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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- No market mechanism rewards success or punishes failure in public education, and monopolistic unions act as a restraint on trade. So can business principles be usefully applied to analyzing the public schools?
Financial journalist Peter Brimelow thinks so. He is author of the new book "The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education." "Keep your eye on the costs," he said in a recent discussion with education expert Chester E. Finn Jr. at the offices of United Press International.
Vouchers, for example, show how cost-effectiveness can be gained even when the academic result is uncertain. Under this much-disputed plan, parents may spend government funds on public or private schools of their choice. UPI asked how vouchers were working in such cities as Cleveland, where they have been in place since 1995.
"The research is ambiguous," Finn replied, "because how do you know the kids you're comparing are similar? Paul Peterson's research (at Harvard) with privately funded vouchers is probably the best we have to date. He's finding that the test scores of poor black kids rise when they move into a private school, and those of poor white and Hispanic kids don't. They're flat; they don't do worse."
"What about the cost?" Brimelow asked. "It seems to me you could get a result that was no better academically but cheaper."
"Sure," Finn agreed. "The amount of the vouchers in the experiments I'm describing are much smaller than the per-pupil expenditures in the public schools." The cost of vouchers depends on how the program is structured, Finn said.
"There's no true cost of vouchers. It's how much the funder is willing to pay. So in Milwaukee, vouchers are almost equivalent to the public school payment of $6,500 or so per kid per year. But in Cleveland they're only about $2,500 per kid per year. And in these private projects described in the Peterson study, the voucher is less than $2,000 per kid per year. And the school -- which is typically a Catholic parochial school or some other cheap private school -- isn't getting full payment. True costs are not being met. And the parents are kicking in money."
"So the taxpayer -- " Brimelow said.
"The taxpayer in the private cases is saving a bundle, because private donors are paying for these vouchers. In Cleveland, you could say that the taxpayer is saving a bundle because essentially only the state money moves with the kids. The local money doesn't. The Cleveland public schools portion stays in the Cleveland public schools even when the kids leave."
Brimelow said that to get a similar result at lower cost justifies vouchers and that highlighting the issue of cost efficiency is his greatest contribution to the education debate. "Which, as far as I can see, educators are not interested in."
"That's right," Finn said. "They look at the results, and they don't care about the costs."
UPI noted that some people are wary of vouchers on the principle that government money always has strings attached.
"That's why a lot of private schools are against vouchers," Finn said.
"I never met a private school parent who wants vouchers, for that reason," Brimelow added.
Finn said even school administrators whose enrollments and revenues would rise would rather stay poor than become entangled with the government.
"I think that is a real objection," Brimelow said. "And it's a problem. On the other hand, only 10 percent of American kids are enrolled in private schools. So what's the greatest good for the greatest number? Vouchers may cause problems for the 10 percent in private schools. But they could loosen things up a lot for the 90 percent in public schools. So I'm still reluctant to abandon vouchers. Whatever the regulation that comes with vouchers, it's nowhere near the regulation that comes with a government-owned school system."
Finn agreed that it would be unwise to be "defeatist" about how regulation would follow vouchers.
So, should education reformers keep pushing for vouchers, even though private school parents don't particularly want them?
"Nobody's ever come close to winning an up-and-down vote on vouchers," Brimelow said. "It always polls very well. Then the union has to spend a vast amount of money to defeat it.
"The real problem with vouchers is it's basically a new form of busing for the suburbanites," Brimelow said.
Finn said: "The ugliest aspect of American education is, in my opinion, the aversion of the suburban middle class to letting other kinds of kids join their schools. This takes many forms. Resistance to public school choice is one, and resistance to vouchers is another. Why did nearly all of the kids in the Cleveland voucher program actually attend Catholic parochial schools, which became a very big point of contention in the Supreme Court?
"The way the state program was structured, if the suburban PUBLIC schools would accept (voucher students), they would have even more money than the private schools would get.
"It would be about $2,500 of state money if you went to a private school. You could get from $6,000 to $7,000 of state money if you went to a suburban public school. None of the Cleveland area suburban public schools would take any of those kids."
"What it comes down to," said Brimelow, "is they don't want to have a bunch of thugs from the inner cities in the schools harassing the kids. And so people vote against vouchers. And frankly, that's not an unreasonable concern. So I don't think they're going to be able to win it."
Brimelow asked Finn if an up-or-down vote on vouchers could be won in the United States.
"Not for a universal program," Finn answered. "The kind that will win will be targeted only to poor people, and maybe only to private schools -- structured in such a way that the suburban middle class doesn't feel threatened or invaded."
"The unions have been benefiting from this feeling very adroitly," Brimelow observed.
"There are layers of political irony here," Finn said. "The suburban districts that don't want these kids are heavily Republican. The districts full of kids who want to go somewhere else are represented by Democrats. Yet if you look at who's willing to vote for a voucher program, it's for the most part Republicans. And the Democrats, allied with the teacher unions, say: 'No way!' "
Finn said that public school choice, where pupils can go anywhere within the state, seems to work well in Minnesota.
Brimelow said the surge in home schooling reflects parental resistance to government schools. Effective home-school parents spend only about two hours per day in academic instruction, he said. "You can actually deliver the substantive content in a short period of time. An enormous amount of what goes on in the government school system is just babysitting and waste."
Finn addressed the decline in Catholic schools, which no longer can rely on the free labor of nuns.
"It's gotten more expensive," he said. "The schools are located, for the most part, in urban areas that are no longer predominantly Catholic, so they have become a social welfare purpose for needy kids. The new suburban parishes are located in places parents moved to because of the schools, so there's not a huge demand to start new Catholic schools there. The schools are now left with poor black kids, who are not Catholic. The families can't really pay tuition at a time when costs are rising."
Brimelow said the history of high school dropout rates and the natural distribution of academic ability call into question compulsory attendance laws and the goal of universal secondary school success.
"In 1900, about 6 percent of the cohort graduated," he said. "As late as 1945, it was only about half. ... In 1968 it got up to about 77 percent. And then it stalled. In the late 1990s it was well below 70 percent. ... The ideal of the comprehensive high school in which everybody graduates by the age of 18 has simply never worked. And it never will work."
Of course, high schools can always dumb down the curriculum to the point where almost everybody would graduate if they hung around long enough.
"That's the tendency," Brimelow said.
Finn said this has become a real issue in states, such as Massachusetts, that have exit exams for high school diplomas. "Thousands of kids are not passing the test," he said. "They've put in their time; they've sat in class. ... So now what? Do you deny them their diploma? Do you give them 47 chances to take the test? Do you give them extra tutoring?"
Finn said Jackson Toby at Rutgers has argued for years that the way to solve problems in discipline, morale and achievement in American schools is not to make people attend them. Compulsory attendance laws are not well-enforced, and truant officers have vanished.
Yet Finn said he would not want to see "an awful lot of 15-year-olds" out on the street. "School is a warehousing and public safety function for them and the rest of the community. We've let vocational education become obsolete."
Brimelow disagreed. "If there isn't any demand for relatively unskilled labor, why do we have these vast numbers of immigrants? Kids are falling asleep in class because they are working at the malls." He said adolescents could learn a lot by working in highly structured environments such as McDonald's.
Brimelow, referring to his native England, said some forms of socialism are better than others.
"During the war, Churchill had no interest in education, so he turned the whole thing over to the socialists. And they designed the perfect socialist education system, which was based firmly on the concept of IQ. Because in those days, IQ was a progressive idea to identify smart poor kids."
"Just like the SAT was a progressive, equalizing idea," Finn added. "You didn't have to go to Andover or Groton in order to get into Yale."
"So the bulk of kids left school at 15," Brimelow continued. "Some stayed on till 16, and a few stayed till 18. A very small number went on to university. And that, of course, is the nature of what the right-hand tail of the bell curve (graphing academic ability) would suggest.
"If you're going to have 20 (percent) or 30 percent of kids going to university, you're going to get to fairly low levels of IQ. And if you get 50 percent attending university --- " He did not complete the sentence.
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The penalty for driving under the influence (DUI) can be severe, even for first-time offenders. Drinking and driving with a minor in the vehicle will make the charges even worse in most cases. In some states, the original DUI/DWI charge is levied more severely, while in others, a DUI with a minor in the vehicle can lead to additional charges.
In serious cases, for example, a minor injured because of drunk driving can lead to child endangerment charges as well. In the state of New Jersey, the DUI or DWI initial penalties are not considered criminal offenses, but they are severe nonetheless:
- First offense: Driver’s license suspension for three to 12 months, fines up to $1000, 30 days in jail maximum, and up to 48 hours of driver instruction.
- Second offense: Penalties include but are not limited to a two-year license suspension, higher fines, and 90 days in jail as a maximum.
- Third offense: Carries mandatory 180 days in jail, and a 10-year loss of license.
DUI offenses will also lead to problems with insurance. Refusing to take a breathalyzer could lead to additional penalties.
There are also additional penalties if the judge decides to do so, including community service, probation, and drug and alcohol classes, in additional to having a criminal record.
What are the Consequences if a Minor is Involved?
The consequences get even more severe if a minor or child is in the vehicle at the time. Judges and prosecutors understandably will take the charges very seriously, as cases involving minors and DUI charges have harsh penalties. Child endangerment and disorderly person charges have been filed in many instances.
Some states will then classify the offense as a felony if one receives a DUI charge that involves a minor, regardless if the minor is an infant or a 16-year old teen. Most states will elevate charges to misdemeanors or to felonies, depending on the severity of the situation and if this is not the defendant’s first offense.
Possible Legal Defenses
So how would someone defend themselves if he or she is charged with such an offense? Considering the above scenarios, it would be quite difficult to prove certain aspects of the case in someone’s favor. However, the defendant does not have to provide the burden of proof, that is the responsibility of the prosecutor.
With this situation, and with any DUI charge, the first thing one must do is contact a knowledgeable DUI lawyer to help. A lawyer will review the case and determine the best possible defense while protecting the rights of the client.
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June 28, 2022
Did you know that the air in our homes is often worse than the air found outdoors? Your California home’s air filters are extremely important to not only the air you and your family breathe, but to the longevity and effectiveness of your home’s HVAC system. While homeowners in Novato have been advised to change their air filters in their homes; many fail to do so consistently. The filter is one of the simplest elements of your home heating and cooling system, but it is also one of the most important. Regularly changing your home’s air filter is significant for your home and your family’s health. So, how often should you change your home’s air filter?
What is Your Home’s Air Filter?
Before we dive into how often you should change your home’s air filter, we wanted to briefly review what this HVAC component is and why it is a significant part of your home and the air you breathe.
Air filters do simply what the name implies, they filter your air. Air filters keep dust and pollen out and are also tasked with keeping larger particles and materials out of your HVAC system, in turn, saving your system from mutilation. Dirty, unchanged filters are a leading cause of issues with Marin, Sonoma, and Napa County HVAC systems.
When you change your air filter frequently, it helps remove harmful particles from the air such as pollen, dust, dust mites, mold, bacteria, micro allergens and more. Removing these harmful pollutants has massive health benefits for you and your family. Plus, changing your air filter regularly helps keep your HVAC system running at its highest efficiency, which will help to lower your energy bills and extend the life of your system.
Why is it Important to Change Your Home’s Air Filters?
As referenced above, replacing your air filters regularly can have a large impact on the health and well-being of everyone in your home. An unchanged and dirty or soiled air filter means unclean, airborne particles are being spread throughout your home. As mentioned above, these particles include lint, dust, dirt, pollen, and micro allergens that you can’t even see. This means that you and your family will continuously be inhaling unsafe and polluted air, and who wants that?
According to the EPA, the most effective ways to improve your indoor air quality are to reduce or remove the sources of pollutants and to ventilate with clean outdoor air. In addition, research shows that filtration can be an effective supplement to source control and ventilation. Maintaining the air filters in your furnace and air-conditioning (HVAC) system can help to improve indoor air quality. HVAC filters are designed to filter air throughout a home. HVAC filters can reduce indoor air pollution.
How Often Should You Change Your Home’s Air Filter?
Having clean air filters is key to breathing clean air. Nothing is more important than the air we breathe, that’s why regularly changing your home’s air filter is so important.
How often you should change your home’s air filter really varies by home. We recommend changing your air filters at least once a month, but there is no exact number of days in which you should change your filters, as each home is different and it depends on the strain you put on your filter, what particles are in the air, and also what type of filter you have.
It’s a good habit to check your air filters weekly and if you notice they are dirty, change them.
Improve Your California Home’s Air Quality
Changing your home’s air filters is the first step to breathing better air; however, there are also other things you can do to ensure you are breathing easy inside your home.
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Dissident Writers and Prison Literature
Updated: May 3
"To think of roses and gardens inside is bad, to think of seas and mountains is good.
Read and write without rest, and I also advise weaving and making mirrors.”
-- from 'Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison'
Imprisonment is an overriding theme in Christianity—in the Bible, incarceration and freedom are metaphors for spiritual blindness and enlightenment. Bondage, sightlessness, lunacy, demonic possessions, and other forms of literal and figurative imprisonment are frequent occurrences in the Bible. In the New Testament, imprisonment is a danger for Christ and his disciples, and in Lives of the Saints, jail is a reality for many of them.
The letters of St. Paul to the Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians are legitimate prison letters. Paul wrote them towards the end of his life, while imprisoned in Rome by the Emperor Nero, and awaiting execution. Unlike his letters to the Romans and Corinthians, which show his joy and zeal as a new convert and teacher, and rise to heights of great lyricism and seamless beauty, his prison letters reflect his weariness and suffering. Though battered, Paul is determined to be encouraging and instructional to his flock, and the early Church. He celebrates the life of the church, teaches new doctrine about love, faith, and action, and encourages the church to endure, as he endures.
Incarceration has also been the midwife of great literature. Dostoevsky was twenty-eight years old when he was arrested and sentenced to death. After a last minute reprieve, he spent eight years in a Siberian prison. Soon after his release, he wrote The House of the Dead, a powerful novel about his prison experiences, and later his masterpieces that limned the nature of good and evil. Juan Carlos Onetti, one of Latin America’s finest writers, was imprisoned in his native Uruguay for publishing a story that upset the military government. Upon his release, he was exiled to Spain, where he wrote his finest novel, Let the Wind Speak. Medina, its protaganist, lives across the river from Santa Maria—a town that he is forbidden from entering, and that he therefore wishes to destroy. In the end, the wind “speaks” by devouring the town. Onetti’s novel is an exile’s bitter lament for his home.
It is no surprise that so many writers have been sent to prison, and indeed are being incarcerated now, as I write this. Writers go to prison for nearly always a single reason: they chose through their writings to take sides in a political argument. Since the responsibility of dissent nearly always falls on the disseminators of ideas and information, it is inevitable that writers and intellectuals become vulnerable to government surveillance, censure, and imprisonment.
Arundathi Roy, the author of the Booker Prize winning novel The God of Small Things, writes in Power Politics: “Who but the writer can translate cash flow charts and scintillating boardroom speeches into real stories about real people with real lives? Stories about what it’s like to lose your home, your land, your job, your past, and your future to an invisible force?” The work of connecting the dots then, of deciphering “spin,” of deconstructing government duplicity, of monitoring unchecked power, falls on the writer. When they become too effective, too successful in their efforts, they frequently land in jail.
Most of the jailed dissident writers we have heard of have come from the former USSR, the countries of the Eastern Bloc, and African nations. Renowned jailed writers from those countries include Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn of the former USSR, Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia, Albie Sachs and Breyten Breytenbach of South Africa, and Wole Soyinka of Nigeria. However, with the fall of both Communism and Apartheid, the imprisonment of writers has moved its geographical base. Most of the imprisoned writers of our time – poets, novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and journalists – are held in jails in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.
PEN, the international writers association that advocates for imprisoned dissident writers, reports that in 2002, there were more than eleven hundred writers held in prison. In 2003, President Fidel Castro of Cuba sent more than eighty writers and dissidents to prison, including Raul Rivero—the island’s most distinguished poet and man of letters.
The large volume of writings by jailed dissidents has resulted in a dubious distinction—prison literature has earned ranking as a genre. Jailed writings most frequently take shape as memoirs and poetry, since both forms can be written in short bursts, and are essentially plotless. Fiction writers have a more difficult time producing work behind bars, though the prison experience has moved many writers released from detention, to write works addressing fundamental and moral concerns.
Common themes in the prison genre, not surprisingly, include heaven and hell, life and death, and good and evil. Frequently, the best of this literature is reminiscent of the dark and dystopic tales of Kafka, Dostoevesky, and Orwell. Others are wildly satirical, in the manner of Swift and Rableis. Prison writing from South America and Cuba is often marked by a condition called choteo, which loosely translated means, “taking seriously nothing that ought to be taken seriously.” It results in literature that skewers, parodies, and offends with low comedy, gallows humor, and ribaldry.
Though prison literature is marked by an authenticity of narration devoid of flowery language, a small but significant portion of it is experimental and original, playing with language, metaphor, symbols, and images. While there are many stories of suffering and mindless barbarism by jailers -- which for me always veer towards the predictable -- there are others filled with original creative vision about surmounting the reality of prison. Many of these tales of survival are injected with self-deprecation, humor, irony, joy, insight, and uncommon beauty.
Time, of course, is an important element in prison writing. Ruth First, a South African writer and editor, who was arrested in the 1960s and sentenced to ninety days in prison for her involvement in anti-Apartheid activities, obsessed over time and boredom. In her memoir Ninety Days, she writes: “I calculated the date repeatedly. My calendar was behind the lapel of my dressing gown. Here, with my needle and thread, I stitched one stroke for each day passed. I sewed seven upright strokes, than a horizontal stitch through them to mark a week. Every now and then I would examine the stitching and decide that the sewing was not neat enough and that the strokes should be more deadly accurate in size; I’d pull the thread out and remake the calendar from the beginning. This gave me a feeling that I was pushing time on, creating days, weeks, and months. Sometimes I surprised myself and did not sew a stitch at the end of the day. I would wait three days and then give myself the wonderful thrill of knocking three days off the ninety.”
Because of sensory and tactile deprivation, especially in solitary confinement where the permanently lit sixty watt bulb is the center of experience, prison literature describes with powerful effect such ordinary events and experiences as eating, waking up, sunrise, music, bathing, rain, and the sound of children’s voices. These descriptions about mundane events are infused with rich, layered, sensual want. In Memory of Sky, Breyten Breytenbach’s memoir of his years in a South African jail, his descriptions of the environment are tender and moving. “It is 25th November 1975 when I am sentenced. I shall not be seeing the stars again for many years. In the beginning I don’t realize this, I don’t miss them. And then suddenly it becomes very important, like chafing sores in the mind – something you’ve taken for granted for so long and that you now miss, the way you’d miss a burial site if you died in space. It is not natural never to see the stars or the moon for that matter – it is as cruel as depriving people of sound. I see the moon again for the first time on 19th April 1976 … I looked up and to my astonishment saw in a patch of sky above, a shriveled white shape, a pearl in my eye. And I thought that she’d been hanged, that she was dead. The sun and its absence become the pivot of my daily existence. I wait. I build my day around the half hour when I’m allowed in the courtyard to see it. I follow its course through the universe behind my eyelids. I become its disciple.”
Prisoners often write sympathetically about their cell companions, while those in solitary confinement have written movingly about their affinity to other life forms, including spiders, mice, mosquitoes, and plants. George Mangkis, a law professor at the University of Athens and a frequent oppositional writer, was sentenced to eighteen years in prison, and tortured repeatedly during his years of imprisonment. In Letter to the Europeans written from his prison cell, he offers an original account of co-existing with others. “I had been kept in solitary confinement for four months. I hadn’t seen a soul throughout that period, only uniforms – inquisitors and jailers. One day, I noticed three mosquitoes in my cell. They were struggling hard to resist the cold that was just beginning. In the daytime they slept on the wall. At night they would come buzzing over to me. In the beginning, they exasperated me. But fortunately I soon understood that I too was struggling hard to live through the cold spell. What were they asking me? Something unimportant. A drop of blood – it would save them. I couldn’t refuse. At nightfall I would bare my arm and wait for them. After some days they got used to me and they were no longer afraid. They would come to me quite naturally, openly. This trust is something I owe them. Thanks to them, the world was no longer merely an inquisition chamber.”
The Argentinean writer, Jacobo Timerman, who was sentenced to prison in 1977, willfully blocked out of his mind everything he loved, as a method of survival. In Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number, he writes: “One day, a guard handed him a letter and two candies from his wife. He writes, “How I cursed my wife that day! How many times I told myself I wouldn’t read the letter, I wouldn’t eat the candies. After so many efforts to forget, to refrain from loving and desiring, to refrain from thinking … And now this world, so heavily armored, so solid and without cracks, has been penetrated by a letter and two candies. Risha tells me that if she could she’d give me all the air in the world, all her love … In a rage, I throw the letter into the latrine, and with equal rage stick the two candies into my mouth. But already I’m lost, for the flavor is overpowering, as is my wife’s face.”
The act of writing is difficult for all writers, even writers in freedom who have laptops, the Internet for research, writing groups, and cappuccinos on demand. Writers in prison have often had to use their ingenuity to carry out the essential gesture of writing. “Paper, any paper, is about the most precious article for a political prisoner, more so for someone like me, who was in political detention because of his writing. For the urge to write is almost irresistible. At Kamiti Prison, almost all the prisoners were composers and writers. Toilet paper, good, faithful stuff, enabled us to daily defy the intended detention of our minds,” writes Ngugi Wa Thiong’O in his memoir, Detained.
Irina Ratushinskaya, a poet in former USSR, was sentenced in 1982 to seven years of hard labor for her poems—referred to by the state, as anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. Denied paper, pen, and pencils, she composed poems in her head. Sometimes she scratched them on cakes of soap with burnt matchsticks, memorized them, and then washed away the evidence. When she managed to secure paper, she wrote her poems in small tight rows, or used the paper to write her indexes, while her poems remained inside her head. Shortly before her release in 1987, Ratusinskaya was in an accident while being transported in a prison convoy. A doctor diagnosed concussion and gave her Demerol. She writes in her memoir Grey is the Color of Hope, “I spent the next 24 hours frantically worrying that I had lost part of my memory … Then I was jolted by a new fear. Maybe I’ve forgotten my poems. I hadn’t risked writing them down for some time. All I have are a few well-secreted tiny slips of paper with an index. I use this index daily to revise the poems in my head. Not all of them of course. About twenty or thirty at a time. I work my way through the end then go back to the beginning.” The poems she wrote in a tiny hand onto strips of paper, were smuggled out of camp, and published in 1984 as Pencil Letter Poems.
There are two writers who produced a substantial body of work both inside and outside prison: the Turkish poet, Nazim Hikmet, and the Cuban novelist, Reinaldo Arenas. Hikmet and Arenas were celebrated national writers in their respective countries, long before they were imprisoned for their writings. Both Hikmet and Arenas wrote remarkable, ambitious, original works of literature under extraordinary circumstances—under siege. Both sustained their writing throughout their imprisonment, and continued to write prolifically after their release. Unlike many of the European dissidents like Milan Kundera, Vaclav Havel, and the Soviets from Akmatova to Solzenitzyn who attained celebrity and all its fruits, Nazim Hikmet and Reinaldo Arenas are relatively unknown hothouse orchids in the kingdom of literature.
Mahmut was a little taken aback:
“That’s a strange epic,” he said,
“this guy in prison has written a different kind of epic. He’s stirring up something.
But your voice is sad, son, And it reads like music: It touches a man.”
- from Human Landscapes from My Country
by Nazim Hikmet
While the reality of prison conditions, which are numerous, brutal, and nearly uniform in their representation, are interesting on an psycho-social level, the best prison writers show an ability to liberate themselves from the corporeal, and transcend space and time, to create literature that “reads like music, that touches a man.”
The prison experience is after all a journey—undertaken alone, in time, through hell, from day to night and back again, and from confinement to freedom. It is a path to moral and spiritual transformation, and in a larger sense, a journey from tyranny to democracy. Nazim Hikmet, Turkey’s revolutionary poet, used the prison experience to create many works of poetry, and declared that he became a true “poet of the people,” only after his long imprisonment.
Born in 1902, Hikmet spent two thirds of his adult life in Turkish prisons and in exile in the USSR. In 1938, Hikmet was convicted on a charge that military cadets were reading his poems, and sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for inciting the army to revolt. A few years later, at the age of forty while incarcerated in Bursa Prison, Hikmet began his masterwork Human Landscapes from My Country—an epic novel in verse about Turkey’s history and its people. He had initially envisioned it as a 10,000-line poem. “I’m writing fifty lines a day. It will be finished in six months,” he wrote to a friend in 1941. However, the poem kept growing, and he kept revising it. In 1944, he wrote: “I pass my days in uninterrupted work from 8.30 am to midnight, and I am happy.
Landscapes is proceeding full speed ahead. It’s getting longer and longer, but what can I do? Life is so various, people and their lives so curious, and I am so greedy, so eager to put it in one book, that I can never call an end to it.” The final manuscript which he spent five years writing and revising in his prison cell, is a 17,000 line majestic epic that takes on nothing less than the entire history of Turkey and its people in the twentieth century. The personal life of the imprisoned poet and the history of modern Europe marked its boundaries.
The central motif of Human Landscapes is a journey, an odyssey. It begins with one man at Hayder Pasha Railway Station, Istanbul in Spring 1941 at 3 pm. Hikmet who was also a screenwriter and playwright uses film and stage techniques to fan the story out from the man on the steps. The man and the other people the man sees – a range of Turkey’s peasantry, and Halil, a poet and political prisoner who is on his way to jail – board the train’s “third class car number 510.” We learn the life stories of each character as the train passes the countryside and makes its many stops before reaching Ankara:
Halil thinks of his handcuffs as he reads his book:
“Handcuffs, we’ll beat your steel into plowshares.”
And he finds this idea so well phrased that he’s sorry he doesn’t know the art of writing poetry measured or otherwise.
-- from Human Landscapes from My Country
by Nazim Hikmet
In Book Two, another man sits in Haydar Pasha Station’s café at 6.38 pm on the same day. He and a different cast of characters, all middle and upper class, board an express train also headed for Ankara. Hikmet uses his cinematic techniques -- pans, zooms, freeze frames, jump cuts, dissolves, flashbacks, and flash-forwards -- to render the stories of both sets of travelers. The trains are a symbol of freedom and a literary device that gives Hikmet great mobility. The places the trains pass trigger memories and events in history for many of the characters, and allow Hikmet to discuss his various political concerns. They allow him to be light and fictional, and enable him to move freely through rural and urban life, as well as through time:
A man sits on the steps of the platform …
He may have to kill a man. He isn’t sure. They didn’t say in the letter. But his land “with such and such boundaries and of such and such dimensions
—as the public record will show—
has been encroached upon by Ahmet’s son Bekir …
There’s a chance he’ll kill Bekir with an axe, but for now, there’s no chance he’ll understand why he’ll kill Bekir …
-- from Human Landscapes from My Country
by Nazim Hikmet
Book Three is anchored in place and time; it is set in a prison and hospital on the day of the journey. It offers the reader a respite before Hikmet takes flight again in Book Four, in which he discusses natural, national, and global history through descriptions of the migration of birds, radio waves, and mail.
Hikmet’s long detention was essential to the creation of his opus. In prison, the Istanbul intellectual, celebrated national poet, and pasha’s grandson was exposed to the Turkish peasantry for the first time. They were an inspiration for the characters in his epic, as well as his audience. As he wrote Human Landscapes, he would read it to his fellow inmates who would offer criticism and ideas for revision. This interaction and collaboration with his audience makes the epic a social poem, as well as a joint fiction. Though written in captivity, and perhaps because of it, Human Landscapes from My Country is a monumental work of the imagination, and an unparallelled writing accomplishment.
In Cuba, I endured a thousand adversities because the hope of escaping and the possibility of saving my manuscripts gave me strength
from Before Night Falls
by Reinaldo Arenas.
Reinaldo Arenas is best known for his memoir Before Night Falls, which he wrote on the run—as a fugitive in his native Cuba. Born in 1943, Arenas was a Cuban peasant, an illegitimate child who did not know his father. He joined the rebel peasant revolution as a teenager, to help overthrow the Batista regime and install Fidel Castro in power. In 1965, at the age of twenty-two, Arenas won second prize in a national literary contest in Cuba, for an unpublished first novel.
In Celestino Before Dawn, a young boy sings the tale of his sexual and poetic awakenings. The novel sold out a week after publication, and Arenas was promoted and heralded as the voice of the Revolution, by some of the giants of Cuban literati including Jose Lezama Lima. His second novel Hallucinations, a fictionalized account of the life of a heretical Mexican friar, was snubbed by Castro’s arbiters of culture, and had to be smuggled abroad for publication. In granting the Prix Medicis award for ‘best foreign novel of the year in 1969,’ the French body called Hallucinations “a brilliantly inventive, comic novel written by a Latin American Gorky.”
In 1970, Arenas was sent to work in the sugar mills as part of Castro’s improbable goal of a ten million ton sugar cane harvest, and to write a book praising the experience. Instead, Arenas wrote a furious indictment against Castro’s experiment, which was also smuggled out of the country for publication. His wretched experiences in the sugar cane mills led him to feel contempt for the official or visible history of Cuba. He conceived the idea of writing a “Pentagonia” – a set of five novels -- about the secret history of Cuba. Each of the five novels or “agonies,” as he called them would depict the life of a poet, who would live, write, suffer, and die, only to be reborn in the following novel.
The first novel, about the poet as an unrestrained child, had already been written and published as Celestino Before Dawn. The second volume in Arenas’ pentagonia, The Palace of the White Skunks, was written while he was working in the sugar mills, and smuggled out of Cuba in 1972. The most biographical of Arenas’ novels, it tells the story of a sexually ambivalent young boy, Fortunato, who is raised in a house of frustrated women, a tyrannical mother, and savage grandparents. Fortunato joins the rebels (as Arenas himself did as a teenager) and is soon captured by the Batista regime, tortured, and executed. The sad, troubled lives of Fortunato’s family are written with lyrical empathy, while the political story is rendered in a fractured, schizophrenic, staggered tone to convey the madness of totalitarianism.
The third novel in Arenas’ pentagonia, Farewell to the Sea, was written while he was coming under increasing surveillance by the authorities. He was already in trouble for smuggling his two previous novels abroad. He wrote the first draft of Farewell to the Sea in 1969, giving each chapter as he finished it, to a trusted friend for safekeeping. Afraid that the authorities were about to discover the manuscript, the friend destroyed it. Arenas sat down to rewrite the work and completed a second version by 1972, which he hid under the roof tiles of his house. That version was confiscated by the secret police when he was sent to prison in 1973 on trumped up charges of seducing minors. Arenas, a homosexual, was found guilty of “ideological deviation and counter-revolutionary activities”—for his sexual preference, literary aesthetics, and smuggling his unauthorized novels abroad. He was sent to various prisons, and forced labor camps for the rehabilitation of homosexuals.
When Arenas was released in 1976, he was faced with the task of writing Farewell to the Sea for the third time. In Before Night Falls, Arenas writes: “Now I had to rewrite my novel once more, but I had no typewriter, no paper, and no place I could work. Someone made a collection, thanks to which I was able to live for a few days at the Colina Hotel, facing the University of Havana. A secret police agent showed up at the Colina carrying an envelope under his arm. He told me that I had not been completely honest with him, and showed me the novel (the second draft of Farewell to the Sea) that I had hidden under the roof tiles. All I could say was that I did not even remember it, that it was worthless, and I had no interest in it whatsoever. To have to leave the manuscript in the hands of State Security enraged me so completely that I promised myself to write the novel again, no matter how.” Arenas did rewrite the novel, and it was smuggled out of Cuba in 1974 while he was being held in the notorious high security El Morro prison.
Farewell to the Sea tells the story of Hector, a poet who no longer writes, who goes on a six day vacation to the beach with his wife and infant son. Hector has survived Castro’s forced labor camps, married a “simple” woman, and fathered a child to avoid being punished for his homosexuality. The poet and his wife are unable to communicate with each other, and Hector has an affair with a young boy he meets at the beach. Yet, the couple is bound together by need, their joint victimization by the system, and their child.
The novel is split in two. The nameless wife narrates the first half as she considers her husband, her life, and most memorably the sea. “I allow these silences,” the wife says of her marriage “… Now that the fundamental problems are solved – house, food, car, salary – we can devote our full efforts to making life intolerable. We could wipe each other out once and for all with an honest look, but following tradition we poison each other slowly, methodically.” Of her own loveless, diaper-washing life, she says: “Sometimes, mornings, when you already know exactly what you will do all day, and you know how the day will end, and what the day after that will be like, and all of them—at those moments when, still lying in bed, you see your skin look almost transparent in the glow, you see your body somehow parked, utterly given up, between the sheets, you conclude, Everything is futile, everything is just absurd and futile…Then, for a few seconds, there is such desolation that I don’t even have the spirit to bear it, to get out of bed, I don’t even have the strength to go on thinking about the desolation, I am empty, without memory, waiting from moment to moment—once more, once more—for the end.”
The imprisonment of writers continues unabated to this day. Worldwide, the threat to authors and female writers has unfortunately not diminished," according to PEN International. https://www.dw.com/en/pen-decries-persecution-of-authors-worldwide/a-59819691.
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RUNASUR, a new regional integration mechanism, aims at uniting the Indigenous people, peasants, social movements and workers of Latin America, as well as building a Plurinacional America
On April 25, former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the birth of RUNASUR, a new regional integration mechanism aimed at uniting the Indigenous people, peasants, social movements and workers of Latin America with an anti-imperialist ideology. The organization will serve as the people’s alternative to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), an existing regional integration mechanism that has become paralyzed due to the withdrawal of the majority of members under right-wing governments. RUNASUR brings together grassroots organizations of 12 Latin American countries that originally constituted UNASUR. Its central headquarters is located in Bolivia, and its main objective is the construction of a Plurinational America.
“RUNASUR’s goal is to unite social movements -be it Indigenous, workers, middle class and teachers, intellectuals and professionals-, and fight for a true liberation, a Plurinational America, of the peoples for the peoples. Purinational America is not compatible with capitalism, imperialism or colonialism,” said Morales, during a press conference held at the conclusion of the first meeting of the technical commission appointed to launch the RUNASUR. Morales stressed that a Plurinacional America will help us “go beyond the unity of Indigenous and social movements, and the defense of progressive governments” and will allow us to “seize power with our programs, cultures and ways of living in harmony with Mother Earth.”
On April 24 and 25, a commission of representatives of various social movements and Indigenous leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela met in the town of Villa Tunari, Trópico of Cochabamba, Bolivia, to define the general structure and strategy for international organization.
At the conclusion of the two-day-long event, which was hosted by Morales, Argentine union leader Hugo Cachorro Godoy, who took part in the meeting, informed that the technical commission would “contact and invite the social movements, Afro-descendent and Indigenous organizations, trade unions in the rest of the countries of the region to strengthen RUNASUR and prepare for a great plurinational assembly of our peoples.” Meanwhile, Morales reported that Bolivia will coordinate and work with Peru and Paraguay, Argentina with Brazil and Uruguay, Ecuador with Colombia and Chile, and Venezuela with Suriname and Guyana.
The idea of creating RUNASUR was suggested by Morales in November 2020, a day after he returned to Bolivia after spending a year in exile, and called for the creation of an international organization of social movements. In December 2020, during the first ‘Meeting of Peoples and Organizations of Abya Yala towards the Construction of a Plurinational America’ in Bolivia, the call for the creation of RUNASUR or the Union of the People of South American Nations was formalized.
En el siglo XX las organizaciones sociales teníamos como consigna que América Latina no sea el patio trasero de EE.UU.
Nuestra generación tiene, ahora, otro desafío que es #AméricaPlurinacional para garantizar la liberación de próximas generaciones. pic.twitter.com/V2E8hb3Thf
— Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) April 24, 2021
What is UNASUR?
UNASUR is a sub-regional integration mechanism, created during the period of left-wing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was formalized on May 23, 2008, under the leadership of Commander Hugo Chávez with the objective to build integration in the cultural, economic, social and political areas while respecting the diversity of each of the member nations.
It consisted of 12 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela and brought together over 400 million people with the vision of a Latin American identity based on the principle of unity in diversity.
However, in April 2018, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru withdrew from the organization due their alignment with US imperialist interests. In March 2019, Ecuador also announced its withdrawal from the organization and the president of the country asked the bloc to return the headquarters building of the organization, based in its capital city, Quito. In November 2019, following the civic-military coup against the democratically elected government of Evo Morales, the de-facto government withdrew Bolivia from UNASUR. In March 2020, Uruguay announced its departure from the regional body. In November 2020, after the election of President Luis Arce in Bolivia, the country rejoined the body. Presently, it has only four members: Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
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Reports of at least seven dead in Croatian earthquake
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Several Croatian cities were affected when a strong earthquake shook the area. It was felt all the way to the Austrian capital of Vienna and at least seven people are reported to have died.
At 11.30, Croatia was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4, reports the German geo institute GFZ.
The quake had its epicenter just over a mile below the town of Petrinja, about 50 miles southeast of the capital Zagreb.
A 12-year-old girl was killed in Petrinja. The mayor of the nearby town of Glina also told the state television channel that four people have died there.
Rescue services also stated that dozens of people were injured in the quake.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrei Plenković told the N1 that the military had been sent to the area to help.
Video recordings and photos from Petrinja show people being rescued from landslides, streets filled with debris and houses where the roofs collapsed.
In the capital Zagreb, the quake caused people to seek refuge out of buildings and down the street in protection against possible landslides.
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By Anna Isaac & Tom Rees
Pour yourself a stiff one, the party's nearly over. That was the message issued by the International Monetary Fund last week.
The global economic momentum enjoyed in recent times is set to fade. The deadline? Probably the end of 2019.
However, even that timeline has been called into question by the global lender of last resort. Risks termed by the fund as "clouds" on the horizon amid "sunshine" are now "closer than we had anticipated", according to deputy director Mitsuhiro Furusawa.
The UK has cracks showing in its economic health. The housing market is starting to lose pace, particularly in its most expensive area, London. Overall, the market lost a billion pounds of value in 2017. Construction is still hovering close to recession territory, and new starts - the number of new builds being kicked off - have fallen by 8 per cent in the past quarter, compared to a year ago. They remain 14 per cent below their 2007 peak. UK factories are losing steam and exports have fallen.
The jobs market has proven itself a post-recession miracle. But record low unemployment has not been enough to convince policymakers at the Bank of England that the economy is robust enough to raise interest rates. May's much-hyped rate hike was called off, June's opportunity passed and odds for an August hike are mixed.
Poor economic performance at the start of the year, blamed on bad weather by Threadneedle Street and the European Central Bank (ECB), looks to be a longer-term slump.
Six months ago, hopes were high that monetary policy could be smoothly tapered back from emergency levels towards something resembling normality. Money printing would soon end, and higher positive rates would also be introduced.
Now the eurozone slowdown is gathering pace, with the IMF set to downgrade its growth. Italy is a major worry. With debt to GDP of 132 per cent and a banking system still riddled with bad loans, it is a hazard to the entire eurozone system. If Italian defaults give France and Germany - its biggest debt holders - the flu, the UK will also get ill.
Fears of Italy's mounting debt pile come while the ECB's rates are still in effect negative, and money printing is at billions of euros each month. Central banks are still in crisis mode. This leaves the armoury for tackling a fresh downturn worryingly bare. In 2008, the UK's central bank cut rates from 5 per cent to almost nothing in a few months, cushioning the impact of the financial crisis. Now rates are at 0.5 per cent.
"The UK is not as well prepared as it would like to be for any negative impact on the economy. I think that's part of the reason that the Bank of England, and others, have been so anxious to get some ammunition stored up over the past few years. Until recently, they haven't been able to do that," explains John Wraith, UK economist at Swiss bank UBS.
While the UK's central bank's public statements have been reasonably hawkish about medium-term prospects, some signs suggest that it is trying to brace for a slowdown.
One stands out: it has been very careful to show markets that the floor - the true "zero" for interest rates - has moved.
Ordinarily rates would be cut by 1.5 per cent in order to mitigate a recession. The lowest level officials used to think rates could effectively go was 0.5 per cent. That means 2 per cent had to be reached in order to cushion a downturn.
In June, that thinking shifted. The lower bound for rates is now thought to be 0 per cent, so the base rate only needs to climb to 1.5 per cent before they can sell off the assets built up through money printing.
"Our interpretation is that the Bank of England wanted you [the market] to be aware that rates can go to zero." This, Wraith says, is a decidedly dovish sign. "There was something relatively concerning that they needed to communicate that."
Only the US has lifted its interest rates into something approaching traditional norms.
"It doesn't have to be a crisis, just a loss of momentum. Circumstances have conspired to stop them getting rates higher. We're at a moment where we hope everything stays on track ... but you don't know if the cycle is going to allow you that time."
Several factors may mean that time is short. Emerging markets are struggling to cope with a stronger dollar and higher interest rates. These economies are an increasingly important driver of global economic expansion, generating - excluding China - 45 per cent of growth between 2010 and 2017. However, fears of climbing US rates have sparked a rout in emerging markets currencies, such as the Argentine peso and the Turkish lira in recent weeks.
While UK banks are exposed to emerging market meltdowns, a downturn in China could be even more serious. It would "have a significant impact on UK financial stability", the Bank of England warns. "What's different about this cycle is that it's China among the global economies that is slowing first," says Freya Beamish, chief Asia economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. Export-led China has usually followed a slowdown in demand from the US and Europe. But its economy is now showing signs of weakening.
Economists are concerned by the mountain of dollar-denominated debt in the country. Those fears have been heightened by a 10-day fall in the Chinese yuan against the dollar to a 2018 low. Each downward movement in the yuan against the dollar increases the pressure on emerging markets with large dollar debts.
"It's very big [corporate debt], the immediate problem is that the trade tensions and the slide in the renminbi [Chinese yuan] very recently started to unveil those flashpoints in Chinese corporate debt," warns Beamish. "Corporate debt is the major powder keg."
Chinese stocks on the Shanghai Composite index slid last week into a bear market - when an index plunges more than 20 per cent from its 52-week high. Stocks have fallen as trade tensions between the US and China ratchet up and Chinese firms struggle to service their debts.
China's government has invested heavily in its economy in recent years. But the benefits are wearing off at a bad time.
Like the US, which saw growth rise sharply after big tax cuts, China's government has invested heavily in its economy in recent years. But the benefits are wearing off at a bad time.
According to Mike Bell, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, the "sugar rush" of corporate tax cuts in the US is set to wane by 2020. This would coincide with higher interest rates at the Federal Reserve and spell trouble for the economy.
Risk-averse credit markets have sounded the first warnings, according to JPMorgan. The US bank pointed out earlier this year that the forward curve for the one-month Overnight Index Swap rate - a Fed rates proxy - had "inverted" at the two-year point. This is historically regarded as a recession omen. One that can predict either the end of the economic cycle or a Fed policy mistake.
An inverted Treasury yield curve - when short-term bonds have higher yields than long-term bonds - is a much-feared recession indicator. Historically, it has occurred when the market believes the Fed will have to imminently cut rates in response to an economic downturn. The indicator is not yet in "recession" territory. However, the spread between two-year and 10-year bond yields is narrower than it has been for a decade.
Yet even traditional economic warning signs such as this have been distorted by the money-printing efforts used to mitigate the last crisis, warns Bell. Therefore, while many signs suggest global growth is set to cool, the timing is hard to judge.
In 2017, most economists thought it would stop in 2020, but are starting to worry that might be overly optimistic. Many of the world's major economies, the UK included, have not yet recovered from their last boom and bust hangover.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mortgage rates were mixed this week and barely changed after rising for the first time last week following six weeks of declines. Average rates for home loans remain historically low at under 3%.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average for the 30-year mortgage eased to 2.86% from 2.87% last week. The benchmark rate, which reached a peak this year of 3.18% in April, stood at 2.99% a year ago.
The rate for a 15-year loan, a popular option among homeowners refinancing their mortgages, edged up to 2.16% from 2.15% last week.
Uncertainty over the fast-spreading delta coronavirus variant and its potential effect on the economic recovery has been a backdrop in recent weeks, suppressing mortgage rates. The worry is that the resurgent virus could discourage people from going out and spending and trigger another round of shutdowns or other restrictions.
In a positive development, a government report Thursday showed that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low. The 29,000 decline in claims, to 348,000, was the latest sign that the U.S. job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand. | <urn:uuid:832cbae2-2d34-47e2-9104-a3633bb2429e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wkrg.com/news/business/us-average-mortgage-rates-little-changed-30-year-at-2-86/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96085 | 275 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Moheshkhali LNG Terminal
Moheshkhali LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Location: Moheshkhali Island, Bay of Bengal, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Coordinates: 21.25, 91.59 (approximate)
- Capacity: 7.5 mtpa, 1.08 bcfd
- Status: Proposed
- Type: Import
- Start Year:
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
In 2017 the Bangladesh government said it planned to install an onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Moheshkhali with the capacity to handle 7.5 million tonnes of gas annually. In March 2017 Petrobangla floated an international tender seeking proposals from interested parties to construct the terminal. Ten global firms from Japan, the USA, South Korea, and China along with consortiums of other countries have reportedly submitted expressions of interest (EoI) for the job.
Articles and resources
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What is a hospice medical social worker?
The role of a hospice social worker is to advocate for each patient’s end-of-life wishes and help individuals address the emotional aspects of late-stage illnesses. Hospice social workers also assist families in identifying other available local services and resources for additional support.
Do Hospice social workers need to be licensed?
The social worker must show at least 3 years of documented supervised social work experience within the field of hospice and palliative care. The social worker must have a current and up to date license to practice professional social work within their state.
Why do you want to be a hospice social worker?
Hospice social workers defend the needs, wishes, and rights, of the patient and family during all stages of the dying process. Having intimately experienced the dying process with you and your loved-one, your hospice social worker can give you the most profound and understanding bereavement services.
What do social workers do in end of life care?
Palliative/hospice social workers’ core responsibilities include conducting psychosocial assessments, coordinating care, providing counseling and psychotherapy, intervening in client crisis situations, and educating patients and families about their treatment plan and the available resources and support systems.
What interventions do social workers use?
Social service interventions also may include concrete services such as income support or material aid, institutional placement, mental health services, in-home health services, supervision, education, transportation, housing, medical services, legal services, in-home assistance, socialization, nutrition, and child and …
Is hospice social work hard?
Role and duties of hospice social workers Hospice and palliative care social work is challenging work, as it involves helping people through difficult and stressful times of their lives.
What makes a good hospice worker?
Good Listening skills. An Understanding and Acceptance of Their Own Feelings Regarding Death and Dying. A Strong Comfort Level with People Approaching Death (however, direct experience with death and dying is not required)
Whats it like being a hospice social worker?
What do you like best about your job? I have an awesome hospice team, which definitely makes the job more enjoyable. The people I’ve worked with have helped me in my understanding and learning process. There’s a lot of comfort in knowing that many of our patients have peace, support, and closure during their journey.
Do social workers deal with death?
Many human service or social workers take on the role of grief counselors when working with families who have recently experienced the loss of a loved one. The grief counselor must understand the normal and abnormal responses people go through during the grieving process.
What do hospice workers do?
What Is a Hospice Worker? A hospice worker is also known as “an end of life care professional.” Hospice workers care for people who are in the last stages of their life due to a terminal illness or other health conditions. Hospice nurses do everything from administering medications to documenting vital signs.
Can I visit a dying relative during coronavirus?
If you or someone you live with has coronavirus symptoms The government says you should not visit other people if you or someone in your household has coronavirus symptoms. This is to help stop coronavirus spreading.
Which patients should be recommended to receive palliative care?
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Field(s) of expertise
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
About this job
Under limited supervision, improves existing tool designs and creates new tool designs to provide for improved, safer production and to ensure conformance with customer, government and company requirements.
- Creates new tool designs to support new manufacturing programs or to improve the productivity of existing products.
- Checks outside suppliers and in-house designs for accuracy and functionality to ensure the productivity of the design. Coordinates design efforts with outside suppliers, as required.
- Analyzes and revises existing tool drawings to simplify the manufacturing process.
- Generates generic calculations to simplify tool design for accuracy and repeatability. Maintain tool design standards book to ensure standardization of new tooling.
- Maintains tool design/make schedule to ensure timely support of manufacturing programs.
- Researches tooling and tooling component catalogs to obtain the most cost-effective products.
- Provides technical direction for toolmakers.
- SAFETY – Maintains a constant awareness towards safety in the workplace and notifies supervision immediately of hazardous conditions and practices.
- QUALITY – Exhibits commitment to quality performance in all aspects of every task or project performed.
- Minimum 4-year degree in mechanical engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years mechanical tooling design experience in an aerospace manufacturing environment preferred.
- Must possess thorough knowledge of analytical mathematics and geometry, with a strong background in drawing interpretations.
- Computer aided design skill highly desirable.
Mental and Physical Requirements:
- Ability to read, write and comprehend English instructions.
- Interface and interact well with all departments of the company.
- Interface and interact well with all levels within the company.
- Ability to sit and work in an office space and/or desk job setting.
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Israel made preparations in recent months to kill senior Hamas officials in Gaza in response to the violent protests at the border fence that began on March 30 and the launching of incendiary kites and balloons.
Defense sources say, however, that Israel has decided not to carry out such assassinations in order to exhaust the efforts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a political arrangement instead.
According to the sources, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service believe that targeted killings are preferable to a wide-scale attack on the Gaza Strip that could include ground troops.
The sources say that the killing of a senior Hamas figure could also lead to a harsh response by the organization and the beginning of a military campaign.
- UN, Egypt Struggling to Preserve Cease-fire as Israel Denies It Exists
- 'Israel Carries Out Two Strikes in Gaza Targeting Balloon-launchers'
- Failed Hit on Hamas Top Militant Doesn't Look Like Israeli Job
They say the IDF seeks to delay any broader conflict in Gaza until at least the end of 2019, when the above- and below-ground obstacle along the entire Gaza border is completed. The completion of the barrier will be the most important strategic event on the Gaza front, a senior defense official recently told a closed forum.
As an example of the effectiveness of targeted killings, the shooting last year of Mazen Fuqaha, a leader of the Hamas military wing, has been mentioned. Hamas attributes the shooting to Israel, though Israel has never claimed responsibility.
Fuqaha’s death was seen as causing confusion in Hamas; in any case, the organization executed three people convicted of cooperating with the gunmen.
The killing of Fuqaha created tensions between various factions in Gaza, and Hamas’ control of areas that were Fuqaha’s responsibility was disrupted.
Israeli defense officials say the possibility of killing Hamas leaders was in advanced stages of preparation. Alongside such killings, the IDF prefers attacks on Hamas’ strategic assets instead of a full-scale military campaign, and senior officers say the cabinet has not yet made clear what the goals of such a campaign would be.
As opposed to the denials attributed to senior Israeli officials of a Hamas-Israel cease-fire brokered by Egypt, Israeli officers say the escalation that began Thursday is over. Statements released by the IDF hinted at the end of the latest round, and on Friday morning the Home Front Command announced that routine life could resume in communities near Gaza.
Also, the IDF made clear that it had not committed to end operations in Gaza, adding that as far as it was concerned, the “cease-fire” meant a return to the situation in Gaza as of Tuesday – before Thursday’s escalation. The IDF thus remains free to operate without any agreement forcing it to change the status quo before the latest escalation.
In recent days, defense officials have concluded that Hamas has tried in the recent rounds of fighting to improve its position for negotiating an arrangement with Israel – a dangerous game.
The IDF is preparing for the possibility that the two sides will be forced into a military campaign that scuttles Hamas’ achievements since March, defense officials said.
Still, senior IDF officers say that it was right to stop the fighting Thursday to give Hamas a chance to understand the amount of damage it had suffered.
“When we attack 150 times, these are 150 bombs that hit the target,” a senior officer said. “Hamas understands very well what it has lost in the past few months; it can’t ignore it.”
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Are designed to give you one scripture a day that is associated with the day's date followed by an unmentioned challenge to use the
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Each day, users will receive a notification as a reminder to make their way to the Scripture Whispers channel on the app. Once here, users will discover the scripture of the day associated with the day's date. As an example, Ephesians 3:20 might be the scripture for March 20.
Once you have read the post, the big challenge is for each user to explore ways to speak scripture into someone’s life without divulging the Bible is being quoted.
The reason for associating a scripture with the day's date is simple. Throughout the day, there are multiple opportunities for visual reminders to interact with today's scripture. You will notice the date on our phone or watches, on a car dashboard, on paperwork and calendars.
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Celebrating Sundays: Patristic Readings for the Sunday Gospels, Years A, B & C Compiled and introduced by the Rev. Stephen Holmes.
This is a treasure.
It is a wonderful collection of patristic readings linked with the three year series of Sunday gospel readings followed by Roman Catholics and ecumenically in the Revised Common Lectionary. There is nothing like this available.
The Rev. Stephen Holmes began this collection in the 1980’s for Pluscarden Abbey in the North of Scotland. There it is used in the Office of Vigils (in what is called the 3rd Nocturn of that office).
Two years ago, I pointed you to a two-year set of daily patristic readings commenting on the Roman Catholic 2 year Scripture cycle for the Office of Readings. That delightful collection was also produced by Stephen Holmes.
Let the inspired books of both the Old and the New Testaments be read at Vigils, as also commentaries on them by the most eminent orthodox and catholic fathers.” (Rule of Benedict, IX)
This book is gratifyingly thorough. Everything I would hope was there – is. When I looked through the book, and thought – this really needs a little biography about the original patristic author, there it was in the back. Seasons are superbly introduced. There are indexes and tables.
There is a lot by Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Cyril of Alexandria (glancing down the first contents page we have Paschasius Radbertus, Godfrey of Admont, Bernard, Origen, Ambrose, John Scotus Eriugena, Bede, Guerric of Igny… the list goes on and on). 43% writers from the Greek East, 54% Latin West, 6 writers who wrote in Syriac, a couple of pieces were written in Anglo-Saxon and English. This should further and enrich the ecumenism of the lectionary, and continue the spiritual renewal that focuses on spirituality, prayer, and the scriptures as the way forward that this site promotes.
Buy this book. Give it to clergy. Let us enrich the spiritual life of our communities. There are any number of ways you can use this book: as part of your daily office, as a reading to prepare for a sermon on the associated gospel reading, in a group that focuses on the Sunday gospel,…
Stephen Holmes is an Anglican/Episcopalian priest, and a PhD student at New College Edinburgh. He was previously Associate Lecturer in Divinity at Maynooth and for the distance leaning programme at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham.
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Fruits are always favorites in the garden. If you are interested in growing your own fruits, fall is the season to get started. Impulsive acquisition of fruit trees and berries while out on a shopping trip often leads to disappointing results. Not every variety of fruit can be grown on the Eastside. Plants bought on a whim or chosen because you recognize the name may not thrive in our climate or produce the best possible fruit. There are two tried and true ways to get fruits trees or berries for your garden: you can go to a local, knowledgeable nursery in spring and buy containerized plants, or you can order bare-root plants in fall for shipment in spring.
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Our desire is to deliver the finest quality trees to our customers and to set new benchmarks in growing trees for new and established market trends. At JFT Nurseries we grow an extensive range of fruiting trees, flowering trees, deciduous ornamentals and weeping and standard trees. As growers, we maintain complete grading and quality control of our trees which are all sold bare rooted through June, July and August. We are respected throughout the nursery industry and our dedicated team of employees provide a personalised and friendly service. Much pride is taken in producing a top quality tree, at competitive prices to our customers throughout Australia. JFT Nurseries is a well recognised and respected grower throughout the nursery industry with our two main priorities being to produce a top quality tree at a competitive price and to giving our clients personalised and friendly service. Showgirl is a outstanding new variety of Cercis, unique for its tight upright growth habit Is a fast-growing fastigiate deciduous and compact form no need to prune , Ideal plant for containers or tight settings, Pollution
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Our range of fruit trees and bushes for sale is constantly growing thanks to our customers demand and suggestions. We supply our fruit as bare root fruit trees, bushes, and canes straight from our tree nursery. The same quality control, care and attention to detail is applied as our vegetable plant nursery. All the fruit and berry varieties are chosen for their growing success in our climate as well as for their high yield. Growing fruit trees and bushes is very low maintenance and they will provide you with a tasty crop year after year. We try to stock all the favourites to populate a great fruit garden with more added regularly.
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We are a small family run nursery situated 8 miles north of Oxford and just 2 miles from Blenheim Palace in Woodstock. All our staff have a wide range of horticultural knowledge and are always pleased to offer any help our customers may require. As an old-fashioned nursery we strive to preserve the traditional values, i. We only offer nationwide delivery on bareroot items in the autumn bulbs, bareroot hedging, soft fruit, bareroot roses - all other items are for collection only! We aim to have your order ready within 24 hours. Thank you so much for all your support these past couple of months.
C ustomer Notice — Due to current courier demand , there may be a delay in delivery , we apologise for any inconvenience. Fruit trees include pome fruits apples and pears , stone fruits peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums and cherries , as well as nut-bearing fruit trees such as walnuts and almonds.
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Are you one of those people who experience sour burps once in a while during the day? This is a symptom of acid reflux, which is a common gastrointestinal condition among people over 40 years old. Sour burping and sour belch are often uncomfortable and embarrassing. Although most people associate these symptoms with gastroesophageal reflux disease, there are many other possible factors that can cause these.
What Causes Sour Burps?
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
The most common cause associated with sour burps is GERD or gastroesophageal reflux disease, which is also sometimes called acid reflux. This is often a chronic condition that affects your life in many ways. Sour burping and belching are common symptoms, but other symptoms such as heartburn (a burning type of chest pain), indigestion, nausea and regurgitation also occur. Expulsion of gas up into the muscular tube called esophagus gives rise to acid burps that may cause burning chest pains and sour taste in your mouth.
Unhealthy Diet Habits
Bad eating habits such as overeating and eating fast are common causes of sour burps. It is even worse when your meals include caffeine, alcohol or fizzy drinks. In addition, breathing through the mouth due to congested nose and talking excessively while eating may also suffer from sour burps and sour belch.
Beverages that contain alcohol and caffeine can adversely affect normal functioning of your lower esophageal sphincter (LES), a muscle which tightens the lower end of the tube that connects to the stomach after you swallow. This contributes to acid reflux and causes sour belch. Sour burps are even worse if you drink carbonated beverages that also contain caffeine (like soda) or alcohol (like sparkling beers or wine).
Obesity is also associated with sour burps because it increases abdominal pressure and contributes to reflux. Other obesity-associated factors that lead to sour burps include overeating, a sedentary lifestyle and diabetes, which may delay stomach emptying and result in reflux.
Pregnancy is another factor associated with acid reflux and sour burps. An enlarging uterus increases intra-abdominal pressure while pregnancy hormones act on the LES, making acid reflux common in many pregnant women. Other pregnancy-related factors that may contribute to sour burps include shortness of breath, anemia, easy fatigue, air swallowing and overeating.
Tobacco smoking and tobacco chewing can cause sour burps in various ways, including air swallowing, weakening of the LES and increased stomach acid production due to the stimulant effect of nicotine and other chemicals found in tobacco.
Digestive disorders may weaken the LES, delay emptying of your stomach, or produce excessive stomach acids, contributing to sour burps. This is common with disorders like:
Intestinal motility disorders
How to Handle Sour Burps with Home Remedies
Angelica root is a popular remedy that improves digestion. Drink one cup daily to stimulate proper digestion. Don’t use this if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Baking soda provides quick relief for sour burps and sour belch. Just mix 1 teaspoon with a glass of cold water and drink.
Carrot juice can reduce sour burping from an acid stomach. Simply mix half a glass of juice with an equal amount of water and drink.
Fennel seeds are popular for reduce gas and bloating so it helps improve digestion. Chew a handful of seeds after meals, or make fennel seed tea with honey and drink.
Ginger has been used to treat digestive problems such as gas, acidity and stomach ache. It helps reduce stomach cramps (anti-spasmodic). Just chew a piece of fresh ginger or make ginger tea and drink for instant relief.
Maintain healthy eating habits and avoid foods that cause indigestion. These include greasy and spicy foods, which are difficult to digest. Avoid carbonated or caffeinated beverages. Avoid taking too much dairy products as well, since they may be difficult to digest.
How to Handle Sour Burps with Medications
Antacids are among the widely used over-the-counter medications in the market. They work by neutralizing stomach acids but their effects are usually short acting.
Raft barrier medications are OTC products that are often combined with antacids. They work by floating in the stomach and acting as a barrier against stomach acids. They also prevent acids from going back into the esophagus.
H2-antagonists and proton pump inhibitors are acid-suppressing drugs that block stomach acid production. These medications usually provide sustained relief for hours.
Prokinetic drugs (e.g. Metoclopramide) speed up gastric emptying. They are not commonly used but may be useful in cases of delayed emptying of the stomach.
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Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alfonso Dastis, will visit the Campo de Gibraltar in September to discuss the impact of Brexit on cross-border workers and the wider region. The forthcoming visit was announced late Thursday night following a meeting in Madrid between the minister and officials from the Campo.
Spain will not put Gibraltar at the centre of Brexit negotiations, the country’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Dastis Quecedo told the newspaper that the EU should start trade talks with Britain relatively soon and had no plan to impose a “punitive” Brexit deal that would weaken London as a financial centre.
Britain has protested to Spain after a Spanish warship “manoeuvred dangerously” during an incursion into British Gibraltar territorial waters, risking collision with a Royal Navy patrol boat.
Britain cannot allow Spain to continue to ignore international law and bully Gibraltar, said MP Andrew Rosindell following the latest incursion in Gibraltar waters, this time a Spanish Customs crew that actually fired shots to a British-Gibraltarian fishing cruise.
The Spanish Government’s measures toward Gibraltar are ‘bearing fruit, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel García-Margallo said in a weekend interview in which he vowed to maintain pressure on the Rock. Although the minister’s tough language on Gibraltar was nothing new, it was the second time within the space of a week that he had spoken out on the Rock.
Gibraltar’s Conservative MEP Ashley Fox is compiling a dossier of constituent complaints and experiences of crossing the border in and out of Gibraltar. Mr Fox will hand the dossier to the EU Commission and says it will show Spain is acting “as an aggressor and not a European partner”, according to a report from the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Gibraltar has accused Spain of having chosen once again not to behave as European partners as a result of the latest pedestrian delays at the border. The Gibraltar Office in Brussels was asked to relay information to the European Commission on the latest delays caused by the introduction of an Automated Border Control system on the Spanish side.
The Gibraltar Government has included the long queues of last Thursday afternoon at the frontier with Spain in its latest report to the European Union. Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said the report will be presented “in order to draw attention to the manner in which the Spanish government is implementing the recommendations made by the commission”.
The British and Spanish foreign ministers sought to highlight a renewed drive toward an ‘ad hoc’ dialogue on Gibraltar this week, but in doing so drew firm red lines that signaled just how difficult that task will prove. The coordinated message was positive and hinted at the possibility of talks ‘in the near future’ if a format could be agreed. But on core issues, there was no change.
Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo addressing parliament on Tuesday described the current diplomatic conflict with the UK as an ‘important fire’ and blamed it on three apparently minor incidents: Gibraltar authorities having dropped the agreement with Spanish fishermen a year ago; the recent dumping of cement blocks in the bay of Algeciras (Gibraltar) and the construction of a new reef. | <urn:uuid:d6071725-6b71-46cd-b8f0-e6c88ce92052> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.mercopress.com/tags/gibraltar-spain-border | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951424 | 673 | 1.65625 | 2 |
There are two ways to create an Agenda:
1. Within the Agenda Module
Enter your Agenda module by clicking on the parent Agenda menu* which should appear along the top of your screen, or within a dropdown in that top section.
Once you're in the Agenda module, you can click on the Add Agenda icon on the top right of your screen to start creating an agenda.
2. Within the Resources module
If you're within a Resources folder, you can also create an Agenda directly from this page. At the top right of your screen will be a small icon with 3 dots (the More icon). Clicking this will prompt a number of actions for you to choose from, select Create Agenda to open a new one in the Agenda module.
The Agenda Builder
The Agenda Builder has a split screen view. The left side of the agenda builder is for creating and selecting content.
The right side of the screen is a preview of the Agenda - which also gives you the ability to re-order Agenda items and add times and descriptions to each item. Folders and files from the left side of the screen can be dragged and dropped to the desired location in the right side.
On the left-hand-side you must add an Agenda Name - where you can title your agenda. You may want to include dates in the title to easily distinguish them if you have a lot of Agendas.
You can also Link Calendar Events - linking the meeting to an existing event in your Calendar module where an address and map are also displayed.
You can add a Custom Agenda Item, or select an item from your Resources to add as an agenda item.
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For years, Joshua Santiago dreamed about opening a fully-fledged barber shop in the back of an RV so he can take his services to his clients. The Mayfair resident has driven around Philadelphia and across the country with equipment in the back of his vehicle so he can offer free grooming to the homeless population, no matter where they are located.
Five years later, Santiago’s mission gained publicity as well as financial and moral support, and his dream has come true – he’s got a full-sized RV decked out with enough equipment for a miniature barber shop. It’s a goal he met much quicker than anticipated.
But it’s just the beginning.
“There’s so much more we’re going to do,” Santiago said.
For Santiago, a haircut means as much to a person on the inside as the outside. While he was enrolled in the American Beauty Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, he traveled to homeless shelters to cut hair, and he realized he liked the gratitude of the person more than he likes the money. Since he started, he said he’s become a familiar face to people whose hair he cuts in Kensington and across the city.
He purchased the 32-foot-long vehicle last year and was able to raise around $70,000 to renovate it thanks to a viral social media post explaining his story. The project was completed at Auto Addiction, 5223 Torresdale Ave., with a team of nine people led by Nicholas Cruz completing the renovation.
The inside has two cushioned barber seats, a shampoo chair and sink, a bathroom and a waiting area complete with a couch, TV and coffee maker. A mural of outer space painted by Charlie Failure decorates the wall opposite the mirrors, with words like ‘Hope’ written backward so clients can see it properly reflected in the mirror. The upgrade cost about $50,000 and took about four months to complete the renovation.
During non-pandemic times, the RV will serve as an oasis for individuals to relax, cool off and get a haircut. With social distancing restrictions, it may take some time to use the waiting area.
Empowering Cuts will also partner with local recovery houses to help visitors find the help they may need, Santiago said.
Santiago hosted a grand opening a few weeks ago to show off the finished truck to friends, social media followers and the community.
“Every time I sit in here or any time I’m even around this RV I’m still taking it in,” he said.
As Santiago said, this was what he envisioned when he started, but now that his goal has been achieved, it’s time to start looking into the future. Santiago knows Philadelphia isn’t the only city experiencing homelessness.
“If we can have 10 more of these in different states and cities, that would be amazing,” he said.
Opening a shelter or recovery homes may also be on the horizon one day once Empowering Cuts, a nonprofit organization, becomes his full-time gig. Santiago works as an Uber driver as he continues to provide haircuts for free.
Santiago’s work is a testament that beauty is more than just skin deep, and whichever road his RV travels down will be lucky to have him. •• | <urn:uuid:c220af54-ce26-4765-9540-0dd24ff368bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northeasttimes.com/2021/05/26/empowering-cuts-a-mobile-barbershop-ready-to-go/?noamp=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970233 | 701 | 1.539063 | 2 |
by Corey Byrnes
Beijing Besieged by Waste, directed by Wang Jiuliang (New York, 2011), DVD. Image courtesy the artist.
The essay begins:
In his 2011 novel The Man with the Compound Eyes (Fuyan ren 複眼人), the Taiwanese novelist Wu Ming-Yi吳明益 imagines a scenario in which the Great Pacific Garbage Patch breaks free from the ocean gyre that keeps it out of sight, sending a solid mass of trash on a collision course with the east coast of Taiwan. The arrival of the trash island coincides with coastal subsidence and a tsunami-like rise in sea levels that inundates large portions of the coast and covers what remains in trash. When one of the characters travels down the coast highway past a famous scenic site, the Clearwater Cliffs, she is confronted with a troubling scene:
The sea was battering the base of the soaring bluffs with various kinds of debris. Hordes of tourists were issuing continual exclamations of amazement as they admired the magnificent view from inside their cars. Sara was more than a little shaken by the scene. The cliff itself was glorious, but she couldn’t get over how these tourists seemed not to see [sihu wushi 似乎無視] the sorry state the coast was in, regarding it as a wondrous scene to admire [qijing lai guanshang奇景來觀賞]. . . .
She had been on this island for two days, and only had brief impressions of the place, but she’d already noticed that the islanders were inured to breathing this air and were now trying to get used to the sight of this sea. The pristine Pacific Ocean as she had seen it in so many images had now vanished.
Sara, a Norwegian marine biologist, is shocked by the apathy of Taiwanese tourists who look at the “magnificent view from inside their cars,” ignoring the acrid smell rising from the trash-choked ocean. They look, but they seem not to see. It is only by looking with Sara that we see the coast for what it is—a landscape of wonder become a landscape of desolation.
This episode exemplifies the ambiguous relationship between two ways of looking that are central to what I call the landscape of desolation. The first is grounded in preconceived notions of nature, beauty, and the sublime. The second exposes the exhaustion of the physical world while also demonstrating how inherited landscape notions can inspire a blindness generated by a refusal to see despite a strong desire to look. If landscape is “a way of seeing the world,” as Denis Cosgrove put it, Wu reminds us that it is also a way of not seeing, a habit of looking detached from seeing and thinking. To look with the scientist Sara, it seems, is to see past the “many images” of a pristine Pacific Ocean. Yet even in this moment of discernment, we cannot quite leave behind the aesthetics of landscape and the ideas it conveys. The language of glory and magnificence remind us that the power of this scene comes not from the complete obliteration of the coast, but rather from a diminution of its natural beauty that is contingent on both the survival of a sense of that beauty and also the tenaciousness of not fully exhausted ways of looking.
Wu’s novel suggests that if you look long and hard enough you might recognize the material and affective ties that bind humans, nonhumans, and objects to one another as well as the habits of looking that so often obscure those ties. It is to the conflicted relationship between new ways of looking and the tenacious pull of untenable habits and seemingly exhausted traditions that this essay attends. As a “magnificent” but trashed landscape, the Clearwater Cliffs exemplify the epistemological and ontological confusion generated by climate change and environmental degradation. How are we to understand a world grown strange? What happens when the natural features we expect to find in familiar landscapes are no longer there, replaced instead by our waste? Are the categories and representational techniques that we have long used to describe the world adaptable to our current unstable conditions?
In their attempts to answer these and related questions, scholars have produced what can sometimes seem like an Anthropocene industry, dedicated in part to cataloging the artistic techniques that have evolved to address climate change and in part to advocating for particular forms they see as most effective in making it thinkable. While most agree that we need to harness the descriptive, persuasive, and imaginative capacity of writing and the arts to change not only how we see the world but also how we act in it, there is no consensus on how to achieve this goal. Amitav Ghosh sees the scalar flexibility of premodern epics and non-Western prose forms as offering alternatives to the modern realist novel. For Stephanie LeMenager and Stephanie Foote, what we need is a new narrative “critical realism” that makes visible “the multiscalar effects of global capitalism.” T. J. Demos has argued against the Anthropocene as a “universalizing discourse” that “disavow[s] differentiated responsibility” and “anesthetizes politics” in favor of an activist aesthetics that “politicize[s] art’s relation to ecology.” Prasenjit Duara has promoted “Asian traditions” more broadly as offering possible conceptual and practical solutions to environmental crises, and both ecocritics and the mainland Chinese government have advocated a return to the supposedly ancient ecological grounding of Chinese culture as a way of creating a new “ecological civilization” (shengtai wenming 生態文明).
In all of these approaches—and this is only a small sample—the underlying assumption is that cultural forms are capable not only of communicating information about the environment but also of moving viewers and readers affectively and, perhaps, to some sort of action, or at least to a change in consciousness that makes action easier. If we take landscape representation as an active “cultural practice” already centered on the relationship between humans and their environments and potentially capable of fostering ecological thought and action, then it appears to be an ideal ecocritical mode. But can we say with any certainty what an ecocritical landscape mode can or must do? Is “landscape,” an impossibly broad term that encompasses multiple disparate traditions, functions, histories, and media—many of which have contributed directly to our current environmental crises—actually capable of representing and responding to those crises, the worst of which are so often defined by their “unthinkability”? Continue reading …
In this essay Corey Byrnes explores how landscape forms are used by writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other artists from inside and outside of China to represent environmental problems in that country. It considers the “landscape of desolation” as an ecocritical mode designed to change how people see and act in the world in relation to both the shifting status of “Chinese tradition” and to earlier moments in Euro-American landscape art, particularly the so-called New Topographics Movement of the 1970s.
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by Shimeng Gao (3rd year Physical Therapy Doctorate student, Mount Saint Mary’s University)
Why is stretching so important?
- Improve your flexibility: Flexibility is an essential factor in determining one’s overall health. It allows you to move your joints throughout the whole range of motion freely and keeps the muscles around the joints more elastic in order to move better.
- Increase blood flow: Your stretching regimen will help blood circulation in the area to prevent muscle soreness after an intense workout and shorten your recovery time. Adequate blood flow will also help you to gain the awareness in certain areas of the body to increase performance.
- Correct your posture: As we live in this forward reaching world (i.e. typing in front of a computer, driving a car, etc.), our heads tend to move forward, causing the shoulders to round and back to slouch. A specific stretching routine will help us to lengthen these tight muscles from a bad posture and correct the muscle imbalance from prolonged sitting.
- Calm the mind: Stretching is also a great way to unwind your day with deep breaths. It simply creates a space for you to LISTEN to your body. Being in tune with your body and practicing deep breathing exercises allow us to calm the mind and restore our energy.
When should I stretch?
It depends. Rule #1 is to create a time slot and space that’s easy for you to adhere to the stretch routine consistently.
Mornings are great for dynamic stretches before your workout to warm up the muscles and lubricate the joints. Evenings are more suitable for static long hold stretches that will help you to release the tensions from a work day and bring the attention inward to focus on yourself.
Here are 3 stretches that I recommend you do everyday!
1. Floor Pec Stretch (great for posture, shoulders and neck issues)
2. Segmental Cat & Cow (back pain saver)
3. Pigeon (definitely try this if you sit for more than 6 hours during the day)
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Some patients get "lost in the gaps" because Wales has too many local health boards (LHBs), Health Minister Edwina Hart has warned.
Edwina Hart said the problems for some patients were unacceptable
With a review due to report by the end of the year, Ms Hart has indicated that the number should be cut from 22.
In an interview with a health magazine, she said it was not right that patients were being "batted back and forth".
The Welsh Assembly Government said it was committed to simplifying the system and reducing bureaucracy.
Ms Hart, who became health minister last May, signalled her thinking in an interview with the magazine of patients' group Hafal.
Wales's LHBs cover the same areas as its 22 local councils, and receive a large slice of the NHS budget to commission - in other words, to buy - services from health providers such as hospital trusts, GP practices, and dentists.
But Ms Hart said in the interview: "There are too many commissioning bodies. We need to do something about it.
"People are getting lost in the gaps between providers of services, getting batted back and forth between various places and that's not acceptable."
Hafal chief executive Bill Walden-Jones told the BBC's Politics Show in Wales: "I think it's likely that there will be an announcement before long: that we can't proceed with having 22 LHBs for a population of only 2.9m. That will be an enormous change."
Critics claim LHBs are too small and there are too many of them to negotiate in the best way for patients.
Richard Lewis, secretary of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales said: "Very often you've got smaller LHBs with different priorities, for instance, so it's difficult to concentrate on key issues and get a co-ordinated approach to the way services are commissioned."
On Wednesday the Conservatives will call in the Welsh assembly for all 22 LHBs to be scrapped and replaced with an all-Wales commissioning body.
Tory health spokesman Jonathan Morgan said: "It will get worse of course now that the health minister is going to be merging some of the health trusts and creating these super hybrid trusts.
"The problem with that is that the rationale for keeping these mini-LHBs will simply disappear because if they can't compete with NHS trusts now, they certainly won't compete with the new bigger trusts."
Plaid Cymru is in coalition with Labour in the assembly government, and its health spokesperson Helen Mary Jones said it was clear the situation could not continue.
"There are too many organisations, too much money being spent on administration and of course those are resources that we can't use in front line care."
But Kevin Sullivan, of the Welsh NHS Confederation, which represents LHBs and trusts, said complete abolition would be a "retrograde step".
"Everyone knows they (LHBs) aren't perfect, everyone knows there are areas where they need to improve, as they themselves will acknowledge, so the challenge is how to do that without throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
Ms Hart was unavailable for comment, but an assembly government spokesperson said it was committed to ending the internal market in health care, simplifying the system and reducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
Health economist Siobhan McLelland said Ms Hart's suggestion was no surprise, as the coalition document agreed between Labour and Plaid said they would get rid of the internal NHS market by 2011, and the LHBs were the purchasing side of that.
But Ms McLelland said she thought Ms Hart had never liked the LHB structure begun by Jane Hutt, a previous health minister.
"And she's going to do what politicians always do when they come into the health service," she said.
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Here, with the expert help of Nicola Gooch, planning partner at Sheffield law firm Irwin Mitchell, we take a closer look at what this could mean for the transformation of the high street.
What happens if the Class E to Residential right is introduced?
“If this comes into effect, it would significantly broaden the scope of the existing residential conversion rights - as it would not only apply to offices, light industrial and retail, but also to restaurants, gyms, medical facilities and crèches,” Gooch says.
“The new right is intended to apply to ALL Class E buildings, regardless of the size of the property in question. It is also intended to apply in Conservation Areas. The only proposed geographic carve-outs are: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Broads, National Parks, areas specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 41(3) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and World Heritage Sites.”
She adds that the usual exclusions for listed buildings, sites of special scientific interest; scheduled monuments; safety hazard areas; military explosives storage areas and sites subject to an agricultural tenancy would continue to apply.
Gooch believes the new Class E to Residential permitted development right is the biggest and ‘potentially most radical’ of the changes proposed by MHCLG.
“Not least because, despite the entire justification for it being related to high streets, the rights are not limited to high street properties. They will, in fact, apply to every GP's surgery, retail park, business park, gym, crèche, nursery or light industrial unit in England that existed and was in use on September 1 2020.”
She continues: “There is a nod to preserving high streets in conservation areas, but it does seem to be just that - a nod. The intention is to include specific prior approval criteria allowing councils to consider the ‘impact of the loss of the ground floor use to residential’ in conservation areas.”
The proposed list of matters to be subject to the prior approval process is remarkably short, Gooch says.
Currently, the only things being proposed are Prior Approvals relating to:
flooding, to ensure residential development does not take place in areas of high flood risk
transport, particularly to ensure safe site access
contamination, to ensure residential development does not take place on contaminated land, or in contaminated buildings, which will endanger the health of future residents
the impacts of noise from existing commercial premises on the intended occupiers of the development
the provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms
fire safety, to ensure consideration and plans to mitigate risk to residents from fire; and
the impact on the intended occupiers from the introduction of residential use in an area the authority considers is important for heavy industry and waste management
Gooch explains that the application process is intended to be similarly light touch, with the list of required documents being limited to: detailed floorplans showing dimensions and proposed use of each room, including the position of windows; any information necessary for the consideration of the matters for prior approval, and an appropriate fee.
On that last point, MHCLG is proposing a fee of £96 per dwelling, capped at a maximum of £4,800.
While there are many other changes proposed in the consultation, including new PD rights for public sector and infrastructure schemes, a new streamlined application process for public sector developments and a consolidated and simplified GDPO that takes into account the creation of Use Class E, Gooch believes the new Class E to Residential right is comfortably the biggest and potentially most transformative of the planned changes set out.
“Given the impact that Covid 19, and the associated restrictions, have had on the economy, there will be a real temptation for commercial landlords to flip vacant units to residential before looking at other, more traditional, commercial uses for them,” she says.
“If this is enacted, unless councils are very quick off the mark with their Article 4 Directions, the future of many high streets may very quickly become predominantly residential.”
Research backs up high street’s woes
With the news of the collapse of the Arcadia Group, Debenhams and Bonmarche hitting the headlines in recent days, it’s perhaps little surprise that 61% of Brits are worried that the high street as we know it is at risk of disappearing entirely, with store closures permanently changing the retail landscape.
That’s according to research from KIS Finance, which surveyed 1,000 consumers in the UK to understand the future for our town and city centres.
As well as concerns over the high street’s very existence, those polled believe fashion, food, beverage and value brands will be the biggest victims of the high street due to online competition. It found that convenience is a key factor that affects our shopping habits, with online shopping often winning out on this metric.
As stated above, the high street has been in decline for many years, but the pandemic has simply accelerated an existing problem at an alarming rate. Research by The Local Data Company and PwC found that more than 11,000 outlets shut in the first half of 2020, double the amount for the same time last year.
High streets may become central to the community again
Holly Andrews, managing director at KIS Finance, says as many large retail outlets close, we may see a continuation of the pattern over recent years of vacant properties switching to residential use.
“Certainly, there has been an increase in applications for bridging loans for those wanting to convert shops and offices into residential units,” Andrews adds. “With the changes to the UK planning system proposed by the government, the process of converting empty retail space into much-needed housing could be one way to bring people back into central locations.”
She concludes: “For this transition to work high streets need to find ways to reinvent themselves to remain a relevant space at the heart of our communities.”
What is the future of cities?
With the above in mind, will even mega-cities like London - for so long a global melting pot of ideas, culture, commerce and business opportunity - struggle post-pandemic?
According to Simon Barry, head of new developments at Harrods Estates, cities which attract the growth industries of the future and provide an attractive working and living environment will do well even as the challenges of the high street persist and many people continue to work from home.
"We think London will continue to be one of the most desirable cities in which to live and work," he adds. “London has more green space than most cities of a comparable size, is relatively ‘low rise’ and low density whilst retaining a residential core in and around its centre. Its office and tech infrastructure built up over the past decades provides the capacity for global business and financial services to function which other European cities at the moment cannot match."
He believes the devastation of the high street over the past year and the car-free cities of the future are likely to have unintended consequences. "I predict it will lead to more localism and locations that are pedestrian-friendly, with a critical mass of retail stores and leisure amenities within walking distance. London’s historic villages will become even more desirable and are likely to be the big winners."
He adds: “However, as many of us come to realise the true value of offices, the potential for collaboration, the energy of teams, announcing the demise of commuting and city living looks a little premature.”
David Ruddock, partner and head of residential sales operations at well-known estate agency Carter Jonas, believes the long-term impact of Covid-19 on city living is still largely unclear. “But what we do know from our central London agents and teams operating out of locations such as Bath, Cambridge and York – is that there is a desire for community and connectivity. Lockdown has for many reinvigorated urban community life and a sense of loyalty towards the businesses, independent retailers and people that contribute to an area – be that in rural villages outside of major cities or within high density London boroughs.”
He adds: “It is well-documented that there has been a surge of people moving to the countryside, but equally there are those who enjoy being within walking distance from – when they open - the arts, theatre and social scene of a city centre and there is clear health and lifestyle benefits of not needing a car to get about.”
“There is no doubt that across the UK there will be breakout ‘boutique villages’ emerging within major cities, and in London, desirable areas such as Marylebone, Notting Hill and Barnes will continue to thrive as cultural bubbles.” | <urn:uuid:e6186754-19d2-419f-b089-5dfe42dce573> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.propertyinvestortoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2020/12/investors--is-housing-the-future-of-the-high-street?source=related_articles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952174 | 1,831 | 1.765625 | 2 |
If Stellar’s Jays think like we do (they probably don’t), then I can imagine the one above is pretty pleased with itself. Holding a peanut in its bill from my backyard feeder, this bird is about to fly off with its prize to hide it away in a Deer Lake forest. In ornithological lingo, it’s caching food, for use in winter. When temperatures are low, when food is a lot harder to come by and maintaining body heat requires extra calories, these birds will return to their caches to fuel up. It’s an avian lay-away plan for winter.
Black-capped Chickadees, like the one above, cache smaller items such as the sunflower seeds they collect from our feeders. Peanuts, good for Steller’s Jays, are much too large for this little bird to cache. If you have a feeder at your house, I expect you’ve noticed a lot more activity lately, and that your seed supply is diminishing more rapidly than usual.
At this time of year chickadees are visiting our feeders so often they couldn’t possibly be eating all the seed they’re carrying away. Of course, they’re not. Like the Steller’s Jays, they are on a major caching binge. It’s that time of year, and there’s a flurry of activity to store a back-up food supply for winter.
Chestnut-backed Chickadees (below), our other common local chickadee, are also madly gathering seeds to cache.
Sometimes birds put a lot of food in a single location, but more frequently they cache small numbers in each place, and very often they cache single food items separately. So you can anticipate the problem here. Most of us have one or two sets of house or car keys, but if you’re like me, knowing where they are at any one time is often a major challenge. Where are my keys?! So how can these bird-brains remember the location of hundreds of different caches? How can they remember their cache locations even when they’re under the snow?
The answer is – birds are just better at some mental activities than mammals, including humans. A little humbling isn’t it? But they do have a nice built-in biological advantage over us. They regrow part of their brain each year to accomplish these astounding feats of memory. The hippocampus, the part of their brain involved in spatial memory, regrows brain cells at this time of year. Old cells are replaced by new ones, and old memories are replaced by new, as this year’s cache locations are laid-down for later retrieval. Couldn’t we all do with a little bit of that ability? I’m really sure a new brain, or at least part of it, would really help in so many ways!
Of course it’s not all hard work. Sometimes it’s break time, as this Chestnut-backed Chickadee above is showing. Not every seed is cached; sometimes it’s just eaten. The bird here has peeled off the outer husk of a sunflower seed, and is just finishing up the energy-rich kernel inside.
But all is not plain-sailing in the caching business. Not every bird is focussed on their own caching. The smart ones out there are looking about to take advantage of the unwary. Most jays and chickadees are careful not to let other birds see where they’re hiding their cache. On the other hand, some birds don’t seem to pay attention at all to others watching them. All that hard work, and their carefully cached food is quickly stolen and hidden elsewhere by the wily cache thief. A cache grab indeed. | <urn:uuid:ba90ae09-8507-4c9d-9ce4-993c90774e38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://burnabybirdguy.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/cache-grab-for-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960691 | 798 | 2.671875 | 3 |
A few states have found a key to undoing some of Obamacare’s damage to their individual health insurance markets by redirecting some federal funding to help sick people. These states are providing separate assistance to those with the highest health costs, thereby reducing premiums and increasing enrollment for healthy people driven out of the market by soaring costs.
In June, the Health Policy Consensus Group released a health care reform plan called “The Health Care Choices Proposal.” The stated purpose of this plan, referred to in this report as the Proposal, is the expansion of choice and lowering of costs. The Proposal’s key feature is a block grant allocated to the states beginning in 2020, giving states resources and authority to design their own programs aimed at making insurance more affordable. All impacts projected in this report are relative to H&E’s March 2018 baseline.
- Premium Impact: The Proposal is projected to decrease the cost of premiums for private individual market health insurance coverage. Silver plans would see the largest impact, as premiums would decrease by 15 to 32 percent beginning in 2020 relative to the baseline.
- Coverage Impact: The Proposal is projected to result in nearly 1 million fewer people purchasing insurance by 2028, with enrollment holding steady earlier in the 10-year window.
The average cost of employer health coverage offered to workers rose to nearly $20,000 for a family plan this year, according to a new survey, capping years of increases that experts said are chiefly tied to rising prices paid for health services.
Annual premiums rose 5% to $19,616 for an employer-provided family plan in 2018, according to the yearly poll of employers by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. Employers, seeking to blunt the cost of premiums, also continued to boost the deductibles that workers must pay out of their pockets before insurance kicks in
When Republicans tried to repeal the 2010 health care law last year, Democrats knew they had an issue that would define this election cycle. A year and a half later, health care is still dominating Democratic messaging.
Take New York’s 19th District, which stretches where GOP freshman John J. Faso faces Democratic lawyer Antonio Delgado.
“Everywhere I travel across this district, and it’s big, there’s no doubt that health care is the most important issue on people’s minds,” Delgado said at a recent candidate forum here in the sprawling upstate district. “We’re in crisis.”
As Democrats enter the final sprint in a campaign where health care is a dominant issue and a House takeover seems achievable, they are split on whether to promise coverage for everyone, which would fuel an already revved-up liberal base, or target centrist voters by campaigning on the more modest goal of fixing the Obama-era health law.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Wednesday cited reduced Obamacare premiums and expanded choices as evidence that the Trump administration has not “sabotaged” the healthcare law, as charged by Democrats.
“For the very first time, rates have [been] going down… I think we have been successful in that area,” Verma said at an event hosted by the Economist Group in D.C.
The CMS has tweaked one of its coverage processes to ease access to medical devices. There are two Medicare coverage types, one that allows national coverage and one that allows Medicare contractors to pay for services or items on a local or regional basis. The agency has modified the latter. | <urn:uuid:b1930b54-c315-4d5a-82c1-8789ddce1dde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://americanhealthcarechoices.org/2018/10/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96561 | 731 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Our products packed in wooden case for shipping by sea
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Liberal Canada Child Benefit
By proposing a middle-class tax cut and a new child benefit, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau today filled in some of the major gaps in what we knew about how this fall’s federal election will be fought, when it comes to economic policy.
Don’t miss Kevin Milligan’s clear analysis of today’s Liberal policy proposals. (The University of British Columbia economist and Maclean’s blogger is on Trudeau’s economic advisory council, so he had a jump on the story, much to the benefit of any reader seriously curious about this policy.)
What Trudeau has put on the table is, first, a pledge to cut the tax rate on income from $44, 700 to $89, 401, giving middle-income earners about $3 billion in tax relief. He’d pay for it by hiking the rate on Canadians making more than $200, 000.
His second proposal, something called the Canada Child Benefit, is more complicated. The CCB would roll together some $18 billion a year of existing federal child benefits and add another $4 billion. The upshot varies for different sorts of families. But, for instance, Liberals say a typical two-parent family with two kids would get $490 a month, tax-free, under their plan, compared to $275 a month, after taxes, under the Conservatives.
At the same time, Trudeau would eliminate Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s signature $2-billion “Family Tax Cut” income-splitting measure, which allows couples with kids to save on their taxes by transferring income from the higher-earning to the lower-earning spouse. (That leaves the Liberals with $2 billion of their $4 billion in added CCB benefits to find someplace else.)See also:
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Flu vaccine clinics provide emergency training
Flu season and the desire to have as many county residents vaccinated as possible proved an opportune time for San Joaquin Public Health officials to stage a mass vaccination exercise as part of their emergency response training in the event of a biological threat or epidemic.
By offering free seasonal influenza shots, health officials were able to attract close to 400 members of the general public to two staging areas Friday morning - Lodi's Grape Festival Grounds and Manteca's Calvary Community Church.
"These mass vaccination clinics test our ability to move a lot of people through in three hours," said emergency preparedness coordinator Roberto Alaniz, who is also senior deputy director of San Joaquin County Public Health Services.
"We would use a mass vaccination clinic in case there was a vaccine that needed to get out to the community very quickly. Using point of dispensing is more appropriate to an anthrax attack for a defined portion of the community, where you need to get it out quickly - also antivirals and antibiotics that you need to get out in a hurry that the private sector is not prepared to handle," Alaniz said.
In the event of a large-scale public health emergency, the agency would be expected to distribute medication or vaccine to one or more communities within San Joaquin County to protect the general public from biological threats or epidemics.
Conducting a mass dispensing clinic at a strategic location has proved to be the most efficient way to protect the largest number of people. The location is referred to as a Point of Dispensing, or POD, site.
The Public Health Services Emergency Preparedness Program collaborates with community partners and volunteers. Friday, they were assisted by 38 volunteers - 22 in Lodi and 16 in Manteca - including firefighters and police officers from Lodi, Manteca and Ripon; members of the Stockton Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, American Red Cross and nurses registered with the state's Disaster Healthcare Volunteers (healthcarevolunteers.ca.gov).
"This is one of the areas the federal government wants us to be ready for. They call it medical countermeasure dispensing," Alaniz said, explaining that the county receives about $1 million a year to cover the costs of emergency preparedness, hospital readiness and public health outreach efforts. The county is expected to work with other agencies in the event of a health disaster scenario.
It has five mobile POD trailers maintained by first responders around the county, required by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in order to be able to provide preventive care to all residents within 48 hours. Set-up has to be as rapid and efficient as possible, so practice is important, Alaniz said.
The POD trailers contain everything but medicine needed to set up an off-site clinic, including office supplies, signage, generators, delineators, vests to identify positions, handheld radios, bullhorns, batteries, extension cords, handtrucks, hospital gowns, masks, hazardous-materials containers and bags.
"We tested our communications with ham radio operators and cellphones. We had a pretty good picture of what was going on with the exercise, and we shared it with leaders here at public health (headquarters in Stockton)," Alaniz said at the conclusion of Friday's training.
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What is a gluten grain?
What is a gluten grain?
Gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat (wheatberries, durum, emmer, semolina, spelt, farina, farro, graham, KAMUT® khorasan wheat and einkorn), rye, barley and triticale – a cross between wheat and rye.
What are gluten foods?
Gluten is the name given to a family of proteins found in all forms of wheat, barley, rye, and triticale. These proteins help bind foods together, maintaining their shape. Wheat products, such as bread, baked goods, crackers, cereals, and pasta, commonly contain gluten.
What is gluten and examples?
Gluten is a family of proteins found in grains, including wheat, rye, spelt, and barley. Of the gluten-containing grains, wheat is by far the most common. The two main proteins in gluten are glutenin and gliadin. Gliadin is responsible for most of the adverse health effects of gluten ( 2 , 3 ).
What is gluten made from?
Gluten is a protein naturally found in some grains including wheat, barley, and rye. It acts like a binder, holding food together and adding a “stretchy” quality—think of a pizza maker tossing and stretching out a ball of dough. Without gluten, the dough would rip easily.
Do potatoes have gluten?
The simple answer is yes — potatoes are gluten-free. Gluten is a type of protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and other grains. Potatoes aren’t grains, they’re a type of starchy vegetable. That’s good news for people who can’t tolerate gluten because they have celiac disease or gluten intolerance.
Is Rice a gluten?
Does Rice Have Gluten? All natural forms of rice — white, brown, or wild — are gluten-free. Natural rice is a great option for people who are sensitive to or allergic to gluten, a protein usually found in wheat, barley, and rye, and for people who have celiac disease, an autoimmune disease triggered by gluten.
Is there any grain that does not have gluten?
Grains that do not contain gluten include corn, rice, millet, quinoa, sorghum, buckwheat, and others. Oats and oatmeal don’t have the gluten protein, but have another protein that some celiac disease patients react to, while other celiac patients may not react with.
Which grain has the least gluten?
Quinoa is another low gluten grain. It is very high in protein and also cooks well whole. Rice is a gluten-free grain. When milled the flour is very fine and suitable for thickening sauces. Rye is an extremely low gluten grain. The flour is suitable for baking flat breads and using in batter bread mixtures.
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Walailak University 1st Green University in Southern of Thailand
On December 7, 2020, the UI Green Metric World University Ranking has announced the results of the 2020 World Green Universities Ranking of 912 universities in 84 countries around the world. As a result, Walailak University was ranked 16th in the country and 219th in the world with a total score of 6,650 points. It is the number 1 green university in southern of Thailand.
Walailak University located at Tha Sala District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. It has an area of more than 14,400,000 square meters, which is considered the largest university in Thailand. It is considered a perfect university (Comprehensive University) that provides teaching and learning covering the social sciences, science and technology and health sciences by developing the environment to be a university city in the form of living and learning (Residential University) meaning to be a community where students, teachers, staff, and staff of the university live in a good environment, beautiful, convenient, safe, peaceful, and happy with complete utilities and public utilities and other facilities to promote a happy quality of life in education and work. Able to fully utilize the mission potential, efficiency, and quality. It is a learning center both in the formal, informal, and informal ways of the university population, the community, and the general public causing the growth of physical, intellectual, mental, emotional, and social as well as being a livable city. The people of the university and the community are friendly and caring towards each other.
Walailak University has a policy of being a green university (Walailak Green University), with a commitment to continuously operate according to the Walailak Green University guidelines. It has given importance to include in the 20-year strategic plan (2018 – 2037) of Walailak University in the fifth strategic issue, enhancing the image of a happy green university city. This is in line with the UI GreenMetric World ranking for the university to have an image of a sustainable green university city in terms of landscape energy saving, waste and waste disposal, water management, transportation, and environmental education. Students and staff who learn to live on campus are happy. There are improvements, developments, and creating a happy green university city atmosphere. Promote knowledge and understanding of energy and environmental conservation are created for students, staff, and surrounding communities as well as continually supporting and promoting the increase of green areas within the university area.
This is to drive the policy of being a green university. The university has considered using the campus area as a park. (Walailak Park). Using an area of 408,000 square meters, divided into 208,000 square meters of water and 200,000 square meters of land, which is a large open space for the public to use as a place to relax and exercise for students. Personnel and people in Nakhon Si Thammarat and nearby areas There is a maze inside Walailak Park, English garden, elephant herd sculpture, owl fountain, heart-shaped bougainvillea arch Golden Manora courtyard natural waterway and there is a balcony for sitting and relaxing. Feed the fish and watch the sunset over mountain Luang.
And the university also aims to develop a botanical park located in the conservation area of Lak University. It has an area of approximately 2,160,000 square meters supporting academic services and being a source of informal learning for students, students, the general public, and as a place to relax for the people. It consists of primitive forest areas, water reservoirs, canopy viewing towers, herb gardens, nature study paths, Walailak banana plantation Science and Technology Learning Center cactus greenhouse areas of museum buildings and learning resources surrounding the Natural History Museum and camping ground Waiting to serve tourists who will come to camp and enjoy the natural atmosphere. Watch the sunset and the beautiful mist on the water surface.
Walailak University The university’s area was considered to be a green area or a park. Walailak Park was built in 2017 – 2018 using an area of 408,000 square meters, divided into 208,000 square meters of water and 200,000 square meters of land. It is regarded as the largest park located in a university in Thailand. It’s free for everyone to be a place to relax refreshing both body and mind for university personnel, including faculty, staff, and students. The people of Tha Sala District Nakhon Si Thammarat and neighboring provinces as well as those who visit the university across the country and abroad and support the patient’s relatives and those who come to use the services of hospitals, medical centers.
However, if you have come to visit this “Walailak Park” you will find a bright morning atmosphere, the smell the soil, the smell the water and the smell the flowers because the garden consists of various types of trees and decorative flowers. All it’s a good way to start an afresh day with exercise. The evening atmosphere will be in the exercise section, such as walking, running, biking and yoga in the park with views or sit and relax while feeding the fish by the water’s balcony to watch the sunset. All give a feeling of relaxation amidst the natural beauty of the basin and the mountain Luang.
For those who like to take pictures, they can bring a camera to capture the atmosphere inside Walailak Park because in the Walailak Park, there are many areas, such as English garden, Japanese garden Elephant herd sculpture, owl fountain, labyrinth, heart-shaped bougainvillea arch, Thip Phiman Waterfall, Bueng Bua Daeng, and Golden Manora courtyard with both the air and the size of the area, Walailak Park becomes a large lung to receive fresh air for everyone.
Botanical Park Walailak University
Botanical Park is another important green area located in the conservation area of Walailak University. It has an area of approximately 2,160,000 square meters supporting for academic services and is a source of informal learning, a place to relax for students, and the general public, as well as to act as a tourist attraction for Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.
Currently, the botanical park area has been continuously developed in which the front entrance area will have a botanical garden park (WBP: Walailak Botanic Park). It is an open space for relaxing, exercising, or sitting and enjoying the view of everyone. The WBP hill tunnel is located midway between the grassy slopes at the entrance to the Botanical Park. It was built with the concept of seeing the sun two times in the morning, facing the reservoir to be energized by the first light of day reap the freshness to continue walking on the day. In the evening, turn around and see the last light of the day that slowly fades behind Khao Luang. release suffering Obstacles that day to the water.
When walking into the botanical park area You will find the original forest area with native trees such as Gnetum, Xantho Phyllum Lan Ceatum, etc and there is a nature study path that has been developed to have a tower at an altitude of 25 meters to see the canopy, including the creation of a walking path connecting the two towers to watch the treetops. Surrounded by large Dipterocarpus alatus Roxb can see a 360-degree view with a cool atmosphere at the height of the top of the Dipterocarpus alatus Roxb with mountains range Luang, in the background There is a water reservoir in the front and can still stand and admire the beauty of nature in the botanical park in all directions. There is also a camping ground. Located on the edge of the reservoir giving a romantic atmosphere. It is a check-in point to serve everyone who will come to camp and stay overnight to enjoy the natural atmosphere. watch the sunset and the beautiful mist on the water surface You can also see a variety of waterfowl species at the tip of the cape in the middle of the water, such as teal, cormorant, egret, etc.
And finally, believe that everyone who has visited the Botanical Park will be relaxed. Refreshing both body and mind due to the atmosphere that is full of various types of trees beautiful nature can fulfill happiness and enhance the quality of life for everyone.
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More than half of £50bn wind farm cash to go overseas
Britain is forecast to miss out on more than half of the £50 billion investment in building offshore wind farms in its waters this decade, with the majority of orders for turbines and other equipment expected to go to factories and suppliers overseas.
A commitment to quadruple UK offshore wind capacity by 2030 was one of the key policy proposals outlined by Boris Johnson in his ten-point plan last week to cut emissions and create jobs. However, government figures predict that only about £20 billion of the investment will go to Britain.
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Airway hypersensitivity, characterized by exaggerated sensory and reflexogenic responses to various stimuli, is a common pathophysiological feature in patients with airway inflammatory diseases (e.g., asthma, bronchitis). Increasing and compelling evidence indicates that sensitized pulmonary C-fiber afferents play a vital role in the pathogenesis of airway hypersensitivity. Many mediators are known to sensitize these sensory fibers, whereas only very few have been identified to suppress the sensory hypersensitivity. Agonists of adenosine A3 receptor (AA3R) are recognized as protective agents in clinical studies in some fields of anti-inflammation. Recently, AA3R agonists have been shown to suppress the chronic inflammation-induced hyper-excitability of spinal sensory neurons, whose is believed as an indirect effect via its anti-inflammatory actions. A recent report has proposed a direct suppressive effect of AA3R agonist on neuronal excitability, in which, in isolated retinal ganglion cells, AA3R agonist reduces glutamate-induced rise of intracellular [Ca2+]. However, whether the AA3R agonist exerts a direct suppressive effect on neuronal excitability still remains unknown. The novel effect of AA3R agonist on suppression of airway hypersensitivity has been studied in an ongoing MOST grant. This proposal will study the novel effect of AA3R agonist on suppressing hypersensitivity of the pulmonary neuronal excitability. The proposed study of the 1st-year aims to determine 1) whether the AA3R activation suppresses the hypersensitivity of pulmonary C-fiber afferents, 2) whether the AA3R agonist acts at the level of overall neuronal excitability of pulmonary C-fibers, but not at specific sensory transduction, 3) whether the AA3R-induced suppression is a direct action on pulmonary C-neurons and 4) whether the AA3R is expressed on lung C-fiber sensory nerves. The proposed study of 2nd-year aims to study 1) the cellular signal transduction involved in the AA3R activation-induced suppression on pulmonary C-neurons and 2) whether the AA3R-induced suppressive effect is still existed while applied as post-treatment. The possible signaling pathways will include Gi protein, adenylyl cyclase, protein kinase A (PKA), protein kinase C, ATP-sensitive K+ channels. Hypersensitivity is induced by prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a mediator released during various airway inflammation. In the in vivo study of 1st-years, the afferent activity of the pulmonary C fibers will be measured using “single-fiber” recording technique in artificially ventilated anesthetized rats. In the in vitro study of 1st- and 2nd-years, neuronal responses will be determined using perforated whole-cell patch-clamp in rat primary cultured pulmonary sensory neurons. Our preliminary results reveal that 2-Cl-IB-MECA (a selective agonist of AA3R) suppressed the PGE2-induced (1) hyper-excitability of pulmonary C-fibers in anesthetized rats and (2) hypersensitivity of inward current in the isolated pulmonary C-neurons. Furthermore, (3) the 2-Cl-IB-MECA-induced suppressive effect of the neuronal hypersensitivity was, in part, mediated by PKA. The results thus suggest the feasibility of this proposed study. The findings of this proposal may provide a new insight of AA3R agonist into potential therapies of airway hypersensitive diseases.
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Overview of global zero-emission vehicle mandate programs
Governments in leading auto markets have announced aggressive electrification goals with many targeting a 100% electric share in the 2020-2050 timeframe. These markets are adopting targeted zero emission vehicle (ZEV) regulations such as mandates on manufacturers to accelerate the rate of deployment. Such targeted regulations are in addition to sustained programs and policies supporting consumer incentives, charging infrastructure deployment, and other financial and nonfinancial incentives.
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I love the sharing economy because it’s efficient. Got some spare time? Become a TaskRabbit! Spare space? AirBNB it! A car and nowhere to go? Drive for Uber or Lyft! The taxi industry is a regulatory-capture nightmare. Disrupt ’em ’til they’re dead? Don’t mind if you do!
…And yet our 21st-century sharing-economy dream is beginning to look worryingly like a 19th-century robber-baron nightmare. When sharing-economy gigs supplement your income from your job, that’s great, everybody wins. But when sharing-economy gigs are your job? That’s different.
As the New York Times puts it, sharing-economy workers:
are less microentrepreneurs than microearners. They often work seven-day weeks, trying to assemble a living wage from a series of one-off gigs […] With piecemeal gigs easier to obtain than long-term employment, a new class of laborer, dependent on precarious work and wages, is emerging.
Re-emerging is probably a better word. In the early 20th century, the labor movement won workers eight-hour days, weekends, paid time off, etc. Before then, most labored like serfs, working long hours all week with no job security, no benefits, no vacations, no real prospect of advancement…
…in other words, exactly what you get today when you work at sharing-economy gigs, rather than at, you know, a job.
Not that technology is necessarily making those easier either. Another recent NYT piece reports on scheduling algorithms, which, in the language of Silicon Valley, are ‘redefining workforce optimization through big data.’ But on the ground, this:
pits sophisticated workplace technology against some fundamental requirements of parenting, with particularly harsh consequences for poor single mothers […] Flexibility — an alluring word for white-collar workers — can have a darker meaning for many low-income workers as a euphemism for unstable hours or paychecks
Don’t get me wrong. I’m an engineer. I love efficiency and optimization. But it’s hard to simultaneously optimize for both profits and people. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that algorithms which boost the former often tend to be pretty hard on the latter.
Similarly, I’m a big fan and frequent user of Uber, TaskRabbit, and Instacart. I think it’s great that people can supplement their income that way. But at the same time, as I’ve put it before: “sharing economy” is mostly spin. It mostly consists of people who have excess disposable income hiring those who do not. It’s hard to shake the feeling that, as in the 19th century, the world of work is dividing ever further between haves and have-nots–sharing-economy customers, and sharing-economy providers.
For haves like us, everything is awesome. And if things are rough for the have-nots, hey, that’s not technology’s fault, right? That’s a simple side effect of supply and demand, combined with, you know, healthy competition.
True, Uber and Lyft are in land-grab mode right now, and drivers are reaping the benefits. But land grabs don’t last forever, and there’s a glut of labor out there. “In July, 9.7 million Americans were unemployed, and an additional 7.5 million were working part-time jobs because they could not find full-time work.” Once the land grabs are over, most gig workers will be trivially replaceable, or even entirely disposable–and will suffer the consequences.
As Danny Crichton points out, the sharing economy and its algorithms can, in principle, have real benefits for its providers, too:
workers have the ability to develop their own personalities and brands … startup labor marketplaces are including computational trust and reputation systems from the beginning, ensuring that employers and employees have an incentive to work together and share credit.
This isn’t an entirely unmixed blessing–I’ve seen TaskRabbits sacrifice income in favor of reputation, and I suspect many customers use that tradeoff as leverage to pay them less–but on the whole it’s a good thing. Unfortunately those benefits pale and wither before the inexorable law of supply and demand. If there are too many providers and not enough consumers, too many have-nots and not enough haves, then most people who work in the burgeoning sharing economy are screwed. No scheduling algorithm or reputation system will solve that problem.
So the real question remains: is technology destroying jobs faster than it’s creating them? Are we moving from a Mediocristan world, wherein most people contribute a little, to Extremistan, wherein an ever-diminishing minority uses the lever of ever-improving technology to move the world to their liking, while more and more are excluded from jobs and must fight and scrap to get by with endless dead-end, barely-livable gigs?
That is one of this decade’s most important questions, and if the answer is “yes,” then the sharing economy is no solution. It’s barely even a band-aid.
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The power of narrative medicine
When I first turned to writing, I had no knowledge of the field of Narrative Medicine.
It took 4 years of medical school, 3 years of residency, 3 years of subspecialty fellowship, and over a decade in practice before I learned of it. (that’s 20-plus years for those counting).
Throughout, I’ve struggled to hold fast to my core belief that the key to patient care is to allow the telling of, and make the space to listen to, the stories underlying the disease.
Turns out, that’s what narrative medicine is all about.
As stated on the Columbia University Narrative Medicine website,
“The care of the sick unfolds in stories…Medicine practiced with narrative competence is a model for humane and effective medical practice. It addresses the need of patients and caregivers to voice their experience, to be heard and to be valued, and it acknowledges the power of narrative to change the way care is given and received.”
Here are six resources on the power of narrative medicine.
I hope they will help you as well.
Dr. Charon says:
“…the current state of affairs is really not benefitting the armies of clinicians and the numbers of patients, so let us prevail. And maybe if we’re left alone in our clearings, just the clinicians and the patients. Forget all the others. Forget the hospital executives and the American Medical Association. If we’re just left in a room together, maybe we can come to some pretty fine ideas of how to make things better for the patients which will in turn lead to fulfillment for that clinician. That’s what I’m hoping for.”
Me too, Dr. Charon, me too!
From Reuters Health News
“[narrative medicine] teaches doctors to focus on patients’ stories rather than a cut-and-dried checklist of symptoms, can help improve care for patients because their whole story is being heard. It can also help doctors work through their emotions while at the same time enhancing their feelings of empathy.”
Double benefits of narrative medicine: better care for patients, better self-care for doctors!
by Jean Robey, MD
“Relationship centered medicine has been considered a way to help doctors stay in love with doctoring and that premise is supported by narrative medicine to help refocus the efforts of medicine around relationships.”
Well said, Dr. Robey! Too many of us are at risk of falling out of love with doctoring.
by Marcia Day Childress, PhD
“…the 55-word story is a powerful tool for busy clinicians’…the story must be 55 words exactly, no more and no fewer (not counting an optional title). There are no other rules…
The 55-word story has long had a place in my literature and medicine course, where senior medical students write to remember significant moments from their clerkships and then share their narratives with classmates…Here are two, by two of the story project’s leaders.
The resident you (almost) followed into the bathroom.
All the times you felt completely clueless about where you were supposed to go or what to do.
The physics equation you couldn’t remember.
The residents who made you feel like part of the team.
All the incredible patients you had the opportunity to take care of.
(© 2017 Claire Montaigne, class of 2016)
An Avocado Tree in Monterrey
In his CCU bed with a failing heart, he told me about when that now sickly organ had driven a farm boy from Virginia to Monterrey, where he sat beneath an avocado tree with Elena. I plied him for more each day, treating his heart as he treated mine, unsure who was the greater beneficiary.
(© 2017 Lee Eschenroeder, class of 2017)”
Consider this tool after a difficult patient encounter or day. 55 words — we can all do that!
An essay from 2001 by Dr. Rita Charon, but still applicable today.
“Physicians have to find ways to talk simply, honestly, and deeply with patients, families, other health care professionals, and citizens. Together, they must make responsible choices about pain, suffering, justice, and mercy. Not scientific or rational debates, these are grave and daring conversations about meaning, values, and courage…patients and physicians together can describe and work toward a medical system undivided in effectiveness, compassion, and care.”
Also by Dr. Charon.
If you read only one essay to understand the field of Narrative Medicine, this would be the one I recommend.
“Facing head-on the realities of serious illness…takes the savage imagination to recognize and then countenance the facts of suffering: unfair, unwarranted, vengeful, impersonal, neutral, demolishing of those whom it visits, without consolation, without the silver linings so often fabricated by those it fingers. There are only two paths open to those who must witness suffering: (1) pretend it is something else — predictable, resectable, eventually curable, spiritually enhancing, the thing that happens to others — or (2) see it fully and endure the sequelae of having seen.
…What one gains by the sight of suffering is the knowledge of the cost of this life. …to the clinicians who can bear to look full in the face at that which stalks their patients… a view of that floating bridge between here and there, that fragile passage between the knowable and the unknowable, that ground each one of us stands on in each lived moment (now, here, as you read my words; now, here, as I write them) with no guardrails, no signposts, no map, no territory; a clear-eyed discernment of this thing, this life, its worth.”
How has narrative medicine helped you? How do you use narrative medicine in your practice? Are there any great resources that I missed, that you think I should add to this list? Please comment!
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Salmon is an anadromous fish of the salmon family, length
up to 1,5 m, weighing up to 39 kg.
Scales small, silvery, spots below the lateral line
not. Found in the North Atlantic Ocean
and the southwestern part of the Arctic Ocean, as well as
the same in the Baltic Sea.
Sexual maturity in the 5-6th year of life. In the rivers goes to the decomp.
time (in autumn and at different times in summer). Spawning in September-November.
During spawning, salmon appear on the head and sides of
red and orange spots.
Fertility is 6-26 thousand eggs. The caviar is large, orange.
Juveniles live in the river for 1-5 years, feed on invertebrates
and small fish. It feeds on fish and crustaceans in the sea.
Lives up to 9 years. A valuable fishing object.
Useful properties of salmon
Salmon is a very tasty fish, which, thanks to its
useful properties will be appropriate as in the diet of an adult
a person and a child. Usually salmon ends up on the table
smoked and slightly salted. To keep the maximum
the amount of nutrients, it is better not to fry the salmon
in a frying pan, and bake in foil, or grill.
Salmon meat is easily absorbed by the body and is
an excellent source of protein, it also contains a large
the amount of phosphorus, iodine,
Only 100 g of fish contains up to half the daily value
Salmon gives the body at least 2 times more
calories than white fish. Unlike saturated fat
of animal origin, unsaturated fats from fish are considered
most helpful. According to scientists, it is fatty
Omega-3 acids found in fish contribute to
prevention of cardiovascular diseases, reduce
the risk of blood clots in the vessels, and also contribute
improving blood flow in the capillaries.
Sea fish is very useful for expectant mothers. There is evidence that
eating oily fish reduces some of the symptoms of psoriasis,
improves vision and brain function. Sea fish contains a complex
vitamins, in particular vitamin
D. Fish oil is 5 times more effective than vegetable oils, it reduces
blood cholesterol. Fats in the liver of fish
rich in vitamins A and D.
Fish muscle tissue contains vitamins
group B, which help the body to absorb proteins.
With the constant use of salmon, blood circulation improves,
work of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, vascular
system, nervous system, immunity increases. Slightly salted
salmon contains substances that prevent development
More and more messages have been appearing lately,
where it is stated that eating oily fish
(salmon, mackerel, herring,
sardines and cod)
protects against asthma. This is due to the action of fatty
anti-inflammatory omega-3 acids,
and magnesium. It has been proven that people whose body is low
magnesium levels are most prone to asthma attacks.
Eating salmon meat relieves emotional stress,
improve mood, overcome depression and thereby
to keep healthy. Salmon also helps recovery
mental performance by increasing elasticity
cerebral vessels, increasing oxygen consumption
brain cells and by improving blood circulation.
A lack of omega-3 fats is often associated with diseases such as
like cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, weakness
immune system, etc. Salmon contains nicotinic acid
and vitamin D, which are also an important factor
health of bones and nervous system and promote
Dangerous properties of salmon
It is believed that this type of fish has no contraindications. but
do not forget about the individual intolerance to fish and seafood.
In addition, it is not advisable to get too carried away with salmon with tuberculosis.
in active form, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, chronic
liver diseases, as well as in the presence of inflammation and ulcers in the gastrointestinal
pathway, since a huge amount of saturated fatty acids can
negatively affect the health of such patients.
Also, doctors warn about the dangers of “artificially” grown salmon,
for which antibiotics and modified
Lightly salted salmon in large quantities is contraindicated for people,
suffering from hypertension and kidney disease, as well as those who suffer
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New Brunswick, NJ - The Rutgers University iJOBS Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, prepares biomedical scientists for a range of careers in five professional tracks: i) science and health policy, ii) business management, iii) intellectual property management, iv) clinical and regulatory sciences, and v) health and science data analysis.
Washington D.C. - The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has calculated New Jersey Federal research funding for fiscal year 2014. They have developed an interactive map for New Jersey and its individual congressional districts.
Bethesda, MD – The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has released new interactive factsheets summarizing federal science funding in states and U.S. congressional districts. This is the only resource to feature up-to-date information about federal science funding at the district level and make it accessible to the general public.
New Brunswick, NJ - A new study by researchers from Rowan University School of Medicine in Stratford and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark recently showed Bisphenol-A (BPA) is linked to autism. RowanSOM's Dr. T. Peter Stein, the study's lead author, said the study -- conducted on both children with autism and children without -- shows that BPA is processed differently in children on the autism spectrum.
New Brunswick, NJ, December 9, 2014 ― A Rutgers researcher has received a grant of nearly $640,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid test to diagnose Ebola as well as other viruses that can cause symptoms similar to Ebola.
David Alland, a professor of medicine and associate dean for clinical research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School — and the principal investigator for the project — says health workers would be able to take the test to small villages and other remote locations where the spread of Ebola has been especially rampant and diagnose patients where they live.
The test could be used wherever electricity is available, including power from car batteries, according to Alland. “That means diagnosis would take significantly shorter than the time it takes to get a test result now from a medical lab,” he says.
Alland, working with the California biotechnology company Cepheid, hopes to develop the test within the next 15 months — using genetic material from Ebola and other viruses that cannot cause or spread disease. Work in Alland’s laboratory will not involve the use of live virus.
Alland and Cepheid previously used technology similar to the planned Ebola test to develop a rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) that is now widely used in impoverished areas of the world.
As they produce their test for the Ebola virus, Alland and Cepheid also plan to create rapid diagnostic tests for other viral illnesses, including chikungunya — a painful mosquito-borne disease that, according to the CDC, sickened more than 140 people in New Jersey this year after those people had visited tropical regions in the Caribbean and Asia and islands in the Pacific.
For the full Rutgers story, click here.
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Pretoria - A man who got tired of his “wife” and wanted to evict her from his home got more than he had bargained for after the court ruled that as he was married to her, he could only kick her out of the house if he offered her alternative accommodation – the same as that to which she is now accustomed.
The High Court sitting in Johannesburg turned down the man’s eviction application and found that he was married to the woman by customary law as per the provisions of the Recognition of Customary Marriage Act.
The parties are not identified, as it’s a marriage dispute.
The court had some harsh words for the man, who claimed that the woman had moved in with him as they were still “developing” their love relationship.
He said he, meanwhile, realised it would not work, but she refused to budge.
However, it had emerged from the answers of the woman in her opposition to the eviction order that they were, in fact, married.
The man had paid lobola, but remained mum on this aspect in his application.
When confronted with this by the judge, he reluctantly had to agree that he had paid lobola, but he claimed there was no marriage as the negotiations were not concluded.
The man maintained that the woman was an “unlawful occupier” in his home, as he had since terminated their “love relationship.” As the owner of the property, he said, he could choose who lived there.
The woman, on the other hand, told the court that her family and that of the applicant entered into lobola negotiations. Upon the successful conclusion of the negotiations, an agreement was concluded, reduced to writing and signed by delegates of the two families. It is stipulated that the lobola agreed upon was R50 000.
The family of the applicant paid R40 000, and the remaining amount of R10 000 was due at a later stage.
Following the successful negotiation, the woman said she had moved into the house with her husband, as she regarded them to now be married. He even assisted her in moving her things to his house.
In response, the man admitted that he paid part lobola. He, however, disputed that a valid customary marriage was concluded. He claimed that other formalities dictated by custom still needed to be fulfilled.
He made reference to the fact the woman still needed to be introduced to his family in the Eastern Cape, and that gifts between the two families still needed to be exchanged.
According to the woman, they lived together as husband and wife until the breakdown in their relationship due to infidelity by the applicant. She maintained that she was his wife, and thus, would not budge.
Judge J Thupaatlase said the woman’s defence had to be accepted. “The facts stated in her affidavit are not disputed by the applicant except his feeble attempt to explain them away. He didn’t take the court into his confidence, and in fact, lied to the court about his relationship with the respondent.
“If this court was to accept his version, this will lead to untenable and gross unfairness to the respondent,” the judge said.
He added that the undisputed fact, which was crucial before the court, was the payment of lobola, and the applicant was disingenuous and dishonest.
“He created a totally false state of affairs.”
In ruling that they are legally married in terms of customary law, the judge referred to case law where another court found that a spouse cannot become an “unlawful occupier” in relation to the other spouse in terms of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act, as argued by the man.
The judge also referred to an academic publication called The South African Law of Husband and Wife, where the author stated that “even where the husband is the owner of the property occupied by the couple, he has no right, while the marriage is in existence, to eject his wife from it without providing her with suitable alternative accommodation”.
“Acting in accordance with these principles, the applicant (man) can only seek the respondent’s eviction from the matrimonial home against a tender of equally comparable living conditions,” the judge concluded.
In referring to another judgment in a similar case, the judge said that judgment made it clear that a spouse occupying the matrimonial home (the wife, in this instance) may be ejected from the matrimonial home provided that she is offered “suitable alternative accommodation” or “a means of acquiring such suitable accommodation”.
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Combined measurements of extensive air showers at the surface and high-energy muons deep underground have been initiated at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. The underground detector is the first supermodule of MACRO (area = 140 m2, depth = 3100 m of water equivalent, E>1.3 TeV) and the surface detector is the EAS-TOP array (altitude 2000 m above sea level, total enclosed area A105 m2). We discuss the correlation technique, the comparison between the shower parameters as determined by the two detectors, and some of the characteristics of the reconstructed events.
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Although brines are sometimes used in manufacturing (for example, during chlor-alkali processes that uses the electrolysis of sodium chloride to create chlorine and sodium hydroxide), they are also created as an industrial byproduct or waste that can be challenging to treat and dispose of (such as flowback water from fracking natural gas wells). Filtering and concentrating brines often generates other problematic wastes that can be difficult to treat for reuse or cause harm to the environment if improperly discharged or disposed of, so it’s no surprise that brine treatment and disposal regulations have been increasingly prohibitive and difficult for industrial facilities to meet and work around.
If your facility can benefit from more information about properly treating brine waste, one of the questions you might have is “What technologies usually make up a brine waste treatment system?”
This article provides a general overview of what brine wastes are and what technologies are commonly used to treat them, which can vary depending on what contaminants are present and whether the facility is treating the brine for discharge or recycling and/or reusing in its process.
What is brine?
In general, “brine” is any solution with an extremely high concentration of salts, such as sodium chloride, which can occur either naturally (as with seawater, deep-water ocean pools, salt lakes, etc.) or as a byproduct of industry. These byproducts, or “brine waste” streams, are typically highly concentrated salt solutions that, in some cases, contain more than twice the amount of concentrated salts than natural brine solutions.
Brine waste streams can also be highly concentrated with total dissolved solids (TDS), such as waste streams in many chemical manufacturing processes, and they can be some of the most challenging to treat or discharge because their composition and purification requirements are dynamic and complex.
Some examples of brine waste created as a byproduct of industry include:
- cooling tower and boiler effluent
- reverse osmosis (RO) and ion exchange waste/reject streams
- produced water from extracting oil and natural gas
- chlor-alkali and chemical plant waste
- acid rock and mine drainage
- food preservation and manufacturing waste streams
- desalination waste from potable water creation
- irrigation runoff
Brine waste is typically either recycled for use in the facility’s process or treated for disposal, but these processes are rarely straightforward or practical, and can even be costly.
A typical brine treatment system might include:
One of the more cost-effective technologies for treating brine waste, membrane filtration is still widely used across various industries. When treating brine, it’s common to see systems that begin with ultrafiltration (UF) and end with reverse osmosis (RO).
When UF is used prior to RO, it effectively removes various contaminants while protecting downstream membranes from premature wear and fouling. UF membranes are available in pore sizes ranging from 0.001 to 0.1 μm, which means UF removes a more comprehensive range of contaminants than some other membranes (such as microfiltration) while leaving behind ions and organic compounds of low molecular weight. UF is suited for removal of very fine particles, including proteins, colloidal silica, and silt.
The stream is then passed through an RO system, which is a membrane technology that uses a semipermeable medium to remove certain ions and particles from a liquid stream that are 0.0001 µm or larger, including salt. This produces a high-quality water stream in addition to a highly concentrated stream of waste, which can be used or discarded, depending on the needs of the facility.
This sequence of membrane treatment is effective for protecting equipment and minimizing chemical costs and system downtime for cleaning and is generally considered a low energy–consuming technology.
Evaporation and crystallization
After brine is concentrated by membrane filtration, thermal processes or evaporation are often used as the next step to dry solids. Excess water is evaporated off, collected, and reused (adding acid at this point will help to neutralize the solution so, when heating it, you can avoid scaling and harming the heat exchangers). Deaeration is often used at this phase, as well, to release dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other noncondensible gases to further protect equipment from corrosion and other harmful occurrences.
The leftover waste then goes from an evaporator to a crystallizer, which continues to boil off all the water until all the impurities in the water crystallize and are filtered out as a solid. This process is often used in facilities that aim for zero liquid discharge, but it’s generally reserved for only facilities that require it (most likely due to stringent environmental and discharge regulations) as it is considered a costly and high energy–consuming process.
Ion exchange (IX) systems are used across a variety of industries for water softening, purification, and separation purposes. These systems separate ionic contaminants from solution through a physical-chemical process where undesirable ions are replaced by other ions of the same electrical charge. This reaction occurs in an IX column or vessel where a process or waste stream is passed through a specialized resin that facilitates the exchange of ions.
When contaminant removal needs are highly specific, many times IX is ideal. Chelating resins are the most common type of specialty resin and are often used for brine softening.
Weak acid cation (WAC) exchange resins are also often used to remove cations associated with alkalinity (temporary hardness) and are therefore also ideal for softening brine. Facilities can also use various proprietary resins to separate contaminants, such as metals, from the brine stream to support production and manufacturing of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide.
Electrodialysis is also a form of ion exchange that can be used in the brine treatment system. It’s a membrane process that uses positively or negatively charged ions to allow charged particles to flow through a semipermeable membrane and can be used in stages to concentrate the brine. It is often used in conjunction with RO to yield extremely high recovery rates. Combined, these technologies can concentrate a brine stream down to a high salinity while pulling out up to 60–80% of the water.
Other things to consider when treating brine
As mentioned previously, when looking at basic separation for a contaminated brine stream, you will always be left, essentially, with a more purified brine (such as a sodium chloride stream). The cost to treat a brine stream like this can be relatively low and would include treatments such as:
- membrane filtration
- carbon adsorption of organics
- oil and water separation
Using IX, the facility can take out easy-to-remove contaminants, which might leave you with something like a sodium chloride or brine sulfate brine stream, which is a salt stream that doesn’t easily precipitate.
These technologies are relatively low cost compared to removing the salt directly out of the brine (such as with sodium chloride or sodium nitrate). In these instances, it’s very difficult to remove the salts and almost always involve high-pressure membrane systems to concentrate the brines (pulling the water out of the brine).
In situations where membrane filtration won’t be effective, evaporation and crystallization will help remove the water from the brine, but such thermal polishing processes are exponentially more expensive when it comes to purchasing the relative technology in addition to high operational and energy usage costs.
Essentially, by trying to solve one problem your facility can easily create another.
The only true ways to dispose of brine are to reuse it or dilute and slowly release it back into the environment. For example, if you have a very large river near your facility that is available of discharging your treated brine, you can slowly bleed the brine in, dissolving it back into the body of water with a minimal impact to the river. If you have a smaller stream, your facility will not be able to do this; doing so could pose catastrophic harm to the environment, killing off fish and other wildlife in the surrounding areas. In some areas, where permitted, waste brines can be deep-well injected although this option is becoming more restricted.
Facilities can reuse brine, but recycling it will concentrate it more, which would leave you discharging a smaller stream with a higher concentrate of salt and TDS.
As always, it is usually best to discuss any treatment options with a water-treatment professional who is able to analyze your facilities needs, specifically, and help you determine the best treatment options, as they can be highly individual.
Can SAMCO help?
SAMCO has over 40 years’ experience in identifying appropriate brine waste treatment solutions to help lower costs and waste volumes while increasing recycling and reclamation of valuable materials. For more information or to get in touch, contact us here to set up a consultation with an engineer or request a quote. We can walk you through the steps for developing the proper solution and realistic cost for your brine waste treatment system needs.
Some other brine treatment articles you might also find useful include:
- How Much Does It Cost to Treat Brine for Reuse and/or Disposal?
- In What Ways Can a Facility Reuse Brine Waste?
- What are the Best Brine Waste Treatment System Equipment and Supply Companies?
- Is it Necessary to Treat Brine Waste Before Discharging or Disposal?
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — You’re a law abiding citizen… as far as you know. But did you know about these wacky South Carolina laws that are still in place?
Those are fighting words
In Myrtle Beach it is illegal to use “fighting words” to try to get someone to fight you.
The law says you can’t direct “toward another person any lewd, obscene or profane or libelous expletive or epithets or ‘fighting’ words, which as a matter of common knowledge, when addressed to the ordinary citizen are inherently likely to provoke violent reactions.”
So, if you are thinking about cussing someone out, you might want to think of some other way to express yourself. It’s considered a misdemeanor and you can be taken to jail or issued a citation.
You promised to marry me
In South Carolina it is illegal to seduce someone by promising to marry them. It is treated as a class C misdemeanor and is punishable with up to a year in prison.
The law is listed as 16-15-50 Seduction under promise of marriage, and says, “A male over the age of sixteen years who by means of deception and promise of marriage seduces an unmarried woman in this State is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined at the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than one year.”
I challenge you to a duel
Within the palmetto state it is illegal to challenge or accept a duel. Those guilty of dueling face a misdemeanor charge and are barred from holding any state office.
The law is listed as 16-3-410 Sending or accepting challenge to fight, and says, “It is unlawful for a person to challenge another to fight with a sword, pistol, rapier, or any other deadly weapon or to accept a challenge.”
It goes on to say “a person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not more than two years. A person convicted under this section is deprived of the right of suffrage, and is disabled from holding any office of honor or trust in this State.”
The church bells are ringing
It’s considered unlawful to work on a Sunday. This one is a bit of a surprise considering most of us have had to work at least one Sunday shift.
The law is listed as 53-1-40. Unlawful to work on Sunday, and says, “On the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in worldly work, labor, business of his ordinary calling or the selling or offering to sell, publicly or privately or by telephone, at retail or at wholesale to the consumer any goods, wares or merchandise or to employ others to engage in work, labor, business or selling or offering to sell any goods, wares or merchandise, excepting work of necessity or charity.”
The penalty is anywhere from $50 to $250 for the first offense and $100 to $500 for each time after that.
Kick off those Sunday shoes
If it’s Sunday in South Carolina, it is illegal to operate a dance hall. You’ll have to keep your boogie shoes in the closet until Monday.
The law is listed as 52-13-10 Operation of Dance Hall on Sunday forbidden, and says, “It shall be unlawful for any person to keep open or admit persons to any public dancing hall owned or operated by him or to allow any person to continue thereat between the hours of twelve o’clock, midnight, Saturday and twelve o’clock, midnight, Sunday, and all such places shall be and remain closed to the public between such hours.”
If you break this law, you are looking at a fine of no less than $10 and no more than $50 for the first offense. Each time after that is no less than $50 and no more than $100 or 30 days in prison.
Honey, I’m home
If you’re thinking about moving in with your significant other, you should know you’ll be breaking the law. In South Carolina it is illegal to live with and be physically intimate with someone if you aren’t married.
The law is listed as 16-15-60 Adultery or fornication, and says “Any man or woman who shall be guilty of the crime of adultery or fornication shall be liable to indictment.”
The punishment for breaking this law is a fine of no less than $100 and no more than $500, or imprisonment for no less than six months and no more than one year or by both fine and imprisonment, “at the discretion of the court.”
New high score
Unless you are 18 years old, it is technically illegal to play pinball. Playing the game as a minor is considered a misdemeanor or felony.
The law labels it by saying “Status offense” means an offense which would not be a misdemeanor or felony if committed by an adult including, but not limited to, incorrigibility or beyond the control of parents, truancy, running away, playing or loitering in a billiard room, playing a pinball machine, or gaining admission to a theater by false identification.”
Tall tales or truth?
Many people claim it is completely legal to beat your wife on the steps of the courthouse as long as it is Sunday. However, there is no law that proves this. It is not legal to beat anyone in South Carolina… that is called assault.
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One question that frequently comes up among property owners is the difference between power washing and Soft Wash Pressure Washing. It gets more confusing when you are trying to decide which of the two would be best for your property or specific areas that you want to give a sparkling look.
Considering the fact that the sheer force of a power washer will not be appropriate for all materials, the question remains: which parts should soft washing be used on? Before we go into the details, we need to define the two terms in clear terms.
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What is soft wash pressure washing?
This is a type of pressure washing that makes use of environmentally safe, eco-friendly, chemical solutions to clean the exterior of your property. To clean a surface using soft wash pressure washing, a special nozzle is attached to a pressure washer to reduce the force and speed of the water that comes out of the machine. With a pressure level below 1,000 PSI, it is not as abrasive and rough on surfaces as power washing.
Although it can withstand harsh outdoor elements, your home’s exterior is an extremely delicate feature. This is because the exterior of your home has layers of paint and weather coating protections that can easily be chipped away by a high-powered pressure washer.
Soft washing does not use the same method of cleaning as power washing or pressure washing where water is directly used to clean the surface. Instead, a cleaning solution is applied to the surface that is to be cleaned. After applying the solution, the soft wash is used to clean and remove the cleaning solution from the areas on which it has been applied. This allows the cleaning chemical to percolate the tiny cracks and the surface itself, thereby ensuring an even deeper clean than power washing.
What is Power Washing?
This is a common technique that is used to clean the decks, siding, driveways, walkways, and the brick of a home. It uses the pressure of the water to break down and wash off grime, dirt, mold, and other substances that are difficult to eliminate.
Power washing makes use of high-powered equipment to forcefully project a stream of water in a controlled flow to knock out dirt, which makes the surface or area look new instantly. Caution should be observed with power washing because not all areas or surfaces can withstand the intensity of the waster being released. That is why soft wash is usually the ideal option when power washing cannot be used.
Power Washing and Pressure Washing
You might be one of the people who think that power washing and pressure washing are the same because the two terms are often used interchangeably. While the purpose and general process of the two are the same, they are actually different. Both methods make use of pressurized water of more than 1,000 PSI to clean a surface. In comparison to pressure washing, power washing achieves more effective results by using heated water to get the job done.
Using Power Washing and Soft Washing Together
It is common for homeowners to ask whether soft washing and power washing can be scheduled for the same days or times. Fortunately, the two techniques go hand-in-hand and can be done at the same time. In fact, the simultaneous use of the two techniques widens the options available to the cleaning professionals for cleaning and getting any space looking sparkling.
Power Washing or Soft Washing: Which One Is Better?
Professional cleaning services usually know the most appropriate method to use to effectively clean the different areas of your property. That is why outsourcing the task to them is always the better option compared to doing it yourself. According to Grand View Research, the global pressure washer market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 3.4% from 2019 to 2025 to reach USD 2.3 billion by 2025. So, you are likely to have some professional cleaning close to you.
However, it is good for you to know which surfaces require the gentle touch of soft washing, and those that require the high pressure of power washing.
Cedar Shake, Vinyl, or Wood Panel Siding
It is easy to tell that these materials are fragile and more vulnerable to force. The high-pressure water of power washing can easily damage them. On the other hand, soft washing can effectively clean contaminants such as mildew, mold, and dirt from these surfaces. So soft washing is the way to go here.
Concrete Patio and Driveway
Many outdoor patios and driveways are built with concrete because they are strong and durable. Concrete accumulates mildew, algae, and mold over time, thereby increasing the risk of injury and health hazards. Considering how strong concrete is, power washing is more suitable for cleaning it.
Bricks, Pavers, and Tiles
These surfaces are often held together by mortar and sand, thereby creating the patterned effect that boosts the curb appeal of a property. The mortar and sand must be put into consideration when deciding whether to use power washing or soft washing to clean the bricks, pavers, and tiles.
The high pressure of power washing can damage the adhesives, thereby, knocking bricks, pavers, and tiles loose in the process. Considering this, soft washing is much gentler and effective.
Power washing is a good cleaning method for Wood decks when handled by professionals. If the force of power washers is strong enough to damage bricks, you can imagine how it can affect your wood deck. Professionals have the skill to handle this balance, so let them do their job.
It is easy to think that your roof can withstand good beating, but highly pressurized water can cause some damage to it. Yes, you can restore the sparkly and new look to your roof with pressure washing. However, the force of the water can knock the shingles of the roof loose and increase the risk of water leaks. Soft washing is preferred for your roof.
If You Have Delicate Exterior Surfaces, Soft Washing is the Way to Go!
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The student society Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) have been taking their four-seater solar-powered car, Helia, to car shows around the UK this summer, with a UK solar car student team track event coming up very soon.
We were so grateful to be invited to the Electric Vehicles Festival and the British Motor Show, where we were met with loads of interest and insightful questions from so many who came to see us. It made us feel proud of what we were able to achieve, and CUER would love to return to these events and more in future years.Finn Heraghty, CUER Co-Programme Director 2020-21
CUER's car was originally designed and built using high performance composites and cutting edge battery technology by the undergraduate team over a period of 2 years, before being taken to compete in the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge held in Australia.
The first event this summer was the Electric Vehicles Festival, which took place on 7th August in Warwick at the British Motor Museum. Thousands of visitors came to the primarily outdoors event, which aimed to demonstrate the appeal of electric vehicles for those who might be considering moving away from standard combustion engine vehicles. Helia drew lots of attention at the event whilst sitting proudly on display alongside the student led Ardingly Ilfield Solar Team’s most recent solar-powered car.
The CUER team also took part in an interview style discussion at the centre stage of the event where they discussed the capabilities of the solar cars that have been designed and built over the years. They also shared their adventure at the World Solar Challenge across Australia.
The second event which the team attended was The British Motor Show, which took place from 19th-22nd August in Farnborough. This huge and well established event hosted over 18,000 people on one of the days alone, with a combination of indoor and outdoor exhibition stands. The CUER team were once again joined by the Ardingly Ilfield Solar Team, where they had a stand inside the Electric Vehicles hall. Helia drew a significant amount of attention, ranging from car fanatics to groups of children.
Although the CUER team was not able to visit schools with Helia this year due to the COVID pandemic, these events were still a fantastic opportunity to show the potential of engineering to a younger audience and hopefully help to inspire future engineers. The team were especially proud of the feedback from a couple of children in particular, who said “This is the coolest car I have ever seen!” and “This is my favourite car here, can I buy it?”.
The team again took part in a discussion about their car, this time taking place on stage in front of an audience inside the main hall whilst being interviewed by radio and TV presenters Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend from the popular TV show Car SOS. This daily discussion allowed members of the audience to hear about the challenges the team members faced before and to ask them questions.
CUER and Ardinly Ilfield team members being interviewed by Fuzz Townshend
However, the team’s plans for this summer aren’t yet over – on 26th September CUER are planning a UK Solar student led teams track event with Durham University Electric Motorsport (DUEM) team and Ardingly Ilfield Solar Team at the Top Gear race track. This promises to be the first event of its kind, bringing together student led teams from across the UK and showing off their cars to sponsors, schools and families.
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Addressing Social Inequity in Early Intervention Services for Young Children with Disabilities
Academic mentor: Prof. Meghan Burke
Community partner: Family Matters Parent Training and Information Center
Community-Academic Scholars: Michelle Garcia and Jacqueline Nunez
In Illinois, over 20,000 young (aged 0-3) children with delays and/or disabilities receive early intervention (EI) services (e.g., speech therapy, physical therapy). These services are critical to their development and long-term functioning. Prior to COVID-19, EI services were provided in person. With COVID-19, Illinois pivoted to offer EI services via telehealth. However, this introduced inequity as families without access to technology and/or consistent internet could not access EI via telehealth.
To address this inequity, the Early Intervention Clearinghouse received a grant to provide technology and data plans to families of young children with disabilities so they can access EI. The Early Intervention Clearinghouse (which is housed at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) partners with Family Matters, a non-profit which also serves families of young children with disabilities.
In this project, the Community-Academic Scholars will work with the Clearinghouse, Family Matters, and Dr. Burke to conduct qualitative and quantitative research about the technology loan program to determine if the program closes inequities.
Role of the Community-Academic Scholars:
The Community-Academic Scholars will conduct a systematic literature review about inequity in telehealth. The scholars will work with Dr. Burke, the Clearinghouse, and Family Matters to develop a survey and interview protocol. We will recruit families who have received technology/devices from the Clearinghouse to receive EI services via telehealth. These families will complete the survey and an interview with the scholars. The scholars will enter the survey data into a statistical software program. They will also transcribe and help analyze the qualitative data. The scholars will be involved in writing manuscripts resulting from the data. | <urn:uuid:54335fd4-fe08-4c68-82d1-5e045606f05b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthinstitute.illinois.edu/community-impact/community-academic-partnerships/community-academic-scholars/projects/early-intervention-services | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.932193 | 428 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to clarify the factors associated with breastfeeding at one month postpartum, with focusing on midwives’ nursing guidance and mothers’ breastfeeding behavior.
Methods: A total of 158 mothers who participated in a medical examination two weeks after delivery were followed up with a questionnaire at two weeks and one month postpartum. Furthermore, we conducted multiple logistic regression analyses with breastfeeding at the one-month health checkup as the dependent variable and breastfeeding guidance and mothers’ breastfeeding behavior as independent variables adjusted for birth history and delivery method, which were the confounding factors.
Results: For nursing guidance, we examined 149 individuals without missing data. In total, 71 (47.7%) mothers were found to be breastfeeding at one month postpartum. Breastfeeding probabilities were significantly higher in mothers who received guidance regarding the meaning of their infants’ crying, changes in breast tension, breast care, and mothers’ milk production, which were measured, with odds ratios ranging from 2.47 to 3.68. Breastfeeding odds ratios were significantly higher in mothers who inserted the nipple deeply into the baby’s mouth such that the baby’s lips spread outward, as well as in those who breastfed until the breast felt light and those who breastfed eight times a day than in mothers who did not, with odds ratios ranging from 2.27 to 5.86.
Conclusion: This study indicated that early postpartum support, including guidance regarding the meaning of infants’ crying, changes in breast tension, breast care, lactation measurement, and proper breastfeeding methods, is crucial in establishing breastfeeding.
Objectives: The benefit of using a noncontact eye-tracking system is its low a burden on individuals for measuring biological signals. The goal of this study was to develop a visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) evaluation index using data collected with a noncontact eye-tracking system for driving simulator (DS) experiments.
Methods: The participants included nine elderly people with visual and balance functions that did not interfere with their daily life. The gaze data of the participants were measured at rest—both before and after DS trials. The participants answered followed up the simulator sickness questionnaire (SSQ) before and after each trial. The participants were divided into two groups on the basis of their SSQ results. One group experienced VIMS during the DS trial (four people; average age, 79.0 years), whereas the other group did not experience it (five people; average age, 71.2 years).
Results: The results of VIMS symptoms were confirmed: data concerning the locus of eye-tracking were lengthened, the eye-tracking data were diffused. This experiment demonstrated the usefulness of sparse density as a quantification index based on eye-tracking data in the evaluation of VIMS.
Conclusions: Regarding the application of the findings of this study, it is believed that it will be easier to detect VIMS symptoms induced by DS operations if the index can be used for an eye-tracking data-based evaluation of VIMS.
In this article, we present the following: a background of visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), the goal of our study, and descriptions of three recent studies conducted by our group on the measurement and analysis of eye movement while viewing movies and the relationship of eye movement with VIMS. First, this study focuses on the relationship between eye movement and motion sickness susceptibility. We investigated the relationship between the motion sickness susceptibility and the frequency of optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) with peripheral viewing. It was revealed that susceptible participants showed a lower OKN frequency under conditions that strongly support the occurrence of OKN than insusceptible participants. Second, this study focuses on the relationship between visual information and postural variation such as visually evoked postural responses (VEPRs). In this study, both eye movement and the center of gravity while viewing a movie were measured. Additionally, we evaluated the difference in the transfer gain of the transfer function (vision as input and equilibrium function as output) due to the type of movie content or way of viewing. The gain for the three-dimensional movie with peripheral viewing exceeded that for the two-dimensional movie with central viewing. Third, this study focuses on eye movement and the application of deep-learning technology. In this study, we classified the eye movement as peripheral or central using a convolutional deep neural network with supervised learning. Then, cross validation was performed to test the classification accuracy. The use of >1-s eye movement data yielded an accuracy of >90%.
Objectives: These days, developments in graphical technology have resulted in an increase in the chance to view 3D video clips. Visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) has been widely reported as a negative result of viewing these clips. The onset of VIMS is explained by some hypotheses. However, the root causes of VIMS have not been elucidated yet, whereas dizziness and nausea are regarded as symptoms of VIMS. In this study, we focus on the difference in the pattern of body sway among age groups and examine whether the consistency between the background and the viewpoint motion depends on the severity of VIMS.
Methods: This experiment was conducted with 116 subjects aged 15–89 years. They peripherally viewed a 3D video clip showing a sphere whose motion was consistent with their viewpoint (VC-I) and another 3D video clip of a sphere whose motion was inconsistent with their viewpoint (VC-II). Statokinesigrams (SKGs) were recorded with their eyes open and with their eyes closed for 60 s. The amount of sway was calculated from the SKGs.
Results: Results showed that for all age groups, sway values were significantly higher when viewing the 3D video clip (VC-II) than in the Pre. However, for the elderly, there was no significant difference between the sway values while viewing the VC-I and those in the Pre.
Conclusions: Results suggest that VIMS might not occur in the elderly because of the deterioration of their visual function, such as visual acuity and accommodation, with advancing age.
Objectives: Olfactory stimulation elicits various physiological responses. However, few reports exist on the changes in gastric motility during olfactory stimulation in humans. In this regard, we carried out electrogastrography (EGG) to non-invasively measure the gastric myoelectrical activity, which regulates gastric motility. Moreover, subjective sensory evaluation was performed to determine which characteristics of vanilla odor at two different concentrations affect the myoelectrical activity.
Methods: The participants consisted of eight healthy young males. EGG and electrocardiography (ECG) recordings were obtained approximately 20 min prior to and during olfactory stimulation. Autonomic nervous system activity was evaluated in terms of heart rate variability (HRV) and mean heart rate (HR) from ECG signals. EGG signals were analyzed by spectral analysis. In addition, the translation error was estimated by the Wayland algorithm. Sensory evaluation was performed using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS).
Results: There were no significant differences in HRV and HR values and results of spectral analyses of EGG signals in all sample presentations. The translation error of EGG signals and the rating of perceived odor intensity significantly increased in a concentration-dependent manner. There was a strong positive correlation between translation error and odor intensity.
Conclusions: The correlation found between translation error and odor intensity suggests that the higher the vanilla odor intensity was perceived, the greater the randomness of EGG signals was. Our results suggest that the application of the Wayland algorithm to EGG signals can be used as an objective indicator in odor evaluation.
Objective: The confirmation of abnormal behavior during video monitoring in polysomnography (PSG) and the frequency of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep without atonia (RWA) during REM sleep based on physiological indicators are essential diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). However, no clear criteria have been established for the determination of the tonic and phasic activities of RWA. In this study, we investigated an RWA decision program that simulates visual inspection by clinical laboratory technicians.
Methods: We used the measurement data of 25 men and women (average age±standard deviation: 72.7±1.7 years) who visited the Sleep Treatment Center for PSG inspection due to suspected RBD. The chin electromyography (EMG) during REM sleep was divided into 30 s intervals, and RWA decisions were made on the basis of visual inspection by a clinical laboratory technician. We compared and investigated two machine-learning methods namely support vector machine (SVM) and convolutional neural network (CNN) for RWA decisions.
Results: When comparing SVM and CNN, the highest discrimination accuracy for RWA decisions was obtained when using the average rectified value (ARV) processed chin EMG images using CNN as a feature. We also estimated the prevalence of RBD on the basis of the Mahalanobis distance measure using the frequency of occurrence of both tonic and phasic activities calculated from a total of 25 subjects in the patient and healthy groups. Consequently, estimation of RBD prevalence using CNN resulted in misclassification of none of the subjects in the patient group and two subjects in the healthy group.
Conclusions: In this study, we investigated the automatic analysis of PSG results focusing on RBD, which is a parasomnia. As a result, there were no misclassifications of patients in the 25 subjects in the patient or healthy groups based on the estimates of RBD prevalence using CNN. The prevalence estimation based on our proposed automated algorithm is considered effective for the primary screening for RBD. | <urn:uuid:7f19bc1c-3a66-4acc-8d8c-f09897b7685a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjh/list/-char/ja | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956543 | 2,018 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia. Several battles are fought with Wessex, but then peace is made (871). The Danes go on to establish the Danelaw in other parts of England. In 876, the Danes attack Wessex again, and in 878 king Alfred the Great of Wessex has to retreat to a single fort in the marshes of Somerset, but later that year he defeats the Danes, and England is divided in a Danish part in the northeast and a Wessex part in the south and west.
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If you have a cafe or restaurant that is found for example on a first floor of a mall it will be unpractical to dump fats Grease and oil down the sink, by carrying vats outside in the shopping center or exposing of it through a tube leads to the question of using biological treatment to successfully use safe chemical substances to digest the Grease making the other liquid safe to go down the drain just like water. If you have a hectic day within your cafe or a lot of covers in the evening then having to deal with fats oils and Grease problems in the kitchen area can make having your great food for the customer without worrying concerning the effect of fats natural oils and oil.
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Every time of year is pie~making time. Whether your favorite is pecan, pumpkin, apple or cherry (we all have opinions!), a light flaky pie crust is essential to a successful pie. No one wants soggy crust. So how do you make a light flaky pie crust?
Now I have a few friends who are expert pie makers. I’m not talking to them. I’m talking to the rest of us, those who make a pie just once or twice a year (Thanksgiving?), but we still want our pie crust to be wonderful.
Learning how to make a light flaky pie crust is not hard. You just have to know the do’s and don’t’s. Let me show you how with this step~by~step tutorial.
How to Make Light Flaky Pie Crust
So here are some tips and the proper technique for getting what in French cuisine is called pâté brisée ~ sweet pasty. (That’s a trivia answer for you.)
The Essential Ingredients for a Light Flaky Pie Crust
The essential ingredients in a pie crust are flour, salt, fat, and water. For sweet pastry, granulated sugar is added to the mix.
What kind of flour? Good old unbleached all-purpose flour. My favorite is King Arthur.
How To Properly Measure Flour
The best way to measure flour is by weighing it. If you don’t have a scale, then volume will work IF you measure correctly. Don’t ever pack the flour down.
- Use a spoon to fill the measuring cup with your flour rather than scooping your measuring cup into the flour. Overfill the measuring cup.
- Run a knife, metal spatula or flat surface across the flour to remove any excess.
What kind of Fat?
For pâté brisée, it’s going to be unsalted butter, but some bakers like shortening and some like a combination of butter and shortening. Whatever kind of fat you use, it must be cut into small pieces and very cold.
How to Dice a Stick of Butter
Cut a stick of cold butter in half lengthwise and then into 4 sticks.
Next, line up the 4 sticks and cut them into cubes.
Place in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and put back in the refrigerator until you are ready to make the pie crust.
What Kind of Salt?
This is a personal preference, but you can use fine sea salt or kosher salt.
What Kind of Water?
That’s not a joke. Ice water
Equipment to Make a Pie Crust
A food processor is the perfect tool for making pie dough. It’s fast and blends the wet and dry ingredients completely. My processor is a Kitchen Aid and I can’t say enough about its performance. I’ve had it for years and it’s ever let me down.
How to Make a Light Flaky Pie Crust
First, process the sugar, salt, and flour for about 10 seconds in the food processor until blended.
WHY? So the dry base is well mixed before you add the fat.
Add the cold butter and/or shortening and process until the dough just starts to collect in uneven clumps.
WHY? The processor incorporates the fats quickly, keeping them chilled.
With the processor running, add the ice water and process until it looks like cottage cheese curds and almost starts to form a ball. Pulse the mixture once or twice.
WHY? To moisten the dough so it can coalesce without forming too much gluten. Because the liquids are chilled, the butter stays cold, which makes for a flaky crust.
Remove the dough from the processor to a clean work counter.
Major TIP: Using the palm of your hand, smear the dough bit by bit across the counter until the dough is completely incorporated. This step is called fraisage ~ the technique of mixing all the ingredients until every trace of water and flour have disappeared.
Most recipes make enough dough for 2 portions. At this point divide the dough in half and wrap both portions tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or overnight. If you only need 1 portion, freeze the other portion. Yes, pie dough freezes!!
That’s the basics of making a light flaky sweet dough. Follow these steps and your pie will be the talk of the town. For an easy version of apple pie using this light flaky pie crust, try this Apple Crostata. It’s delicious.
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A recent sustainable tourism project from TUI Care Foundation (TCF), delivered by the Travel Foundation and the Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TPDCo), has successfully encouraged tourists visiting Montego Bay to explore and spend money outside their hotels. The aim of the project was to spread the economic benefits of tourism, increasing income for local businesses and improving opportunities for communities.
The Travel Foundation and TCF are now planning a new Jamaica-wide initiative which will further support a range of small businesses to better connect with tourists and take advantage of the opportunities that tourism brings.
Coral Purvil-Williams, Jamaica Programme Coordinator for the Travel Foundation, said: “Tourism is the main engine of growth for the Jamaican economy, but to unlock tourism’s full potential the opportunities for local businesses need to increase. Our project is helping to ensure that the communities in and around tourism resorts in Jamaica benefit.”
The recently completed project focused on increasing awareness amongst tourists of what there is to see and do in Montego Bay, as well as supporting local attractions to improve their offer. A ‘Warm Welcome’ campaign was rolled-out in the area, which included a new pocket-map and guide for visitors, as well as training for front-line hotel staff and district constables on how to encourage tourists to explore the area. Training and business support were also provided for craft traders to increase tourist footfall and spend in the Harbour Street Craft Market.
As a result
- 90,000 tourists gained access to better information about Montego Bay.
- 14,000 more tourists visited an attraction that they wouldn’t otherwise have visited.
- 400% more tourists visited the Harbour Street craft market.
TPDCo’s staff has been trained to apply the approach elsewhere and have already replicated the ‘Warm Welcome’ initiative in Ocho Rios.
According to Dr. Andrew Spencer, Executive Director of TPDCo
“This project has helped to inspire tourists to get out and about and discover the wonderful places and attractions that we have here in Jamaica. One of the best ways to create opportunities for our communities to benefit from tourism is for visitors to spend money on excursions, taxis, restaurants, bars and souvenirs, all of which support local businesses and jobs.”
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Why social media must be supervised
Teens invest on average around eight hours each day online. The effects of their activities for their health, fitness, and well-being are substantial. It’s necessary to set the guidelines when you first provide a smartphone to your teens such as that they will be checked until they are of sufficient age to comprehend responsibility and liability. You can open up more functions as the child displays their ability to stick to the rules, meet your expectations, and realize the effects of unacceptable actions. Be sure to have talked about digital security. Interacting with your children about social media restrictions can build sensible behavior and they know how to be responsible for their actions.
Why social media ought not to be monitored
The primary reasons for not keeping track of your teenager’s social media activities are personal privacy and trust. Kids don’t want their moms and dads looking through personalized information, text messages, and social media posts. Several kids think of their mobile phones sacred property not to be looked at by their parents. They may eliminate trust in their parents if social networking activities are monitored or removed. To deal with these concerns, it’s essential to discuss why their behavior is being supervised and the probable dangerous effects of relationships/communications on the internet.
Unsafe Behavior Online
Teens may unconsciously become involved in possibly risky behaviors online through chat rooms, instant messages, and emails. Online predators try to slowly seduce their targets by means of attention, affection, kindness, responsiveness to wants and may be informed of their likes and dislike through Facebook posts. They develop to sexually explicit interactions or by showing them sexually explicit content. Taken to a severe, predators may try and create plans to meet your teen or partake in harassment behaviors.
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90 Days to Condition, Inside and Out: Legions of talented riders have found a niche turning homely, oft-neglected horses into show-worthy swans. While thorough under saddle training can take years of consistent work, achieving a sales-photo bloom from within can occur in as little as a few months with appropriate care and conditioning.
Project horses usually come with one or more predictable disadvantages. For example, weight or condition issues, marginal coat health, dubious hoof quality, and a history of negligible veterinary care. An orderly approach to rehabilitation and care will serve these horses well.
Step 1. Assemble the vet-farrier team:
With a sketchy past, project horses often need a thorough once-over by a veterinarian. Pay special attention to the condition of their teeth. Floating, extractions, and other routine dental work can be done by the veterinarian or an accredited dentist. The veterinarian will likely recommend a fecal egg count to determine parasite load and will then advocate a deworming protocol that suits the horse, his new home, and the locale.
Evaluate for common skin diseases, including rainrot, ringworm, and scratches. Establish a treatment plan. Low-level infections such as these often respond well to omega-3 fatty acids. Especially those that have the greatest biological activity, such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). EO-3 is a rich source of these omega-3 fatty acids.
Note and photograph any lumps or bumps on the legs. Owners have a visual baseline for comparison should an unsoundness or accident arise. Scars, pin-firing marks, soft swellings, and blemishes such as splints, osselets, and ringbone should be documented.
Professional farrier handle hoof concerns. Timely trimming and shoeing will alleviate most of the usual problems. For example, cracks and chipped toes, though a sustained effort might be required to reshape or rebalance hooves that have been habitually mismanaged. Special problems seem to go hand-in-hand with certain types of horses. Off-the-track Thoroughbreds are often diagnosed with Low-heel syndrome, for example. This problem must be attended to over many trimming or shoeing cycles.
In addition to obvious signs, the farrier should be able to give you an idea of the hooves’ general condition. Is the hoof wall resilient, like that of a hard rubber hockey puck, and will it stand up to everyday wear and tear? Is the wall shelly or crumbly? Biotin can improve hoof health; To strengthen hooves, a dose of 20 mg per day is recommended. Bio-Bloom PS (Bio-Bloom HF in Australia) not only provides the suggested amount of biotin but also methionine, an essential amino acid used in keratin production, as well as zinc and iodine.
Step 2. Consult a nutritionist:
From a nutritional standpoint, horses usually come into a new environment with one of two dietary backstories. The new owner either has an exhaustive roster of everything the horse consumed prior to his sale or, more likely in the case of a project horse, the new owner has very little information at all about the previous diet. In either case, nutrition will play a central role in any physical transformation.
“Assuming the horse needs to gain weight, start with a good-quality forage, either pasture or hay, and build upon that,” said Catherine Whitehouse, M.S., nutrition advisor for Kentucky Equine Research (KER). “Introduce pasture gradually. Start with an hour or two and then adding an hour each day. For those fed hay, begin by feeding 2% of body weight each day and then segue into free-choice access. Horse owners often underestimate the caloric capacity of forage in a weight-gain program.”
Many horses that need to bulk up do best on concentrates that provide energy from multiple sources. Meaning calories are derived from a variety of feedstuffs: starch from cereal grains such as oats and barley; fat from vegetable oil or stabilized rice bran; and rapidly fermentable fiber from beet pulp and soy hulls.
“A well-formulated performance feed will likely fit the bill, as might a senior feed not described as low-starch,” explained Whitehouse. “In order the optimize nutrition, concentrates should be fed according to the manufacturer’s instructions, as the lowest feeding rate ensures that minimal nutritional requirements are met. If fed below the recommended rate, the horse will not receive vitamins and minerals required for restoration of health.”
If, on the other hand, the horse is in moderate body condition with no real need to lose or gain weight, offer forage at 1.5-2% of body weight and feed enough of a fortified concentrate to maintain condition, though within the manufacturer’s guidelines.
Horse need to lose weight? Implement various weight-reduction tools will help battle obesity: grazing muzzles, limited turnout in mediocre pasture, time in a drylot, methods to slow consumption of hay, and use of a ration balancer or a vitamin and mineral supplement.
Access to fresh water and a salt block will round out a balanced diet for all horses, regardless of body condition, recommended Whitehouse.
Step 3. Support gastrointestinal health:
Maintaining gastrointestinal health is a prime consideration when elevating a horse’s care. Without a well-functioning digestive tract, horses will be unable to use nutrients supplied to them. One key to gastrointestinal tract health involves gut motility; horse owners can promote gut motility through free-choice access to forage for the majority of the day.
Horse owners are able to nutritionally support two important compartments of the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach and the hindgut, through targeted supplementation. In natural settings, a combination of saliva and a continuous turnover of forage protect gastric mucosa.
Horses managed in a way that includes long stretches without eating, colloquially called “meal feeding,” are susceptible to gastric ulceration. Described as painful erosions in the mucosal lining of the stomach caused by overexposure to acid. A prescription-strength course of omeprazole will heal gastric ulcers, but over-the-counter supplements can keep ulcers from returning.
Hindgut acidosis can also adversely affect weight gain and health. The two primary triggers for hindgut acidosis are overconsumption of starch-laden concentrates or overindulgence in sugar-rich grasses.
When too much starch is eaten, some bypasses the small intestine, where it is normally digested. As a result, it enters the hindgut. As the microorganisms of the hindgut process the starch, pH changes, which can cause damage to the intestinal lining and changes in appetite, feed efficiency, manure, behavior, and performance.
RiteTrac is a proprietary blend of ingredients. It supports total digestive tract health. Targeted to benefit the stomach and the hindgut of the horse, RiteTrac works in two distinct ways. First with its combination of fast-acting antacids and coating agents, RiteTrac quickly neutralizes excess gastric acid. Therefore protecting the stomach lining and restoring the normal gastric environment. Second, RiteTrac contains EquiShure, a time-released hindgut buffer designed to act in the cecum and colon by maintaining optimal pH, thereby reducing the risk of hindgut acidosis. Australian horse owners should seek these research-proven products.
Step 4. Institute an exercise program:
An appropriate exercise program can be planned once a horse’s veterinary, hoof care, and nutritional needs have been tackled. Keep in mind that structured work requires an outlay in energy, so if a project horse has arrived thin and underconditioned, weight gain will be slowed if an exercise component is added immediately. Set performance goals on a reasonable schedule. Provide allowances for normal setbacks. Exercising a horse beyond its conditioning could cause injury.
One way to plan and adhere to a safe, consistent exercise schedule is through the use of KER ClockIt Sport. It’s a smartphone app that takes the guesswork out of conditioning. Horse owners and trainers can condition and feed each horse appropriately for the work they’re actually performing. This is done by tracking an individual horse’s intensity and duration of exercise
A consistent feeding and conditioning program will bring out the best in a resale project. If you’re unsure how to best feed a fledging athlete, contact a KER nutrition advisor for a personal recommendation. Start the process now.
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Annex to The Hague Ministerial Declaration of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
The Conference of the Parties,
Recalling its decision V/27 on the contribution of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the ten-year review of progress achieved since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
Noting the outcome of the third meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
Convinced that the World Summit on Sustainable Development should be an excellent opportunity to mobilize more political will and resources to promote the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable development,
Deeply concerned that, despite many successful and continuing efforts of the international community since the entry into force of the Convention and the fact that some progress has been made, the condition of biodiversity in the world's major ecosystems continues to deteriorate, almost without exception and often at an accelerating rate,
Recalling resolution 55/199 of the United Nations General Assembly on the ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which invited, inter alia, conventions related to the Conference to participate fully in the ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of Agenda 21,
Noting with appreciation the outcomes of the International Conference on Financing for Development which took place in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002,
- Welcomes the contribution of the Executive Secretary to the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development;
- Adopts the annexed contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development and requests the President of the Conference of the Parties to transmit this contribution from the Conference of the Parties to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, as well as prior to and on the occasion of the fourth preparatory committee meeting to be held in Bali, Indonesia;
- Requests the Executive Secretary to continue to participate actively in the preparatory process for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and in the Summit itself, with a view to ensuring that the objectives of the Convention, particularly those relating to poverty eradication and sustainable development; are duly reflected in its outcome, and to report to the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties accordingly;
- Encourages Governments to promote partnership initiatives for biodiversity programmes involving the public and private sectors and other major stakeholders to be included in the outcome of the World Summit on Sustainable Development;
- Encourages Governments to involve national focal points for the Convention on Biological Diversity in the World Summit on Sustainable Development process, and other major stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations, to participate in that process, and invites developed countries to provide support to that end through appropriate channels;
- Requests the President of the Conference of the Parties, in close cooperation with the Bureau and the Executive Secretary, to analyse the outcome of the World Summit on Sustainable Development as it relates to the Convention process and to report thereon to the Conference of the Parties at its seventh meeting.
CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TO THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
A. Introduction: the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21
- The maintenance of biodiversity is a necessary condition for sustainable development and as such constitutes one of the great challenges of the modern era.
- The rate of biodiversity loss is increasing at an unprecedented rate, threatening the very existence of life as it is currently understood.
- Addressing the major threats to biodiversity will require long-term and fundamental changes in the way resources are used and benefits are distributed. Achieving this adjustment will require broad-based action among a wide range of actors.
- The importance of the biodiversity challenge was universally acknowledged at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which met in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and through the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- In becoming Parties to the Convention, States have committed themselves to undertaking national, regional and international measures aimed at achieving its three objectives: the conservation of biological diversity; the sustainable use of its components; and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.
- The Conference of the Parties has met six times and, on each occasion, through its decisions has taken steps to translate the general provisions of the Convention into practical action. This process has initiated national biodiversity strategies and action plans in over 100 countries, raised awareness about biodiversity and led to the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a treaty that provides an international regulatory framework for the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.
B. Experience gained and lessons learned in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity
- The last ten years have clearly demonstrated that the Convention is the principal global instrument relevant to achieving the goals set out in chapter 15 of Agenda 21 titled "Conservation of Biological Diversity". During that period the Convention has realized significant achievements:
- The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted by an extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Montreal on 29 January 2000;
- National biodiversity strategies and action plans have been developed by over 100 Parties to the Convention and are under active implementation;
- A clearing-house mechanism has been established and operationalized to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation amongst Parties;
- Public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and of the objectives of the Convention has been raised considerably in many countries;
- A Global Biodiversity Outlook which provides a general view on the status of biodiversity, the main pressures contributing to its loss, and the state of implementation of the Convention has been prepared and widely circulated;
- Indigenous and local communities have been effectively involved in the Convention process;
- A Strategic Plan for the Convention has been adopted; and
- The Global Environment Facility as the institutional structure operating the financial mechanism of the Convention, other financial mechanisms, donors and international organizations have made significant contributions to the progress in the implementation of the Convention by Parties in the last decade, particularly through multi-stakeholder processes.
- Notwithstanding these important achievements much still remains to be done.
- The experience and lessons learnt from the work of the Convention also indicate several key areas where implementation of the Convention and of Agenda 21 can be mutually reinforcing. Such areas include:
Convention on Biological Diversity
Promoting education, public awareness and training (chapter 36)
Public education and awareness (Article 13)
Environmentally sound management of biotechnology (chapter 16)
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Recognizing and strengthening the role of indigenous people and their communities (chapter 26)
Traditional biodiversity knowledge (Article 8(j) and related provisions)
Financial resources and mechanisms (chapter 33)
Financial resources and mechanisms (Articles 20 and 21)
Integrating environment and development in decisions making (chapter 8)
National biodiversity planning and integration into plans, programmes and policies (Article 6)
Promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development (chapter 14)
Work programme on agricultural biological diversity
Combating deforestation (chapter 11)
Work programme on forest biological diversity
Protection of oceans, all kinds of seas, including enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, and coastal areas and the protection, rational use and development of their living resources (chapter 17)
Work programme on marine and coastal biological diversity
Global action for women towards sustainable and equitable development (chapter 24)
Traditional biodiversity-related knowledge (Article 8(j) and related provisions); Sustainable Use of Components of Biological Diversity (Articles 10(c) and 10(d))
- The most important lesson of the last ten years is that the objectives of the Convention will be impossible to meet until consideration of biodiversity is fully integrated into other sectors. The need to mainstream the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources across all sectors of the national economy, the society and the policy-making framework is a complex challenge at the heart of the Convention.
- While many countries have made some start in this, notably in those sectors most immediately associated with biodiversity such as forestry, fisheries and agriculture, much more needs to be done, particularly in areas that traditionally are economically and politically dominant such as industry, trade and transport. Even in those sectors where a start has been made in incorporating the consideration of biodiversity into decision-making, more cross-sectoral integration is needed, for example consideration of the impacts of forestry, agriculture or aquaculture on sustainable use of inland water biodiversity, of fishing on marine and coastal biodiversity, or of land-use change on forest or dry-land biodiversity.
- At the global level, what is needed above all is for other international regimes to take into consideration the concerns of this Convention.
- The experience of integration has been mixed. On some issues there have been encouraging advances, albeit slower than desired. In others no headway has been made.
- Another key lesson of the last ten years is the need for leadership in setting the international agenda on biodiversity. Leadership is required in order to ensure that a wide range of stakeholders involved in achieving the aims of the Convention work in harmony. Leadership is required in order to ensure that other sectors effectively consider the aims of the Convention in their activities. Leadership is required in order to ensure that conflicts over uses are minimized. Leadership is required in order to ensure that in the work of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in addressing the needs of the poor and promoting sustainable development, due account is taken of the role of biological diversity.
- Although the Convention has raised public awareness of biological diversity, of the goods and services it provides, and of the threats that human activities pose to its long-term viability, it is widely recognized that more needs to be done if the aims of the Convention are to be realized. A key need in this regard is increasing stakeholder involvement in implementation of the Convention at international, regional and national levels.
- The world's poor, particularly the rural poor, are often expected to bear much of the cost of maintaining biodiversity, for example in the form of foregone benefits of land conversion when areas are set aside for the protection of unique or threatened ecosystems or species. Unless they are fully involved in decision-making and benefit-sharing, it is unlikely that long-term solutions to the problem of biodiversity loss can be found. In developing mechanisms to ensure such involvement, it is vital that issues of gender and social structure are properly addressed. Already, there is a growing number of rural communities, especially in developing countries, who have begun to address their poverty issues through innovative approaches to the sustainable use of their biological resources, demonstrating their effectiveness. In this context, it should be ensured that such initiatives are promoted, communicated and supported, as they represent practical means to address the three objectives of the Convention.
- Biotechnology is a rapidly evolving technology that provides both challenges and opportunities for developing countries. As a knowledge-intensive, rather than a capital-intensive industry, biotechnology provides promising opportunities for developing countries to establish internationally competitive industries and gain market share. The application of this technology and the types of regulatory measures put in place are major policy issues that will receive increasing attention in the coming decade. Chapter 16 of Agenda 21 sets out a basic framework for the sustainable management of this technology. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is one of the principal global instruments for implementing this framework and provides an important opportunity for many developing countries to gain access to information and technology. In order for this opportunity to materialize, early ratification is required to enable the Protocol to enter into force and its institutions and procedures to be effectively established . There is also need to encourage Parties to take measures to accomplish their obligations as provided for in Article 16 of the Convention, in order to ensure the transfer of environmentally sound and safe technology to developing countries.
- Completing and adopting national biodiversity strategies and action plans is clearly a priority for all those countries that have not yet done so. For others, implementation of completed strategies and action plans is a high priority. Biodiversity strategies and action plans should be integral parts of national sustainable development strategies and, for those countries eligible for external assistance, they should be central to funding strategies and programming.
- Donor institutions have made great strides in recognizing the importance of incorporating environmental considerations into their plans, programmes and strategies. The Global Environment Facility as one of the donor institutions has contributed to the realization of these objectives. Nevertheless much more remains to be done, in particular with regard to mainstreaming biodiversity and treating it as an integrating factor, and not a subject to be treated separately from other development concerns. Donor countries could ensure, for example through the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, that their development assistance priorities are supportive of the Convention's objectives. The World Bank's Comprehensive Development Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategies offer the possibility for ensuring that the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and National Strategies for Sustainable Development of its borrowers become central to its overall lending. IMF stabilization and structural adjustment programmes could place more importance on national investments in environmental management and critically examine budget cuts for such measures.
- Donors of all types should commit to increasing funding for projects that directly address biodiversity. However, there is also a pressing need for donors to review the way in which such projects are funded. Most problems relating to the maintenance and sustainable use of biodiversity are not amenable to the "quick fix" solutions , and it is often clearly unrealistic to expect local sustainability of activities at the end of a three- or five-year project. Although there is increasing awareness of this in the international community, many donors still appear to be wedded to short-term project cycles. The long-term impact of this approach may be actively counter-productive and it is probable that longer-term commitments involving smaller annual disbursements may be more effective than spending larger amounts of money over a shorter period. Donors should also ensure that biodiversity planning processes are country-driven and not donor-driven, in order to increase their effectiveness and the prospects for sustainability at the end of the funding period.
- The proposed strengthening of the role of United Nations resident coordinators, contained in the Secretary-General's reform plan, will create the opportunity to provide harmonized and synergistic support by United Nations agencies to national implementation of the Convention through the country-level United Nations Development Assistance Framework. The current process of decentralisation from headquarters to regional centres offers the United Nations Development Programme the opportunity to ensure that regional and field office staff are familiar with the objectives and programmes of the Convention, and actively seek to identify with Governments opportunities for integrating these into its full range of development activities (from policy to operations) for simultaneous poverty reduction and environmental protection.
- The Convention has 183 Parties, making it one of the most inclusive multilateral agreements in any field. However membership is not universal. There is a small number of countries that have not yet ratified the Convention. Achieving the objectives of the Convention requires action on a global scale, and it is important that all countries make the commitment to work together for its implementation.
C. Ideas and proposals for the way forward for the further implementation of Agenda 21
- In light of the foregoing and in order to assist in the further implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and of Agenda 21, the Conference of the Parties invites the World Summit on Sustainable Development to:
- Reaffirm that the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources are essential to achieving sustainable human development in the twenty-first century and that implementing the objectives of the Convention will require policy coherence between all relevant instruments and processes, renewed political will on the part of Governments, and a renewed commitment to cooperation and to providing the resources and technology required;
- Reaffirm further that biological diversity is an essential part of the national resource base and its value for sustainable development needs to be underlined while addressing other specific challenges such as poverty alleviation, unsustainable production and consumption patterns, and globalization;
- Recognize the important contribution that community-based sustainable management of biological resources can make to the alleviation of poverty and the achievement of conservation and sustainable use objectives;
- Acknowledge that the Convention on Biological Diversity is the principal International instrument for setting the global agenda and priorities of biological diversity and for achieving the goals of chapter 15 of Agenda 21 (Conservation of biological diversity) and that its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is one of the principal global instruments for achieving the goals of chapter16 of Agenda 21 (Environmentally sound management of biotechnology), and calling on Member States to take concrete measures to ensure the effective implementation of their provisions;
- Acknowledge the need to foster partnerships and linkages with other biodiversity-related conventions, urge biodiversity-related conventions, agreements and programmes to conclude cooperative arrangements with the Convention on Biological Diversity for fostering such partnerships and reaffirm the leading role of the Convention in such cooperative arrangements;
- Urge Member States who have not yet done so to become Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;
- Urge Member States and all relevant stakeholders to make further efforts to incorporate and mainstream the objectives of the Convention into relevant national sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programmes and policies and to recall that the conservation of sustainable use of biological diversity is a cross-cutting issue;
- Urge Member States to actively promote policy coherence in national positions under different international instruments and processes;
- Stress the importance of investing in programmes of public education and awareness as the principal way of engendering support for the changes in behaviour necessary at all levels of society in all countries if sustainable development is to be achieved, and the inclusion of promotion of the aims of the Convention in such programmes, and the role of information sharing in facilitating the implementation of the Convention;
- Stress the importance of increasing the active participation by all stakeholders in the implementation of Agenda 21 and of the Convention, in particular, in the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans;
- Urge Member States to collaborate and actively promote the joint implementation of Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biological Diversity at the international, regional and national levels;
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South-east Asia has overtaken the United States to become the largest market for Singapore's goods and services, according to Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) data yesterday.
It noted that the combined demand from the top five economies in Asean outside Singapore - Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam - accounted for 10.4 per cent of Singapore's overall gross domestic product (GDP) last year, up from 9 per cent in 2010.
The US accounted for a 10.1 per cent share of GDP, while China accounted for 8.8 per cent.
"The emergence of Asean-5 as Singapore's largest final demand market was due to robust consumption and investment growth in the region, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the ability of Singapore's exporters to tap on demand opportunities in the region," MTI said.
CIMB Private Banking economist Song Seng Wun noted: "The shift is partly a reflection of the slowdown in the US and China, while we continue to see South-east Asian economies holding their growth rates above the global level, with Indonesia and the Philippines growing strong, while Thailand is stabilising.
"It is also a reflection of the region's rising middle class and growing capacity as an integrated market for goods and services. More can be done intra-regionally now as regional governments put in the efforts to stimulate domestic demand."
One Singapore company eyeing this trend is seafood producer Fassler Gourmet, which was acquired by Credence Fund II in late 2014. The company has set regional expansion as one of its growth priorities.
"Asean is a very natural choice because of the proximity, and also a lot of our distributors are already present across the region," chief executive Mellissa Chen told The Straits Times. "We are now working on entering Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. It is still early days, but once we remove the barrier, we expect a lot of demand for our upmarket products."
China's share of Singapore's GDP grew from 6.9 per cent in 2010 to 8.8 per cent last year, the fastest among the top markets. The US share also grew, from 9.7 per cent in 2010 to 10.1 per cent last year.
The two economies are expected to slow down this year, one of the external risks that led MTI to narrow Singapore's 2016 growth forecast from 1 per cent to 3 per cent, to 1 per cent to 2 per cent.
Against this backdrop, Singapore's trade performance remained choppy, with non-oil domestic exports (NODX) dipping 4.5 per cent year on year in the first half of the year. Around two-thirds of Singapore's GDP relies on external demand.
The trade outlook will be clouded this year, but the drag from low oil prices may ease in the coming months.
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The worst of the Rim Fire may be over, but the blaze that has raged in and around Yosemite National Park for the past three weeks is likely to burn for another two weeks before officials can declare it to be fully contained.
The wildfire, reported to have been started by a hunter’s illegal campfire, has grown to cover more than a quarter million acres.
Still, steady progress has been made, and containment is now at 80 percent, although the potential for the fire to continue growing remains “high,” according to the US Forest Service. Winds, temperature, and humidity levels affecting fire behavior remain variable, and some of the terrain where firefighters are working is extremely difficult to navigate.
“Short runs of fire may occur where flames reach the bottom of drainages and move into more heavily vegetated areas,” reports the Forest Service. “Approximately 2,490 structures remain threatened in areas near the fire perimeter to the north, south, and southeast portions of the fire.”
Although that portion of California State Road 120 leading into Yosemite Valley has been opened, other parts of the road remain closed, and motorists are asked to use caution and avoid stopping when driving through the fire area. Several campgrounds remain closed as well.
In addition to vacationers and local residents, the Rim Fire could affect a part of the traditional western economy: cattle ranching.
The Stanislaus National Forest, where the fire raged, is grazing land for some 4,000 cows.
“With large numbers believed to be dead, and the near future of grazing in the forest up in the air, the cattle industry is another victim of the massive blaze on the west edge of Yosemite,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
“They go out every day, gathering the cows they can find, the ones that have made it into the green areas,” said Susan Forbes of the US Forest Service. “They’re finding pockets of livestock and concentrating on removing them as fast as they can.”
While the Rim Fire has drawn most of the interest this wildfire season – including for a period when it threatened San Francisco’s water supply from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park – the overall wildfire picture is less than it was at this point last year.
So far this year, 35,440 reported fires have burned a total of 3.9 million acres. Last year at this time in the fire season, 45,278 fires had burned 7.9 million acres. The figures for 2011 were 55,619 fires and 7.2 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
But large fires continue to burn in several states this season: six in Idaho, five each in California and Montana, and one each in Alaska, Louisiana, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. So far this year, 300 large fires have been contained.
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The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox
|Other titles||Shifts of Reynardine the son of Reynard the Fox.|
|Series||Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1579:8.|
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All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and.
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The genre is very popular throughout the Late Middle Ages, and in chapbook form throughout the Early Modern period. The stories are largely concerned with the main character Reynard. Reynard The Fox, hero of several medieval European cycles of versified animal tales that satirize contemporary human society.
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Healthy eating as you age
Healthy eating habits can improve your mental clarity, increase energy, and reduce the risk of getting sick.
Benefits of healthy eating as you age
Healthful eating habits are important for everyone, but it is even more important as we age and reach our mid-life years. Healthy eating habits are important for maintaining a positive outlook, good health and emotional balance. Healthy eating does not have to mean sacrificing your health or making sacrifices. It should be about eating healthy food and enjoying good company.
It doesn’t matter what age you are or how your eating habits were in the past, and it is never too late for you to make a change and improve your outlook on life.
Improving your diet now can help you to:
1. You will live longer and be more resilient
Good nutrition can increase immunity, fight disease-causing toxins and lower the risk of stroke, heart disease, high blood pressure and type-2 diabetes. It also helps to reduce the chance of bone loss and cancer. A balanced diet and regular physical activity can help you live independently as you get older.
2. Sharpen your mind
Eaters of omega-3 fatty acid-rich fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts may find it easier to focus and lessen their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Green tea rich in antioxidants may help you retain your memory and increase mental alertness as you age.
3. Feel better
Healthy meals can boost your energy levels and make you feel better. It all comes down to this: When your body feels good, it makes you happier.
Healthy eating goes beyond food
It’s more than about the quality and variety you eat. Eating well as an older person is also about how healthy it feels. It’s also about sharing the experience of eating. It’s as important to eat with friends to add vitamins to your diet. Socializing can stimulate your mind, make meals more enjoyable, and help you to stick to your healthy eating habits.
Even if you don’t live with anyone, healthy meals can be made more enjoyable by:
Shopping with others
Shopping with friends can allow you to meet up and catch up on chores while shopping. You can also share your ideas for meals and save money by shopping with a friend.
Invite a friend to share cooking responsibilities–one prepares the entree, the other dessert, for example. Sharing the cost of cooking can help you build relationships and make it more affordable.
Make mealtimes social
Talking to a friend over dinner can make a huge difference in reducing stress and improving mood. Please keep the family updated by bringing them together. Invite a friend, a coworker, and a neighbour to join you.
How can you create a healthy senior lifestyle?
Healthy eating means focusing on whole foods that are minimally processed. Food that is as natural as possible is the key to good health. It may take some experimentation to find the right healthy diet for you. Our bodies react differently to different foods. This is due to genetics. These are some great places to start.
Get plenty of fruits and vegetables
You can break the apple-and-banana rut by choosing colourful fruits like melons or berries. It would help if you aimed to eat 2-3 portions per day. Choose antioxidant-rich, dark leafy greens such as spinach, kale and broccoli, and colourful vegetables like carrots and squash when it comes to vegetables. You can make vegetables more appealing by coating them in olive oil, adding goat cheese to the mix, and frying them with garlic or chili flakes. Every day, aim for 2-3 cups.
Calcium is essential for bone health
Calcium intake is essential to maintain bone health. Milk, yogurt, cheese, or non-dairy sources like tofu and broccoli are all good sources.
Do not eat “no fat”, but “good fat”. Instead of trying to reduce fat in your diet, you should be focusing on healthy fats such as omega-3s. These fats can help protect your body from disease and improve your mood and brain function.
Variegate your sources of protein
High-quality protein is good for you as you get older. It can help improve your mood, reduce stress, anxiety, depression and even enhance your ability to think clearly. Consuming too many processed meat products like bacon, hot dogs and salami can increase your risk for heart disease and cancer. Instead of eating only red meat, diversify your protein sources by including fish, eggs, beans, peas and nuts in your diet.
Get more fiber
Dietary fibre can do more than just keep you regular. Fiber can help lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, skin health, and weight loss. Your digestion decreases with age so fiber is important in your diet. Women over 50 years old should aim for at least 21g of fiber daily, and men over 50 years old at least 30g. Most people don’t get even half of those amounts.
Pay attention to carbs
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Total Solar Distributed Generation Signs One of Thailand’s Largest Corporate Solar Power Purchase Agreements with Betagro
Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) will provide agro- industrial company Betagro with solar-powered rooftops for 24 facilities across Thailand. The 25 MWp system will generate an estimated 38 GWh of renewable electricity per year, providing about 15% of the company’s total power consumption. Annually, it will reduce CO2 emissions by 26,000 tons, which is equivalent to removing 4,325 cars annually.
“Customers come to Total Solar to reduce power costs and carbon footprint in a sustainable way. Betagro wanted a partner that could provide them with peace of mind from a technical, financial and commercial perspective. We are excited to become a long-term energy partner for Betagro and proud to be trusted by them with such a landmark project,” says Gavin Adda, CEO of Total Solar Distributed Generation for Southeast Asia.
The project will create one of the largest corporate solar portfolios in Thailand. The PV system will combine more than 62,000 solar panels, equivalent to covering 36 soccer pitches.
“With this project in Thailand, Total Solar Distributed Generation continues to grow its reach in the dynamic solar market in Southeast Asia where renewables will represent 30% of power generation sources by 20401, ” says Julien Pouget, Senior Vice President, Renewables at Total. “We are committed to helping our commercial and industrial customers drive down both their energy costs and carbon footprint by providing reliable fully integrated solar solutions “.
Mr. Vasit Taepaisitphongse, CEO and President, Betagro Group says, “Betagro runs business on the sustainable way which not only improve society’s quality of life while reducing impact to environment. We also have strong interest in clean and environmentally friendly energy such as solar power. The implementation of these solar-powered solutions will be very beneficial to our operations, effectively managing to drive down our costs and the impact on environment. We are confident that the partnership with Total Solar Distributed Generation will help Betagro Group achieve these objectives.”
About Total Solar Distributed Generation Southeast Asia
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Betagro is a country leader in the fully integrated agro-industrial and food business sector, also expand actively into pet care product and other related industries. The Group has developed strategic collaborations with local farmers. Examples include price guarantee for broilers and layer chickens, contract farming for fattening swine, production and distribution of hygienic and fresh pork, chicken and eggs as well as manufacture of processed foods for domestic consumption and export to international markets. The Group is widely recognized for its quality and safety standards. It has earned numerous accolades in product quality excellence and production standard certifications, locally and internationally, covering several areas from animal feed, livestock development, animal health products to premium quality food products for export and domestic consumption. https://www.betagro.com
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An advantage of owning a luxury vehicle such as a BMW is that when you maintain routine maintenance and engine care in order to preserve its reputation, you encounter few serious problems. Even with a high-quality level of care, occasional issues can occur, but when the owner understands the potential causes and warning signs, they can be detected and addressed quickly. One such issue is a failing water pump in your car.
The water pump is the primary component of your vehicle responsible for maintaining the steady flow of coolant in the engine from the radiator. This pump is operated by the serpentine belt of the engine. Before the cycle repeats itself, its blades cause coolant to flow through the engine and back to the radiator. The engine can maintain a comfortable and steady temperature if the water pump works correctly.
By consistently ensuring that the engine coolant is in good shape and has the correct amount of antifreeze, it is easy to maintain a safe water pump. This prevents the water from freezing over in cold temperatures and helps protect against rust. When taken care of, the water pump will last for a long time in most modern vehicles, but with regular usage, they will begin to deteriorate.
Ultimately, even a well-maintained water pump can break down, but it can also be affected by external situations, such as broken fan blades or worn water pump bearings. There are a few warning signs that the life of your water pumps is diminishing once you have been lax in your vehicle maintenance. To replace it before additional engine components are affected, it is important to contact a qualified mechanic if you find one or more of the following:
Even without an obvious warning, the water pump may still be impaired, and it’s safe to get your car tested if you suspect anything more significant. Although your car will still be drivable, driving it with a faulty water pipe is never suggested. When ignored, because of overheating, a faulty water pump can destroy your engine and can cause irreparable harm. Repairing or repairing the pump would be less expensive than paying for an engine rebuild.
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The 8th European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-VIII), co-organized by the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and the University of Bologna, takes place once again in Chania, Crete, Greece from June 12 to June 17, 2022. EBC-VIII has been postponed for a full year due to the Covid-19 pandemic; it was originally scheduled in 2021. The conference is co-chaired by Professor Emeritus Nicolas Kalogerakis of the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at TUC and Prof. Fabio Fava of the University of Bologna, Italy. It is sponsored by the Environmental Biotechnology Division of the European Federation of Biotechnology.
The European Bioremediation Conferences (EBC) celebrate more than 20 years, as the 8th edition takes place 21 years later after the first one! The EBCs started in 2001 organized by TUC. Since then, seven EBC conferences managed to bring together scientists and engineers from all over the world to present their findings and exchange information on recent advances in environmental remediation technologies, especially focusing on bioremediation and phytoremediation of contaminated sites including the marine environment.
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Benjamin Graham taught that Intelligent Investors must do a thorough fundamental analysis of investment opportunities to determine their intrinsic value and inherent risk.  This is best done by utilizing a systematic approach to analysis that will provide investors with a sense of how a specific company compares to another company or by reviewing the 5 Most Undervalued Companies for the Defensive Investor – March 2015. By using the ModernGraham method one can review a company’s historical accomplishments and determine an intrinsic value that can be compared across industries.  What follows is a specific look at how Perrigo Company (PRGO) fares in the ModernGraham valuation model.
Defensive Investor – must pass at least 6 of the following 7 tests: Score = 6/7
- Adequate Size of Enterprise – market capitalization of at least $2 billion -Â PASS
- Sufficiently Strong Financial Condition – current ratio greater than 2 -Â PASS
- Earnings Stability – positive earnings per share for at least 10 straight years -Â PASS
- Dividend Record – has paid a dividend for at least 10 straight years -Â PASS
- Earnings Growth – earnings per share has increased by at least 1/3 over the last 10 years using 3 year averages at beginning and end of period -Â PASS
- Moderate PEmg ratio – PEmg is less than 20 -Â FAIL
- Moderate Price to Assets – PB ratio is less than 2.5 or PB x PEmg is less than 50 -Â PASS
Enterprising Investor – must pass at least 4 of the following 5 tests or be suitable for a defensive investor: Score = 5/5
- Sufficiently Strong Financial Condition, Part 1 – current ratio greater than 1.5 -Â PASS
- Sufficiently Strong Financial Condition, Part 2 – Debt to Net Current Assets ratio less than 1.1 – PASS
- Earnings Stability – positive earnings per share for at least 5 years – PASS
- Dividend Record – currently pays a dividend -Â PASS
- Earnings growth – EPSmg greater than 5 years ago -Â PASS
|Value Based on 3% Growth||$57.07|
|Value Based on 0% Growth||$33.46|
|Market Implied Growth Rate||17.08%|
|Net Current Asset Value (NCAV)||-$10.10|
Balance Sheet -Â December 2014
Earnings Per Share
Earnings Per Share – ModernGraham
Perrigo Company is suitable for both the Defensive Investor and the Enterprising Investor.  The Defensive Investor’s only concern is the high PEmg ratio, while the Enterprising Investor has no initial concerns. As a result, all value investors following the ModernGraham approach based on Benjamin Graham’s methods should feel very comfortable proceeding with further research and comparing the company to other opportunities.  From a valuation side of things, the company appears to be overvalued after growing its EPSmg (normalized earnings) from $2.40 in 2011 to only an estimated $3.94 for 2015.  This level of demonstrated growth does not support the market’s implied estimate of 17.08% earnings growth and leads the ModernGraham valuation model, based on Benjamin Graham’s formula, to return an estimate of intrinsic value below the price.
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Turks have recently been receiving an unexpected geography lesson as the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has stepped up its campaign to secure a seat on the UN Security Council when five places come up for election in October 2008.
In recent weeks Turkish newspapers have entertained their readers with photographs of government leaders, particularly Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, meeting a succession of dignitaries from little-known states in far-flung corners of the world, many of them exotically dressed in their local costumes. The AKP appears to have chosen April as the month of small island states. Last week, the leaders of leaders of Nauru, the Republic of Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Palau, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa and Tonga arrived in Istanbul for a conference on how to improve Turkey’s almost non-existent ties with the Pacific. This week Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdullah Shahid was in Ankara for discussions with his Turkish counterpart (Radikal, Turkish Daily News, April 17).
Turkey last served on the UN National Security Council in 1961. On July 21, 2003, eight months after it first came to power, the AKP formally submitted Turkey’s candidacy for election to the Security Council when a vote is held on October 16, 2008. If chosen, Turkey will serve a two year term starting on January 1, 2009.
Although Turkey would undoubtedly stand to benefit diplomatically and politically from being a member of the UN Security Council, it is likely that the AKP is at least as attracted by what it regards as the prestige and the boost to national pride that would accrue from serving, albeit temporarily, on one of the most powerful decision-making bodies in the world.
The AKP launched its campaign for Security Council membership in June 2004, when it vigorously lobbied members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for their support during a summit meeting in Istanbul. In the first six months of 2006, officials from the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) visited 30 countries to ask for their backing. Another 27 countries were visited in the first eight months of 2007. In September 2006 Deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif Sener unexpectedly attended the 14th Summit Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Cuba. Speaking after the Turkish Embassy in Havana had hosted a breakfast for the leaders of Caribbean states, Sener told Turkish journalists: “I had never heard of the names of some of them before, but they all have a vote at the UN” (Radikal, April 17).
A study by the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM), a think tank based in Ankara, reports that the MFA has been allocated a budget of $50 million dollars. Some $20 million of the total has been assigned to pay off the debts of smaller nations to the UN in order to ensure that their failure to pay their membership fees does not prevent them from voting in the election in October (Stratejik Analiz, January 2008; www.asam.org.tr). In 2007 Turkey established a $15 million fund to support underdeveloped, small island states, of which $5 million has been assigned to Pacific countries. Turkey recently announced that it would establish diplomatic relations with the Marshall and Cook Islands for the first time (Radikal, April 16).
Turkey has also sought to bolster its ties with Africa, announcing that it would dispatch its first ambassadors to 10 countries: Angola, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Niger and Tanzania. In August, just two months before the UN vote begins, it will host a conference in Istanbul on Turkey-Africa Cooperation.
In addition to aid and closer diplomatic ties, Turkey has also been offering promises. Small island states have been among the most vociferous supporters of international attempts to slow the pace of global warming, not the least because several of them stand to disappear if sea levels rise. On April 9, at a press conference following his meeting with the leaders of Pacific island states, Babacan emphasized the AKP’s commitment to environmental issues. “We are doing whatever we can to ensure that the world is a better place for our children and grandchildren,” he said. “There are studies on the impact on the world of a rise in water levels. Turkey is very sensitive about the issue of the environment. We shall continue to contribute in this regard” (Ihlas Haber Ajansi, April 9).
Turkey is, however, one of the very few countries has yet to sign the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Several of Babacan’s Cabinet colleagues have repeatedly insisted that they believe that Turkey’s economic development takes precedence over the environmental considerations addressed by the agreement. In April 2007 Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler explicitly dismissed suggestions that Turkey should sign the Kyoto Protocol, which he described as “not being in the national interest” (Today’s Zaman, April 21).
There is currently no indication that Guler or any other member of the AKP government has had a change of heart over Kyoto, nor has Turkey put forward any alternative proposals to address global warming. It is currently unclear whether the island states being so vigorously courted by the AKP will be swayed by the largesse and attention currently be showered on them or by Turkey’s refusal to address issues that could, quite literally, see them wiped off the map. The worry for Turkey is that whatever expressions of support are made now will not change the fact that the October 16 vote is by secret ballot. | <urn:uuid:4c102911-6c0a-47cd-b9d4-e0347b4850dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jamestown.org/program/turks-receive-a-geography-lesson-as-akp-scrambles-for-support-in-the-un/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.969613 | 1,175 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The competition between top companies to conquer the eCommerce space has intensified more than ever. Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, many new and existing retail companies have started offering their services online to avoid the drastic economic effects caused by lockdowns worldwide.
However, running an eCommerce business is not short of challenges. Customer behavior has changed a lot since money is being spent online more than ever, and customers' expectations have risen to another level. eCommerce businesses have become competitive, and people do not purchase from brands that lag behind.
The constant change in eCommerce trends makes it challenging for companies to keep up with the needs of their customers. By knowing about the latest developments in e-commerce and making concrete plans and tactics to tackle the challenge of changing trends, businesses can ensure that they are in a good position to retain their loyal customers.
To help deal with such problems, making the proper use of such information can proficiently improve the performance of a business. So, without any further delay, let's dig deeper and understand the top eCommerce trends that will define retail in 2022.
The latest developments in AI and machine learning have indeed made life easier for the customers of businesses. Amazon Echo, Google Home, and other related devices have built a great reputation in the eCommerce market.
That is how Voice Commerce has become a niche where customers are enabled to purchase items by the use of their voice-controlled devices. That is why the trend of voice commerce is rapidly accelerating.
It is expected that voice commerce will be the source of significant revenue for eCommerce businesses in the near future.
We can not deny the advantages of eCommerce and the ease and comfort it has brought into the daily activities of businesses and customers. It has changed the way we purchase or sell goods or services.
But comparing eCommerce with the traditional method of retailing, one disadvantage of eCommerce is the lack of physical interaction of a customer with products before they make a purchase.
Visual Commerce has made the online shopping experience more refined and customer-centric. Graphical images regarding a product produce a more realistic experience for the customers, increasing the likelihood of customers buying a company's products.
Visual Commerce features technologies such as image recognition, quickly changing how people shop their desired products online.
Augmented reality can enhance the online shopping experience for customers. The need for such technology is fueled by the troubles customers face when shopping online.
Augmented Reality is capable of making customers or their devices interact with the product. While AR seems to be a future technology, it is expected to grow in the coming years and improve the existing standards of eCommerce.
Basically, the set of practices that make the online shopping experience for the customers feel more intimate and informal is Conversational UX.
Conversational UX can be stated as a comprehensive concept that involves several elements. Chat boxes are by now the most popular element of conversational UX. The chat box assists the customers in interacting in a way that feels like a normal conversation.
Chat boxes are quick, convenient, and are a great way to engage customers.
Email Marketing has gained popularity in recent times. Interactive emails engage the customers and are becoming a trend in eCommerce. It is an intelligent way to market your business and engage customers.
It must be astonishing for you to know that an average person spends 2 hours and 24 minutes daily on social media. That is a lot of time.
Hence, social media platforms can play a massive role in helping an eCommerce business grow. With features such as live streaming that help customers interact with the products, ask questions and get answers regarding the products they like, social media can be used to interact with customers and make them aware of the benefits of using products and services. Hence, we can expect Social Commerce to grow with the advantages of the widely used social apps.
Mobile payments are changing the game in the eCommerce world and help merchants and customers. Today, most companies intend to shift their models to adapt to this new technology. Customers need flexible payment options, and if businesses can not fulfill the customers' expectations, they risk losing customer loyalty.
Starbucks is leading when it comes to mobile payments and is accepting Apple Pay across the world. Not only that, but the ease of this payment method has boosted the sales of iPhones since customers no longer have to carry their credit cards or cash anymore along with them.
This mobile payment method benefits merchants by enabling them to shop easily through online stores. At the same time, retailers are also becoming a part of this bandwagon and offering discount offers for purchasing their products through mobile payments.
Blockchain has been creating a tremendous impact on eCommerce. Ethereum is one of the most common blockchain technologies used by eCommerce brands. Blockchain has numerous benefits for both buyers and brands, making it a win-win and a trend that can be seen expanding in the coming years.
Not only is blockchain making transactions faster and more secure, but also it improves the processes of businesses and the overall experience of customers.
Another great thing about blockchain is that it reduces the complexity of managing the supply chain and is cost-saving. In addition to that, consumers that are from different countries do not have to worry about currencies or banking when it comes to payments.
Thanks to blockchain, people are now accepting payments in the form of bitcoins, an emerging cryptocurrency. This also opens new doors for forward-thinking people to be a part of a new and emerging market. | <urn:uuid:29ff65b6-f438-40f9-902c-45117789716c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phpstudios.com/our-blog/top-8-ecommerce-trends-that-will-define-retail-in-2022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956491 | 1,109 | 1.617188 | 2 |
In this paper I explore the terrain of the international NGO (INGO) – in this case Oxfam GB – and some of its difficulties in integrating gender equity goals in the institutional structures and policies which govern its activities in conflict and its aftermath. I look at terrain that is divided into areas that are treated very differently. These are, on one hand, the field of humanitarian interventions in the throes of an emergency, and on the other, the ‘non-conflict’ field of reconstruction and development. Historically, these two fields of activity have been governed by very different ways of thinking and acting, often in conflict with each other. Gender analysis and gender-sensitive programming are central to these differences, and essential tools in the attempts to overcome them. In Oxfam GB at present, the differences in approaches to gender equity in these two territories are acknowledged, if not routinely addressed; but the importance of addressing gender equity in order to overcome some of these differences, is more complicated and controversial.
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Have you ever heard of the saying “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link”?
Well, it’s quite the same when it comes to watches. A watch is only as good as great are the materials used in its making.
Hence, here’s a section that’s purely dedicated to exploring the materials, their characteristics, and properties in the watchmaking and that how they contribute to the quality, longevity, and functionality of any end product.
However, this is not to say that this section will be purely focused on exploring the types of metal, aluminum, or leather.
No, this section is about truly tackling materials as “the matter from which a thing is or can be made” in its widest possible interpretation.
Or to be more precise and on-point, it’s about exploring not only the raw materials but also the components as in structural ingredients of finished watches as the end products.
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Pros and Cons of Distance Learning: What to Consider
Originally published at Pros and Cons of Distance Learning
When comparing with traditional on-campus education, e-learning is a new approach in the market. Yet, one thing is factual it is the future of education and it is here to stay and grow better, reaching new heights. Various statistics show that the eLearning industry and market size are expected to increase and become wider.
It is not a secret that these days people prefer online distance learning as it is a better choice of learning from the comfort (no kind of time or distance-related limitations). If you are also experiencing this niche or plan to go digital and become a part of distance education, you would be interested in choosing between online learning vs classroom learning. That is why I’m here and the present article will answer all your questions. We are going to together identify the pros and cons of remote learning․ And here we are.
Pros and Cons of Distance Learning
Distance learning is an already well-known approach to distributing knowledge. According to it, the education providers and learners are set apart in distance or time and sometimes even both. Remote learning provides the learners a wide variety of opportunities to gain higher and more quality education. However, this is not all about benefits and advantages indeed. The distance approach of education provides flexibility to decide, what the people want to learn. They are also free to choose the perfect time to learn, as well as the frequency they want to learn and what they would like to learn. So, thanks to such flexibility, remote learning is expected to become the most preferred choice and method of open learning for students in the nearest future. And this point is especially accepted for working professionals.
It is well researched and obvious that not all students tend to learn via the same technique of open learning and there is no particular technique that facilitates learning for everyone. There are several factors that affect learners’ capacity to study. Applied learning, interaction, prior knowledge, analytical skills, and motivations are some of the factors. So, considering this varied consistency of students, distance learning needs to triumph over all these issues and challenges. Though most of these challenges were already addressed with the use of technology, there are several cons and disadvantages that both students and teachers encounter. Below, we are going to discuss the pros and cons of distance learning.
Pros of Distance Learning
First of all, let’s discuss the benefits of distance learning.
In the case of distance education, learners’ energy and time are saved. It enables the students to a lot of hassles of trying to reach the class on time, at the same time keeping their minds free of anxiety and stress. Flexibility is another primary advantage as it offers learners and teachers to work at their own pace and perform their coursework at any specific time. This is a great advantage for people who need to fit the process with their busy schedules. Here the participants get the opportunity to be the master of their own schedule with distance learning.
Remote teaching also allows the learners to continue with their part-time and full-time work schedules or similar commitments, whilst earning a certificate, diploma, or degree. Besides, this approach of learning has very little interruption into your daily schedule. The tuition fees of on-campus courses are quite expensive compared to distance education. A similar additional cost of the courses is actually required by the institution to maintain the physical location and to pay the faculty members. In distance learning, students can save money on traveling and paying the faculty. If anyone desires to earn a degree with a lower budget then remote learning will be a financially better choice.
Probably, this is the most common reason people choose distance learning for. When trying to learn something new or improving their skills, people usually choose a way of learning that is comfortable for them and easy to implement.
As distance learning programs do not require a physical presence in a classroom or follow a predefined timetable, both learners and teachers are free to set their own schedules. Remote education offers the flexibility to accomplish your coursework from anywhere and at any time, also, at your own pace. So, what may sound better than learning from your comfort?
#2 No Kind of Geographical Boundaries
Many people do not realize their dream of learning at any university because of the distance and other related inconveniences. Today this is not a serious problem any longer. Now, it is possible to learn and teach anything from anywhere.
This is another advantage of distance learning. Here you are not limited to geographical locations. And this is especially effective for the education providers. Individuals who own quality knowledge have an opportunity to start an online teaching business and provide required knowledge without paying a specific fee for the center or whatever it is like.
#3 Wider Market
When there are not the time or location limitations, education providers get a higher chance to reach a wider market. Of course, there may arouse the question of language, but whatever your subject matter is, you will find more potential learners in the case of distance learning at least in your country from other cities.
You may even target the international market and use the English language. Even if you prefer to speak your mother tongue and it isn’t English, you may do it and reach people who speak your native language. Going digital provides better opportunities. People just look for the services you offer (or something related) and reach your platform where they may join your courses and lessons and gain their desired knowledge material.
#4 Higher Possibilities with a Tighter Budget
Traditional education usually costs a lot more than the online version. The participants (teachers and learners) do not have to pay for the area, transportation, printed material. There is also something like a tuition fee. Yet, it is not as high as in the case of traditional education.
Online learning helps the students to save on costs like fuel, parking, books, child care, and more. Besides, so many of these programs are self-paced. They offer an opportunity to graduate in less time than a traditional program. Less time spent in college equals lower educational costs. Plus, many online degrees have lower tuition fees.
When providing online teaching services, specialists become more competitive as they get a lot of advantages and preferences. E-learning is the present and future of the educational industry and going for it, you follow modern trends and become a part of the current tech world.
Remote learning programs make use of various technological solutions to make it easier to provide high-quality knowledge. Having electronic access to the educational material, getting an opportunity to submit assignments via websites, and participating in online forums to interact with professors and classmates on a day-to-day basis, you can become more technologically savvy than your classroom counterparts.
Cons of Distance Learning
Self-disciplined candidates who are highly driven with a chaotic personal schedule may focus on distance learning. While relatively social people who value real-time interactions, prefer to succeed in structured environments of a classroom with face-to-face interaction may go for a traditional learning system.
So, it will not be an exaggeration to say that along with several benefits and flexibility, distance learning also has several disadvantages and cons associated. Most distance learning courses are either program-dependent or person-dependent. So, to make future distance learning more efficient and widespread, it is important to minimize and avoid all these aforementioned factors.
#1 Lack of Interaction
When teaching online there is no face-to-face communication. Sometimes the learners do not even see the face of the video course provider (for instance, when the course is based on screen sharing). Of course, distance learning offers a lot of opportunities to get in touch with the learners and teachers, but it is not as smooth and immediate as in the case of face-to-face real-time communication.
A low level of communication decreases the quality of individual attention and immediate feedback. Many learners consider the lack of interaction with students and trainers to be the biggest disadvantage of distance learning. Sometimes online classes even make the participants feel isolated. Therefore, many people take part in such online activities, and even gain degrees from their workplace, joining their workmates in online classes. Recently, blended learning is also in great demand. There are many blended courses that combine distance learning with classroom teaching. This kind of hybrid teaching aims at providing that classroom vibe from time to time.
#2 Quality of Questioning
When learners have questions they immediately ask them and get the answers. This is a usual practice in traditional classroom teaching. However, when relying on e-learning, the quality of questioning decreases. Here all the questions are to be asked through different forms of educational methods and communicational tools such as live chats, email, various messengers, comments, calls, etc. Accordingly, it takes more time to provide feedback as it is possible that there are different time zones, or the participants are not always available online at the same time. So, it may take days to fully understand a single point and the quality of questioning is possible to decrease.
#3 Difficulty to Choose a Quality Program
These days, the digital world is overwhelmed with various education programs. As a result, it becomes challenging for the learners to choose the best possible option among the pool of available resources. When the time comes to select the best distance learning program, it really becomes difficult for students to determine the best course out of so many programs. They find it complex to choose the best course which will offer the maximum benefits as they are unaware of the recognized quality guaranteed online courses.
However, there is something good at this point. Here the learners become more self-directed. They check out different pieces of material, analyze the possibilities in the market, identify their benefits from every course, and choose the best possible. In this process, it is also recommended to check out the comments, reviews, and feedback provided by people who passed that specific course material.
#4 Technical Difficulties
Another challenge people face when relying on distance learning is that the participants who encounter this mode of education are required to have some technical skills. This includes good typing skills to excel in a distance learning setup. Distance learning also includes some hidden costs, like maintenance and purchasing of computers and other types of equipment to succeed in the learning process.
In order to get along with the e-learning principles and achieve success, you have to use a computer that is connected to the internet (smartphones and tablets may also work, but it will be easier and more comfortable with a laptop). Take into consideration that you do not have to be a tech guru or have special technical knowledge. There are many educational website builders that make the process easier than ever. You may develop a personal teaching platform within minutes and without tech knowledge. It is just required to have abilities to use the device. The rest will be provided by the builder and their support team. Uteach is also such a platform that offers to create no-code personal educational portals. Here you may START FOR FREE.
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A viral TikTok trend follows “dogs at daycare and their problems” paired with Louis Prima’s rendition of the song Pennies From Heaven – but why is it so popular?
Since mid-August 2021, these videos have flooded the internet with the latest additions posted as recently as yesterday.
The reason that this trend took off and stayed strong isn’t just because the dogs are sweet and loveable – they’re also relatable, inspiring, and pure.
Why People Love ‘Dogs at Daycare and Their Problems’
1. It’s an adorable trend
Whether or not these dogs have problems, there’s one thing that’s for sure: they’re cute to boot. Even the ugliest little dogs, looking at the iPhone camera with sad, longing eyes, are too cute to handle. And there’s actually science behind watching sweet and lovable animals to reduce stress and anxiety levels.
Check out Cocoa, who looks like she’s being haunted, or Wicket, who “fights her own shadow (and loses).” Despite their frazzled appearances or ludicrous antics, these dogs are endearing, devoted creatures with love to give.
2. It’s a relatable trend
Another reason this trend is so popular is that the dogs are incredibly relatable. Sometimes, if you’re having a rough day or you’re feeling a little slow, the only way to aptly describe your mood is through the art of avant-garde self-deprecating humor. After all, studies show that meme-sharing culture correlates with psychological well-being.
We’ve all been Max, whose “brain is always buffering,” or Anya, who “doesn’t know how to howl so she always screams.” Seeing dogs that have a slew of neuroses comparable to our own can help put things in perspective – everybody has those days, even if they’re a five-pound Maltipoo.
3. It’s an inspirational trend
The world seems unstable enough these days, and hearing that dogs have problems just like humans could be a bit sad. But the good news is that these problems are harmless, and though they may make these dogs weird, it also makes them special.
Take Marigold the Labrador puppy who must be held like a baby at all times – while her problem might make people’s arms tired, it’s not hurting anyone. And even though Doug only has half a tail, that isn’t stopping him from enjoying life to the fullest. By seeing dogs with silly problems and hearty spirits, viewers feel inspired to shake off worries about their own problems and live in the moment.
4. It’s a versatile trend
The other great thing about this trend is that it keeps evolving. Some videos involve dogs at daycare and their quirks rather than problems. Others list dogs at daycare that were named perfectly. And there are even videos that continue the trend by replacing dogs and daycare with other animals, like horses at a rescue or cats at a cat café.
There’s also a trend within a trend, with dogs at daycare that are “always judging you.” But you can rest assured that Bubba the bulldog‘s side-eye isn’t personal – some dogs will give you what dog experts call a “whale eye” to express anxiety, fear, or even a desire for a little personal space.
It’s paw-sitively fun!
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Credits: 3 credits
Students study advanced statistical techniques and methods and their applications in business and economics. Topics include inferences about population variance, including hypothesis testing and confidence intervals; analysis of variance and experimental designs; simple and multiple regressions; time series analysis and forecasting. Students are required to apply statistical techniques using Excel and/or Minitab.
Prerequisite: ECON 1220 or ECON 1900 and ECON 1950; ECON 2320; MIST 2610
Exclusion: BUEC 2330, BUEC 3101, BUEC 3330, ECON 2330, ECON 2331, STAT 2410
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You?ve heard the phrase "bigger is not necessarily better." Well, that certainly holds true for manufacturers of PCBs.
There used to be a time when having enough real estate on a PCB was no problem. However, those days are gone. Today, the goal is to squeeze as many components as possible onto a board that is no larger than it absolutely has to be.
Shrinking PCBs and ComponentsThe desire for smaller products, especially in the mobile device market, is the main driver behind the shrinking size of PCBs and surface mount components. "Ten years ago, a cell phone was just a cell phone. You dialed, called and that was it. Now, you can store messages. It?s more of a time-management feature. They also have games. And with the reduction and miniaturization of the size of components, this allows more features to be added into something that is easy to carry around," says Cal Driscoll, applications manager at Manncorp Inc. (Huntingdon Valley, PA).
According to Prismark Partners LLC (Cold Spring Harbor, NY), since the 1970s, the size of passive components has decreased in area by more than 28 fold. At that time, the typical passive component was a 1206 (3.2 by 1.6 millimeters). Ten years later, 0805s (2 by 1.25 millimeters) had become the most common size, and by the end of the 1990s, 0603s (1.6 by 0.8 millimeters) were the most commonly used components.
But with the consumer desire for smaller handheld devices, components smaller than 0603s were needed. So along came 0402s (1 by 0.5 millimeter). Prismark Partners states that implementing 0402s alongside 0603s did not require processes that were much different. The 0402s have been around for several years. And most manufacturers are now comfortable with 0402s, at least in the mobile device market, even though they represent a small segment of that market.
But even now, the desire for smaller and smarter portable devices has not abated. Therefore, a new component has come onto the scene to challenge the dominance of 0402s and to challenge the automated assembly processes of PCB manufacturers.
The 0201The 0201 (0.6 by 0.3 millimeter) is currently the smallest component being produced and used. Compared with 0402s, 0201s are 75 percent smaller in both volume and weight.
They are already used in portable consumer electronic products. "Currently, 0201s are produced at a rate of 6.8 billion per year. However, they represent only 0.6 percent of total passive production," says Prismark Partners.
There are a couple of reasons for the low percentage of 0201s being used. "Some have shied away from 0201s because of the much higher design characteristics that are involved for the pads and the reflowing process. Manufacturers are using 0402s in their place," says Frank Ruiz, service area manager at Juki Automation Systems Inc. (Freemont, CA). Also, as components decrease in size, they have lower power-handling capabilities. "So you might actually need more of them or you might not be able to go that small if you need to use higher amounts of power. So you?re just going to see the smaller components in smaller handheld devices—things that don?t require excessive amounts of power," says Ruiz.
0201 Design ChallengesAccording to Jim Adriance, process research engineer at Universal Instruments? surface mount technology laboratory (Binghamton, NY), if a manufacturer is comfortable with assembling 0402s, then 0201s should not be a problem. "No special machinery is required. Parameters need to be correct, but it does not require a new system or new technology," he says.
However, there are assembly issues that need to be addressed before 0201s can be successfully implemented into a project.
One of the most important issues is knowing whether the pick-and-place machine is adequate. "There are a lot of things that have been added onto the machines to ensure the accuracy of the picks," says Ruiz.
Typically, the pick-and-place machine should have a high degree of accuracy, because the components are so small. "If you pick up right in the center of the component, ideally you shouldn?t have any problems. If you pick up off to the left, off to the right or on the edge, when it starts assembling it, there could be placement issues," says Driscoll. A pick-and-place machine with an autocorrect feature can be helpful if the machine picks up the component off center or if the paper carrier tape?s position is varying. The autocorrect feature will allow the machine to recognize that it picked up the part a certain amount off. If this amount of offset is consistent, it will automatically move the pick position to that location.
Inspection is an integral part of the PCB assembly process. Typically, computer-aided design (CAD) data sets the positioning where the component should be placed. Some pick-and-place machines have an onboard camera, so when the component is placed, the camera can see if it has been placed correctly in reference to the CAD data. Or afterwards, you could have auto-mated optical inspection equipment outside of the machine to inspect placement and position.
When the component is in the feeder, the operator should know how low to go in the feeder to pick up the component. Therefore, most pick-and-place machines should have a height-measurement system to gauge the exact Z position of the tape feeder. By determining the exact distance needed to pick up the component, the machine will run faster.
Pick-and-place machines use vacuum nozzles to pick 0201 components from a paper carrier tape. Manufacturers should be aware that the nozzle should be a special 0201 nozzle. Nozzles are typically made of plastic, steel or ceramic. Driscoll suggests using a ceramic nozzle. "With plastic nozzles, when you get down that small, you start to sacrifice a degree of robustness. With steel, you could have problems with scoring the component, or if the steel gets dented or damaged, it could sacrifice the suction and cause the component to get dropped," he says.
Ruiz adds that with 0201s, the part should be picked up and placed with no more than 3 newtons of force. If the nozzle goes down too hard, the component might tombstone, or it might fly out of the nozzle pocket. Therefore, the nozzle needs to have a delicate spring.
Manufacturers should also be able to automatically detect whether the tip of the vacuum nozzle is clogged. This might prevent a component from being placed incorrectly. Pick-and-place machines with a component-release check have a laser that checks the end of the nozzle to ensure that the component has been delivered to the board and is not sticking to the side of the nozzle.
Another important issue when incorporating 0201s into a PCB project is choosing the correct type of stencil and the screen printing process. "If you?re dealing with smaller components and you?re using a larger solder paste or the solder ball size is larger, it?s not going to fit through the holes. The balls are going to be larger than what the holes are for the 0201 components," says Driscoll.
Going hand in hand with choosing the stencil is solder paste selection. Solder paste selection should be based on the particular application, and generally most applications use no-clean solder paste. No-clean flux chemistry combines chemicals to accomplish a number of tasks in the soldering process, such as cleaning the parts to be soldered and keeping the solder powder from oxidizing during storage and reflow heating. These fluxes produce a solder paste that can be applied as required, will stay in place, will hold components in place prior to reflow and be inert after the soldering process.
Additionally, because solder paste has a definite ball or particle size once the flux is activated, there is a solder paste best suited for 0201s. "Most suited for a 0201 would be a size 3," says Driscoll.
Poor board planning up front can lead to defects later on during the reflow process. Pad size, pad dimension and distance will affect the reflow profile. According to findings from Universal Instruments, a pad design of 12 by 15 by 9 mils is optimal for 0201s. Component pad spacing is also critical. For example, the optimal pad spacing for 0402s and 0603s is 0.3 millimeter from one component to the other. For 0201s, spacing has decreased to 0.15 or even 0.1 millimeter.
The reflow profile also depends on the density of the board. If the board is thick, it will require more heat or a longer time in the oven. If it is a thin board, it will need less heat or less time in the oven.
Common DefectsThe two most common defects found with 0201s are tombstoning and solder bridging.
Tombstoning occurs when a component is misaligned so that it stands on one of its sides. This typically happens when one side is pulled harder than the other. One side of the component reaches a liquid state before the other, creating a surface tension where the molten solder pulls the component vertically. Other causes for tombstoning include heterogenous flux wetting speed, using attachment pads or component terminations that have poor solderability, and excessive heating speed or inadequate flux activation time.
Solder bridging is the formation of an electrical short when sections of solder from two adjacent components run together, forming a conductive path between the two components.
"Many parameters will influence defects. It goes back to pad design and stencil design. The solder paste print process is crucial. Placement accuracy is very important, along with the type of solder paste that you?re using and the reflow profile," says Adriance.
How Small Can Components Get?There are components coming online that are smaller than 0201s. The next size smaller than a 0201 is the 0105. Adriance believes that these will be predominantly used in handheld products. They could also go into other niche applications, such as a hearing aid.
Driscoll has another idea about the use for components smaller than 0201s. "A lot of Arial, the smallest components get embedded underneath components like a quad flat pack, or embedded into circuit traces. Even though our demand for smaller and smaller components is definitely out there, I can?t see, just for shear mechanical limitations of the equipment that we?re using, it going much further. At that point, it will just go to embedded circuitry. They?ll just take that component and put it right into the land pattern of the PCB, and that will be done at the PCB house. The current mechanical limitations of the machines just can?t process it," he says.
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Today, I had a keyboard problem. As some people may recall, I have an expensive Avant Stellar keyboard (http://www.cvtinc.com) and for some reason the quote key (‘ or “) has stopped working. It’s one of the old style “clicky key” keyboards that uses mechanical switches. The Avant Stellar is based on the old Northgate OmniKey keyboards, which I used in the early 90s. Although I love my expensive keyboard, I have had a very large problem with dog hair getting into it, so I took it apart and cleaned it again. Now I have a really clean keyboard with a non-functional quote key. I emailed customer service and plan to send it in for repair.
Like everyone else, I have a lot of extra keyboards hanging around from years of computer upgrades. But none are as wonderful to type on as the Avant Stellar. There’s a good reason for the difference. Not to put too fine a point on it, but new keyboards are garbage. It’s no wonder so many people have trouble with repetitive strain injuries. The keyboards you get with new computers really stink. The latest one I got with my Dell was smaller and cheesier than ever. It’s sitting on a shelf; I’ve never even plugged it in.
After my failure to fix the Avant Stellar this morning, I plugged in my old Keytronic. It’s sort of squishy and definitely not clicky enough, but still somewhat better than a new keyboard. When I took it apart, I found out why it doesn’t click. (Like the Avant Stellar, it too was filthy.) The reason is because the Keytronic does not have mechanical key switches. Under the keys is a layer of plastic with bumps (or “domes”) that connect the key to a circuit board below when a key is pressed.
Clicky keyboards use either ALPS mechanical switches like the Avant Stellar or the buckling-spring key switch mechanism that is used in old IBM keyboards. Many people regard the IBM Model M as the best keyboard ever made. IBM did do keyboards well. I remember typing on the keyboard for an old IBM DisplayWriter and of course IBM Selectric typewriters, which both had great tactile feedback. As it turns out, you can still get old IBM keyboards (http://www.clickykeyboards.com) and a company called Unicomp is making new ones based on the old IBM design (http://www.pckeyboard.com).
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If ever proof were needed that genre is what you make of it, then one only need look to Japan’s ‘pink’ cinema of the 1970s, where the lowest of exploitation subgenres was being approached with the highest of artistic sensibilities, disinterring unexpectedly exquisite treasures from the trash. In School of the Holy Beast (Seiju gakuen, 1974), Norifumi Suzuki retained – even outdid – all the most shockingly sleazy elements associated with ‘nunsploitation’, while investing them with aesthetic and political values that had previously been alien to the subgenre. And a couple of years earlier, Shunya Ito was doing something similar to the whole women-in-prison (or WIP) genre with his Female Prisoner Scorpion trilogy. The stock WIP elements were all there – an unjustly imprisoned protagonist, sadistic warden, badass inmates, rampant lesbianism, vicious fighting, raping, rioting, and the ever-obligatory shower scenes – and yet when it came to the confines of genre, Ito, much like his irrepressible protagonist Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji), would be constantly resisting the forces imposed by circumstance and trying to escape to territories new.
Nami Matsushima, also known variously as Matsu, Sasori (i.e. ‘Scorpion’) or Prisoner #701, began life in a manga series begun by Toru Shinohara in 1970 – but it was new filmmaker Shunya Ito who would transform her into a cinematic avatar of female vengeance as iconic as Lady Snowblood (also played by Meiko Kaji) or Inoshika Ocho (played by Reiko Ike). Ito had originally intended to make ten Scorpion films, but in the end stopped at three. The first, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Joshuu 701-go: Sasori, 1972), was a relatively conventional, if highly stylised, WIP picture, but Ito’s broader strategy could be discerned in the film’s uses and abuses of Japan’s national flag – seen at the beginning saluted by vicious male guards, in the middle figured as virginal blood on a white sheet after Matsushima has been deflowered and wickedly betrayed by her vice cop boyfriend, and at the end flapping in silhouette over the cop’s bloody body. Here the WIP subgenre was being used to frame no less than the conflict between patriarchal traditions and women’s liberation in contemporary Japan.
These ideas were taken much further by Ito’s second film, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bo, 1972), where Matsushima and six fellow escapees make a stab at freedom, with their own treacherous lack of solidarity as much an impediment to success as the murderous lawmen and rape-minded tourists (the latter expressly veterans of Japan’s Second World War outrages in China) closing in on all sides. The film begins as standard WIP fare, but once the seven sisters have broken out, they morph first into the heroines of classical tragedy (complete with a lyrical chorus outlining the plight of each), and then into the poncho-wearing outlaws of the spaghetti western (with Shunsuke Kikuchi’s awesome score boasting enough guitars, flutes and jaw harps to do Ennio Morricone proud). In this gleefully psychedelic assault on the senses (with a climactic scene set in a junkyard in celebration of the film’s trashy roots), genre proves as difficult to contain as Matsushima herself.
Compared with the exuberance of its immediate predecessor, Ito’s third film Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable (Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya, 1973) is a relatively restrained affair – or at least as restrained as a film can be which begins with its heroine slicing off the lower arm of Detective Gondo (Mikio Narita) and then running through the city streets with the limb still swinging wildly from handcuffs attached to her wrist. While Matsushima is making her escape, new character Yuki (Yayoi Watanabe) provides passionless sex to a paying male clientèle to support herself and her brain-damaged brother, while engaging in equally passionless sex with the latter to keep his animal instincts in check. It is sisterly piety of the most perverse and transgressive kind, and it is Yuki’s burden that she knows this, and also knows that her only alternative is even more horrifying: to let her brother die. Yuki, like Matsushima, is trapped.
At an isolated cemetery where Matsushima is trying to remove Gondo’s severed arm, and where Yuki has just finished servicing one of her johns, these two women will meet – and as a muted friendship of sorts develops between them, the film will continue to parallel their predicaments: both are women repeatedly constrained by situations beyond their control, both are prevented from having anything like normal professional or personal lives, and both get in trouble with the criminal fraternity and the law alike. Eventually Matsushima will respond according to past form, wreaking an implacable revenge on all her persecutors – but Yuki, who inhabits an altogether more grounded version of reality, is left to continue being ‘fucked’ by seemingly every male she encounters. Her climactic release of passion, in the arms of her own brother, affords her character a ‘happy ending’ of the most bittersweet variety imaginable – and if Matsushima’s parallel tale provides a much more satisfying pay-off, we are left to suspect that this belongs to the realm of mere fantasy.
Only the film’s final, extended coda is set in an actual prison, and it is debatable whether Matsushima herself is there in person, or merely as a ghost or the projected embodiment of another character’s guilty conscience – but still Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable remains within the WIP genre, or at least within its outer limits. For even beyond the dank corridors of Jailhouse 41, prison imagery abounds, be it the room into which Yuki’s brother is locked for his own safety, or Matsushima’s tiny apartment (proving as open to unwelcome male entry as any cell), or the ravens’ cage into which she is locked by her one-time fellow inmate turned procuress Katsu (Reisen Lee), or the searchlights which she must evade during a rooftop getaway, or the system of sewer tunnels in which she becomes incarcerated near the end (leaving her able to communicate with Yuki only through metal grilles). Even Matsushima’s ‘civilian’ occupation as a seamstress is matched by the similar activity forced upon the real convicts in the closing scenes. Matsushima may spend most, even all, of her time on the outside, but here the whole world has been converted into a penitentiary, and any escape is either short-lived or illusory.
Ito’s last contribution to the Female Prisoner Scorpion series is also his bleakest, shot with all the dark shadows, endless rain and moral ambivalence of a film noir. Katsu, who dresses in feathery black like the pet ravens she keeps and even speaks with a rasping squawk, may be as cartoonish an adversary as Matsushima has ever faced, but Detective Gondo, by contrast, is a grave-faced, largely sympathetic pursuer, less overtly corrupt or sadistic than the series’ previous representatives of the law – at least until his final, desperate efforts to blackmail Yuki and to stop Matsushima once and for all. In the lead role, Meiko Kaji continues her reign as the apotheosis of glowering defiance, but even she softens with pity when faced with Yuki’s brother (despite his earlier botched attempt to assault her) – and in a first for the series, she is also at one point reduced to uncharacteristic tears by the harrowing fate of naïve streetwalker Shinobu (Tomoko Mayama), forced to have a late abortion and then left to bleed to death by Katsu’s clan. The grotesque operation, performed on a screaming Shinobu, is intercut with the legal abortion of the incestuous fetus inside Yuki, in a montage that collapses the notion of choice for either woman in such extreme circumstances. Children, and the hope for the future that they might bring, have no place in the determinedly grim universe of Beast Stable.
If Matsushima is humanised here, she will soon turn into a murderous machine again, taking out Katsu and the gang with ruthless efficiency and claiming to have been “possessed by the soul of the dead girl” as she conducts her merciless vendetta. Now that she is avenging wrongs done not just to herself but to other women, it is difficult to envisage any real end to her killing spree apart from her own death – and that too is figured here, whether in the image near the beginning of a ghoulish Matsushima haunting a cemetery, or in her rising robotically from the flames (and from near certain death) as a long-haired apparition in the film’s climax.
Whether Matsushima is still living, or, after years spent buried away in unimaginable hellholes, she has finally crossed over forever only to return as an unrestful ghost, there is really nowhere new left for her to go – and so it makes perfect sense that Ito decided to stop his involvement with the Scorpion franchise here, at the point where his heroine’s grudge-fuelled adventures have become both infinitely extendable, and drained of further genuine satisfaction. Meiko Kaji would make one more appearance as Matsushima in Yasuharu Hasebe’s middling Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song (Joshuu sasori: 701-go urami-bushi, 1973), before herself bowing out of the project – and though there have been several subsequent attempts in the late seventies and in the nineties to revive Matsu for new audiences, none has shown the special spark that Ito and Kaji together brought to the character.
Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable is a sombre, haunting and at times achingly beautiful film – witness the flickering matches that Yuki showers down into the dark, damp sewer where Matsushima has taken refuge. Slower and more brooding than Ito’s previous two Scorpion films, and much less outrageous, Beast Stable opens with Matsushima emerging from a train tunnel into the city above, and ends with her (maybe) emerging from a storm-water tunnel. That is how this heroine of the seventies deserves to be remembered: a fugitive figure from the underground, raising women’s long-repressed plaints (encapsulated by the ‘Grudge Song’ which Meiko Kaji herself sings at the beginning of each film, and which would later be appropriated by Quentin Tarantino in 2003’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1) up to the surface of a world run chiefly at and for the pleasure of men.
The final image in Beast Stable is of the wanted posters that bear its heroine’s face and identity burning to ashes, as a text states: “The Scorpion served out her term, and was released – nobody ever knew what became of her.” One way or another, Matsushima has finally escaped herself and the whole WIP genre, receding into the elevated realm of legend. It is a fitting close to a trilogy that never failed to surprise.
Anton Bitel is a freelance film critic and occasional tutor in Classics at the University of Oxford. He has written for Film4, Total Film, Little White Lies, Eye for Film, musicOMH and Movie Gazette, and is a member of the Online Film Critics Society.
Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable(Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya, 1973)
Director Shunya Ito
Screenplay Hiro Matsuda
Original Story by Tooru Shinohara (comic book)
Producer Kineo Yoshimine
Director of Photography Masaro Shimizu
With Meiko Kaji (Nami Matsushima), Mikio Narita (Detective Gondo), Reisen Lee (Katsu), Yayoi Watanabe (Yuki), Koji Nambara (Sameshima), Takashi Fujiki (Tanida), Tomoko Mayama (Shinobu)
Runtime 92 minutes
Produced and Distributed by Eureka! (Region 2)
Aspect Ratio Anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer
Sound Mix Dolby Digital Monaural
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Millions more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, sending the six-week total above 30 million since the coronavirus pandemic began to shutter businesses across the country.
Initial jobless claims totaled 3.84 million in the week ended April 25 following 4.44 million in the prior week, according to Labor Department figures Thursday. Economists had projected 3.5 million claims.
While filings remain at levels unseen before the crisis, it’s the fourth week that the pace has decelerated, suggesting that the worst of the labor-market hit may have already occurred. At the same time, job losses remain far from over and employment is expected to take years to eventually recover. Plus, more layoffs could be in store as states and municipalities face severe budget crunches.
The number of claims, assuming each person is counted as unemployed, could imply a jobless rate of around 22%, which would be the highest since the Great Depression in the 1930s. That’s also far above the peak of 10% reached in 2009 in the wake of the last recession.
Florida — whose governor plans to start reopening the state on Monday — had the most claims last week, with an estimated 432,500 on an unadjusted basis. That was followed by California at 328,000 and Georgia at 264,800. Most states reported declines.
The latest figures offer a sobering preview of the government’s April jobs report, due next Friday, which is expected to show a 22 million decline in payrolls and jobless rate of 16.3%. Those figures will reflect the period from mid-March through mid-April, when efforts to contain the spread of the virus went into full swing, causing countless layoffs in restaurants, retailers and other businesses.
Continuing claims, or the total number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits, rose by 2.17 million to a record 18 million in the week ended April 18. That sent the insured unemployment rate — which measures the unemployed receiving benefits as a share of the labor market — to a record 12.4%, compared with 1.2% before the crisis.
The ongoing demand for unemployment benefits signals that the recession will be difficult to bounce back from. Figures Wednesday showed gross domestic product contracted in the first quarter by the most since 2008, and the second quarter is widely forecast as a historic decline. Less employment means less consumer spending — the largest part of the economy — and more weakness ahead as the drop in demand spreads to other industries.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell encouraged the government to provide more stimulus to support the economy in remarks Wednesday. He also highlighted that the “burdens are falling most heavily on those least able to carry them.” The downturn’s depth and duration are extremely uncertain and will depend on control of the virus as well as government aid, he said.
State unemployment agencies have struggled to cope with the unprecedented surge in applicants since March, and there have been many delays in processing and accounting for the magnitude of the job loss. Some states have staggered applications by name on different days, while others have been working through a backlog.
Separate data Thursday showed household spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of the economy, plunged 7.5% in March from the prior month, the sharpest drop in Commerce Department records back to 1959.
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You found the perfect 5th grade math review! Your 5th grade students will LOVE practicing or reviewing important concepts during math centers with these hands-on and engaging math board games. This year-long bundle has 45 math games for EVERY 5th grade standard. A great on-going math center, practice after a lesson, small group instruction activity or even early finisher activity. You can also use these math games as a spiral review throughout the year.
Are you always searching for another math center? Wondering what to do that will keep your students engaged while you work with a small group? You won't need to search ever again. This download is PERFECT because you can have one center be a math board game center for every single 5th grade topic.
The best part? Once you teach students how to play, you won't need to ever again. Just put out the game, game pieces, and a dice - students won't even realize they are practicing their math skills!
Your students will love completing these math board games while mastering the content standards along the way. This full year bundle includes 45 sets of math board games, with each set containing 41 problems or 20 problems (depending on the topic).
View the preview above to see a detailed look at everything in this huge bundle. You can also find a list of all the skills and concepts included below.
Save $64.75 by purchasing this math board game year long bundle for 5th grade.
*Updated to include all game topics for 5th grade Florida's BEST standards!
The following items are included in this 100+ page resource:
- Directions Page for Students
- 45 Board Games
- Answer Keys for each Board Game
- Recording Sheet for Students (5 different options!)
What’s the best way to use this board game?
- Math Centers or Stations
- Whole Group Practice
- Morning Work
- Early Finisher Activities
- Send home to engage students’ families
Tips for Playing this Math Game:
- Read the directions to the students and model how to play.
- Be prepared with dice/spinner and game pieces for each player (paperclips, pencil top erasers, pieces from another game, etc.)
- Every student should solve every problem - not just the person who rolls.
- Create groups of 2-4 students. The lower number of students means the more focused students are while playing.
- Remind students that the focus is not playing the game but that’s just an added bonus! The focus should be on practicing math skills.
- Show students how to compare and discuss answers. Did you both get the same answer? If students get different answers, ask them to solve the problem using a different strategy or help coach each other through the problem.
Do your students need math practice? Students will be playing a game and will often forget that they are even practicing math skills! Research shows that challenge-based gamification in the classroom leads to an increase of 34.755% in student performance (ScienceDirect, 2020).
What will you love the most about these games? Your students will quickly learn the instructions to play the board game and will get right to work on playing (and practicing) their math skills. This resource is easy to use and requires very little prep. It’s also printer friendly so you’ll only use black ink!
- Order of Operations Board Game
- Patterns Board Game
- Writing and Solving Expressions Board Game
- Writing Equations from Word Problems
- Solving One Step Equations
- Multi Step Word Problems
- Input and Output Tables
- True or False Equations
Number Sense and Operations
- Multiply Whole Numbers (2 digit by 2 digit) Board Game
- Multiply Whole Numbers (2 digit by 3 digit and 3 digit by 3 digit) Board Game
- Divide Whole Numbers Board Game
- Rounding Decimals Board Game
- Comparing Decimals Board Game
- Writing Decimals in Expanded and Word Form Board Game
- Adding and Subtracting Decimals Board Games
- Multiplying Decimals Board Game
- Dividing Decimals Board Game
- Multiplying Powers of Ten Board Game
- Multiplying and Dividing Powers of Ten Board Game
- Exponents Board Game
- Relationships Between Digits Board Game
- Compose and Decompose Decimals
- Multiplying Decimals to Find Area
- Adding Decimals to Find Perimeter
- Writing Fractions as Division Problems Board Game
- Writing Whole Numbers as Fractions Board Game
- Equivalent Fractions Board Game
- Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions Board Game
- Add and Subtract Fractions with Like Denominators Board Game
- Add and Subtract Fractions with Unlike Denominators Board Game
- Multiplying Fractions Board Game
- Dividing Fractions Board Game
- Dividing Fractions Word Problems Game
- Multiplying Fractions to Find Area
- Adding Fractions to Find Perimeter
- Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators Word Problems
- Measurement Conversions Customary Units Board Game
- Measurement Conversions Metric Units Board Game
- Calculate Volume Math Board Game
- Money Word Problems
Data Analysis and Probabliity
- Plot Ordered Pairs on Coordinate Grids Math Board Game
- 2D Figures (Classifying Quadrilaterals) Math Board Game
- Classify Triangles Math Board Game
- Identify and Classify 3D Shapes
★ Check out the preview to see exactly what is included in this WHOLE YEAR bundle!
★ Printer Friendly Resource! All pages are in black ink ONLY. If you are looking to add color, feel free to print on colorful cardstock.
★ Each of these games are sold separately.
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IndependentWHO is organising a « Scientific and Citizen Forum on Radioprotection : from Chernobyl to Fukushima » on May 12th 2012 in Geneva.
Why organize a scientific and citizen Forum?
The real health consequences of Chernobyl have been covered up. And a repeat cover up of the health consequences of Fukushima is well underway.
Subordinate since 1959 to the International Atomic Energy Agency – part of whose mandate is the promotion of peacefull use of the atom - the World Health Organization has fully participed in the cover up.
The " clean bill of health " that the WHO provides to all nuclear activities must be denounced and civil society must take matters into its own hands.
IndependentWHO has decided, therefore, to invite independent scientists, free or all conflict of interest, to participate in a Scientific and Citizen Forum so that serious, reliable information can be provided be to the public on radiocontamination and radioprotection.
The Forum will allow citizens, politicians, journalists, health professionals and Hippocratic Vigils to share information and experience and think about what they can do together to protect populations from radioactive pollution.
Saturday 12 may 2012 – 8.00 to 12.45 -
9.00 Présentation – Chair : Marc MOLITOR
Opening adress by Rémy PAGANI (Switzerland)
Administrative Councillor of the City of Geneva
Introduction to the Forum
Paul ROULLAUD(France)Représentative, IndependentWHO
Why organize a scientific and citizen forum ?
Roland DESBORDES (France) Président, CRIIRAD
Citizen information : taking responsability.
Paul LANNOYE (Belgium) Scientist, Honorary Member of
European Parliament : Why have the risks of exposure to radioactivity
always been underestimated ?
9.50 Overview of the radiocontamination in Japan and the
Health consequences of Chernobyl
- Chair : André LARIVIÈRE
Alexei YABLOKOV (Russia) Environmental scientist ,
Adviser, Academy of Sciences :
The diversity of biomedical consequences of Chernobyl.
ShinzoKIMURA (Japan) Professor, University of
Hokkaido. Specialist in radioprotection.
Extent of contamination and first clinical symptoms following
the Fukushima catastrophe.
EisukeMATSUI (Japan) Director, Institute of Environmental
Medicine of Gifu, Specialist in respiratory illness.
Action taken by Japanese scientists and citizens concerned about
low-doses internal radiation exposure in Japan.
11.25 Radioprotection against internal contamination
- Chair : Wladimir TCHERTKOFF
Galina BANDAJEVSKAIA (Belarus) Pediatrician, cardiologist
Health status of children in Belarus since the accident at the
Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
Alexei NESTERENKO(Belarus) Director, Belrad Institute
Implementation of radioprotection for population at local level.
Radioecological atlas : human beings and ionizing radiation.
Vladimir BABENKO (Belarus) Assistant Director, Belrad
Institut : From Chernobyl to Fukushima... A practical guide to
Saturday 12 may 2012 – 14.00 to 18.00 -
14.00 Management of the catastrophe by the autorities and its effects on
society. - Chair : Eric PEYTREMANN
Sophie FAUCONNIER (France) Practitioner, author of studies on the
impact of Chernobyl in Corsica
Health impact of the Chernobyl accident in Corsica : an independent
epidemiological study finally established.
Paul JOBIN (France) Professor of Sociology, specialised in Japan,
Research associate at the Center for Research on Contempory Issues in
Public Health (INSERM-EHESS)
Fukushima : radioprotection ou « radio-management » by autorities ?
Kolin KOBAYASHI (Japan) Journalist, correspondent, 'Days Japan'
Nuclear energy in Japan, from Hiroshima to Fukushima, and the
15.20 Civil society : Following Chernobyl and Fukushima, NGOs,
individuals citizens, politicians, doctors, scientists, andjournalists
- Chair : Marc MOLITOR
Youri BANDAJEVSKY (Belarus) Anatomopathologist,
Président, Center for Analysis and Coordination "Ecology and Health"
From the syndrome of chronic incorporation of long half- life radionuclides
to the creation of programs and radioprotection policies for populations
: - an example of an integrated model.
Aya MARUMORI and Wataru IWATA (Japan) Independent Laboratory
CRMS : Independent initiatives and activities following Fukushima
Michèle RIVASI (France) Member, European Parliament , co-founder
What is Europe doing in the area of radioprotection ?
Miwa CHIWAKI (Japan) Representative,Association of Mothers from
Fukushima : Our struggle for survival continues.
Chris BUSBY (United Kingdom) Chimist, chemical physicist,
Small area cancer epidemiology for the Citizen : some approaches.
Michel FERNEX (Switzerland) Professor Emeritus, Faculty of
Medicine, Basel, former consultant, WHO.
Fukushima : precious time has been lost.
Conclusion of the day
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Essential aircon maintenance
You soon remember that you can’t live without air conditioning when you live in a tropical environment like the one in Singapore. Not only does air conditioning play a significant role in keeping your home and company cool but it also helps to get rid of excess moisture. Whatever the advantage of air conditioning, it always happens to have a downside. To stay working the machine needs daily servicing. Luckily, the routine maintenance is not as boring as other people believe. Instead of having to deal with the high heat levels during the hot humid days, you need to make sure that you have regular maintenance choices.
Is your air conditioning system not performing normally?
Daily maintenance means that home or office air conditioning systems last a longer period of time. Consider air conditioning servicing with us if you want your air condition to last longer and still provide you with the standard cooling you want. The maintenance plans which we provide to our customers are reasonable and versatile in all aspects. These are designed specifically to keep the cooling systems in their pristine condition.
Why should you clean your air conditioning systems?
Beating the heat by effective cooling systems in the heat requires not only expertly designed aircon system, but also maintenance of the same. This has become very essential as it helps to improve the air quality of your refrigeration device. Although your device is reliable and effective over the year, this will help to reduce running costs although ensuring optimum efficiency.
Air Condition Servicing Process
Here are some of the facilities you might hope to provide when you opt-in to a general package of air conditioning facilities. Normally a lot of items should cover the area of the research. It ensures any residual water in the drainage pipe is drained out, and the unit is thoroughly cleaned.
Air Filter Cleaning
All the air which makes your space fresh and cool flow through the air filter. Dirty filters have the ability to affect your safety and comfort. That is why it is really important to always keep clean filters. Our general service cleans your air filters so you and your family have clean air
The fan blower of your air conditioner is accountable for the flow of cool air as condensation is accumulated in the water tray. Both can be toxic, create germs and affect the air quality if both are left uncleaned and ignored. Our service provides disinfection to ensure that the room is free of germs, and the kids.
Vacuuming the System
Your air conditioning system includes parts that can not be easily washed, therefore waste water and contaminants are collected in those smaller parts. Our chemical washing service includes complete cleaning of indoor chemical spray and liquid vacuuming to render your air condition completely clean.
A safe and reliable drainage system is key to keeping your air conditioner working. Clogged drainage can result in growth of algae and harmful substances which can cause serious damage to your air condition and health. We ensure your drainage system is clear from obstructions and clogs via our chemical wash kit.
From the above-mentioned scope of servicing, it is clear to all homeowners that air conditioner maintenance encompasses all aspects of this very essential home function. Working with a local skilled technician means you never have to worry about messing up the machine during the warm days.
You should always try to arrange daily check-ups because they help ensure that the machine is not breaking down on you with minimum chances. It’s also a perfect way to stop incurring massive expenses that could come with having to fix the whole thing entirely.
We service cassette and wall mounted types of air conditioners:
- Checks all major electrical connections service. Sure that there are no loose wires in the network is essential.
- Passing around the exterior front panels and coverings. It involves examining the aircon’s underside, side, and top.
- Check for strange noises while it is operational that originate from the aircon device.
- Clean the air conditioner filters thoroughly Test the exhaust pressure and suction compressor. This is also known as testing of the refrigerant method.
- Checks the blower fan’s working condition mounted in the air conditioner unit. If they deem it appropriate, the technician can apply grease lubricant.
- Cleaning of the evaporator coils in the air conditioning system
- lowing and testing of the condensation water drainage line Cleaning of the air conditioning system condensation water drainage pan
Benefits of Air Conditioner Servicing
If you have air conditioning systems running either in your home or company, you have no choice but to make sure the systems are serviced as much as possible. Regular maintenance and servicing is the only way you can ensure that the aircon can continue to work efficiently. In addition, it also helps to predict issues that may occur in the future from the light. Please notice that general air conditioner operation is a easy and hassle-free exercise. To prolong the service life of your air conditioning unit, you can use it. | <urn:uuid:df6b7827-ed72-4f77-afc1-0fdaa1b0e98c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pacificaircon.com.sg/aircon-servicing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945132 | 1,031 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Starting with the idea that light (which is an electromagnetic wave, photon particle) is attracted by large gravitational fields, light bends arround large objects and is sucked into a balck hole and never allowed to leave. So then light should have a virtual form of mass , a mass in motion, the energy (based on E=mc2), this gravitational effect should also be valid between light rays themselves, they should be attracted and drawn closer along their path.
|Computer generated imge of a star. source: http://pics-about-space.com/orange-star-in-space?p=3|
So we move to the idea that light traveling thousands of light years distance should not be perfect parallel but converging slightly. Objects then seen in the sky appear smaller than they are, because light converges.
Moving to another idea with the same subject, the question must be asked, what happens when light enters a black hole, if it is not able to move at the speed , if time stops in a black hole, if it has to be concentrated at densities far higher than anywhere in the Universe. The proposed idea is that this light confined, trapped and condensed may itself turn into matter of different forms; forming the particles described in the standard model, or even the smaller pieces that make them. The idea is that energy in electromagnetic form, moving at high speed is trapped in a black hole and converted into matter. Same as Hydrogen goes through fusion in a star to become Helium. Light goes into confinement in a black hole to become matter.
|Light Bent by Gravity (Image: C. Sheng, H. Liu, Y. Wang, S. N. Zhu and D. A. Genov)|
This Idea leads itself to a grander thought. If at a point, the universe was filled with light energy and no matter. This light could be attracted through gravity to itself, grouped in a huge spherical form of light, where energy density is too high, Confined Energy forms as what we are familiar with as particles (in a similar approach of H , He, O, C … Fe sequence) until the process collapse and the sphere ejects all energy and newly formed matter. This would be another way to look at the Big Bang. There was only light, light grouped in a sphere of high energy density and formed confined energy. At a point this “Fusion” collapsed, porbably when reaching a certain particle that does not balance the forces. The sphere collapses and releases Energy and Confined Energy; thus a “Big Bang”.
So in the picture below, one would have Confined Energy (matter) at the core, formed from “Fused” light; and Moving Energy (light) surrounding the core.
|Fusion of H to He insidea star Source : http://starformation.synthasite.com/main-sequence-stars.php|
Here is a thought. There is no absolute direct way of measuring mass. Mass is derived from the resistance to change, gravity force, impact energy or chemical reactions. In reality, there could be no mass, no matter, no particles, simply confined energy, which we perceive as matter.
What we call mass is what I call here “Confined Energy”.
Now you can look at you arm and see it as a group of infinitely small confined energy spheres, that refuses to interact or to disconnect. This Confined Energy is the building block of our Universe.
|Digital Art Source : http://thespiritscience.net/2014/06/21/ascend-academy-geometry/|
A closing thought on gravity, which is still a mystery for physicist.One theory could be that there is a third field which create gravity force, this field originates from the imbalance of the electromagnetic field, the quantum effect of this disturbance is the gravity force. Because it is a simple disturbance of a major field, it is much weaker and it has a constant value relative to the quantity of confined energy (what we call mass) because, at the Macro level, a quantum disturbances has a mean value. | <urn:uuid:937cf30d-efde-476c-8466-441697bd1dd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ramifications.de/2016/03/20/matter-mass-and-the-big-bang-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940829 | 856 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Jennifer is 17 and pregnant. She lives with her mother, who has been very supportive and has been helping her get the house ready for the baby. Jennifer goes to school and plans to continue after her baby is born. The stress is overwhelming. Jennifer and her mother argue a lot (it’s hard for anyone to become a parent while still being parented!).
A visitor from Great Expectations talks with Jennifer about how to express herself and navigate her emotions. At the visitor’s invitation, Jennifer’s mother sits in on some of their conversations. Mother and daughter grow closer as a result; Jennifer’s mother even picks up a few parenting tips. Together they organize a baby shower – without a single argument! | <urn:uuid:97e6539b-8b28-45bb-a1df-f4a4e5c178f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greatexpectations.co/a-daughter-becomes-a-mom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965514 | 149 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Even the 1988 free-trade election did not feature as united a front against Brian Mulroney's Tories. With Quebec's chattering class behind the free-trade deal, there was a split between the progressive forces from that province and those in the rest of Canada.
Moreover, not all of Mulroney's policies rubbed left-leaning Canada the wrong way. His human rights battles and his ecological activism earned him kudos in many progressive circles.
By comparison, it is virtually impossible to find a single progressive voice that has anything good to say about Stephen Harper's record or the prospects of his re-election.
But the country's environment movement, its articulate cultural community, its activist social movement and its outspoken intellectuals are united only in opposition to Harper.
They cannot take the next logical step of either regrouping behind the Liberals as the likely party to replace the Conservatives or turning to the NDP as the pretender to the role of alternative government.
In Quebec, passive opposition is about as friendly as most left-leaning groups get to the Liberals – even at the provincial level. And the NDP is too federalist for many Bloc Québécois supporters. Although there has been a recent loosening of the ties between the two, the province's sovereignty and progressive movements have worked hand in hand for decades.
Outside Quebec, many progressive icons are card-carrying members of the NDP or sympathizers of the Green party.
A lot of them feel that the Liberals are not credible in their promises to spend their way to the progressive policies they did not implement when they were in power.
Others reason that, under their current leadership, the Liberals don't have a fighting chance to topple Harper. In areas of the country like Quebec and the Prairies, Canada's former natural governing party is often running in third or fourth place.
But at least as many do not buy into Jack Layton's makeover as the next prime minister.
While there may be a sound rationale for the incapacity of the anti-Conservative forces to coalesce around a single ballot-box option, the message to voters is more perplexing than illuminating.
A case in point is Quebec, where a collection of well-known artists have put together a satirical video clip against the Conservative agenda. Since Culture en péril was posted on the Internet late last week, it has registered more than 200,000 hits. But as entertaining as many have found it, it completely misses the mark.
The clip depicts a francophone artist at the hands of a presumably Conservative and certainly censorious anglophone arts-funding panel. But if anything is not at play in this campaign, it is a French/English divide. The clip is besides the point; it is also potentially divisive.
If the Oct. 14 vote was a referendum on sovereignty, it might have some impact. But even then, its message would probably be too simplistic – for lack of a better word – to hit home with anyone but the converted.
In the current context, it only adds to the opposition confusion that has emerged as a top Conservative asset in this campaign. As such, it is yet another symptom of progressive disarray rather than the beginning of a cure.
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Everyone knows that drunk driving is dangerous. What many people may not realize, however, is that buzzed driving – driving after one or two drinks, with a blood alcohol content of less than the .08 legal limit – is also a significant danger. Indeed, one recently published study indicates that buzzed drivers are far more likely to be at fault for car accidents than sober drivers.
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego examined information from a national database that includes data from approximately 570,000 car accidents that occurred in the U.S. between 1994 and 2011. Data from fatal accidents indicates that when it comes to ensuring safe driving, there is no such thing as a safe level of alcohol in a driver’s blood.
The authors of the study, which was published in the journal Injury Prevention, specifically examined drivers’ measured BAC at the time of their accidents and whether there were clear indicia of blame. Indicia of blame might include, for example, whether one driver had switched lanes unexpectedly or had disobeyed a traffic signal.
Surprisingly, researchers found that people who had a .01 BAC, which represented the lowest blood alcohol level recorded in the database, had about a 46 percent greater chance of being the sole cause of a car accident than sober drivers. According to the authors of the study, an adult man would register a .01 BAC after having only six ounces of beer. Unsurprisingly, the data indicated that as drivers’ BAC levels increased, so did the probability that they would be responsible for a serious accident.
This study is the first to offer an analysis of nationwide data on buzzed drivers, but its findings are not likely to surprise many safety experts. More than anything else, the study shows that the .08 BAC level, set by every state as the threshold for most DUI offenses, is really rather arbitrary. Driving with a .07 BAC is significantly dangerous, even if it may be, strictly speaking, legal.
It remains to be seen whether lawmakers are likely to take action on this issue, although some have suggested that states make efforts to set the BAC level for DUI to .05 percent.
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With more than 30,000 native flowering plants to choose from, who would have thought that the humble dahlia would become Mexico’s national flower?
The earliest known description of the dahlia (known to the Aztecs as acocoxóchitl) comes from the Franciscan friar, Bernardino de Sahagún, who arrived in New Spain in 1529. The Aztec name is believed to derive from “plant with tube-like stems” and the Aztecs are said to have used them to carry water. The name was probably applied primarily to the tall, hollow-stemmed, tree-like species now known as Dahlia imperialis.
Later in the sixteenth century, the dahlia is described in the Codex Barberini, dating from 1552, and lost for centuries prior to its rediscovery in the Vatican Library in 1929. This codex, an Aztec herbal, was written by Martin de la Cruz and Juannes Badianus, two Indians educated at the College of Santa Cruz, Tlatelolco. It begins with maladies affecting the head, and proceeds towards the feet. The dahlia, we learn, was not only useful for carrying water, but also for treating epilepsy. Later scientists found that Atlantic starch, a kind of diabetic sugar extracted from dahlia tubers, was useful (prior to the development of insulin) in the treatment of diabetes.
A wonderful early description of dahlias comes from Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87), the first trained scientist to be sent to New Spain by King Philip II to research and describe the region’s natural history. After seven years exploring the Valley of Mexico, Hernández wrote The Natural History of New Spain, including descriptions of over 3,000 plants previously unknown in Europe. His timeless description of a dahlia was as a
“weed of more than medium size… with large, round flowers, purple with yellowish-red centers, with little scent. There are many varieties… distinguished only by the color and size of the flowers, which in some kinds are white, in others reddish yellow or purple or red, purple with white, red with yellow, or any of another thousand forms.” (loosely translated from the original).
This description demonstrates that breeding and propagation programs in pre-Columbian botanical gardens had already resulted in diverse varieties of the plant.
Hernández also decided that the dahlia was native to the state of Morelos, in the region around Cuernavaca and Tepozotlán. Modern botanists agree that the dahlia is native to Mexico and Guatemala, but how did it come to be cultivated so widely all over the world today for its showy flowers?
At the end of the eighteenth century, a physician, Martin de Sessé y Lacasta, and José Mariano Mociño collect plants for Mexico’s Botanical Garden, recording their findings in Plantae novae Hispaniae. Vincente Cervantes, a colleague of Sessé, sends some dahlia seeds to the famous Spanish botanist, Antonio José Cavanilles, in Europe. Curiously, Cervantes subsequently became director of the Mexican Botanical Gardens, while Cavanilles later became director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid.
The term “dahlia” is used for the first time in 1791, when Cavanilles publishes Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum. The name honors Andreas Dahl, a Swedish botanist, and the first variety is named Dahlia pinnata. Cavanilles sends some bulbs to Dahl, then residing in Denmark, thus beginning the spread of dahlias northwards across Europe. In 1795, Cavanilles names two more dahlia species: Dahlia coccinea and Dahlia rosea.
Independently of Cavanilles, the famous explorer Alexander von Humboldt finds a field of wild dahlias in 1803 and also sends seed back to Europe. His seed, which germinates and flowers in 1805, also turns out to be Dahlia coccinea.
Meanwhile, several attempts are made to introduce dahlias to the U.K., with numerous successes reported during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Among the pioneering growers are Richard Salisbury and John Wedgewood, who both write about their efforts for the Horticultural Society (which later becomes the Royal Horticultural Society). Wedgewood (1766-1844), the son of Josiah Wedgewood (founder of the famous pottery manufacturer), was actually one of the Soceity’s founders.
Fascination with dahlias takes flight at this time. By 1820, only about 100 dahlia varieties are being cultivated. This number explodes to more than 2,000 by 1840. Interest in dahlias wanes briefly until a fortuitous accident occurs in 1872, when the only surviving tuber in a box of dahlias sent from Mexico to Holland eventually yields a brilliant red bloom, with pointed petals, quite unlike any previous dahlia. This leads to a race to develop new varieties by crossing this red variety ( Dahlia juarezii) with earlier varieties. The rest, as they say, is history!
Strangely, no blue variety has ever been cultivated, hence “blue dahlia” is sometimes used figuratively for something impossible or unattainable. A prize of one thousand pounds was offered in 1826 for a blue dahlia, but no-one has yet managed to claim the prize!
Dahlias occupy a special place in many gardeners’ hearts, affording a spectacular range of types, sizes, and colors, ranging from small pompom blooms to amazing “dinner plate” flowers. The growing and advancement of dahlias has become big business worldwide. For instance, the Dutch dahlia trade is said to be worth some 50 million dollars a year, the second highest figure for floriculture after tulips.
In 1963, President Adolfo López Mateos decreed that the dahlia, one of Mexico’s numerous “gifts to the world”, should be the nation’s national flower. And so it remains today – a perfect symbol of the beauty and diversity found throughout the country.
- https://www.dahlia.org/ – website of the American Dahlia Society
Now, as to how the dahlia became the official flower of San Francisco…, well, that’s another story…
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Drinking alcoholic beverages has a symposium-like and festive quality abundant at celeberations in Greece, especially on name days, birthdays, holidays, weddings, gatherings, graduations and christenings. It’s part of everyday life and drinking in moderation proves healthy for the human organism, medical surveys show.
Alcoholism is not a social phenomenon in Greece and drunkness is not easily accepted in public, yet the light-headedness and spirits rising after some glasses of retsina or tsipouro are appreciated. Tourists are tempted to try the unique flavors of Greek alcoholic beverages which have their origins lost in the shrouds of the past but manage to survive to date through the locals’ preference.
There is no legal age in Greece and some suggest this is why most children learn to drink moderately. Clubs and retail stores sell alcoholic drinks to those overf 16 and lately driving laws and regulations have become stricter to avoid alcohol-related car accidents.
Tsipouro is a Greek traditional distillation product from the pomace of grapes (the residue of the wine press) particularly brewed in Thessaly (Tsipouro Tyrnavou,) Epirus, Macedonia, Mani Peninsula and the island of Crete, where Cretans call it tsikoudia. Tsipouro is a strong distilled spirit containing approximately 45 percent alcohol. Other areas of Greece use the name raki.
According to tradition, the first production of tsipouro was the work of Greek Orthodox monks. This occurred during the 14th Century on Mount Athos in Macedonia. The idea of using the pomace left over from the wine-making process produce a distilled spirit was passed to viticulturists in poorer regions across the country.
Depending on the time of year, tsipouro is used either as refreshment or as a hot beverage, and depending on the time of day, it replaces for many the drinking of coffee or wine. It is usually served in shot glasses, with ice, often with delicious meze including feta, ham, olives, tomatoes, halva or other desserts in restaurants.
This anise-flavored aperitif is a symbol of Greek culture and has many scores of thousands of enthusiasts in Greece and Cyprus. Deriving from the anise flavored version of tsipouro, modern ouzo distillation largely took off in the beginning of the 19th Century following the Greek independence fight, with production blooming mainly on the island of Lesbos, which claims to be the originator of the drink and remains a major producer. In the early 20th Century when absinthe was gradually abandoned, ouzo rose as the new substitute.
In 1932, ouzo producers developed a method of distillation using copper stills that is now the standard method of production. One of the largest producers of ouzo today is Varvayiannis, located in the town of Plomari in the southeast portion of Lesbos, while in the same town Pitsiladi, a variety of high quality ouzo is also distilled.
Ouzo is traditionally mixed with water, becoming cloudy white, and served with ice cubes in a small glass. Ouzo can also be drunk straight from a shot glass. Served with a small plate of a variety of appetizers called mezes, usually small fresh fish, fries, olives and feta cheese, ouzo has a smooth yet distinctly sweetened taste that can bring light-headedness in only a few shots.
Ouzito, as you may have imagined is a coctail with ouzo. The Greek answer to mojito – as many call it- is a mix of mint, lemon, soda water, sugar and ouzo. Making the coctail you can also use Coke instead of soda water in case you want it to be more sweet and have a less liquerish taste. Ouzito is moreof an after food drink, rather than a drink to accompany your food.
Retsina has been something like the national beverage for Greeks since the 1960’s. Produced from Greek white (or rosé) resinated wine, the beverage has been made for at least 2000 years. Its unique flavor is said to have originated from the practice of sealing wine vessels, particularly amphorae, with Aleppo Pine resin in ancient times.
Popular legend has it that the evolution of retsina stems from the Roman conquest of Greece. Stories claim that the Romans plundered the wines of Greece, angering the citizens who turned to pine resin as a way of extending their store of wine and as a deterrent to their thirsty conquerors. The harsh flavor was said to put off the Romans, who refused to drink the bitter ferment.
In Greece, local retsina is produced throughout the country with widely popular brands being Malamatina, Tsantali, Kourtaki and Georgiadis. Major production centers around Attica, Boeotia and Euboea. Retsina should be served extremely cold, and in wide, open glasses along with delicious savory, spicy meze.
The vast quantity and flavors of Greek wines make it imperative for everyone to taste a glass of God Dionysus’ liquor with their food. When in a restaurant remember to share your wine from the karafe or bottle because that’s common when eating with Greeks.
Beer has been brewed in Greece since 1834 when the father of brewmaster Johann Karl Fuchs came to Greece as the official brewer of the newly-appointed King of Greece, Otto. In 1864 he founded the Fix brewery in Athens that would become the first major brewery in the country.
Fix (or Fix Hellas, its most common trademark) became synonymous with beer in Greece, enjoying a monopoly in the country for about 100 years until the mid-1960s, operating a number of factories that also produced soft drinks. The brand has had a strong comeback since 2000 with producers making special references to its historic legacy and original taste, thus boosting sales.
Heineken (the Green) and Amstel (the Red) are two brands of beer that have taken gradually most of the Greek beer market, although they are more expensive and try to squeeze out Greek beers from competing with them. The listed beverage business John Boutari Holdings SA – Greece’s leading wine producer and distributor – produces Mythos beer which is another very popular brand among Greeks and foreign visitors, while Vergina, in northern Greece is locally brewed.
There are many local breweries and microbreweries, which aim at high quality products instead of massive production. Craft Beer was begun in Athens in 1997 and brews six unique varieties full of aroma and flavor. Royal, Epos, Pale Ale Special & Real Ale bitter are distinct varieties coming from a small size yet modern brewery based on the island of Corfu.
Macedonian Thrace Brewery, Piraiki Microbrewery, Brinks brewery from Rethymno, Microbrewery Septem and the Athenian Brewery, which makes the popular Alpha Beer are others competing for the attention of drinkers.
Metaxa is a cognac-like distilled invented by Spyros Metaxas in 1888. It is a blend of brandy, spices and wine, although its top line doesn’t use wine to allow for a drier taste. It is exported to over 60 countries and was the first liquor consumer in space. It has won a number of international competitions and now is owned by a French company. | <urn:uuid:57de3be0-3efe-4ca5-82bf-cd89cf414bfe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greekreporter.com/2012/11/18/a-guide-to-greek-drinks-and-drinking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961471 | 1,581 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Fort Revere, formerly Fort Independence, was renamed to honor patriot Paul Revere. It was used from the American Revolution through World War II and was decommissioned in 1947. A number of eerie experiences have been described by witnesses here, such as unexplained noises and whispers, and shadows that rush by or loom in doorways.
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Drug Cocktails for Mental Illness
Many patients receive multiple psychiatric medications for a mental health condition, but there's little scientific evidence to back the practice.
Mixing mental illness drug 'cocktails' is still more art than science.
They call them drug cocktails. They're becoming the vogue for mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. But mixing drugs is still more art than science.
If you have a serious mental illness, it's becoming more likely that you'll be treated with multiple drugs. Doctors call this polypharmacy. Polypharmacy is common for conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and HIV infection. The basic idea is to attack the mental illness on multiple fronts, using different drugs with different actions.
That's the upside. It can offer mental illness patients tremendous benefits when doctors have a careful, rational plan for trying multiple drugs. But there's a downside, too, says Andrew C. Furman, MD, director of clinical services for psychiatry at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and associate professor of psychiatry at Emory University.
"Unfortunately, in the majority of cases doctors are just throwing everything they possibly can at a mental illness in hopes that something will get better," says Furman.
That happens too often, agrees Alan J. Gelenberg, MD, head of psychiatry at the University of Arizona and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
"What often happens in busy practices, both private and public, is that medications are thrown on without adequate information," according to Gelenberg. "Patients can end up with regimens that include multiple drugs without a rationale for using them all. It is not uncommon to look at a medical chart and say, 'I can't figure out why a patient is on this combination regimen.'"
That can be bad news for mental illness patients, says Beth Murphy, MD, PhD, a psychiatric drug researcher at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., and instructor in clinical psychiatry at Harvard University.
"The bad news is it costs more. And the more medicines you take, the more likely it is you will have an adverse response," says Murphy. "Moreover, it increases the chance your medicines will [harmfully] interact with one another."
Mental Illness: Much to Learn About Drugs
When they prescribe drugs for physical diseases, doctors usually know exactly how each drug acts on the body. What is more, they have a precise idea of how this helps treat disease. Drugs for mental illness work on the brain -- by far the most complex and least understood part of the body. That makes prescribing mental illness drugs far different from prescribing drugs for heart disease, Gelenberg says.
"Definitely the increase in psychiatric polypharmacy is not coming from a better understanding of disease," remarks Gelenberg. "Psychiatry isn't the same as cardiology in our understanding of the exact mechanisms of illness."
"This being the decade of the brain, there has been a burgeoning of understanding. But even with these incredible advances, the understanding of the brain is not at the same place as the understanding of the heart," says Murphy. "We don't have enough understanding to know exactly which medicines a given individual will respond to. We have increased our understanding of the biochemistry that underlies these illnesses, but we don't know all we would like to know."
Multiple drug treatment is becoming state-of-the-art treatment for bipolar disorder, notes Mark A. Frye, MD, director of the UCLA bipolar disorder research program and associate professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. But he emphasizes the word "art."
"We have little clinical trial data on which to base this, so it is still more an art than a science," Frye says. "This is a painful contrast to other areas of medicine where doctors have large-scale clinical trial data to guide them. That is only just happening now in psychiatry."
Mental Illness: A Delicate Balance
If they don't know exactly what they are doing -- and there are no large clinical trials to guide them -- why prescribe multiple drugs for mental illness?
"This is part of a trend not to accept anything less than wellness," Murphy says. "Years ago, if a psychiatric patient was not in the hospital, that was good enough. Now, because of advances in our understanding of mental illness and mental wellness, health is the goal. So often multiple treatments are an attempt to reach that goal."
In the right patient at the right time, one mental illness drug can enhance the action of another, Frye suggests.
"There is a trend to maximize outcome, to use medications that enhance one another," he says. "We can clinically show that often when there is [enhancement], we get lower doses of both drugs and better adherence and fewer side effects."
What's needed, Gelenberg says, is balance.
"I talk about a balance of caution and the appropriate need to be aggressive in therapy," he says.
The Example of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is perhaps the best example of a mental illness in which different drugs may be effective. These patients cycle between deep depression and mania or euphoria.
"People with bipolar disorder need different things at different times," Murphy says. "At some point they might need an antidepressant, at others they may need additional help to maintain their sleep cycles. So I think polypharmacy today is more of a fluid and responsive regimen than it would have been in the past."
That's a far cry from simply piling one mental illness drug on top of another.
"Most psychiatrists in the bipolar world start with one medication, then see how you do, then add a second or a third drug as needed," Frye says. "Should we start treatment with two or three drugs? I think it is an important theoretical question. I generally start with one drug now for bipolar patients, but that may change. If a clinical trial shows that new, first-break bipolar patients do better beginning with two drugs rather than one, I would change my practice. For now, a doctor will start with a single medication and go from there."
Mental Illness: What Patients Should Know
Rule No. 1: Don't stop taking your medication. If your doctor has prescribed multiple mental illness drugs for you and you aren't sure why, ask. Suddenly stopping any of your medications could seriously affect your treatment.
"Do not stop your medicine," Furman warns. "But it is always reasonable to discuss with your mental health provider what you are on and reappraise what medications you should take. By no means should you stop any medicine without talking to your doctor. You may be on three or four medications for very good reasons."
Rule No. 2: Find a doctor qualified to treat mental illness that you can talk to. Then, talk.
"The patient needs to ask, 'Why are we adding this drug? Should we subtract another drug? Is this the best dose? Is this really needed?" Gelenberg advises.
"Accurate reporting of your symptoms really will allow your psychiatrist to tailor your medical regimens to your needs," Murphy says. "There is a burden on the consumer to be aware of things like sleep cycles, to notice when a couple of nights in a row go by when you didn't seem to need any sleep, and to take this kind of information to your doctor."
Sources: Mark A. Frye, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; director, Bipolar Disorder Research Program, UCLA. Andrew C. Furman, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Emory University; director of clinical services for psychiatry, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta. Alan J. Gelenberg, MD, professor and head of psychiatry, University of Arizona; editor-in-chief, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Beth Murphy, MD, PhD, assistant director, clinical evaluation center, and co-investigator, psychopharmacology clinical research unit, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass.; clinical instructor of psychiatry, Harvard University. Gelenberg, A.J. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, September-December 2003; vol 15: pp 203-216. Zarate, C.A. Jr., Bipolar Disorder, June 2003; vol 37: pp 12-17. Frye, M.A. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, January 2000; vol 61: pp 9-15.
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Who Are We?
Xeon was started in 2013 and is headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra. The company is the creator of EnergyBin, which is a state-of-the-art biogas plant that converts organic waste into gas or electricity in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
The fundamental concept on which XWM’s business has been built involves the conversion of organic waste to clean energy in the form of biogas. The company’s decentralised solutions have been installed in India and Nepal with processing capacity ranging from 100kg to 5 tons of organic waste per day.
The compact unit, called EnergyBin, processes segregated organic waste including food scraps, garden clippings, vegetable peel and organic sludge on site, making it an ideal solution for urban, semi-urban and rural areas.
Using a mesophilic anaerobic process, Xeon’s uniquely designed solution converts organic waste into biogas, high-quality compost and water. Across all its operations, Xeon currently processes more than 12,000 tons of segregated organic waste.
With a total of 36 EnergyBin units installed and functioning across eight states in India and one in Nepal, Xeon is scaling its solutions and growing its operations in Asia. Biogas produced from 78 per cent of the present installations of the units is used for cooking purposes in nearby communities while the remaining 22 per cent is used for the production of electricity.
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- Provides daily data about waste been fed, biogas production and indication of preventive maintenance parameter
- Need just less than 10 per cent of energy produced for functioning
- Waste is treated on-site, therefore eliminating issue of odour and pest
Xeon’s solution is critical to achieving Blue Planet’s vision of zero waste to landfill. The technology captures the methane released from organic waste and has the potential to displace energy derived from fossil fuels. It also plays an important role in reducing the daily flow of organic waste to landfills in areas with poor waste management.
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With the support from the Foundation, Luther school will be able to increase the number of farm visits and provide students with year-round access to locally grown foods in their school lunch program. The development of Hornet Vinyl was spearheaded by senior students and is an effort to get high school students interested in entrepreneurship.
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The woman-owned small business prepares home cooked meals with local ingredients for Ruby Valley residents.
Funds from the Foundation will help grow this aspect of the small business. The vision of Valler Mercantile is to bring healthy, fresh food to the valley; to purchase produce, eggs, milk and artisan products from local producers; to help create new income sources; to provide healthy living skills-training and sustainable living classes; and to become a community gathering place to exchange ideas, skills, encouragement and support.
Funding from the Foundation will go toward the purchase of a chest freezer for the store. As a result of the trade mission meetings, Agile Data Solutions of Missoula already has several software demos deployed, while other businesses established key relationships to build new business partners.
Agile Data Solutions owner Joel Henry plans to return to Canada within a month to finalize contracts, making the UM technology spinoff officially international.
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One of the most common complaints from runners is that their shoulders are tight or ache during and after their runs. They also feel it in their necks as well.
We are bombarded with messages about which shoes to wear, what you should do with your training, or what is wrong with your stride.
Many of these one size fits all ideas may be addressing symptoms rather than the problems that make us feel that way.
Everyone adapts to their body style, their running style, their walking style, and even their posture as they mature, grow and recover from injuries. We have been adapting since we were born. This adaptation is often the cause of how we hold our shoulders while we run and may give us clues as to why we have certain problems.
One of the most common running adaptations is over and under striding which means one leg extends farther than the other during your runs. This can be caused by asymmetries in your core, or your legs and is often easily improved with foot orthotics. This will also affect your upper body which acts as a counter stride.
Even with foot orthotics, your sore muscles and the fascia which are the connective tissues surrounding them into the legs and arms are often tight and the joints in your spine and extremities may not be moving properly as a result. Here is where your local sports chiropractor can be your greatest asset since asymmetrical running styles will result in core problems, shin pain, stress fractures, plantar fasciitis, back pain, and shoulder pain.
Many runners try to run through the pain thinking it is part of developing their body for running. Often their inexperience leads to injuries because they cannot discern training soreness from an injury.
Treadmill evaluations can help sort out bad habits which may be causing shoulder and neck pain during your run. A holistic chiropractic exam can also help understand poor adaptations and help you avoid future injuries by readapting.
I found this great article that simplifies understanding general causes of should pain while you run. Check it out below
Why do my shoulders hurt while running? A physio breaks down 8 issues and solutions
BY ALICE PORTER FOR WORKOUTS
Running is widely considered to be a lower body-focused exercise. It engages nearly every part of your legs and often leaves you with sore hamstrings and calves. But running is actually a full-body workout, engaging your abs and your back as well as various leg muscles.
However, this doesn’t mean that your entire body should be sore after a run. In fact, there are some areas of your body in which soreness during or after a run could be a sign of a bigger problem.
This is the case with your shoulders, which for a variety of reasons, might feel sore while you’re running or ache the day after. Although your shoulders are engaged while running, due to the way your arms swing, they shouldn’t be a particular area of soreness. | <urn:uuid:f0edc8df-c8fc-4cbd-b9df-d17ffba36806> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.backfixer1.com/shoulders-ache-while-running/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97324 | 616 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Guest Lecture: Reducing the Cost of PEM Electrolysers
17.06.2022 kl. 09.00 - 10.00
Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Electrolysers have many desirable characteristics for hydrogen production from fluctuating renewable energy sources. They have fast start up and response, they are compact, they can endure significant differential pressures across the polymer electrolyte, and they operate at relatively low temperature. However, one of the most significant barriers to wide-spread deployment is cost. Polyfluorosulfonic Acid Membrane (PFSA), commonly referred to as Nafion©, is expensive and in limited supply. The high-loading of Iridium-oxide as the Oxygen Evolution Anode catalyst is relatively expensive but more importantly is the fifth rarest element on the periodic table. In the past 5 years Iridium has risen from less than $1000 per ounce to over $5000 per ounce. Our research group has investigated the use of non-fluorinated hydrocarbon membrane, alternative catalyst synthesis methods, low cost tantalum carbide as a catalyst support and optimized membrane electrode assembly methods. An overview of our results to date will be presented.
Dr. Brant Peppley is a professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He was the founding director of the Queen’s-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre (FCRC) where an extensive industrially driven research program was undertaken on fundamental testing and modelling of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells from 2005-2015. From 2007 to 2014 he was a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Fuel Cells. As FCRC’s areas of research diversified it was rebranded as the Sustainable Energy Engineering Queen’s University Laboratories (SEEQUL). Although hydrogen still is the major focus of the research, the underlying motivation for using hydrogen has a much wider scope and is driven by carbon emissions reduction. Dr. Peppley has published 111 peer reviewed papers on fuel cells and hydrogen production. His primary research focus is currently low temperature water electrolysis, which is considered a key process for storing intermittent renewable energy from solar PV and wind as hydrogen.
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‘The Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) should engage with the new government to continue the Enabling Environment Initiative (EEI) momentum,’ says Dr Attiya Inayatullah, a newly elected member of Pakistan’s national assembly. ‘All governments know that they cannot deliver on their own. They need to partner with civil society.’
Dr Inayatullah should know. As Federal Minister for Social Welfare in the former government, she led the EEI. Recognizing the role and value of the non-profit sector, the federal cabinet endorsed the EEI in August 2001. The aim was to reform the regulatory and fiscal regime governing civil society – but only after extensive consultation with all stakeholders. The government had learnt lessons from the past and was anxious to avoid the acrimony generated by the failed reform efforts of the 1990s. A month later, PCP was commissioned to implement the new initiative. For PCP, this is part of its long-term goal of creating a credible and effective non-profit sector that is financed largely by indigenous philanthropy.
From November 2001 to August 2002, the PCP-EEI team consulted over 2,000 people – policymakers, government officials, CSO activists, CSO coalitions and networks, philanthropists, eminent citizens – in more than 65 meetings across the country.
Recommendations for reform
In August, 2002, the EEI presented two main recommendations to government. The first was that a new law should be passed to replace the two main non-profit laws, and that statutory, autonomous bodies be created at federal and provincial levels to implement the new law. These regulatory bodies would create capacities across government departments to facilitate effective partnerships with CSOs. Overall, the set of recommendations for legal, fiscal and institutional reform aims to introduce a more positive relationship between CSOs and the government; to support CSOs in undertaking public benefit activities; to remove wasteful duplication; and to reduce government discretion in relation to registration, monitoring and evaluation.
Second, it was proposed that a comprehensive national policy on the non-profit sector be developed through a stakeholder policy dialogue. This would consolidate and ground legislative reforms in a consultation process and lead to a ‘national compact’ for citizen participation for the public benefit. Given the conflicting signals from various levels of government and the history of mistrust between government and civil society, especially rights advocacy organizations, this effort to build a wide consensus around the role of civil society is critical for the sustainability of legislative reforms.
Government has already accepted EEI’s fiscal reform recommendations through the Finance Ordinance 2002. The menu of eligible purposes and range of fiscal benefits has been expanded. Most important, the new rules incorporate the concept of evaluation of NPOs by an independent certification agency for purposes of obtaining tax exemption.
In the waning days of the military government, a modified version of the draft law that excluded the proposed autonomous regulatory body and did not extend the new law to the Societies Registration Act was accepted. This version also received the general endorsement of the CSO representative coalitions. The modified law was awaiting cabinet decision when elections ushered in a new government in October 2002.
What are the chances of the new government accepting the EEI recommendations? They appear mixed. On the one hand, elected governments in Pakistan have mostly not enjoyed harmonious relationships with civil society, especially during the 1990s. Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), a coalition of Islamist parties that has emerged as a major political force in the elections, may also be opposed to reforms that can be seen as increasing the protection of foreign-funded rights-based advocacy organizations.
On the other hand, the thrust of reforms launched by the military government is likely to continue. Decentralization, deregulation and privatization appear to be irreversible trends, for which there is broad support among competing political parties. There is continuity of leadership too. Many leading lights in the previous government occupy senior positions in the new one. Fears regarding MMA could be partly unfounded.
While planning to engage with government, PCP is simultaneously preparing to introduce an independent NPO certification regime, as envisaged in the Income Tax Rules 2002. This will reduce discretion and facilitate access to fiscal benefits for NPOs. Certified NPOs will be listed in PCP’s directory of credible NPOs for corporate and diaspora donors.
1 She is also a member of the PCP Board and a renowned CSO leader.
2 Of the total 45,000 NPOs, 38 per cent are not registered; of the 62 per cent that are registered, some 90 per cent are registered and regulated by the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies (Registration and Control) Ordinance 1961 and the Societies Registration Act 1860.
3 These bodies will consist mainly of NPO representatives, plus some eminent citizens and a few government officials.
4 ‘Policing and discretionary functions’ such as unannounced physical inspection of NPO offices and books by government officials would not be allowed. Government would instead rely on arms-length monitoring through scrutiny of submitted documents.
5 Nonprofit Organizations (Governance and Support) Ordinance 2002.
Shahnaz Wazir Ali is Executive Director of PCP. She is an educationist by profession; she has also been actively involved in the women’s rights movement in Pakistan and in civil causes, and is recognized as a leading social sector professional. She can be contacted at email@example.com
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“Mein Blick - trust me”
All participants were divided into two groups (one-two representative per country per group) and met in a WhatsApp group on four different days for 2-hour workshops. Each group communicated in German with audio and text messages and focused on topics relevant to them. They were given examples and assignments to master how to take uncanny, striking, unconventional, quaint and funny self-portraits with their mobile phones or tablets. Students sent their photos to the WhatsApp group, discussed them and inspired each other. After that, the group built a photo collection which along with their dialogs blended into a personal and digital exchange. The end result was a short film about the module in the look and feel of social media which was shown to other students from the region participating in the dareCon!
Meeting between the modules
After the first module, both groups met on Zoom to finalise the joint film presentation about Module 1 for dareCon! and to prepare for Module 2.
“Weitblick - trust us”
All 18 students came together during the digital youth convention dareCon! which took place from 23-25 April. In this part of the project they focused on the following questions: How do you see our future? What opportunities do you see to shape our future? What is important to you in our globalized world? Guided by these questions, the students will learn to use film language to create their own 1-minute long trailers.
Kerstin Rickermann is one of the founders of Glocal Films, a German film and media organisation based in London. The Glocal Films team conceptualizes and facilitates film projects with participatory approach in the educational and cultural sector worldwide. The project participants become film makers and journalists and exchange views about topic close to their hearts, across borders and continents.
Susanne Heincke is an artist and photographer. She is leading projects in the field of art, culture and culture education internationally, in museums, schools and higher education. In the cultural educational sector her focus is on artistic work methods and the art. Her vantage point is one of an artist. She is resources and participant oriented. She embraces what the participants can do and bring to the projects and helps them develop their skills further.
Module 2: "Weitblick - trust us"
"Die Abenteuer des Seepferdchens"
von Sarka Ludvigova, Lynfield College, Auckland, Neuseeland
"Eine mögliche neue Zukunft"
von Yuchen Luo, Pingkarattana-Schule, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Contacts in participating countries
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Heartland of Buddhism
As the spiritual centre of Laos, Luang Prabang is home to many of the country’s most revered and beautiful temples. More accurately, these are temple-monastery complexes called ‘wats’, and they are the heart of regional Buddhist practice and education. Situated throughout the town and in the surrounding countryside, the wats are home to monks and novices from around the country and each forms the core of the neighbourhood surrounding it. You might notice that many of the neighbourhoods or villages–‘ban’ is the term for these–are in fact named for their wats.
The dozens of wats within the city — and the many more just outside of it — offer fascinating insights into the culture of the the city and the country. Historically, each lay at the centre of its village; within Luang Prabang city, as each ban grew over the centuries, these merged into a single community while retaining their own special identities. Each wat today remains the centre of many daily ceremonies and rituals, some private, others public, that are woven into the fabric of everyday life of those who live around it. More than being sites for worship, these are places of giving, sharing, celebrating, and, above all, learning.
You’ll see monks and novices of all ages around Luang Prabang. Many of the younger novices join wats not only to earn merit for themselves and their families, but also to receive a good, free general education (one that often includes study in English language). Unless you’re here for a festival, there are two great ways to observe the practices of monks and novices: wake early enough to witness the daily giving of alms, or Sai Bat , or visit a wat for yourself (be sure to dress and behave appropriately. | <urn:uuid:d5149756-ee61-4bc3-b824-fa59011586a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tourismluangprabang.org/about-luangprabang/heartland-of-buddhism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965512 | 382 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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The Kerry Blue Terrier originated in Ireland and was bred to hunt and retrieve small game for farmers and hunters alike. It is thought that the Wheaten, Irish Wolfhound and Portuguese Water Dog are in the bloodline of the Kerry Blue. This breed also called the Irish Blue Terrier and is famously known as the dog of Ireland.
This breed is known for its unique coat colour and texture. They have very tight curls all over their body and their fur and skin are a slate blue colouring. The Kerry Blue's muzzle is rectangular and will have long tufts of fur resembling a beard and mustache! Their ears are small and slightly pricked upward and they have round deep set eyes. This dog has a muscular body that allows them to be quick and agile when hunting and their tail is naturally long but will be docked for show purposes.
The Kerry Blue is an energetic, animated character that entertains their family on a regular basis. They have a loving, protective personality that gives them the trademark attitude they are well known for. Great for families, this breed loves people and will get along okay with other family dogs but when encountering strange dogs might be a bit aggressive. Smaller pets will need to be monitored around this dog as they have a high prey drive for rodents and game.
The Kerry Blue Terriers coat has many varieties of one colour, that being a dark blue. These can darken and lighten depending on age but most common is a slate or medium grey colouring. Puppies are born completely black but will lighten as they grow up!
This breed is notorious for their coat texture which is unique only to them. It is a tightly curled, soft to touch coat that is unlike any other breed. Their coat is very clean so it will not give off the 'dog smell' and will shed only a small amount of fur.
The Kerry Blue is a free-spirited dog that is independent and enjoys finding different jobs to entertain themselves. They are a stubborn breed making them a bit more difficult to train and raise so for first time owners, this dog is not recommended. They are devoted to their master and are extremely loyal dogs making them a perfect breed for hunters or farmers. The Kerry Blue will make a great watchdog because they're responsive but are not barky dogs that alert the household for false reasons. This breed will excel greatly in tracking and agility trials because they are energetic, exuberant dogs that will work hard for their masters. Socialization as puppies will be greatly needed especially around dogs and small animals to ensure that upon meeting, the Kerry Blue does not become aggressive or timid.
This breed will need a fair amount of grooming to keep them looking great. Brushing should be done 2-3 times per week and bathing about once every month. Their ears will need to be plucked every month or 2 just to remove the excess fur that will collect debris. The Kerry Blue is prone to a few eye ailments such as Progressive Retinal Atrophy and cataracts, as well as hip dysplasia and entropian. Hair follicle tumors, hypothyroidism, cysts, and Keratoconjuctivitis sicca are other diseases they might genetically inherit.
This breed will need an owner that has experience in raising dogs and training as they are not recommended for first time owners. These dogs are stubborn and will be more difficult to train, so a firm hand and fun training exercises will be the key to helping these dogs grasp the information. Sessions should be kept short and be repeated often as this encourages them to want to learn!
The Kerry Blue Terrier will need to be exercised on a daily basis and time spent in an off-leash park or on a long walk will be perfect. These dogs will do well in an apartment as long as they are exercised enough and do not need a back yard but having access to one would be a bonus. | <urn:uuid:6bbaae3f-3e95-493e-ac7c-c5b406fe4e19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petyourdog.com/breeds/kerry-blue-terrier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957147 | 1,010 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation With the World: A Study of Matthew 5-10
:In his explanation of Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5-10, D. A. Carson clearly presents the call for every believer to live a pure life. He offers pastors and lay readers rich insights and practical life application from the Sermon on...
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:In his explanation of Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5-10, D. A. Carson clearly presents the call for every believer to live a pure life. He offers pastors and lay readers rich insights and practical life application from the Sermon on the Mount.
Dr Don (D. A.) Carson is currently Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. His areas of expertise include biblical theology, the historical Jesus, postmodernism, pluralism, Greek grammar, Johannine theology, Pauline theology, and questions of suffering and evil. Carson has written prolifically and profoundly on all these subjects.
Carson has written or edited 57 books - as well as numerous journal articles - ranging from New Testament commentaries to topical studies on the state of the contemporary church and its wider cultural context. His work is characterised by brilliant theological insight, thorough scholarship, and an uncompromising commitment to the essentials of Reformed doctrine.
Carson's landmark book, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Award. Other works that examine the interaction of church and culture include The Inclusive Language Debate (1998), Becoming Conversant With the Emerging Church (2005), Christ and Culture Revisited (2008) and The Intolerance of Tolerance (2012).
Carson's exegetical works include volumes on individual New Testament books in the Revised Expositor's Bible Commentary, Pillar New Testament Commentary, Baker Exegetical Commentary, and New International Greek Testament Commentary. In Exegetical Fallacies (1984, 1996, 2nd ed.), Carson is at his incisive best, analysing the root causes of errors in biblical interpretation. He has also notably edited the New Testament Commentary Survey up to its 7th edition (2013), as well as the Zondervan Study Bible (2015).
Donald Arthur Carson was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1946. His undergraduate degree majored in mathematics and chemistry. He went on to undertake a Master of Divinity with a Baptist seminary and earned his PhD in New Testament from Cambridge University in 1975, the same year he married his wife Joy. In 1978, Carson joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he has worked ever since. In 2005 with Tim Keller, Carson founded The Gospel Coalition (TGC) - a network of Reformed churches dedicated to engaging and transforming the wider culture through speaking events, online advocacy, and publication. He continues to be an active guest lecturer in church and academic settings around the world.
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LMS Enhances Online Learning for Engineers
There is no doubt that online training is becoming more advanced day by day, with many new platforms available to help users gain additional knowledge in their field of study. One of the most popular delivery platforms is the Learning Management System (LMS). Although LMS solutions have been used by multiple industries over the years, in recent times, they have gained popularity in the field of engineering.
LMS has become a great tool for continuing education providers who provide training to professional engineers who are trying to earn continuing professional competency. These platforms are popular due to their portability, accessibility, and selection of various content formats. All of this makes it possible to accommodate all types of learners, all around the world.
In this article, we’ll explain everything you need to know about e-learning and how an LMS can provide additional benefits.
What Is a Learning Management System?
A Learning Management System is learning-based software that is specially designed for educating people. It is a complete package for planning, creating, delivering, publishing, and evaluating online courses.
The main purpose of the LMS system is to provide students with a platform for learning new skills and expanding their knowledge base from the convenience of their computer or mobile device. From the perspective of the content and those who create it, the advantage of LMS is that it provides all the necessary tools for educators to develop their own courses and distribute their knowledge across the globe. These online teachers are able to set up and manage their courses without the involvement of any third party.
Benefits of LMS
LMS is a very effective system that provides students with online classrooms where they can interact and learn in a collaborative environment. Compared to the traditional education system, LMS provides amazing advantages. Listed below are some of the most compelling reasons to use LMS to meet your continuing education requirements.
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When I was in college, I told my family I was dating a girl for the first time.
We were out for dinner with my two younger brothers, and after yet another anecdote about a pal from school, one of them said, “Are all your friends gay now?” They weren’t, but I was hanging out with a pretty queer crowd, and it felt weird not to mention my own romantic situation. So I did.
But while I was okay talking about who I was seeing, I didn’t have a label – no “Hey everyone, I’m a lesbian!” or “I’m bi!” coming out moment to share.
Partly, that was because I was in the process of figuring out where I was at in regards to all these things.
And though it wasn’t a word I used, that’s something a lot of people refer to as questioning.
But you know who wasn’t questioning? My mom. She didn’t ask me anything about the person I was involved with, let alone about how I identified. She just mumbled something noncommittal about how busy I was at school, and then we went back to chatting about my brother’s track meet and the talk she was giving the next day.
My mom’s non-response wasn’t awful. There was none of the anger, or denial, or lecturing that so many people have to endure. But it felt a little dismissive and, as a result, kind of uncomfortable.
And while it is not that every family interaction needs to be comfortable, the more parents understand about what it means to question, the better able they will be to support their children if this issue comes up.
So here are a few things that parents should know.
1. What Does It Mean to Question?
Questioning refers to people who have uncertainty about their sexual orientation. Some people question whether they are queer. Others question whether they are hetero. It’s also common to wonder if you have a sexual orientation at all.
A lot of people assume that questioning is only something people do on the path to figuring out an LGBTQIA+ identity. But research has determined that this isn’t the case.
For example, a study published in the journal’ found that since we assume heterosexuality to be the default, it is more common for men who ultimately identify as gay or bisexual to go through a questioning process.
However, questioning is still a really common experience for men who ultimately identify as hetero.
As they write, “More than 50% of ‘exclusively straight’-identified men indicated having questioned their sexual orientation.”
A paper in the Journal of Sex Research found a similar experience in women. It reports that in a survey of heterosexual-identified women, the large majority “were deliberately identifying as heterosexual after contemplating alternative possibilities.”
Since both these studies demonstrate that questioning is a common experience across the board, it’s no wonder that so many teens find themselves pondering their sexual orientation alongside so many other life questions.
2. What Is the Difference Between Being Bisexual and Being Sexually Fluid?
Sexuality is not always something that is set in stone for someone’s entire life. But when it comes to whom we partner with, any shift can be seen as some big definitive statement about our identity.
Indeed, in almost all areas of life, we accept that people will have different experiences, interests, and tastes at various points.
Yet when it comes to sexual orientation, we seem to expect people to have clear answers to one of the more complex aspects of the human experiences from the get-go.
As a result, we often confuse different aspects of sexuality. This happens a lot when it comes to questioning around bisexuality and sexual fluidity. Though these might seem like the same thing, they’re actually pretty different.
Being bisexual is a discrete sexual orientation that refers to being interested in people of one’s own a/gender and in people of other a/genders.
On the other hand, people who are sexually fluid, often feel that their attraction is situational and shifts due to particular partner, their environment, and the time in their life.
As Dr. Dylan Selterman explains at the Science of Relationships,
The degree to which a person is sexually fluid is a separate variable that operates alongside sexual orientation. Some people are highly fluid, while others are less fluid…If you ask people who identify as straight, but then have sex with someone else of the same gender, this experience does not necessarily make them ‘bisexual,’ but it does make them sexually fluid.”
Since we so often overlap these two concepts, it isn’t surprising that we often assume that interest in someone of the same gender is a sign of sexual orientation, when in fact it may be something quite different.
But when something changes, it is common to have questions about why a change is occurring and where it will lead.
3. What Is Sexual Orientation If It’s Not About Sex Acts?
Obviously, sex can be a part of sexual orientation, but it sure isn’t the only, or often, even the most relevant part for young people.
But many parents unnecessarily sexualize their questioning kids.
That’s because a lot of people mistakenly associate sexual orientation exclusively with having sex despite the fact that sexual orientation is really complex and involves everything from self-concept, to romantic interest, and identity.
It’s also common to believe that in order for someone to really know they aren’t hetero, they need to have sex with a same gender partner.
As a result, parents may assume that a questioning kid is coming to their questions after doing so.
And while having sex can definitely give teens more to think about, plenty of people have plenty of questions long before they are ever sexual with another person.
We never doubt that a hetero kid knows that they are into the other gender absent of sexual experience, yet it is pretty common to do this when a kid identifies as queer.
3 Ways to Support Your Questioning Child
So now that you know the basics about questioning, you might be wondering how can you best support your questioning child?
Here are three ways.
1. Don’t Dismiss a Questioning Child as ‘Just Going Through a Phase’
Being told that who you are is a “phase” or that you will grow out of feeling a certain way can be pretty awful. But when teens question their a/sexuality, this is a standard message.
And so what if down the line your child doesn’t identify as queer? No need to go back and pull the old “I told you so” on them! It is perfectly normal for young people to question a range of aspects of their identity.
Plus (and this should be obvious), teasing a kid about her One Direction phase is really different than teasing someone about their bisexual phase.
2. Check Your Own Homophobia
Sometimes homophobia (both the kind you admit to, and the kind you’d rather not acknowledge) can color your reaction to questioning and can make a parent worry that questioning is actually the first step to coming out as queer.
If this is the case, try to get to the root of your discomfort and ask yourself what’s really driving it before you approach your child. Here are some good tools for parents on that front:
Stop viewing sexual orientation as a choice (and if a person is queer, as a bad one).
If you belong to a strongly anti-LGBTQIA+ religious group, leave it. If that isn’t an option, do your own research on what your religion really says about sexual orientation. Most homophobic religious beliefs are based on interpretations of texts, not on the core of a religion.
Think about which aspects of being queer make you uncomfortable, then examine those. Is your hostility based on negative stereotypes?
Do your homework, and you will often be surprised by how off base some commonly held views are!
Get support. This could be in the form of an LGBTQIA-friendly therapist, or an organization like Parents,Families, Friends and Allies United With LGBTQ People. Other parents have gone through this and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel alone.
3. If Your Kid Is Sexually Active, Try Not to Freak Out About It
Don’t assume that a teen who is questioning and sexually active is automatically having sex with a lot of people or is taking sexual risks in the process. Try to help your child stay safe sexually by allowing them to come to you with questions.
Make it possible for them to use contraception and practice safer sex. Set them up with medical appointments. And, yes, even allow them to have sexual privacy with a partner at home.
Teen sex alone is not dangerous, but the conditions under which many teens have it, sure can be!
For some people sexual orientation is clear from the start. For a lot of others, not so much.
But while many young folks question their sexual orientations, many of parents are uncomfortable with this process. So it is important to understand that questioning is a common and normal part of adolescence.
Here’s one way to think about it: No one thinks it is strange that you might really be into ice cream, then go off ice cream for a while and get really into cupcakes.
Nor do they raise an eyebrow when you later kind of wonder if you might want ice cream again, get a small bowl and decide it’s okay, but that you still might be more in the mood for a cupcake. Not even worth mentioning, right?
Yet when it comes questions about sexual orientation or changes in how we experience it, reactions tend to be a lot less muted.
Now obviously, our sexual orientations are a lot more complicated that our tastes in dessert. But if we allowed just a bit of the leeway to our kids when they question this aspect of their identity that we give to them in so many other parts of their lives, their experiences of figuring out who they are in this world would likely be a whole lot smoother.
Ellen Kate is a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. She’s a health educator, sometimes writer, and mom. She has worked at Manhattan’s Museum of Sex, developed sex education curricula in Mumbai, India, and run HIV prevention programs for at-risk teens in the South Bronx. Currently, Ellen runs a middle and high school health education program and teaches human sexuality at Brooklyn College. More of Ellen’s writing can be found here. Follow her on Twitter @ellenkatef.
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Every now and again you run into an astronomical object where everything about it is mind-blowing. And I get to share it with you! Let me introduce you to a binary star that will crush your imagination and make you realize the Universe is way cooler than you knew.
A few million years ago, and 6,000 light-years from Earth, two stars were born out of the gas and dust in the galaxy in a cluster with many other stars. These two formed together, so close their mutual and growing gravity bound them together, forcing them to orbit one another. And they grew huge: By the time they switched on and became true stars, they each had more than two dozen times the mass of the Sun.
They were monsters. Huge, hot, and incredibly luminous, each blasting out as much as 100,000 times as much energy as the Sun does. Replace the Sun with one of these beasts and the Earth would evaporate like an ice cube on a scorching hot skillet.
Stars like this don’t live long. After a few million years, one of them (which had slightly more mass to begin with) swelled into a red supergiant, dumped huge amounts of material onto the other star, and then exploded. The two stars were so close together they orbited each other rapidly, taking just a few days to swing each other around. Because of this the explosion was asymmetric, giving the system a huge kick. Still bound by their gravity, this acted like a rocket thrust, flinging the binary out of its cluster at high speed into interstellar space.
The star that exploded was now a neutron star, an incredibly dense ball of subatomic particles that is the remnant of the core of the star. It squeezes nearly twice as much mass as the Sun into a sphere just a few kilometers across! The gravity and magnetic fields of such an object are so intense that any material that falls on it slams into the surface at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light, and the complicated physics of the environment responds by emitting a brilliant glow of X-rays.
Today, a few million years later, we see this binary as Vela X-1, the first X-ray source seen in the constellation of Vela. We call this a high-mass X-ray binary, or HMXB, because the “normal” star — the one that has not yet exploded, a blue supergiant called HD77581— is such a massive star (low-mass X-ray binaries are different, with a neutron star or black hole orbited by a much lighter star, one more like the Sun).
In physical space, this binary system is still located in the plane of the galaxy, which is choked with gas and dust. Because of that high-speed kick given when the primary star exploded, Vela X-1 is screaming through this material at over 300,000 kilometers per hour. What does that look like?
I can show you. Amateur astronomer Rolf Olsen has taken a dramatic and phenomenally lovely image of it:
Whoa. This image was taken in early 2018 using his home-built (!) 32 cm telescope, and is a total of seven hours of exposure time. He used four filters: a red, green, and blue combination to create a “natural” color image, plus one that preferentially lets through light emitted by warm hydrogen gas (also colored red).
You can see that gas in the image, and the Vela X-1 system is the brightest star in field as well. The neutron star itself is invisible, so all the light you see is from HD77581, the blue supergiant companion star.
But take another look: See that arc of material just above Vela X-1? That is literally gas being pushed out of its way as it barrels through the galaxy! HD77581 is emitting a wind of particles, called a stellar wind (like the solar wind). Because that star is massive and bright, the wind is fierce, and when it slams into the gas between the stars in the galaxy it creates a vast arc called a bow shock. “Bow” because it’s like water being pushed off the bow of a ship, and “shock” because the wind slams into that material faster than the speed of sound in the gas, creating a shock wave.
The result is that graceful arc. Mind you, it’s several light-years long. These two stars are affecting their environment on a huge scale, interacting with material across tens of trillions of kilometers!
Another thing about this I find fascinating. This arc was discovered in 1996, using a 1.5-meter telescope on the suspicion that Vela X-1 might be a runaway star. And now just a couple of decades later an “amateur” astronomer* can fairly easily image it.
Not only that, we see many more examples of these bow shocks, including one caused by Betelgeuse and another by the bruiser of a star Zeta Ophicuhi (and which happens to be the subject of what is among my favorite astronomical images of all time).
One of the things I find so fascinating about science, and specifically astronomy, is how such violence and violent objects can produce such beauty. As long as this beauty is seen from a long, long way away.
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