’ is a colourful shrub. The name ‘nipponica’ means from japan, but this is not the japanese spirea, which is spiraea japonica. Spiraea nipponica 'snowmound' is the proud owner of a prestigious rhs award of garden merit, producing a mound of dark green foliage topped with small white flowers from march, resembling, as the name suggests, snow on top of a mound. | <urn:uuid:54ca62d7-f9d9-4cee-983f-c66cb0291c45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://romeocafaro.com/spirea-nipponica-rhs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.913996 | 499 | 1.734375 | 2 |
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fungus that is edible when young and fresh; has a dark brown convex cap with a yellow to greenish under surface and reddish stalk
Sorry, no etymologies found.
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Among leaders who lack insight, abuse abounds, but for one who hates corruption, the future is bright. ~Proverbs 28:16(The Message)
>People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced by someone they can trust, a person of good character. If you want to become someone who can positively influence other people:
1. Model consistency of character. Solid trust can only develop when people can trust you all the time
2. Employ honest communication. To be trustworthy, you have to be like a good musical composition: your words and music must match.
3. Value transparency. If you’re honest with people and admit your weaknesses, they appreciate your honesty. And they are able to relate to you better.
4. Exemplify humility. People won’t trust you if they see that you are driven by ego, jealousy, or the belief that you are better than they are.
5. Demonstrate your support of others. Nothing develops or displays your character better than your desire to put others first.
6. Fulfill your promises. One of the fastest ways to break trust with others is in failing to fulfill your commitments.
How to Add Value to Others
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.” ~ Matthew 4:23
When people think about you, do they say to themselves, “My life is better because of that person”? Their response probably answers the question of whether you are adding value to them. To succeed personally, you must try to help others. That’s why Zig Ziglar says, “You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.” How do you do that? How can you turn your focus from yourself and start adding value to others? You can do it by:
1. Putting others first in your thinking.
2. Finding out what others need.
3. Meeting that need with excellence and generosity.
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The doubting beleever
The doubting beleever: or, A treatise containing 1. The nature 2. The kinds 3. The springs 4. The remedies of doubtings, incident to weak beleevers. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Bachelor in Divinity, and Minister of Coggeshall in Essex.
City of Publication
printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Thomas Nicols, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Alley at the sing of the Bible, 1641.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S2369; ESTC Citation R19426
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Salmon industry explores tiny seed with unique balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids
Vegetable oil isn’t just for cooking anymore.
As of January 2017, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved the use of mechanically extracted camelina oil as a feed ingredient for farmed salmon and trout – a policy change likely to benefit the aquaculture industry in Canada.
“It is possible that [camelina oil] can replace part of the fish oil typically used in the feeds for salmon without impact on health, growth or nutritional characteristics,” Dr. Ian Forster, a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada who studies the extent to which camelina oil could replace fish oil in diets for juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). “If replacing some of the fish oil is possible, this would reduce the dependence of salmon farming on marine sources (fish oil) for food.”
Camelina sativa, or false flax, is a hardy, oilseed plant that’s rich in omega-3 (n-3) and omega-6 (n-6) fatty acids, protein and antioxidants. Grown worldwide, it’s a tiny seed used for human consumption that also has big potential for driving the “green” economy, from providing environmentally friendly jet fuel to dietary and cosmetic supplements to livestock and agriculture feeds.
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Why Circumcision in Men Should Be Encouraged
When a minor surgery to remove the foreskin from the surface of the male organ is done, circumcision is said to have taken place. A minor surgical procedure is performed on the manhood to remove the foreskin. It is usually performed on newborn boys but can also be done on older boys and men. There are special clinics that offer circumcision services, which this article will discuss.
Circumcision is a procedure that has been performed over the years for religious reasons. Circumcision is also done as an instruction from medical practitioners when there are medical issues that can only be corrected through the removal of the foreskin. In some communities, circumcision is a cultural ritual.
There are various useful reasons why circumcision should be done. Consider inquiring about the advantages of male circumcision before undergoing the procedure. The following are some of the benefits associated with male circumcision.
Sensitivity is reduced on the male organ once the foreskin is removed. Sensitivity on the foreskin on the male genitalia is caused by the nerve endings surrounding it. Sensitivity hinders gratifying sex since the male is unable to withstand the sensitivity for long.
When the foreskin is surgically removed, infections of the urinary tract are reduced. Medical researches have found out that Urinary tract infections are less common in men than women. However, uncircumcised males are more prone to infections than the circumcised ones. Renal failure may be a result of urinary tract infections later in life for affected males. To counter kidney problems, urinary tract infections should be prevented which is why circumcision should be advocated.
It is easier to clean the male genitalia in the absence of the foreskin. Since a long folded piece of fresh, the foreskin is able to cover dirt Upon circumcision, the part covered by the foreskin is exposed, making its cleaning easier.
Male circumcision is also a way of cancer prevention. Uncircumcised males are more prone to penile cancer than circumcised males. Cervical cancer in females is also more common in female sexual partners of males that are uncircumcised. All preventative measures against cancer must be embraced because it is a painful and killer disease By circumcising males, cancer of the male organ and that of the cervix can be prevented.
When male circumcision is performed, risks of sexually transmitted diseases is lowered. That is because irritation on the manhood during sex is reduced because when the foreskin is removed, the male organ becomes tougher. On the foreskin, mucosal linings are plenty, which, when exposed, gives way for disease-causing microorganisms you’re your body. These linings are removed upon circumcision; thus, reducing the risk of transmission of germs across sexual partners.
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Matthew 9:9-13 NIV
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist opens up about Jerusalem and Israel. Peterson shares his thoughts from a psychological point of view of the religious connections to the Holy City.
Peterson born in 1962, a Canadian Clinical Psychologist. His main area of studies are abnormal, social and personality psychology. With a particular interest in psychology of religious and ideological beliefs.
Peterson has written two books, Maps of Meaning: Architecture of Belief (1999). This book examines the “structure of systems of belief and the role those systems play in the regulation of emotion” using “multiple academic fields to show that connecting myths and beliefs with science is essential to fully understand how people make meaning”. His second book, 12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018). It provides life advice through essays on abstract ethical principles, psychology, mythology, religion, and personal anecdotes.
Peterson is an outspoken opponent of aggressive political correctness and post-modernism and publicly criticized Google for firing an engineer who wrote a memo citing scientific studies on differences between men and women that some in the company found offensive.
Jerusalem, a holy city to all religions, a city that can be dated back for centuries. The Jewish People have held a connection to Jerusalem. It is in the direction of Jerusalem, the religious pray. Where the Temple, the House of God once stood. Today, the only part left standing is the Western Wall, where many religious Jews from all over the World come to pray.
Religiously, for the Arabs, it is where Mohammed was taken on his night journey. It is also said to be the place where he ascended to heaven with the angel Gabriel. Muslims also used to pray towards Jerusalem, until Mohammed changed it to Mecca. Christians, as well have a religious connection to Jerusalem. They believe their savior was crucified here and was buried in Jerusalem.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is the entity that handles driver’s licenses, vehicular fines, the point system, driving records, and other items related to the operation of a motor vehicle in the Lone Star State. The Texas DPS is the agency that will restrict, suspend, or revoke your driver’s license if you are charged with and convicted of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). It is the agency you will need to contact to fight any suspension and to have your driver’s license reinstated. Let’s explore the ways the DPS handles DWI cases in today’s post.
The Administrative License Revocation Program
In Texas, DPS operates the Administrative License Revocation (ALR) Program. This program will try to suspend or revoke your driver’s license if you are arrested for DWI by any law enforcement official in Texas. The circumstances under which they may revoke your license include the following:
- You fail a breath or blood test.
- You refuse to take a breath or blood test.
- Your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) level is 0.08 or higher according to a blood or breath test when driving a non-commercial vehicle.
- Your BAC level is 0.04 or higher according to a blood or breath test when driving a commercial vehicle.
Having your driver’s license or Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) suspended under the ALR program is a punishment separate from the criminal court proceedings.
The ALR Process
The process for ALR is as follows:
- You fail or refuse a blood or breath test.
- An officer may confiscate your driver’s license.
- The officer should provide you with a driver’s license suspension notice.
- The officer issues you a temporary driving permit.
- You have 15 days from receipt of the suspension notice to request a hearing to fight the suspension
- If you fail to request a hearing, the suspension begins after 40 days of receiving the notice.
- You have to pay a $125 fee, along with any other outstanding fines and fees, to reinstate your Texas DPS driver’s license after the suspension period is over.
Requesting a Hearing
You (or your attorney) should always request a hearing regarding the suspension or revocation of your driver’s license. DPS will respond in writing to the address you provide. The letter sent to you by DPS will include the date, time, and location of your hearing. Sometimes it can take months for DPS to schedule a hearing.
An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) will preside over the hearing. The ALJ will hear testimony from you and a DPS attorney, and then he or she will determine whether DPS proved its case against you. If they did, your license will be suspended. If they did not, the ALJ will rule in your favor not suspend your license. You may request an appeal to the judge’s decision, but you must submit your appeal petition within 30 days of the ruling to the DPS via certified mail.
You Only Have 15 Days! Call an Attorney Today
If you are facing a driver’s license suspension related to a DWI, you need to enlist the services of an experienced and professional Texas DWI attorney. The expert team of attorneys at Flood and Associates will fight tirelessly for your rights, seek the retrieval of your driver’s license, and defend you from DWI charges. Contact our team 24/7, 365 at 713-224-5529 for a free case review. | <urn:uuid:fcf2cb66-b747-45fc-bf93-f2ca6710b6d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tylerflood.com/news/need-know-texas-dps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.908973 | 738 | 1.710938 | 2 |
California State University, Northridge Chicana/o studies professor Lara Medina explores the spiritual healing within indigenous ancestral traditions in her new book “Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices,” an anthology of wisdom writings and spiritual practices co-edited by Medina and Martha R. Gonzales and published by The University of Arizona Press.
“Voices from the Ancestors” brings together the reflective writings, spiritual practices and visual art of Xicanx, Latinx, Afro-Latinx and select male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the legacy of colonization and on-going societal challenges by reconnecting to their ancestral traditions and knowledge.
“For me, I started very consciously working to decolonize my spirituality by living with a spiritual consciousness from a non-western perspective, which means understanding the profound interconnectedness between all forms of life and reciprocity as foundational values,” Medina said. “Many Xicanx and Latinx, have returned to our indigenous ancestral knowledges that were silenced the period of colonization and that continue to be dismissed or ignored by mainstream societies.”
The book highlights the wisdoms from the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions and lived experiences. It acknowledges the interconnectedness that past generations had with each other, with all of nature and how reclaiming their spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies carries medicine to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
The wisdoms offered in the book appear as reflective essays, poetry, specific guidelines for healing practices and visual art that is meant to address how to live holistically with a spiritual consciousness.
“There’s a lot of trauma being experienced in our communities because of the state of the country right now, and many of the practices and the knowledge that we collected and edited fort this book are healing practices to address trauma, both historical trauma and contemporary trauma.
Medina was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, earned a masters of arts degree in theology from The Graduate Theological Union in Berkley, Calif., and a doctorate in history from Claremont Graduate University.
Gonzales, co-editor of the book, was raised in East Los Angeles, she earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her doctorate in literature from the University of California, San Diego. Currently, Gonzales teaches in the Ethnic Studies Department at Glendale Community College. | <urn:uuid:a6184d38-d780-434f-ad81-74181e8a6528> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sanfernandosun.com/2020/02/12/csun-chicana-o-professor-explores-the-spiritual-healing-of-ancestral-traditions-and-knowledge-in-her-new-book/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941878 | 518 | 1.773438 | 2 |
How Edge Computing Can Streamline Your Business Operations
Edge computing is a distributed computing framework that helps you process and manage data close to the devices that generate it. Such capability brings tremendous business benefits such as faster insights, lower operational costs, and improved response times.
By processing data closer to the point where it’s generated, edge computing also provides improved security for your data.
Let’s take a detailed look at how edge computing can benefit your business.
“The global edge computing market is expected to grow from USD $3.6 billion in 2020 to USD $15.7 billion by 2025” — MarketsandMarkets
Benefits of Edge Computing
Edge computing is growing rapidly and comes with a plethora of benefits. Here’s how it can help improve your business operations.
Traditional cloud computing architecture is vulnerable to security threats such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks — the malicious attacks aimed at disrupting the normal traffic of a network or server. Edge computing makes it hard for perpetrators to take down a server or network by distributing storage and processing across multiple devices and data centers.
Speed is vital for the core running of most businesses. If you provide data-driven services, lagging speeds will frustrate your customers and can damage your brand’s reputation. A critical benefit of edge computing is its ability to improve network performance by reducing latency issues.
Lower Operational Costs
Unlike in cloud computing, your collected data doesn’t need to travel back to the central server each time you process or alter it. This lowers your operational costs and decreases your storage needs.
Scalability and Accelerated Data Analytics
Due to its close proximity, edge computing makes it easy for you to scale your business operations. Since edge computing tackles latency issues, it also accelerates your data analytics capabilities and decision-making.
Edge computing can help you increase operational efficiency and provide faster services to your customers. A proper approach to edge computing will provide improved security on your data and will cut your operational costs tremendously.
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Background: Small intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) show apoptosis in physiological turnover of cells and in certain inflammatory diseases.
Aims: To investigate the role of caspases in the progression of IEC apoptosis in vivo.
Methods: IEC were separated along the villus-crypt axis from the jejunum of normal and Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infected rats at 4°C. Caspases were examined by a fluorometric assay method, histochemistry, and immunoblotting.
Results: Villus cell rich IEC from normal rats exhibited a high level of caspase-3-like activity whereas activities of caspase-1, -8, and -9 were negligible. Immunoblotting analysis of villus cell rich IEC revealed partial cleavage of procaspase-3 into a 17 kDa molecule as well as cleavage of a caspase-3 substrate, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), whereas in crypt cell rich IEC, caspase-3 cleavage was less significant. Caspase-3 activity was also observed histochemically in villus epithelium on frozen sections of the normal small intestine. IEC prepared at 4°C did not reveal nuclear degradation whereas subsequent incubation in a suspension at 37°C induced intense nuclear degradation within one hour in accordance with increases in active caspase-3. This apoptosis was partially suppressed by the caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-fmk. Nematode infected animals showed villus atrophy together with significant increases in levels of caspase-3 in IEC but not of caspase-1, -8, or -9.
Conclusion: Caspase-3 may have an important role in the physiological replacement of IEC as well as in progression of IEC apoptosis induced by nematode infection.
- small intestine
- IEC, intestinal epithelial cells
- PARP, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
- DMEM, Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium
- FCS, fetal calf serum
- BrdU, bromodeoxyuridine
- PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen
- ALP, alkaline phosphatase
- VCU, villus-crypt units
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- IEC, intestinal epithelial cells
- PARP, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
- DMEM, Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium
- FCS, fetal calf serum
- BrdU, bromodeoxyuridine
- PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen
- ALP, alkaline phosphatase
- VCU, villus-crypt units
In vitro studies have shown that apoptosis occurs in epithelial or endothelial cells when these cells are experimentally displaced from the extracellular matrix. This detachment induced apoptosis, or anoikis, was suppressed by replating the dissociated cells within a short time of suspension.1–3 The mechanism responsible for this detachment induced apoptosis remains unclear but it has been ascribed to loss of integrin mediated survival signals derived from the extracellular matrix.1–3 Detachment induced apoptosis has important roles in maintaining or modulating the normal epithelial architecture, such as those of the skin4 and the gastrointestinal tract,5 and in involution of the mammary gland.3 In the gastrointestinal tract, there are well defined zones of proliferation and migration of epithelial cells, and cells are finally lost by shedding from the distal end of the migration route with evidence of apoptosis.5 Normal colonic crypt epithelial cells undergo apoptosis rapidly in vitro due to the loss of anchorage during isolation at 37°C, while isolation at low temperatures can suppress this apoptosis.6
A number of studies have indicated that the final stage of apoptosis involves activation of caspases, which are constitutively expressed in most cells as single chain proenzymes.7,8 During apoptosis triggered by signals such as cytochrome c released from mitochondria or ligation of the death receptor Fas or tumour necrosis factor receptor-1, procaspases are activated to fully functional proteases by proteolytic cleavage. Cytochrome c induces caspase-9 activation.9 Caspase-8 is activated early during Fas mediated apoptosis.10 Caspase-1 has also been reported to be activated in Fas mediated apoptosis.11 Caspase-3 acts downstream of other caspases and is responsible either partially or totally for proteolytic cleavage of many key proteins such as lamins, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), and beta-catenin.7,8 Grossmann and colleagues12 reported that isolated normal colonic epithelial cells showed rapid activation of caspase-6 and -3 before DNA fragmentation. Caspase activation has also been reported in certain cell types such as lens epithelial cells and human epidermal cells when they terminally differentiate and lose their nucleus and other organelles.13,14
In the small intestine, cells generated from stem cells at the base of the crypt differentiate into absorptive cells and are finally lost from the tips of villi, resulting in replacement of lining cells every two to three days.5 Apoptotic cells are normally observed at the tips of villi as well as in crypts.5 In certain inflammatory conditions such as coeliac disease, nematode infections, and graft versus host disease, numbers of apoptotic nuclei were reported to be increased in villus epithelial cells,15–17 indicating that apoptosis has important roles not only in physiological replacement of villus epithelial cells but also in pathological conditions. In this respect, it is of interest to determine whether caspases are involved in the turnover of villus epithelial cells in the small intestine. In the present study, we examined activities of caspase-1, -3, -8, and -9 in epithelial cells of the small intestine of normal rats as well as in rats infected with the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, which induces partial villus atrophy together with enhancement of apoptosis in villus epithelial cells.16
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Specific pathogen free male Brown Norway/Sea (BN) rats were purchased from SLC Inc. (Shizuoka, Japan).
Animals, eight weeks of age, were injected subcutaneously with 2000 N brasiliensis third stage larvae, as described elsewhere.16
Preparation of intestinal epithelial cells (IEC)
The process of separation of IEC was carried out at 4°C in EDTA-Hanks' solution (Ca2+, Mg2+ free Hanks' balanced salt solution supplemented with 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.3, and 0.5 or 1.0 mM EDTA). To obtain serial fractions of epithelial cells along the crypt-villus axis (fractions A–D), a segment of proximal jejunum was removed, opened longitudinally, and cut into segments 1 cm in length. After a brief wash in phosphate buffered saline, four pieces of tissue were placed into a 15 ml tube containing 4 ml of 0.5 mM EDTA-Hanks' solution. After 20 minutes, epithelial cells (fraction A) were separated by vigorous shaking of the tubes for five seconds and tissues were transferred into another tube containing 0.5 mM EDTA-Hanks' solution. This process was repeated two more times with a 20 minute interval to obtain fractions B and C. After separation of fraction C, tissues were transferred into a tube containing 1.0 mM EDTA-Hanks' solution, and after 30 minutes the remaining epithelial cells (fraction D) were separated by vigorous shaking of the tube for 20 seconds. Detached epithelial cells in tubes A–D were collected by centrifugation at 600 g for five minutes at 4°C, and cell pellets were kept at −80°C until use. Histological examination of the tissue after collection of fraction D showed that villus epithelial cells were separated completely whereas epithelial lining cells in the lower part of crypts were still attached to the tissue in approximately half of the crypts. The basal lamina of the epithelium was intact and lamina propria cells were retained in the tissue. To obtain total IEC, tissues were immersed in cold 1.0 mM EDTA-Hanks' solution for one hour, and epithelial cells were separated by vigorous shaking of the tube for 20 seconds.
Ex vivo incubation of IEC
IEC were suspended in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) supplemented with or without 5% fetal calf serum (FCS), and incubated (3×106 /ml) in petri dishes at 37°C under a 5% CO2 atmosphere. In some experiments, the serine protease inhibitor TLCK (Sigma, St Louis, Missouri, USA), the caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-fmk (Peptide Institute Inc., Osaka, Japan), or an equivalent amount of DMSO was added to the culture medium.
Tissue and cell extract
To minimise the possibility of activation of caspases during the extraction process, tissue extracts were prepared as quickly as possible at 4°C. Briefly, tissues were resected from the glandular stomach, jejunum (20 cm from the pyloric ring), ileum (10 cm oral from the ileum end), and transverse colon, washed briefly in cold phosphate buffered saline, and cut into small segments. Approximately 100 mg of tissue were immersed in 1 ml of extraction buffer (25 mM HEPES, pH 7.3, containing 0.5% NP40, 1 mM DTT, 2 mM EDTA, 2 mM PMSF, 20 mg/ml leupeptin, 5 mg/ml pepstatin, and 5 mg/ml aprotinin) and immediately vortexed for 60 seconds. After discarding the tissue, the crude extracts were further subjected to one cycle of freezing-thawing and centrifuged at 15 000 g for five minutes at 4°C. The supernatant was stored at −80°C until use. Cytosolic extracts of IEC were prepared by two cycles of freezing-thawing of the cells in 1 ml of cold extraction buffer. Protein concentration was determined by the Bradford method.
Fluorometric assay of caspases
Activities of caspases were measured by a fluorometric method, as described previously,18–20 with minor modifications. The fluorogenic synthetic substrates Ac-DEVD-AMC, Ac-YVAD-AMC, Ac-IETD-AMC, and Ac-LEHD-AMC, and specific inhibitors Ac-DEVD-CHO, Ac-YVAD-CHO, Ac-IETD-CHO, and Ac-LEHD-CHO were purchased from Peptide Institute Inc. Briefly, appropriately diluted cell or tissue extracts were added to caspase reaction buffer (100 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, 10 mM DTT, 10% sucrose, 0.1% CHAPS) containing 10 mM substrate, and the reaction mixtures were monitored continuously at 26°C in a spectrofluorometer at an excitation wavelength of 380 nm and an emission wavelength of 460 nm. Standard curves were generated with AMC.
Histochemical demonstration of caspase-3 activity
A segment of jejunum was removed and snap frozen in liquid nitrogen. Cryostat sections (10 μm) were cut and mounted on glass slides. Immediately after fixation in acetone for 10 seconds and air drying, sections were overlaid with 7 μl of a solution containing 0.5% (w/v) carboxymethylcellulose sodium salt, high viscosity (Sigma Chemical Co.), 20 mM Ac-DEVD-AMC, 0.01 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, 10 mM DTT, and 0.1% CHAPS, with or without Ac-DEVD-CHO, and covered with a glass coverslip (18×18 mm). Sections were immediately observed at room temperature under a fluorescence microscope (Olympus excitation filter UG-1 peaked at 370 nm and absorption filter L-420). Carboxymethylcellulose yielded high viscosity to reduce dispersion of fluorescent AMC on tissue sections during observation.
Cell pellets or tissues cut into small pieces were directly immersed in sodium dodecyl sulphate sample buffer containing 5% 2-ME, and heated at 95°C for five minutes. Proteins were separated on 4–20% gradient sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gels, and electrotransferred onto Immobilon P membranes (Millipore Corp., Bedford, Massachusetts, USA). After blocking with 5% non-fat dry milk, immunodetection was carried out using antibodies against caspase-3, PARP, actin, and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc., Santa Cruz, California, USA), followed by incubation with Envision (Dako, Carpinteria, California, USA).
Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity
ALP activity was determined according to the method described previously,21 with p-nitrophenylphosphate as substrate.
Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation assay
Rats received an intraperitoneal injection of BrdU (100 mg/kg), one hour before sacrifice, and IEC were isolated as described above. IEC were resuspended in a solution containing 10 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.4, 10 mM NaCl, 3 mM MgCl2, and 1 mM DTT, homogenised gently in a glass homogeniser, and nuclei were collected by centrifugation. Isolated nuclei were seeded onto 96 well plates (5×104/well) and dried at 60°C for two hours. The amount of BrdU was measured with an ELISA kit (Amersham Life Science Ltd., Amersham Place, UK) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Hoechst 33258 (10 μg/ml; Sigma) dissolved in DMEM was added to IEC cultures 20 minutes before harvesting of cells. Nuclei were observed under a fluorescence microscope.
DNA extraction and electrophoresis
Total DNA was extracted by the phenol/chloroform method and electrophoresed on a 2% agarose gel. The gel was stained with ethidium bromide and DNA bands were visualised by ultraviolet fluorescence.
Partial purification of caspase-3 from IEC
Total IEC were obtained as described above from the whole length of the small intestine. IEC extracts were applied to a Mono Q chromatography column (Pharmacia, Uppsala, Sweden) and eluted with increasing NaCl concentrations up to 0.5 M. The fraction with peak DEVD-AMC cleavage activity was further purified by Superose 12 (Pharmacia) gel filtration. The final enzyme preparation had a specific activity of 57 000 pmol/min/mg, and western blotting analysis showed a 32 kDa proenzyme and 19 and 17 kDa cleaved caspase-3 but sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed contamination by many other protein bands.
In vitro PARP cleavage
PARP isolated from bovine thymus (Biomol Research Laboratories Inc., Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA) (17 ng/μl) was incubated with partially purified IEC caspase-3 (0.5 U/μl) in caspase reaction buffer with or without 10 μM DEVD-CHO at 37°C. Caspase-3 1 U was defined as the amount capable of degradation of 1 pmol DEVD-AMC/min.
Animals were sacrificed by excess inhalation of ether. A segment of the jejunum 15–20 cm distal to the pyloric ring was removed, opened longitudinally, fixed in 4% buffered formalin overnight, and embedded in paraffin in such a position that histological sections could be cut perpendicular to the luminar surface. Measurements were carried out on haematoxylin and eosin stained sections cut at 5 μm. Twenty villus-crypt units (VCU), which were cut exactly perpendicularly, were selected from three sections per animal, and lengths of villi and crypts were measured directly under a microscope using an ocular lens with a micrometer. The average length in 20 VCU was employed as the representative length in a given animal, and the means (SD) of five animals were calculated. The surface to volume ratio was measured as described by Dunnill and Whitehead.22 Briefly, sections were projected onto a white board on which was drawn 15 lines of equal length as described by Weibel.23 Magnification was such that the length of each line corresponded to a length (L) of 1.4×10−2 cm. The section was projected at random onto the template lines and the number of times the lines cut the mucosal surface (c) and the number of times the end points of the lines fell on mucosal tissue (h) were counted from 20 randomly selected fields/animal. The ratio c/Lh gives an index of the volume to surface ratio, and the mean number of h per field gives an index of mucosal volume.
Student's t test was employed for statistical analysis, and a p value of less than 0.5 was considered significant.
Caspase activities in the normal gastrointestinal tract
Caspase activities were examined in tissue extracts from the glandular stomach, jejunum, ileum, and colon of normal rats using fluorogenic substrates DEVD-AMC, IETD-AMC, LEHD-AMC, and YVAD-AMC for caspase-3, -8, -9, and -1, respectively. To avoid activation of caspases during extraction, the procedures were carried out rapidly at 4°C (see methods). Unexpectedly, significantly high levels of caspase-3-like activity were detected in extracts from the normal jejunum and ileum, although activity was negligible in the stomach and colon (fig 1A). Caspase-3-like activity in the jejunum was suppressed significantly in the presence of the specific inhibitor DEVD-CHO (fig 1B). Immunoblotting of extracts from the jejunum and ileum showed 19 and 17 kDa cleaved forms as well as a 32 kDa proenzyme of caspase-3, indicating that caspase-3 was partially activated (fig 1C). Extracts from the stomach and colon showed only caspase-3 proenzyme.
Cleavage activities for IETD-AMC and LEHD-AMC were also detected at low levels in the jejunum extracts but their activities were markedly suppressed not only by the respective specific inhibitors but also by DEVD-CHO, suggesting that these activities may have been derived from caspase-3, and not from caspase-8 or -9 (fig 2). YVAD-AMC cleavage activity was not detected.
To determine whether caspase-3 activity in the small intestine is derived from IEC, serial fractions of epithelial cells (A–D) were prepared at 4°C from the jejunum (see methods). ALP activity, a marker for differentiated absorptive cells, was highest in extracts of fraction A and declined gradually in the subsequent fractions (fig 3A). In contrast, BrdU incorporation was high in fraction D, suggesting that this fraction was rich in crypt lining cells, and fractions A–C were rich in villus epithelial cells (fig 3A). High levels of caspase-3-like activity were observed in fractions A–C whereas those of crypt cell rich fraction D and the residual tissue were significantly lower than those of fractions A–C (fig 3A). Western blotting analysis of epithelial cell fractions also showed that levels of expression of the 17 kDa cleaved form of caspase-3 were high in fractions A–C and low in fraction D. On the other hand, PCNA expression was higher in fraction D than in fractions A–C (fig 3B). Caspase-3 activity in separated total IEC was inhibited with as little as 1 nM DEVD-CHO (fig 3C), and the Km for DEVD-AMC estimated from Lineweaver-Burk (double reciprocal) plots was 17.7 mM.
To confirm that the majority of caspase-3-like activity in the normal small intestine was derived from villus epithelial cells, caspase-3-like activity was analysed histochemically on cryostat sections of snap frozen normal jejunum. AMC fluorescence appeared over villus epithelium immediately after incubation of cryostat sections with substrate at room temperature (25°C) (fig 4A). This activity was localised mainly in the cytoplasm apical to the nucleus, while nuclei and goblet cell vacuoles were negative (fig 4B). The activity was completely inhibited in the presence of 10 μM DEVD-CHO (fig 4C). Some lamina propria cells exhibited slightly greenish autofluorescence (fig 4B, C), and this could be distinguished from the blue fluorescence derived from AMC.
Caspase-3 was partially purified from extracts of IEC (see methods), and its PARP cleavage activity was examined in vitro. Addition of IEC caspase-3 preparation to PARP induced rapid cleavage of the latter to an 85 kDa degraded form (fig 5A). Immunoblotting analysis of PARP in IEC extract showed the presence of the intact as well as the degraded form of PARP (fig 5B).
Induction of IEC apoptosis in vitro
IEC separated at 4°C revealed no nuclear degradation. When these cells were transferred to culture dishes and incubated in a suspension at 37°C, apoptotic nuclear degradation developed within one hour (fig 6A). Levels of caspase-3-like activity in cytosolic extracts were also increased after 20 and 40 minutes of incubation, and at 60 minutes and thereafter activity as well as the 17 kDa cleaved form of caspase-3 emerged and increased in the culture supernatant (fig 6B, C). On the other hand, there were no increases in activities of caspase-1, -8, or -9 after incubation at 37°C (data not shown). Addition of the caspase inhibitor VAD-fmk to the culture medium showed dose dependent partial suppression of nuclear degradation, while the serine protease inhibitor TLCK did not (fig 7A). VAD-fmk also suppressed the release of 17 kDa caspase-3 into the supernatant (fig 7B). DNA electrophoresis showed only slight suppression of the formation of oligonucleosomal fragments in the presence of VAD-fmk (data not shown). Addition of the specific caspase-3 inhibitor DEVD-fmk did not suppress apoptosis, at least up to a dose of 100 μM. However, immunoblotting analysis indicated that caspase-3 activation proceeded even in the presence of DEVD-fmk, suggesting that DEVD-fmk was not efficiently absorbed in the cells (data not shown).
Activation of caspases in IEC after nematode infection
Previously, we reported that infection by the intestinal nematode N brasiliensis induced increases in the number of TUNEL positive cells in the epithelium of the upper part of the villi together with reduction of villus length.16 In the present study, we examined whether caspase-3 is involved in the progression of apoptosis induced by nematode infection. Ten days postinfection when high worm burden was observed in a segment of the jejunum, significant reductions in villus length as well as surface to volume ratio were observed, and these alterations persisted at least until 20 days postinfection (table 1). In contrast, crypt length showed elongation. Levels of caspase-3 activity in total tissue extracts were increased significantly 10 days postinfection, while they returned to normal levels 20 days postinfection when the majority of worms had been rejected from the jejunum. IEC fraction A also revealed significant increases in caspase-3 activity, while IEC obtained after separation of fraction A showed no significant increases (fig 8). Activities of caspase-1, -8, and -9 did not change significantly after infection (data not shown). DEVD-AMC cleavage activity in the small intestine was also examined histochemically on cryostat sections of normal rats and of those 7, 10, and 20 days postinfection. Despite the significant increases in caspase-3 activity in the IEC fraction A after infection detected by fluorometric assay, the histochemical AMC fluorescence pattern over villus epithelium in animals after infection was similar to that of controls, probably due to the low sensitivity of the DEVD-AMC histochemical method (data not shown).
The present study showed high levels of caspase-3-like activity in extracts of the normal small intestine, and this activity was derived from partially activated caspase-3 in villus epithelial cell rich IEC. In contrast, in crypt cell rich IEC, levels of activity and the 17 kDa cleaved form of caspase-3 were significantly lower than those in villus cell rich IEC. It is unlikely that procaspase-3 in the villus epithelium was activated during the extraction process as rapid extraction was carried out at 4°C immediately after tissue resection. Furthermore, caspase-3-like activity was demonstrated histochemically over villus epithelium in cryostat sections of snap frozen small intestine. These results indicated that partial activation of caspase-3 occurs after crypt lining cells differentiate into villus absorptive cells. The estimated Km of IEC extracts for DEVD-AMC cleavage (17.7 mM) compared relatively favourably with that reported for caspase-3 purified from apoptotic cell extracts (Km of 9.7–13.6 mM).18 Partially purified caspase-3 from normal IEC efficiently cleaved PARP, one of the target substrates of caspase-3, in vitro and IEC extracts revealed the cleaved form of PARP. These results indicated that at least some of the normal villus absorptive cells are already committed to apoptosis even before detachment from the basal lamina.
Despite the presence of active caspase-3 in normal IEC, the majority of cells revealed no morphological features of apoptosis. It seems that the presence of active caspase-3 in the cytoplasm may not necessarily be an indication of impending cell death as long as the cells are adherent to the villus basal lamina. It is possible that active caspase-3 in normal IEC is below a critical level that permits access of caspase-3 to the nuclear substrate. In fact, histochemical analysis demonstrated the presence of caspase-3-like activity in the cytoplasm, but not in the nucleus of IEC. However, isolated normal IEC were highly sensitive to apoptosis when cultured in suspension at 37°C. Nuclear degradation occurred as early as 20 minutes after incubation, concomitantly with significant increases in levels of caspase-3 activity. The parallel increase in caspase-3 activity with progression of nuclear degradation in suspension culture of IEC was consistent with the findings reported in human isolated colonic crypt cells which revealed DNA fragmentation 90 minutes after detachment, preceded by activation of caspase-6 and caspase-3.12 The caspase inhibitor VAD-fmk however suppressed the detachment induced apoptosis of IEC only partially. This suggested that a catastrophic molecular event for execution of apoptosis had already begun when the concentration of the inhibitor reached an effective level in the cells. Alternatively, a death programme that may not depend on caspases may also be present in IEC, as suggested in sperm and chicken erythrocytes.24 Nevertheless, these results showed that nuclear degradation takes places very quickly after IEC are detached from the basal lamina, and caspase activation is involved, at least partially, in this detachment induced apoptosis.
It has been reported that caspase-3 activation is induced by proteolytic cleavage of procaspase-3 through the action of upstream caspases such as caspase-1, -8, -9, and -10,25–27 or granzyme B.28,29 However, the activities of at least caspase-1, -8, and -9 were negligible in IEC of normal as well as nematode infected animals. It was recently reported that RGD containing peptides, inhibitors of integrin-ligand interactions, induce direct induction of autoprocessing and enzymatic activity of procaspase-3.30 Sträter and colleagues31 reported that detachment induced apoptosis of isolated human colonic crypt cells was partially inhibited when cells were in contact with collagen I coated membranes, and anti-β1 integrin antibody caused a much higher rate of apoptosis. In our preliminary experiments however apoptosis of IEC was not suppressed in collagen I coated dishes. On the other hand, it has been reported that in the normal and neoplastic colon, mucosal expression of proapoptotic protein Bak was colocalised with sites of epithelial cell apoptosis.32 Thus members of the Bcl-2 family may have important roles in activation of caspase-3 in IEC. The mechanisms that trigger activation of caspase-3 before as well as after detachment of IEC from the basal lamina should be clarified in future studies.
Caspases have important roles not only in physiological cell death in the development or physiological turnover of cells in adult life but also in the pathogenesis of certain inflammatory diseases. Caspase-1 is crucially involved in immune mediated inflammation because of its pivotal role in regulation of cellular export of interleukin-1β and interleukin-18.27,33,34 In Alzheimer's disease, caspase-3 was suggested to play an important role in both generation of neurotoxic amyloid β peptide as well as in the ultimate death of neurones by apoptosis.35 Certain inflammatory disorders of the small intestine such as coeliac disease and parasite infections are associated with enhanced apoptosis in the IEC with crypt hyperplasia, the latter reflecting enhanced replacement of damaged IEC.15,16 The present results showed that nematode infection induced significant increases in caspase-3 activity in IEC. We previously reported that N brasiliensis infection induced increases in apoptosis in BN rat IEC.16 Thus increases in caspase-3 activity may reflect accelerated apoptosis in IEC after nematode infection. However, it remains to be elucidated whether enhanced apoptosis in IEC is involved in the progression of villus atrophy.
Taken together, our results suggest that in the small intestinal epithelial cells partial activation of caspase-3 takes place after crypt cells are differentiated into villus absorptive cells. Caspase-3 may have important roles in physiological replacement of IEC as well as in the progression of IEC apoptosis induced by nematode infection.
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Analysts expect BP to report $5bn profits for the final quarter in 2010, on Tuesday.
Bob Dudley, BP’s chief executive, will scrap the company’s production targets when he lays out his vision this week for a smaller, more exploration-focused company after last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Analysts expect that BP will pump about 3.6m barrels of oil and gas a day this year, a tenth less than in 2009, when it overtook US group Exxon Mobil to produce more than any other non-state-controlled company.
Sources close to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also told the Observer that the US government is likely to agree to reduce its estimate of the size of the gulf spill, which would cut BP fines.
Water samples from the gulf by US government scientists investigating the environmental damage caused by the spill are also understood to be showing a stronger than expected recovery in fish stocks, further limiting the damages payable by BP. Shell fish stocks remain severely affected however.
In the last year, BP sold assets worth $20bn (£17bn), many of them mature oil and gas fields, partly to raise cash to pay for spill-related costs. The company had also banked on new fields in the gulf to help it achieve its target, set out weeks before the spill, of increasing production by 1%–2% from 4 million barrels per day until 2015. But new regulations will increase the cost and time to develop them.
Analysts at Liberum Capital expect limited production growth after 2012, but more in the longer term as BP focuses on big new finds and unconventional gas.
Peter Hitchens, an analyst from stockbroker Panmure Gordon, said that Dudley could outline plans to eventually increase production by 3% each year, but starting from a lower base. Dudley is also expected to reassure investors that the $39bn provision it has made for spill-related costs will be more than enough. They are forecasting that BP will report a $5bn profit in the final quarter of last year when it unveils annual results on Tuesday, with analysts expecting a similar figure from Shell, which also reports this week.
BP’s profits, and the progress in selling assets, should allow Dudley to restart dividend payments to shareholders – but the predicted payout of 7 cents a share would be roughly half the pre-disaster level.
Last month BP formally challenged the official estimate of the size of the spill, made by US government scientists, of 4.9m barrels, making it the world’s largest offshore accident. BP argues that scientists have miscalculated the flow rate from the Macondo well, and that the actual spill size could be half the official estimate. It will also point to the number of different estimates of the flow rate made by the US government as evidence of their fallibility, and the EPA is understood to accept that no estimate can be 100% accurate.
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In the heat and sun of the past few days, medical emergencies in clinics in Thuringia have increased. The emergency ambulances not only had to deal with the usual suspects such as circulatory problems, sunburn and sunstroke.
Erfurt (dpa/th) - In the past midsummer days, around 15 percent more emergency patients than usual were treated at the Helios Klinikum Erfurt. "Especially when it's particularly humid, there are frequent circulatory problems or severe headaches - heat stroke is also possible," said a spokeswoman for the Helios Kliniken Thüringen Mitte, responsible for the clinics in Erfurt, Gotha, Blankenhain (Weimarer Land) and Bleicherode (Nordhausen). ). According to the rescue service, acute exhaustion, dehydration and the resulting heart attacks, strokes and sugar disorders are currently common. Due to the resulting carelessness of people, more and more wounds after falls and accidents have to be treated.
Small things could help to prevent health problems, especially for younger people and professionals. The Helios clinics included a break in the midday heat, light meals to relieve the strain on the body, cooling off and drinking enough. The in-house kidney specialist Christoph Haufe recommends 30 to 50 percent more liquid. Patients with kidney and heart disease should, however, refrain from this rule of thumb and seek individual advice from their specialist. According to the chief physician at the Erfurt emergency center, Felix Lorang, loose-fitting clothing made of natural fibers or intelligent, modern fibers also prevents the body from overheating.
It looked different until the end in the emergency room of the Jena University Hospital - despite particularly high temperatures in the region. "Interestingly, we have not yet had an increased number of patients," said the head of the emergency room. The emergency rate is currently "normally high," said Jan-Christoph Lewejohann on Wednesday afternoon. It is difficult to predict whether this will remain the case. "That can change in minutes." | <urn:uuid:2a8823bc-8a6c-4523-8085-c77fc8d681db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailynewsen.com/breaking/thuringia-more-emergency-patients-in-the-heat-in-clinics-h51635.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950669 | 419 | 2.25 | 2 |
Strengthening the Bonds of Peace - A Pastoral Reflection on Women in the Church and in Society.
A reflection which examines equality of women and men, leadership in the Church and diversity of gifts. The U.S. Bishops urge the inclusion of women in church governance. USCCB title No. 034-6, 16 pp.
Pope John Paul II on the Genius of Women. A compendium that includes major statements from Pope John Paul II to and about women.
From the U.S. Bishops Committee on Women in Society and in the Church. USCCB title No. 5-113, 84 pp.
From Words to Deeds - Continuing Reflections on the Role of Women in the Church. Guidelines for meeting the challenge of contemporary life by living personally in the Spirit.
A statement of the NCCB Committee on Women and Society and in the Church. Prepared by the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth. USCCB title No. 5-226, 26 pp.
Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) - First Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI
Redemptoris Mater - Encyclical of Pope John Paul II on the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of the Pilgrim Church, March 25, 1987
Visit the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at www.usccb.org
Other Sources for Documents on Women
Mulieris Dignitatem - (On the Dignity of Women), 1988. Apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II.
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced Monday that it will be using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to improve road construction efficiency and safety around the state.
LiDAR determines ranges or distances by targeting an object with a laser and then measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. The technology does this process millions of times per second to generate data on the area measured. That data is then converted into a 3D model of what was measured.
MDOT said it had purchased LiDAR drones to add to its fleet of vehicles that use LiDAR to take measurements and map out road construction projects. Mississippi is one of the first states in the southeast to use LiDAR drone technology in state transportation work, the department said.
The drones allow MDOT workers to perform their fieldwork much faster than traditional measuring tools. The technology also increases safety for MDOT workers, greatly reducing their time on the job near or in moving traffic.
LiDAR drones played a significant role in the slide repair construction of State Route 26 recently, the department said. Completed in five weeks, that project included the complete reconstruction of the roadbed and 300 feet of highway. | <urn:uuid:ced53837-0892-4b8f-9fe2-b6925d627562> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://transportationtodaynews.com/news/25210-mississippi-using-lidar-technology-for-road-construction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966299 | 245 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Money flowed into growth-oriented technology investments in 2020. 2021 investing has a different look. Here’s a way to think about a rotation from growth to value investing when inflation heats up.
In our last two articles, we described the recent worries about higher inflation, and the effects an increase in inflation has on stock and bond prices. (See What’s Up With Inflation? and Could Inflation Affect My Investments?) When inflation expectations are changing, one important type of asset allocation to consider in a well-diversified portfolio is the mix of stocks reflecting two different investment “styles”: growth and value. In short, a value-based investment style may be more effective when inflation expectations are increasing.
Growth & Value Stocks
A growth stock is a share in a company that is expected to grow at a higher than average market rate. An economic sector that often contains growth stocks is the technology space. A recent example of such a company would be the videoconferencing business, Zoom (ticker symbol ZM).
A value stock is a share in a company with a stock price that appears relatively low – today – compared to its current and near-term expected financial performance. Industries that may contain value stocks are usually populated with long-standing, established business models, such as food or groceries. Some analysts have recently considered as value stocks the grocery chain, Kroger (ticker symbol KR) or the meat processor, Tyson Foods (ticker symbol TSN).
Not every investment professional will agree on how to classify a particular company. Because of differences in opinion about individual companies, the overall economic situation, and inflation expectations, a well-timed, properly-sized shift between these two investment styles may help increase overall returns in relation to risk.
The Inflation Effect on Growth & Value Stocks Differs
One driver of the choice between growth and value stocks is inflation expectations. Recently, concerns about inflation increasing for an extended period of time have risen. (What’s Up With Inflation? provides those details.) An expectation of higher future inflation will cause prices of stocks to decline, in general. Why? Very briefly, higher expected inflation drives a higher required rate of return on any investment, which drives down the current value of future corporate earnings. The farther into the future those earnings, the greater the negative effect of higher inflation on their current value. The more the current value of the future earnings is driven down, the lower the stock price. (Could Inflation Affect My Investments? provides a more detailed explanation.)
Because of this timing difference, not all stocks are affected equally. The current share price of growth stocks are largely driven by risk-laden expectations of high profits well into the future (e.g., Uber). The current share price of value stocks are driven by fairly predictable current or near-term performance (e.g., Costco). Since inflation has a stronger negative stock price effect the farther in the future that earnings are expected, increased inflation expectations drive growth stock prices down more than prices of value stocks.
Inflation Impact on Value and Growth Stock Prices
Market Shift to Value in 2021
Investors in the stock market are well aware of this effect, and it is almost certainly one reason for the recent shift in overall investment from growth to value. The chart below illustrates the shift toward growth in 2020, and the rotation to value in 2021.
Change in Invested Assets: Growth versus Value
With the onset of the pandemic in Q1 of 2020, inflation expectations were low, and remote working and learning environments drove rapid adoption of technology from growth companies. Money flowed into growth investments accordingly. Then, in Q1 of 2021, the economy began to open more broadly, federal spending bills kicked in, and inflation fears emerged. This helped drive a shift into value-based investments.
Timing is Everything
The challenge for any investor in deciding when to re-allocate investments is that timing is critical. A rotation from growth into value stocks in February of this year would pay off nicely. A rotation in May would have yielded disappointing results. See chart below.
Percent Change in ETF Net Asset Value: Growth versus Value
In addition to the timing risk, picking between growth and value stocks has other potential downsides. One reason that a value stock may have an attractively low price is because the company has poor prospects, due to its products, markets or management. In other words, the price is low because, quite simply, the company is bad. On the other hand, with respect to a growth stock, inflation fears may be overblown, in which case the high potential earnings will turn out to be more valuable today than commonly thought, possibly making the current stock price quite reasonable.
Pick Your Style Wisely
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.” ~ Aristotle
As in matters of philosophy, moderation in shifting between growth and value stocks, and in making other shifts in asset allocation, is usually wise. Prudent, timely rebalancing toward value stocks in a time of increasing inflation may increase returns. However, this effort requires constant attention to macroeconomic factors, industry trends, specific corporate performance, and individual stock prices, combined with an understanding of how these factors determine when a shift is likely to pay off. A team of focused, experienced investment professionals can help.
Authored by Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk
Cindy Alvarez – Senior Wealth Management Advisor with Wambolt & Associates.
Bob Newkirk is a registered C.P.A, former investment banker, and prior Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago.
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“In 2016, after the final trial took place about my case, I looked at the big box of correspondence sent to me during almost three years in prison,” recounts writer and director Arantza Santesteban in a cafe at the San Sebastian film festival. “I opened the box and looked at the letters. It was at this moment that I knew I wanted to make a film about my almost three years in prison.”
On the night of Oct. 4, 2007, several Spanish National Police Corps vans stopped the car in which Santesteban was travelling. She and her friends were arrested accused of terrorism, due to their political activity in a party declared illegal under the Political Parties Law of 2002. Santesteban would spend 918 nights in prison.
“The film is a way to reflect on what happened in prison, it’s not for catharsis,” says Santesteban. “The film is to reflect. It’s about a process of transformation. There are some stereotypes and cliches around the idea of political prisoners that everyone in society has that I want to dispel.”
Santesteban is a researcher working on the communication, culture, society, and politics master’s program at UNED in Spain, studying questions that relate to cinematographic representation, feminism, and contemporary political conflicts. She obtained a degree in creative documentary from the Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison in 2012 and has since made work for galleries and cinema, including short films “Passatgers” (2012) and “Euritan” (2017).
“Arantza Santesteban came to us at Hiruki Filmak in 2017 and pitched ‘918 Nights,’ and we immediately said yes,” says producer Marina Lameiro. “We presented the film to some laboratories and funds, and in 2018 we took the film to [funding program] Ikusmira Berriak.”
It was at this program that they met producer Marian Fernandez Pascal of Txintxua Films, who helped obtain money from Basque and Spanish public and television funds, used for the production of the film.
They arrived at the inaugural WIP Europa at the San Sebastian Film Festival with an hour of footage. The films selected for WIP Europa compete for the WIP Europa Industry Award and for the WIP Europa Award going to the winning film of the Industry Award. The footage starts with Santesteban looking through her phone in a car and describing what happened at her arrest and contains recollections through still photos, reports and reenactments.
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ATLANTA – A state Senate committee approved its version of an overhaul of Georgia’s mental-health system Monday with some changes from legislation the House passed three weeks ago but with key provisions intact.
House Bill 1013 was introduced by House Speaker David Ralston as a response to Georgia’s dismal 48th ranking among the states in access to mental health and substance abuse services.
The legislation would require health insurance companies that offer mental health coverage to treat mental illness the same way they treat physical illness. The parity provision also would apply to Georgia Medicaid and the State Health Benefit Plan.
The bill also would create a service-cancelable loan program to address a workforce shortage by offering loan forgiveness to several types of mental-health specialists. The new version of the bill approved by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee would add primary-care physicians to the group of health-care professionals who would qualify for the program.
“Workforce is the critical issue we’ve got to address,” said Sen. Dean Burke, R-Bainbridge.
The committee took out language in the bill that drew a deluge of emails opposing the measure from conservative activists. Among other things, it removes a reference to the World Health Organization, which has been a target of conservatives since then-President Donald Trump announced in 2020 the U.S. would pull its funding from the WHO and end its relationship with it.
The panel also sought to clarify a provision that would allow some people determined to be mentally disturbed to be committed involuntarily for up to three days for a psychiatric evaluation without having been charged with a crime. The bill’s opponents had raised fears evaluations could be used to take away a person’s right to own a gun.
Law enforcement officers often take people who are threatening to commit suicide but haven’t committed a crime to a mental health facility to be evaluated, said Sen. Ben Watson, R-Savannah, the committee’s chairman.
“Many times, it’s in the home where parents or a spouse are struggling [with a mentally disturbed person], he said. “It’s not an issue for crime enforcement but more of a mental health issue.”
The Senate bill also would incorporate provisions of other bills that have failed to get through the General Assembly as stand-alone measures. One of those measure would authorize the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth to provide mental health training to police officers.
The other would authorize the training of co-responder teams of police officers and mental-health professionals to answer emergency calls.
The bill also would extend the work of the state’s Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission – a panel formed in 2019 that includes mental health, substance abuse and criminal justice experts - until June 30, 2025. The commission currently is due to wrap up by June 30 of next year.
The legislation, which cleared the committee unanimously, is expected to reach the Senate floor later this week.
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Whether youre moving yourself, hired professional movers or shipping your belongings by freight, one thing is certain, moving can and will put a lot on your plate of responsibility. Moving is never easy and shouldnt be taken lightly. With just a little effort and planning on your next move you can easily save yourself a few hundred dollars.
First, you need to initially prepare yourself to do a little bit of leg work. This is where you need to put the most time into in order to save yourself the cash in the end.
It wont be as hard for you to crack down because you can get several quotes and services at one time these days which saves you that grief of running around. But if you are on a very tight budget it will be worth it in the end.
Second, now you actually have to decide how you want your personal belongings moved. Have you decided to hire a professional moving company, rent a moving truck and self move, or use a portable storage container? Moving does not have to be a bad experience if you just think ahead about your options.
Third, planning is everything. What ever you decided to do you need to have your reservation made as far in advance as possible.
Its so easy these days to go online and search for moving companies and who is offering the best deals. Be careful and dont always assume that just because you got a good rate that the service is going to be just as good, though. You are looking for a cheap moving price, not a cheap moving company. Check with the better business bureau to see how the company compares in terms of great customer service.
Just remember to really clean out the old place. Dont leave anything behind and dont take anything that you really dont use or need.
This will also save space and cut down on costs. To keep yourself on task and organized be sure to have a plan in place. Keeping a checklist is a good idea. Just get rid of all those things you really dont need. Give it away, sell it, throw it away, or leave it behind, but dont waste time and space with the things you dont need anymore.
Here are some useful tips for packing. You should clearly label all the boxes you have packed. Try to label by room and contents so that they can be brought directly to that new room.
Pack a few boxes with essentials that you may need upon arrival, such as food, drinks, toiletries, and cleaning supplies.
Keep your valuables and personal documents in a safe place at all times throughout your move. Professional movers know this tip, but if you are moving yourself and when moving your furniture into your new home, place it where you want it the first time to save yourself from having to move it again.
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Unless you have been hiding under a rock somewhere, you will know there is a serious Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and it’s looking to be far worse than those which preceded it. The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings gives an indication of how this could progress.
Firstly, let’s look at the historical behaviour of the Ebola virus via this article:
ALL the strains of Ebola, and Marburg viruses are very, very contagious through membrane transmission- i.e.: through direct contact with liquid particles (blood, mucous, semen, sweat, urine) onto mucous membranes or through open wounds. This means that if you physically come into contact with liquid particles infected with an Ebola virus through your mouth, eyes, nose, genitalia or an open wound, then you have a very large probability of being infected with the virus. Hence: it is highly contagious though PHYSICAL contact with the infected bodily liquids of someone who has the virus. i.e.: though touching the body/body fluids, contact with the sheets, bandages, needles, medical instruments etc. of an infected person.
BUT….. the virus doesn’t not live very long outside of a human or animal host. ALL Haemorrhagic fever viruses (all strains of Ebola, Marburg etc…) are actually very fragile virus particles that need a very specific environment to survive for even a short time. THIS is why all cases of Ebola always happen in the same place, in Central/West African jungles: HOT, HOT, HOT and WET, WET, WET. ALL Haemorrhagic viruses require extreme heat and humidity to survive, and as I said above, they literally die very quickly when they are exposed to air conditioning.
These are two of the main reasons that “they” were not able to weaponize Ebola before: because it requires direct contact with infected bodily fluids AND it dies very quickly when it comes in contact with drier, cooler air.
One of the other reasons that they were not able to weaponize Ebola is because it kills too quickly and the gestational period is too short for it to spread very far. Ebola Zaire has the highest mortality rate- close to 90% of those infected die from the virus, but it also has the shortest gestational period and it can be symptomatic as quickly as 2-6 days after contamination. As the onset of symptoms is so severe immediately, infected people are not likely to be boarding airplanes, going to night clubs or partaking in unprotected sex.
So, it is clear that what is on the loose in West Africa is a very different beast from previous forms of the Ebola virus. For example, airborne transmission now seems to now be part of its profile.
Where did Ebola come from?
The official story – always to be viewed with great scepticism – is that it has jumped across from the “bush tucker” that is regularly consumed in West Africa. Or a stray bat. But if you follow the trail, it takes you back to the AIDS story, and I found this to be a very good perspective from which to look at Ebola.
So, where did AIDS come from?
As you will likely know, the official story is that AIDS jumped across to humans from the green monkey in Africa, and early on was claimed to be a disease of homosexuals, was a sexually transmitted disease and using a condom could protect you.
Well, if you follow the threads, they lead you to The Strecker Memorandum by Dr. Robert Strecker. And it is likely to shake your view of the origin and nature of AIDS. Here are some salient points from this video:
- The morphology of the AIDS virus closely matches viruses found in sheep and cows, not any found in primates.
- WHO put out a request that such a viral agent be created before AIDS appeared
- Its initial infection pattern in N.Y., San Francisco (amongst homosexuals initially) and Africa mirrored EXACTLY vaccination programmes that had been deployed.
- AIDS is NOT a sexually transmitted disease, though it can be transmitted during sex, as can the common cold.
- THE AIDS virus will easily pass though the natural micro holes in a condom, so its use is a complete waste of time for protection from AIDS
- The evidence that Strecker provides in this video powerfully indicates that AIDS was man-made, most likely at Fort Detrick in Maryland.
I recommend that you take the time to watch this video.
This article discusses the Fort Detrick interest in Ebola-type viruses and acknowledges the facility’s now-defunct offensive bioweapons program that was operational in the ‘50’s. Does anyone believe it’s now-defunct?
A far more candid and detailed perspective from Strecker is provided in the 1996 book by Len Horowitz entitled EMERGING VIRUSES: AIDS & EBOLA: Nature, Accident or Intentional? Whilst this book primarily focuses on the AIDS story and primarily on its creation, it illustrates how the history of AIDS and Ebola are intimately intertwined. For example, this quote from the Horowitz interview of Strecker in the mid-90’s in his book:
Strecker – Well they’ve got another building that’s contaminated now; that they can’t get into because of Ebola. You know they’ve got a whole bunch of problems. There’s a bunch of people in Frederick [Maryland] that believe everything we talk about.
We’ve quite a few supporters there, because they’ve had a lot of problems with strange illnesses. And so they’re not entirely unsuspicious.
So is Ebola man-made, or at least weaponised in its current incarnation?
Firstly, there are claims that the current Ebola outbreak had its origins at a US bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone, funded at least in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and George Soros. The lab has apparently since been shut down.
An American patent has been issued related to an Ebola species.
A Russian Health Official says The current epidemic of Ebola may be due to the use of biological weapons. This is further elucidated in this article.
What are US Biological Warfare Researchers Doing in the Ebola Zone? by Jon Rappoport.
Dr. Charles Arntzen, head of The Biodesign Institute for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at Arizona State University, and reportedly responsible for at least one of the experimental Ebola treatments, did not exactly do himself any favours in this video profile, joking about creating a virus to wipe out 25% of the global population. His funding sources include the Rockefeller Foundation…
Dr Cyril Broderick, a Liberian Professor of Plant Pathology, claims that Ebola is man-made and Africans are being used as guinea pigs.
Is this proof?
I think it falls short of absolute proof that the Ebola virus was originally man-made, as AIDS clearly was, but the evidence of it having been weaponised and let loose on West Africa is very strong.
In my view, the threads of this go back to that first message from the Georgia Guidestones: Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. There are those who wish to rid the planet of 6.5BN people, give or take, and those that drive this agenda have targeted the genocide of non-Europeans for centuries.
And as is so often the case, it could also be about resources. This map shows an interesting correlation between the occurrence of the Ebola outbreak and known oil and gas reserves…
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Researching NPI numbers for physicians/health professional online and adding to your DentalWriter software
You can easily find NPI numbers online, many times all that is needed is the health professional's first and last name, and state if it is a more common name (i.e. John Smith).
There are a few sources to search NPI numbers online, two suggested sources are:
NPI Number Lookup: http://www.npinumberlookup.org/
In the example below, we'll use the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) site:
Simply type in the providers first name and last name, and entering the state is recommend if it is a common name to narrow your search results, (or enter the organization name if you are searching a Type II NPI) then click the search button:
The search results will show, and you can simply copy and paste the NPI number showing on the left hand side into your DentalWriter software (it is recommended you store the NPI number in your contacts list for referring providers, because DentalWriter will automatically place the doctor's name and NPI number onto the claim for you when utilizing your contacts list):
You can even view more details for the NPI number by clicking on the NPI itself, which will display additional information such as the last time it was updated, address, phone, fax, taxonomy number, and license numbers:
In your DentalWriter contacts list, the NPI can be entered in the field shown below:
In your patient questionnaire in any visit/form in DentalWriter, if the referring doctor is selected from your contacts list for the "referring physician", that doctor's name and NPI will appear in box #17 of your medical claim form when generated for that visit. | <urn:uuid:28eac5ab-20fa-4259-a43b-2851d7f21447> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://help.niermanpm.com/knowledge/find-npi-numbers-for-referring-physicians-or-other-health-professionals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.890188 | 376 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Everything in the world is ephemeral, and it is ludicrous for us to ask the world to be any different. Of course, though, consider it exponentially more absurd to not appreciate and cherish that which we have while it is here. Yet, the inevitable is often spontaneous and this paradox leads to the ironic conclusion that the only true constant is change. A corrupt little circle we have created isn’t it?
Allow me to think; change has multiple confound effects on the human mind. The fearful and pessimistic cower to it because they believe our world is slowly descending into oblivion. The optimistic and buoyant of spirit embrace the thought of its ideal in hopes that our world will be freed from the deplorable disposition we have ensued. The undaunted stand, expectant, happily accepting the challenge of creating balance from it all.
As time progresses, myriad of memoirs have narrated tribulations; overcome not by those who are only optimistic, pessimistic, or dauntless, but instead by those who are willing to adjust their rationale to their situations; insisting that only we possess power over the change in our lives. The only plausible reasoning is that things do not change; no, it is quite the contrary, we change.
Even as we have grown, we have not undergone extreme changes; rather, we have assumed a clarified, polished, form of who we truly are. Upon the provocation of a transition we may, of our polished selves, identify a blemish. This small push, small change in our own thoughts of ourselves, befalls not just minor adjustments in ourselves or miniscule changes of our lives, but, a complete metamorphosis in the dynamics of our thinking. Of the question of how we, not only I, could best affect change, the most candid response was uttered by Norman Vincent Peale, “Change your thoughts and you change your world”. | <urn:uuid:d3e08d66-c3e6-4857-babe-e08392df466d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thisibelieve.org/essay/60978/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94647 | 386 | 1.796875 | 2 |
In software engineering, there’s often talk of the Source of Truth. Which database is source of truth? Yours or mine? When things get complicated, does it still make sense to think about databases or single systems as the source of truth?
These conversations have all made the assumption that they can decide who has authority over reality. Unfortunately a database is never a source of truth. The word “source” means the point of origin. When thinking about the source of truth we need to think about where the data originates. Let’s look at a few examples.
An eCommerce Website
The website has an Orders database in the website, and you have a call centre platform with it’s own database. It seems like the source of truth would be the website’s Orders database, and the call centre should accept that. But what happens when the call centre wants to take orders too. Does it have to send them through the website so the website can remain the source of truth? That’s obviously coupling and creating the website as a single point of failure.
Your business starts with 1 warehouse. You get stock levels from the warehouse database and import them in to your purchasing database (for admin staff) and sales database (for your customers). Clearly that warehouse is the source of truth.
Now you expand and add another warehouse. The first warehouse cannot be the source of truth any more because it does not know about stock in the new warehouse, so you create a new stock levels database to hold a view of stock across multiple locations. Is THIS database the source of truth? If it becomes out of sync with the warehouse, it can’t be said to be truthful anymore. Saying any of these systems is the source of truth is clearly lieing to yourself.
The reality? None of these systems is the source of truth. To really find the source of truth we have to expand our idea of a ‘system’ to include 3rd parties, software and importantly people, who make decisions and measure reality.
For your eCommerce business, the customer is the source of truth for orders. They make the decision. Your website, mobile app or call centre is just the channel by which they place their order.
For the stock management system, the source of truth is the staff in the warehouse, actually counting stock and recording it on their tablets. Both warehouse databases are equally the source of their respective truths.
So the phrase Source of Truth doesn’t refer to which database I have built, it refers to the decision maker and the path by which data about that decision arrives with me.
If we stop to think about databases as an authority we can open ourselves up to other opportunities. Instead of deciding where data should live, we can start thinking about how it should get there. This means we can think in terms of integration and extension.
Now, a more useful toolset to use is that of event streams. The events may come from multiple places or go to multiple places, but the stream is where you can find that truth.
Databases become storage utilities, and the event stream becomes the centre of your system. Databases can be populated by reading the stream; notifications and other side effects can be triggered by things happening on the stream.
What does that mean for our examples?
Well, the eCommerce website and the call centre are both sources of orders. Your fulfilment centres, your business intelligence, even your accounts are all reacting to these orders when they happen.
In your stock management system, you might still have a database that shows a view of stock in both warehouses, but it is nothing special. It is merely a projection of the stock keeping events which happened in your warehouses. And any side effects, sending notifications to your purchasing systems or updating business intelligence are triggered not by reading a single central database, bit by the stream.
So what, I hear you say
Changing the way we think is challenging, and there is always more to it than can be written in a single blog post.
But thinking about the events that happened in our businesses, and how data about then flows allows us to build software that model our businesses, not make our business adhere to the software.
Things are more extendable, more decoupled and easier to explain to non-technical colleagues.
So next time you are thinking “where is the source of truth?”, try asking yourself “How does the truth get here?”, “Who cares about it?” and importantly, what event has occurred in your business that we care about?”
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A Flexible Vertical Double Degree (FVDD) is a new double degree which lets you undertake a Bachelor and a Master degree in a reduced timeframe. An FVDD program will generally take you four years to complete and offers you time and cost savings when compared with studying a Bachelor and a Master degree separately.
You can combine amBachelor and a Master degree from related disciplines for depth of knowledge and specialist skills; or combine degrees from different disciplines for breadth and transferable skills.
Study two undergraduate degrees at the same time and graduate with two qualifications.
What’s in it for me
- Save time and money
You’ll get credit for your Master degree in related areas of study in your Bachelor degree. This means you save time (and money) when compared with studying a Bachelor and Master degree separately.
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Times change. People, even engineers, eventually “clue up.”
As people become sensitive to the negative impact that the names of things can have on those who don’t share their own ethnic, racial, cultural, or social background, they get on board with the idea of changing those names. Sometimes the changes are simple; As easy as replacing one troublesome term with an equally good neutral term. Other times, finding suitable replacement terms can be extremely difficult. But change we must. That is non-negotiable.
But what is also non-negotiable is that we must not merely substitute arbitrary, confusing, awkward, or downright silly names for those terms that are no longer acceptable. Jettisoning rude or unacceptable terms by replacing them with random, inoffensive, names is not helpful to the overall industry. When we engage in random, thoughtless, substitution or terms with the sole goal of ridding ourselves of offensive terminology at any price, we do a disservice to our profession.
The ultimate pair of offensive terms in engineering is perhaps one of the longest tenured. There are many technologies within computer engineering that use the terms “master” and “slave” to denote the controlling and the controlled components, respectively, of a system. This is so pervasive, so well known, and so troublesome, that it even drew the attention of the Washington Post, back in 2020.
Probably one of the oldest uses of this term in our industry is in describing Direct Memory Access (DMA) systems. Most particularly, in Windows we make a distinction between bus-master DMA and what has traditionally been called “slave DMA.” There was an initial proposal, made many years ago, to replace the term “slave DMA” in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) docs with “subordinate DMA.” At the time, I raised a vociferous objection, and likely helped cause that the old term to be retained for a number of years. My argument was that inventing a new, confusing, term for a technology that was widely known by another name was silly, gratuitous, and sure to hamper people’s understanding. At the time, I was not interested in considering anybody else’s thoughts on the matter (not even a little). What mattered was established industry practice and clarity. And if you, for some reason, didn’t like that terminology? Well, you just need to get over it.
But I was, in my own self-absorbed way, on to something (even if I didn’t know it at the time): Replacing a troublesome term with a bad term is not a net good. Sure, the new, ill-fitting, term may no longer be offensive. Instead, it’s confusing. And, while that’s arguably an improvement, it’s not (even today, in 2022) improvement enough in my book.
More recently (and, ahem, without asking me) the WDK docs changed the term “slave DMA” to “system DMA.” Not only does this new term entirely avoid the implications of the older term, but I think it better describes the way this type of DMA works and is implemented in Windows system. The old term’s offensiveness is gone; Clarity is retained, or perhaps even enhanced. Win-Win. Score one for the WDK writers.
Fast forward to the 21st Century. Specifically, to 2019. I was creating some slides for our WDF I seminar about the SPI and I2C buses, and I wanted to explain some of the basic concepts of these buses to our students, in case they weren’t already familiar with them. So, being the lazy developer that I am, I “borrowed” some bus diagrams that I found on the Internet:
Notice how our old enemies, the terms “master” and “slave” show-up again here. And they show up not only in denoting the parties involved in the communications, but in the case of the SPI bus, they also show up in the names of the signals. See table 1.
|MOSI||Master Out, Slave In|
|MISO||Master In, Slave Out|
|SS(x)||Slave Select (x)|
Looking at Table 1, you can see that in both SPI and I2C the clock signals (SCLK and SCL, respectively) are named “serial clock” — but those other signals unabashedly use the problematic “master” and “slave” terms.
At first, I had no trouble with these older names. Hey, “they are what they are”, right? They’re industry standard! But, by the time 2020 rolled around I started to feel distinctly…. ah… awkward… uncomfortable, even… teaching these terms in class. Call it a delayed awakening or something, OK?
So, I started to search for updated, industry standard, names. And guess what? There weren’t any. The best I could find where some arguments on reddit (you can imagine how clever and useful those were), and some proposals for updated names on individual sites (thank you, Adafruit). So, I made some slide changes to eliminate those problematic terms (along the lines of the ones suggested at the time by Adafruit) and went on teaching the seminars sans the problematic terminology.
Now, it seems that as of 2022 the Open Source Hardware Association has defined a set of new “standardized” signal names that avoid the troublesome terminology, and that seem to be every bit as good (and pronounceable) as the old signal names. They describe these new names here. The new names are shown in Table 2.
|PICO||Peripheral In, Controller Out|
|POCI||Peripheral Out, Controller In|
As you can see in Table 2, the new terminology aligns quite nicely with the names for the actual hardware components: The chip that manages the protocol-based bus is the controller, and the chip that responds to requests from the controller is the peripheral. This also maps quite nicely to the WDK terminology for the types of drivers: Controller drivers (typically supplied by MSFT or the OEM) and peripheral drivers (typically supplied by the IHV, and what we talk about writing in our WDF seminars).
And so, we now have new diagrams for our WDF seminar as well:
Changing established industry practice takes time. Changing people’s minds takes even longer. We should not, and do not have to, sacrifice engineering clarity, mnemonic ability, or ease of use when addressing old, archaic, and potentially hurtful terminology. “Subordinate DMA”? Yeah… no. But “System DMA”? Yes, that makes sense. Been saying “MOSI” all your career long? Well, I’d suggest “PICO” is actually a better term. We live, we do engineering, we argue… we learn. | <urn:uuid:15ebf8c9-1322-466c-b831-4af54b91b2f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.osr.com/blog/2022/05/12/the-names-they-are-a-changin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.944948 | 1,541 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The Advantages of Residential Water Well Drilling
While it is commonly perceived that having access to private water well is a rural affair. However, in the changing times, it is not uncommon for city dwellers to have an access to well. As the problem of water scarcity is becoming more and more prevalent then well drilling is becoming more and more a real solution. There are many benefits of a residential water well service. Enlisted below, we have highlighted some benefits of having a well drilled for your residential property:
Source Of Independent Water
Residential water well drilling offers homes a self-contained water supply. For example, if your area has a drought or other water crisis, owning your well eliminates the risk of losing your water supply. Furthermore, because wells are not treated with chemicals like chlorine, they give superior quality water to municipal water sources. This is especially crucial for persons who have specific medical issues or are chemically sensitive.
The lack of all of the chemicals found in municipal water not only improves the flavour but is also healthy for you. This can be beneficial for those who are health-aware and cognizant of what they put into their bodies, such as those with particular medical disorders.
Due to the lack of chemicals added to municipal water, home water well drilling is a more environmentally friendly alternative than other water sources, such as municipal systems. Drilling residential water well is a more ecologically friendly choice than utilising municipal water. Private water wells often have a lower total environmental effect than other water sources. Consider how many fewer plastic water bottles will be dumped in landfills. This is essential for reducing carbon footprint and living a sustainable life.
Having a source of independent clean water apart from the municipality-provided water will save you tons of money. When you are drilling a residential well, the only cost you will sustain is the one-time well drilling expanse, yearly maintenance and contamination testing cost. When compared with the annual water bill, the difference is quite obvious.
Whoever said water has no taste has never drunk water. The water that you receive from the municipality is ridden with chlorine. The added chlorine, indeed, somewhat purifies the water but affects the taste of the water immensely. Thus, many people do not like the taste of tap water. With residential well drilling, such problems can be overstepped as the water one will receive will be much better in quality. Thereby, there will not be a weird taste to it.
When you think closely, you will realize there are various benefits of going through a well drilling process than not. It is no archaic thing that only rural dwellers must-have. Rather its benefit is far greater in practicality. | <urn:uuid:8419d8e1-a5af-4e76-89ea-aa89a7760eb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.obrienwaterservices.com/blog/the-advantages-of-residential-water-well-drilling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96787 | 562 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Table of Contents
- Tracking Woni's online footprint (which is non-existent)
- Getting in touch with Woni
- The interview: what did she say?
- Why doesn't she have a social media presence?
- Where is her proof? How can we know she isn't simply lying?
- Wait… If she appeared then there could be others, right?
- So… what does this mean for Jessica Nabongo (@thecatchmeifyoucan)?
- Why should we even care? Are figureheads like Woni and Jessica even necessary in travel?
“Wait, what is a Woni Spotts?” It was my thought when I first saw her name associated with being a record setter.
I saw a Twitter thread by black travel bloggers referencing a blurry picture of a woman named Woni and saying that she was the first black woman to visit every country.
As a black travel influencer myself I'm usually aware of what's happening in travel—particularly the black travel space. I was confused because I'd never seen any stories, social media posts, or photos about a woman named Woni attempting this.
It's also somewhat well known in my field that an influencer named Jessica Nabongo—@thecatchmeifyoucan on Instagram—is currently on a quest to be the first black woman to visit every country. Her journey is so publicized and well-documented that it made it feel like she already had the title in my mind, and I'm sure in the minds of others. How could it not be factual when her journey has been endorsed by publications like Bloomberg, CN Traveler, CNN, Forbes, and the New York Times?
I want to note that I am not an investigative journalist, but simply an interested black traveler and content creator instilled with the responsibility to—when in doubt—always ask for the truth firsthand.
And if true, her story would definitely shake the black travel community’s table.
Tracking Woni's online footprint (which is non-existent)
I Googled her name and the first result appeared to be a self-published article by Woni on a site called PR Newswire on April 26, 2019. I saw a few copies of that same article on sites such as BlackPressRoom, BlackHistory.org, The Charleston Chronicles, and Yahoo! Finance, but no interviews or original recounts on any notable publications.
The next Google result was an IMDb movie listing. I followed the links until I got to a bio for the main actress and producer credited in the film, Woni Spotts. Her IMDb bio is as follows:
Woni Spotts' parents are Roger Spotts and Betty Spotts. Woni was born in Los Angeles and she went to school on the East Coast. Woni is an accomplished musician, songwriter, piano player, and animator. Woni decided not to follow in her family's entertainment footsteps instead deciding to explore the world on multiple solo tours. Woni is an avid traveler, visiting every continent, country, and locations of interest such as Antarctica, Easter Islands, The Galapagos, Polar Regions and more. Woni traveled to various countries as a child but decided to visit every country completing this goal in Sept 2018.
This confused me—with 165 countries listed as the filming locations, at first I thought it was an odd yet effective way to keep track of the countries she'd visited. The fact that the film had a limited release in 1989 was a small red flag to me as well.
Had she been pursuing the goal of visiting every country in the world since she was a young girl? Was this all an actress' publicity stunt for 15 minutes of fame?
I needed to ask for myself.The first official interview with the First Black Woman to Visit Every Country, Woni Spotts! Conducted by digital story-teller and fellow traveler, Gabby of @packslight. Click To Tweet
Getting in touch with Woni
I had first seen reference to Woni Spotts on Twitter, so I looked there. Low and behold she'd made a Twitter account and begun sharing her story publicly and interacting with interested fans. So I DMed her and asked her if she'd be alright with a few questions, and she agreed.
I was going to send her my questions via email but as I wrote them I realized it would be a lengthy and probably timely reply on her part, so I took a chance and offered a 10-minute call instead.
To be honest I wanted to hear her voice and her tone over the phone to get more of a feel from her— to validate that she was real, but also to hear her tone and get a first-hand experience of who she was as a person. If she was authentic, she had such a unique story and seems to not be very social media friendly or showy as a person which is odd in 2019.
To my great surprise, the next thing I know I was getting a call from a California area code. I grabbed my recording device and answered the phone to hear a lovely woman (yay, not a 13-year-old boy!) reply to my tentative “Hello?”
10 minutes turned into 45 minutes as I listened to her story. Apparently, I am the first person to interview her and write an extended piece about her, so she had a lot to share!
The interview: what did she say?
For the sake of sharing this huge story in a digestible way, I've transcribed the actual interview with Woni into its own blog post which you can read here.
In summary: She begins with the reason she got involved in travel so early in her life. She told me she visited nearly 160 countries while she was still a teenager, which aligns with the number of film locations I found in the 1989 IMDb listing which she confirmed she starred in.
We then talked about the rest of her life story and why she decided to resume her journey to visit every country after a long hiatus. She says she officially completed her journey more than 6 months ago on September 28, 2018, and received verification by the Traveler's Century Club (an organization that verifies if people travel to 100+ countries) at the end of April 2019. She tells stories from her favorite trips, what safety is like for a black woman around the world, and what travel means to her.
I also ask her what she plans to do now that she's finished her global journey—spoiler alert: she wants to travel more!.
Again, you can read the full transcription to get more intimate details of Woni's personality and life story.
In 2019 it seems impossible to not have a social media presence. I think all of my grandparents follow me on Instagram, and even my great-grandma sends me the occasional emoji. So why doesn't Woni have any, and why didn't she document her trip?
Firstly, though it may seem like the new normal to share every sunset and selfie on social media, it isn't like that for everyone. Some people enjoy the peace and privacy of anonymity. Some people enjoy travel for travel's sake and don't see a reason to document the experiences when they could be living them.We have this new thing where if it's not on social media we think it didn't happen. Click To Tweet
Also, Woni was an only child growing up throughout the 1970's and 1980's, traveling the world having it documented for her on film. It's possible that she had a taste of the limelight and as social media grew she was already desensitized to the high that we all feel when we get likes on photos.
For as many people choose to abstain from social media because they have no interest in it, there are as many these days consciously choosing to abstain and detoxify from it. Social media “clout” and a desire for instant gratification are known as the biggest faults of these most recent generations.
So when we think about how much of a media and ego obsessed society we are, can you really blame her?
Where is her proof? How can we know she isn't simply lying?
The YouTube video she created for family and friends not only travel photos but shows a host of scanned, official-looking documents including:
- A certificate of Woni Spotts crossing the Drake Passage and visiting Antarctica in 2014 (6:27)
- A certificate of Woni Spotts crossing the Equator in Ecuador (6:33)
- A certificate of someone crossing the International Date Line in 2014 (6:37)
- What seems to be a small plaque saying she flew by private jet from Orlando, FL to Siem Reap, Cambodia from Jan 1-24, 2014 (6:42)
- and finally, a Certificate of Gold Status for visiting 200+ countries and territories, given to a Woni Spotts on April 19, 2019 by the Traveler's Century Club (6:49)
The video also shows actual photos and passport stamps detailing travel to the following countries in their respective years:
- 2005: France (multiple)
- 2014: Jordan, Australia, Tanzania, India, Cambodia, Samoa, Ecuador, Antarctica, Morocco, Peru, Chile
- 2015: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
- 2016: Belize and Bolivia
- 2017: London, Ireland, Switzerland, Greenland
- 2018: India, Turkey, Spain, Greece
These stamps aligned with the timeline she gave me of her life and travels. She directly sent me photos of her passport with stamps in them, wet signature copies of her certificate visiting Antarctica and interaction with the Traveler's Century Club.
Update (05/16/2019): Woni has shared with me that she has a journal with noted from most or all of the countries she's ever traveled to. She is planning ways to share this information with the public via interviews, essays, and perhaps a book in the future.
Like most, I was skeptical about Woni's claims too when I first started my research on her. A lack of online presence for 40+ years, her very unusual story, complete lack of media coverage, and seemingly random emergence all raised red flags of a publicity stunt or fame seeker.
But I talked to her myself. I asked her hard questions and drilled her about details that even a great liar would have a hard time making up on the spot. Though I am not an investigative journalist, she provided in my opinion very sound explanations for her lack of social media presence and seemingly “sudden” appearance on the travel scene in recent years.
Truth be told in an age of social media misdirection and photoshop, I think even if she did have a picture of herself from every country and blast it all over social media people would still claim she's lying.
From what I've pieced together online, her narrative, my first-person encounter with her, and her official certificates she's sent me directly, and her unique yet sensical explanation for how she visited all of these places over a span of 40 years, I will say I believe that she is the first black woman to visit every country in the world.
Wait… If she appeared then there could be others, right?
“…To her knowledge!”, as she will tell you herself.
The media has gladly jumped on the hype of Jessica's pursuit to be the first black woman to visit every country. But we've now seen it's very possible for a black woman to visit many countries without social media exposure, sponsors, or country counting. It is possible there is another black woman who's previously accomplished the same feat simply without telling anyone.
But Woni has a strong claim to be the first confirmed black woman!
To the skeptics, she openly welcomes journalists to come to her house, to call the tour companies she used (listed in the credits of her YouTube video), and to ask her any questions they have. I think her openness and conviction also give credibility to her claim.Plenty of people are racing to be the first XYZ to visit every country in the world. Well, this woman is likely the first black woman to do so. And also the first to do it—gasp—with ZERO social media coverage. Click To Tweet
So… what does this mean for Jessica Nabongo (@thecatchmeifyoucan)?
That was one of my first thoughts as well and, yes, Woni and Jessica know of each other, and Woni and I did discuss her feelings about it in detail for 15 minutes of our 45-minute call.
Does Jessica still have a claim to the title because she's accumulated the excitement and press for it? Has she or will she publicly acknowledge Woni's claim to be the first black woman to visit every country in the world, will she deny it, or attempt to ignore it? It's a complex situation for sure and Jessica may be blind-sided by Woni's sudden appearance, as I know I would be.
Though I have not met Jessica I do follow her on Instagram and feel like I know her personality from her media. It seems that her platform is based on education and inspiration and is very positive, so I'm confident whatever response she eventually has will be as well.
The black travel community has to stick together! And in any event, two beautiful, inspiring black women touching all corners of the world is a win for all the entire black travel community all day long, and that‘s the message we should trumpet.
Why should we even care? Are figureheads like Woni and Jessica even necessary in travel?
Yes. Even if you don't agree or understand, the answer is YES.
The Negro Motorist Green Book (you know Green Book, that recent movie starring Mahershala Ali?) is exactly why it matters. The Green Book was an annual black travel guide for African-Americans during the Jim Crow Era, with travel tips and recommendations for lodging and business that were black friendly.
The idea of Woni traveling to every country is important to me, and many black people, because of how regulated black bodies and our physical movement used to be.
Black, African-American, and biracial travelers used to be refused from white-owned businesses and restaurants, denied repairs their vehicles while traveling, refused accommodation by white-owned hotels, faced unlawful arrests, threats of physical violence, and forcible expulsion from sundown towns.
We used to be banned from water fountains, let alone able to leisurely travel. Traveling is freedom that we haven’t been able to enjoy for a very long time.
The fact that a black American woman could not only go beyond our borders, but touch the border of every country and territory currently on this planet for the first time, is a huge feat. Not physically but emotionally, symbolically, of how far we have come as African-Americans and black people.The fact that a black woman could touch the border of every country and territory in the world for the first time is a huge feat. Not only physically but emotionally, symbolically, of how far we've come as Black Americans. Click To Tweet
And so, now people finally know:
Woni Spotts, an American woman from Los Angeles, California, traveled over a 40-year period and now stakes her claim as the first known black woman to visit all recognized 195 countries in the world, and 22 territories!
Share this record-setting achievement with a friend by sending this article to them or sharing it on social media so Woni can get the global recognition she deserves.
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The Message of the Church
Title: The Message of the Church
Publisher: IVP Academic
Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (Theology)
The Bible begins and ends with God dwelling with his people--from Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to the great multitude in the New Jerusalem. At each step, God gathered his people together: to speak to them, hear from them and change them to be more like him. God assembling his people, whom he loves, is what the Bible calls church.
The church should aspire to be a vibrant, loving, risk-everything people who are passionately committed to living out the values of God's Word and looking forward to the new creation. Churches and their pastors and leaders need to hear what the Bible says about who they are and what they are to do.
Chris Green takes "the message of the church" to mean three things. First, the church has a message, which is that God has saved his people through Christ. Second, the church is the created and saved result of that message. Finally, the church is a message. He has saved broken people like us, and by belonging to his people we are trying to respond to him in the ways he requires. Green's stimulating and insightful exposition begins with a survey of the church "from eternity, to Eden, to exodus, to exile, to eternity," and then focuses on various dimensions of the church's life and ministry, including its worship, unity, maturity, servants, gifts, holiness, boundaries and future. | <urn:uuid:5cfab830-a35a-44e4-ac8e-4d3c903c0176> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.olivetree.com/store/product.php?productid=33156 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.980425 | 328 | 2.25 | 2 |
Kurt Hahn (1886-1974) is increasingly mentioned as the foremost educator of the 20th century. Deeply grounded in the classics at Heidelberg and Oxford, Hahn backed the sons and daughters of Scottish crofters and fishermen, walked with kings, was imprisoned by Hitler for his condemnation of Nazi atrocities in the streets of Potempa in 1932 (Hahn was a Jew), and then extradited by the Prime Minister of Great Britain. He served the Allied seamen in the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII (establishing the Outward Bound School at Aberdovey, with Lawrence Holt of the Blue Funnel Line to build up tenacity and self reliance among merchant marine seaman).
Hahn’s contributions to world-wide education include: Establishment of Salem (Germany) and Gordonstoun (Scotland) Schools, the Atlantic Colleges; the Outward Bound Schools (28 in Europe and the British Isles, Africa, Asia, North
America and Australia); the Duke of Edinburgh Award Schemes, conceiver of the Sail Training Association (Britain), and countless adaptive programs of which the Apprenticeships and Atlantic Challenge are two. It was Hahn’s insight into the value of such experiential means as the project, the rescue, the expedition and craftsmanship which led him to urge that such endeavours release learning both for and through demanding practices. While a close friend of scholarship, he recognised the loss of vitality of youth in our so information-bound era and called for “a sterner exercise of the thinking faculty”. “It is a sin of the soul to coerce the young into opinions,” he said, “nonetheless I consider it culpable neglect not to impel every youth into life~giving experiences”.
We regard Hahn’s finest hour as that post-war turning point in which public tide turned against what looked to be training for toughness and called for the dissolution of Outward Bound. Hahn rose and cried out for their retention noting that in the great task of rebuilding Europe, restoration of the buildings and cathedrals would be facile, of the economy almost as much so, but that the critical issue lay in trust-building. He urged that the youth of Germany and the former allies be sent to sea in the same vessels, large and small, with common purpose, struggle and leadership. He saw this plan realized, in the post Cold War years, with the purchase of the Tall Ships PAMIR and PASSAT for youth training of mixed nationality crews. Atlantic Challenge, drawing directly on Hahn’s example, sends the youth of an increasing number of countries to sea together, in craft once naval, now ambassadorial.
David Byatt, a trustee with Atlantic Challenge in the United Kingdom, was a young boy living by the Moray Firth in Northern Scotland when Kurt Hahn founded his school at Gordonstoun. David was educated at Gordonstoun and later served for over 20 twenty years as teacher and deputy headmaster at Gordonstoun. David Byatt’s personal reflections provide a special insight on Kurt Hahn. | <urn:uuid:b6cd37c6-a0db-48d9-a14d-a208ec24c934> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.moraygig.com/background/islands-of-healing/kurt-hahn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958789 | 643 | 2.703125 | 3 |
World more dangerous if U.S. leaves Iraq too soon
WASHINGTON – Back from a surprise visit to Iraq and a meeting with its new prime minister, President Bush reiterated U.S. support for the newly named Iraqi government and rejected calls for a quick drawdown of American troops.
“The policy of the U.S. government is to stand with this (Iraqi) government and help them succeed,” he said at a news conference in the Rose Garden.
“Iraqi and coalition forces are still on the offense,” Bush said. He cited raids of suspected terrorist targets. “We got new intelligence from those raids which will enable us to keep the pressure on the foreigners and the local Iraqis who are killing innocent lives.”
On Tuesday, Bush assured Iraqis in a surprise visit to Baghdad that the United States stands with them and their new government.
Facing the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, Bush over the past several weeks has sought to bolster support among his conservative base and for the the war in Iraq.
In a USA Today/Gallup poll earlier this month, Bush’s approval rating stood at 38 percent. A Harris-Wall Street Journal poll last month showed 29 percent of Americans approved of the president’s performance
In response to a reporter’s question following his prepared statement, Bush appeared to dismiss talk of a troop drawdown in Iraq. “If we pull out of Iraq before we complete the mission, we will make the world a more dangerous place,” he said.
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Maine East Sports Medicine Team
- Head Athletic Trainer – Megan Luetje, MS, ATC
- Assistant Athletic Trainer – Kyla Stancy, ATC
- Team Physician – David Lessman, MD CAQSM
Primary Care Sports Medicine
Advocate Children’s Hospital – Park Ridge
- Orthopaedic Surgeon – Marc J. Breslow, M.D.
Illinois Bone and Joint Institute
Sports Medicine Club
Maine East students – Do you like sports? Do you like medicine/science/kinesiology? Or maybe you enjoy both? If so, this is the perfect opportunity for you!!
- Contact the head athletic trainer, Megan Luetje, for any questions: [email protected]
What does a Certified Athletic Trainer do?
People these days are on the move. We’re learning more, trying more, and doing more, and when the level of physical activity increases, the risk for injury rises as well.
Certified Athletic Trainers are highly qualified medical professionals educated in preventing, recognizing, managing and rehabilitating injuries that result from physical activity. Athletic Trainers can help you avoid unnecessary medical treatment and disruption of normal daily life. If you are injured, athletic trainers are trained to work with you and your healthcare provider to get you healthy and keep you on the move.
Athletic Training is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) as an allied healthcare profession, and the AMA recommends certified athletic trainers in every high school to keep students safe and healthy. Specifically, the Certified Athletic Trainer has demonstrated knowledge and skill in five practice areas or domains:
- Prevention of athletic injuries
- Recognition, Evaluation, and Immediate care of athletic injuries
- Rehabilitation and Reconditioning of athletic injuries
- Health care administration
- Professional Development and Responsibility
As part of a complete healthcare team, the certified athletic trainer works under the direction of a physician and in cooperation with other healthcare professionals, athletic administrators, coaches and parents. The certified athletic trainer gets to know each patient/client individually and can treat injuries more effectively.
Typical tasks that a trainer may complete include:
- Prepare athletes for practice or competition, including taping, bandaging and bracing
- Evaluate injuries to determine their management and possible referral
- Develop conditioning programs
- Implement treatment and rehabilitation programs
Information about heat and hydration
Athletes participating outdoors in hot, humid weather or indoors, in non-air conditioned or poorly ventilated gyms are susceptible to heat related illness. The following links will educate you (the coaches, athletes, and parents) on heat illness guidelines, preseason heat-acclimatization guidelines, and helpful articles on hydration and nutrition during these hot/humid two a days and seasons we have ahead of us:
- How to recognize, prevent, and treat exertional heat illnesses
- Tips for exercising safely in the heat
- Gatorade’s heat illness prevention tips
- Heat index chart
- IHSA sports medicine heat, hydration, and performance
- Recovery Nutrition – Lisa Dorfman, MS, RD, CSSD, LMHC, Director of Sports Nutrition and Performance
- Small Changes, Big Gains – Michelle Rockwell, MS, RD, Coordinator of Sports Nutrition for the University of Florida Athletics Association
Meal Plans are as critical as a game plan. Check out Daily Specials to see different meal plans for different situations!
Free Radicals can slow muscle tissue recovery and impair performance, but taking advantage of antioxidants can help ward off these effects. Check out Lisa Dorfman’s article on Antioxidant Armor to learn more!
Fuel your team to victory with Gatorade Sports Science Institute advice on:
- Food and Fuel for Team Sports
- Fueling Athletes
- Keep Your Motor Running
- Nutrition For Muscle Mass
- Hydration: Critical to Athletic Performance
- Sports Nutrition Myths
- Muscle Cramps
- Optimizing Hydration
Specific nutritional advice for football players:
- Fueling for Football by Leslie Bonci, MPH, RD, LDN, Director of Sports Nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Fueling for FOOTBALL by Kris Clark, PhD, RD, FACSM, Director of Sports Nutrition at Pennsylvania State University
Please watch the ESPN report Outside the Lines: High School Concussions to understand the importance of reporting symptoms after a concussion or any head injury.
A Thor Guard Lightning Prediction System is in use at Maine East High School. This system detects the atmospheric conditions that could produce lightning, then sounds an audible alarm and flashes strobe lights early enough for everyone to take shelter before an actual lightning strike occurs.
- 15 Second continuous horn blast, strobe lights flashing – Potentially Dangerous Conditions – Take shelter in the main school building or in your car (be sure not to touch any metal surfaces).
- Three 5 second blasts, strobe lights off – Dangerous conditions have passed, and participants may resume normal outdoor activity.
You should still be aware of weather conditions, as the system is not foolproof and there may be occasions where you see lightning but the system does not activate. In these cases count the seconds from when you see the flash until you hear the thunder. The IHSA has adopted the “30-30 rule”. In the absence of weather warning equipment, play should be suspended and everyone should take cover if the flash-to-bang count is 30 seconds or less, and should not resume activity until 30 minutes after the last lightning flash.
If caught in the open during a thunder and lightning storm, go inside the nearest building immediately! IF no shelter is available, crouch down immediately in the lowest possible spot and roll up in a ball with feet on the ground. Do not lie down. If outdoors during a thunder and lightning storm, avoid water. Also avoid metal objects such as wires, fences, railroad tracks, etc.
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Pilates Strategies to Eliminate Boring Workouts
Are you dreading boring workouts?
There are so many things to pay attention to for healthy movement habits that there’s no way we should ever have boring workouts!
Do you realize that there are 206 bones in the human skeleton? (Actually 270 at birth and, as some fuse together, we’re left with 206 bones as adults and amazingly one-quarter of these are in the feet!) We have 640 skeletal muscles, and almost everyone is one part of a pair of identical bilateral muscles found on both sides, which equals 320 pairs of muscles to support our structure and help us move through life.
Now let’s talk senses… do you know how many senses you actually have? Most of us are taught that we have 5 different senses: sight, hearing, tough, taste, and smell. But did you know that many neurologists identify nine or more, and some believe we may have as many as 21 different senses.
The sense of touch combines several “somatic” senses including the perception of pressure, heat, and pain. Then we have “interoceptive senses” which help us analyze information from inside our body, including balance (body alignment), needs (like hunger or thirst), and proprioception (being aware of the position of our body parts in relation to space.) All our senses are designed to keep track of everything that is right or wrong with our bodies.
Let’s face it we have a lot of moving parts and pieces to organize and keep in alignment for good posture and healthy movement habits. Your mind-body connection, and being able to sense what is going on, inside and outside your body is VITAL for preserving your good health.
Why is all this important? Well, LOOK at how many parts and pieces you have to PLAY with! How can you possibly get bored with 640 different muscles to work and stretch, plus a set of lungs and your heart to strengthen, joints to keep mobile, and a brain to train. Add paying attention or “sensing” what is happening with your body, to your body, how you feel when you use your body, or when you tweak and exercise, what else is affected by the change…how do you think paying some amount of attention to all of this might affect your boring workouts?
It can be MIND Blowing, what focusing attention on the little details of what you’re doing can actually do to help you maximize results from your health and fitness program. When you’re actually paying attention to what your body is doing, it’s honestly quite difficult to be bored.
Which is why I love Pilates! With Pilates, the goal is to always make the last repetition your best one! Which means you learn to leave your muscles with good memory, or the sense of how to do the movement correctly – to the best of your ability. By sensing your fatigue level, and knowing when you stop (before you’re too tired to finish on the best rep ever), the body learns how to pace your workouts, sense the difference between effort/work, and overwork/pain which can lead to injury. With the right muscles doing the work, the body is learning how to move well, which long-term means improvements in strength and flexibility, less wear-and-tear, and a greatly reduced risk of injury. In addition, Pilates exercises are done lying down, seated, standing, kneeling, side lying, prone, right-side up, and upside down, so the body has to learn how to use the right muscles regardless of where the body is in space.
I’m going out on a limb here and want to say it’s impossible to be bored during a Pilates workout. (If you’re with a good teacher who is focused on keeping YOU focused, and challenging you with the right exercises and cues to fine-tune your form.) But this Pilates philosophy for mind, body, and movement isn’t just for Pilates, it can be applied to everything you do! Pay attention, and actively participate. Engage your brain and body on every exercise you do. When you make this connection, you will never trudge through any more boring workouts. In effect, by zeroing in on what you’re sensing during both exercise and daily life, you can learn to “TRUST” yourself. And trust is a very powerful ally to keep you on track for making healthy decisions in life.
Here are my suggested 6 Pilates Strategies to Stop Boring Workouts:
- Focus on your Breath Patterns for every exercise.
- Pay attention to improving your Posture and Body Alignment.
- Sense what you Feel when you work & release your muscles, and how it affects your movement. Can you feel the opposing pairs of muscles working in harmony? Are the right muscles doing the work? Is there any unnecessary tension held anywhere? Are the right and left sides of your body putting forth and equal amount of effort?
- Strive to make the Last Repetition of every exercise the BEST Rep.
- Stay Focused on what your body is doing to move well! Minimize distractions, and concentrate.
- If you really don’t enjoy the activity you’re doing, switch gears, find something else to do. You have lots of options, make a better choice.
Put your brain and body to work during every workout and I promise you will never have to worry about boring workouts again!
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Throughout their career, professional drivers face a variety of situations where they must make decisions based on their knowledge and skills. It is essential that they be familiar with traffic and motor transport rules and regulations. This guide provides a host of relevant information on the subject.
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Need help with my Art & Design question – I’m studying for my class.
Please write a short essay/critique about the attached picture, answering questions below. Answers must be in complete sentences and in essay/paragraph format. Please do not number your responses or include questions. Your goal is to submit a full page of writing while utilizing at least 10 or more terms from the textbook. (Some terms listed below).
1. Describe: What do you see? Make sure to include the credit line to start!
- What media have been used to create this work of art?
- List everything you see in this work. To organize your thoughts, start with the objects that are closest to you and gradually work your way to the background.
2. Analyze: How is this work organized? This step deals with the composition or formal qualities of the work. This is a clue-collecting step about the elements of art.
- Compare and contrast the different kinds of lines (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, and zigzag) in this work. List at least one location for each line type you identify.
- Do you see any line variations – such as length, width, and texture – in this work? List at least one location for each variation you identify.
- Form a conclusion about which type of line dominates.
3. Interpret: What message does this artwork communicate to you? Now, you will combine the clues you have collected and your personal ideas to form a creative interpretation of the work.
- Why are the people so small? Why do you think they are separated from the trees by a fence?
- Analyze the meaning of this work. What does this work say about the relationship between people and nature?
4. Judge: What do you think of the work? Now, it is time to decide whether this is a successful work of art.
- What is your reaction to this work? Did it make you think?
- Do you think it is successful? Why or why not? Use one or more of the critical theories of art to defend your judgment.’
Some of the vocabulary words from the text
- Pastels: sticks of powderless pigment held together with a gum binding agent
- Wash: a thin layer of paint
- Charcoal: a dry drawing medium made from charcoal twigs
- Design: the process of organizing visual elements and the product of that process
- Format: the shape or proportions of a picture plane.
- Pattern: all over design created by the repetitive ordering of design elements
- Scale: the size relation of one thing to another
- Variety: the opposite of unity; diverse elements in composition of a work of art.
- Focal Point: the principal area of emphasis in a work of art
- Composition: the organization of visual elements in an artwork.
- Kinetic art: art that incorporates actual movement as part of the design.
- Mass: the physical bulk of a solid body of materials.
- Volume: the space enclosed or filled by a three-dimensional object.
- Cool colors: colors whose relative visual temperatures make them seem cool.
- Shade: a hue with black added.
- Shape: a two- dimensional or implied two-dimensional area defined in line by changes in color.
- Texture: the tactile qualities of surfaces, or the visual representation of those qualities.
- Warm Colors: colors whose relative visual temperature makes them seem warm.
- Line: a long narrow mark, usually made by drawing with a tool or a brush.
- Neutrals: not associated with any single hue; can be made by mixing complementary hues.
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Opinion: COVID-19 vaccination is approved for babies. As a pediatrician, here’s why I recommend it.
COVID-19 has caused more than 2 million infections among children ages 6 months to 4 years old and is associated with 20,000 hospitalizations.
Bradley, M.D., is the medical director of infectious diseases at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine. He lives in Scripps Ranch.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized children as young as 6 months old to get the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines last month. For many parents, the decision meant a long wait was finally over.
COVID-19 has caused more than 2 million infections among children ages 6 months to 4 years old and is associated with 20,000 hospitalizations. As a pediatrician and grandparent to an energetic 2-year-old named Jack, I am personally grateful that we can safely vaccinate our youngest age group. I am sincerely thankful that I’m protected, my wife and children are protected, my school-aged grandkids are protected, and finally, Jack is protected, too.
Given the copious amounts of vaccine information and misinformation, many parents have met this news with anxiety rather than relief. It has been a challenging few years. With information about COVID-19 and the vaccines changing all the time and new variants emerging so quickly, it has been hard to understand the science and keep up to date on it.
Whether or not to vaccinate is an easy decision for me as a pediatrician and grandparent. More than anything else, we all want the best for our kids and grandkids. We make our houses safe from accidents for infants and toddlers; we buckle them in a car; we do everything we can to keep them safe and healthy. To have a child fall victim to a preventable accident or illness is unthinkable. We want kids to be kids. We want this pandemic to end for the kids and for all of us.
Grandparents have been asked to avoid hugging and kissing their grandkids to decrease their risk of getting COVID-19 (even if the grandparents have been vaccinated). I understand why that advice is difficult to follow!
Over the last four decades as an infectious disease specialist, and three decades as pediatrician at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, I have seen the benefits of vaccines for my patients firsthand. Every day, pediatricians meet with families at well-baby visits and annual checkups to talk about the 16 childhood vaccines that pediatricians agree are vital to keeping babies and older children healthy. That’s why we vaccinate — to ensure kids don’t get hospitalized if they don’t have to. For instance, our hospital used to treat more than 100 children a year with bacterial meningitis. Thanks to a vaccine, we haven’t seen a case in 10 years. Neither parents nor our young pediatricians may be able to personally fully appreciate the power of vaccines to save lives and keep kids healthy.
The COVID-19 vaccine is currently authorized, recommended and on track for full approval. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine have effectively prevented serious infection, hospitalization and even symptomatic COVID-19. At Rady Children’s, we’re vaccinating 500 babies and young children a day. So far (as of mid-June), we’ve vaccinated 3,000 kids under 5. That’s substantial.
As far as reactions to the vaccine, it looks like side effects are less in the younger age range than in teens or adults. These side effects have been mild and localized reactions, including sore arms or low-grade fevers. Note that the dose is lower than the dose for older kids and adults.
Importantly, no cases of heart inflammation were found in any vaccine recipient under 5. We can confidently say that these vaccines are safe and effective for this age group.
Moderna picked a “low dose” for this age group, and Pfizer chose a “very low dose” based on early information from the first vaccine studies. With Moderna, children need two doses to provide adequate protection, and with Pfizer, they need three. Kids will be protected two weeks after they get the last dose. With that protection, babies and kids can more safely play with all their friends (birthday parties!) attend day care, hug grandma and grandpa, and attend kindergarten and preschool this fall with lower risk to themselves and those around them.
If you still have questions or concerns, talk to your pediatrician, family doctor or primary care clinic. Call them to get your children vaccinated or visit rchsd.org/health-safety/health-alerts/ to schedule an appointment at Rady Children’s.
To protect your kids, please get them vaccinated. Both COVID-19 vaccines work, they are safe, and it’s important. Make that appointment today.
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The idea of an ‘average’ retiree is a myth – so why base a financial plan on average life expectancies and returns?
It used to be that retirement was all about winding down and playing lawn bowls. But today, retirees are enjoying a more active and diverse retirement, shunning bowls for martial arts. Dating in retirement is up. And while some are enjoying a slower, gentler approach to life, others are using their free time to get more active.
It’s clear that retirees are not a homogeneous group, but individuals with their own interests, goals and aspirations. But they do have a few things in common. One is a longer life expectancy than their parents and grandparents.
The ‘average’ retiree
Of couples aged 65 years old right now, there’s a 7% chance at least one of them will live to 1001. If you factor in future mortality improvements, this increases to 10%.
So if you have 150 clients in your practice going into retirement, 10 to 15 of them will likely live to 100 – spending at least 35 years in retirement.
We also know that there’s a strong correlation between life expectancy and income – especially for men2. So it’s likely that your clients with most money will need to make their wealth last the longest.
But of course, planning for retirement portfolios is far more complex than estimating someone’s life span based on statistics. Each retiree is different: from their general health and activity level to their lifestyle goals and expectations.
So why do we still try to create retirement plans based on average life expectancies and returns?
We’ve all seen the simple drawdown graphs that super retirement calculators produce. Let’s imagine we’ve created one for a $300,000 portfolio, with a drawdown of 5%, indexed to inflation to calculate its average returns over time.
Because it’s based on averages, there is a 50% chance the portfolio will last 41 years or more. But there’s also a 50% chance it will run out before then3.
In other words, 50% of the clients relying on this portfolio risk outliving their retirement funds.
Retirement and sequencing risk
Another danger of using averages to calculate a retirement portfolio is that it ignores sequencing risk – which can be devastating during retirement. For example, two investors whose portfolios have identical average returns – but experience losses at different times – will experience different impacts on their retirement savings.
One investor experiences a strong market downturn during their accumulation years. But, because they have time to make up the losses, it won’t make a big difference to their retirement.
The other investor is close to retirement when the downturn impacts their portfolio. In this case, they have less time to recoup losses before starting to draw down on their savings – increasing the risk their money will run out early on. Even if investor one experiences lower returns in retirement phase, their retirement will still be impacted less than investor two.
Here’s an illustration of how this might work:
Two investors each had $500,000 when they retired. One retired during the 1929 market crash – the other in 1982. The investor who retired in 1929 would have run out of money in just 20 years. But the investor who retired in 1982 would have still a portfolio worth $2 million after 27 years – even if they drew down 5% each year4.
What worries most retirees is that their portfolio is going to act like the one from 1929. And considering the current state of the markets in the wake of COVID-19, that’s not an unreasonable fear to have.
A better approach
If we really want to help our clients, we need to stop talking about averages. Retirees don’t want 50–50 odds. They want to know that there’s a high chance that their money will last through their retirement. This could mean moving them to a more conservative portfolio. But the problem is, while it may perform better in a worse-case scenario, it won’t do so well in better times.
To really help clients, we need to maximise those good years – but not at the expense of reducing their returns during the worst-case scenario. A retirement-specific product, like Future Safe – which is linked to share market returns with a ‘cap’ that is determined by the ‘floor’ you choose, designed to limit loss during a market downturn – can be helpful in managing retirement risk. It can help give your clients more certainty that they’ll have the money to have the retirement they hoped for – even when things go wrong.
Facing uncertainty with confidence
As the impact of COVID-19 creates havoc for sharemarkets, advisers need to provide even more support and reassurance for clients in or approaching retirement. By creating a plan based on their particular needs, with accurate forecasts for best and worst scenarios, you can help them face their retirement with confidence.
1 Australian Life Tables 2015-17
2 The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014, Raj Chetty, PhD; Michael Stepner, BA; Sarah Abraham, BA; Shelby Lin, MPhil; Benjamin Scuderi, BA; Nicholas Turner, PhD; Augustin Bergeron, MA; David Cutler, PhD.
3 The portfolios represent the 50th percentile of the 5,000 portfolio simulations conducted by Milliman. It assumes a starting balance of $300,000 and a 5% withdrawal rate (indexed to inflation). The calculations are based on various portfolio allocation and financial assumptions that are predictive in nature. The outcomes actually achieved may differ materially from these projections. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
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Like most parents around the world, Israeli parents like to talk about their children online. Photos of the newborn or that first smile; a video with the first steps, the first visit to the swimming pool, parties, outings, family moments; then maybe messages with funny stories, intriguing questions, and even sensitive conversations, like a teenager revealing to the parent that he’s not binary. This behavior even has a name: shareor document your child’s life online.
It’s everywhere, and as people notice that posts about kids are doing well, leading to more likes, comments, and shares, they continue this behavior. The supplement dopamine hit that accompanies every positive social media interaction seems almost irresistible, and “if everyone is doing it, surely there’s nothing wrong with it.”
I am a mother of three children, also a lawyer and currently doing my doctorate in privacy and data protection. Perhaps before being a mother, or before studying privacy more deeply, all of these questions would have seemed very innocuous and untroubling to me. However, today I see it very differently. When parents talk about their children online, in almost every case I can think of, they do so for themselves, not for the benefit of the child. Instead of sharing a momentous occasion with the child – celebrating or having a unique parent-child moment in private or with an intimate circle (which would reflect real-life connections), the parent decides to show it to a much larger audience online. . And when sharing that moment online, the social media motto applies: the cuter the photo, video or post, the more likes and comments it receives. And that it feels good for the author of the message.
Social media companies, those corporate behemoths that are so influential in today’s culture and the way we connect with each other, are the ones that normalize and benefit from excessive sharing. More personal data uploaded by users means more profit for them, advertising profiles being more accurate, there is more ad consumption in the platform, and the culture of “online sharing” is fueled to keep the endless cycle going.
I’m not here to dictate what good parenting should look like or what the right amount of online sharing is. But I’d like to suggest that many parents are so caught up in the “post-dopamine” cycle (promoted by social media itself) that they forget what’s behind it all: they give away their children’s privacy for something as trivial as tastes.
First, there is the issue of lack of consent, because children are sometimes too small to understand what is going on, and even when they can understand and consent, they are not consulted by parent. But it is perfectly possible that in a few years the child will be very unhappy to find out that so many private moments were shared online by the parent. Remember that we parents are a different generation, and what we find acceptable and cute they might find inexcusable and scary. Anything uploaded online, even just “for friends”, has the potential to circulate forever because it only takes one screenshot or a new upload.
Second, there is serious privacy and security issues with sharing anything about a child or adolescent online, including impersonation, exposing the child to predators and Harassment on the internet. Depending on the age of the child, mental health and trust issues can arise with a parent who cannot respect the child’s boundaries and intimate wishes.
The bottom line, in my opinion, is that parents should be more aware of the dopamine posting cycle established by social media (for their own gain), the privacy and security risks, and the possible consequences of doing so. lack of consent. of the child. They need to ask themselves the following questions: Does it make sense to post it online instead of celebrating it privately with my child or face-to-face with friends? Will my child benefit in any way from my position? Can I publish it without exposing my child? In a few years, will my child be happy to find out that I posted this? Would I be happy knowing that my parents shared everything about me with strangers or distant friends?
Being a parent is not easy and technology brings additional challenges that we must try to overcome. To help you, I recently recorded a video on this topic. You can watch it below and share in the comments the challenges you yourself have faced dealing with your children’s privacy.
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Jesus begins with a parable which is an illustration and never a factual story. “A man planted a vineyard (Israel), and set a hedge around it (protections of promise, place, calling and law), dug a place for the wine vat (fruit and fellowship was the desired outcome), and built a tower (stability and identity).”
The parable goes on to speak of how the vinedressers, who should have been humble and happy to serve, start to beat servants (prophets and priests) who are coming to help them. Finally they killed the son (Jesus) of the man (God) who planted the vineyard.
An example of a downward spiral of self focus and pride of the Israelites and a warning for us. The next few stories focus more on the arrogance of those (Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes)? fighting against God.
1. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Ceasar? Jesus points them to the inscription of Ceasar on the coin and says render to Ceasar what is Ceasar’s.
2. Sadducees make up an unnecessary and complicated trap asking about if an unfortunate hypothetical woman who kept marrying brothers (7) who would all die. They asked who would her husband be in heaven, trying to trap Jesus who said, “are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage.”
Jesus answers are always simple…same for your life and mine. Any place you and I may be trying to trap the Lord into our way of thinking?
3. The scribes then with no humility try and trap Jesus into picking the best commandment. Remember the 10 commandments had grown to 613 Jewish commandments of which 365 were negative…”don’t do this or that…”. In Psalm 15 David reduced them to 11. Micah 6:8 reduces them to 6. Jesus here reduces them to 2. Paul in Galatians 5:14 reduces them all to 1…Love.
4. After all this Jesus simply says, “Beware of the scribes.”
Mark let’s us know that the religious leaders did not listen to Jesus but “the common people heard Him gladly.”
Are our hearts “pure and unspotted from the world?”
Let’s make sure we are not like these fault finders and manipulators. Working in Spiritual areas while in the flesh always self dealing and excusing their selfish sins under a veneer of spiritual self-righteousness. No bueno!
Jesus ends this hard section of exposing the religious leaders with the simple and delightful story of the widows mite.
“Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury…”
Interesting, after fighting off traps and accusations and intellectual snares of the so called religious leaders, Jesus ends with a real story of a real widow giving all she could quietly and privately. Good reminder to walk in gracious humility with God and others simply doing the one thing at a time the Lord puts in front of each of us and not manipulating and not allowing ourselves to be manipulated by others.
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For health reasons military service was out of the question, so he spent the war years as part of the skeleton staff that kept Christie’s running. He was present on the morning after Christie’s was destroyed in the bombing of 1941, after which the auction house moved to Derby House where Bob was cataloguing sales by day and fire-watching at night, sleeping on a table in the basement to avoid rats.
In 1954 Bob joined the Polak Gallery in St James’s where he worked until his retirement in 1989. Initially, he was thrown in at the deep end, attending auctions across the country and gaining his knowledge through research at the museums, learning on the job from the older and more experienced art dealers.
He was extremely nervous in cars and never learnt to drive so would often return to London by train with armfuls of paintings, giving the guard a few shillings to look after them.
Much of his success lay in the knowledge he managed to acquire over the years and he became highly respected within the art trade. A modest man, he was generous in sharing his knowledge and encouraging younger people starting out in the business.
JOHN Rumens passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 7. He was 84.
John was a teacher for many years and retired from lecturing at Hereford Technical College at the age of 55. He then turned to the passion he had for antiques and became a dealer. Firstly he sold anything old and quirky and later his real love: paintings.
He sold his works of art at many antique fairs including the NEC Antiques for Everyone in Birmingham. More recently, because age takes its toll on our bodies, he was restricted to the local Stafford fairs.
John wrote articles about auctions for Antiques Trade Gazette. They were often amusing covering everything you needed to know about a particular auction, such as how to get there, road conditions and parking, and the friendliness of the staff, food availability and even cleanliness of the lavatories. His articles were published periodically.
John was considered a true gentleman and had a good end to a good life. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
EDITH Wolf, founder and owner of Bardith Ltd, New York, died on December 17, 2016, aged 86.
Edith ran the business for over 50 years.
Her stores on Madison Avenue, filled with fine pottery, porcelain and decorations of the 18th and early 19th centuries, bought on her trips to Europe, were first ports of call for designers and collectors on the Upper East Side.
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Fireworks and sparklers can be a fun way to create holiday memories. However, they do pose some safety risks to you and your family. If mishandled, they can cause burns, eye injuries, and other severe ailments in both kids and adults. Follow these tips to avoid injuries and keep your loved ones safe.
Your first step to ensure firework safety is to check if they are legal in your area. Contact your local fire department to obtain information on whether you’re permitted to use fireworks and where it would be safe for you to ignite them.
Once obtaining confirmation that fireworks are legal in your area, follow these tips:
- Never light fireworks or sparklers indoors
- Keep a bucket of water close at all times and extinguish fireworks after use
- Read the instructions and follow directions
- Only light one firework at a time
- Never try to relight or pick up fireworks that have not ignited fully. Stay clear and then soak with water
- Keep spectators at a safe distance
- Never place any part of the body on the firework when lighting it. After lighting the firework, back up to a safe distance
- Do not ignite fireworks while under the influence of alcohol. Designate a trusted person to ensure everyone is following safety precautions
- Do not use homemade fireworks and avoid buying fireworks packaged in brown paper. Brown paper is usually a sign they were made for professional displays and could pose a danger to the average consumer
- Never point or throw fireworks at another person, even as a joke
- Never carry fireworks in your pocket, the friction could set them off
- Do not shoot fireworks off in metal or glass containers
- Once fireworks have finished burning, douse them with plenty of water to prevent a trash fire when you discard them
Like fireworks, sparklers also require you to adhere to safety precautions. Follow these sparkler safety tips to ensure your family will stay protected while still having fun.
- Do not allow children to light sparklers without adult supervision
- Never run with a sparkler
- Do not hold or light more than one sparkler at a time
- Wear closed-toe shoes while holding sparklers. The sparks that drop down to your feet can burn!
- Sparklers remain hot even after the sparkle is gone. Drop into a bucket of water when finished
- Never hand a lighted sparkler to someone. Instead, give them the unlit sparkler and then light it for them
- Keep the sparkler extended at arm’s length
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What is Spreading Inductance?
The above image shows a PCB with two large capacitors that might be used as the output caps for a VRM, which then can supply DC power to an integrated circuit. However, this board hides an important source of inductance: the power plane and power rails.
If you’re working with a high speed digital component, there are some simple power integrity rules that should be followed. Using plane pairs, decoupling capacitors, and bypass capacitors are the starting point for designing the PDN in your PCB to have the required impedance. There is one quantity that is sometimes ignored when building a PDN impedance simulation: the spreading inductance of your plane pair. This quantity plays a deceptively simple role in determining the inductance leading into the input power pin on a component.
What is Spreading Inductance?
All conductive elements in your PCB can have some parasitic elements, including plane pairs. The one that we normally care about is plane capacitance, which provides additional capacitance to help your PDN decouple at high frequencies. In a DC PDN simulation, we look at the DC conductivity to try and spot power loss. There is one additional parasitic in a plane pair: the spreading inductance.
Simply put, the spreading inductance is the inductance created by the current path drawn along two planes and the circuit elements that connect them. In the PDN of a PCB, the spreading inductance is defined by the current loop spanning from a decoupling capacitor network, along a power plane, into the load input, and back along the ground plane to the capacitor. It is not equivalent to the loop inductance formed by this current path, it is only the portion of total inductance contributed specifically by the plane. The various contributors to plane-pair impedance are shown below:
Why should we use the term “spreading inductance”? The term is used to denote that the current “spreads” in the power and ground plane pair, it does not follow a straight line. The current is confined to a narrow region between the decap output and the via input. Rather than following a literal straight line between these two points in the plane, current spreads out in the plane but does not totally fill copper in the plane pair.
This confinement of the current in the plane has an important consequence for PDN design: eventually, increasing the plane area does not necessarily decrease the spreading inductance. This is because, with a large plane, the current will not continue spreading along the current path. Instead, you can only change two other distances if you want to modify the spreading inductance as follows:
- Reduce d: Bringing caps closer to the load IC reduces the spreading inductance
- Reduce h: Bringing the plane layers closer together reduces the spreading inductance
Modeling Planes With Spreading Inductance
In general, linear time-invariant (LTI) electrical systems can be modeled as RLC circuits, and the same idea applies to a plane pair with spreading inductance. The image below shows how the spreading inductance along a power plane would be modeled in a schematic for use in a simulation. The portion of the plane connecting from C-Plane to OUT contains two elements: an inductance (L-Plane) and a resistance (R-Plane). L-Plane is our spreading inductance defined by the current loop formed in the PDN. Together with C-Plane, these three elements contain all parasitics related to a plane pair.
Technically, we would have additional elements along the GND net corresponding to the R-Plane value for the ground plane and an additional L-Plane element for the via connection, but we can lump this into the R-Plane/L-Plane elements if we like. What’s important is how connections would be made to other components in the above schematics. PWR is the output from the decoupling capacitor network. The series RL elements spanning from PWR to OUT model the location of the decoupling capacitor network.
Just as we indicated above, this means you have a simple way to reduce the spreading inductance: bring the decoupling capacitors closer to the input power pin on the load IC, or reduce the plane separation. In addition, you can use more vias to intentionally spread out the current in the power plane by placing vias connecting from a decap array to the power input in parallel. Alternatively, if you are using a large BGA component, just place the decaps directly on the back side of the board to minimize the spreading inductance.
Decoupling Capacitors Connected to a Plane
What about decoupling capacitors that are connected to a plane pair? Does the spacing between the capacitors have some inductance? The answer is “yes” it does, but this inductance is easily reduced by placing the caps very close together. We should be able to see this above: placing the capacitors close to each other basically sets d = 0.
A good guideline to follow is to use the smallest case caps that can still hit your required capacitance specs. 0402 case size is a good general-purpose selection for high speed boards unless you’re designing to very high density and need 0201/01005 cases. In these caps, the ESR value will be non-negligible, which can actually be a good thing, and the ESL values tend to be lower.
Unfortunately, there is no closed form equation you can use to calculate spreading inductance. The calculation involves several integrals with an eigenfunction expansion. The fastest way is to export your design into a field solver application. If you want to learn more, there is one comprehensive resource found in the research literature:
- Kim, J., et al. "Inductance calculations for plane-pair area fills with vias in a power distribution network using a cavity model and partial inductances." IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 59, no. 8 (2011): 1909-1924.
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Fermenting The Pear Wine
Cover and keep in a warm location for three weeks, stirring daily and mashing fruit against the side of the crock. I use a flour sack towel secured with an old elastic head band to cover my wines. Fruit flies love fermented foods, so make sure your container is well sealed.
At the end of the initial three week fermentation period, strain mixture through a jelly bag or flour sack towel, squeezing very dry. Return liquid to crock. Set in a warm place to ferment for two weeks longer. No stirring is necessary during this second fermentation.
At the end of the second ferment , strain liquid through several thicknesses of cheesecloth or a flour sack towel. Siphon or ladle into the strainer, leaving the sediment at the bottom of the crock.
Return the clear wine to the crock or a carboy for two days to allow it to settle again. Put the cloudy wine from the bottom of the crock into a two quart jar to settle for two days and then draw off as much clear liquid as possible. Add to the rest of the wine and allow to sit for another day.
How Long Does It Take To Make Wine
Making wine is a long, slow process. It can take a full three years to get from the initial planting of a brand-new grapevine through the first harvest, and the first vintage might not be bottled for another two years after that. But when terroir and winemaking skill combine, the finished product is worth the wait.
A World Of Wine Possibilities
I bet you already realized that I didnt just give you a recipe for Elderberry Wine. I also gave you enough background and a basic method that will work for all sorts of other fruit wines.
Dilatation rates may vary based on the flavor concentration in the juice you use. As a rule of thumb though, if the juice you start with tastes good and has a nice texture, then the wine will probably taste good too!
Once you get your dilution right, then find your starting Brix, choose your yeast, and work the steps.
You may have to practice a few times to create wines that suit your taste. However, that gives you an excuse to go wine-tasting on your own homestead!
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Siphon Into The Bottles
Position the bucket so it is higher than the bottles. Don’t move it unless you have to as this will disturb the sediment. If you do move it, leave it to settle again.
I taped the tube to the inside of the bucket so the end didn’t move around and disturb the sediment, also so the tube didn’t come out of the bucket.
Siphon the wine into the bottles. Pinch or bend the tube to stop the wine flowing between bottles. Make sure you leave an air gap at the top and space for a cork if it needs one.
A Carboy For Secondary Fermentation
This is really just a big glass jug! You can purchase one gallon carboys in a bundle with an airlock and cork, or you can get them in larger sizes if you want bigger batches. Make sure you choose a carboy with a narrow neckit makes it so that there is less surface area of the wine exposed to oxygen, which is a good thing!
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What Kind Of Airlock Should I Buy
Youll see two different kinds of airlocks out therethe 3-piece airlock and the twin S-bubbler. Both work just fine for making wine. The only real advantage here is that its slightly easier to see bubbles moving on the S-bubbler. I have and use both kinds.
You will need a stopper or cap with a hole to affix the airlock to the top of your carboy or fermentation container, so make sure to grab that, too. They are often sold together in sets.
Can You Use Regular Yeast To Make Wine
Wine yeast can be hard to find unless you order it online or are lucky enough to be near a brewing supply store. Its worth the trouble to find it. It makes a much better tasting wine and it works better when making a higher alcohol content wine.
However, you can use regular bread yeast but it wont taste as good. Ive made juice wine with both and while the wine yeast version is far superior, the other is still drinkable. If youre merely experimenting with winemaking and just want to make something to give you a buzz, regular yeast will do it.
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Add Yeast Citric Acid And Bentonite Leave To Ferment
If you have a Hedgerow Wine Kit add sachets 1, 1c and 1d when the temperature has dropped to at least 30 degrees centigrade. If you don’t have one, add 1 sachet/5g yeast , 5 tsps citric acid and 2 tsps bentonite . Reseal lid and make sure airlock is sealed well and half full with water.
Leave to ferment for about two weeks at room temperature or slightly above, or until it almost stops bubbling. Stir with a sterilised stirrer and leave until it stops bubbling again.
Should I Really Try This
Yes, you should absolutely try to make wine at home. It’s so cheap to do and as a university student, cheap alcohol is amazing. The wine costs include the juice, yeast, sugar and the balloons. The wine is effective and it doesn’t take a lot to get you happily drunk. 10/10, would recommend.
While I encourage you to try your hand at making wine, don’t forget to drink responsibly. Just because you can easily make massive quantities of wine for cheap, that doesn’t mean you should drink it all at once. That being said, I hope you can enjoy a glass with dinner or a few glasses before you go out.
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Homemade Wine Ingredient & Supplies
- Grape Juice Call your local fruit market or wine supply stores and ask if they sell 100% pure grape juice in 6-gallon buckets. Yes, this is a thing. Typically its available between September and November, so act fast. Thats the only non-optional ingredient you will need.
- A Wooden Stick Cut a tree branch long and strong enough to stir a 5-gallon bucket, peel off all the bark, or buy a 1-inch dowel. Make sure its untreated raw wood if you go the dowel route.
- 2x 6 Gallon Glass Carboy One will work, but its best to start with two. Buy two. Do not use plastic.
- S-Shaped Airlock and Stopper Get the right size stopper for your carboy. High-tech ones are not needed.
- Auto Siphon Kit Dont go hog-wild on this piece. Simple works just as well.
- 24 to 30 Wine Bottles 750 ml New or used bottles work just as well.
- Natural Wine Corks Natural or some agglomerated corks are made from the bark of a Cork Oak Tree, and synthetic are made from plastics. I prefer natural, but both will work. DO NOT reuse corks.
- Wine Bottle Double Lever Hand Corker or Wine Bottle Floor Corker The hand model works but takes more time and figuring out. Floor corkers are MUCH easier to use but cost more.
What Goes Up Must Come Down: Drinking And Storing Homemade Wine
After a few weeks, the yeast will eventually die off and thus stop producing carbon dioxide, causing the balloon to deflate. At that point, you’re almost done! Just take the bottle to your kitchen and decide whether you would prefer to either:
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Note On Cyanidin Glycoside
Just an FYI, some people boil their elderberry juice before making wine. It is believed to minimize the risk of toxicity from cyanidin glycoside. So, if you do accidentally harvest unripe berries , you may want to think about boiling your juice.
I have never tried this. However, most of the recipes I have seen suggest bringing juice to a boil, simmering for 10 minutes, then cooling. After the liquid is cool, you can dilute with water and proceed as laid out above.
You may kill some natural yeast by boiling, so using purchased yeast is a good idea for this method.
Raisin Wine Recipe A Wine You Can Make Year Round
Dried fruits are great for making wine, especially when the winter comes around and fresh fruit isnt in season. This Raisin wine recipe makes a wine that is nice and warming, similar to sherry and a great wine to make from a store cupboard ingredient.
Raisins are great for making wine. You will have probably seen that many wine recipes make use of them. This is because a small amount imparts a lot of flavour and body which a lot of more subtle fresh fruit wines can lack. You will be pleased to know that raisins can be used as the sole fruit in a fruit wine and there a more varieties of raisins than you might expect so there is some room for experimentation too.
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Preparing Raisins For Making Wine
To get the most out of the raisins you use you will need to chop them to prepare them for winemaking. You tend to find when whole raisins are soaked in a liquid they tend to swell plump up and absorb the liquid. Our objective, being to extract the flavours, sugars and colour from the raisins means they need to be chopped or minced to extract maximum flavour.
A decent food processor can make light work of this and should only take a moment. The raisins dont need to be fine particles but just chopped/minced roughly.
How Do You Know When Its Finished Fermenting
Its finished fermenting when you tap the edge of the glass and no bubbles appear. However, this is not a hard and fast rule. Fermenting can stop or slow greatly due to fluctuations in temperatures.
A cold spell can slow fermenting, while a sudden warm-up can kick start it once more. This can lead to blowing corks in bottled wine, but you shouldnt have that problem if youre using the balloons or plastic wrap.
And there you have it, a cheap and easy way to make wine at home with very little money and no fancy equipment. Once youve tried making wine from fruit juice, then try your hand at making wine from fruit, flowers or even herbs. With a little imagination and experimentation, you can create your own wines to enjoy for years to come.
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Nutritional Content Of Elderberries
Elderberries have almost no sugar, but somehow still manage to taste sweet when picked ripe. They have more vitamin C than orange juice, and other good stuff like vitamins A, B, and Iron. Plus, they have lots of cancer-fighting antioxidants.
The berries also about 330 calories per pound of berries or 4000-5000 calories per plant. By comparison, a dwarf apple tree that requires about the same amount of planting space and significantly more care will produce roughly the same amount of calories of fruit.
In a small space, with marginal growing conditions, elderberry shrubs are a smart choice for good nutrition, calorie-content, and beauty. Plus, they can be used to make wine!
Do You Need To Age Homemade Wine
Most people are aware of the wines aging process. Older bottles from great harvest years are coveted and can cost thousands of dollars.
The shorter the amount of time you let your wine age, the more intense the flavor profile will be. So, if youre looking to produce a smooth or delicate flavor profile, youll want the bottle to age longer.
Some people are OK with only aging a bottle of wine for two weeks, while some prefer six months to a year. It really depends on the type and style of wine you made.
If youre new to this process, larger batches of wine will yield multiple bottles enabling you to open and taste one or two at different points in the aging process. Whats also great about larger batches is that even when the wine has reached your desired profile, you can leave one or two bottles from the batch to sit even longer and further develop for years, just to experiment. Note taking is highly recommended for future reference.
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What Does Blueberry Wine Taste Like
Blueberry wine has all the tangy, tart, and sweet flavor profile of eating a fresh blueberry. When making your own wine, you have complete control over how sweet or dry the final product isso YOU are in charge! You also can control the alcohol contentwhich means you can make your final wine taste more or less boozy. When it comes to making homemade wine, you can experiment to figure out the perfect combo for you.
Use Of The Wrong Container
If you are putting together your own homemade kit, keep in mind to acquire a food-grade container . If you dont check whether or not your container is food grade, it can actually contaminate your wine.
In very rare cases you may actually get very sick or even get lead poisoning if not checking whether or not your plastic/metal container is suited for winemaking.
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How To Make The Wine
Armed with a popular recipe, I headed to Bitter & Esters, my local homebrewing shop. The employees, used to the experiments from their regular clientele, seemed unfazed by my project, and helped me select the absolute minimum amount of hardware required for the project.
I left with a 1-gallon glass jug yeast yeast nutrient, to keep the fermentation from getting stuck pectic enzyme, which keeps the wine from going cloudy an airlock for the jug a funnel sanitizing solution a hydrometer, to measure sugar and alcohol and a beaker, all for just under $50.
I need to make a disclosure: Ive made wine before. I worked at a winery in France for six months and have done everything you could possibly do from nurturing vines to stomping on grapes. It in no way gave me an advantage here. The only time I remotely recalled that experience was when I had to clean my recently purchased equipment.
Raw material aside, sanitizing is crucial to the success of any homebrewing project. You sanitize anything that will come in contact with your future booze: the jug, the funnel, the utensil for stirring, thus protecting yourself from the potentially unpalatable result of rogue bacteria spoiling your work.
This recipe is to winemaking as the Easy-Bake Oven is to making elegant French pastries.
In my freshly sanitized kitchen, I started to follow the recipe by dissolving sugar in water and adding the thawed concentrate, then fortifying it with the yeast nutrient and a dash of pectic enzyme.
Adding The Juice And Sugar
Put the thawed juice concentrate and fresh lemon juice into your container. If youre making an all grape wine, you can leave out the lemon juice. If you are using different fruits, the lemon helps to bring out the flavor as well as giving a nice edge to the wine.
Add the sugar to the juice. Stir or shake well to dissolve the sugar. The sweeter the fruit juice and more sugar added, the higher the possible alcohol content.
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Read Me: An Important Winemaking Caveat
Like most things in life, the craft of home winemaking falls on a wide spectrum. On one end, you have the folks who love to dive all inthey spend hundreds of dollars on special tools, they sanitize everything using synthetic chemicals, they take scientific records, they use very specific winemaking additives. On the other hand, there is what I like to call heritage winemakers. These people use barely nothing more than a clean canning jar, fruit, water, and some sugarafter all, thats the way folks have been making wine for generations. And then there are all of us who fall somewhere in between on the spectrum.
A Basic But Delicious Blueberry Wine
The reason this wine recipe is such a good wine to make for the beginner is the ease of the process and the resulting wine is delicious.
Many fruit wine recipes require lots of small tweaks and refining to produce a decent result whereas the blueberry wine produces a good wine even if you dont get everything just right.
There are a few additives that youll want in this blueberry wine, these are just the usual suspects of any fruit wine.
Acid blend and tannin are required for the vast majority of fruit wines and this blueberry wine is no exception. You should have these kinds of additives, along with pectic enzyme and yeast nutrients to hand for any fruit wine you intend to make.
The blueberries you use, whether they are frozen or fresh, is up to you. As long as the fruit is good quality and ripe you should be in for decent blueberry wine.
Frozen fruit tends to be picked when its riper than fresh fruit from the supermarket in this case picking the frozen fruit will result in a better wine. Freezing the fruit will also break down the cells of the fruit releasing the juices and flavour better than just mashing the fruit.
I have used frozen blueberries for this recipe. You can get them year round and they are much cheaper than fresh berries.
If you can get hold of wild blueberries you can, of course, use these, picked at their ripest and being able to choose the highest quality blueberries will make a superior wine.
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What is RPL token?
RPL is the protocol token of Rocketpool.
What is RPL token used for?
- Rocket Pool node operators can stake RPL as an additional security deposit.
They earn an extra commission proportional to the deposit. If they fail to perform their network duties and incur penalties or slashing their RPL is burned proportional to their ETH losses.
It is not required to run a node or to stake ETH on the network.
What is RocketPool?
Rocketpool is a decentralized staking service for ETH 2.0.
Try Beta app on Medalla testnet here.
How RocketPool works
To stake ETH and secure the network in Ethereum 2.0 – 32 ETH is needed.
- Rocketpool offers staking and rewards with as little as 0.01 ETH.
- Earn comission on ETH staking rewards (currently 19% on testnet).
- Can join with 16 ETH.
- That the entire network absorbs the penalties and slashing conditions from single nodes.
- Rather than one user suffering 100% just due to bad luck that their deposit ended up on a bad node.
Can integrate into Rocket Pools smart contracts to stake ETH that the dApp holds, and receive rETH.
What is rETH?
Is the token received when providing ETH to the pool.
- This token does not need to be locked and can be used like any other ERC-20.
- It will accrue staking rewards over time.
When smart contracts are natively enabled on ETH2 user will be able to burn the rETH token for ETH.
What is nETH?
Phase 0 and 1
- Node operators receive the nETH token which is a 1:1 token representing deposit + rewards + commissions.
- This is not the same as rETH which represents tokenised staking deposits +
- rewards earned by the whole network and is not 1:1.
- When smart contracts are natively enabled on ETH2, a smart contract will be deployed that will allow users with the nETH token to burn it for ETH.
More about Rocket Pool here.
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Noise-induced Stop-and-Go Dynamics.
Stop-and-go waves are commonly observed in traffic and pedestrian flows. In traffic theory they are described by phase transitions of metastable models. The self-organization phenomenon occurs due to inertia mechanisms but requires fine tuning of the parameters. Here, a novel explanation for stop-and-go waves based on stochastic effects is presented for pedestrian dynamics. We show that the introduction of specific coloured noises in a stable microscopic model allows to describe realistic pedestrian stop-and-go behaviour without requirement of metastability and phase transition. We compare simulation results of the stochastic model to real pedestrian trajectories and discuss plausible values for the model's parameters.
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You may have heard of spoon theory, a popular metaphor for dealing with chronic illness and energy-depleting activities. You’re probably less likely to have heard of a variant called fork theory, and you probably haven’t heard of knife theory. In this post, we’re going to do a deep dive into the mental illness cutlery drawer, and perhaps have a bit of fun while we’re at it.
Spoon theory, which has become hugely popular in the chronic illness community, was first described by Christine Miserandino. The idea is that you start your day with a particular number of spoons, and throughout the day, different activities require different amounts of spoons. Depending on how you’re feeling, taking a shower might require one spoon, or it could require a gazillion spoons, which you just don’t have available. Once you use up your spoons for the day, you’re pretty much useless until you get some rest and sleep to replenish your spoons.
For more, check out an earlier post I did on spoon theory.
Fork theory was first described in 2018 by Jen Rose. Unlike spoons, which are internal resources, forks are external stressors. There are only so many fork pricks that you can handle, and then you need time and rest to heal and recover.
This is a massive part of my mental illness life. Fork pokes worsen my psychomotor slowing. It’s gotten to the point that even minor pokes have an effect, and I’m very slow to recover to wherever I happened to be pre-poke. Often, I haven’t recovered yet from the previous fork poke before the next one comes along. Like a fork poke, the stressor itself can be brief, but it leaves damage that takes time to heal even after the fork itself is long gone.
There’s more on fork theory here.
There have been a number of ideas suggested for knives; you may find one fits more in your own circumstances than others.
The first i heard of knives being part of the mix was in a comment that Jen Rose left on my fork theory post. She said knives are more serious traumas that require active intervention and are much harder to heal from than forks.
I also came across Terry Masson‘s knife hypothesis, which was described as a way of digging deep into the cutlery drawer to borrow resources from tomorrow. Except that increases your resource debt even further and increases the number of dirty used utensils you need to wash, and on and on it goes in a stabby spiral.
In the comments below, Norma suggested that knives hurt not just you but the people around you. For example, if you take on more than you can handle, that can come back to stab you and others in the butt.
The less common utensils
The mental illness cutlery drawer doesn’t have to be limited to those three. Besides your major utensils that are coming out pretty regularly, you’ve probably got a few more kicking around in your cutlery drawer that you use every so often, or maybe just once a year. But they’re still there, waiting for that special occasion to bite you in the butt.
For whisk, I’m thinking anxiety and/or sensory overwhelm. There’s way too much spinning around to have any clue about anything.
Whisking could produce lasting changes. If you whisk some eggs, they’re not going to go back to the way they were before.
I think the mental illness meat tenderizer comes out when people are trying to beat you down, and even when they know they’ve run you over (yes, I’m mixing metaphors), they back up and run you over a few more times just to make sure you’ve had the crap fully beaten out of you.
The last time this happened to me was probably three years ago, and it happened at work. Not fun at all.
Some people suck the life right out of you, leaving almost nothing left. There’s also a risk they might spew some of it right back in your face.
I’ve also thought pastry blender seemed like an odd name for that particular contraption. Anyway, this is when one knife just isn’t quite enough. It’s not as sharp as a knife, but it’s got multiple blades to slice and dice you and leave you ragged and bleeding. It’s like death by a thousand small cuts.
This is for when your key support people decide you’re just too crazy for them, so they bore into your heart and then yank it right out. Then maybe they do a dance on it for good measure.
This idea comes from Norma, and I’ll quote her because she describes it well: “That’s for those activities which replenish your energy and save your ‘spoons’ (so you don’t need to use so many), like sleep, exercise (for mental health) or connecting with supportive friends. Most of us only have one or two in the drawer so not inexhaustible.”
The cutlery drawer
So far, the cutlery drawer consists of:
- meat tenderizers
- turkey basters
- pastry blenders
That’s it for my drawer. What plays a role in your own drawer?
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Social media is changing the way practitioners deliver messages, as they are concerned with the media, and also customer relationship building. PR practitioners must provide effective communication among all platforms, in order to engage the fashion public in an industry socially connected via online shopping. Consumers have the ability to share their purchases on their personal social media pages (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), and if practitioners deliver the brand message effectively and meet the needs of its public, word-of-mouth publicity will be generated and potentially provide a wide reach for the designer and their products.
Moreover, political movement built an impressive relationship with fashion trend. For instance, during Vietnam war, the youth of America made a movement that affected the whole country. In the 1960s, the fashion trend was full of fluorescent colors, prints patterns, bell-bottom jeans, fringed vests, and skirt became a protest outfit of the 1960s. This trend was called Hippie and it is still affecting current fashion trend.
Many fashion designers have come under fire over the years for what is known as tokenism. Designer or editors will add one or two members on an underrepresented group to help them appear as inclusive and diverse, and to also help them give the illusion that they have equality. This idea of tokenism helps designers avoid accusations of racism, sexism, body shaming, etc.
A report from New York Fashion (Spring 2015) week found that while 79.69% of models on the runway were white, only 9.75% of models were black, 7.67% were Asian, and 2.12% were Latina. The lack of diversity also accounts for not only designers but models too, out of four hundred and seventy members of The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) only twelve of the members are black. From the same study on New York Fashion Week, it was shown that only 2.7% of the 260 designers presented were black men, and an even smaller percentage were black female designers. Even the relationship between independent designers and retailers can show the racial gap, only 1% of designers stocked at department stores being people of color. It was also found that in editorial spreads, over eighty percent of models pictured were white and only nine percent were black models. These numbers have stayed stagnant over the past few years.
You hit up your friends for help. For example, when I did a site redesign a few year ago, I asked for help with the overall color and feel. I told them I’d do the work, I just needed their opinion. My friend helped me perfect the site’s color scheme and the feel of the layout. Also told me stuff like “that image needs to be sharper…don’t resize, save in the right format, etc.”
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Additionally, there is a long history of fashion in West Africa. Cloth was used as a form of currency in trade with the Portuguese and Dutch as early as the 16th Century. Locally produced cloth and cheaper European imports were assembled into new styles to accommodate the growing elite class of West Africans and resident gold and slave traders. There was an especially strong tradition of cloth-weaving in Oyo and the areas inhabited by the Igbo people.
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There are many examples of cultural appropriation in fashion. In many instances, designers can be found using aspects of culture inappropriately, in most cases taking traditional clothing from middle eastern, African, and Hispanic culture and adding it to their runway fashion. Some examples are in a 2018 Gucci runway show, white models wore Sikh headdresses, causing a lot of backlash. Victoria’s secret was also under fire for putting traditional native headdresses on their models during a lingerie runway show.
Great Post, I chose to focus on the crowdfunding niche. It was a 2 billion dollar industry last year and is projected to be a 5 billion dollar industry this year. I recommend using Fiverr to use graphic designers for first time bloggers. I did use the logo designed for five dollars at the top of my site (bottom now) but stopped using it because it didn’t look good on mobile.
Suggestions: I found the usage of “Dressing up the…” to be a bit passive. A stronger post title would be “Dress up the…” but then it would be using two of the same words (even if they have different meanings, “dress” the verb and “dress” the noun). I would use a different word, like, “Glam,” or something along those lines to differentiate. The post was good, but it could become an evergreen post, if she ad incorporated several ways to make that LBD pop.
In eastern Indonesia, both the production and use of traditional textiles have been transformed as the production, use and value associated with textiles have changed due to modernization. In the past, women produced the textiles either for home consumption or to trade with others. Today, this has changed as most textiles are not being produced at home. Western goods are considered modern and are valued more than traditional goods, including the sarong, which retain a lingering association with colonialism. Now, sarongs are used only for rituals and ceremonial occasions, whereas western clothes are worn to church or government offices. Civil servants working in urban areas are more likely than peasants to make the distinction between western and traditional clothes. Following Indonesia's independence from the Dutch, people increasingly started buying factory made shirts and sarongs. In textile-producing areas the growing of cotton and production of naturally colored thread became obsolete. Traditional motifs on textiles are no longer considered the property of a certain social class or age group. Wives of government officials are promoting the use of traditional textiles in the form of western garments such as skirts, vests and blouses. This trend is also being followed by the general populace, and whoever can afford to hire a tailor is doing so to stitch traditional ikat textiles into western clothes. Thus, traditional textiles are now fashion goods and are no longer confined to the black, white and brown colour palette but come in array of colours. Traditional textiles are also being used in interior decorations and to make handbags, wallets and other accessories, which are considered fashionable by civil servants and their families. There is also a booming tourist trade in the eastern Indonesian city of Kupang where international as well as domestic tourists are eager to purchase traditionally printed western goods.
Why: Hailing from Sao Paulo, Helena Bordon is one of Brazil’s most influential style bloggers. She started her fashion education from a young age courtesy of her mother, Donata Meirelles, the style director of Vogue Brazil. When Helena was just 7 years old, she’d join her mum at all the top fashion shows and eventually interned at Valentino. Now, Helena is co-founder of Brazilian high street fashion chain 284, as well as finding the time to run her eponymous blog, helenabordon.com, which offers Helena’s insider style, travel and beauty tips. Disclaimer: expect holiday envy.
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OFFEND IN TAGALOG – This article will teach you what the word “offend” is in the Tagalog translation and its meaning.
Table of contents
- What is the meaning of Offend in English?
- What is Offend in Tagalog?
- Offend meaning In Tagalog (Masaktan)
- Example Sentences of Offend in English
- Example Sentences of Offend in Tagalog (Masaktan)
- For More English and Tagalog Translations
There are a couple of words in the Filipino language that could be translated into “offend.” However, the use of these words depends on the context of the sentence. Therefore, be mindful of what you write.
What is the meaning of Offend in English?
The word “offend” means to break the law and to make someone upset or hurt their feelings, especially by being rude or not showing respect or by something you do or say.
What are the Synonyms of Offend?
Here are some synonyms of “offend”
What is Offend in Tagalog?
|Offend||Saktan or saktan ang damdamin|
The Tagalog word for “offend” is translated as “masaktan” or “saktan or saktan ang damdamin.”
Offend meaning In Tagalog (Masaktan)
Ang masaktan ay tumutukoy pagkiramdam ng hindi maganda o sama ng loob dulot ng sinabe o ginawa ng isang tao.
Offend Synonyms in Tagalog
Here are some synonyms for “masaktan”
- Bigyan ng sama ng loob
- Sumugat ng Damdamin
Example Sentences of Offend in English
Here are some example sentences of offend in English.
|Sentences of offend in English|
|He offended many of us.|
|I didn’t mean to offend you.|
|I didn’t mean to offend her.|
|We are just kidding, not to offend you.|
|Think before you speak; you might offend her.|
Example Sentences of Offend in Tagalog (Masaktan)
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Here are some example sentences of offend in Filipino (Masaktan)
- Sinaktan niya ang marami sa atin.
- Hindi ko sinasadyang masaktan ka.
- Hindi ko sinasadyang masaktan siya.
- Nagbibiro lang kami, hindi para saktan ka.
- Mag-isip ka muna bago ka magsalita; baka masaktan mo siya.
The word “offend” means to break the law and to make someone upset or hurt their feelings
Masaktan or Saktan or Saktan ang damdamin
Ang masaktan ay tumutukoy pakiramdam ng hindi maganda o sama ng loob dulot ng sinabe o ginawa ng isang tao.
For More English and Tagalog Translations
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In summary, we have discussed the meaning and translation of the word “offend.” We also provided example sentences.
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Thirty years ago, America’s Space Shuttle program had risen from the depths of despair—following the calamitous loss of Challenger—to a triumphant return-to-flight and the three surviving orbiters, Columbia, Discovery and Atlantis, were beginning to establish a tempo for a resumption of mission operations. In November 1988, two months after STS-26 finally laid Challenger’s ghosts to rest, several new shuttle crews were announced for the following year.
One of them, the crew of STS-33, included retired U.S. Navy Naval Air Reserve rear admiral Dave Griggs, who would the most senior military officer ever to fly aboard the shuttle. Griggs had flown once before and would be embarking on his first flight in the pilot’s seat, but only six months later, on 17 June 1989, he lost his life in a shocking tragedy that no one could possibly have foreseen and which altered the face of STS-33 forever.
Labeled “a superb pilot” by fellow astronaut Jeff Hoffman, Griggs came from a naval aviation background and his stern, moustached countenance would not have been out of place in the portrait of a Civil War officer. Born in September 1939, he graduated from the Naval Academy and flew the A-4 Skyhawk on three overseas cruises to the Mediterranean and Vietnam, before attending Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Md. Griggs resigned from active duty in 1970, earned a master’s degree and joined NASA as a civilian research pilot, although he remained a naval reservist.
He served as project pilot and later head of the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) office, participating extensively in the design, development and testing of its systems. Selected as one of the first class of shuttle astronauts—the so-called “Thirty-Five New Guys” (TFNGs)—in January 1978, he had already accrued over 8,000 hours in high-performance jet aircraft, as well as flight instructor certification and over 300 carrier landings in more than 45 distinct aircraft. Even today, Griggs remains one of the most experienced pilots ever picked for astronaut training.
He was selected for his first shuttle flight in September 1983. Originally slated for launch in the summer of 1984, it was extensively delayed and its payloads shuffled, before being canceled and the entire NASA crew—Commander Karol “Bo” Bobko, Pilot Don Williams and Mission Specialists Rhea Seddon, Jeff Hoffman and Griggs—shifted to another mission in early 1985. By an incredible stroke of cruel luck, that flight, too, was canceled, but only weeks later, on 12 April, Griggs and his fellows launched aboard shuttle Discovery on a seven-day flight which deployed two commercial communications satellites. Significantly, one of those satellites suffered a malfunction shortly after departing the payload bay and Hoffman and Griggs performed the first-ever “contingency” spacewalk of the shuttle program to effect makeshift repairs.
Griggs was listed as pilot of the Earth Observation Mission (EOM), scheduled for August 1986 but canceled following the tragic loss of Challenger at the start of that year. The entire astronaut corps effectively stood down as efforts got underway to bring the shuttle program back online and in November 1988 he was appointed as pilot for STS-33, then targeted to launch on 10 August 1989. Griggs would be joined by Commander Fred Gregory and Mission Specialists Manley “Sonny” Carter, Kathy Thornton and Story Musgrave. Their four-day flight would deploy a classified payload for the Department of Defense. However, by the early summer of 1989, changes to the shuttle flight manifest had pushed STS-33 into the fall, with an expected launch date no sooner than the second half of November.
Early on 17 June, Griggs was preparing for a weekend air show in Clarksville, Ark., flying alone in a single-engine, 1940s-era AT-6 vintage airplane. Shortly after 9:10 a.m. CDT, according to eyewitnesses, he was performing aileron rolls, when one wing accidentally touched the ground and the aircraft crashed into a wheat field, just south of the town of Earle. “Griggs was flying for the McNeely Charter Service, a private air service based in Earle,” noted Arlington National Cemetery, where Griggs is buried. “The plane hit the ground in a field of wheat near the company’s hangars.”
As highlighted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in its July 1990 final report, an eyewitness saw Griggs’ aircraft approach McNeely Airport in Earle from the west, “low and slow”, as if preparing to land. “Then it was maneuvered to an inverted attitude over Runway 8 at 50-100 feet,” the NTSB report noted. “After remaining inverted for a short time, the aircraft was rolled back to an upright attitude. However, as the aircraft rolled upright, it angled to the right side of the runway, descended and crashed. The witness said the aircraft seemed to “slip” sideway as it rolled to the upright position, before crashing.”
Tragically, Griggs lost his life in the accident, aged just 49. According to the NTSB, Griggs “had visited with a prominent AT-6 pilot and had expressed special interest in the AT-6 pilot’s routine involving inverted flight. The AT-6 pilot had provided info, but advised the astronaut against performing rolls in the AT-6 at low altitude.” The board found that the accident arose from improper planning and overconfidence, which resulted in the pilot’s loss of control, coupled with inadequate altitude and airspeed. It was a sad end for a skilled aviator who had, by 17 June 1989, accumulated an impressive 9,500 flying hours and might have gone on to command a Space Shuttle mission of his own.
Griggs’ passing sent shockwaves through the astronaut corps. In his memoir, Riding Rockets, veteran shuttle flyer Mike Mullane remembered seeing STS-33 astronaut Kathy Thornton—her cheeks soaked with tears—walk into Houston’s Outpost tavern after the funeral and numbly place a wreath of flowers onto the bar.
However, amidst the tragedy, the harsh light of reality continued to glare. With STS-33 only months away, Griggs’ seat as second-in-command needed to be filled. A first-time shuttle pilot was undesirable at short notice, so veteran astronaut John Blaha—newly returned from piloting STS-29, earlier in the year—was slotted into the crew. He had already been assigned to a later flight, but his place was taken by “rookie” Sid Gutierrez.
According to Fred Gregory, it was his choice to pick Blaha. “I liked John,” he told an interviewer for CollectSpace.com in September 2011, and felt that his recent flight experience would make him an ideal fit.
For Gutierrez, the assignment came totally out of the blue. “We were not expecting any new assignments tobe announced for another month or so,” he told AmericaSpace’s Ben Evans in an email correspondence. “I did have some idea that I was getting close and I had reviewed the upcoming missions. It was summer and we headed off on an extended family vacation driving to the East Coast, visiting relatives in Ocean City and touring sites around D.C. We then planned to stay at a friend’s cabin in West Virginia before starting the drive home. It was the days before cell phones or even personal pagers, so I left my assistant with good phone numbers to reach me up until leaving the cabin in West Virginia. From there on back to Houston I told her we would just drive along and stop when and where we felt like it. So, there were a few days where she could not reach me.
“While reading a paper in DC we learned of the tragic accident involving Dave,” Mr Gutierrez continued. “I thought briefly about the possibility of a funeral at Arlington but heard nothing. It did not cross my mind that his death would have an impact on my flight assignment. We got home on the weekend and slept in. Late in the morning I wondered out into the front yard to pick up the newspaper. My next-door neighbor was out doing something, and he said: “Congratulations.” I thought that he was being sarcastic and making a joke about making it through an extended family vacation driving across the country. I turned to him and said something about not yet being awake. He realized I had missed the point and added: “I was talking about your flight assignment.” I looked at him inquisitively and said: “What do you mean?” He said: “It is in the paper. Not that one. It is old news. It happened days ago.” He quickly realized I had no idea I had been assigned. He gave me some idea of what day it had occurred, and I went back in, rummaged through the pile of old papers and found the article where NASA announced my assignment. I told Marianne and she congratulated me. Of course, we were sad that it was a result of an unfortunate accident.
“I got a call from the STS-40 Commander Bryan O’Connor. He officially notified me I had been selected and explained how they had tried in vain toreach me. They planned to notify all the crew members before the official announcement, but they tried to reach me about half an hour after we had left the cabin. They called the owner of the cabin, who was a manager at NASA Headquarters, and he said: “Sid is gone. You missed him.” After being advised by my assistant that we were out of contact somewhere along the Skyline Drive, they went ahead with the official announcement.”
So it was that shortly after midnight on 23 November 1989, shuttle Discovery rose from historic Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, bearing Gregory, Blaha, Carter, Musgrave and Thornton on their classified mission. Five days later, after a highly successful flight, Gregory and Blaha guided their ship to a smooth touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. But the memory and legacy of Dave Griggs was not to be forgotten. In fact, emblazoned on the STS-33 crew patch—alongside the surnames of his former crewmates and a stylized eagle of the United States—was a tiny gold star.
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This is an unexplored region somewhere in Japan. It is far from the city and is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean in three directions. A world where "Mononoke and the stars" are the protagonists of the endless darkness that comes at night. There is a fascinating landscape in such a place. Lighthouses, shrines, ancient ruins, natural terrain ... how long have you been in this place?
It seems that the approach that extends from the shrine to the sea was for worshiping by boat when there was no way. Surrounded by coves, the waves are calm. At night, you will be surrounded by darkness and silence. On the other hand, outside the cove, rough Pacific waves rush to the quay. The chalk lighthouse at the tip of the cliff illuminates the sea at night for the safety of the voyage, and the light reaches up to 38 km away. Rough waves sometimes scrape cliff quays and take tens of thousands of years to create unique terrain. Beyond the big hole, I could see the Milky Way.
This is an unexplored region somewhere in Japan. Superb views and stars are always waiting for your visit. Let's go on a trip!
A white lighthouse stands on the edge of the cliff at the cape that protrudes into the open ocean.
It has been lit for over 100 years and has been watching the safety of the ship's navigation. The light emitted is strong and can be reached up to 38km away from the sea.
It is said to be one of the largest lighthouses in Japan. Rough waves in the Pacific Ocean are constantly hitting the cliffs.
The view is very open because it is located on a cliff. The horizontal line draws an arc without interruption.
At the sunset moment, the lighthouse begins to glow. This lighthouse is a group flash type that emits a white flash three times in 12 seconds, separated by 18 seconds.
The lighthouse seems to have various ways of glowing, and it seems that it is not just something that rotates around.
The darker stages of the sky have their own names. First, the stage called "cilil twilight". This is the time from when the sun is directly below the horizon (horizon) until it reaches -6 degrees. In this state, it is still bright enough that it does not hinder outdoor activities even without lighting. Next, when the angle exceeds -6 degrees, it shifts to the "nautical twilight" stage. A state in which the brightness remains enough to distinguish the boundary between the sea surface and the sky. Further, the stage from -12 degrees to -18 degrees is called "astronomical twilight". In this state, the sky is dark enough. In places where conditions are good, it indicates darkness that can be seen with the naked eye up to a magnitude 6 star.
The border of twilight from evening to night is not very clear. It has the impression that it has become vaguely dark, but the twilight boundary from the opposite night to the morning is relatively noticeable. The pupil, which has been completely opened in the dark, can detect subtle changes in the brightness of the sky. That is why the sensitivity of the human eye to the light is high.
The boundary between the horizon and the sky further beyond the sea illuminated by the lighthouse has become ambiguous. It's time for the sky to be filled with full stars.
Megalithic civilizations and archeological sites have been identified around the world. Some of them have no idea when, who, for what purpose, or how.
In order to build up these monuments, there was an unknown and advanced civilization in the ancient era 25,000 to 12,000 years ago.
This is also a mysterious megalithic site. A huge stone is suddenly exposed on the hillside. Archaeological sites resembling Carnac stones of France have been found in the area, suggesting that they may have been created for some artificial purpose. However, only a local investigation was conducted and no full-scale investigation was conducted, and there is no doubt that it is a power spot wrapped in a mysterious romance. There have been traces of people living around this area since the Jomon period, and it is highly likely that some sort of ceremony was performed here. When you actually climb it, the view is very good and the sky is wide open. Perhaps it seems that the scenery is not so different from ancient times. If you look at the stars full of sky here, you may be able to feel the world view of ancient people.
This is not the end in a geographical sense, even if it is called "the end". It is the end in a psychological or temporal sense.
The small island over there is now accessible by fine roads and can be easily reached.
The transparency of sea of this island reaches about 40 meters. The ship floating on the sea is so transparent that it casts its shadow on the sea floor.
Standing on the observation deck on the mountain overlooking such an island.
The road to get here was very hard. The forked roads are narrow and dark. Since this road was the only way to get to the island, it is farthest from visiting the geographical edge.
It's so thin that if you come in front of the car, you'll need a lot of techniques to separate it. And a mysterious branch makes you lose your way.
The clear view of the crystal clear sea is black at night. The transparent that can only be achieved with light, and it is black even under a full star. Still, there is light. The light of a modest night view created by the people living on the island, and the starlight of the sky when you look up.
In front of you, a huge rock towering up to 50 meters in height stands. There is a large hole in the middle just below the middle, and the waves are breaking.
It is a sea cavern where waves have eroded over many years. It's a big hole so you can see the other side. In the direction, there is a hole just south.
Such a form of nature that is out of sight is a place of worship since ancient times. It will be a power spot if you compare it to the modern way.
In fact, there seems to be a shrine of Hakusan religion at the top of this cave. Certainly, there is an entrance, but there was a signboard that it would be like a rather dangerous place to visit without climbing.
Perhaps the width of the upper part of the cave is not very wide, and it is easy to imagine a situation with no railings or chains. These places can be climbed easily, but it is often difficult to regret going down.
At night, in the dark, in front of you, a huge shore that stands in front of you, and the constant sound of the waves crashing into you ... It's not a very calm place to see the stars, but open your eyes. You can see the summer Milky Way beyond the hole ...
On this cape, there are cliffs that extend over 100 meters. No one is in a place that is too unknown. And you can get down to places you wouldn't normally go.
It is a park-like cape that has been beautifully maintained, and it is surprising that such a large area is maintained properly without grass.
Why so unknown here? Beacause it's quite far from the main road. After that, the nearby more famous "Cape" is given priority, and it will disappear somewhere from the memory of the itinerary.
Around this area, cultivation of fish and pearls is actively carried out. Villages are scattered along the coast in slightly flat areas and valleys.
This standing place is in the middle of the slope that is steeply sloping south. You can clearly see the white waves standing at the faraway cove. Since it is a little deep from the open sea, you may not be bothered by strong winds. It is just good to lie down and look up at the night sky because the slope is nice.
Of course, roads are not well-developed. Rather, it is too surprising things that there are paved roads even in far away areas.
When I traveled to New Zealand before, I drove around a lot. The road continues to be very comfortable, but the place where "There aren't many people coming here?", the road suddenly turned into an unpaved gravel road.
This is also surprising thing, the gravel road is endlessly running for many kilometers and sometimes tens of kilometers.
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Fokker–Planck equation with interval and fuzzy uncertainty has been considered in this paper. Also the derivatives involved with respect to time and space are assumed to be fractional in nature. This problem has been solved using variational iteration method (VIM) along with the double parametric form of fuzzy numbers. For the analysis, both triangular and Gaussian normalised fuzzy sets are taken into consideration. Numerical results for different cases have been obtained and those are depicted in terms of plots and are also compared in special cases for the validation. Moreover, using an important method known as successive approximation method, it has also been verified that the obtained solutions are the same as that of VIM as both methods are equivalent.
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Banking is one of the most crucial resources the state-legal cannabis industry is missing out on due to federal prohibitions. Fearing retaliation from the federal government, most financial institutions refuse to work with cannabis businesses, depriving them of financial services such as bank accounts and loans.
Additionally, it forces marijuana businesses to operate on a cash-only basis, which significantly increases the risk of burglaries and robberies. However, some states have made efforts to increase access to banking services in the nascent cannabis sector in a bid to address these problems.
Former chair of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Rodney Hood says that while these efforts deserve plenty of praise, chances are they won’t be enough to change cannabis banking without congressional intervention. Speaking at an Emerging Markets Coalition about the cannabis banking dilemma, he said that this issue “demands special attention.”
Cannabis has proven to be one of the fastest-growing industries in the country, generating billions of dollars in sales and creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs. If the industry is given access to banking and loan services, it has the potential to be extremely lucrative in the long term. Hood noted that the surge in crime targeting cannabis businesses led to the development of certain protections at the state level for financial institutions that worked with the cannabis industry. Lawmakers in New York are even looking to provide tax breaks for the state’s new cannabis market. Pennsylvania has also passed a bipartisan bill that would protect banks as well as insurers that service medical cannabis businesses.
Hood commended state officials around the country who are trying to find ways to give the cannabis sector access to banking services amid federal inaction. However, Hood said, what the industry really needs is a federal solution instead of a patchwork of state policies to effectively fix the cannabis banking problem. As it stands, state-legal cannabis is worth billions of dollars and is poised to grow exponentially over the years yet it has a practically nonexistent infrastructure for commercial banking. With federal legalization looming on the horizon, the need for cannabis banking has become even greater.
The NCUA has formed an internal working group to work on solutions for cannabis banking in preparation for Congressional action on some kind of cannabis banking bill. One such legislation is the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which has been passed by the House several times but stalled in the Senate.
Once federal reforms are enacted, we could see a boom in the activities of companies such as Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTC: ACTX) since fairly uniform enabling regulations will have been established for the entire country.
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Trace Elements in Medicine (Moscow)
2018, 19(4): 3-9
SOME PROBLEMS OF BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES OF RUSSIA
North-Eastern State University, Portovaya str. 13, Magadan, 685000, Russia
ABSTRACT. The natural and climatic characteristics of the areas of the North are given, its extreme character is shown, including the geochemical environment. A brief review of biogeochemical studies in the Russian North was made. It is shown that the elemental status of the inhabitants of the North is analyzed mainly among the inhabitants of the Circumpolar regions. Due to objective difficulties, the Arctic regions remain practically unexplored. The emphasis was placed on technogenic contamination of the biosphere of the northern regions by heavy metals, and first of all by mercury, which has a neurotoxic effect. On the example of mercury and selenium antagonistic relations between chemical elements in a living organism are shown, which may result in the formation of secondary microelementoses. It is shown that geochemical zoning of the modern Arctic regions is necessary for the development of the Arctic territories of Russia, and the identification of the «predisposition» of individual territories to biogeochemical endemias.
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Medical tourism gives patients a chance to explore a new destination and a new culture. When you don’t have insurance coverage or your health insurance does not cover the full cost of a procedure, medical travel gives you the opportunity to go abroad where the savings are expected to between 30%- 90%.
Is medical tourism good or bad?
Most hospitals, on the lookout to attract foreign tourists, combine the benefits of a luxury hospital and a hotel. Thus, a medical holiday abroad will not only repair your body, but also rejuvenate your mind. 4. For many countries, medical tourism contributes to a significant percentage of their revenue.
What are the advantages of medical tourism in India?
Advantages of medical treatment in India include reduced costs, the availability of latest medical technologies, and compliance on international quality standards, doctors trained in western countries including the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as English-speaking personnel, due to which foreigners are …
Is medical tourism good for the economy?
Medical tourism can boost tourism receipts and employment in both medical centres as well as in other sectors. of 5 percent. Medical tourism employment in India is estimated to be about 167000. The growth of medical tourism in India is accelerating and expected to reach USD 8 billion by 2020.
What are the negatives of medical tourism?
The possibility of developing embolisms due to flying long periods, especially post-operatively , disruptions to patients’ continuity of care and the lack of adequate malpractice laws in many destination countries are all risky prospects for medical tourists .
Why is medical tourism popular?
The reason more Americans have become medical tourists is simply that they are seeking less expensive health care. Because we have the most expensive health care system in the world, it is not difficult to find countries that offer various procedures at 30%-65% of the cost of care in the United States.
Why is medical tourism important?
Health tourism covers those types of tourism which have as a primary motivation, the contribution to physical, mental and/or spiritual health through medical and wellness-based activities which increase the capacity of individuals to satisfy their own needs and function better as individuals in their environment and …
What is meant by medical tourism?
Medical tourism can be defined as the process of traveling outside the country of residence for the purpose of receiving medical care. … Originally, the term referred to the travel of patients from less-developed countries to developed nations in pursuit of the treatments not available in their homeland.
What do you mean by medical tourism write the opportunities in India for medical tourism?
Medical tourism most often is for surgeries (cosmetic or otherwise) or similar treatments, though people also travel for dental tourism or fertility tourism. … People with rare conditions may travel to countries where the treatment is better understood.
Which state is best for medical tourism in India?
The country is also known for its alternative treatment options such as yoga and ayurveda, it said. The leading destinations of medical tourism in India are Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, New Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra, the report said.
Is medical tourism good for the US?
Medical tourism represents an opportunity for U.S. hospitals to diversify revenue – usually hospitals with dedicated international centers generate five to ten percent of total revenue from international patients. … These policies cover most medical expenses, leaving patients with the normal co-payments and deductibles.
How much is medical tourism worth?
This is called medical tourism, and it’s a booming industry worldwide. In fact, the global medical tourism industry is worth an estimated $54.6 billion a year and is growing at around 25 per cent annually.
What are the benefits of wellness tourism?
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How can I turn my TV into a smart one?
As time passes TVs are becoming smarter and this will prevent the owner of the old TVs from smart features and applications; however, there exist numerous streaming media players that can be connected to the old TV and turn them into the smart one. Some of these devices include Apple TV, Roku Premier, Amazon FireTV, Nvidia Shield TV, Google Chromecast, and so forth.
The only solution for turning an old TV into a smart one is by using a setup box. Utilizing a setup box on an old TV will bring you more features and options other than IPTV channels.
Android setup boxes
For example, by using an Android box, you can connect to Google Play Store and download thousands of Android games and play those games on your TV. The best setup box for having both IPTV channels and playing Android games is Nvidia Shield which also comes with a Gamepad or a controller which makes it easier to play android games. What is an Android box?
iOS setup boxes
These setup boxes enable the users to utilize an HDTV to stream video, music, and podcasts as well as downloading apps and games from the App Store. AppleTV is the best option for this operating system and it offers all the feature an Android box has to offer, plus, with a remote that adds voice control from Siri, a touchpad, and an accelerometer and gyroscope for gameplay makes this device an even better solution compared to other platforms. What is AppleTV?
Infomir’s MAG is by far one of the greatest IPTV devices in the world. After 2007, Infomir produces Set-Top Boxes following the brand name MAG. These Set-Top Boxes are multi-functional devices that allow you to quickly organize your media contents and use IPTV services. The latest releases of MAG boxes will have an Android operating system embedded, however, you need to make sure that your IPTV provider supports these new versions. What is MAG?
How to connect an Android setup box to a TV
Now we are going to show you how to connect a set box to your old TV and turn it into a smart TV. What is an Android TV Box?
Connecting the cables
In the beginning, you must connect the HDMI cable. There’s normally one in the box. If not, you can purchase one on an online shop or local store.
Next is the Ethernet cable. This one is arbitrary. You can choose WiFi or connect directly via cable if you want to use the whole bandwidth your internet service provider has to offer, then you need. If you have the opportunity, go wired Ethernet. If that’s not an alternative, you can still go wireless.
You can use a flat ribbon Ethernet cable. They take up smaller space and you can cover them easier. There’s no differentiation in play, however, we suggest that you at least use a CAT 5 ethernet cable.
The last connection is the simple one. Power cable. Find an outlet and plug it in.
Selecting an internet network
Before starting with anything else, you must connect your device to the internet. Some companies make you decided how you’re connecting the device when you load up the device for the first time. Minimum required bandwidth for streaming IPTV.
If your device doesn’t make you connect the device to the internet when you first boot up the device, you need to do it manually. Go to the Settings section of your device and click on Network. From here you’ll be able to use Ethernet or Wi-Fi and select your network.
Create a Google account
The first thing you need to do after connecting the box to the internet is to create a Google account and start the process of updating any preinstalled apps and syncing any data you require. You can use the Google Play Store to download tons of different applications and Android games which turns your normal TV into a Smart TV.
Updating your Android box
Downloading updates is complex for every device. It’s normally discovered in an app, but it could be also in the settings section. It just depends on the manufacturer who created the device.
Here are some of the more common places that you can go to update your setup box:
- In the Settings menu on the About section, there is usually an option for System Upgrade. On the NVIDIA Shield TV, you can also install system upgrades to auto-download when available from this screen.
- In the All Apps section, you’ll apparently find apps named System Update or Update & Backup which you can use to update the box.
Related: How to Avoid Malware on Android
IPTV on Android setup boxes
There are several different methods that you can use to watch IPTV channels on your Android setup box, however, we are only going to name a few and forward you to the relevant article for full instructions. The first application that we recommend is Kodi.
Kodi is an open-source media player which is a free application that functions as a digital media center. This application enables you to play your media, cast it between various devices, from a primary location to other devices. How to setup IPTV on Kodi?
Another great application for streaming IPTV channels on your Android box is Perfect Player. Perfect Player is an Android application that simulates a set-top box that can be used for streaming IPTV channels on your favorite devices such as tablets, smartphones, and Smart TV. Please note, this application doesn’t include any IPTV channels. How to setup IPTV on Perfect player Android?
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No doubt, you've come to see hashtags as a necessary part of online (especially social media) content, but just in case, let's spell it out: A hashtag is the numerical pound sign “#” followed by a word or series of words, which groups together an idea based on the subject of a social media post.
For example, if you were to post a picture of the plethora of houseplants you have, the hashtags associated could be #plantparent or #plantlife. These hashtags are saved and tracked by social media platforms, so later a person can click on the hashtag and see all of the posts associated with the topic.
Lots of companies use hashtags, but perhaps not as effectively as they could if they understood exactly how hashtags work. Let’s talk about four different types of hashtags and how your brand could benefit.
Your brand is important, right? So, your best approach to creating a useful hashtag is to associate it with your small business’ brand when you post on social media. Think of it as the signature for your company.Keep ite short and concise, but be interesting. If someone sees your hashtag on their social media channels, you want them to recognize that it is associated with your brand. Many businesses use their name or slogan if it’s simple and easy enough. But there’s no reason you can’t spice it up a bit.
One thing to recognize is hashtags don’t work when they are combined with symbols like the hyphen or apostrophe, so if these are part of your brand, think of a way to work around them in the hashtag. When it comes to brand hashtags, your users will see clear images presented by your business and show solidarity later on by using it in their own posts, which allows you to interact with your customers on a more personal level.
Does your business run promotional campaigns? Try using campaign hashtags to use alongside your brand hashtags to tie them all together. Think of something clever and easy for people to remember. This will help to keep it sticky Promote your campaign hashtag on your own social networking sites or encourage people to use it on their posts to increase brand awareness and assist in marketing your products or services.
Trending hashtags are popular tags used by a lot of people within a short period of time. Many times, you see this on Twitter when something big is going one, whether it’s an event, a scandal or a big news story. For example, #COVID19 has been a regular trending hashtag for a while because of the world’s current situation. Your business can use its social media to look up what hashtags are currently trending, and then, get in on the action by posting to these trends.
An example post could be, “Have you been affected by #COVID19? We’re here for you! Give us a call or email, and we’ll go to bat for you.” Using a trending hashtag makes your post more likely to get views, likes, favorites and retweets, which increases its visibility and promotes your business.
Finally, the classic: content hashtags. While it may not seem as glamorous as some of the others, these are hashtags your business can use which simply pertain to the physical content in your social media posts. They’re actually very effective. For example, a clothing company may post about a new line of jewelry they just received in store: “We’re thrilled about the beautiful jewelry we now have in stock. Come check us out today! #jewelry #necklaces #bracelets #beautiful”.
You can even do research to see which content hashtags receive the most views, and then incorporate these in your posts to increase visibility. But be aware: Too many hashtags in a post can overwhelm some viewers. Add just a few to give your post a bit more pizazz and versatility.
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I received E-Mail that said:
We are trying to find out information on a old castle that use to stand on a place we all knew as Castle Hill. The road that lead up to the castle, (that was supposed to have been constructed of wood, and had burnt down) was called Giddens Hill, the man who had built and lived in the castle. Mr. Giddens but I don't know his first name. The land actually sits on the side of the road that is Princeton Louisiana, and is close to Fillmore Cemetery. Our mother use to have a picture of this castle , but she loaned it to neighbor and never got the picture back.
The man , Mr. Giddens was supposed to also have invented the first T.V. but did not get credit for this as someone stole is idea??, don't know how much of this info is fact or fiction , any info would be greatly appreciated.
On 5-30-05, I received E-Mail that said:
While searching for a little known, early 60's race track, I came across your site. I found this interesting bit by coincidence when cross referencing pieces of info.
This link has a photo and gives some brief history about the castle. http://www.earlytelevision.org/w5xa.html
This link goes to a topographical map. Approximately in the center of the map you'll see Eastwood. Just east of Eastwood you'll see Giddens Hill and radio towers. I assume that's where the castle was located. The race track I was trying to find is located right below the word "Hill". The is a small body of water located just inside the south end of the track. There are also links on this page for aerial photos in b&w and color. You can also zoom in pretty close. http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=15&X=140&Y=1124&W=3&qs=%7cBossier+City%7cla%7c
On 3-25-11, I received e-mail that said:
I have recently moved to Haughton, Louisiana and was interested in finding the location of Giddens Castle mainly because of the historic significance of being the location of the first television station (W5XA) in the Shreveport, LA area. With a little bit of research, I found that the castle was located at 32°33'18.9" North Latitude, 93°31'49.4" West Longitude (Google Earth Coordinates) in a place that is now an RV park called "Hilltop Campgrounds" The castle has been gone for some time but there is now a gazebo sitting at the approximate location. It is on private property but the campground owner will allow you visit the site and will welcome you if you are in an RV.
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You know that America is facing a health care crisis of epic proportions, and we’re all starting to realize that everyone plays a role in ending our cultural dependence on opioids.
In 2015, there were 52,000 drug overdose deaths and more than 60% of these were linked to OxyContin, Percocet, fentanyl, heroin, and other opioids.
Today, right now, drug overdoses are killing more Americans than the HIV and AIDS crisis did at its peak; more than car crashes and gun murders combined; it’s one of the biggest reasons why scientists say we’re seeing a decline in overall life expectancy in the U.S.
It’s up to every care provider to start addressing these concerns by not only reducing prescriptions for opioids but also by offering alternative pain management therapies. Everything else should be in your arsenal so that you can protect your patients.
The latest revelation in the opioid crisis comes from doctors reporting that patient satisfaction surveys may cause concern and lead to increased prescriptions for the drugs. Patient surveys ask if they feel the hospital or care setting has done everything it can do to relieve their pain, and many who are in pain (or are seeking drugs) but do not get an opioid will report that they’re not satisfied with their pain management.
Alternative therapy options that avoid prescriptions are not only growing because of safety worries, but also because more and more Americans want to avoid the crisis they see on TV, in their communities, and even in their families.
Electrotherapy (the use of electrical energy to stimulate nerves and muscles) and bioelectronic medicine options are a growing opportunity because they provide relief with virtually no chance of an addiction. Plus, electrotherapy also helps address many of the side effects of opioid abuse and other addictions.
Electrotherapy devices reduce the pain people experience, and for those using opioids this outside pain reduction can help decrease incidents and likelihood of related concerns, including:
- central hypogonadism
- cognitive impairment
- fractures and fall-related injuries
- impaired wound-healing
- risk of secondary addictions
- sleep disorders, especially breathing concerns
Addressing chronic pain is the best way to give the people you treat relief from a wide range of harms, and can help remove some of the potential for prescription or opioid abuse.
Physicians and patients alike are saying that it works. It helps them feel better, it helps offices enhance their business, and it can start to push America away from the crisis that we face. | <urn:uuid:30a74cd6-821e-4bd6-acc1-ad35fb197818> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cesultra.com/blog/electrotherapy-acupuncture-reduce-opioid-consumption/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943237 | 535 | 2.375 | 2 |
While we wait for the plasma cut boiler plates and housing to arrive I went back to a job that’s needed doing for a while on the engine; the Lubricator.
Approaches to lubrication
There are several approaches to lubricating a steam engine, from a hand-held oil can (tends to be a bit erratic, and you chop the end of the spout off in moving parts) thru oil wicks, to pumped lubrication. I felt that a pumped system was the way to go.
There are 11 bearings that need lubrication in the engine (3 main bearings, 2 big ends, 2 little ends/crossheads, and 4 eccentrics). Actually, there is cylinder lubrication as well, but we are going to deal with that via a separate displacement lubricator which injects oil into the incoming steam (a sort of 19-century “posi-lub”! Continue reading | <urn:uuid:d2981fd7-9544-4a57-8123-7bbbace0423d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sy-befur.co.uk/tag/interlub/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959186 | 193 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Women with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer will soon be able to undergo free genetic tests to see if they are at risk of developing the potentially deadly diseases.
The tests to see if patients have inherited genetic mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancers will be listed on the Medicare Benefits Schedule from November 1.
The tests also will provide women and their families an estimate of their relative risk of developing a new primary cancer during their lifetime.
The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia’s genetics advisory committee chair Dr Melody Caramins says making the tests free marks a ‘huge milestone’ and will significantly improve the lives of many Australians.
‘If an individual is a carrier of a BRCA mutation, they will have additional treatments available to them,’ Dr Caramins said in a statement on Thursday.
Women with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer will soon be eligible for free testing to see if they carry the BRCA gene
‘This is certainly the case if they already have breast cancer, however if they don’t have breast cancer, they will have access to monitoring and the possibility to take preventative measures such as a prophylactic mastectomy.’
Up until now, patients have had to pay between $600 and $2000 to be tested by a private specialist.
Others have had to wait for up to a year to receive a free check at a public hospital.
Patient advocacy group Pink Hope had long campaigned for free access to genetic testing for this high-risk group of women.
‘Genetic screening provides information individuals need to make informed decisions about their health, to manage their own risk and if currently living with cancer, have more personalised treatment,’ said Pink Hope founder, Krystal Barter.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Australian women, with an estimated 17,586 new cases expected to be diagnosed this year alone.
An estimated 3000 men and women are expected to die from the disease in 2017.
A recent study by researchers from the Peter Mac Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne and Cancer Council Victoria found that women with BRCA1 mutations have on average a 72 per cent risk of developing breast cancer by the time they turn 80.
Recent research shows women with BRCA1 mutations have an on average 72 per cent risk of developing breast cancer by the time they turn 80
Those with the BRCA2 mutation had a 69 per cent chance.
A woman who has one or more relatives with breast cancer is also found to have a higher risk than a carrier of the same mutation with no family history.
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie generated headlines around the world in 2013 when she revealed she underwent a double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA1 mutation.
Ovarian Cancer Australia also estimates that women who inherit a faulty BRCA1 gene have approximately a 40 per cent risk of developing the disease, while those who inherit the BRCA2 gene face a 10-15 per cent risk.
‘Today’s announcement is a crucial step in mainstreaming genetic testing, so families don’t have to have to live in doubt any longer,’ said Ms Barter. | <urn:uuid:acf97807-2528-4144-aa05-a15da3288e94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://expressdigest.com/women-with-history-of-breast-cancer-to-get-free-testing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960275 | 664 | 2.25 | 2 |
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