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How to Create Modern Cement Planters
2020/01/19 · A mini garden would be lovely to be put at your outdoor spaces. But flowers and planters sometimes cost a lot, and you don’t want to put too much on your outdoor. Now, you can create modern cement planters on your own. on your own.
CONCRETE MIXING RATIOS
When making concrete it's important to use the correct concrete mixing ratios to produce a strong, durable concrete mix. To make concrete there are four basic materials you need: portland cement, sand, aggregate (stone), and ...
How to Make Flower Pots with Cement
If you love decorating your house with plants and flowers, there are imaginative and modern ways of creating flower pots that will look gorgeous and original. You can make a flower pot with waste material in many different ways, though today we're going to show you how to make flower pots with cement, which is a growing trend that is minimalist …
Hypertufa 'Seat Cushion' Planter : 13 Steps (with Pictures
Making hypertufa is a fairly easy casting project, however it’s a long one because of wait-time. It can take anywhere from four to six weeks due to the curing time needed plus the time it takes to leech out the lime contained in the portland cement so it’s a safe container to house plants. Given the long cure, timing is everything.
How to Calculate CEMENT, SAND Quantity for PLASTERING
2018/12/25 · How to Calculate CEMENT, SAND Quantity for PLASTERING – Civil Engineering December 25, 2018 October 15, 2017 by RAJENDRA SINGH Table of Contents Plaster: Points should be remembered while calculating the quantity ...
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Is Horticultural Sand The Same As Sharp Sand?
I asked the same question in a garden centre many years ago and was told that horticultural sand is less likely to have 'salts' in it. Perhaps this is true, but then when you look at the spec for River / sharp sand it usually refers to it as "Washed sand" so by my estimations, it should be virtually free of salt.
Art Concrete How-to 4: Casting
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How much cement, sand and water is required for
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How much is the ratio of cement and sand to make
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How To Calculate Cement, Sand Quantity For Plastering
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Make a DIY Cement Balloon Planter
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Wrapping artwork for shipping is an essential skill for artists who sell or exhibit their work non-locally. Since artwork is literally “out of your hands” once you send it, the best thing you can do is prepare it properly to protect it from any potential environmental or handling trauma. Below are suggestions, options, and materials for how to ship framed artworks. This article helps you to professionally wrap and ship your work, for those who would prefer to do it themselves rather than hire professionals. However, remember: when in doubt, call a pro.
Protect the work by taping the glass
If your artwork is framed with Plexiglas, you can skip this step. If your artwork is framed with glass, an important step towards protecting your work is to lay special tape across the face. This is a preventative measure in case your glass breaks during shipment—the broken shards will stick to the tape instead of cutting or damaging your work. Note: some museum glass or specialized glass can be damaged by tape. Check with you glass manufacturer or framer to figure out what tape would be safest.
What kind of tape should you use?
Some sources recommend masking tape, but this can leave a film across the surface. Painters tape, a low-tack alternative to masking tape, sticks well and removes easily from glass. This is the most effective and economical tape I have found for taping glass. There also exists high-end alternative tapes or films specifically for this purpose. The tape should be applied in an over-lapping line or grid pattern, being careful not to tape the frame itself. There exists an extremely thorough article on the Tate Museum’s website called Glazing Over: A Review of Glazing Options for Works of Art on Paper that explores all aspects of shipping artworks which are framed in glass.
Wrap your artwork in bubble wrap
Once your glass is ready, cover your work in bubble wrap. The bubble wrap should have bubbles facing “out” so that the flat side of the wrap is touching your work. Wrap your artwork like you would a gift: entirely covered, but with not too much excess material. Tape all seams so that the work is sealed. As an alternative to bubble wrap, you could instead seal your work in clear poly or plastic. If you do this, you should attach corner protectors (template to make your own here!) to the frame to minimize potential frame damage. This method with clear plastic is only recommended if you have adequate foam reinforcement and a perfectly fitted crate. Wrapping works this way is usually done by professional art shippers, where they build custom-fitted crates for each piece.
Considerations for smaller framed artworks
If your artwork is small, you could ship it in a cardboard box. If you decide to ship this way, make sure that the box is large enough to allow for adequate cushioning between the work and the inside of the box (1″ or more, depending on the size and weight of your work). For cushioning, you can use any kind of foam. For extra protection, you can also put this cushioned box inside a larger box, padding the space with either foam or crumpled paper. If you decide to ship with a cardboard box, you should insert a piece of doorskin or other thin wood on either side of the work to protect from puncturing. Custom-cut thin wood can be bought very inexpensively at most hardware stores.
Crating your framed artwork
If you decide to ship your artwork in a crate, call around and request quotes before placing an order. In Vancouver, Windsor Plywood builds custom crates for very reasonable prices. You can also try professional art handlers, though their crate building fees are usually higher (see list at bottom of post).
Label your wrapped work clearly, including:
- Your return address, contact name, and phone number
- Your recipient’s address, contact name, and phone number
- Receiver’s hours of operation (if sending to a business, ie a gallery)
- Any other shipping specifications you think will protect your work, such as: “fragile”, “glass”, “do not stack”, “this way up”, etc.
A list of resources for wrapping and crating in Vancouver:
Windsor Plywood (builds custom crates)
Vevex (builds custom crates)
Denbigh Fine Art Services (custom crates, wrapping, shipping, storage, and more)
Fine Art Framing (custom framing, wrapping, crates, shipping, and more)
Thiessen Art Services (custom crates, wrapping, shipping, and more)
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On 17th March 2020 Hawaii set its first-ever pilot program for digital currency sandbox in motion to lure more investments in the field. The successful launch was the result of a collaboration between the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC), and the Division of Financial Institutions (DFI).
We are in an era where everyone is turning to lead a digital way of life, from digital shopping, digital entertainment to digital currencies. There is no denying that digital currency has caught the attention of regulators around the world for the apparent benefits they possess.
Earlier this month, the southern African country Zimbabwe announced a crypto regulatory sandbox in its efforts to streamline activities in the crypto space and breathe life into its staggering economy. Similarly, Russia pronounced its interest in stablecoins in December by kickstarting its stablecoins experiments in the regulatory sandbox.
A digital currency sandbox to boost crypto growth
On Tuesday, it was Hawaii that announced the establishment of a two-year-long program called the Digital Currency Innovation Lab, which will enable crypto firms to operate without a money-transmitting authorization.
Per the announcement, the initiative will assist the government in acquiring more insight into digital currency and help them weigh its pros and cons realistically.
The knowledge and the perspective we gain through this initiative will be invaluable. It will allow us to assess positives and negatives concerning digital currency carefully, the government said.
Hawaii welcomes applications for Digital Currency Innovation Lab
Come 1st May 2020; the island state will welcome registrations for the Digital Currency Innovation Lab and permit only those that can demonstrate a considerable degree of skills and expertise in financial and technical domains. The announcement also stated that the regulators would consider the capital brought in by startups.
The DFI also mentions that those businesses which are currently extending money transfer services without a valid authorization will be allowed to be a part of the scheme and be let off the hook. They will no longer be under obligation to apply for a license.
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I have long pondered the challenges of enumerating homelessness. In general, I have been against this, as accuracy is unattainable (how you define homelessness will change what you count). However, there is also a push in the London Community Plan on Homelessness to have enumeration as a means of showing whether prevention and rapid re-housing work. And, believing that they will work, I think the statistics would be a useful tool.
I was extremely pleased to find this recent blog post: http://stonesoupstation.blogspot.com/2010/12/counters-are-coming-counters-are-coming.html. In the post, Steven outlines the history of homeless counts, the challenges, and possible ways to enhance accuracy. This is a must read for communities considering counts of their own.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is an overarching organization in the U.S. that covers all agencies working with people experiencing homelessness. They have a very active blog at blog.endhomelessness.org, and I had the privilege of having a guest post on the site. In the post, I talked about the importance of all people who are working to address homelessness to also include looking at public policies. You can read the full post at: http://blog.endhomelessness.org/?p=2778.
As I have mentioned before, people who are experiencing homelessness are often very busy just attending to the basic necessities of life. In London, a person might walk 20 kilometres in a day just to get to the food bank, have a test done at St Joe’s hospital, go to the soup kitchen, and back to the shelter where they are staying. Most have multiple appointments in any given day with various support services. However, although one is busy, there can be a lack of feeling like one is making any forward progress.
Because of this, there has been a growing conversation about making space for meaningful daytime activities to enhance positive socialization, lend purpose and meaning to life, and perhaps enhance some life skills. We have been talking about this in the London Homelessness Outreach Network from day 1, but it is also mentioned as a topic that will go to committee in the London Community Plan on Homelessness. In my dissertation research, doing focus groups to move forward from the findings, individuals with lived experience mentioned this as the primary service gap in London (followed by street-level healthcare).
Two agencies come to mind who are already doing some of this. The London Coffee House is very important to many people, and is the main social network of many, built simply around playing cards. More recently, the London InterCommunity Health Centre Health Outreach for the Homeless has started a creative writing group. They call themselves Grit Uplifted, and have started a blog at http://grituplifted.tumblr.com/. Many of the agencies that currently exist to ‘manage’ homelessness, could enhance their services by providing meaningful activities, which are a piece of the puzzle in allowing people to move themselves out of homelessness.
I had the privilege of doing another guest blog post, this time for the London Community Foundation. In this post I wrote about ways that people in London, Ontario can become involved in taking action on homelessness (note, this is prior to the official formation of the London Homelessness Outreach Network).
The post is available HERE.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post suggesting that the idea that ‘homelessness can happen to anyone’ is true, but also hides the reality that those who live in poverty bear the greatest burden of homelessness. The National Alliance to End Homelessness just released a research brief that demonstrates exactly this, in particular that the working poor are more likely to encounter homelessness than the general population. In particular, people who are employed and living in poverty will experience more acutely: 1) severe housing cost burdens, 2) living ‘doubled up’, and 3) are employed in more volatile industries.
It’s always nice when my hunches are supported by statistics, and this example demonstrates the value of research and statistics.
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As per the previous post, the London Homelessness Outreach Network (LHON) is now officially established. You can find us in 3 ways:
The Website – www.londonhon.ca
On Twitter – @LondonHON
On Facebook – London Homelessness Outreach Network
Of course, I would also love to talk with you in person about it – email@example.com
We are ‘live’ and official! Thank you everyone for your hard work in getting this group off the ground, particularly those who have been with me since March. We are on Twitter as @LondonHON, and have a Facebook fan page as you can see in the right-hand column. Looking forward to seeing the energy that comes from spreading the word around town. | <urn:uuid:c4137794-fd6a-479e-ad30-6864b30180b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abeoudshoorn.com/blog/?m=201012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967491 | 1,051 | 2.015625 | 2 |
First you add. Then you reduce.
In an earlier post, I wrote how you could discover the meaning of your life by reduction, not addition.
But now I’ve realized the same pattern repeats everywhere. First you add, then realize that addition wasn’t optimal, so then you’ll reduce.
First you want your calendar to be full. Then, you want it empty.
First you seek out thought leaders and teachers. Then, you take no one’s word for it and figure things out for yourself.
First you believe in interventionism. Then in letting things work out for themselves.
First you think you're not working enough to be productive, not trying enough tools or hacks. Then, you’ll appreciate “redundancy” and say no to most things.
First, in public speaking or argumentation or writing essays, you'll want to say more, adding more conditions under which your argument is true, explaining details and special cases. Then, you’ll just make your point and get out of the way.
First you want to make grand plans and strategies. Then, you just wing it.
First you believe your struggling business will be saved with more employees, more features and more funding. Then, you’ll realize mercilessly cutting everything non-essential has a better chance of working.
First, your reading list will be large. Then, it will become narrow.
First, you want many things. Then, you want few.
First, you add complexity and length to seem smart. Then, you realize simplicity is smarter.
First, you think everything is necessary. Then, you realize hardly anything is.
Note that I’m not writing about the journey from an amateur to a pro. I’m writing about the difference between amateurs and pros. The reductive path is the better path to begin with and you could skip the additive path altogether.
But, it just so happens, most people realize the reductive path is better only after they’ve tried adding. Only after we’ve bought everything money can buy do we realize a detachment from possessions is a better way to reach happiness. Addition isn’t necessary at all - you could arrive at this conclusion without getting rich first.
I tried to think whether it really is more common to first default to adding, and then as you know better, default to reducing. Or whether examples in this direction are just easier to think of (vs the direction of first reducing, then adding).
But I believe we are inclined to add first. There are several plausible reasons:
- When we add, we feel like we are doing something. We want to do something because we don’t have the confidence not to or because we need to justify our existence to someone.
- Or maybe not doing something seems too easy, suspiciously simple. “Surely it must be more complicated than that”, we think and take the additive approach.
- It’s much easier to make money when you recommend adding something, when you make things complicated. Consultants, specialists, coaches and authorities convince us we need to add rather than reduce, not because it is good for us but because it is good for them.
- We're used to solving problems in the physical world, not internal. So we’re inclined to take action (for example, post more pics to get social validation) vs reflecting internally to remove the need for social validation.
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Carbon Trade eXchange (CTX)
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Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX) operates as an online, electronic spot exchange, allowing buyers and sellers to trade cash for carbon offsets (or credits) in real time, 24/7, 365 days a year. CTX delivers simple, secure and transparent access to global carbon markets and operates the world’s first voluntary carbon exchange.
By reducing unavoidable emissions and funding emission reductions in a different location, offsetting allows companies to mitigate the environmental impact of these activities by providing a source of finance for carbon reduction projects, creating real and additional CO2 reductions.
An offset is achieved by purchasing and cancelling carbon credits - 1 carbon credit represents 1 tonne of CO2e reduction. Carbon credits finance a myriad of different environmental projects worldwide, including renewable energy; waste management; forestry and agriculture; biofuels; energy and fuels technologies; biodiversity protection; sustainable development; and ecosystem protections.
When companies purchase and offset, they are providing the essential financial support that keeps these projects operational, whilst positively impacting the environment by helping to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Once retired, carbon credits can never be bought, sold or claimed as emissions reductions by any other entity. Every retirement leaves a permanent public record which many companies chose to make public by displaying their GS, UN or Verra certification. The Credit Standard registry also maintains a history of documentation relating to the project.
CTX is a commercial partner to the United Nations, the Gold Standard and Verra, accessing certified carbon credit projects which fund real CO2 emission reductions across the developing world. CTX only access project-based carbon credits from environmental projects.
CTX currently offers projects from three of the leading global Credit Standards:
Being partners with these organisations ensures that full levels of due diligence and compliance are undertaken on the projects from where the credits are being issued. This means that the investment generated by every carbon offset that is purchased is certified to be genuine and ultimately feeding directly into the environmental project.
Direct benefits include:
- Purchase credits at live spot rates using a wholesale rate not usually available to retail purchasers
- Build a portfolio of carbon credits from different projects to meet CSR or fiduciary duties
- Facilitating trades from certified Credits Standards:
- Gold Standard VER
- United Nation CDM
- VERRA VCS
- Strict certification standards to ensure emissions from environmental projects are real, measurable, additional, independently verified and unique
- Access to 1000's of environmental projects, around the globe, with a choice of vintage, methodology, region, country, volume and price
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- Access to an 'environmental market ecosystem' should additional negotiation and assistance be required
- Accessible 24/7/365 from any device
- Continuous trading contract with no paperwork
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- Fully exportable data and reports from company account transaction logs
- Credits and investment received within 24 hours
- No risk of non-delivery
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Time Value of Money
Time value of money calculations relate the following quantities:
- future value
- present value
- number of periods
- discount rate
tvm computes one of these values (other than discount rate) given the others.
The number of periods is split between two values, the number of years and the number of periods per year (the frequency).
pip3 install --user tvm
This installs tvm to ~/.local/bin; make sure this directory is on your path.
tvm [options] [fv|pv|pmt|years]
-f <val>, --fv <val> future value -p <val>, --pv <val> present value -P <val>, --pmt <val> payment per period -y <val>, --years <val> total number of years -n <val>, --freq <val> number of payments per year -r <val>, --rate <val> annual discount rate -i, --ignore ignore any previously specified values
If a value is not given it is recalled from the previous invocation. Specify --ignore to use the default values for all unspecified options, which are: pv = 0, fv = 0, pmt = 0, years = 30, freq = 12.
When the program runs, it always shows the specified values along with the computed value to make it easy for you to confirm that you used the right values. The computed value is capitalized and shown in a different color to make it easier to pick out.
Consider case where you have a interest bearing account that pays 5% per annum compounded monthly. If you start with $10,000, you can compute the amount you will have after 5 years with:
tvm --pv=10000 --rate=5 --freq=12 --years=5 fv
The amount in 5 years is referred to as the future value (fv). The current amount is the present value (pv). The frequency is the number of periods per year. The program responds with:
pv = $10,000.00 pmt = $0.00 FV = $12,833.59 r = 5% periods = 60 years = 5
periods is the total number of periods and equals the product of the years and the number of periods per year.
You can specify values with SI scale factors, units, and commas. The units and commas are ignored. So you can do the same thing with either:
tvm --pv='$10,000' --rate=5% --freq=12 --years=5 fv
tvm --pv=10k --rate=5% --freq=12 --years=5 fv
The quotes are needed in the first case to prevent $ from being interpreted by the shell.
tvm remembers the values specified on the previous invocation and uses them if they are not specified. This allows you to rapidly run what-if experiments without having to re-specify values that do not change. So, once you have run the first command, you can now quickly determine how much you will have in 10 years using:
tvm -y 10 pv = $10,000.00 pmt = $0.00 FV = $16,470.09 r = 5% periods = 120 years = 10
Without changing anything else, you can determine what happens if you make an additional $100 contribution each month:
tvm --pmt 100 pv = $10,000.00 pmt = $100.00 FV = $31,998.32 r = 5% periods = 120 years = 10
You can also use tvm to explore loans. For example, you can compute the payment for a mortgage given the principal, interest rate, and length:
tvm --ignore --pv=-250k --rate=4.375 --years=30 pmt pv = -$250,000.00 PMT = $1,248.21 fv = $0.00 r = 4.375% periods = 360 years = 30
The --ignore option was added so that we start from scratch; any values that were previously specified are ignored.
You can now understand how paying a little extra affects how long it takes to pay off the loan using:
tvm --pmt=1.5k years pv = -$250,000.00 pmt = $1,500.00 fv = $0.00 r = 4.375% periods = 257.08 YEARS = 21.42
To compute the payments for a 5-year interest only balloon mortgage, use:
tvm -y 5 -f -250k pmt pv = -$250,000.00 PMT = $911.46 fv = -$250,000.00 r = 4.375% periods = 60 years = 5
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Schools: Educational resources from the BBC. What is connectivism? In my last two posts on connectivism (here and here) I've alluded to but not made particularly explicit what I think connectivism actually is, even though I have been critiquing and exploring its boundaries.
This post is an attempt to fairly briefly list what I think are among its more compelling shared ideas. I will draw substantially from George Siemens's most cited seminal article that has acted as a catalyst and gravitational centre for the idea, though I will also be adding odd bits of interpretation and extrapolation here and there that might not have been in the original and to which others have contributed. If connectivism makes any sense at all then knowledge about it is a networked phenomenon, not an individual invention.
This is my bit of personal sense-making as I see it on this particular rainy day, not a definitive account to stand for all time, not a scholarly article citing its sources, not a theory, not a refutation of any other model of the idea. The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, And Connectivism - The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, And Connectivism by Terry Heick We spend so much time in education trying to make things better.
Better policies. Better technology. Better standards. Better curriculum. Better instruction. Better assessment. Better response to assessment data. Bloom (Krathwohl and Anderson) and Web 2.0. Distributed Cognition. “The emphasis on finding and describing “knowledge structures” that are somewhere “inside” the individual encourages us to overlook the fact that human cognition is always situated in a complex sociocultural world and cannot be unaffected by it.”
(Hutchins, 1995, p. xiii) Over the 20th century, many have explored the question “how can the cognitive processes we normally associate with an individual mind be implemented in a group of individuals?” All the discussions converged towards the idea that “the cognitive properties of a group can differ from the cognitive properties of the members of the group” (Hutchins, 2000, p. 4). Ed Hutchins has spent his “academic carreer trying to understand human cognition in social, cultural and material context”. He “believe[s] that cultural practices are a key component of human cognition”. Therefore, using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky, the theory emphasizes the social aspects of cognition. Figure A ( Tree. Looking for Strategies and Activities?
Click Here! The tree can act as a metaphor to help us see the relationship between theory and practice in second language learning and teaching. The ROOTS represent concepts and theories to be considered in teaching in general and in second language acquisition in particular. The TRUNK represents what the student brings to the learning context – their attitudes, learning styles and intelligences, their cognitive and affective abilities. The BRANCHES represent what the student needs to learn (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture). The success of teacher planning and preparation and development of carefully selected activities can be understood by tracing how they are fed by the ideas on the roots and trunk. Click on the different parts of the tree below to access more information about each topic.
When to Use Social Media for Learning. Workplace learning professionals should focus on how social learning - and its associated tools - can help achieve business goals.
The transfer of knowledge has always been a social activity. Many years ago, workers learned skills through apprenticeship. Workers in the same location, in the same area of practice would share knowledge, and thereby, strengthen the skills of the group. Today, workers can learn as they work, by connecting with someone with the answers, who may live anywhere in the world.
What has changed over time are the skills needed for business success, and the speed at which knowledge is needed to maintain a competitive edge. In 1966, Peter Drucker coined the term the "knowledge worker. " As organizations became larger, global, and more complex, it became less likely to find knowledge in next office - or when it was needed. Looking at the big picture As learning professionals, it is easy to focus the discussion on social learning on the tools, known as social media. | <urn:uuid:28b0ab79-769b-43fc-ac72-5774f556cf55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.pearltrees.com/collecthis/info/id12184036 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952085 | 888 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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History of the 1952-1954 Fiat 8V
The Fiat 8V was Italy’s largest automaker’s first attempt at a true postwar sports car, and it’s notable for several reasons. First, this was a true V-8-powered modern car, with a streamlined body not at all like the usual run of mass-market subcompacts produced for Italian domestic use. Second, by 1954 Ghia was experimenting with fiberglass bodies for the 8V, presumably inspired by the Chevrolet Corvette and the other fiberglass development being conducted at the time.
The Fiat 8V was marketed using the slogans such as “Designed by the wind” and “Built for speed” when it debuted in 1952 at the Geneva Motor Show. The 8V featured a two-door, two-seat body reminiscent of the Ferrari 166 Barchetta, except with a rounded fastback coupe roof. Bodywork differed strikingly from car to car, as some 8V examples were made at various coachbuilders including Zagato, Ghia, and Vignale in addition to the Fiat factory. All cars, however, were two-seat, two-door fixed-roof coupes. Ghia made the most divergent cars of the lot, with “Supersonic” bodywork reminiscent of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante.
The engine in the 8V was a Fiat design. It was a short-stroke, small-bore V-8 displacing 1996 cc and delivering a respectable 105 hp and 107 lb-ft of torque. It used a single Weber carburetor, though a dual-carb version with 115 hp was also offered. The engine was mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox with second and fourth gears synchronized. The cars used a standard front-engine, rear-drive configuration. Brakes were four-wheel drums, in keeping with standard practice in that era. The frame was mostly tube steel, with some welded-together box sections and the bodywork was welded to the chassis. All told, 114 Fiat 8V chassis were made between 1952 and 1954.
The 8V had a respectable racing career, first entering the Mille Miglia in 1952 and finishing 5th in class. Zagato made several racing bodies for the 8V and continued to race and win in the cars until 1959. With so few of these cars ever made, and each one being for all practical purposes a bespoke coachbuilt sports car, prices are likely to range ever higher for one of these exquisite machines.
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Year 13 Design and Visual Communication builds on the work covered in Year 12. Project briefs are presented in the areas of Media Design, Engineering and Environmental and Architectural Design. In this course students are expected to take a greater responsibility for their learning and although direction and guidelines are given, to a greater extent students will be working on projects of their own choice. Students will be assessed as shown by the matrix below.
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The journey itself is an exclamation mark. If Vladimir Putin leaves the post-Soviet space for the first time since the start of his war of aggression against Ukraine, then it must be important to him. And that’s it.
On his trip to Iran, Russia’s President will not only meet his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, but also the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan. So on Tuesday in Tehran, a NATO member met Turkey, NATO’s new main enemy.
That should be a satisfaction for Putin, since he can continue to work on driving a wedge in the alliance. Allianz, on the other hand, will see Erdogan’s willingness to talk as another affront to Ankara.
But the most important thing for the Turkish head of state is to coordinate with the other two autocrats. Because the three men have one goal in common: to maintain their own power, at best even to expand it. So they forge alliances. It’s about using the real political situation to your own advantage.
Syria plays a central role in this. The country, ravaged by war, destruction and poverty, is Russia’s gateway to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Years ago, Moscow rushed to the aid of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to quell the popular uprising. Since then, almost nothing has happened in the region without Putin’s consent.
But the campaign against Ukraine is tying up Russian forces, and soldiers and mercenaries stationed in Syria have been withdrawn to fight against Kyiv. That gets Tehran on the scene. The mullahs want to strengthen their position in Syria, which the Kremlin chief can hardly allow. Unless Iran is willing to offer him something. For example, armed drones that Putin could use in the Ukraine war or an expansion of the energy partnership.
Give and take is also the basis for talks with Erdogan. Because the interests of Turkey and Russia are partly opposed. This is how Moscow and Ankara faced each other two years ago in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. However, this is hidden in order to communicate on other issues.
Erdogan is determined to invade northern Syria to take action against the Kurds. Putin’s approval (and that of Iran) would be helpful for this. He, in turn, could demand that Erdogan shut down the delivery of Turkish combat drones to Ukraine.
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The article deals with a phenomenon called metafiction. This phenomenon, thoroughly studied by Western European and American philologists, is now considered basing on Chinese literature - from the first publications in the late 1980s to modern monographs; the paper gives a brief introduction into scientific articles and monographs of Chinese and Russian scholars who played a key role in the study of metafiction. The author of the article identifies its main features and summarizes the existing concepts of Chinese literary scholars. Particular attention is paid to the «Chinese characteristics» of metafiction.
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Before going into any details of this debate, one thing that should be clarified is that terrorism is clearly not new to this world, but the response of developed countries to these criminals and non-state actors has become much more complicated. One of the ways to deal with the detainees is the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. It’s operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo of the American Armed Force in Cuba. The sole purpose of having this facility is to “take care of” the terrorist suspects captured in the US War on Terror, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq. Knowing this fact, this debate definitely comes down to whether the detainees are being treated fairly and the reasons why the US should and will be beneficial for them to close the Guantanamo Bay. Keeping that in mind, on January 22, 2009, President Obama ordered the controversial prison camp at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year.
All the Yes points:
- Guantanamo Bay Violates Fundamental Human Rights.
- Guantanamo Bay’s Lack of Transparency Counters American Interests.
- Guantanamo Bay is a Symbol of Muslim Discrimination that Fuels Terrorist Sentiments
- Gauntanamo Bay is detrimental to foreign relations for United States.
All the No points:
- Need of Information
- Possibility to Reform
- Shift of the Problem
- Release is not the Solution
- Principle of security
- Consequences of Closure or Continuation
- Czech Republic 2011: Summary
Guantanamo Bay Violates Fundamental Human Rights.
GB is essentially a detention center for suspected terrorists and those who are considered enemies of the US. What is key to underline is the word ‘suspected’. Of these so called terrorists, very few or none of them have actually been proven guilty and only one out of 172 current detainees has been given a trial. [[http://www.reprieve.org.uk/publiceducation/guantanamostats/]] Furthermore these so called prisoners of wars are not being treated according to the international laws for prisoners of war, because the US has not officially declared war, they only give the name of war on terror.UNDHR, Articles 6 and 10
“Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law” and
“Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him”.
Thus, the American government is violating two of the most fundamental human rights.
Unfortunately, these are not the only two rights being violated at GB. It has become clear in the past few years, that US has been using ‘interrogation techniques’ on prisoners that resemble torture. In fact, a UN report recently stated that the prisoners were forced to endure cruel and degrading treatment, even to the point of death. Several autopsies performed on the bodies of GB prisoners have confirmed homicide. The Int Red Cross report on GB revealed that prisoners exhibited signs of sleep deprivation and that there were several signs of physical abuse, a witness even reported the slamming of prisoner’s heads against the wall. [[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/politics/30gitmo.html?_r=2]] The detainees are not allowed outside visits and are held for extended periods of time in solitary confinement, which can be very difficult to bear mentally. Prop sees that undeniable human rights violations are occuring, which we find completely unacceptable.
Not only did the proposition fail to show why is it necessary to close GB, it has also misunderstood historical facts. A few of the prisoners have been convicted of various crimes including providing material support for terrorism or celebrating terrorist attacks. As of May 2011, president Obama reversed the provisional order halting new military charges against detainees and therefore the number is expected to grow as there are no more legal obstacles and Obama himself encourages it. Also, the reports of physical abuse put forward by the proposition come from 2004 and there has been none since then and conditions are believed to be better than at US prisons [[http://goo.gl/JfzWF]].
As for the War on Terror, the argument that POWs are not treated correctly because no war is taking place, is also false. According to the US Constitution, any kind of hostilities against a foreign nation must be approved by Congress. Both Iraqi and Afghan War were approved, thus it may be legally considered as a war conflict. Hence, the US may be imprisoning GB inmates until the conflict is over and, unlike the prop suggests, their rights are ensured. Thanks to the presence of the Intl Red Cross, health of the prisoners is being constantly monitored [[http://goo.gl/jfKgH]] to make sure nobody dies due to inappropriate treatment or on-site conditions.
Neither party in this debate commends torture if it happened at GB. Still, it can be clearly seen that the situation is getting better and there is not a single reason to close down such a sophisticated facility only because of a few instances of bad treatment. Rather, all resources should be devoted to further improvement so that GB can serve as an ideal place for potentially dangerous suspects. We can see that things are already improving in these days. Thorough investigations of inmates’ crimes are taking place, many of the suspects have been released. In the end, we see no reason to shut down something that works and is reforming.
Guantanamo Bay’s Lack of Transparency Counters American Interests.
GB undemocratically burdens US citizens in terms of both liberties and finances. What is worse than inhumane actions conducted at GB is that the Pentagon has been reluctant to allow the Red Cross or other aid agencies to visit the detainees and inspect their living conditions. If there were no scrutiny to investigate any situations that are made within that place, there is no boundary to limit the actions of soldiers in a sense that interrogation wouldn’t build up to harming the individual’s rights. “In 2002, Executive Order that the detainees at GB should be treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, ‘to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity.’ [[http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20061122.html?ref=jauin.da.ru]] Since investigations can’t be made in camps, the documents do not detail the controversial techniques used to obtain information from detainees. This is why there is a concern over the admissibility of evidence collected during torture. Human Rights Watch has obtained an unredacted copy of al-Qahtani’s interrogation log, and believes that the techniques used during al-Qahtani’s interrogation were so abusive that they amounted to torture. Since US has been a leader of human rights internationally, it will be contradictory for the govt to allow these kind of human right violation, especially secretly. Ultimately, secrecy and isolation of GB would eventually encourage further acts of violence. Moreover, citizens have no right in what their tax money is being spent on—which is often times through undemocratic methods. The fact that they don’t know where the money goes makes it undemocratic because informed decisions are a principle of the democratic process. US citizens must have the right to know how their tax money is spent, especially if it is spent on human rights violation. When this is not made, what is the use of holding a detainee camp that goes against the country that is in charge of the institution?
First of all, the point that GB’s existence is undemocratic as not all information can be revealed to the public cannot stand for the very reason it is not the way how democracy in the US works. It is not a direct democracy where citizens make all the decisions regarding internal and external policies; it is a representative system. Therefore, voters elect others to take care about national security, military etc. Faith is put into the elected that they can make reasonable and educated decisions. In the same way, our representatives must ensure utmost security of the people, which could not be effectively done if secret information were made public. Knowing that taxpayers’ money is used for protection is enough to request, we are not limiting individual rights by not disclosing confidential matters.
In addition to that, some argue that GB is, contrary to the popular belief, one of the most open detention camps in the world [[http://goo.gl/BpSUs]] allowing access to journalists who ultimately monitor the way how inmates are being treated. As of 2007, more than 1,000 reporters, the most significant guarantors of democracy, visited GB. The International Red Cross has, as stated above, access to the facility and it may even interview the inmates regarding their conditions [[http://goo.gl/5sc6J]].
When we consider the resumed military trials that acquitted a great number of detainees in past [[http://goo.gl/3SBgL]] and the fact that the facility is not on US soil, we have to acknowledge that violent interrogation techniques may have been used.
Still, the government did so in order to ensure maximum safety of its people, which is its Constitutional obligation. It cannot be revealing every detail of the procedure at GB even if they do not seem acceptable to the Western culture, but the end justifies the means. Provided the willingness of the current administration to change, we do not agree with shutting down GB.
Guantanamo Bay is a Symbol of Muslim Discrimination that Fuels Terrorist Sentiments
Anti American sentiments have been growing drastically in the Arab world, resulting in protests, complaints and terrorist attacks. The supporters of anti Americanism stated that they believe that the US is very condescending towards their culture and lifestyles, constantly trying to ignore their belief systems to impose its own ways of living upon them.[[ http://goo.gl/GKNxG%5D%5D The clash of cultures led to thousands of deaths in numerous terrorist attacks and thousands more in the WOT.
“The Guantanamo facility holds detainees from 30 countries. 94% of Yemenies comprise the plurality-more than one third- of the population. More than 70% of the detainees are citizens of Middle Eastern and North African nations.”[[http://goo.gl/knHBg]] As we prove in our 1st contention, great human rights violations go on in GB. The conditions of GB are said to resemble those of Abu Ghraib (AG), a precedent of GB that was forced to shut down after grotesque harassment was proven to have taken place. A detention centre that also held a population of mainly Middle Eastern citizens, AG specifically designed its tortures and punishments to target the inmates’ religious beliefs, such as forcing them to violate the strict rule against homosexuality.
With so many similarities to AG, GB is considered to be a symbol of Muslim discrimination in the Arab world. Thus, the mere existence of GB offends the great Middle Eastern population. No matter how effective or transparent GB were to be, it is still seen as a way to legitimize and justify the Muslim discrimination that is already so prevalent throughout the US.
Ultimately, keeping GB will increase anti Americanism and increase terrorism. This will be increasingly dangerous to the hegemony and security of the US, and endanger the lives of thousands more. It is very ironic that the US is spending so much money, time and effort, and killing innocent civilians in the War of Terror while it is fuelling the very cause of terror.
Firstly, our line needs to be made clear. We don’t like humiliation and strong physical or psychological treatment which can seriously harm prisoners, but in some cases harshness is needed to obtain important information. That was our main point. Additionaly, in our 2nd point we have shown that even if this wasn’t true, GB could still be reformed instead of closing.
Proposition supposes that GB brings hatred towards the US and basically is its cause, but it was established only after the WOT started in 2001.
Terrorists go against US because they want to, GB is just a pretext. Fanaticism does not have roots in solidarity – attackers don’t blow up buildings in order to free innocent people held in GB. Terror has roots elsewhere: internal problems in the country [[http://goo.gl/JSAA8]], psychological problems of the youth such as narcissism and lust for media attention [[http://goo.gl/9Y0eS]]. Most importantly there are radical Imams who cement their position and power through hate.
GB and AG are not alike. GB is an institution for detainment of suspected terrorists and trying to get information from intelligence, whereas AG was a regular prison for Iraqi petty criminals where two sadistic guards, Charles Graner and Lynndie England, did horrible abuse.
GB issue is not an ethnic or religious one, it is not a concentration camp for Muslims. Who is to be put there is not decided according to his origin or faith [[http://goo.gl/XGsDQ]] , the determining factor is whether he represents a global danger. Saying that we are against Arabs since they make the majority of the inmates is a logical fallacy. If Arab detainees are the most common, then it means that terrorism is coming from this region – and US task is not to ignore it. We don’t agree with US discriminating against the Arab world, but we stand for US rights to protect itself.
The prop is saying that when somebody attacks us, we should stay calm in order not to provoke further anger, hoping to be l
Gauntanamo Bay is detrimental to foreign relations for United States.
It is evident that GB does not meet international standards of handling their detainees and therefore frowned upon by numerous nations such as Britain, France, and Germany.[[http://goo.gl/8uqMl]] Especially Muslim communities dislike GB for their disrespect for Muslim prisoners and for their religion within the center. [[http://goo.gl/wrkKz]] As mentioned in C3, this can negatively fuel terrorism, opposite of the US’s initial incentive. US is one of the western liberal democratic countries who support democracy, freedom and human rights globally. However, GB violates fundamental human rights and this distorts US’s reputation and its image of a role model for other countries to follow. This results in many negative outcomes for the US. First of all, they lose their international authority to request other countries to stop violation of human rights. Prop would like to remind there were/are wars where US fought simply for protection of human rights in other countries. Continuing to keep GB is going against their constitutional values that the US were found upon, and makes what US fought for meaningless. Also this hurts the US’s trade relationships with western countries who do not support GB, which is obviously not in the interests of the country. Most importantly, keeping GB is one of the US’s effort to win WOT. In order to win this war, the US needs international support. It is problematic because US is carrying out human rights violation they exactly oppose by declaring war on terror, and therefore is going to lose the support they need to win this war if GB continues to exist. UN, along with many other organizations such as Amnesty Int and HumanRightsWatch have already called on US to close down the center. John McCain
“Ultimately, [whether to close down GB or not] is about morality. We are America, and we hold ourselves to a higher standard. That is what is really at stake.” [[http://goo.gl/EeWYi]]
In our first argument, we clearly proved that a facility like GB is needed to ensure global security and that its maintaining should be of high priority to the US. We regret the iniquities which might have happened. The fundamental thing that has not been tackled by our opponents, however, is the possibility to reform and to denounce the past events.
The proposition has been trying to convince us that since the US is a model of freedom and righteousness for many, it should not engage in acts that violate fundamental HR. Nonetheless, before taking HR of others into account, we have to deal with those who infringe upon our own rights of freedom and security or potentially put our people’s lives at stake. Only then can morality be discussed.
Furthermore, the proposition has omitted the fact that WoT is not only a matter of the US itself. Basically, the whole world is concerned with security and no country wishes to watch its soil being attacked. That is why it is almost impossible for a major opposition to the GB concept to appear in the future. Rather than being against themselves by insisting on immediate closure of the camp, they should cooperate with the US to reform it as much as possible, exactly as we stress. If it is fulfilled, trials are resumed and prisoners are treated properly, international relations of the US will not worsen as they are based on pragmatism rather than on idealism. Of course everyone would love to live without terrorism but that is not the case, sadly.
Another sad thing is that HR violations can be expected in a war; it is only decisive how the offender faces his mistakes and prevents them next time. To put it straight once again, we say that shutting down GB is neither strategic nor effective especially when done immediately as the motion says.
Three main clash areas in this debate seems to be:
1. Safety of US
2. Impact on US regarding international communities
3. Human rights – justification of torture.
Opp’s main argument about US’s national security was release of detainees will be dangerous. Prop isn’t planning on releasing detainees to normal streets of US right away; they will be trialed and held in other prisons or other countries that are willing to accept them. If proven guilty, the detainees may be transferred to other detention centers as it was done after Abu Ghraib shut down. On the other side, GB serves as a fuel for anti-american sentiments and encourages terrorism. Especially explained in our C3, discrimination against Muslims, whether “GB is a Muslim concentration camp” or not, thru disrespect of their religion provides more incentives for terrorists.
Secondly, existence of GB isn’t in the best interests of the US. It runs contrary to US’s constitutional beliefs and democracy that US is trying to pursue globally. Violations of human rights are common in GB –opp conceded that some measures were ‘unjustifiable’- and thus many countries are calling upon US to close down the facility. Britain, France and Germany for instance are offering to take in detainees if that were to encourage abolishment of GB. Opp failed to engage our argument about US losing support in WOT and in trade with other countries that do not support GB.
Opp believes that torture can be justified but prop sees that the issue is not just about retracting information, but shaking the fundamental framework that western liberal democratic countries wish to spread. Especially HC is one right granted to every individual on earth, yet not to the detainees. Prop wants to make it clear once again that torture is not only unjustified but ineffective. It was the oppositions’ burden to prove the full effectiveness of a facility as cruel as GB, but we haven’t seen a solid example except for two minor terrorist attacks being prevented. The fact is, terrorism doesn’t stop or halt if you prevent a couple of incidents and torture detainees. The situation simply gets worse. Opp stated that GB isn’t the cause of terrorism, but it doesn’t stop terrorism either unfortunately. Prop proved that terrorism further worsens through our third contention, but opp’s burden of GB’s advancement towards stopping terrorism was never met.
Prop’s burden throughout this debate was to prove that GB’s harms outweighed benefits. The harms we introduced were: Human rights violation, GB’s lack of Transparency is undemocratic, GB fuels terrorist sentiments and GB harms US’s global reputation/authority. Opp’s burden was to prove that their benefits of GB still supported its existence. Their main benefits were torture, and isolation of GB and we believe that they failed in explaining why these benefits are unique to GB and why these benefits outweigh the harm.
Need of Information
The opposition wants to be realistic instead of idealistic. The War on Terror started 10 years ago and from that time we live in permanent fear. Bombers are not uniformed, they live as normal civilians, which makes any suspicion impossible. The security measures are extremely complicated and not realistic thanks to our limited resources, i.e. protecting every single subway station, public place or institution, as we could see in Madrid in 2004. These measures limit freedoms of citizens due to scanning, monitoring communication etc.To protect our civilians and to guarantee security, we need to have information about terrorist’s steps from inside, for which we need GB. The information about planned attacks are perfectly secured and the human factor is one of the ways to get it. We don’t agree with humiliating techniques and we call for their punishment. On the other hand, we admit that sometimes more radical steps are needed. GB prisoners are not chosen arbitrary. They are detained and questioned for secret information which can help us to prevent other attacks.
Leon Panetta, CIA Director, has said “Important information was gathered from there detainees. It provided information that was acted upon.” [[http://goo.gl/UO7Na]] The words are confirmed by John Brennan, Obama’s security advisor: “Enhanced interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe” [[http://goo.gl/5ryq1]]
The detainees will not voluntarily share the information. Therefore, methods of putting them to unpleasant situations are necessary to disclose the truth. With this information, we are able to impose security measures to protect innocent people. The planned attack on Heathrow Airport using hijacked planes in 2003 or on several targets in Karachi in Pakistan has been prevented [[http://goo.gl/FsTGJ]] . Other prevented attack on the tallest building in LA, California, can just confirm this [[http://goo.gl/O8iRD]] .
To conclude, we see GB as essential measure to protect us.
First off, let’s look which side is the real idealistic one. The opposition claims the effectiveness of Guantanamo Bay through the information the United States can get from questioning the detainees. However, they have completely missed out the realistic part of the story. Military reports admit that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been thrown or dropped on the ground or thrown against walls as a mean of physical abuse, which have been further clarified in our first contention. Sadly enough, the conditions in Guantanamo Bay are not as smooth as the opposition assumes, and therefore the true reality of Guantanamo Bay would go towards the proposition side. Now the real issue kicks in whether those ‘tortures’ that are unbearable for the detainees at the camp are even effective at all. “Torture during interrogations rarely yields better information than traditional human intelligence, partly because no one has figured out a precise, reliable way to break human beings or any adequate method to evaluate whether what prisoners say when they do talk is true,” Rejali wrote in a 2004 article on Salon.com. [[http://goo.gl/E4DZO]] Therefore, although the opposition tries to put Guantanamo Bay as a great place to extract information from detainees and secure the world from terrorism, it is no better than another prison of deadly tortures that don’t even work as effective. Yet another issue exists whereas innocent people are held. “Documents from CIA revealed that 150 Guantanamo Bay prisoners were innocent but the US government kept them locked up for years anyway, The Daily Record informs.” [[http://goo.gl/vgWi0]] Realistically, when tortures don’t even work on guilty detainees, what can the US government get from innocent prisoners? Opposition has put forward some stories of prevented terrorist attacks from Guantanamo Bay but the results compared to the efforts through deadly tortures are not even comparable.
Possibility to Reform
Even if the interrogation techniques in GB would not be justifiable, it is not a necessary reason for closing it. GB has perfect strategic and security conditions, which creates it one of the best prisons. It is located on an island which makes it easy to guard and impossible for detainees to escape. Moreover, detainees can be perfectly isolated, which creates the war against terrorism effective. The investments done in recent years [[http://goo.gl/NAm0v]] improved the security even more and closure would be waste of resources.
In that case we can improve transparency of the facility and still be able to use it. GB is quite transparent even today, though: the Red Cross can access it and more than 1,000 journalists have visited it. “In the history of warfare, there has probably never been a detention center more transparent than Guantanamo Bay.” [[http://goo.gl/j2Ati]] Moreover, “there have been no serious allegations of abuse for a long time and prisoners have access to lawyers and and the federal courts oversee habeas corpus cases.” [[http://goo.gl/6QThz]] Journalists would be encouraged to examine the situation leaving no more doubts about what is actually happening behind the walls of GB. In this prison are the most dangerous world’s terrorists and security is required. We see no reason to shut down a facility providing great security. Policies can be changed easily without material things being affected.
To conlcude, if something is not efficient enough or is not working properly, it is not a reason to be closed but rather to be improved to get better effectivity and to works according to world standards.
GB’s main benefit opp brought up was isolation. However, isolation does not have significant impact to why we shouldn’t close down GB because: 1. Isolation is not a unique benefit that only GB has 2. A contradiction as opp mentions isolation of GB as a benefit and remarks on how GB is one of the most transparent facilities in the world. Isolation and transparency can’t coexist because they undermine each other. Even if transparency was increasing, GB would still have to be shut down because prop sees much greater harms if not shut down immediately. Furthermore, prop would like to remind opp that human right abuses constantly occur as reported by Red Cross [[http://goo.gl/MTZwE]], and Amnesty[[http://goo.gl/KtWKn]], and isolation is encouraging more abuse through ‘secrecy’. They also stated that 1000 journalists in will increase transparency but prop recognizes that this directly undermines the single benefit, isolation, mentioned by the opp. They said that closure would mean waste of resources with huge investments made in the past, but prop sees it is problematic if we continue to invest heavily in GB that has harms that prop brought up. We believe that detainees have their rights to have access to lawyers and habeas corpus but we do not believe that these rights are being protected as mentioned in our C1.Their assumption that the detainees are the world’s greatest terrorists ignores our previous point about only one detainee having been trialed and the rest held under ‘suspicion’. Opp briefly mentions that policies can be changed without affecting the materialistic existence of GB and stated:“evenif something is not efficient enough or is not working properly, it is not a reason to be closed”which implies that opp is also not satisfied with efficiency of GB in status quo and vaguely states that we should improve the standards but does not specify how and whether it will work or whether it will continue to bring forth the harms provided by prop.
Shift of the Problem
The good thing about matters we do not like is that we know about them. GB is a well known institution with increasing transparency and even if we know that there might be things which are not pleasant happening, it is good that we at least know about it and therefore are able to control it. Such information [[http://goo.gl/ZkNmq]] rang a bell and now the situation is changing and already is better [[http://goo.gl/24L1C]]. However if Guantanamo was closed, we would have no guarantee that it would be the end of whatever might be happening there. A closure could cause opening of a new facility, a secret one, such as secret CIA institutions in Poland and Romania where agents blatently torture the inmates without the public official awareness and, therefore, are not suject to improvement of any kind[[http://goo.gl/923qd]]. The most dangerous individuals are now located in GB, where the security can be achieved as well as transparency. The general public is aware of how they are treated, whereas closure would cause creation of another institution hidden from public [[goo.gl/KU6zh]], which may allow the guards to behave without any limits and consequences causing much greater harms to individuals.
In conclusion, rather than being idealistic and closing Guantanamo in order to get rid of all methods which are not snow-white clean, we have to consider the possible consequences and prevent unthinkable things, which might arise on different place without any control over them causing greater harmes.
First, putting detainees in harsh conditions is better than anything else. “Muhammed al-Qahtani, alleged to have been implicated in the September 11 plot, was physically and mentally mistreated. For six weeks, he was intentionally deprived of sleep, and subject to sexual and other physical humiliation.” [[http://goo.gl/2T67J]] Thus opp has completely overlooked all possibilities when they stated we have no guarantee that violations would end through closing the GB. With all these possible threats to lives of detainees, how can we assert that the situation is changing and already is better? Second, they stated that closure of GB causes opening of new facilities. But we want to state that CIA institution have the same effect as the GB, which is under the US gov’t control. Both of these prisons use the same tactic but just try to hide it in different ways, which also proves that US gov’t is willing to have private prisons. This shows that it lacks transparency thus more encouraged to violate more human rights in GB, which we already stated in our first contention. The representative of democracy is formed when population is acquired in decision making. However since these actions are unwanted by the majority, the gov’t is undermining the meaningful transparency since there are no liberties, inspections nor have protection of human rights in their country. Since US promotes a global image as a democracy country, it hurts its international relation which will be expanded on in our 4th contention. Lastly, opp has already acknowledged that unpleasant events are occurring at that time, but we should appreciate even the fact that it is ‘transparent’. However this point surrenders the rest of their other points because they have admitted that human violation is occurring in GB which links to our first contention. Although in their earlier contentions, they stated that the conditions are getting bettter and how rights are protected.
Release is not the Solution
Even if they should not be even kept in the GB, the other possibility by immediate closure would be to release them, because with all legal rights they would be classified as either soldiers and thus POWs this has the advantage that we neutralize the threat and the disadvantage that pursuant article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention [[http://goo.gl/rH9xN]] we cannot interrogate them or try them for killing allied soldiers. However most of the 172 detainees will most likely fall into the suspected criminal category and will have to be charged within 48 hours. Once they are charged – if at all – they will be put before a federal judge who will most likely throw the case out based on the fact that the prosecution has no evidence, after all the detainees were picked up by military intelligence not law enforcement, or there was maltreatment (absence of the writ of Habeas Corpus, torture) or some technicality such as lack of Miranda rights. This means these detainees will be free men.
Unfortunately, these people will not return to regular life, but there are 2 scenarios. They will return to their home country, where the government will behave even in the worst way, as we can see in Jordan, Iraq, Egypt or Syria [[http://goo.gl/W2KMr]], where the regime fights against terrorism with worse methods.
Other possibility is that they will return to the terrorist group willing to commit another crime.From 598 detainees transferred from GB are 150 confirmed or suspected of later taking part in terrorist activities. [[http://goo.gl/KhX4Q]] According to U.S. officials, several released Guantanamo prisoners are now part of the Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, including key leaders. [[http://goo.gl/cX7lb]] If we realize that on 9/11 19 terrorists were enough to cause 2 891 deaths and 422 000 cases of post-traumatic stress disorder in NYC alone, the consequences of releasing these terrorists can be tragic.
Whichever of the two happens both outcomes are undesirable.
The opposition seems to understand that when the shutdown of GB is in order, prisoners will be sent back to their home countries. However, they seem to have failed to understand the impacts of the detainees being sent back. Right now, they provide us with 2 scenarios. One, the detainees will be labeled as POWs and two, the government will treat these people with cruelty and as well, the detainees will return to the terrorist groups. The problem with their first scenario is, they are being treated like POWs when they are not. The opposition seems to believe this is fine because people in GB are criminals. They believe punishment is crucial for these people. Well, the proposition believes evidence is important. We believe people shouldn’t imply that all people in GB are dangerous criminals without proof; there are many reports/articles of many innocent people trapped in GB [http://goo.gl/GSfN] [http://goo.gl/HbRhq]. We believe it is ridiculous and outraging for the innocent to be in GB “because U.S. officials hoped they would know something important.” [http://goo.gl/VEMEJ]. The problem with their second scenario is that the opposition is practically undermining the legal system in countries; capability to deal with these detainees. We really should not undermine the countries’ sovereignty. However, this scenario implies that the government will treat these people like animals without any sort of trials held or proof to decide the sentences. Thus, con is simply saying that US should look down on these countries. This will hurt US reputation regarding both allies and countries being helped; the US soft power will be damaged. This creates conflicts between countries; countries involved in the Arab spring. US, as a part of G8, is helping out the Arab spring; the revolution against the governments and the struggle towards democracy. Creating conflicts/angering the MENA are definitely not what we need right now to win over the trust of people of MENA.
Principle of security
From the very beginning of the debate, we don’t support torturing people to death, hitting their heads against walls or humiliating, and we also call for its strong punishment.
What we need to realize is which kind of detainees are in GB – leaders of terrorist groups, operatives and material supporters of terrorism. These people are highly dangerous to society and consequences of their release would be terrible. The possibility of innocent being detained has been reduced by releasing most of the detainees (from 800 in 2009 to current 172). The high chance of obtaining information from the remaining ones must be exploited in order to keep public security even with the use of some harsher interrogation methods [[http://goo.gl/knpa7]] . The war on terror includes each of us and any information is essential to prevent deaths of thousands of people. These methods have results and they are effective and crucial for prevention [[http://goo.gl/pou4P]] . We have prevented another terrorist attack on Heathrow and Canary Wharf [[http://goo.gl/tQFi7]] . If any of them had been carried out, the amount of deaths would have been in thousands or even more. Still, the prisoners have habeas corpus and access to lawyers [[http://goo.gl/y9GWI]] [[http://goo.gl/7RXw6]] , who already keep a sufficient standard.
Even if this was not a sufficient reason, we believe that GB can get more transparent and to the international level of behavior. This base is isolated on an island, which means that it is hard to escape for prisoners and they are well secured, but it doesn’t mean that Red Cross and journalists cannot access and therefore ensure transparency. International standard of handling detainees can be achieved easily by limiting guards by supervisors as is in every other prison and it is not a sufficient reason to close this extraordinary and well-built prison, but rather to reform it, which would fulfill its purpose and keep in line with HR guideline
Opp knows the importance of habeas corpus and that the detainees have the right to trial but are these rights actually being enforced? HC was denied to 21 detainees in the past.[[http://goo.gl/a0b8T]]HC only applies when the detainees are trialed in federal courts. Currently, detainees are “tried in military commissions rather than federal court.”[[http://goo.gl/D4G6D]]This is problematic as HC doesn’t apply to military commissions. “The Military Commissions Act [..] eliminate access to habeas corpus for GB detainees. “ [[http://goo.gl/22bcl]] Thus it prevents detainees from claiming HC in military commissions court, and prevents MCA restricts judicial review in terrorism cases by making Geneva Convention inapplicable in US courts
Using torture sometimes provides false info from guilty detainees. Victims are smart enough to avoid giving the real answer thus torture is ineffective. “The fact is there has never ever been reported that any information garnered from torture in fact produced accurate “actionable intelligence.” However, there are many reported instances of false info extracted through torture that led to disastrously bad actions by the United States,”. Even the FBI agents repeatedly warned interrogators at GB that their aggressive methods were legally risky and ineffective. [[http://goo.gl/AKjjx]]
Also, it’s evident that the innocent doesn’t have any info for the govt. What the opp tried to prove is that torture is justified even to these detainees who are innocent. They said a govt should be allowed to torture the innocent to retrieve more info. “The Pentagon has acknowledged 10 cases of abuse or mistreatment at [GM], including a female interrogator climbing onto a detainee’s lap and a detainee whose knees were bruised from being forced to kneel repeatedly.” [[http://goo.gl/ae6jY]] As the proposition side, we believe that unnecessary and unjustified torture should be prevented especially in cases from GB.
Consequences of Closure or Continuation
Let’s have a look at the consequences of the closure of GB. Thanks to the fact that many countries have rejected to accept these terrorists, the current detainees might be moved to a different facility, which can be less transparent and less known causing much severe impacts on HR violations. The other option is to release the detainees, which would not be a great solution either. In that case, they would be sent back to their home country, where HR are very often abused more, which opp doesn’t want to support either.
We are not undermining sovereignty since we are not interfering in the country. Even if we are, detaining people suspected of terrorism does not interfere into any country´s sovereignty, not even in that whose citizens such suspect happen to be.
GB has been running for almost ten years and yet it has not caused problems of legitimacy in the domain of HR and therefore enforcing these rights around the world. If the US really wanted to enforce HR and did not have “legitimacy,” which we claim it still has because no one on the international stage including the US’s sworn enemies have disputed the US’s legitimacy due to GB, it could apply its sizable military, economic and diplomatic power to further protect HR.
Moreover, if the country itself sets terrorists free, they very often return to terrorism [[http://goo.gl/N3vX4]] planning another attack, which we think is a rather important point because the impact on HR by another attack might be catastrophic.
The closure of GB would not stop the War on Terror in the same way closing Abu Ghraib didn’t solve the anti-American sentiment much. Closing GB is not going to make fanatical terrorists hate us less just as keeping it open won’t cause Egypt or any other Middle-Eastern country to take any steps away from cracking down on terrorists. For one, it is strictly in their interest to crack down on terrorists whether they like us or not because their govts are targets as well.
It is unjustified to torture people, innocent or guilty and closing GM will assure this torture ceases. GB wrongfully and tortured detainees. It is in the best interest of the US to “stop torturing, stop arbitrary detention, by closing down the GB detention facilities” [[http://goo.gl/KYjOq]] . There is great discrimination against Muslims in GB. “The international community has sharply criticized the US for detaining the prisoners without formally charging them.. a Pentagon report confirmed that abuses of the QUR’AN had taken place. Guards and interrogates at GM had deliberately thrown, kicked and soiled the volumes of the QUR’AN read by prisoners.”[[http://goo.gl/GWntW]] Detainees are not POWs but suspects of terrorism. Thus, the US has declared the war on terror in a illegitimate way. This is why it is illegitimate to assume detainees as criminals.
The extent of torture subjected on the detainees is unfair, for officials at GB don’t have any right to torture suspects as if they were actual criminals. Only one detainee has ever had his day in court.
Further, undermining a nation’s sovereignty does not necessarily mean that one invades a different country. What the US gov is doing; looking down upon a nation’s judicial system by taking matters into its own hands, is also considered undermining it. In both WLDs and the Arab world, this is taken as extremely condescending and has increased anti-Americanism. [[http://goo.gl/GKNxG]]Even if GB were to reform and become more transparent, anti-Americanism will increase as long as detainees are not returned to their countries of origin. [[http://goo.gl/gTkZD]]
This harms American credibility in the international community, and this will impact trade with other nations; if trade with the US subsides, the economy of the entire world suffers. Also, if GB were to be kept,the US will lose its authority as a leader in human rights and human rights violation will be more prevalent in the world.
Czech Republic 2011: Summary
Prop has not proved the need for closure, less so immediately. We presented 3 main levels. On principle level that the function of GB is needed. Even if not, there is the possibility of reform, making it transparent and complying with international law. Even if this is not possible, we see the consequences worse with closure. If any of them stands, prop loses the debate.
Prop asserted that HR violations take place at GB. It doesn’t mean, however, that GB should be closed. Rather, it has to be improved and shown that the problem still exists. Instead, only not-detailed general reports (Amnesty) or 6 year-old solved cases (Red Cross) have been brought up. Currently, the prisoners have religious rights, access to lawyers as well as habeas corpus and contact with the Red Cross and journalists.
We condemn HR violation and we call for punishment. This can be easily achieved without the closure of GB. Some interrogation techniques are justifiable to prevent deaths of thousands of innocent people, which has been shown as effective by many pieces of evidence. The innocent detainees have already been released and the trials take place. Even if it wasn’t justifiable, we don’t see any reason why it should not be improved and reformed.
Prop pointed at the lack of transparency, which they consider undemocratic. Thanks to the social contract, transparency is often limited when it endangers public security, which applies to these cases because absolute transparency makes the war on terror ineffective. Even if this doesn’t apply, we see the primary role of the government to protect it citizens and GB is an essential tool for it.
Prop claimed that international relations would suffer. Even after the worst revelations about GB, trade, legitimacy and relations have not changed as GB does not undermine states sovereignty. Even if they did, we see greater harms in letting innocent people die by terrorist attacks. However, we showed great economic harms caused by the closure of the facility (which is isolating the prisoners, not the press) by wasting resources.
GB isn’t the cause of war of terror or a symbol of Muslim discrimination. Terrorists fight against US as such, or thanks to Iraq or Afghanistan invasion, thus the closure of GB would not solve the situation, as seen Abu Ghraib’s case. Prisoners have absolute freedom of religion. The ethic composition is such because most terrorist come from Muslim countries. Even though, the reform would be the symbol of our tolerance, which would be better gesture than camouflaging past.
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Konrad Wimpina (Wiminae, Wiminesis; real name Konrad Koch) (b. at Buchen in Baden, about 1465; d. at Amorbach in Lower Franconia, 17 May 1531) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and humanist of the early Reformation period. He was a quiet and stubborn conservative, considered quiet but somewhat narrow. In theology he was a pupil of Martin Polich of Mellerstadt and a Thomist.
His family, whose name was Koch, came from Wimpfen on the Neckar, hence he was called Wimpina. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig (1479–1480) and remained there until 1505; in 1481 he obtained the baccalaureate degree, and in 1485 was made magister.
In 1491 he was made a member of the philosophical faculty. One of his students at this time was Georg Simler, who went on to teach at the renowned Latin school in Pforzheim, where the twelve-year-old Philipp Melanchthon was one of Simler's best students.
In 1494, Wimpina was appointed rector at the Universitz of Leipzig, and in 1494–1495 dean. Having taken the theological course, he was made cursor in 1491 and sententiarius in 1494; in 1502 he received the degree of licentiate.
He was ordained at Würzburg, in 1495, as subdeacon, about 1500 as priest. He received the degree of Doctor of Theology from Cardinal-Legate Peraudi at Leipzig, 1503.
In 1505 Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg called Wimpina to Frankfort-on-the-Oder to organize the new university and to be its first rector; he was several times dean of the theological faculty.
From 1500–1504, in a dispute with his former instructor Polich, Wimpina defended theology and Polich poetry, each attaching the other with exaggerated and personal abuse. Wimpina was one of Martin Luther's first opponents. In 1518 he defended the legend that St. Anne had three husbands in succession and had a child Mary, by each one of them (De d. Annae trinubio), against Sylvius Egranus, in whose defence Luther took part.
In the dispute over indulgences Wimpina composed the theses which Johann Tetzel debated at Frankfurt, 20 January 1518. These theses contained the doctrine of the Catholic Church, but on the question of indulgences for the dead maintained merely a Scholastic opinion, preached by Tetzel.
He received canonries in the cathedrals of Brandenburg and Havelberg, and in 1530 took part in the Diet of Augsburg as theologian of the Elector Joachim. At the Diet Wimpina, with John Mensing, Redorfer, and Elgersma, drew up, against Luther's seventeen Swabian articles, the "Christlichen Unterricht gegen die Bekanntnus M. Luthers". Wimpina was commissioned to confute the "Confessio Augustana" (Augsburg Confession), and took part in the disputation about reunion.
Afterwards, he accompanied the Elector to Cologne for the election of King Ferdinand. He then retired to Baden.
His first publication, "Ars epistolandi" (1486), and a poem in praise of the university and city of Leipzig (1488) are of little importance. In 1493 Wimpina claimed in the "Tractatus de erroribus philosophorum" that Aristotle was wrong in various propositions which disagreed with dogma. As rector he delivered several orations that show wide reading.
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Data from: European sea bass show behavioural resilience to near-future ocean acidification
Duteil, Mathieu et al. (2016), Data from: European sea bass show behavioural resilience to near-future ocean acidification, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2dc8k
Ocean acidification (OA)—caused by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2)—is thought to be a major threat to marine ecosystems and has been shown to induce behavioural alterations in fish. Here we show behavioural resilience to near-future OA in a commercially important and migratory marine finfish, the Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Sea bass were raised from eggs at 19°C in ambient or near-future OA (1000 µatm pCO2) conditions and n = 270 fish were observed 59–68 days post-hatch using automated tracking from video. Fish reared under ambient conditions, OA conditions, and fish reared in ambient conditions but tested in OA water showed statistically similar movement patterns, and reacted to their environment and interacted with each other in comparable ways. Thus our findings indicate behavioural resilience to near-future OA in juvenile sea bass. Moreover, simulated agent-based models indicate that our analysis methods are sensitive to subtle changes in fish behaviour. It is now important to determine whether the absences of any differences persist under more ecologically relevant circumstances and in contexts which have a more direct bearing on individual fitness. | <urn:uuid:d65beb02-db1d-434a-85f4-b50281fc10bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://datadryad.org:443/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2dc8k | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.916342 | 314 | 2.84375 | 3 |
- October 12, 2015
Many people are familiar with JM Barrie’s Peter Pan series but most do not know about Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. This story was written in 1906 after the Peter and Wendy story and was illustrated by Arthur Rackham, one of Kerry Darlington’s inspiration when growing up. The story goes that when Peter was a baby he was half bird half human and he flew away from his mother to go live with the faeries in Kensington Gardens; but on doing so Peter lost his ability to fly. I will let you read the remainder of the story or you can go to our Facebook page where I have given a bit more detail (look under our albums) and shown Kerry Darlington’s inspiration for creating this wonderful painting. Knowing the story brings to life this delightful image.
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Denise Hutton-Gosney, MD and founder of Razzamataz outlines the importance of preserving children's mental health in these unprecedented times
As increased measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 have been revealed in the UK, experts warn that Britain’s children and young people had missed out on crucial social interactions due to lockdown, at the expense of their mental health and education.
Professor Tamsin Ford, a child and adolescent psychiatry expert at the University of Cambridge, warned of a spike in mental health problems in young people during lockdown. She said this group was paying the ‘greatest price’ for lockdown measures, despite being least at risk from the disease.
Experts have said that schools must stay open because when we think about what’s important to adolescents and young people, it is peer interaction and that’s really essential for their mental health.
Razzamataz Theatre Schools welcomes the news that classes can continue to operate around the UK. Of course, the franchise network is closely following government guidelines and has been communicating to parents and guardians all the new changes, including the ‘rule of six’ to ensure that no one congregates or socialises outside of the classroom and the wearing of face coverings where applicable.
“We understand from our network of thousands of children and teenagers how important it has been for them to return to doing what they love at Razzamataz,” says Denise Hutton-Gosney, MD and founder of Razzamataz. “Participating in performing arts gives many young people the chance to make sense of the world so if you take that away, it is no surprise that many are struggling.”
Rachel Ward, a parent at Razzamataz Sutton Coldfield speaks for many when describing her daughter’s experience of returning to class: “She came bounding out of class on cloud nine. We are so pleased to be back and seeing all the children have some fun thanks to you all.”
Although there have been papers on mental health in response to COVID-19, few studies have been included as sufficiently rigorous. Those in students suggest an increase in depression and anxiety and a study published in The Lancet in July found reports of mental health problems for those aged 16 to 34 had risen twice as fast by the end of April, compared to those aged 55 and over.
“As a network, we made the decision early on that we would do all we could to protect our students’ mental health while we were in lockdown,” adds Denise. “Our franchisees hosted Kitchen Discos, Zoom Night’s In, Storytime and gave so many opportunities for the children to connect with their teachers and friends. We also brought in mental health professionals to ensure that every principal and teacher understood how to manage the reopening process in a way that was safe but also fun and exciting for the children.”
One of the many benefits in being part of a franchise, is the support that the head office provides. This has always been crucial to the success of individual business owners, but during these uncertain times, it has saved many people from losing everything. “I truly believe that without the support of the head office, when COVID-19 hit, I would have closed down because I would have just been overwhelmed with everything that we had to do,” says Zoe McKibbin, multiple franchise owner with Razzamataz Theatre Schools. “I have friends who run their own independent theatre or dance schools and they felt really lost during COVID-19. The benefits of being part of the Razzamataz franchise has really shone through during the last six months. They give you the information in really simple, digestible formats and they never overwhelm you.”
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As is typical during the end of presidential administrations, a lot of new regulations are implemented, and this year is no different. Beginning October 14, 2016, HUD Fair Housing regulation 2015-0095-0001 goes into effect, incorporating the results of court cases which in some instances involved homeowner associations.
While HUD says this regulation does not place any new duties on HOAs, it squarely places these items “on the radar” of some who may see it as an opportunity to litigate. Because of this, it is crucial that Boards of Directors consult with their insurance agents to confirm that appropriate Directors & Officers insurance is firmly in place.
This regulation clarifies some instances where a community’s Board of Directors must address harassment between neighbors: Boards must carry a heightened sense of awareness and act in certain situations that in the past they may have chosen to ignore. Additionally, they can be held liable for the actions of agents or employees.
In the commentary HUD included in releasing the new regulation are the following tidbits:
- You can be held liable for failing to take prompt action to correct and end a discriminatory situation where the Board knew or should have known of the conduct and had the power to correct it. Such knowledge can come from, for example, the harassed resident, another resident, or a friend of the harassed resident. Neither psychological nor physical harm must be demonstrated to prove that a hostile environment exists.
- The power to take prompt action depends upon the extent of control or any other legal responsibility the Board may have with respect to the conduct (as indicated in bylaws or other rules of a homeowner’s association or condominium, or by federal, state or local law).
- Community associations regularly require residents to comply with CC&Rs and community rules through such mechanisms as notices of violations, threats of fines, and fines. HUD understands that community associations may not always have the ability to deny a unit owner access to his or her dwelling; the rule merely requires the community association to take whatever actions it legally can take to end the harassing conduct.
- Creating and posting policy statements against harassment and establishing complaint procedures, offering fair housing training to residents and mediating disputes before they escalate, issuing verbal and written warnings and notices of rule violations, enforcing bylaws prohibiting illegal or disruptive conduct, issuing and enforcing notices to quit, issuing threats of eviction and, if necessary, enforcing evictions and involving the police are powerful tools to control or remedy a tenant’s illegal conduct.
- A principal (such as the Board) is vicariously liable for the actions of his or her agents taken within the scope of their relationship or employment, or for actions taken outside the scope of their relationship or employment when the agent is aided in the commission of such acts by the existence of the agency relationship. | <urn:uuid:10c663c9-060b-4fca-b2b0-ef79287ee93b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.buckheadpropertymanagement.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954514 | 568 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Traveling as do, I have literally circled the globe a couple of times each year over the last several decades. In fact, travel has taken me overseas for three of the last four weeks to Asia and Europe to conduct business; doing my part in growing the business of a large multi-national corporation. It is an experience that has produced a world view that is seasoned and uniquely mine.
The United States is an island nation. Our east coast abuts the mighty Atlantic Ocean. Heading westward, as our pioneer ancestors did, brings us to the vast Pacific. America has been blessed with abundant natural resources that, for most of our existence, made us self-sufficient and blissfully isolated in a world that long ago relied upon delicate interdependencies and alliances. We avoided colonial aspirations and fiercely resisted entering global conflicts in Europe and Asia until dragged in by grievous circumstance.
And when the dust settled after the Second World War we were still standing. The industrial might of the nations of Europe was destroyed and Japan laid waste by nuclear attack. The Arsenal of Democracy became the Factory of the World. The Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe and MacArthur oversaw the rise of a democratic Japan, each dominated by American industrial might.
Ironically, we created the monster that ate the American factory. Our efforts to restore stability and prosperity to a war torn world led to great infrastructure improvements. Germany and Japan built new factories and highways that were more efficient than the aging behemoths in the United States that just a few short years earlier produced the war material that defeated the Fascists and the Nazis. Taiwan and Korea built ships that Henry Kaiser, the father of the Liberty ship, would envy. Year by year, the newly industrialized world nibbled at the heels of American industrial dominance.
Slowly but steadily, American businesses grew weaker. Large industrial employers began to ship production elsewhere for better efficiencies and labor costs; first to the Sun Belt, then abroad. In 1960, 9 of the top 10 employers in the United States were industrial companies. Today, 7 of 10 are service providers. Here’s the rub: the job multiplier for industrial companies, such as automotive and steel, are much higher than for service industries such as retail or healthcare. For every 1000 jobs created in the steel industry, an additional 11,000 jobs are created elsewhere as a direct result. In retail, the same 1000 jobs create only an additional 240.
The bottom line effect is that losing 1000 steel workers has an impact that cannot be offset by creating 1000 jobs at Wal-Mart. Not by a long shot. America needs to retain, create and repatriate industrial jobs in order to preserve the post-war economy that ushered in the era of Pax Americana. And it needs to do so fast.
The erosion of domestic American business accelerated once Most Favored Nation status was conferred upon the People’s Republic of China in 1999. Since then, foreign direct investment has grown geometrically as a vast low cost labor market became available. Our balance of payments deficit has ballooned from $89 billion in 1999 to a level three times higher today.
And with all the wealth sprung from wildly successful businesses built in newly built cities in China, more than one third of the 1.3 billion Chinese live on two dollars a day. Human Rights and Workers Rights have not kept pace with the pace of change. Environmental respect long ago yielded to unbridled development. The cost of environmental stewardship is not passed along to producers.
These factors greatly enhance the competitiveness of Chinese businesses. They are not likely to change unless the world cries out for change. And we are held hostage by the addiction we have to low, lower, lowest cost manufacturing and the consumerism that drives consumption in America. We have failed to hold China accountable for their lack of responsible leadership in the face of the dynamic change their society is undergoing.
We can talk about leveling the playing field against unfair tariffs, product dumping and currency manipulation but until we begin to exert pressure on the Communist regime to act in a responsible way towards their society and our environment, the United States is a willing co-conspirator in our own industrial demise and the erosion of our moral leadership.
President Hu will shortly be visiting the United States. Who in our government will exhibit the courage to lead against this nascent economic giant? And in so leading, do we not gain a chance to reclaim a stronger economy in the process. The whole world should be watching. | <urn:uuid:ee8b7c7c-1009-4468-8efc-5378b88a47ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tomwesley.com/2012/02/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95912 | 907 | 1.804688 | 2 |
If so-called “constitutionalists” were better acquainted with the Constitution (Charters of Freedom), they would not be supporting Marco Rubio for an office he is not eligible to hold and they would have already removed Barack Hussein Obama from the office he currently holds fraudulently.
Marco Rubio is in the unique position to solve our nation’s greatest problem, to remove a foreign agent currently assaulting America from within the Oval Office and set the nation back on a constitutional course towards freedom and liberty. Rubio has an opportunity to be a true American hero. Will he be?
Because Rubio was dragged into the political spotlight by Tea Party folks in desperate search of new conservative leadership, and because he shares in common with Obama, constitutional ineligibility for the offices of president and vice president under Article II requirements, he is uniquely positioned to bring down the most anti-American regime to ever hold political power in the United States.
Unlike “birthers” who are trying to disqualify Obama on the basis of his unconfirmed place of birth (native born status), which is still in question due to Obama’s fraudulent efforts to hide his real past and true identity, using nondisclosure and forged documents to remain a total mystery, — true “constitutionalists” who have studied the matter completely and allowed the facts to emerge without partisan purpose, know the whole truth.
1) The foundations for America are stated in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Pay particular attention to the parts highlighted.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Contrary to contemporary teachings by revisionists, the legal precepts for everything our Founders created is NOT “British common law” which we separated from via the Declaration and the American Revolution. It is “The laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” as stated in the preamble to our nation’s founding document, The Declaration. Just as freedom and liberty are “natural rights” inalienable by men, so is the right of Natural Born Citizenship.
2) Revisionists claim that Natural Born Citizen is not defined in the Constitution. However, the US Constitution does not have a definitions section; therefore, it provides no definition for any of the words or terms used in that document. Of course, as the Charters of Freedom were written in plain simple English so that any citizen could read and comprehend their rights and the limited functions of the government bodies they were to form, no definitions were needed. Everyone alive at the time knew the true meaning of every word and every term, including Natural Born Citizen. But 236 years later, dumbed down by revisionist propaganda, Americans may have to do a little homework to rediscover basic truths.
3) During that period in history, the framing of the Charters of Freedom, our Founders left a perfect record of their concerns and intents in the Federalist Papers. Anyone not able to comprehend the simple English carefully crafted in the Charters of Freedom can study the thoughts behind those words in the Federalist Papers. If you do not know the Federalists Papers, you do not know the Constitution.
4) There is no guess-work or ambiguity… We know from reading the correspondences of our Founders, that they borrowed the concepts for the Charters of Freedom (Natural Law – Laws of Nature – God’s Law – inalienable Law of Nations) — from the internationally recognized authority on the subject at the time, Vattel, recorded in French and later translated to English, The Law of Nations, written on the inalienable laws of nature respected by all nations and inescapable by man. [Most of the Founding Fathers were as fluent in French as they were English.] Included, was the term Natural Born Citizen, a citizen by the laws of nature, not the laws of man, in fact, inalienable by the laws of man.
In Vattel’s Law of Nations, he defines the term Natural Born Citizen, not in one sentence, but in several sections, 211 – 233 of Book One. One truly seeking the truth about our Charters of Freedom and Natural Born Citizenship should read the entire Law of Nations, it is a brilliant work on Natural Law and it is in fact the cornerstone of the Charters of Freedom created by our Founders.
But in short, Vattel defines Natural Born Citizen as follow;
NOTE: “Birthers” mistakenly (or intentionally) cherry-pick a single sentence from several sections on the subject, discarding all else, including the actual definition. – “The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” – This is NOT the definition of Natural Born Citizen. It is only a general statement affirming that natives are born in country and naturals are born of citizen parents.
Vattel goes on to define Natural Born Citizen and the reasoning behind it…
* “As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.”
** “The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent.”
*** “I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
This is why Barack Hussein Obama is a total fraud, constitutionally ineligible for office. Unfortunately, so is Marco Rubio, among others.
If Marco Rubio is the great “American Son” he portrays himself to be, the great young constitutionally conservative leader that so many Tea Party folks hope that he is, he must take a stand for the US Constitution and America right now, as only he can do.
Because many of his loyal followers have such high hopes for his political future, Marco Rubio can secure that future by taking the stand that only he is positioned to take right now.
Unless and until so-called “constitutionalists” get Article II right, they can forget every right they think they have….because if Article II does not exist in force or affect, neither does any other part of those founding documents that protect the Natural Rights of all American citizens.
I call upon Marco Rubio to stand and become the great leader he wants to be, the leader so many believe him to be. I call upon Marco Rubio to stand and tell ALL Americans that he is ineligible for the offices of president and vice president, as the natural born son of a Father who was a citizen of Cuba (not the United States) at the time of his birth.
Man-made statutes generously gave Rubio and many others like him, American citizenship, via the 14th Amendment, our immigration and naturalization amendment governing the citizenship rights of immigrants through naturalization, or native born rights.
Rubio is a citizen of the United States by way of man-made laws, not Natural Law.
Likewise, no matter whether Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya, his natural birth Father was at no time in his life a citizen of the United States. Therefore, Obama’s Father could not confer to Barack Hussein Obama II that which he did not possess, U.S. Citizenship.
Marco Rubio can solve this entire issue and much more. He can stop Obama’s Marxist march off the cliff and save the country he claims to care about deeply, as well as freedom and liberty in America. He can do so by standing up before the nation and the world, proclaiming himself ineligible for high office and demanding that Barack Hussein Obama be immediately removed from office and charged with high treason for the most horrific fraud ever perpetrated on the American public and the world.
If Rubio refuses to do so, he is NOT what so many had hoped. He will be nothing more than just another political fraud seeking personal gain at the expense of the US Charters of Freedom and the future of freedom and liberty, not just here, but throughout the free world.
If Article II no longer matters, nothing in the Charters of Freedom matters anymore.
I call upon Marco Rubio to take a stand and end this nightmare. Stand and tell the people the truth Mr. Rubio, or become just another disappointment to the people, pandering to the captive Tea Party audience but no less complicit in the massive fraud.
DO IT NOW… Before a second fraudulent inauguration!
I have sent this call for action directly to Marco Rubio and I call upon you to do the same.
JB Williams is a business man, a husband, a father, and a writer. A no nonsense commentator on American politics, American history, and American philosophy. He is published nationwide and in many countries around the world. He is also a Founder of The United States Patriots Union and a staunch conservative actively engaged in returning the power to the right people in America. Patriots Union |·Veteran Defenders |·Archives E-Mail:· email@example.com | <urn:uuid:ce903674-f319-4fb6-9e04-0aa4caa3769d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rightsidenews.com/us/politics/rubio-must-disqualify-himself-from-high-office/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959118 | 1,986 | 1.625 | 2 |
Now that it’s spring, take a break from sitting all day and get moving toward a healthier lifestyle starting on National Walking Day, celebrated each year on the first Wednesday in April.
“Regular exercise promotes good mental health and keeps our brain fit,” said Tekeela Belk, RN, with Colonial Life. “It helps with daily stress now and keeps our minds alert and decreases mental decline as we age.”
Not sure of how to get in those steps? The American Heart Association has several tips on how to get moving, including mowing the grass or walking the dog.
Here are a few tips on how to walk more while working in the office:
- Park further away from the entrance
- Use a hands-free phone so you can walk around while you’re on that conference call
- Set an alarm to make sure you get up from your desk at least once each hour
- Find a friend to walk with around the building or up and down a few flights of stairs
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Well the first rule is to avoid West, or East, facing windows . . . or at least keep them as small as possible….and here is why:
West windows get direct sunlight from mid-afternoon to late in the evening in summer causing overheating.
East facing windows get sun from sunrise to midday.
This isn’t normally as bad because the house is cooler in the morning, but the heat built up during the morning does stay making the house hotter later in the day.
Because of the low angle of morning, afternoon and evening sun the over window shading that works well with North Facing windows will be inadequate for West and East facing windows.
In the winter there is minimal heating benefit with little or no direct sunlight getting into West or East facing windows.
In the last house we built the master bedroom full length windows all face west.
I would have preferred to decrease the size of the windows but the builder would not alter the size of the windows on the front. (They were quite happy to change all the other windows, just not on the front)
To shade, our west facing windows, we adopted the following three stage strategy.
- A highly reflective tint was applied to the window, by Tint-a-car. This had the immediate effect of lowering the temperature in the room by about five degrees on a sunny afternoon. Even the installer was amazed at the difference it made. Expect to pay around $50-60/m2,
- We planted shrubs in front of the windows to shade the bottom third of the windows and also provide a micro-climate to reduce heat loss in winter.
- We have fertilised and trimmed a couple of trees on the nature strip, in front of the house, to encourage dense foliage which now shades the window from mid afternoon to sunset.(see photo below)
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“If you want to be an actor,” the old saying goes, “you have to want it enough to also be a waiter.” It’s tough to introduce yourself as an actor if in reality you spend 35 hours a week teaching, working behind a bar, or shepherding tourists. But it’s also a reality that you’ll need something else to pay the bills and that something will likely take up most of your time. Even old hats have to deal with a side hustle, survival job, or vocal rest. So, here’s the Backstage guide to finding—and surviving—the survival job, with a little help from actors who’ve been there.
- Why do actors need survival jobs?
- What survival jobs for actors are out there
- What else should I look for in a survival job?
- What survival jobs are there for actors outside of London?
- Does my survival job need to be relevant to acting?
- How do I prioritise my acting career in a survival job?
- When should I quit my survival job?
- Any last words of advice?
Most actors need other work to help pay the bills because acting is an unstable, unpredictable, and often poorly paid career.
Unless you come from a background where you can afford not to work (looking at you, Tom Hiddleston and Eddie Redmayne), a survival job can pay bills and keep you busy until acting pays its way. And they’re not just for actors. Most creative careers require people to build up expertise and experience by working for free or for little money. It’s not fair, but it’s the way it’s always been. Maxine Peake was a lifeguard, Hugh Jackman was a party clown, and Sean Connery was a milkman, so you’re in good company.
On that note, having a survival job is not just for those starting out or a sign of doing badly. Even “jobbing actors” with steady acting work can be in need of extra cash, and some performers have side jobs to prepare for the bad times or keep busy around projects. Having other work also offers actors the ability to say “no” to projects they’d rather not do.
The classic jobs for actors are ushering in theatres; temping in schools, offices, and call centres; working in pubs and bars; and waiting tables.
The thing all these jobs have in common is flexibility. After finding other work not flexible enough, performer Ryan Lane turned to substitute teaching through an agency because “you can always turn down a shift or cancel last minute if you get an audition or acting job.” Similarly, having more than one casual job generally means more flexibility. Actor Alex Wilson is “on the books at an office temping agency,” does “a bit of meet and greeting at an Airbnb competitor, and, more enjoyably, Harry Potter–themed walking tours” in order to be able to work around acting commitments.
There’s no wrong job for actors as long as it’s flexible enough to keep acting the priority. Find out what other actors are doing and, as Lane says: “Don’t be afraid to say you’re looking for work.” Actors are a supportive community and someone might just be able to help you land a job.
Beyond being flexible, your ideal job should be reasonably well-paid and enjoyable.
Chances are you’re going to have to compromise on at least one of those things but, as actor Elle McAlpine warns, “don’t let yourself be miserable in your day job. Wherever you find yourself working, make sure it brings you some joy, even from the littlest things.”
Jobs like Wilson’s tour guide gig are perfect for “flexing those performing muscles” as he’s “delivering stories to groups of strangers twice a day.” He says: “It’s damn good training for hitting your beats, comic timing, reading your audience, improv, you name it.” However, he’s also honest about it being both “lonely” and “knackering.” The pros of working in jobs like ushering or behind a bar is that you’ll likely be with other actors and have a community to be part of. Go it alone as a kids’ entertainer or Uber driver and you’ll have a different set of pros and cons.
Although flexibility is important, it’s not everything. Performer Serena Flynn has sacrificed flexibility for a more rewarding job working with teenagers with special educational needs at a creative college. Unlike her former job as a receptionist, it allows her to work with “some of the funniest people I’ve ever met” and enjoy being the “rogue teacher” who takes pupils for “walks in nature and teaches them meditation and yoga.” The key is to find something that you enjoy because, as Lane says, “chances are, you’re going to be doing it a lot.”
London’s size and gravitational pull for business means it has every conceivable survival job for actors. However, there are still plenty of options for those outside the capital.
For actors in cities that have year-round tourism (like Edinburgh, York, Bristol, and Bath) there’s lots of hospitality work, as well as jobs in galleries and entertainment, like living history roles or walking tours.
For cities like Glasgow, Birmingham, and Manchester, there’s plenty of temp jobs in offices and call centres, alongside retail work.
For actors in towns, delivery driving or tutoring is often the best way to work flexibly. And for actors close to the countryside, there are pubs, rural tourism, and seasonal work.
Remote work and “task” or “gig” apps mean you can (in theory) find work anywhere, but it’s worth exploring how much it’s possible to earn doing this before making the leap from more stable employment.
Acting is a career that utilises a raft of skills, so it’s hard to think of a job that isn’t relevant to acting.
Most people agree that survival jobs should let you use and strengthen some of the skills employed in acting, such as public speaking or working in challenging and collaborative environments. But whether you need to be working within or parallel to the industry is for you to decide. Each option comes with pros and cons.
For actors working as ushers, there’s the opportunity to watch plenty of productions and see inside a working theatre. But some may find it difficult being so near, yet so far from lots of working actors. Then there’s being directly involved with productions—like McAlpine, who also works as an intimacy coordinator. A typical working day means “meeting inspiring people on some of the best productions onscreen, feeling challenged and getting to work closely with other actors,” but McAlpine also questions whether people within the industry now see her “as an intimacy coordinator instead of an actor.”
McAlpine’s work does allow for constant learning and development, which is good for all actors. She also says that in a tough industry, “if a job can allow you to acquire practical skills, keep learning, or get you on a set to gain experience and meet people, then it’s worth doing.”
There will be times when you need to get your head down and earn enough to pay the rent, but otherwise try to prioritise your acting career, whether that’s by taking time off for auditions or workshops or your own projects.
Taking a day off for an audition that lasts five minutes can be tough, especially on your bank balance. But ultimately, an audition is an opportunity whereas another day in your survival job just isn’t. Likewise, it can be hard to find time to reply to emails or look for castings. Lane suggests having a dedicated day each week “that you think of as time to focus on your career rather than a day off.” In addition, ensure your job leaves you with time to do things you enjoy because, especially if you’re starting out, it’s important to expand your knowledge of the industry and taste by seeing new film and theatre and meeting people.
If acting work is paying the bills, then it’s worth considering leaving your survival job and giving your energy and attention to what you really want to do.
Likewise, it’s easy to get sucked into a survival job and find it taking over more than your time. Make sure your employer isn’t exploiting you and is aware this isn’t your career. Wilson describes his balance of survival jobs and acting as “definitely still a work in progress.” He admits “the temptation is to work as much as possible” but points out “that way exhaustion and poor mental health lie.”
Some actors have income targets which, once hit, mean the rest of your month can be for your own projects. However, it’s easy to say yes to more work, especially if you’re in a zero-hours role that might not pay as well the following month. Remember, there’s a difference between financial planning and neglecting your goals for a job that was meant to help you reach them. Wilson’s tip is to “be honest with yourself—these jobs are just for money and if you had to run away tomorrow, the company would be absolutely fine without you. It’s your creative ambitions that won’t be OK if you run away from them.”
Lane’s top tip for those not enjoying their survival job is: “Stop, breathe, and take the time to find something you enjoy.” He also adds: “Don’t be bored! You’re too creative to be bored!”
For Flynn, it’s that “all experience is good experience, so you’re not wasting your time. Whatever you’re doing, it’s making you a more interesting and capable performer and person.”
Although McAlpine thinks she’s become better at balancing other work alongside acting, she makes the point that “I’m always an actor, it’s just sometimes I don’t get to do that. So, I make an active choice to find the joy in my every day, even if that’s just playing my favourite music when I’m doing boring admin or organising something I love doing after work.”
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- 1 How do you get spaghetti stains out of Tupperware?
- 2 How do you get pasta stains out of plastic?
- 3 How do you remove spaghetti stains?
- 4 How do you get stains out of Tupperware lids?
- 5 How do you make plastic clear again?
- 6 How do you make yellow plastic clear again?
- 7 How do you get red stains out of plastic bowls?
- 8 How do you get tomato stains out of plastic?
- 9 Can tomato stains be removed?
- 10 Does OxiClean remove spaghetti stains?
- 11 Will vinegar bleach clothes?
- 12 Can baking soda remove stains?
- 13 Does vinegar harm plastic?
- 14 Does baking soda harm plastic?
How do you get spaghetti stains out of Tupperware?
To make the baking soda-based solution, mix together two tablespoons baking soda, one teaspoon water, and ¼ teaspoon dish soap. Mix up the paste in the stained food container, scrub, and let sit for at least 15 minutes. Scrub and rinse and repeat if necessary.
How do you get pasta stains out of plastic?
Make a solution of water and bleach, using one tablespoon of bleach per cup of water. Let the containers and other items soak in the solution for one or two hours. After the stains are gone, wash the containers thoroughly, rinse, and dry.
How do you remove spaghetti stains?
Possible agents include hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar applied with a sponge. You can also use lemon juice on white fabrics. Rinse well. Repeat with detergent followed by mild bleaching agent until the stain no longer appears.
How do you get stains out of Tupperware lids?
Simply make a thick-ish paste of warm water and baking soda and rub it into the inside the container. Let it sit for at least one day, then rinse it out thoroughly. Continue until no stains remain and the container smells fresh.
How do you make plastic clear again?
You can polish your plastic items and make them clear and shiny again with special cleaning products and common household items.
- Squeeze a bit of toothpaste onto a soft cloth or dip the cloth into a paste of baking soda and water.
- Rub the cloth over your plastic in a circular motion.
How do you make yellow plastic clear again?
Cleaning Yellowed Plastic Containers With Vinegar
- In the sink, add a tablespoon of Dawn, two cups of vinegar, and water.
- Allow the plastic containers to soak for 15-30 minutes.
- Use the bristle brush to scrub the containers.
- Rinse with water and dry.
How do you get red stains out of plastic bowls?
Simply combine 1 teaspoon of water, 2 tablespoons of baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon of dish soap in the red-stained container. Use an old toothbrush or other type of gentle scrubbing tool to work the paste into the plastic. Then, allow it to sit for about 15 minutes, scrub again and rinse with clear water.
How do you get tomato stains out of plastic?
If you have pesky tomato stains on one of your plastic food-storage containers, the easiest way to clean it is with distilled white vinegar and water. Take your plastic container and fill it halfway with water. Then, fill the remainder of the container with white vinegar. Let the container soak for 12-24 hours.
Can tomato stains be removed?
Fresh tomato stains can usually be removed simply by washing the stained fabric as soon as possible using a good quality, heavy-duty enzyme-based laundry detergent like Tide or Persil using the hottest water recommended for the fabric on the garment care label.
Does OxiClean remove spaghetti stains?
You don’t have to be a toddler eating fistfuls of spaghetti to get a big spaghetti sauce stain. You can soak clothing or fabric with tomato sauce stains in OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover to break down the food grease and get rid of the stain.
Will vinegar bleach clothes?
White vinegar is the safest type of vinegar to use when washing clothes because it will not bleach your outfits in a bad way. In fact, it may actually help to enhance the colours of your clothes. When you use white vinegar to ‘bleach’ your clothes you will end up brightening your items and removing stains from them.
Can baking soda remove stains?
Bonus tip: Break down stains with baking soda It’s been trusted for more than 170 years to help break down most stains and get clothes fresh and clean. To make a pre-treating paste, combine 6 tablespoons of ARM & HAMMER™ Baking Soda with ⅓ cup warm water.
Does vinegar harm plastic?
The plastic and glass surfaces on most small kitchen appliances, such as blenders, coffee makers, and toasters, are safe to clean with vinegar, but you want to avoid any rubber parts or metal that vinegar can corrode.
Does baking soda harm plastic?
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Ukraine war: Russia scrambles to pay its way as prospect of messy default looms large
Sky's Ian King writes that Moscow has some time to avoid the third default in its history but says its options are limited as a consequence of the Western sanctions placed on the country.
Monday 14 March 2022 17:46, UK
There is no question that Western sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine are biting.
Ordinary Russians have been dismayed to find themselves deprived of Western goods to which they have become accustomed since the collapse of the old Soviet Union.
Businesses, meanwhile, have suffered from supply chain issues as parts they used to import have become scarce or, because they can no longer be paid for in hard currencies like the US dollar, unavailable entirely.
A good example is the Russian carmaker Lada, which has been forced to suspend production at its three factories at Moscow, Izkevsk and Togliatti. The latter, on the banks of the Rover Volga, employs a stunning 32,500 people.
Among the possible consequences of the sanctions regime that many in financial markets are watching for closely is the prospect of Russia defaulting on its debts.
The ratings agencies have already indicated they think this is a strong possibility.
The big three, S&P, Moody's and Fitch, have all slashed Russia's credit rating deep into "junk" territory with Moody's now applying a higher likelihood to the prospect of Russia defaulting on its debt than that of countries such as Iraq and Ethiopia doing so.
Fitch said last week a Russian default was "imminent" while Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told US television at the weekend that a Russian default could no longer be regarded as "an improbably event". She now expects Russia to suffer a "deep recession".
Matters could reach a tipping point on Wednesday this week when Russia faces payments of $117m in coupons on two of its government bonds, both denominated in US dollars.
It has a grace period of 30 days in which to make the payment - taking it until 15 April to do so. A further payment of $359m is due on 31 March and a further $2bn becomes payable on 4 April.
Ordinarily, Russia would have no problem meeting interest payments on its debts, having built up foreign currency reserves of $643bn in the build-up to the invasion of Ukraine.
But the West's stunning move to impose sanctions on Russia's central bank days after the invasion has effectively cut the country out of the international financial system and prevents it from getting its hands on much of the money.
Even Russia's own finance minister, Anton Siluanov, has admitted around $300bn worth of those reserves cannot currently be reached by the country. He argues that the West is trying to force Russia into what he calls an "artificial default" and has approved a temporary procedure to allow banks to make payments in foreign currency, but this is obviously going to be dependent on the sanctions regime and whether Western banks can accept the payments.
The exclusion of a number of Russian lenders from SWIFT, the worldwide interbank messaging system that helps facilitate cross-border payments, could hamper that.
Mr Siluanov has said that, if such payments were not possible, Russia stood prepared to pay its creditors in roubles.
And that is central to the issue now exercising investors and their lawyers - would this constitute a default by Russia?
All bonds issued by the Russian government since 2018 do contain provisions that allow repayments to be made in roubles but these do not apply to the two dollar-denominated bonds on which coupon payments are due on Wednesday.
Mr Siluanov indicated on Monday that Russia could seek, instead of roubles, to make the payments in China's currency.
An estimated 13.1% of the Russian central bank's foreign currency reserves, as at June last year, were held in the Chinese currency as Moscow sought to move away from US dollars and euros.
He told the TV channel Rossiya-24: "The Chinese yuan - a portion of gold and currency reserves is kept in this currency.
"When developing trade relations with China, we will use a share of gold and currency reserves denominated in the Chinese yuan. The yuan remains at present one of such sources of currency reserves of our country and we will use it in all aspects."
The debate about whether Russia has actually defaulted is critical because of the potential knock-on effects across the global financial system.
Older market participants have sore memories of the last time Russia defaulted on its debt, in 1998, which sparked stock market declines around the world and prompted the collapse of LTCM, a large US hedge fund, which ended up having to be bailed out to avoid wider financial contagion.
That episode has also brought back some bad memories in Russia itself. It was the third largest debt default at the time and was regarded as a humiliation in Russia which, at the time, was headed by Boris Yeltsin.
It was only the second time Russia had defaulted on its debts, the first time being in 1918, when the Bolsheviks defaulted on debts run up by the government of Tsar Nicholas II after the Russian Revolution.
The chance of contagion still exists today.
One flashpoint could be the estimated $6bn worth of insurance policies - known as credit default swaps (CDS) - that have been sold to investors who own Russian debt that would compensate them in the event of a default.
The Financial Times has reported that Pimco, the bond investment business owned by the German insurance giant Allianz, owns $1.1bn of Russian CDS alone.
Whether or not those policies pay out will be down to the EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee, part of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, an industry body that seeks to make the global derivatives markets operate safely and efficiently. Ironically, Pimco is one of the members of that committee.
But opinions differ as to whether a Russian default will spark as much financial fall-out as it did in 1998. Some argue that, following sanctions, the global financial system is effectively isolated from Russia to a large degree.
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Which in his times he shall show
For though the time of Christ's appearing is unknown, yet the thing itself is certain; God will bring it about, and make it manifest in his own time, in the time that is fixed and appointed by him; and which is only known unto him, and which he keeps in his own power, and has reserved in his own breast:
who is the blessed;
the Syriac version reads, "the blessed God"; who is blessed in himself, in his Son and Spirit, in the perfections of his nature; who is God all-sufficient, has enough in himself for himself, and for all his creatures; who is the fountain and the author of all blessedness, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, which any of them are, or shall be possessed of:
and only Potentate;
or Governor of the whole world, which can be said of none but himself: he is the Governor among the nations, and over all the nations of the earth; his kingdom rules over all other kingdoms; and he has his power and government from himself, whereas all other potentates have their power from him, as follows:
the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
from whom they receive their sceptres, crowns, and kingdoms; by whom they reign, and are continued in their power; for he sets up kings, and removes kings at his pleasure, and to him they must be accountable for all their administrations another day; and at present they are under his influence, and at his control; he has their hearts, and their counsels, as well as kingdoms, in his hands, and under his overruling providence; and causes all to answer his wise and eternal purposes. These titles are used by the Jews, who style him, (Myklmh lk le Klm Mynwdah lk Nwda) , "Lord of all lords, King over all kings" F19. The same name is given to Christ, ( Revelation 19:16 ) which shows him to be equal with the Father. | <urn:uuid:0b5a947c-cd9b-4830-9491-60ec19971cc1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biblestudytools.com/nrsa/1-timothy/6-15.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.993338 | 427 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Wow! What a crazy day yesterday – but it was good! We actually got a lot accomplished. I just re-synced all students to your class’s Google Drive Dropbox folder. All but a few students are now shared. There are also new/updated Technology 101.2 instructions for you – click here or on the Worksheets tab.
When you write your lab, be sure and drag the file (or right click and move it) to the Shared Dropbox folder!
If you are one of the few that still don’t see a Dropbox folder when you click on “Shared with me”, just follow the instructions on the sheet and share your class folder with me that way.
FOR CHEMISTRY: Info on labs (answers to questions that I’ve received)
- Yes – you ALWAYS do all the questions on labs.
- Always to the extension on thLABs, but if you are not sure, ASK! This time, the extension on the Density of Oil lab will count as extra credit.
- The actual masses of the coins can be found on the Internet. Google it!!
- Yes, you find your percent error on each coin – make sure you show your work with formula and units!!
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“CocoVinny” Zaldivar says he believes so strongly in his Coco Taps company that he’s legally changing his first name to fit the brand.
The 40-year-old Las Vegas entrepreneur’s company sells tools that allow users to tap into coconuts at home, as well as ready-to-drink coconuts that have been tapped and branded.
Zaldivar got the idea in 2014. He would regularly drink coconut water after working out but didn’t like the taste after it was bottled. Instead, he would hack away at a coconut to drink it fresh — until he broke his stepfather’s prized German knife.
Zaldivar had a design and a patent for a Coco Taps toolkit 18 months later. It went on sale on Amazon and the Coco Taps website in 2016.
Soon after, Zaldivar realized he could turn the coconut into a mobile drink with the tap and began selling Thai coconuts inserted with a water bottle-like spout.
After earning about $234,000 in revenue after its first year and more than $300,000 the next year, Zaldivar said, he expects the company to make more than $500,000 this year.
Coco Taps has hit roadblocks; it failed to secure funding from investors on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank” in 2017, with the “sharks” believing Zaldivar’s business plan was too complicated. But there was a silver lining.
“It’s been amazing for branding,” he said. “I think it was the right thing. I don’t think any of the sharks got coconut culture …”
Zaldivar said he wants to grow his own coconuts to control the supply chain and plans to bring manufacturing into Nevada from California by 2019.
“We are almost finished with our licensing and inspections with the Southern Nevada Health Department for processing here,” he said. “We want to build our own facility.”
He also wants to turn Coco Taps into a zero-waste company by 2020.
“There’s a lot of waste (in Nevada); a lot of it goes to the landfill,” he said, adding, “We want to become part of the solution instead of part of the problem.” | <urn:uuid:95ef11ee-55f6-48c8-8e26-aafe8ee903fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/henderson/las-vegas-entrepreneur-finds-success-after-shark-tank-fail/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978777 | 511 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Before starting a food plan and exercise program, talk to your physician. They’ll address any health issues you could have and assist you to set wholesome weight loss targets. They’ll also suggest an consuming plan that matches your lifestyle. It’s essential to focus on both enhancing your consuming habits and getting more physical activity.
Is my weight normal?
Average weight for boys This means that 50% of 13-year-old boys weigh less than 100 lb. If a 13-year-old boy weighs under the 5th percentile, a doctor may categorize this as being underweight. On the other hand, if a boy in this age group weighs more than the 95th percentile, the doctor may diagnose obesity.
Meanwhile, one other research in ninety four women advised that resistance training preserved fat-free mass and metabolism after weight loss, allowing the body to burn extra energy all through the day . While slicing energy alone is mostly not considered a sustainable method to shed weight, counting energy could be an efficient weight reduction tool when paired with different diet and way of life modifications. Sleep is necessary for many features of your health, together with weight. Studies show that people who don’t get sufficient sleep have a tendency to realize extra weight, which may embrace belly fat .
Many different studies point out that growing your fiber consumption from fiber-rich foods, such as greens, is tied to a lower in each calorie consumption and physique weight . One small 12-week research in 19 individuals showed that rising protein intake to 30% of calories lowered every day intake by 441 energy and lowered physique weight by 10.eight kilos (4.9 kg) . As nicely as being less healthful than freshly ready meals, processed foods are often laden with energy within the types of sugar and fat.
How can I lose tummy fat fast?
Within 18 months, the company had made $420 million in sales. Her 2016 holiday collection release made nearly $19 million in one day. For comparison, Kardashian West’s first product launch from her new makeup brand KKW Beauty earned an estimated $14.4 million in sales.
Drinking water might help scale back urge for food and make you burn more energy. Similarly, a research in 30 healthy girls confirmed that eating slowly resulted in decreased calorie intake and higher feelings of fullness in comparison with eating extra shortly . Eating slowly and working towards mindfulness can help enhance weight loss and reduce intake whereas additionally permitting you to get pleasure from your food. In addition, a 20-month examine in 252 women found that each gram of dietary fiber consumed was related to 0.5 kilos (zero.25 kg) less physique weight and 0.25% less physique fat . One research in healthy males found that consuming 33 grams of insoluble fiber, which is often present in wheat and vegetables, was effective in decreasing both urge for food and meals consumption .
Cutting out all processed meals is a good way to reduce calorie consumption. Normal growth — aided by good nutrition, plenty of sleep, and common train — is one of the greatest overall indicators of a kid’s good health. But your child’s development pattern is essentially determined by genetics. Pushing youngsters to eat extra meals or greater than the really helpful quantities of nutritional vitamins, minerals, or other nutrients won’t make them taller.
You will learn how to portion higher and uncover a number of stuff you didn’t understand have been getting in the way of your progress. Another study confirmed that consuming water temporarily increased metabolism by 24%. Increasing the number of energy you burn over the course of the day might help enhance weight loss .
This article examines the results of probiotics on weight reduction. Several studies counsel that they can help you lose weight and belly fats. Studies present that sugary drinks result in elevated fats within the liver.
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19 July 2012
One of several last-ditch fixes proposed to fight climate change, iron dumping has long been proposed as a “geoengineering” strategy—a way to manipulate the climate to reduce the effects of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Some studies, however, have suggested that, over time, iron fertilization can create low- to no-oxygen conditions—dangerous for marine life—or trigger blooms of types of plankton that are harmful to some organisms. (See “Plan to Dump Iron in Ocean as Climate Fix Attracts Debate.”)
The new study, though, finds no evidence for these concerns. Instead, most of the plankton in iron-enriched waters falls to the seafloor and gets buried in ocean sediments, which trap carbon long-term, the study found.
For the study, scientists in 2004 added seven tons of iron sulfate to 58 square miles (150 square kilometers) of ocean off Antarctica—chosen for its “central role” in the global carbon cycle, according to study co-author Christine Klass, of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
The iron spurred a bloom of diatoms, algae that form large, slimy groupings with high sinking rates. In this case more than 50 percent of a plankton bloom typically sank to the seafloor.
Though the study authors have spent years verifying the results, they remain cautious.
So far, the data suggest iron fertilization could trap only about 10 percent of current carbon dioxide emissions “under very, very optimistic assumptions,” study co-author Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, also of the Wegener institute, said by email.
Iron seeding, he added, “cannot provide a solution for our CO2 problem.”
Klass agreed: “Given the many uncertainties and potential side effects of this technique, more experiments would be necessary before large-scale application.”
Beyond iron fertilization, scientists have proposed building artificial volcanoes to pump bits of sulfur-heavy material, similar to volcanic ash, into the atmosphere. Like ash from real volcanoes the particles bounce the sun’s light and heat back into space.
This and other emergency measures were under the microscope in 2010 as part of the first Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies in Pacific Grove, California. The meeting drafted the world’s first voluntary guidelines for ethical behavior in geoengineering schemes.
That’s not to say any of the schemes will be deployed in the near future, Samuel Thernstrom, co-director of the Geoengineering Project at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based policy-research institute, noted in 2010.
But experts should seriously consider all options, Thernstrom said, including altering the climate: “There is no argument for ignorance—we should know more about geoengineering.”
It may be a cousin to pond scum, but seaweed has attained a more noble status among scientists advocating seaweed farms as carbon sinks (above, a woman in Bali, Indonesia, harvests seaweed in an undated photo).
Half of the world’s photosynthesis—a process that uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into energy—takes place in the oceans. But most of that occurs in tiny marine plants called phytoplankton, which can’t be farmed, according to the Seaweed Clean Development Mechanism Project at Korea’s Pusan National University.
Enter seaweed, which can be easily cultivated along coasts—a possible solution for scientists looking to boost the oceans’ carbon-zapping contribution. (Related: “Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed.”)
As a bonus, farmed seaweed can be harvested and turned into a renewable fuel—”a joint benefit,” Michael MacCracken, chief scientist for climate programs at the nonprofit Climate Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based climate-advocacy organization, said in 2010.
“Biochar” in soils
It may be old as dirt, but the Amazonian practice of making “biochar” could be a climate saver, experts say (pictured, a farmer holds biochar in West Virginia in 2008).
When returned to the soil, biochar—a rich, highly porous charcoal made by heating agricultural waste—can trap carbon in soils for hundreds to thousands of years, according to the International Biochar Initiative. By contrast, the carbon-holding powers of trees are limited, because greenhouse gases escape if a tree is cut down or dies.
The American Enterprise Institute’s Thernstrom puts biochar in his “deserves to be explored” category, as does the Climate Institute’s MacCracken, who noted that the substance has the added benefit of improving soil quality.
Greening the desert
Greening the desert may be a way to trap more atmospheric greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, experts say—a geoengineering idea already taking root in Africa.
For instance, 13 African countries are building a “Great Green Wall” of trees that would gobble up carbon while halting the Sahara’s spread. And organizers of the ambitious Sahara Forest Project plan to plant trees alongside their massive renewable energy complexes, which are intended for deserts around the globe.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to skyrocket, however, a green desert likely wouldn’t have enough carbon-trapping heft to make a dent, said the Climate Institute’s MacCracken. But in a lower-carbon world, he said, green deserts could be a good strategy for keeping emissions down.
With a design reminiscent of an oceangoing pogo stick, this “cloud ship” may give some bounce to geoengineering efforts to combat climate change.
The wind-powered devices take in ocean water and spray a fine mist of sea salt, which generates ocean clouds. Such clouds are denser and whiter than regular clouds, so they reflect more of the sun’s heat back into space.
Deploying about 1,500 of these relatively inexpensive vessels could have an immediate cooling effect, said the American Enterprise Institute’s Thernstrom.
“We’re a long way from knowing for sure whether that would work,” he said. “But it’s a plausible theory that does deserve serious investigation.”
Fighting climate change is hardly black-and-white. But making roofs more reflective by painting them white—like these rooftops in Hamilton, Bermuda—may be one of the simplest geoengineering fixes.
Dark roofs reflect about 10 to 20 percent of sunlight, whereas so-called cool roofs send about 70 to 80 percent of the sun’s rays back into space, according to researchers at California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
What’s more, white roofs boast an added climate boon: Reflective-roofed buildings don’t get as hot on the inside, reducing the need for air conditioning, the Climate Institute’s MacCracken noted. | <urn:uuid:a0394877-4603-414f-8cfb-4268d6c2d2a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://city.engins.org/external/dumping-iron-in-ocean-and-6-more-extreme-climate-fixes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.914025 | 1,529 | 3.90625 | 4 |
An online going out with definition would have to include equally positive aspects and negative facets of online dating. Internet dating is basically a method which allows visitors to find and present themselves to prospective intimate relationships on the internet, most often while using the intent of creating sexual, woman of cuba romantic, or perhaps personal interactions. The «definition» of this online dating services process depends on the type of over the internet dating service one is using. Many online dating sites use a sort of «matchmaking» where members with the site are matched based on characteristics just like age, hobbies, preferences, and similar pursuits. Others nonetheless use the «dating system» unit, where the members of the internet site interact in «rooms, » with the goal of expanding relationships and long-term partnerships.
Regardless of what the web dating meaning is, a large number of online dating sites offer services and features that are designed to help Internet surfers develop significant relationships and long-term relationships and romances. Online dating possesses gained popularity over the years because it provides a comparatively novel means for finding a match. Instead of fighting with other folks in the same city or perhaps town exactly who are looking for a date, an individual can content their own profile, allowing them to actively engage in «matchmaking» with others in their region who have users similar to theirs. In addition to the ability to actively engage in «matchmaking» to people in your town, another characteristic offered by various online dating explanation sites is definitely the ability to seek out individuals based upon a wide variety of criteria. This means that an individual may potentially find someone depending on their interests, age, male or female, religious beliefs, education, political views, et cetera — basically just regarding anything that the person may experience posted on a public account.
While the online dating sites definition above is one of the more prevalent approaches to building long-term connections, it is also the lowest successful. It is important to understand which the internet dating community is the one that is composed of a large number of different countries and ethnicities. Therefore , a person cannot assume that the United States or Canada is definitely the just «place» pertaining to to seek to start a date. Therefore , you need to understand the other facet of building long term relationships and relationships building trust and faith in one’s associates.
Trust and Faith: Once you start searching for someone, the foundation of these relationship rests on trust and faith. It’s important to understand that not everyone out there contains the same a higher level faith or perhaps trust in others. Many individuals are generally hurt in past times due to the inability of one more individual to trust and believe in these people enough to extend themselves completely. Therefore , when starting a relationship and marriage it’s important to approach that relationship with at least a point of optimism. That includes not merely believing you will be able to include children, but it surely includes thinking that your spouse will do a similar.
Building Romances and Relationships: The second facet of the online internet dating definition is certainly building human relationships and relationships. That is not to express that there are no challenges which may come into play. However , there are numerous options out there for many who are interested in beginning a long term, meaningful relationship. Consequently , when nearing a person, it’s important to have the time and effort necessary to turn into genuinely considering them prior to starting the courtship process.
There are plenty of online dating products and services definition sites that are relatively new. One need to take the time to be familiar with basic differences between these types of services and the traditional sites. In general, they are fairly new and provide a platform that enables people from most walks of life to formulate significant romantic relationships and marriages. | <urn:uuid:f13e1e5e-21fd-4fad-8f03-ee6fcc5b18e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soportehp.cl/2021/03/26/online-dating-definition-the-second-act/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955946 | 761 | 2.078125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON – Health officials say they recently recorded four cases of the plague.
Primary Pneumonic Plague is rare.
In fact, there have been fewer than 100 cases reported in the United States in the past century.
This small outbreak occurred in Colorado last summer starting with a sick pet dog who was euthanized.
The dog’s owner and two people who worked at the veterinary clinic then became ill.
Officials say a fourth person may have contracted the illness from the dog or the dog’s owner.
All four were given antibiotics and recovered.
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The "cybercops" will work both nationally and locally to fight what the government considers the growing menace of Internet crime. The National High-Tech Crime Unit will begin work in April to help local police forces and cooperate with police abroad, British officials said.
"The significant cash injection I am announcing today will boost the police service's capability to investigate crime committed through computers, including pedophilia, fraud, extortion and hacking," British Home Secretary Jack Straw said in a statement.
The funding, announced Monday, will also help establish a 24-hour international hot line to trade information on potential attacks on the national infrastructure and promote closer cross-border relationships between law enforcement agencies.
Also this week, members of the Council of Europe are meeting in Strasbourg, France, to create an international treaty to standardize Net crime prevention and prosecution. | <urn:uuid:a824765d-fe38-412b-b6b6-04bc09f950a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/british-put-money-behind-cybercrime-crackdown/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939784 | 170 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Deacon Ed Shoener
St. Peter's Cathedral
Founder of the Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers
NCPD Council on Mental Illness member
Imagine having an illness that causes people to look down on you and to treat you with scorn simply because you have the illness. That is what happened to people who came down with leprosy, a deadly skin disease, at the time of Christ. As we heard in the first reading (Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-76), someone who had leprosy was declared “unclean.” They were made to go and “dwell apart.”
Imagine if you were the parent back then of a child that developed a skin blotch that looked like it could be leprosy–how worried you would be. You would do everything you could to protect your child. You would do anything to find a cure.
Imagine if you were a young person, just starting your journey into adulthood and you notice a rash – could it be leprosy? You would do everything you could to hide it, perhaps even deny it.
But then the illness progressed. It was not a passing thing. It was real. It was leprosy. And there was no cure.
Then the neighbors found out, your friends found out, you lost your job because of the illness. People thought you or your family did something wrong because you got the illness–a sin, a failing of some kind.
There was shame, sadness and even grief–a longing for life before the illness. There was no comfort. And perhaps worst of all–no hope.
Thank God that today there is a cure for leprosy. No one has to live a life like that today if they contract leprosy.
But, is there anything like leprosy today? Yes, sadly, there is.
What if someone told you that you or your child has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression or some other type of serious mental illness?
Serious mental illness affects over 1 in 20 people–it is a common illness, but we don’t like to talk much about it. And nearly 50 percent of us will have to deal with some type of psychological disorder during our lifetime.
When serious mental illness strikes you do everything that people did in ancient Israel when there was a diagnosis of leprosy. As a parent you would be concerned beyond belief. As the one with the diagnosis, at first you would try to hide it.
You are overwhelmed by the stigma–the social stigma. So many people do not understand - some will be afraid of you - you will be looked at differently. You will be worried about being lonely and misunderstood and not being able to find work.
And then the realization will sink in that there is no real cure. If you are lucky there may be medicines and therapy that will allow you to live with the mental illness–but not everyone is so lucky.
If you have never experienced a serious mental illness it is hard to understand what such illnesses can do. How the illness can totally disrupt a person’s life.
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a training session on mental illness with the first year students from the Geisinger medical college. We put on head phones and the types of sounds and voices that a person with Schizophrenia lives with were piped through. It was frightening. Like someone living with Schizophrenia, I had no control over the sounds and the voices.
We were given basic cognitive tests to do, such as finding words or number sequences. It was incredibly hard to concentrate and we couldn’t do them. Some of the students were really rattled – after all they are used to being the best. One student could not even recall who was President.
It is no wonder that a person with a mental illness can, at times, be difficult to be around or that their behavior can be irrational and frightening.
Try living with uncontrollable voices in your head - try living with uncontrollable anxieties and racing thoughts that fly through your mind like jets - try living with a deep dark irrational, relentless depression that makes you think you are unlovable and the world would be better off without you–where suicide is not seen as a choice, but as an inevitable fate.
So, what should we, as Christians, as members of the Catholic Church do about this?
Well, as in all things, we should look to Christ. In today’s Gospel, when the leper asked for help Christ reached out to him. Christ saw him as a person in need and he was moved with compassion. (Mark 1:40-45)
Pope Saint John Paul II said this: “Christ took all human suffering on himself, even mental illness. Yes even this affliction, which perhaps seems the most absurd and incomprehensible - configures the sick person to Christ and gives him a share in his redeeming passion. Whoever suffers from mental illness "always" bears God's image and likeness.”1
The Church is not called to cure mental illness – that is the task of medical science. We are called to be a healing presence to help people find wholeness and peace in the midst of the illness. The Bible uses the word “Shalom” – which is a right relationship with God. Our call is to help people with a mental illness find a healing presence, to experience God’s Shalom.2
Here at St Peters we offer a spiritual support groups for anyone living with a mental illness and for the parents and family members who support people with a mental illness. You can find information about these groups in the bulletin, in our brochure and on our web page.
Our goal is to share our stories, support each other and pray together so that no one feels alone in their struggle with mental illness.
You know, people who live with a mental illness are some of the most courageous and brave people I know. They deserve our respect.
They do not want our pity – they simply want to be welcomed and loved. They carry a cross that is so heavy and hard to fully understand – but Christ understands.
We pray to God, the Lord of Mercies, to comfort and relieve those who are troubled in spirit because of a mental illness. Bring them hope. Bring them peace and bring them the consolation of a loving Church community. Amen.
1 John Paul II, “Address of John Paul II to participants in the international conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health-Care Workers, on the theme: "In the Image and Likeness of God: Always? Illness of the Human Mind," November 30, 1996, L'Osservatore Romano.
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Eleven Syrians were killed when their inflatable boat sank off the country’s Aegean coast, Turkish media reported Friday.
The Dogan news agency said five of the dead were children, and a baby rescued in critical condition was among 11 people who survived the accident.
Television footage showed rescue workers standing next to covered bodies near the Turkish resort town of Kusadasi. Media reports said two Turks, thought to be people-smugglers, had been detained.
The boat capsized in strong wind and waves and was thought to be trying to reach the Greek island of Samos.
The deaths came a year after a European Union-Turkey agreement to curb illegal migration, which has significantly reduced the number of migrants trying to reach the bloc from Turkey.
The U.N. refugee agency said more than 3,620 refugees and migrants had crossed from Turkey to Greece this year, compared with nearly 150,000 arrivals in the equivalent period last year before the agreement was signed.
Under the deal, Turkey agreed to tighten its maritime borders and control immigration in return for aid and accelerated EU membership talks.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has raised alarm in Europe by saying he will review the agreement. Tension between Turkey and the EU has been heightened during a campaign for a Turkish referendum aimed at boosting the president’s powers.
In another development, a Spanish aid organization said Friday that it feared hundreds of migrants might have died off Libya’s coast. Spain’s Proactive Open Arms group said it found five bodies near two capsized boats on Thursday and another body on Friday. The group said it thought there could have been hundreds of people on the two boats.
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Have you ever wondered how are the dental instruments cleaned, before being used in your mouth? We, here at SmileSense Dental Clinic follow a very strict guideline for cleaning and sterilizing your dental instruments.
Below are the various methods of cleaning and sterilizing dental instruments used in the dental clinic:
- As far as possible, use disposable equipment, like, needles, blades, syringes, saliva ejectors, gloves, face masks, head caps, water glasses and drapes.
- The surface of the chair and all parts which cannot be covered by disposable covers should be disinfected by surface disinfectant, like, 2.5% Chlorhexidine gluconate in isopropyl alcohol.
- The instruments used during the procedure in first scrubbed to remove any visible blood or tissues. It is then segregated for sterilization either by cold (chemical) or moist (Autoclave) method.
- Autoclave is the ideal form of sterilization. All diagnostic instruments (mouth mirror, probe), surgical equipments, like elevators and forceps, hard pieces, scaler tips, burs and other hand instruments are pouched and sealed in sterilization pouches. These pouches have markers on them to show the completion of sterilization. They are then placed in the autoclave and sterilized. If unused from more than 1 month are again opened and sterilized.
- Cold or chemical disinfection is done in cases where autoclave is not possible, mostly instruments or equipments having plastic parts. The chemical used is mostly 2.4% Glutaraldehyde. It is used to disinfect aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, plastics and elastomers and provides a wide spectrum efficacy against bacteria, mycobacteria, viruses and fungi. The solution can also achieve some sporicidal activity with longer exposure time.
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The recreational activities organised in reform schools are diverse, and encouraging young people to engage in different recreational activities is a key part of supporting young people’s welfare. An enjoyable recreational activity often helps the young person to gather experiences that support their self-esteem and self-expression as well as boost their energy in everyday life. If a young person is not engaging in any recreational activity when arriving in the reform school, an aim is to find a hobby for the young person that he or she can enjoy. When agreeing on recreational activities, the aim is to take the young people’s individual wishes into account as well as to find out their opportunities for continuing with a previous hobby.
The young people at reform schools engage in diverse recreational activities around the year. The academic year and different seasons set the rhythm for the activities. Reform schools support the young people in engaging in both exercise and culture. In addition to individual hobbies, the sport and cultural association of reform schools organises multiple communal events throughout the year.
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When Toilet Learning is NOT Going Well
Part Two in the Toileting Series
You’ve been trying to lead your child to the toilet, but it’s not working – now what? Lynn and I decided to play out a few scenarios for you.
If your child is reluctant to go near a toilet at all…
Do begin simply nudging her toward the bathroom when she needs to have a bowel movement. If you see her squat or head to her favorite spot behind the couch invite her to the bathroom by saying,
“Do you want me to read this story or that one while you go?” Initially you are just getting her into the bathroom. You are not asking her to go near the toilet, much less sit on it. Note, you are also not asking her if she wants to go into the bathroom. You are using a different question that diverts her attention. You can also implement a token system. One M&M for stepping inside the door.
Why? The idea that we urinate and defecate in the bathroom is a foreign concept to children until we teach them. Sometimes the first step to success is simply getting them in the right place. We use a token system because it is an approach that can be helpful when trying to start a new behavior. You give an immediate reward for the desired behavior. The reward is motivational to your child so potential rewards may be M&Ms, pick a prize or a sticker. The key to success with a token system is that once your child has started the behavior, you will stop the token system. And say to him, “Now, I know you can do this. You don’t need tokens anymore. This is what I expect you to do.” If you don’t stop the tokens, your child will likely lose interest in them and you’ll find yourself caught in a cycle of increasing the rewards in an attempt to regain his interest.
If your child is 3.5 years or older and not interested at all in using the toilet and is still using diapers all of the time…
Do put your child on a regular toileting schedule trying to catch him when he’s dry. That may mean checking every 30 minutes or every 90 minutes. The frequency will depend on your child and his bladder control. The key is checking frequently enough to allow him to be successful. At the appointed time you will say to him, “It’s time to try.” Offer a choice. “Do you want me to sing, or read a book while you try?” You can also implement a token system to encourage him to try. Every time he tries he gets one M&M. He doesn’t have to be successful urinating. He’s rewarded for simply trying. If he is successful urinating he gets 2 M&M’s and 3 M&M’s for a bowel movement.
Why? Your goal is to catch him dry so that he has a chance for success. Success builds on success. You use a token system to get a new behavior started. That system ends once the new behavior is learned. You offer choices –(a song or a book) - to divert his attention and avoid a power struggle.
If your child is successful urinating in the toilet, but resists having a bowel movement while on the toilet…
Do let her know she may put on a diaper to go poop. She can pass the movement while in the bathroom with the diaper on. As she begins to go describe the feeling as the poop starts to come out of her body. Allow her to dump the poop out of the diaper into the toilet and flush it. You can gently nudge her toward using the toilet by asking, “Is today a day you want to try sitting on the toilet for pooping or do you want a diaper?” If she says she wants a diaper put it on her, then say, “Maybe next time you’ll be ready to try sitting on the toilet.” One day she will choose to do so. You can further encourage the effort by using the token system. One M&M for trying to poop on the potty and two M&M’s for pooping. In this case you may add the “reward” of using technology (I-Pad, look at photos on a phone, watch a movie) while sitting on the toilet. Doing so allows her to zone out and remain on the toilet long enough for her to relax increasing the odds she’ll be successful. Once she has a couple of successes it will get much easier.
Why? You want to avoid starting a pattern in which your child begins “holding.” (If you see smears in her underwear she’s likely holding.) This can lead to a stretching of the bowel which makes it more difficult to sense the need to go. It can also lead to medical problems. You do not want to force her. Instead you are gently nudging her toward putting her poop in the toilet. Know too that bladder control often occurs months before bowel control.
If your child has been constipated…
Do help your child relax. The brain has a long memory for pain. If your child has suffered painful constipation when he attempts to go, his body may automatically “shut down” to avoid the pain. Offer diversions of listening to a story, singing songs, using electronics to allow him enough time to relax. Use the token system for trying. Serve foods that are easy to digest and pass. Frequently offer water throughout the day. Ensure that he gets outside for exercise.
Why? All of these things can help the bowel movement to “slip out” and the brain to let go of the painful memory.
If your child is afraid of the equipment…
Do create a picture planner for steps moving toward the toilet. It can be as simple as step one – look at the toilet. Step two – step closer to the toilet. Step three – touch the toilet. Step four – sit on the toilet with clothes on. Step five – sit on the toilet without clothes. Step six – flush the toilet. Invite your child to look at the chart. Point out step one and invite him to try. If he resists point out that the chart says that’s what he’s supposed to do. Children believe the chart! A token system can also be effective. One M&M for each step.
Why? You are gently nudging your child toward success. It’s impossible to talk someone out of fear. What does work is breaking a new task or experience into small steps so tiny that each is easily accomplished.
If your child is toilet trained during the day but wets during naps and night time sleep…
Do allow her to wear diapers during sleep.
Why? Day time and night time training are two different things. Often a child has day time control months and sometimes even years before she has night time control. Take the pressure off your child and the frustration of stripping a bed at 3:00 AM off your to do list.
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The majority of a person’s learning happens on an immediate basis. In our day-to-day life, something grabs our attention and we research it right away, learning the new information at the moment that we become interested in it. But with the plethora of answers available online today, finding a source that both answers your question and addresses it from a compatible worldview can be difficult. If you’re searching for the meaning of life, you probably won’t find an article written by a Buddhist monk on enlightenment to be particularly helpful.
Recently I came across the story of a young missionary, new to the field, who found herself anxious to learn more about her foreign surroundings and her new position as a missionary. In the tried and ‘true’ manner, she spent countless of fruitless hours browsing the internet, looking for a scrap of even-slightly applicable information. Sound familiar? Sadly, this young missionary’s story isn’t just hers. Too often missionaries struggle alone, wanting to learn but lacking relevant source material. They can find themselves desperate for any information that might help them better understanding their new environments. Unfortunately, while the internet is a proven asset for the transferal of most generalized knowledge, it can be a difficult tool for missionaries to use when searching for reliable, relevant material from a Christian perspective.
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30th January 2014
By Maria Fookes
Phylogenetic tree of S. Bovismorbificans isolates, which plots the relationships between isolates. Click for larger image and see below for a more detailed explanation.
Pathogenic bacteria, like an army laying siege, represent a constant threat to human health. Salmonella
is one such pathogen. Through evolution and diversification Salmonella has become an empire of more than 2,500 serovars (different types), an army of specialists and generalists with specific weapons, targets and signatures of attack.
To fight back we must know our enemies in fine detail, not only the tools of infection that they have developed but also their recent and distant evolutionary history. We hope this will give us the chance to predict their next move since as the way we live changes so do the opportunities to cause disease.
We aim to achieve this knowledge by spying on their genomes, analysing their genomic content and studying the mutations they accumulate in their genetic code (DNA). Some of the mutations will make these warriors (strains and isolates) strong and prevalent, often in patient populations already burdened by other diseases.
Recently, in Malawi, the main geographic focus of this study (reference 1), new Salmonella foot soldiers have emerged that, instead of the normal diarrhoea, cause an invasive blood infection called a non-typhoidal Salmonella infection. This infection occurs in both children and adults, particularly if they are HIV positive or have HIV positive parents (reference 3).
Within this attacking horde, there are three different types of Salmonella; namely, Salmonella Bovismorbificans (reference 2), Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Enteritidis. These are considered the three main agents of non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Recent studies of Salmonella Typhimurium (called ST313), which is responsible for a large part of this invasive disease, have shown that there are signs in its genome that it has adapted to a new human niche. These include mutations that render genes dysfunctional, which we now recognise as key markers predicting the move towards a more severe and invasive disease. Resistance to antibiotics has also been shown to be a feature of these invasive Salmonella types (reference 4).
The question we asked in the current study was, has Salmonella Bovismorbificans also adapted to become a fighter, using the same weapons and strategies of evolution and attack as Salmonella Typhimurium? Or is it in the process of heading towards becoming one?
In order to answer this properly we prepared the ground by being the first to publish the blueprint of this type of Salmonella. Then we collected samples of Salmonella Bovismorbificans from different sources, geographical regions and years of isolation (UK veterinary samples) and compared them all, looking for anything in the array of genes that differentiated the arsenal of weapons in Salmonella Bovismorbificans, causing diarrhoea or symptoms associated with invasive disease. (See Figure).
Our findings showed that Malawian Salmonella Bovismorbificans was not in fact a specialist group and that its genetic blueprint was very similar to the other three main agents of non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in Sub-Saharan Africa. It appears that Salmonella Bovismorbificans was simply in the right place at the right time and were able to invade without the need for additional adaptation.
It may be that this is how other Salmonella in the past became invasive; they exploited a change in the human population, in this case associated with widespread HIV. S. Typhimurium ST313 has done this more successfully in the same region.
Surveillance within the region will tell us whether S. Bovismorbificans incidence will rise or fall; so far its weapons seem different than in the case of ST313. Clearly, we hope for the fall, and a similar reduction in immune-compromised patients.
Extended image caption: Isolates linked by long branches are more distantly related and isolates linked by short branches are more closely related. Colour-coded information on each strain is show to the right of the image, including origin (A = Adult, C = Child, V = Veterinary), year of isolation (ND refers to veterinary isolates where an exact year is not known but the collection is known to predate the 1980s), ST, antimicrobial resistance profile (RL = sulphamethoxazole, CXM =cefuroxime, RD = rifampicin, amoxicillin (AML), gentamicin (CN), trimethoprim (W), chloramphenicol (C), tetracycline (TET), streptomycin (S)) and presence or absence of the virulence plasimd pVIRBov. The shaded area (top right, coloured orange, blue and green) represents the whole genome of the reference strain and interesting parts of the genomes of the other strains we analysed that were not present in the reference strain. If the same DNA sequence was present in other S. Bovismorbificans we looked at, then below this we coloured that region on the appropriate line white, grey or black indicating whether it was absent, partially present or fully present.
Maria Fookes gained her Doctorate by immobilising pectic enzymes for juice clarification in her native Spain. She has worked at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute since 1999 and she enjoys looking into bacterial (mostly Salmonella) accessory and unique genomic regions. She is a Senior Research Assistant.
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The Scienscope of the Faculty of Science at Université de Genève was inaugurated on October 5th, 2021. It consists of seven new spaces dedicated to the discovery of the sciences taught and studied in the Faculty.
With more than 35’000 visitors each year, the UNIGE Scienscope is open to primary and secondary I and II classes, both public and private, as well as to extracurricular activities.
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How do you keep oranges fresh after peeling?
Refrigerate oranges within 2 hours of cutting or peeling them. Store them in plastic bags, in clean, airtight containers, or tightly covered in plastic wrap. Check stored oranges regularly. Throw out any fruit that shows signs of spoilage such as mold and slime.
How long do peeled clementines last?
Properly stored, clementines will usually keep well for about 1 to 2 weeks in the fridge.
Do oranges in the fridge go bad?
On average, oranges last 10-14 days at room temperature and up to 21 to 30 days in the fridge. Cut oranges last only 2-4 days in the fridge, as they tend to dry out quicker.
How long will a peeled mandarins last?
Tangerines last for 5 to 7 days at room temperature or up to 2 weeks in the fridge. The better the quality of the fruit and the fresher it is, the longer it’ll stay good for. Any peeled tangerines should keep in the fridge for 4 to 5 days.
How long do oranges last after peeled?
Once cut or peeled, oranges should be refrigerated and consumed within two days. Cut oranges at room temperature should be consumed within the day, though will remain fine for several hours if sealed and stored out of direct sunlight.
Can you put a peeled orange in the fridge?
If you are planning to store oranges for just a few hours you can just put them in an airtight container and place them in the refrigerator, until you need them once again. General Tips: … Oranges usually stay fresh for 2-3 days after they are peeled, so try and consume them within the period to enjoy them the most.
How do you know if a cutie orange is bad?
Some common traits of bad oranges are a soft texture and some discoloration. The soft spot is moist and develops a mold, usually white in color at first. Bad oranges, just like bad orange juice and other fruit juices, will have a distinct sour smell and taste.
Can you get sick from eating an old orange?
No fruit or vegetable is immune from potentially causing food poisoning, including those with a peel. Dr. Niket Sonpal, a New York City internist and gastroenterologist, told INSIDER you can “absolutely” get sick from produce like oranges or potatoes, even if you peel them.
How can you tell if an orange is good?
A ripe orange should be firm with a thin, smooth skin and no soft spots. The riper the orange, the heavier the orange should feel for its size.
Should you keep apples and oranges in the refrigerator?
Store your apples away from oranges
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The growing body of work in geographies of gender explore the ways in which mobility across socio-spatial boundaries shape the situated and relational constructions of gendered identities. Despite being shadowed by studies about femininity, sites and performances of manhood have recently begun to receive more attention by geographers. In this spirit, this talk attends to the ways in which youthful Muslim masculinities are reconfigured in migration contexts through changing articulations between religion, ethnicity, and gender. I explore young Muslim men’s experiences of racialization and diasporic negotiations of their masculinity by focusing on their everyday encounters with, and negotiation of, difference in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, Turkish-Dutch Muslim youth challenge their racialization in the context of the backlash against multiculturalism. In Hong Kong, South Asian Muslim youth experience an urban conviviality that co-exists with overt racism. In both contexts, Islamic understandings of masculinity are flexibly articulated to ethno-religious belonging at multiple scales.
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Dr. Murat Es is a cultural geographer currently working as a lecturer at the Department of Geography and Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work highlights the co-construction of urban spaces and identities through cross-cultural encounters forged by national and transnational mobilities. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Turkey with ethno-religious minority groups. His current research explores religion, belonging, and urban development in Turkey and Hong Kong.
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Our new project ‘Smartpur’ is linking digitally dark rural India to online vaccination process and ensuring that those who are eligible get vaccinated as soon as possible.
What is ‘Smartpur’?
With support from NOKIA, Save the Children is implementing a project called ‘SMARTPUR’ with the objective of Digital inclusion for the rural community. It will be implemented in 60 villages in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. Under this project, we established digital centres with software-defined networking technology in 60 villages in March 2021. While the community provided the space for the centres, the digital access aims to help the community in return. A facilitator who has knowledge and experience manages the centre within the village.
Why did Save the Children start ‘Smartpur’?
With the recent announcement by the Government of India requesting people to register online for the COVID-19 vaccine, the team took this brilliant opportunity and provided digital services to the community free of cost. Community-level campaign awareness was organized to get people to register at the centre from 28 April and is continuing. This supports the community to access online registration services within the village, help the centre promote its services, and ensure that all the citizens can register for the vaccine. Here, to mention, no other service institution nor government body is providing online registration services.
In the long-term, this project supports the community in combating the control of the disease, and registration for vaccination and getting vaccinated is the only solution. Sanitization and Face masking safety precautions are followed.
What is Save the Children’s role in ‘Smartpur’?
The digital centre aims to provide access to the community for online services availing government social protection schemes or any other online services. Save the Children, and Chaitanya Jyothi Welfare Society (CJWS) team discussed and led the thought process and came up with the idea of organizing online registration camps for FREE. Save the Children’s role in this was to provide all the technology and off-grid power solutions, including the centre facilitator’s capacity building.
When did it start?
The campaign for online registration was initiated in 5 villages on 25 April and scaled to 60 villages. The campaign was made through door-door visits, announcement through hand-Megaphone, and friends and family chat groups.
How many have we registered so far?
3,102 persons have been registered for vaccination as of 1 pm on 6 April 2021, and more people are registering every day.
Are we providing any assistance for the vaccination apart from the registration?
The facilitator has the complete reference IDs of the registered persons and will follow up with the nearest Public Health Centre and Government office for the vaccination and then get back to the person registered. Around 70 people registered so far have been vaccinated, and the team is progressively following up for a logical conclusion of the registration process. Like community person D. Srinivasulu was registered on 2nd of May 2021 and got vaccinated three days later on 5th May 2021.
How is the community responding to this project?
D. Laxmi, Varagali village facilitator, said, “I am coordinating with the nurse in the Primary Health Center for the registrations I made in my village and neighbouring centres. We are ensuring that the people who we get registered, also get vaccinated soon. The nurse also coordinates daily with us to get seven people vaccinated at a time”.
Mr. D. Veera Raghavulu, 45 yrs, Epuru village head, said, “The access to online service in the village was never thought of and has become a real support for us in this pandemic”.
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|Football in Malaysia|
|First played||Late 1800s|
Football is the most popular sport in Malaysia, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1921, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. The sport of football in the country of Malaysia is run by the Football Association of Malaysia.
In 1997, Malaysia hosted the FIFA U-20 World Cup, but known as FIFA World Youth Championship during that time. In 2007, Malaysia co-hosted the Asian Cup 2007 with three other countries.
Main article: History of Malaysian football
Football arrived in Malaysia, (Malaya at that time) with the British. The locals soon picked up the game, and before long it was the country's leading sport. Towards the end of the 19th century, football was one of the central pillars of most sports clubs in Malaya. But it was not structured. Even when the Selangor Amateur Football League took shape in 1905 – which ensured proper administration and organisation – the competition was confined only to clubs in the Kuala Lumpur.
In January 1921, the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Malaya called at Port Swettenham (now Port Klang), Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Port Dickson. During its stay, the crew competed in friendly matches in football, rugby, hockey, sailing, and golf against local clubs.
Three months later, the Chief Secretary of the Federated Malay States government received a letter from Captain H. T. Buller of the H. M. S. Malaya, which offered two cups to be competed for in football and rugby as tokens of their gratitude for the reception they received in Malaya. The cup for football were then known as the Malaya Cup The offer was accepted and various club representatives met to organise the tournament. A Malaya Cup committee was set up and it was decided to run the football competition in northern and southern sections. The first tournament were entrusted to be run by the Selangor Club. The first ever Malaya Cup match was played on 20 August 1921, with Selangor defeating Penang 5–1 in front of an estimated crowd of 5,000 in Kuala Lumpur. The inaugural tournament were played by six teams and won by Singapore. During 1923, a newspaper described it as “by far the greatest sporting event of the year (in Malaya)”.
Football began to spread rapidly throughout the region following the establishment of the cup although the composition of the teams at the time were mainly based on ethnic background. In British Borneo, football also become the most popular choice of sports in Malay schools.
In 1933, Association football of Malaysia was founded as Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) which managed the local football scene at that time. By 1954, FAM joins FIFA as a member in AFC.
Malaysia FAM Cup was established in 1952 as a secondary knockout competition to the more prestigious Malaya Cup, the competition were held between the state teams including Singapore, Police, Army, and Prisons Department of Malaysia in its early days.
In 1959, the Malaya Cup departed from the traditional one round tournament to a two-round home and away format in three zones, East, South and North. A new trophy was inaugurated in 1967, and since then the competition has been known as the Piala Malaysia.
Starting in 1974, the state teams were barred from entering the FAM Cup competition and only the club sides could enter.
This football league competition involving the representative sides of the state football associations was first held in Malaysia in 1979. When it began, it was intended primarily as a qualifying tournament for the final knock-out stages of the Piala Malaysia. A one-round league competition was introduced in Malaysia in 1979. The top four teams at the end of the league will face off in two semi-finals before the winners made it to the finals. In 1981, the quarter-finals stage were introduced. When the league began, it was intended primarily as a qualifying tournament for the Piala Malaysia. However, it was not until 1982 that a League Cup was introduced to recognise the winners of the preliminary stage as the league champions which then officially started the era of nationwide level amateur football league in Malaysia. Since then, the Piala Malaysia has been held after the conclusion of the league each year, with only the best-performing teams in the league qualifying for the Piala Malaysia.
Over the years, the league competition has gained important stature in its own right. From 1982 until 1988 the league is an amateur status continue its purpose as qualifying round for Piala Malaysia and only in 1989 it is changes to a new format as Malaysian Semi-Pro Football League (Liga Semi-Pro) by FAM as a 'halfway house' towards full professional status.
Initially the only teams allowed to participate in the league were the state FA's sides, teams representing the Armed Forces and the Police, and teams representing the neighbouring countries of Singapore and Brunei (though the Football Association of Singapore pulled out of the Malaysian League after the 1994 season following a dispute with the Football Association of Malaysia over gate receipts, and has not been involved since).
The inaugural season of Liga Semi-Pro consisted of nine teams in Division 1 and eight teams in Division 2 with total of 17 teams participated. The Malaysian Police joined Division 2 in 1990. Games were played on a home and away basis for about four months roughly between the end of April or early May and the end of August or early September. Under the new format, only the top six teams in Division 1 and the Division 2 champions and runners-up will be involved in the Piala Malaysia. Piala Malaysia was played from the quarter-final stage, scheduled for November after the league was finished. The Piala Malaysia quarter-final and semi-final matches will be played on a home and away basis.
In 1992, FAM created another amateur league for local clubs in Malaysia to compete, which is called the Liga Nasional. The league was managed by FAM outside entity, Super Club Sdn. Bhd. Some of the clubs which compete in the league are Hong Chin, Muar FA, PKNK from Kedah, DBKL, PKNS, BSN, LPN, BBMB, Proton, PPC and PKENJ. Unfortunately, the league only ran for one season before it folded. Some of the clubs were then evolved and joined the main league, such as PKENJ, which became JCorp and now as JDT.
With the advent of two-league Liga Semi-Pro in 1989, FAM Cup becomes the third-tier competition. In 1993, the format of the competition was changed to include a two-group league followed by the traditional knockout format. Promotion to the professional Malaysian League were introduced for the first time in 1997, Johor FC and NS Chempaka FC the first two sides to be promoted that year.
Liga Semi-Pro was the nation's top-tier league until it was succeeded by the formation of Malaysian first professional football league, the Liga Perdana in 1994 by Football Association of Malaysia.
In 1998, Liga Perdana was divided into two divisions consist of Liga Perdana 1 and Liga Perdana 2. During this time both of the division was still just referred as Malaysian League as a whole.
During 1998, Liga Perdana 1 consisted of 12 teams while Liga Perdana 2 had 8 teams. 10 teams that previously qualified for Piala Malaysia which played in 1997 Liga Premier were automatically qualified to Liga Perdana 1. The other two spots were filled by a playoff round of the 5 lowest teams in the 1997 Liga Premier and the Malaysian Olympic football team. The lowest four teams from the playoff round were then put into Liga Perdana 2 alongside Police, Malaysia Military, Negeri Sembilan Chempaka F.C and PKN Johor. At this time the league still consisted of semi-pro team where each team was allowed to register 25 players where 12 players must be a professional for Liga Perdana 1 and a minimum of six professional players in Liga Perdana 2.
Both leagues continued until 2003 when Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) decided to privatise the league for 2004 season onwards where Liga Super was formed. Teams in Liga Perdana 1 and Liga Perdana 2 was then was put through a qualification and playoff to be promoted into Liga Super. Teams that failed the qualification was put into now a new second-tier league Liga Premier.
A further changes were made to Malaysia FAM Cup in 2008 where the knockout stages was abolished and double round-robin league format was introduced. The tournament in now known as Malaysia FAM League.
The most significant successes of the national team of Malaysia has come in the regional AFF Suzuki Cup (formerly known as the 'Tiger Cup'), which Malaysia won in 2010 for the first time in history. They beat Indonesia 4–2 on aggregate in the final to capture the country's first major international football title.
Malaysia had many top players, such as the legendary Mokhtar Dahari and Sabah's Hassan Sani and James Wong, which led Malaysia into their golden age during the 1970s until the 1980s. Before Mokhtar, The Malaysian King of Football, Datuk Abdul Ghani Minhat was the most famous and respected footballer in the whole Malaya during the 1950s until the 1960s. Malaysia's 15–1 victory over the Philippines in 1962 is currently the record for the highest win for the national team. In the current generation, Mohd Safee Mohd Sali and Norshahrul Idlan Talaha are considered by Malaysians as their best striker pair.
In the FIFA World Rankings, Malaysia's highest standing was in the first release of the figures, in August 1993, at 75th. Malaysia's main rival on the international stage are their geographical neighbours, Indonesia and Singapore, and past matches between these two teams have produced much drama. Malaysia is one of the most successful teams in Southeast Asia along with Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, winning the ASEAN Football Championship 2010 and other small competitions while improving at the same time.
Main article: Malaysian football league system
Unlike most of countries that plays football as a main game, the league system in Malaysia still consist of representative from state association, clubs from company, ministry or government agency.
Main article: Liga Super
The Liga Super (Liga Super Malaysia) is a Malaysian professional league for association football. It is at the top flight of the Malaysian football league system and it is managed by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP) and partnership of FAM. The league is contested between 12 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Liga Premier. The 12 clubs participating in this top flight league need to pass a set of requirements and verification process, particularly related to professionalism and infrastructure feasibility.
Main article: Liga Premier
The Liga Premier is the second-tier football league in Malaysia. It is at the second division in Malaysian football league system and it is also managed by the FMLLP and partnership of FAM. The league is contested between 12 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Malaysia FAM League. The 12 clubs participating in this league need to pass a set of requirements and verification process, particularly related to professionalism and infrastructure feasibility although with lower requirement compared to the Liga Super. The league was named Astro Liga Premier (Astro Liga Premier Malaysia in Malay) in 2013 season and TM Liga Premier before then because of the sponsorship reason.
Main article: Malaysia FAM League
The Malaysia FAM League (Liga FAM Malaysia in Malay and formerly Malaysia FAM Cup) is the third-tier football league in Malaysia. The tournament used to be a cup format, but it changed 2008 as it was held as a league tournament and changing to its current name. Malaysia FAM Cup was established in 1952 as a secondary knockout competition to the more prestigious Malaya Cup, the competition were held between the state teams including Singapore, Police, Army, and Prisons Department of Malaysia in its early days. Starting in 1974, the state teams were barred from entering the competition and only the club sides could enter.
Main article: Liga Bolasepak Rakyat
The Liga Bolasepak Rakyat is an independent football league in Malaysia and not part of the national level football pyramid. However, the winners has been invited by FAM to compete in the third-tier national level competition. The league is managed by (Liga Bolasepak Rakyat-Limited Liability Partnership (LBR-LLP) and it is an amateur-level competition which was established in 2015 with aims to create a bigger base at grassroots level and eventually provide an alternative route for footballers under the age of 28 to make the grade. Currently there are a total of 111 teams out of more than 150 possible districts in the country. The teams were divided into 8 zones.
Main article: Piala Presiden (Malaysia)
The Piala Presiden is the amateur football competition in Malaysia for under-21 players. Since its inception, in 1985, the Piala Presiden has been the major tournament for under-21 and under-23 players. In 2009, the format of the competition was changed with only under-20 players eligible to be fielded for the tournament. In 2015 the format of the competition reverted to the original format with under-21 players and three over age players eligible to play.
Main article: Piala Belia
The Piala Belia is the amateur football competition in Malaysia for under-19 players. Since its inception, in 2008, the Belia Cup has been the major tournament for under-19. In 2009 to 2011, the competition is combined with Piala Presiden. In 2015 the format of the competition changed to the league format.
There are several cup competitions for clubs at different levels of the football pyramid. The two major cup competitions are the Malaysia FA Cup and the Malaysia Cup.
Clubs who do well in either the Super League, Piala FA or League Cup can qualify to compete in various AFC-organised Asian-wide competitions in the following season. The number of Malaysia teams playing in Asian in any one season can range from three to four. Currently, Malaysia is awarded the following places in Asian competitions:
|Competition||Allocated Slot||Who Qualifies||Notes|
|AFC Champions League||1||Malaysia Super League champions|
|AFC Cup||2||Malaysia FA Cup Winner
Malaysia Super League runners-up
|If Malaysia FA Cup were cancelled, either the Malaysian Cup winner or the third highest eligible Team in the Super League will enter|
Main article: Malaysia national football team
The Malaysia national football team represents Malaysia in international football. Malaysia is one of the national teams to have won the AFF Suzuki Cup and did this in 2010.
Women's football competitions are also managed by FAM. Malaysia women's football national team represents Malaysia in international women's football.
In local football scene, a woman football competition has been held in Malaysia since 1960. The inaugural season was competed by four teams from Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Malacca. A competition trophy has only been introduced in 1961 which has been contributed by Straits Times.
Women Football Association of Malaysia (PBWM) was officially registered in December 1974 where the first president was the Tun Sharifah Rodziah. A proper tournament was officially held in 1976 when PBWM introduced the woman football tournament called the Piala Tun Sharifah Rodziah. A new trophy was contributed by the Tunku Abdul Rahman for the inaugural tournament season. The cup format was following the Piala Malaysia format at that year where a home and away match was introduced for the tournament. A total eight teams compete including Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, Pahang, Perak, Penang and Singapore.
The cup was held for consistent basis until 2004 when it was not held for 11 years and making a comeback in 2015 for the 28 edition. A total of ten teams participated in the revival season of the tournament. The 2015 season was won by MIFA. In 2016, MISC-MIFA defended their championship by winning the cup again for the second times.
Main article: List of football stadiums in Malaysia
Some of the major stadium used for various team in Malaysia League listed as follow:
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Abusive zealots make voting less secure
This appeared in the Kansas City Star
Of all the stunning revelations emerging from hearings of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, 2021, the testimony from those facing physical threats is the most disturbing.
Last Tuesday a Georgia election worker named Shaye Moss testified that her life has been changed forever because of the vicious attacks she faced after the 2020 election.
Moss had been falsely accused of mishandling ballots in Georgia. Abusive supporters of Donald Trump’s election lies soon made her life hell.
“I second-guess everything that I do. It’s affected my life in a major way, in every way,” she told the committee. “All because of lies.” Many of the criticisms were racist, Moss said.
Arizona House Speaker Russell Bowers — a Republican — said abusive zealots showed up in his neighborhood while his terminally ill daughter rested at his home.
These stories should outrage every American. They should also remind us of how public servants should be treated, particularly those who work to make sure elections, and election results, are safe and secure.
There is no reason that anyone should threaten anyone else with physical violence or death. It’s appalling to believe that abuse would be a part of any political or social dialogue.
Election workers have an especially difficult job. Registering tens of thousands of voters, under difficult deadlines, is onerous. Front-line workers at polling places are even more vulnerable. Almost all of them are part-time employees who step forward to work elections, for maybe $100 or $150. They deserve our thanks, not threats or abuse.
Elections are the most important thing we do in this country. They must be protected, at all times.
Does that mean election workers, and other public officials, should be beyond criticism? Of course not. Reasonable concerns, discussed reasonably in the proper place, at the proper time, are essential to self-government.
But violence? Verbal abuse? Vile behavior? Death threats? There is no place, and no time, where that is acceptable. To abuse others in the service of election lies makes it even worse.
When citizens go to the polls to make their choices known, that’s the real miracle of self-government, which survives despite an overwhelming assault by the former president and his fellow travelers.
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“When pure water becomes murky, mystery is king.”
Malian filmmaker Assane Kouyaté’s Kabala explores the cultural dilemmas facing a tiny Mandé village packed away from the modern world. It is a morality tale following the travails of Hamalla, the outcast son of a village elder who courageously confronts some of the destructive beliefs and traditions practiced by his village. Exiled because he is a bastard child, Hamalla returns when Kabala is stricken with an epidemic caused by the town’s well releasing murky water. Against the advice of outsiders, the elders refuse to build another well or repair the damaged one—it would defile the spirits of their forefathers inside the well. Having engaged African modernity while working Mali’s “Land of Mines,” Hamalla returns intent on rescuing his village from itself. Conflict arises when the elders refuse Hamalla’s offer to mend the sacred well and curse his questioning any of the village’s ancient customs.
Filled with lush cinematography of the quiet Mali countryside, Kabala presents an elaborate story weaving through the complexities of African society. It recalls the films of Ousmane Sembene, whose recent Moolaade traversed similar terrain. Kabala is a psychological examination of the African relationship to societal traditions versus Western modernity, in both positive and destructive guises. In this concern it follows the tradition of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The story is sometimes told in song by Hamalla’s mother, another village reject and rumored to be a witch, lamenting the story as it unfolds. Her story is that of the village’s oppression of women—polygamy, exploitation—which the elders slowly begin to acknowledge as being a disgrace on the village.
Forced to take extreme measures to combat some of his village’s extraordinary superstitions, Hamalla pretends to be insane (in a manner reminiscent of Hamlet) so that he might be viewed as less of a threat to the elders and hence free to hatch a plan to repair the blighted well. The story is at times so melodramatic and angst filled that it resembles a West African take on an Antonioni drama—albeit with its extended shots of pensive characters pouting and emoting through the Mandé countryside instead of Rome. Astonishing religious ceremonies employing fire, animal sacrifices, chanting, drumming, and intricate masks present a cultural vigor unlike anything we are bound to experience in Western cinema.
Following the near rape of a reluctant bride and an attack on Hamalla’s mother by a morally bankrupt member of the tribe, the elders gather and acknowledge that the well’s state of disrepair must be addressed. A spirited fete of drumming and dancing ensues as the village celebrates the resolution of the drama. Or, as Joseph Conrad is quoted in the film:
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
Peter Bate’s Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death is a blistering documentary about the vicious reign of terror Belgian King Leopold II unleashed upon colonial Congo from 1885 to 1908. It was a tale virtually lost for many years, until the recent publication of Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost.
Bate’s film is structured as a mock trial of Leopold, stoically portrayed in powerful reenactments by an aged actor on a sound stage. The film then proceeds to an interspersing of documentary still footage shocking in its methodical rendering of the sordid, ugly tale of colonial Congo’s rapid progression from aggressively colonized land to ruthless hell of slavery and murder. The story evokes the most vicious holocausts of the 20th century. By 1920 the Congo’s population had been reduced from 20 million inhabitants to 10 million through an inexhaustible, exploitative system of terror, the sole purpose of which was the production of enormous amounts of lucrative rubber. Displaying several written text passages from diary entries by missionaries as well as from Belgium officers themselves detailing the carnage, Bate’s film also quotes extensively from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, damning the barbarity from all perspectives.
Denounced by the Belgian government as a “tendentious diatribe” that, in effect, portrays King Leopold as architect of a gulag labor camp, Congo is a devastating chronicle of evil channeled through an unquenchable lust for natural resources. Bate’s film accuses the Belgian government of failing to this day to educate its populace about King Leopold’s reign and the source of much of the nation’s wealth. The film further asserts that the continued suffering of the Congolese—through war and exploitation now at the hands of other Africans—is yet more tragedy.
Among other highlights, BAM’s African Blood: The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival also presents Michel Ocelot’s wonderful animated fable Kirikou and the Sorceress, Rolf de Heer’s The Tracker, and a documentary about the a cappella songstress ensemble Raise Your Voice: Sweet Honey in the Rock by Stanley Nelson.
The African Diaspora Film Festival runs at BAM from February 11 through February 17.
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Medland et al. (2009). Common Variants in the Trichohyalin Gene Are Associated with Straight Hair in Europeans. The American Journal of Human Genetics DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.10.009
A couple of weeks ago I reported on a presentation by 23andMe's Nick Eriksson at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Honolulu, in which Eriksson presented data on a series of genome-wide association studies performed by the company using genetic and trait data from its customers.Along with genetic analysis of a variety of other traits (such as asparagus anosmia and photic sneeze) Eriksson presented data on two novel regions significantly associated with hair curl, one close to the *TCHH *gene and a second near *WNT10A *(see the abstract for details). I noted at the time that 23andMe appears to be doing a pretty good job of running genome-wide association studies, although of course the real test of this is independent replication.Well, now we have replication (of a sort) for at least two of 23andMe's novel findings - but unfortunately for the 23andMe crew the "replication" study has beaten them into print.
In this week's issue of American Journal of Human Genetics an Australian group report a genome-wide association study of hair curl that uncovered both of the novel regions picked out by 23andMe's scan (the very strong TCHH association is the headline finding, while WNT10A is mentioned briefly later in the text).
In a sense this is good news for 23andMe, in that it's good, independent evidence that the company's novel associations are robust. However, it's also bad news: not only has the company been scooped on the hair curl findings, but this is a clear illustration that there are few phenotypic niches sufficiently obscure for 23andMe to be able to work safely without worrying about competition from academic consortia. The Australian group that produced the hair curl study (led by Nick Martin) has both the resources and the expertise to churn through the same sorts of commonly variable non-disease traits that 23andMe is well-powered to analyse, as their publication list illustrates. Other rivals have even greater capacity for scoopage: ailing biotech deCODE, for instance, has genetic and detailed trait data for a hefty chunk of the Icelandic population that can easily be used to unravel the genetic architecture of whatever common trait it decides to turn its attention to.One major advantage that 23andMe possesses over any of its rivals is a highly actively involved participant base, many of whom will remain available and willing to answer online surveys and purchase additional genetic tests so long as the company can keep drip-feeding them interesting nuggets of genetic information about themselves.Is that enough to maintain a profitable business? The two waves of lay-offs (one in June, and a more recent one in October) and the recent departure of co-founder Linda Avey from the company suggest that there may be some uncertainty about that even within 23andMe. Still, there's little question that the company has done more to establish the personal genomics industry than anyone else, and it's still far better-placed than either of its two major rivals, deCODEme and Navigenics. There are big changes coming in personal genomics, but I don't expect to see 23andMe toppled from its pedestal any time in the near future. Subscribe to Genetic Future.
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Grammar bites - Linking
Checkpoint: choose the correct alternative in each sentence below. Next, you can check your answers by reading the explanations that follow.
- According to me/As I see it , none of them will hand in the essay on time. (see 2.)
- First he worked in Manchester and Glasgow and after it/after that in London, I suppose. (see 3.)
- They have been working as/like agents for the British Government in Dublin. (see 5/c)
- Now, you either correct these papers or go and do the shopping/or the shopping in the morning. (see 9.)
- Human beings interact with one another not only because of gravity but because of there is/-- love. (see 7.)
- Leave my house or else/or otherwise I'll call the police. (see 12.)
- He never turned up for classes let alone do/doing his homework. (see 11.)
- You can't leave now - above all/after all you are the teacher! (see 4.)
- We climbed and walked and set fires. Overall/Above all, it was quite a nice holiday. (see 1.)
- You are not supposed to enter this room except/except for when there's someone inside. (see 10.)
- He produced two wonderful essays as well as winning/won two maths competitions. (see 6.)
- Does anyone know the reason of/for this new regulation? (see 8.)
Explanations and illustration
1. ABOVE ALL - OVERALL
above all : legfőképp ; overall : összességében, általában
My new job requires expertise, patience and, above all , time.
Overall, the University's average rating has improved from 2.20 to 3.25.
(NOT My new job requires expertise, patience, and overall time.)
as I see it / in my opinion : ahogy én látom/véleményem szerint ; according to sb : vki szerint
As I see it / In my opinion , John shouldn't be given so much money.
(NOT According to my opinion /According to me, John shouldn't be given so much money.)
3. AFTER /AFTER THAT
after that : és azután ; after: miután
First we went to a restaurant and after that we went to the cinema.
(NOT First we went to a restaurant and after it/after then/after we went to the cinema.)
4. AFTER ALL
finally : végül ; after all : elvégre, végül is (pl. I can't beat her up every day, after all she is my sister.)
First I wrote short stories, memoirs, diary notes, and finally I started writing my first novel.
(NOT First I wrote short stories, memoirs, diary notes, and after all I started writing my first novel.)
5. AS - LIKE
a) I don't read as many books as I used to.
(NOT I don't read so many books like I used to.)
b) Before prepositions, we use as, and not like in comparative structures.
In 1998, as in 2000, he was fired.
(NOT In 1998, like in 2000, he was fired. )
c)work as : vmiként dolgozik ; work like : dolgozik, mint (pl. I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the show. - Dolgoztam, mint egy őrült.)
He has been working as a mechanic for ten years.
(NOT He has been working like a mechanic for ten years.)
6. AS WELL AS
as well as sb/(doing) sth : amellett, hogy; éppúgy, mint
Students took part in extracurricular activities, as well as doing their academic work.
(NOT Students took part in extracurricular activities, as well as did their academic work.)
7. BECAUSE - BECAUSE OF
because (kötőszó) : mert, mivel ; because + mondat, mivel a because kötőszó ; because of(prepozíció) : vmi miatt ; because of + főnév/névmás, mivel a because of prepozíció
He couldn't come to the meeting because he was ill/ because of his illness.
(NOT He couldn't come to the meeting because of he was ill.)
8. CAUSE - REASON
cause of sth : ok (mint ami vmit előidéz) ; reason for sth : ok (amely megmagyaráz vmit) ; (pl. He didn't give any reason for leaving the country.)
The cause of the explosion is still being investigated.
(NOT The reason for the explosion is still being investigated.)
9. EITHER ... OR
either ... or : vagy ... vagy
Be careful with the co-ordination of this structure. Compare:
a) You should study either maths or physics.
b) You should either study maths or read a book.
(NOT You should either study mathematics or physics.)
10. EXCEPT - EXCEPT FOR
If except is followed by a clause or a preposition, you should not use for after it.
He wouldn't study except when he had to write a test the next day.
(NOT He wouldn't study except for when he had to write a test the next day.)
11. LET ALONE
let alone : nem beszélve vmiről ; tagadás áll előtte
He didn't have the money to pay his bills, let alone buy another car.
(NOT He didn't have the money to pay his bills, let alone buying another car.)
12. OTHERWISE - OR - OR ELSE
or/or else/otherwise : (más)különben
Hurry up, otherwise/or/or else we'll miss the train.
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This is exactly evidenced from the Judaism’s vital prayer, the newest Shema Israel, and that asserts the new monotheistic nature of jesus. Nevertheless, particular strains out-of atheism has nonetheless came from in the Judaic believe. Like, Richard Rubinstein, a traditional rabbi just who invested three years away from his childhood imprisoned in the Auschwitz, submit this new claim that God died at this very attention camp. God’s incapacity to keep new Jews, centered on Rubinstein, marked a great severance throughout the covenant anywhere between Jesus as well as the Jewish someone. And that, the latest Jews was to face the newest universe alone given that atheists; however, Rubenstein implored the fresh new Jewish men and women to maintain their title from the proceeded to follow ethical imperatives outlined because of the Jesus just before his dying. Considering the most cynical tone of this insight, in addition to theological difficulties you to happen to the say that Goodness can in some way cease to exist, Rubinstein’s atheism is mostly refuted.
In many modern actions within the Judaism, rabbis has actually generally sensed new conclusion regarding a beneficial Jew becoming this new determining factor in though one is believed a keen adherent of Judaism. On these moves it is sometimes approved that it is you can easily for a Jew to purely habit Judaism as the a religion, when you find yourself at the same time getting an agnostic otherwise atheist. Some Jewish atheists refuse Judaism entirely, however, want to remain identifying themselves to your Jewish individuals and you may society. Jewish atheists which behavior Humanistic Judaism incorporate Jewish people and record since the types of the Jewish name, unlike belief during the an effective supernatural jesus.
Likewise, Jewish Reconstructionism is not dogmatic in many of their articles out-of faith, including belief for the good goddess, that’s not expected. Therefore, of several Reconstructionist Jews adhere to deism, if not refuse theism altogether and do not believe in any Goodness. Emotions to your atheist Jews are often also some self-confident. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, first head rabbi of the Jewish community inside the pre-condition Israel, kept you to atheists don’t in fact refuse Goodness https://www.datingmentor.org/nl/perfect-match-overzicht, but instead assist to your a fuller bottom line out-of god. That is, atheists refute certainly humanity’s of many images out of Jesus. Because any man-generated picture of Goodness is viewed as an idol, Kook stored that, used, one can possibly think atheists due to the fact enabling real faith eschew not true photo out-of Jesus, ultimately helping the reason for genuine monotheism.
Christianity, due to the fact an effective theistic and you can proselytizing faith, opinions atheism due to the fact sinful. Predicated on Psalm 14:1, “Brand new fool hath told you within his cardio, there is absolutely no God.” Likewise, according to John 3:18-19, “The guy one believeth for the him isn’t doomed: however, the guy you to believeth maybe not is actually doomed already, since the the guy hath maybe not noticed on the term of one’s simply begotten Child off Goodness. And this is this new condemnation, one to white is have been in the world, and you will boys enjoyed dark in lieu of white, since their deeds have been evil.” These types of verses advise that individuals who reject brand new divinity of Jesus exercise on account of a beneficial proclivity to complete worst, as opposed to worst are a consequence of the disbelief.
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Welcome to the Inspired Teaching team site. This will be a place where we post and link to new content dedicated to helping inspire you to become a better teacher, supervisor, and faculty member.
Inspired Teaching Concepts
This recorded workshop provides the opportunity for learners to articulate a framework for auditing your online learning environments to see if there are any missing gaps; describe good practices for teaching synchronously and asynchronously; identify tools and resources for teaching online.
This panel discusses how to teach clinical skills to junior learners (e.g. pre-licensure trainees like medical students, physiotherapy students, midwifery students, etc..) so that they can be prepared for their future rotations and careers.
Digital Learning Environments
This MacPFD event focused on teaching you one of the most popular collaborative workspace applications. We held this event in order to help you to better communicate with your team, share, organize, and edit files without having to download and upload.
Social Media Engagement Strategies
Online Teaching Fundamentals Series
💻 Delivered virtually on the following dates:
1) Session 1: Practical Tips to Help You Succeed
📅 Wednesday, April 15th. 2020
2) Session 2: Zoom-in' Teaching Scenarios
📅 Tues., June 2, 2020
3) Session 3: Team-in' Up for Education
📅 Fri., June 26th, 2020
View by clicking on the title links above
Feedback & Assessment
During this webinar, you will discover the definition of a coach and try to understand the relationship between coaching and feedback as it applies to the development of medical trainees.
During this webinar, you will learn to identify characteristics of effective feedback, define Advocacy-Inquiry as a technique for providing feedback, and apply Advocacy-Inquiry technique with standardized learners in a simulated interaction.
During this webinar, you will learn to describe the challenges that virtual assessments present (including validity, security, utility, cost), name at least one digital strategy that they might attempt in their local teaching environment, and weigh the benefits and risks of various modalities that might be used for assessment.
The Learning Environment
During this recorded webinar, you will explore how to teach health professional educators the benefits of using games and gamification in the educational setting.
This MacPFD14 event explored how to engage with the JiTT App by downloading it to their mobile device, and value infographics as a preferable way to present information.
This recorded event explored how to describe the basic principles and techniques of problem-based learning in health professional education, apply best practice virtual facilitation skills to PBL tutorials, and develop an approach to difficult scenarios during tutorials.
This recorded event explored how to define psychological safety and discuss how this concept relates to medical education and the clinical learning environment, describe the “emotional risks” that are inherent to learning and how “impression management” influences the risks learners do or do not take, and discuss strategies for creating psychological safety in the clinical learning environment.
This recording explores the experience of shame in medical learners, events related to patient care, learning, and assessment that can trigger shame and the individual and environmental factors that can contribute to it.
The Learning Environment: COVID-19
With the recent changes in the way we have to teach within the age of COVID-19, we've curated some interesting content to help you develop your online teaching skills.
Curated COVID-19 Digital Teachers Collection
A series of blog posts meant to help you up your digital teaching game.
Health Professions Assessment in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Chance for Change?
A recorded webinar featuring Drs. Ilana Bayer, Jason Profetto, Matthew Sibbald, Sandra Monteiro, Teresa Chan.
Podcast Bootcamp for Health Professions Educators
Originally presented at the 13th Annual Day in Faculty Development
PIVOT MedEd - A Canadian initiative aimed at helping facilitators find content for their students and trainees. Lots of great content here and building!
How Health Professions Education Goes Virtual: A Mini Series
How will we Virtualize PBL?! - A teacher's guide to converting Problem Based Learning (PBL) to the virtual world
Digital Connection Tool Overviews
Clinical Learning Environments
The clinical learning environment can often be at the mercy of external pressures. Here are some resources that might be useful to you:
Efficiencies in Education: How to Hack Training to get from 10,000 to 100 Hours by Dr. Jonathan Sherbino
Teaching Residents in Virtual Patient Care (VPC) settings: Session #1 - Setting the Learning Environment. This resource is targeted to postgraduate medical education teachers.
Teaching Residents in Virtual Patient Care (VPC) settings: Session #2 - Assessment & Feedback in Virtual Care Settings. This resource is targeted to postgraduate medical education teachers.
Classroom Learning Environments
Classroom teaching can be a challenge - engagement can be tricky. Check out some resource bundles we've created below:
Spark Podcast Episodes
Nursing Education (starts at 10:37)
Tips for Junior Faculty II | Pain and Pleasure of Writing
Coaching (starts at 16:28)
Graceful Self Promotion
Serious Games & Gamification
Transitioning the MD Program
Social Media Panel
Feedback in Simulation
Improving Problem-Based Learning
History of the Midwifery Program
Teaching Junior Learners (starts at 18:24)
Peer Observation of Teaching (POT)
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Oh no! Look what happened to the Transparent Man from 1934! Another priceless historical artifact destroyed. But it’s fun to put different things on the top edge so he seems to be holding them up or performing some weird incantation.
Dig this. We scanned a little piece of history for you: pages from the 1934 Chicago Daily News issues celebrating their World’s Fair that year. Sinclair Oil had a major exhibit at the World’s Fair, and you will find many dinosaurs here. They include a dimetrodon, which is not actually a dinosaur but a therapsid or something. And, you find a triceratops mis-labeled as “Mr. Brontosaurus.”
Some odd cultural artifacts populate this paper. You will find an ad for southern cooking that we might consider racist these days, ads for show girl revues, a town full of midgets, and proof that people were once very afraid their refrigerators might be unsafe. All that and more await you in our gallery here, so delve in! | <urn:uuid:d23c0dc0-04f0-4f0f-80bb-1a1f2a750da6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/tag/transparent-man/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951095 | 222 | 1.804688 | 2 |
A rare plant that depends on wetlands for survival is now on the federal endangered species list.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a decision Friday to list the Arizona eryngo as endangered. The agency also set aside about 13 acres in southern Arizona as critical habitat.
The decision comes years after environmentalists petitioned and then sued to gain protection for the plant with cream-colored spherical flower heads.
Environmentalists say the decision will boost efforts to protect the San Pedro River, which is the last free-flowing river in Arizona.
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This introductory course demonstrates the power & flexibility of the Terraform provisioning system. This course begins with providing learning on how to express infrastructure across multiple teams within an enterprise to students. After this, we will dive deep into how to leverage Terraform to audit infrastructure information programmatically and enable change management as well as deploy reusable and consistent infrastructure. The course will commence with using real-world examples related to learning about how Terraform can be used to manage AWS applications as small as a few EC2 instances or as large as multi-regional applications.
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The ASSI Monographs are a series of books commissioned by the Association of Spine Surgeons of India with the goal of providing updated information, decision-making algorithms, and surgical techniques on selected spinal problems. Reputed Indian surgeons and internationally renowned experts have shared their experience and the latest knowledge in the field through this series. Ankylosing Spondylitis will be an immensely beneficial addition to the library of general orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, rheumatologists, spine fellows, and spine consultants.
Information on planning deformity correction surgery in ankylosing spondylitis
Description of treatment techniques for cervical and lumbar osteotomies in ankylosing spondylitis
Listing of pearls and pitfalls in the management of spinal fractures in ankylosing spondylitis
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In all its 8.5 million km² , Brazil contains six continental biomes: the Amazônia, the Pantanal, the Cerrado, the Caatinga, the Pampas, and the Mata Atlântica (Figure below). Each of these biomes have their own peculiarities, located in different climatic zones and hosting a wide variety of animal and plant species. Since the arrival of the Europeans in 1500 to the new land (Brazil), a lot of land exploration and changes have affected the Brazilian native environment. As time progressed, so did these changes, making those once pristine spaces progressively more modified and vulnerable.
Currently, Brazil has a national goal to restore 12 million ha of native vegetation by 2030 . The aim to invest in research and science in order to establish restoration efforts and policies sounds very promising and important, given that many Brazilian biomes and ecosystems are not so well known and this could aid prioritization efforts. Sadly, the first quarter of this year has already marked another deforestation record for the Amazon – 69% more than last year’s during the same period . This situation is so controversial that we might feel somewhat hopeless. However, we are aiming for the opposite here! Learning more about our biomes, understanding their importance for distinct scales, and how our relationship with nature impact positively for the creation of different restoration initiatives can lead to a big wave of change.
In this GCE Blog series on Brazilian biomes, I will explore each of these biomes’ characteristics, the present biodiversity, historical changes, their current state and research gaps. So, stick with me and get to know a bit more of my country!
Guerra et al. 2020. Ecological restoration in Brazilian biomes: Identifying advances and gaps. Forest Ecology and Management, 458, 117802.
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If you are able to get ahead and do some reading over the summer for this module, then these are my suggestions not only for texts, but the way to keep your notes in order.
You can also download a pdf copy of all the information below hereLink opens in a new window
There are three sections (click to jump down to sections):
a) online facsimiles of published collections/anthologies from the long C19th
b) online facsimiles of published collections/anthologies from the C20th/C21st
c) Collections/anthologies in/via the library
1. SUGGESTED CRITICAL READING
You will need to try and get a good grip on the wider theoretical implications of “Gothic” and of “the Short Form” – separately, as well as how they intersect. Some of these suggestions will be set reading for week 1 (alongside a pack of primary texts), and will be pertinent for the module as a whole, and assessments so I strongly suggest setting aside some time for these.
Ensure to take notes/annotate!:
- Extract from Sarah Ilot, “Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and GenreLink opens in a new window” in Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts. ed. David Punter, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp.333-345.
- Extract from Edgar Allan Poe, "Review of Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel HawthorneLink opens in a new window" (1842)
- Tim Killick. “Chapter 1 – Overview”, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the Tale. Taylor and Francis, 2008.
The Gothic mode
- Extracts fromLink opens in a new window Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) and from Edward Bulwer Lytton on, ‘Terror and Horror” (1838).
- Fred Botting, “Introduction: Negative Aesthetics” in Gothic, 2nd edn, Routledge, 2014.
- Extracts from Ann Radcliffe, ‘On the Supernatural in Poetry’ (1826) reproduced in Gothic Documents : a sourcebook 1700-1820 / edited by Emma Clery & Robert Miles. You might want to copy this into a word document to help with note-taking.
- Extract from H.P. Lovecraft on the "Weird TaleLink opens in a new window" from Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)
- Andrew Smith, “Introduction” to The Ghost Story, 1840-1920: A Cultural History, Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Extract from Darryl Jones, “The Horror StoryLink opens in a new window” in The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in EnglishLink opens in a new window, edited by Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter, Edinburgh Uni Press, 2018, pp.175-192.
There is only one set text recommended for purchase: Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth, ed. by Jen Baker (British Library, 2021). There will also be 4 copies in the library and 1 on short loan. You may want to get ahead and read the collection cover-to-cover over summer.
All other primary stories that we use on this course will be linked to or produced in hard-copy for you. However, over the summer, try to read as widely as you can across short fiction published in the “long c19th” – roughly c.1780-1920 - to expand your own exposure generally and beyond the set reading we will have in class and to offer potential readings for your assessments. (For recommendations see 3. Finding Primary Texts, below)
BUT YOU NEED TO DO SO WITH SOME SENSE OF ORGANISATION - see (a) and (b).
(a) KEEP A RECORD:
I suggest constructing a spreadsheet or a working annotated bibliography or use scrivener etc, to record as much information as you can of all stories you read over summer and/or term that might suit this module. You might do so based on the individual stories you read, as in example 1Link opens in a new window, and/or by anthology or collection (e.g. The Oxford Book of Short Stories, or the Penguin book of Horror Tales, or the British Library collection The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, etc) as in example 2Link opens in a new window. You might want to do both using separate tabs, as they would both be potentially useful for assessment preparation (perhaps a dissertation/Research Project!).
Ensure to leave space for you to look up the original publication information either then or later. See my suggested headings for key things to make a note of, but you might also want to add other columns for say, listing key “themes”.
(b) AND/OR Keep a READING LOG:
I recommend a nice notebook (could be one with sections for different times or themes) that you dedicate to the primary texts. If you aren’t doing the kind of record above, at least ensure that in your notebook you record the publication info/where you read it and page numbers for quotes/points.
Some things to consider and make note of:
- Who is the narrator? From what point of view is it being told and what is the style (fireside tale, in media res, first-person past, first-person present etc)?
- Note down if it has structural layers (e.g. a story within a story) and what the different time frames being used are.
- Identify what you think makes it gothic (e.g. Supernatural entities, moments of suspense, certain tropes etc) and how it achieves any effect such as suspense, terror, dread etc.
- Brief plot summary or print and paste this from an outside source.
- Does it have any other major themes that may be useful or are interesting to you – such as Gender stereotypes / transgression; racial issues; weird landscapes, class issues; religious persecution etc, medicine/the body, ageing etc.
I encourage you to use stories in official publications or to use online archives/facsimiles (so not just plain text or uncurated online versions) to access the works as this will help later down the line and is best academic practice. Collections/anthologies are some of the best ways to access a variety of texts easily but be careful to avoid C20th/C21st anthologies that are “retellings” as that goes beyond our scope.
a) Here are some links to a selection of online facsimiles of published anthologies from the long C19th (note many of the stories will have been published elsewhere too and often much earlier). I have avoided single-author collections to allow variety, but you can use those too:
An Apology for Tales of TerrorLink opens in a new window (1799)
Tales of Wonder (1801)Link opens in a new window
Legends of Terror and Tales of WonderLink opens in a new window (1826)Link opens in a new window
Tales of Terror: Or, The Mysteries of Magic (1833)
Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies, ed. J. Hain Firswell. (1858)
Tales of Terror and Wonder (1887 edn)
Modern Ghosts (1890) [has translations of some key European horror stories]
The Adventures Of The Adventurers' Club by Anonymous (Gardner & Co., 1890)
Told After Supper: With 96 Or 97 Illus. by Jerome K. Jerome (Leadenhall Press, 1891)
The Weird Orient; Nine Mystic Tales by Henry Iliowizi (1900)
b) Here are some links to online facsimiles of published anthologies from C20th/C21st (note some require you to set up a log-in to “borrow” the books, but access is free of charge). I have avoided single-author collections to allow variety, but you can use those too:
Tales of Terror ed. Joseph French
Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural ed. Wise and Fraser
The Oxford book of Victorian ghost stories ed. Cox and Gilbert
Victorian Ghost Stories by eminent Women Writers ed. Richard Dalby,
Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories ed. Richard Dalby
Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror ed. Hugh Lamb
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire stories ed. Michael Sims
Reign of Terror: Great Victorian Horror Stories, ed. Michel Parry
If you are looking to start your own tales of terror collection, you may have seen that the British Library has many other editions in a whole series of multi-author anthologies and single-author collections called Tales of the Weird should you wish to own some: https://shop.bl.uk/collections/british-library-fiction/bl-tales-of-the-weird
Here is my Gothic short fiction shelfie, for some inspiration (click hereLink opens in a new window for enlarged version):
The Forgotten Gothic: Short Stories from the British Literary Annuals, 1823-1831 / introduction and edited by Katherine D. Harris. Print Book | 2012. [3 copies and 1 on short loan, awaiting shelfmark]
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873. Madam Crowl's ghost: and other stories; collected and edited by M. R. James. Print Book | 1994. Available at Main Library (PR 4879.L7) plus 2 more
In the dark: tales of terror / by E. Nesbit ; selected and introduced by Hugh Lamb.
Print Book | 1988. Available at Main Library (PR4149.B4 I58)
The Oxford book of gothic tales / edited by Chris Baldick.
Print Book | 1992. Available at Main Library (PN6120.95.G64 O95)
The tell-tale heart and other stories / by Edgar Allen Poe. E-Book |
Margery of Quether : and other weird tales / by S. Baring-Gould ; edited by Richard Dalby ; frontispiece by Paul Lowe ; with eight illustrations by Harry Furniss. Print Book | 1999. Available at Main Library (PR4061.M2)
Ghost stories of M.R. James. Print Book | 1974. | Second edition. Available at Main Library (PR6019.A5) plus 1 more
Tales of men and ghosts / Edith Wharton. Print Book | 1910. Available at External Store (PS 3162.T2) [you will need to request for collection]
The phantom 'rickshaw and other tales. by Rudyard Kipling. Print Book | Available at Store (PR 4854.P4) [you will need to request for collection]
Great British tales of terror: gothic stories of horror & romance, 1765-1840 / edited by Peter Haining.Print Book | 1972. [you will need to request for collection]
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What causes Nijmegen breakage syndrome?
Mutations in the NBN gene cause Nijmegen breakage syndrome. The NBN gene provides instructions for making a protein called nibrin. This protein is involved in several critical cellular functions, including the repair of damaged DNA. DNA can be damaged by agents such as toxic chemicals or radiation.
What is NBS disease?
Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome of chromosomal instability mainly characterized by microcephaly at birth, combined immunodeficiency and predisposition to malignancies.
What is Nbsld?
OMIM® : 57 Nijmegen breakage syndrome-like disorder (NBSLD) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by severe prenatal growth retardation and persistent postnatal growth restriction, congenital microcephaly, borderline to mildly impaired intellectual development, normal sexual development, and radioresistant …
What causes Trichothiodystrophy?
What causes trichothiodystrophy? Trichothiodystrophy is caused by defective DNA repair and transcription and is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, meaning both parents must carry a copy of the mutated gene that causes trichothiodystrophy for a child to inherit the condition.
What does NBN gene do?
The NBN gene provides instructions for making a protein called nibrin. This protein is involved in several critical cellular functions, including the repair of damaged DNA. Nibrin interacts with two other proteins, produced from the MRE11A and RAD50 genes, as part of a larger protein complex.
What happens to the body with Bloom syndrome?
A rare, inherited disorder marked by shorter than average height, a narrow face, a red skin rash that occurs on sun-exposed areas of the body, and an increased risk of cancer. The rash usually occurs on the face, arms, and back of the hands.
How long can someone with Bloom syndrome live?
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What causes Roberts syndrome?
Roberts syndrome is caused by disruptions or changes of the ESCO2 (establishment of cohesion 1 homolog 2) gene located on the short arm (p) of chromosome 8 (8p21. 1). Chromosomes, which are present in the nucleus of human cells, carry the genetic information for each individual.
Can trichothiodystrophy be cured?
Given there is no cure for trichothiodystrophy, treatment is based around managing clinical manifestations, symptoms, and complications. Patients who are photosensitive should be provided with sun protection advice. Infections should be treated early and aggressively .
What is woolly hair?
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by Margalit Goldberg
I think I romanticize the Cold War too much. Or maybe the right word is not “romanticize,” but the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. and podcasts about ridiculous CIA covert operations have led me to believe the Cold War was mostly just for show—a ridiculous period when tremendous amounts of money and manpower were put into ideas and tactics that, thankfully, never came to fruition. However, the stories I’m forgetting are the ones of bloody proxy wars, such as in Vietnam, and lives that were upended by the construction of the Berlin Wall. Not to mention the fear of total annihilation from an atom bomb that gripped the general population. I need to readjust my perspective and remember the stories of how everyday citizens were affected, not just secret agents or diplomats, and I sought to do that during our session on Thursday.
We began our day by going to The Wall Museum, which is connected to the East Side Gallery. A chaotic blur of multimedia led us through a series of rooms providing a mix of personal narrative and overviews of the Cold War and the Berlin Wall. After World War II (WWII), Germany was divided and occupied by each of the victors. The West was divided into three parts occupied by France, Britain, and the United States, and the East was occupied by the Soviet Union. However, Berlin—situated squarely in the East of Germany—created an issue. So, it was decided that, like the whole of Germany, Berlin would be split into East and West. In 1946, the Cold War began, but it wasn’t until 1961 that tensions had escalated enough for the Berlin Wall to be built. The German Democratic Republic or GDR (East Germany) had lost a significant amount of its population from emigration to the West and wanted to prevent additional losses. Nikita Khrushchev advised East Germany to inhibit access between the two sides of the city and on August 12, 1961, Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, enabled the beginning of construction of the Berlin Wall. The wall was not only a physical barrier between East and West but a symbolic “Iron Curtain” representing the ideological split between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Whenever a wall is built or a border is created, people will cross it by any means necessary. People jumped out of apartment windows, stole trains to transport citizens, dug perilous tunnels, and swam across canals. Yet, the insidious nature of the Berlin Wall was that each time it was breached, the GDR would figure out how it happened and then close that loophole. Each time someone crossed through to the West, they inadvertently made it harder for the next person who attempted.
Between 1961 and 1989, 138 people died attempting to cross the Wall. What shocked me the most were the deaths that occurred between the Osthafen docklands and Oberbaum|Schilling Bridge over the Spree River. There were 18 fatalities in that border zone, eleven of them Eastern refugees. The other seven were West Berliners who fell into the river and drowned. They were unable to be helped by West Berlin police or fire service because the Spree was Eastern territory. By the time GDR services were contacted, it was often too late, and the victim had drowned. Eventually, an agreement between the East and West was made for accidents and emergencies along the river. As I read this information, placed on a relatively inconspicuous placard on the balcony overlooking the Spree, I was saliently reminded of all the victims of governments that think impermeable and protected borders are an effective solution—all of those who are hurt by borders without even trying to cross them.
The Wall Museum, not surprisingly, solely presented a Western German perspective of the events that led to the construction and then eventual deconstruction of the Wall. I wish the museum had focused on what daily life was like on either side of the Wall, but instead, it limited the personal narratives to stories of escape from Eastern Germany. How did families that were split stay in contact? What did dissidence look like in Eastern Germany under Communist rule? This also makes me wonder if former East Germans feel as if the narrative of the lives they lived is inaccurate or doesn’t provide the complexities they wish it did.
Later that evening, I ended up seeing a German comedy with a group of study abroad students from the college my sister attends. The film, Stasi Komodie (A Stasi Comedy), was directed by Leander Haußmann and followed the life of a young boy living in East Berlin who is recruited to be a Stasi agent and spy on a counterculture movement in Prenzlauer Berg. He ends up becoming an underground poet and living a double life. The movie poked fun at the ridiculousness of many Stasi covert missions, but also lent complexity to the lives of East Berliners, especially those involved in dissident movements. The film also included quite a bit of ostalgie, nostalgia for specific aspects of life in East Germany. The movie used a motif of the specific cheery-looking crosswalk man that was specific to East Germany but remained after reunification upon request of the people. This was an interesting look into how life in East Berlin is being portrayed with humor thirty years after reunification.
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Soviet Union and was a big proponent of democratic reforms and Glasnost, permitting greater openness and discussion of political and social issues. By 1989, the Cold War was beginning to thaw and many countries in the Eastern Bloc were on the verge of revolutions. On November 9, the Berlin Communist Party announced at midnight it would allow people to freely cross the border. The Wall had fallen. As the museum recounted the joyous events and celebrations that subsequently occurred, I found myself feeling nostalgic for an event I wasn’t even alive for. How cool would it have been to take a hammer to the wall or listen to Pink Floyd perform as the hope of reunification intoxicated citizens?
Yet, I find myself also wondering if East Berliners were aware that their political and social structure was going to be completely upended once again. The museum painted the narrative that the wall fell, and everything was reunified and perfect. From a historical perspective, we can see that the fall of the Berlin Wall was the beginning of the end of many state supports in East Germany. In “Women and East Germany Today” by louise k. davidson, I was delighted to read about all the reproductive freedom and support for having children that women had in the GDR: “Women have long enjoyed the freedom to make informed decisions about birth control without worrying about its affordability of availability.” Still, I can only imagine the experiences of a difficult reunification for further marginalized people, stories not often told in the “mainstream.” In “Feminism and Post-Communism,” Nanette Funk explains that “in virtually all post-communist countries there is a tendency towards a repositioning of women away from the workplace and into the family,” citing high unemployment rates for women in the former GDR and the Soviet Union and decreased access to abortion and family planning resources.
Both davidson and Funk take a transnational approach to what feminist work should focus on in reunified Germany. They argue that not only did former GDR women have less support for reproductive labor after reunification, but that they also had different understandings of feminism and ideas about the goals of a women’s movement. This has led me to have a deeper understanding of the social and cultural implications of the division of Germany. I think seeing transnational thinking within a single country can help us to understand and extrapolate that different groups have radically different experiences that lead to their understanding of feminism. If people are to work across those divides, they must be willing to understand the other’s background.
The second part of our session was the “East-West Conflict in the Underground” tour with Berliner Unterwelten (Berlin Underworlds). As we made our way down two flights of stairs into a bunker in West Berlin, I was afraid our tour would be led by some doomsday prepper dead-set on convincing us of the importance of bunker preparation. On the contrary, we had a wonderful guide, Elliot, who was not only extremely knowledgeable about the history but provided a critical perspective on the Cold War and the absurdity of the arms race and mutually assured destruction.
We began by touring a bunker that had been updated in the 80s to be a fallout shelter but had been used over 300 times as a bomb shelter during WWII. Despite believing Berlin wouldn’t have been bombed in the Cold War due to both sides of the conflict having citizens in the area, I was assured by Elliot that the city would have been sacrificed and that there were plans that could have been used to stage an attack if necessary. If bombed, the city of 3 million only had 28,000 spots in bunkers. As the guide described how ill-prepared the bunker was to handle the fallout and human survival, it became clearer to me that an attempt to survive an atomic bomb is futile, to say the least. As we sat under a direct replica of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was used on Hiroshima, I struggled to comprehend how a 10 x 2.5 ft. piece of metal could generate 16,000 tons of TNT power and murder 139,000 innocent people. And how could someone decide it was necessary to hold that much power let alone detonate it? This was a stark reminder of how close the world once was to annihilation and that we still have this amount of power, more even.
Elliot ended the tour by telling us he believed good diplomacy ended the Cold War and prevented the detonation of atomic bombs. He gave the example of Stanislav Petrov, a Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Air Defense Forces, who judged a U.S. missile launch warning as a false alarm and made the decision not to launch a retaliation, thus preventing nuclear war. Another example was the Soviet border soldiers who were ordered to fire one warning shot and then to shoot to kill. Yet, many soldiers refused to shoot to kill, disobeying orders and therefore saving lives. I can’t believe I’m saying this but, this tour gave me some semblance of hope, hearing stories of those who resisted violence and knowing I’ve never in my life genuinely had to think about using a bunker. Maybe our world is moving in the right direction.
The Cold War was fundamentally an ideological conflict between capitalism and communism that affected almost every part of the world. The demarcation of Germany and subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall created division in an already fractured country. In 1945, two nations were created in a country that had not long ago rallied for an idea of nationhood far from what the East and West provided. Divides were not healed before more divides were created. Reunification came at last in 1990, but the future also contained struggles for women, racial minorities, and the unemployed that we must not forget. As Ika Hügel-Marshall poignantly writes in “Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries,” “As we can see in Berlin, the society around me has a long way to go before it recognizes that crossing borders does not mean overcoming boundaries, if experience is limited to national borders.”
Margalit Goldberg is a rising sophomore at Colorado College from Denver, Colorado. She is interested in pursuing History-Philosophy and Feminist and Gender Studies although she has still not declared a major. Described by a friend as “a messy bookcase of a person”, she loves to learn and explore ways of knowing. She is especially excited to be in Berlin connecting the stories of marginalized people to the complex history of the city. When she isn’t reading for class or deep in a Wikipedia rabbit hole, you can find Margalit climbing and setting at the campus gym, having dinner parties with friends, and engaging in non-violent activism with the Bijou Community in Colorado Springs. | <urn:uuid:94d51121-f611-4263-947a-bad2509412af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://femgeniuses.com/2022/06/19/coldwar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976996 | 2,508 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Montana Audubon Center YouTube channel:
Natural history lesson tutorials, Exploring Our Parks episodes, and more!
Audubon for Kids:
Interactive and educational bird-related activities for kids.
Families in Nature – The Ecologist School:
Simple lessons for kids with varying themes relating to natural history and science.
Standards-based science lessons for students
Missoula Butterfly House Resources:
Virtual lessons, Bug Bytes podcast, and more
Montana Natural History Center:
Their online content includes free science and natural history resources for youth and adults.
National Environmental Education Foundation: Home of the online Greening STEM Learning Center that provides free materials and educator toolkits tied to standards. See also their new Environmental Education at Home page full of resources and projects.
Children and Nature Network: Leading a global movement to increase equitable access to nature so that children– and natural places–can thrive
North American Association for Environmental Education:
Promoting professional development and best practices in Environmental Education
Montana Environmental Education Association:
Providing support and connection to promote environmental literacy across Montana
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Bird Cams: A virtual window into the natural world of birds; multiple live cams to choose from!
K-12 Education: Lessons and activities, teacher professional development, and more!
Cornell Lab’s Birdsleuth Explorer’s Guidebook: Activity guidebook for exploration in a backyard or nearby park, geared towards 4th graders
Bird Academy Open Lectures: Recordings of the last five years of seminar lectures. Each seminar is around 1 hour long.
Bird Academy Play Lab: Interactive learning games like Bird Anatomy which allows you to learn and quiz yourself on bird anatomy.
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The percent ratings below indicate the portion of area residents who commute to work by walking, car, public transit, or cycling. The most popular method of commuting in this area is car, used by 93% of people, and the average commute time to work is between between thirty and forty-four minutes. Of those commuters, 46% of them leave for work between 6 and 8 AM.
The climate data below highlights environmental factors that Pendleton County, Kentucky, faces from climate change in the coming years. The risk scores are based on the latest modeling data from climate scientists, universities, and federal agencies.
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Generic name: omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids [ oh-MAY-ga-3 POL-ee-un-SAT-yoo-ray-ted-FAT-ee-AS-ids ]
Brand names: Dry Eye Omega Benefits, Fish Oil, Lovaza, MegaKrill, Nature’s Bounty Red Krill Oil, … show all 59 brands
Dosage forms: oral capsule (-; 1000 mg; 1050 mg; 1200 mg; 200 mg; 350 mg; 500 mg; 667 mg; 700 mg with Vitamin D; 800 mg; ethyl esters 1000 mg; with Vitamin B Complex; with Vitamin B Complex and Vitamin D); oral delayed release capsule (1100 mg); oral kit (1000 mg); oral liquid (1400 mg/5 mL; 1600 mg/5 mL; with Vitamin D; with Vitamin D and E); oral tablet, chewable (425 mg)
Drug class: Nutraceutical products
What is omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids?
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are used together with diet and exercise to help lower triglyceride levels in the blood.
It is not known if omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids will prevent a heart attack or stroke. Talk to your doctor about your risk factors.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Follow all directions on the label and package. Use exactly as directed.
Before taking this medicine
You should not use omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids if you are allergic to omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids or soybeans.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist if this medicine is safe to use if you have ever had:
- an allergy to fish or shellfish;
- liver disease ;
- a heart rhythm disorder;
- a pancreas disorder; or
- underactive thyroid .
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Not approved for use by anyone younger than 18 years old.
How should I take omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids?
Follow all directions on your prescription label and read all medication guides or instruction sheets. Use the medicine exactly as directed.
Swallow the capsule whole and do not crush, chew, break, or open it.
Take with food.
You may need frequent blood tests.
You may need to follow a special diet. Follow all instructions of your doctor or dietitian. Learn about the foods you should eat or avoid.
Tell your doctor if you have a planned surgery.
Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat. Do not freeze.
What happens if I miss a dose?
Take the medicine as soon as you can, but skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next dose. Do not take two doses at one time.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
What should I avoid while taking omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids?
Avoid eating foods high in fat or cholesterol, or omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids will not be as effective.
Avoid drinking alcohol. It can increase triglycerides and may make your condition worse.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids side effects
Get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives ; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may cause serious side effects. Call your doctor at once if you have:
- chest pain; or
- uneven heartbeats.
Common side effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may include:
- loss of appetite;
- diarrhea , constipation , upset stomach , belching ;
- back pain ; or
- dry mouth, altered sense of taste.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids side effects (more detail)
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids dosing information
Usual Adult Dose for Hypertriglyceridemia:
1 gram prescription only products:
4 grams orally daily; may be given as a single dose or 2 divided doses.
-Assess triglyceride levels carefully before starting therapy and identify other possible causes (e.g. diabetes, hypothyroidism, medications) and manage appropriately.
-Patients should be on a lipid lowering diet prior to using this medication, and continue the diet during use of this medication.
-Capsules should be swallowed whole; do not break, crush, chew or dissolve capsules.
-In clinical trials, the medication was administered with meals.
Detailed Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids dosage information
What other drugs will affect omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids?
Tell your doctor about all your other medicines, especially:
- a blood thinner– warfarin , Coumadin , Jantoven .
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In today’s society, there is a basic value that is held dear and that is to be able to communicate with one another truthfully. No matter how life evolves, no matter what we are faced with, trusting true honesty in relationships is what grounds us and lays the foundation from which to build upon.
It may sound like a cliché, but in order to be honest with others, people first need to be honest with themselves. This is easier said than done. It is always easier to view other people as the culprits of untruths rather than to entertain the possibility that they themselves may be operating in a personal world of distorted realties, half truths and unfounded beliefs. Many people continue to lie to themselves daily in order to avoid the initial uncomfortableness of facing truths about their own misconceptions about themselves and the world around them.
People struggle to discern between real truths and the manipulations of truths that are promulgated by various leaders in government, religion, media outlets, corporations, and people in general. As a result, people loose sight of the need to be honest with themselves and others. Consciously or unconsciously, far too many people are comfortable with rationalizing behavior that does not meet the litmus test of truth/ honesty. They rationalize their thoughts and behavior into fitting within their own preconceived ideas of how their world should and does work.
Truth for them becomes obscured with the mind not perceiving reality as it is. Instead, they first filter, distort and interpret truth based on their individual prejudices and self serving needs and wants. They don’t take the time and effort to understand truth in their lives but rather seek to reinforce their own beliefs. These people are influenced by years of programming by significant others and societal pressures. Hence, when dealing with conflict in a relationship, it sometimes is baffling when a partner insists on a position that may appear to defy logic and understanding.
Truth is achieved through an openness that results in vulnerability and trust when dealing with the another person. However, all too often, couples feel angry and frustrated in the relationship. This is often because they don’t trust in honestly being validated and loved by their partner. Not thinking they will be heard, they often lash out, instead of being open and honest about how they feel and think. Being open and honest does not mean that people should not be assertive for what they believe in. They should do so honestly and openly, being sensitive to the needs and wants of the other person. This is to be done by without trying to subvert the truth by getting into a win/loose situation where the truth is lost and nothing gets resolved.
If the resolution is mutually beneficial, the chances are it may be pointing to a truth. Though the chances are good, there is no guarantee that truth as all understand it will be achieved. This is not necessarily bad if both are on the same page and understand that it is at best a shared opinion that works for both of them. The question is to what extent it is open and sensitive to the well being of each equally.
When the person’s intent is self serving, it is easier to rationalize and manipulate the truth in order to make it more palatable. What usually is not thought about is what is the long term cost of not being truthful to one’s partner? Also, silence does not automatically equate truthfulness. Lying by omission is when someone does not overtly articulate a lie to another person but holds back in silence, leaving the truth unspoken.
People should , whenever possible, be ever alert to self deception. This can be very difficult because self deception can be interwoven with the truth and therefore hard to distinguish fact from fiction. In order to accomplish honesty, it is crucial to be aware of the accompanying feelings, thoughts and behavior. Is there a feeling of discomfort or calmness, guilt or assuredness, uneasiness or confidence? People, focusing on the here and now, can be more aware and trust their internal nuances. Does one’s behavior take the other person into account or is it self serving? Be alert to the mind’s keen ability to rationalize almost anything.
Self-deception can hide the person from the truth. This is especially true if an untruth or distortion of reality is repeated enough. The repetition can come from within one’s own thoughts or from environmental influences, past or present. In the long run, truth can be measured by whether or not it is constructive and life affirming, whereas lying is destructive and ultimately self defeating . When discovered, dishonesty breaths mistrust from the other person.
Self-deceptive thought or behavior may result in avoiding conflict in the short run but creates further problems down the road. It acts as an ultimate stumbling block to achieving a higher level of functioning for oneself and true intimately with one’s partner.
Being true is a way of being, a way of consciously carrying yourself at all times. Living truthfully does not mean that everything has a fairy tale ending. Sometimes relationships end, people get hurt and things don’t work out as planned. However, living truthfully, while still being sensitive to the needs of others, allows for an authenticity that can not otherwise be experienced. Being honest and true to your values, while facing fear and possible ridicule, is a truly courageous act.
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Time to begin critically unpacking intersectionality and its nappy headed stepchild afro-pessimism
The US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems. That fundamental problem is that the US left is not organized as or led by any class conscious or class oriented formations. Union membership is somewhere around 5% of the workforce, and major unions have long been captured by the Democratic party. So the US left is composed of the black activists in their boxes, the gender activists in theirs, the immigrants and their friends over here, Latinos over there, the environmentalists in their corners and the rest in their own zones, each and every one doggedly “centering” their own experience, and if we’re lucky “intersecting” now and then.
It’s a recipe for impotence and futility. But this is the US of A, we tell ourselves, where for some reason a class struggle oriented left has not emerged in any of our lifetimes. Adjusting to this toxic reality rather than taking the responsibility for changing it, US leftists have developed a self-deceiving and self-limiting language, a discourse that normalizes a kind of alternate universe in which class analysis is deprecated and discouraged and class struggle taken pretty much off the table. Intersectionality, and its nappy headed stepchild Afro-pessimism are prominent features of the stifling closet in which the US left has locked itself.
The word intersectionality was originally used by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in her discussion of a civil rights lawsuit filed by a black woman who alleged she’d been discriminated against as a black person AND as a woman. Absurdly the court rejected her claim, saying the plaintiff needed to choose whether she alleged discrimination on the basis of gender or of race, but not both. Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to cover these instances of multiple and overlapping oppressions. As a legal theory it hasn’t gained a lot of traction. But in the worlds of politics and the nonprofit industrial complex intersectionality has become a pervasive buzzword.
In the worlds of politics and nonprofits intersectionality has become a sneaky substitute for the traditional left notion of solidarity developed in the process of ongoing collective struggle against the class enemy. Intersectionality doesn't deny the existence of class struggle, it just rhetorically demotes it to something co-equal with the fights against ableism and ageism and speciesism, against white supremacy, against gender oppression, and a long elastic list of others. What’s sneaky about the substitution of intersectionality for solidarity is that intersectionality allows the unexamined smuggling in of multiple notions which directly undermine the development and the operation of solidarity. Intersectionality means everybody is obligated to put their own special interest, their own oppression first – although they don’t always say that because the contradiction would be too obvious. The applicable terms of art are that everybody gets to “center” their own oppression, and cooperate as “allies” if and when their interests “intersect.” What this yields is silliness like honchos who run the pink pussy hat marches telling Cindy Sheehan earlier this month that their womens’ movement can’t be bothered to oppose war and imperialism “...until all women are free,” and the advocates of this or that cause demanding constant, elaborate performative rituals of those who would qualify for "allyship."
The nonprofit industrial complex, funded as it is by the one percent, loves, promotes and lavishly rewards intersectionality at every turn because it buries and negates class struggle. Intersectionality normalizes the notion that the left is and ought to be a bunch of impotent constituency groups squabbling about privilege and “allyship” as they compete for funding and careers, not the the force working to overthrow the established order and fight for the power to build a new world. Even Hillary Clinton uses the word now.
Afro-pessimism is a term coined by Dr. Frank Wilderson at UC Irvine, and a nappy headed stepchild of intersectionality. Afro-pessimism, to hear Wilderson tell it is the realization that black people have no natural allies anywhere, that we are born with ankle irons, whip marks on our backs, bulls eyes on our foreheads and nooses around our necks. Blackness, he says is “a condition of ontological death,” and the dead have no allies, at least among the living. Wilderson is at least honest. He freely admits that afro-pessimism leads nowhere and offers no answers to any strategic or even tactical questions. Wilderson’s shtick is that of an old man throwing word grenades and he seems not to care much where or how they explode, as long as they do. Whatever works for him, I guess.
But in the context of a US left that just doesn’t DO class struggle Wilderson’s grenades are being picked up and thrown again and again, both by old heads who ought to know better, and by younger ones looking to fit in with what bills itself as the movement. The intersectionality that dominates the US left is a kind of poisoned atmosphere in which the purple prose of afro-pessimism fits and thrives, a place where the dishonest can pretend, and the unwary can believe it provides the answers that even Wilderson says it does not.
To be fair, some intersectional activists do pretend to embrace class struggle. Patrice Cullors one of the three ladies responsible for the #blacklivesmatter hashtag famously proclaimed herself and Alicia Garza were “trained Marxists.” One might imagine that a trained Marxist would look at US history and discerning that there are no leading class struggle organizations contending for power, try to figure out how to overcome the obstacles to their creation and successful operation.
But the embrace of intersectionality has led the US left in precisely the opposite direction. Intersectionality pretends that class struggle and overthrowing the capitalist order and fighting for power are impractical, impossible, non-pragmatic or just secondary to gender struggles, to the plight of immigrants, to the environment, or in the case of afro-pessimism, to those permanent ankle chains, whip marks and nooses around our necks. Intersectionality calls upon the left to adjust to powerlessness and our poisoned atmosphere, not to contend for the power to change it.
Intersectionality is a deep hole. Afro-pessimism is a shovel. The next thing we should do is stop digging.
Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report and co-chair of the GA Green Party. He lives and works near Marietta GA and can be reliably reached via email at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com. He’s trying to get better at answering his Twitter @brucedixon. | <urn:uuid:67585738-4642-4104-bc4d-d16a5e561e34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/intersectionality-hole-afro-pessimism-shovel-we-need-stop-digging-part-1-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959779 | 1,446 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Aberdeenshire’s celebration of Black History Month was an inspiring event, which heard from two speakers with very different life experiences, but both bringing their authentic voices to the discussion and both committed to challenging the scourge of racism.
Kay McKerrill, branch secretary and equalities officer for Orkney Council branch and a solicitor to trade, told of her experience growing up as the much loved adopted daughter of a wealthy white couple. She explained that throughout her life she had been privileged not to experience racism but to be accepted, respected and valued in her family and the communities in which she has lived and worked.
Reflecting on what she has to offer, Kay said, “I realise that because I have not experienced discrimination on a personal level, I have the energy to challenge racism and to use my knowledge and skills to fight on behalf of others.”
She added, “I have come to realise that I do feel I play my part in the rich fabric of our country’s diversity.
“I may not be the ‘triumphing over adversity’ inspiration and role model, I may not be the ‘high-profile activist’ challenging leaders on the front pages.
“But, we do not all need to be the grand embellishment of the design.
“I do what I do, because I believe it is work worth doing. And where others have led the way, but no longer have the time or the energy, I offer my time and my energy, to help keep the momentum going.
“Some people enrich everything by slowly but surely strengthening the base fabric. Helping others weave their own pattern and challenging those who would try and diminish the colourful contributions of others,” added Kay, urging all Black members to get involved in their branch and in the Scottish Black members organisation.
David Lammy MP spoke of his childhood growing up poor and black in Tottenham. Raised by a single parent mum, a nurse who came over with the Windrush generation, and a member of NUPE, David praised the union for giving his mum access to the training that helped put food on their table. He is a UNISON member himself.
In response to questions from the audience, he spoke of the fatigue that many feel after years of fighting against racism. “The problem is not blackness,” said David, “It’s whiteness.”
Initially sceptical after the murder of George Floyd that anything would change, “because we’ve seen it all before, including in the UK,” the involvement of young people, white and black in the Black Lives Matters movement made him feel that something is starting to happen, “despite this government.”
However although heartened by resistance to this UK Tory government and their attempts to weaponise race, he does see there is much to do to tackle endemic racism in our society.
He referenced the appalling treatment of the Windrush generation, the terrible tragedy of Grenfell where so many black lives were lost, and the COVID pandemic, which disproportionately affected black and ethnic minority workers, who were on the front-line of the pandemic.
He called for a new Race Relations Act which the Labour Party would introduce if in power.
David spoke of the important role of white allies, “to call out racism in the workplace and also to step back and not make assumptions.” Growing up he faced many barriers throughout his childhood and was able to overcome them with the help of allies and mentors who were not the same colour as him.
“It’s important to know your history, know where you’ve been and know where you’re going so you can stand firm on the ground, said David, adding that when times are tough, you know there is always someone in your ancestry that’s had it tougher than you but got through it so that future generations would have a better life.
He added that he has always tried to be authentic in politics and has done his best to hold on to that authenticity.
Reflecting on the struggle ahead he warned that the structures of racism took hundreds of years to build. “At its heart is power,” said David. “It’s a struggle but with each generation it gets better – it will come.”
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Thanos vs Superman: Who Takes the Win in a Fight?
It’s difficult to keep track of all the heroes Thanos has destroyed in Marvel Comics over the years, but what if he turned his sights on the DC Universe? Is Superman, DC’s greatest hero, capable of defeating Thanos, or would the Man of Steel be the latest to succumb to Thanos’ might?
Although Thanos has committed several crimes, he is better known for Jim Starlin’s limited series The Infinity Gauntlet, which served as a loose inspiration for the MCU’s Avengers: Infinity War.
Thanos collects the Infinity Gems and uses them to blot out half of all humanity, which is no small thing, but Thanos has plenty of superpowers without them as well.
Thanos was born into a race known as the Eternals, and he possesses superhuman strength, endurance, and agility, as well as the ability to project energy and immunity to nearly all poisons and diseases.
Thanos also has certain mystical abilities thanks to his knowledge of the ancient arts. Thanos’ biggest strength, however, is his intelligence. The Mad Titan created his intergalactic army from the ground up and has proved to be a brilliant tactician time and time again.
To put it another way, Thanos is almost as likely to outwit his foes as he is to outnumber them, making him very dangerous.
When it comes to comics, there will never be a character more recognizable than Superman. Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938, was designed to be unbeatable. In reality, some of the Man of Steel’s exploits during the Silver Age were downright ridiculous, such as when he sneezed and killed an entire solar system.
Superman has become more relatable in modern comics, but make no mistake: he is still incredibly strong. In addition to his multitude of powers, Kal-El is one of DC’s quickest and toughest heroes, and his strength is virtually unlimited as long as he has yellow sunshine.
Clark went into the sun to consume more solar energy in All Star Superman, and when he came back, he could pull upwards of 200 quintillion tons – a figure that’s impossible to comprehend. However, kryptonite, red sunlight, and sorcery are all readily exploitable vulnerabilities for Superman.
Clark went into the sun to consume more solar energy in All Star Superman, and when he came back, he could pull upwards of 200 quintillion tons – a figure that’s impossible to comprehend.
The outcome of a battle between Superman and Thanos is essentially determined by the circumstances of the fight. In a straight battle, Superman will most likely come out on top. Superman’s strength outclasses nearly all Thanos has ever fought, and the Kryptonian has too many tricks up his sleeve for Thanos to counter.
His greatest weapon will be magic, which Superman is vulnerable to, but the Man of Steel has faced much more powerful spell users in the past and triumphed, so it’s doubtful it will be enough to tip the scales in Thanos’ favor.
Things could go very differently if Thanos had more time to plan. Thanos, as a master tactician, could set up a trap for Superman, and if the Mad Titan had his hands on a kryptonite, it could be all over for the Big Blue Boy Scout.
Despite their might, neither Thanos nor Superman are invincible. Both have been defeated in the past, indicating that none is invincible. Thanos, on the other hand, will need an ironclad scheme to ambush and kill the Man of Steel, because if it comes down to fisticuffs, Superman would undoubtedly prevail. | <urn:uuid:cb6a283a-24d8-4c75-8433-04c73bebb607> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://relayvibes.co/thanos-vs-superman-who-takes-the-win-in-a-fight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976689 | 778 | 1.609375 | 2 |
If consumers take a look at how the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved mobility, it is hard to ignore the increase in autonomy, freedom, and quality of life impacted. It is also difficult to overlook the modifications merited due to the changing times; evolving interpretations of devices and diagnoses merit reconsideration and reinterpretation to maintain equality and autonomy for every American.
We’ve come a long way, baby… That cliché seems to aptly sum-up how the country has evolved in its views and accommodations of those with physical disabilities. Consumers are gaining entry to places, job-sites, and public areas that previously would have been challenging at-best, but often impractical to access. However, the law isn’t always as cut-and-dry as one may believe, with changes in aids, diagnosis, and demographics emerging. With the number of individuals using mobility devices rising, it makes sense to revisit the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, of 1991 to see just how far the country has come.
Take a look at how the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved mobility:
The Americans with Disabilities Act improves access and protects the liberties of those with disabilities, preserving their autonomy, rights, and entry to public spaces. This Act also mandates specifications that allow easy access for wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, and other mobility aids and equipment which, previously, was not enforced by law. This assures citizens that they will have use and utility of rented homes, access to public restrooms, and the ability to use, enjoy, and traverse spaces that could pose obstacles for those using mobility aids or devices. The law does more than that however by providing a legal precedent for individuals living with disabilities, allowing them the same entry, access, and life of those that do not require accommodations.
Twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, revisions were made to specifically address the needs of citizens that use modern mobility aids. With design changes and increased offerings in mobility solutions, the original accommodations asserted by this Act was modified to encompass and protect individuals that use scooters, wheelchairs, or other adaptive equipment, aids, and devices. For instance, the original legislation was enacted before items like seg-ways appeared on the scene; the Segway is used by many with mobility issues to improve access and increase mobility. In fact, the somewhat trendy Segway is being lauded as a personal assisted device, embraced widely by consumers and protected by the law.
Just as the need to expand on the rights of those with disabilities has evolved, so has the definition of a disability. Mental health issues plague millions of Americans in a daily struggle that can be debilitating and stigmatizing; therapeutic aids such as emotional support animals have been emerging more widely, which further complicates interpretation of the law. Just as potential landlords must comply with door width and access features, many businesses are faced with accepting support animals in their ‘no pets’ properties to comply with the ADA. A subject of wide-spread legal debate and litigation, there is still ambiguity in the laws that leaves room for confusion and conflict.
It would be impossible to list all of the people and protections afforded by the ADA; in essence, it preserves the right of access to anyone with a disability that could provide obstacles in accessibility. Furthermore, the ADA offers very specific protections for individuals with disabilities at work. Accessibility hurdles at work that could prevent someone with a disability in their job performance, like stairs, handicap-accessible bathrooms, and visual cues, are mandated and asserted by this very comprehensive piece of legislation.
Technology is making it easier for individuals with mobility impairments or disabilities to compete in today’s job market. From telecommute positions to meetings by Skype, technology is at the forefront of accessibility for all. This extends to mobility aids and the merchants offering these to their consumers; ask about high-tech features and devices to improve everyday living.
Improving access and quality of life for those with disabilities requires a community commitment; continued efforts to update and modify existing facilities, public places, and serving as a role-model for others falls to each and every American. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991 paved the way for individuals with impairments or limitations to access the same spaces and places as those without disabilities. This legislation calls to action area groups, organizations, municipalities, employers, and citizens in an effort of protecting the rights, improving the accessibility, and maintaining the autonomy of disabled Americans widely, including those that utilize mobility aids.
Preserve your autonomy, or the freedom of someone you love, with mobility aids and devices. The experts at Pacific Mobility are here to help you assess and evaluate your needs while offering options to suit your distinct lifestyle, living situation, and budget. They can offer insight and information pertaining to the ADA laws and guidelines that will preserve and protect your accessibility, as well as your rights.
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the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) is an extremely efficient test. It does what it is suppose to do very well, very quick and very accurately.
What is the LSAT suppose to measure? Well, it's suppose to measure how well you will do during the first year of law school. So is a low LSAT score (120) a definite prophecy of your imminent failure in law school? No.
However, if you did get a low LSAT score (120), there is a good chance you will fail. Although imperfect, the LSAT is as perfect as it can get in measuring an individual's success in law school.
My experience has been that the skills required to do well on the LSAT (reading vast and diverse amounts of information, and critically thinking assessing the validity of these arguments/sets-of-facts; reading through dense and boring literature, and pin-pointing the flaws and main-points; quickly thinking of all the different angles and possibilities to a complex problem/situation) are also the skills required to do well in law school.
The only major flaw on the LSAT is the fact that it measures all of this in one sitting. I do believe that some people are not so good standardized test-takers. For these people the pressure of having to sit through a timed test literally chokes them. This is the only drawback to the LSAT's otherwise perfect (my opinion) testing.
Anyone who moans and groans about the LSAT's logic games and how it's irrelevant are simply in denial...trying to make themselves feel better about their failure.
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Creative Computing Club – Scratch Day Zombie Invasion (ages 12-15)
The apocalypse is here, zombies are running wild, looking for brains. Can you outrun them, even when obstacles get in the way? Come along and learn new programming skills and put your existing ones to the test by building your own video game using Scratch. Choose your background, build your obstacles and try out each other’s games to see who will survive..
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Sarlat-la-Caneda is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. The town is a tourist destination and is known for its well-preserved medieval buildings and architecture. Sarlat-la-Caneda was founded in the 10th century by the count of Toulouse, and it soon became an important stop on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. In the 14th century, the town was besieged by the English during the Hundred Years’ War. Later, in the 17th century, Sarlat-la-Caneda was severely damaged by floods. However, the town was rebuilt and today it is a thriving community with a strong focus on tourism. Sarlat-la-Caneda is home to many historical monuments and museums, making it a popular destination for visitors from all over the world.
The small town of Sarlat-la-Canéda in southwestern France is best known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and rich history. In 1979, the entire town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and today it remains one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. Located in the heart of the Dordogne region, Sarlat was founded by the Romans in the 1st century AD. However, it was not until the Middle Ages that the town began to flourished, thanks to its strategic location along major trade routes. This prosperity is reflected in the town’s well-preserved architecture, which includes numerous mansions and churches from the 14th and 15th centuries. Today, visitors can stroll through the picturesque streets, admire the beautiful buildings, and learn about Sarlat’s fascinating history. There is no doubt that this small town is truly a jewel of France.
The market square is the heart of the town, a place where people come to buy fresh produce, meet with friends, and simply enjoy the bustling atmosphere. The square is surrounded by half-timbered houses, many of which date back centuries. These houses are built in the traditional style of the region, with exposed timber beams and whitewashed walls. The market square is also home to a number of important historical buildings, including the town hall and the church. Every year, the square comes alive for the town’s annual fair, when stalls are set up selling everything from food to souvenirs. For visitors, the market square is one of the most picturesque sights in France.
The area around is known for its natural beauty. Thick forests, rushing rivers and towering cliffs make up much of the landscape. It’s a popular spot for hiking and camping, as well as for photographers and painters who come to capture the stunning scenery. In the autumn, the leaves change color, creating a sea of reds, oranges and yellows that is truly breathtaking. And in the winter, the snow-capped mountains provide a stark contrast to the rest of the landscape. Whether you’re looking for a peaceful retreat or an adventurous outing, you’ll find what you’re looking for in this beautiful corner of the world.
If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a historic home in France, the charming town of Sarlat is definitely worth considering. Nestled in the picturesque Dordogne region, Sarlat is known for its well-preserved architecture and quaint streets. Many of the homes in Sarlat date back centuries, and there are even a few that date back to the 11th century. In addition to its historic homes, Sarlat is also home to a number of museums, art galleries, and restaurants. With its central location in France, Sarlat is also a great base for exploring the rest of the country. So if you’re looking for a beautiful and historic town to call home, Sarlat should definitely be at the top of your list!
The town is built on a limestone outcrop in the valleys of the Vézère and the Beune rivers. It dates back to prehistoric times and was an important center during the Gallo-Roman period. In the Middle Ages, Sarlat became the capital of the Baronnie de Beynac, one of the most powerful feudal fiefs in all of France. As a result, the town prospered and many beautiful buildings were constructed. Today, Sarlat is a popular tourist destination, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture. Visitors can explore the narrow streets and alleyways, lined with timbered houses and stone facades. They can also visit numerous churches and other historic buildings, such as the 12th-century cathedral of Notre Dame de Sarlat.
Sarlatf is built on a limestone outcrop in the valleys of the Vézère and the Beune rivers. It dates back to prehistoric times and was an important center during the Gallo-Roman period. In the Middle Ages, Sarlat became the capital of the Baronnie de Beynac, one of the most powerful feudal fiefs in all of France. As a result, the town prospered and many beautiful buildings were constructed. Today, Sarlat is a popular tourist destination, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture. Visitors can explore the narrow streets and alleyways, lined with timbered houses and stone facades. They can also visit numerous churches and other historic buildings, such as the 12th-century cathedral of Notre Dame de Sarlat. With its rich history and beautiful buildings, Sarlat is a truly magical place.
The town’s buildings reflect this history, with a mix of Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance architecture. This diversity of styles is reflective of the town’s culture, which has been shaped by its location at the crossroads of several trade routes. Over the centuries, Sarlat has been influenced by the cultures of Spain, Italy, and Germany, as well as its own unique French heritage. These influences are evident in the town’s architecture, which reflects a variety of styles and traditions. In recent years, Sarlat has become a popular tourist destination for its well-preserved medieval buildings and quaint atmosphere. The town’s culture is evident in its architecture, and visitors can get a sense of its history and diversity just by walking through the streets.
When you’re ready to buy a house, there are a lot of things to consider. Location is one of the most important factors. You’ll want to find a neighborhood you love and that’s convenient to everything you need. Another thing to think about is the size of the house. Make sure it has enough space for your furniture and all your stuff! And last but not least, don’t forget to budget for things like closing costs and homeowners insurance. With a little research and planning, you can find the perfect place to call home.
It’s also important to think about how much space you will need. Do you have a growing family or do you plan on entertaining guests often? If so, you’ll need a house that is large enough to accommodate your needs. However, if you don’t have many possessions or if you’re not planning on hosting large gatherings, you can save money by choosing a smaller home. It’s also important to consider the layout of the house. Do you need extra bedrooms for guests or an office space to work from home? Would you prefer an open floor plan or one with more defined spaces? Once you have a good idea of what you’re looking for, you can start narrowing down your options and finding the perfect home for your needs.
When it comes to houses, age is just a number. While an older home may need some repairs, it can also be more affordable than a newer model. On the other hand, a newer home will likely have more features and be easier to maintain, but it will also come with a higher price tag. Ultimately, the decision of whether to buy an older or newer home depends on the buyer’s needs and budget. But as long as the house is structurally sound and has been well-maintained, age should not be a deciding factor.
The last important factor to consider when buying a property is the condition of the unit. Before signing a lease, be sure to inspect the property carefully and fix any major issues that you find. Once you move in, you will be responsible for maintaining the unit in good condition. This includes keeping the floors clean, fixing any broken appliances, and repainting walls as needed. By taking care of the property, you can help to ensure that it remains in good condition for years to come.
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Framework for a High Performance Health System for the United States.
This report calls for providing "safe, well-coordinated, accessible, and efficient" care through five key steps: expanding health insurance coverage, implementing evidence-based patient safety and quality interventions, increasing use of health information technology, public reporting of safety and quality measures, and rewarding achievement in quality through "pay-for-performance." The authors ascribe the current quality problems in the U.S. health care system to system failures, including misaligned payment incentives, inadequate motivation to challenge the status quo, inadequate information systems, duplicative regulatory systems, and an overemphasis on autonomy.
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Jul 25, 2018
Despite the big push for stronger privacy regulations and an increased awareness amongst customers for their privacy, many businesses are slower to adopt privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) than one would expect.
In some cases, organisations fear the consequences of violating privacy regulations but lack guidance on which PETs are fit to their data use case, which prohibits them from using the data they hold. In others, organisations struggle to implement privacy technologies properly and share data that hasn’t been sufficiently protected which leads to a breach of privacy.
In this talk, we explore some of the technical challenges organisations are facing when trying to adopt PETs.
We use differential privacy as an example for an emerging privacy technology that could answer many organisations’ need to safely share aggregate statistics, but nonetheless is used by only a few. We look at some of the reasons for its slow adoption and touch on questions such as: Where are the gaps between the applications described in the academic literature and the requirements coming from industry? What are the concepts that are hardest to understand for a non-expert audience?
Below you can find the full video recording of the talk by Theresa Stadler, Data Scientist at Privitar, given at EPFL summer school in Lausanne
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Two thoughts that will mingle into one thought.
A friend brought up today 2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
It’s a trap we fall into– measuring our success as parents by looking at other people’s kids. The foolishness of this kind of standard results in pride when our children are the good ones, and pride of a different sort called despair when our children are the bad ones. Either case, we are not wise when we do this. This is the first thought.
And yet… at least for me… doesn’t it seem nearly impossible not to compare and measure? I might be tempted to retreat to my house and never interact with other families!
This brings us to our second thought. Ephesians 4:29 (and others) command us to edify, or build up, each other. We are supposed to deliberately encourage each other. Now, perhaps some see no need of being encouraged, but it seems that the need is assumed. I think it’s easy for moms to become isolated (either by design or circumstance), when we should be seeking out opportunities to interact with other moms.
So how is one to interact with others, not compare (and despair), and encourage each other, all at once? The single thought: humility. Humility keeps us from using the wrong measuring stick. It helps us recognize that others can teach us, even if we don’t always agree. Humility is gentle and peaceable. We must have humility to recognize our need to be encouraged, and we must have humility to stop loving ourselves so much that we don’t look for opportunities to be a blessing to others.
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The key to city planning is a man, who may be brutalized by the disorganization of the urban phenomenon, but who may be showered with well-being if care is taken to cater for specifically human needs.1 Studies that investigate details of Le Corbusier’s work or brief periods in his development are essential to supersede the broad generalizations which until recently have often passed as informed comment, but there is a certain incongruity in thus approaching a man whose ecstatic vision and frequently intuitive thinking rid him of all fear of the broad generalization in his ceaseless quest for absolute truth.
Nowhere is this breadth of view more apparent than in his system of urban and regional planning, which he began as early as the 1920s to describe as a “doctrine” based on a number of “certainties” derived from observation.2 At the very least, this system constituted a universal program of environmental improvement; at most, it was a formula for world social reform.
Clearly, the choice of any conscious reform program rests on certain assumptions about the nature of the world and the process of change. In Le Corbusier’s case, his very distinctive world view does much to account for the individuality of his specific planning proposals. First of all, however, some outline of his doctrine must be provided.
Le Corbusier published his first major study of town planning in 1925, at the age of thirty-eight.3 It related principally to his plans for an idealized city, the Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants, which he had exhibited in 1922 and which had established his reputation as an architect-planner. At this early stage he was concerned almost exclusively with the problems and opportunities of Paris—the large, capital city which he had directly experienced since his permanent settlement in 1917. In the years to come the scope of his planning precepts broadened considerably, but they already exhibited that potent combination of four major modes of planning, which gave his ideas their universal, comprehensive quality.
The first mode, aesthetics, sprang from his ambition to create physical environments that would be visually and emotionally satisfying through the application of the principles of harmony and balance. This motivation had emerged from his early training in art and architecture, and he had been aware of it a least since his early twenties.4
The second mode, habitation, originated in his interest in mass housing from the early part of World War I, when he had soon recognized that it was not enough to design merely comfortable homes, but that access, surroundings, amenities, and location were also crucial to the creation of a satisfactory living environment.5
A third mode, efficiency, stemmed from his recognition that a better urban environment depended on the economic prosperity of cities. This aspect of his thinking did not emerge fully until the early 1920s, but from then on he devoted much attention to transport, industrial location, design of commercial areas, and other aspects of urban efficiency.6
The fourth mode, social reform, was the most enigmatic but also the most important, since it underpinned the other three and provided a major inspiration for Le Corbusier’s ceaseless propagandizing. It was founded on his confidence that the reform of the physical environment would be a major, if not the major contribution to the creation of an ideal society that would provide all the prerequisites of complete happiness and fulfillment. The origins of this conviction are difficult to establish in time, but it certainly informed Le Corbusier’s reactions to the Ema charterhouse in 1907 and 1911:
So here I was again at the Ema charterhouse [in 1911]. I did some sketches this time, and I understood things better too…. My first impression of the charterhouse was one of harmony, but not until later did the essential, profound lesson of the place sink in on me—that here the equation which it was the task of human wit to solve, the reconciliation of “individual” on the one hand and “collectivity” on the other, lay resolved. But in the very solution of this problem another equally decisive lesson was to be learned: that to solve a large proportion of human problems you need locations and accommodation. And that means architecture and town planning. The Ema charterhouse was a location, and the accommodation was there, arranged in the finest architectural biology. The Ema charterhouse is an organism. The term organism had been born in my mind.7
Although these four modes had considerable scope for further development, Le Corbusier’s practical approach to planning in the mid-1920s was based on a total acceptance of the big city as the home of the greatest technical efficiency, and as the provider of substantial social and cultural benefits to its residents. To resolve the apparent contradiction between the needs of this hive of activity and the maintenance of a pleasant living environment, he put forward the novel solution that has become his most important single contribution to twentieth-century planning practice—to increase the height of both commercial and residential buildings so that they could occupy only a small fraction of the ground without reducing overall densities.
Like most of Le Corbusier’s planning proposals, this procedure had more than purely utilitarian value. At the very least it assured adequate space for recreation while maintaining sufficient densities to support an active community life; on a more spiritual level it constituted both a reintegration of nature with the city and a full acceptance of the potential of modern technology. The huge increment of space also allowed him to provide express roads, totally segregated from pedestrians, to permit full freedom of movement for motor traffic, which he saw as a prerequisite of economic success. At the same time, high densities would increase land values, thus attracting the investment needed to carry out the development.
Although Le Corbusier vigorously defended his 1925 program into the late 1920s, he admitted later that certain difficulties still needed to be resolved.8 The product of his rethinking was the Radiant City, another idealized form, which appeared first as an exhibit in 1930 and was explained and justified a few years later by a second major book, La Ville radieuse. The Radiant City marked a further step toward the great metropolis as the ideal form of human habitation. Residential densities were increased to a maximum of 1000 persons per hectare from about three hundred persons per hectare in the Contemporary City,9 and a linear plan was adopted to allow unhindered growth of the built-up area. These arrangements, combined with a more efficient road network and an integrated underground railway, allowed Le Corbusier to dispense with the so-called garden cities beyond a rigid green belt to which the vast majority of the Contemporary City’s residents had been relegated. He was obviously delighted with this solution, which not only allowed him to renew his condemnation of existing low-density suburbs, but provided him with sufficient population densities to prevent his huge areas of open land from becoming “dead spaces.” He also maintained that this living arrangement was perfectly suited to the needs of “machine-age man” and was based on a careful definition of his functions.10 Yet, ironically enough, the year of the Radiant City marked the first step in Le Corbusier’s partial reaction against the great city.
The development of the Radiant City began with Le Corbusier’s acceptance in 1930 of an invitation to design a farm and cooperative center for a peasant organization in the Sarthe. Typically, Le Corbusier chose to set this problem in a broader context, that of the reorganization of the rural environment. He viewed this reform in terms of extending the benefits of planned urban life to the countryside, a process that, as he soon recognized, would blur the distinction between town and country.
At about the same time, Le Corbusier began to have doubts about the desirability of really large cities. His first misgivings seem to have occurred in 1929 during his gloomy stay in Buenos Aires, and he began to be depressed by the ceaseless struggle between individuals, which he regarded as a feature of Parisian life.11 The mass urban unemployment of the great depression probably reinforced this mood and led him to the conclusion that the relative social attraction of the big cities had inflated their populations far above the level of economic efficiency, producing mass poverty among the unskilled and unqualified elements.
As early as February 1931, he was suggesting that Paris’s population figure of three million, which he had used as a yardstick in the 1920s, was too large, and by 1934 he was advocating one million as the city’s optimum population.12 This implied a major redistribution of population, which was to be permitted by the new system of regional planning that Le Corbusier developed between the early 1930s and the mid-1940s and that he set out in a further major book in 1944—The Three Human Establishments.13
Under this new arrangement, a substantial (but unspecified) proportion of the population would remain on the land in planned agricultural communities and “radiant farms” with adequate social and cultural facilities. Manufacturing would be carried on, not in special quarters of the big city as it had in both the Contemporary City and the Radiant City, but in “linear industrial cities” stretched along major long-distance communications routes, grouping both factories and high-density workers’ housing. Only a minority would live in the business and administrative centers located at the focal points of the communications routes, which Le Corbusier now categorized as “concentric cities of exchange,” but these towns would gain in efficiency by being allowed to concentrate on tertiary activities. To offset the possible disadvantages of dispersal, he placed strong emphasis on efficient regional and interregional communications.
Having thus derived what amounted to a system of world planning, Le Corbusier scarcely modified its essentials between the end of the Second World War and his death. He continued, however, to perfect detailed aspects of his theory. The most important of these developments were his formulas for a hierarchy of urban roads (la règle des sept voies) and for the planning of urban sectors, both of which date from about 1948. Clearly, these had a greater relevance to large cities than to the other two units in Le Corbusier’s overall scheme.
Most of his detailed postwar planning schemes (as at Bogota and Berlin) also dealt with big towns, a consequence of the requests made to him and the competitions he joined. His rejection of his earlier ultraurbanism was reflected in these schemes in lower densities (though still with multistory blocks), less dominating buildings, even greater emphasis on open space, and a growing priority accorded to conservation. Generally he became much more flexible; in working on a large hospital in Venice at the very end of his life, he may even have been on the threshold of a totally new urban form based on low buildings.
On the other hand, he continued to authorize reprintings of his early books on planning without modification or qualification, and he certainly never disowned his older ideas.14 As he had neither the time nor the inclination to write more didactic works on planning after the late 1940s, his doctrine lost some of its earlier clarity, but his statements suggested that “the three human establishments” remained his basic objective.
His planning system was both comprehensive and internally consistent. These qualities allowed him to rebuff criticisms of its details with ease, not to say contempt, and he frequently expressed surprise and impatience when it failed to convince. Even that nagging criticism which any program of radical reform will attract—that it is too ambitious to have any chance of being carried out—could be rejected on the grounds that the Corbusian system was simply a more efficient reordering of current arrangements and could therefore be introduced without any serious disturbance of existing economic and political interests.
But are the assumptions on which the system was based equally invulnerable? No, they were not; indeed, an essentially optimistic view of the world inclined Le Corbusier to a utopian program of social reform and obscured both the limitations and dangers of that program and the obstacles to its adoption.15
Many investigations of Le Corbusier’s ideas have vied with one another in identifying artists and thinkers who influenced him. Valuable though these studies are, I suspect that his fundamental approach to the world and its problems was formed in early childhood, mainly through the influence of God-fearing and nature-loving parents. Self-education would then have confirmed this belief system rather than disturbed it, for wide though Le Corbusier’s reading undoubtedly was, I suspect that he used it as a source of support for his own thinking, much of which was on his own admission intuitive.16 Consequently, his basic assumptions did not substantially alter during his career.
Absolutely fundamental to Le Corbusier’s belief system was his optimistic view of the natural world. He saw it as an ordered, harmonious environment, idyllic and benign. Certainly it included death and a measure of competition, but Kenneth Frampton has surely gone too far in emphasizing its dialectical character.17 Le Corbusier made clear time and time again that balance and harmony were the keynotes of his natural world: “Yes, in everything nature shows us a picture of flexibility, precision, and unquestionable reality in its combinations of harmonious developments. Serene perfection throughout. Plants, animals, trees, landscapes, seas, plains or mountains. Even the perfect harmony of natural disasters, earthquakes, etc.”18
Le Corbusier also emphasized that man, though qualified by his intellectual capacities and inherent ambition to master the natural world,19 was very much a product of it, capable of sharing its rhythm and likely to lose equilibrium if he ignored it (Fig. 62): “Man is a product of nature. He has been created according to the laws of nature. If he is sufficiently aware of those laws, if he obeys them and harmonizes his life with the perpetual flux of nature, then he will obtain (for himself) a conscious sensation of harmony that will be beneficial to him.”20
Le Corbusier believed that the achievement of harmony and order constituted the ultimate human happiness: “The highest delight of the human spirit is to perceive order, and the greatest human satisfaction is the feeling of sharing or participating in that order.”21 Certainly, this satisfaction was to be achieved by activity—his natural world offered no lotus-eating existence to man22—but it was activity directed toward spiritual ideals rather than simple material accumulation (Fig. 63): “Architecture and music are the distinctive manifestations of human dignity. In them man affirms, ‘I exist, I am a mathematician, a geometrician, and I am religious. That is to say that I believe in some gigantic ideal which dominates me, but which I can reach… ' ”23
He often expressed his abhorrence of crude materialism as an aberration that diverted man from happiness: “Contemporary society has, to its own misfortune, given itself up to the endless manufacture of objects of varying degrees of stupidity, which only clog up our lives—senseless production of sterile consumer goods.”24
Apart from the occasional reference to human weaknesses, Le Corbusier said very little to qualify this picture of man as a sober, rational, hard-working, and intensely spiritual creature, inspired by the noblest of motives. When writing of man’s natural inclinations, he never referred to such conflict-creating forces as greed, jealousy, or lust. Thus he was able to believe in a natural form of human society based on cooperation, in which relationships between individuals and between groups were governed by an implicit social contract.25 Wealth and status were not equally distributed—indeed, Le Corbusier was a firm believer in meritocratic elites—but in such a society they were not a cause of conflict, for material well-being was merely the basis for the greater joys of family life, social intercourse, and physical recreation, all of which contributed to an overall harmony with nature. The Marxist concepts of class and class-conflict were totally alien to him. In short, Le Corbusier believed in an earthly paradise as man’s natural state, and in this respect he was quite clearly utopian.
Still, it was evident to Le Corbusier that this vision of an earthly paradise did not correspond to the contemporary world in which he lived. How was the discrepancy to be explained? All utopian thinkers have to face this problem, but Le Corbusier’s solution was distinctive. It was based on his idiosyncratic identification of industrialization (machinisme) as an independent force in human development. Briefly stated, Le Corbusier believed that a happy and harmonious world26 had been distorted by the corrupting influence of the industrialization that had been suddenly and brutally imposed on it in the nineteenth century. In particular, industrialization had alienated man from nature and so deprived him of that essential element in his happiness, participation in an ordered, blissful universe:
A machine civilization established itself, slyly and secretly, under the carpet, where we could not see it clearly. It plunged us and held us in a life which is now in question. Symptoms are now appearing of breakdowns in people’s health, and of economic, social, and religious changes, etc.27
The effect of inventions has been to shatter the ancestral statute. Everything has been broken, torn asunder. Social life is different. The life of the individual is threatened.28
By emphasizing that industrialization had been a totally disruptive force, Le Corbusier was able to argue that it had produced all the defects of contemporary society and even of individuals. In effect, he diagnosed in society a pathological condition that allowed him to maintain his belief in the natural goodness of man. This point can be illustrated by some of his judgments on India when he was working on Chandigarh, notably: “India is a country which has not yet been molested by machinisme and inhumane theories. India seems to me to be supremely humane.”29
The idea of industrialization causing a pathological condition was most clearly developed in Le Corbusier’s descriptions of the unreformed industrial city. This, the location of most of the antisocial phenomena which Le Corbusier blamed on industrialization, was frequently described as “sick.” He probably found it easier to apply this image to cities than to society as a whole because of an established practice among French geographers and sociologists of viewing cities as biological entities.30 This precedent no doubt helped to confirm his own independent interest in biology31 and encouraged him to use biologicai analogies in explaining social phenomena. At least as early as 1923, he was referring to “the sickness of great cities,”32 and he eventually developed a wide range of medical metaphors. He often spoke of “the cancer of Paris,”33 and he would sometimes combine more than one biological process to grotesque effect: “City centers are fatally ill, while their outskirts are being gnawed away as if by vermin.”34
Le Corbusier most frequently applied the image of sickness to features of the urban physical structure—slums, low-density suburbs, clogged business districts, and so on. But he also believed that the behavior of individual citizens was distorted, with the influence of the physical environment, itself unbalanced, producing disequilibrium in its residents:
The tentacled cities were born; Paris, London, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires. The countryside was emptied. Here was a double catastrophe. A menacing loss of equilibrium. In these tentacled cities life is madness. Men move seated about their cities, in trams and underground railways, in cars and suburban trains, living a disordered and demoralizing existence. It is a new slavery. The wars were but explosive crises of revolt.35
The city? It is the aggregate of these local disasters [breakup of the family unit under the impact of urban employment patterns]. It is the sum of these disappropriated parts. It is equivocal. Sadness weighs it down.36
Even the Darwinian idea of a law of survival, which Le Corbusier certainly entertained, was usually portrayed as a product of the unbalanced growth of cities:
Paris is pitiless; there, a battle is fought with no quarter asked or given. It is a venue for championship fights or gladiatorial contests. We face up to one another and kill one another. Paris is paved with corpses. Paris is a congress of cannibals, which fixes the dogma of the moment. Paris is a selector.37
It is only recently that the available material means at our disposal have made it possible for a wealth of ambition to be tapped and directed into the centres of our great cities…. The law of survival operates perpetually and with a recurring and brutal force…. And these great cities challenge one another, for the mad urge for supremacy is the very law of evolution itself to which we are subjected.38
Le Corbusier blamed all divergences from his ideal of the happy man and the idyllic society on the sudden impact of industrialization, which had upset the lives of individuals mainly by creating an unbalanced environment.
To identify industrialization as a disruptive force in society was by no means uncommon in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century thought. But what distinguished Le Corbusier from thinkers such as William Morris was that his philosophy prevented him from any suspicions that industrialization might be intrinsically harmful to human happiness. On the contrary, as the product of a combination of man’s intelligence and endeavor and of the properties of the physical world, technical progress could not itself be anything but good.
Le Corbusier’s solution to this contradiction was the fulcrum of his whole system. He achieved it by using two interrelated concepts. The first was the idea of technical progress as an independent variable in human history, meaning that inventions are not dependent on general social or economic development, but are the product of chance or the operations of individual genius. In other words, technical advance is seen as an independent process with its own internal system of causation, which determines the speed at which it proceeds.39 This interpretation allowed him to apply the second concept, that of “culture lag,” first developed by Thorstein Veblen, according to which human individuals and institutions take some time to adapt to independently proceeding technical change. Thus Le Corbusier could maintain that in an industrialized world machines set the pace, with humanity in a permanent state of inadaptation to their demands: “The machine is so capital an event in human history that it is permissible to assign it a role as conditioner of the human personality …”;40 “… the machine is a reality entirely independent of human desires or wills….”41
Thus Le Corbusier had the answer to his enigma. The way to restore that blissful state which industrialization had destroyed was not to reverse the process, as William Morris had wanted, but to accept it fully in terms of behavior, attitudes, and the ordering of the environment. Once man took the plunge, he would find that the infinite resources of a machine civilization would allow him to reestablish that essential intimate contact with nature.
As far as man’s productive activities were concerned, Le Corbusier seems to have believed that this acceptance of the machine was not difficult to achieve. Man had merely to follow wholeheartedly the example already set by technology and the organization of production associated with machines. Le Corbusier made no secret of his idealized view of machinery, which, since its operations were governed by natural laws, could even be regarded as a natural form. He frequently referred to machines as “biological” or “organic”: “Modern techniques have revealed the way to other things. New things mutually coordinated by a biology which is whole, unique.”42 More than once, he even expressed a conviction that efficiently designed machinery could run in total silence.43 His admiration extended to the organization of whole factories; in 1932, for instance, he claimed that factories were the only elements in the urban environment that obeyed natural laws.44 Consequently, Le Corbusier could believe that technical and economic efficiency were natural virtues, and that their achievement would of itself create harmony with nature. This argument emerged strongly in a statement of the new editorial policy of L’Esprit Nouveau in 1923, and echoes of it are to be found in many of Le Corbusier’s later writings:
… we have shown that the machine is a product which obeys natural laws more faithfully than did the products of the artisan. The machine is, above all, a measure of our new social being, the symbol of the overriding law which governs our civilization, the law of Economy. Today we can clearly formulate a new ideal, an ideal which already shines through every aspect of contemporary activity—efficiency: in the interest of Economy, our civilization’s single guide toward Purity. Economy, Purity, the guiding light of the new spirit.45
This implicit confidence in the happiness of industrial man while at work allowed Le Corbusier to define the problem of adaptation to a machine society almost exclusively in terms of the environment experienced by the individual outside the workplace. As it was essentially the environment of the unreformed industrial city that had thrown man into a state of unbalance, it was necessary merely to provide the right environment in order to restore his equilibrium and, in consequence, to guarantee him complete fulfillment and happiness. The principal features of this environment were a healthy and comfortable dwelling to allow a natural and wholesome family life, the grouping of dwellings and the provision of facilities to permit an active community spirit, and extensive green surroundings to reestablish the link with nature. It was these requirements which the unité d’habitation was developed to satisfy:
By bringing together a natural social grouping, a community, in one harmonious unit, it [the unité d’habitation] puts forward the “vertical garden-city” solution, to replace the “horizontal garden-city” which has dominated the last century and caused the “denaturalization” of the urban phenomenon which has let loose on the world the evils, the catastrophe, of an urban planning which has no relation to its [true] objectives. These objectives are to order the social phenomenon (in this case, to co-ordinate the basic acts of daily life; that is, to live, and to know how to live). This is a universal problem.46
And “natural conditions” (conditions de nature) will be reintroduced into the lives of the men, women and children of the machine civilization.47
Here then was the cure for the sickness of cities, and henceforth both the environment and society would return to equilibrium and health. Cities, under the new dispensation, would be organized biologically and therefore naturally: “All architectural products, all city neighbourhoods or cities ought to be organisms. This word immediately conveys a notion of character, of balance, of harmony, of symmetry.”48
This is all very well, the reader may now be saying, but could Le Corbusier really have believed that a reform of the environment alone could produce an ideal world? Did he not concentrate on planning and architecture because he was qualified in those fields, leaving it to others to advocate the necessary political, economic, and social reforms? The following advice to the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) of 1930 has often been quoted as indicating Le Corbusier’s recognition of the limited role of the reform of the physical environment in the creation of a better society:
Contemporary architecture and especially city planning are direct results of the social situation; this goes without saying. By means of personal inquiries let’s keep up to date with the present evolution but, I beg of you, let’s not get into politics or sociology here, in the midst of our Congress. They are too endlessly complex phenomena; economics are closely linked to them. We are not competent to discuss these intricate questions here. I repeat: here we should remain architects and city planners and on this professional basis we should make known, to those whose duty they are, the possibilities afforded by modern techniques and the need for a new kind of architecture and city planning.49
What is most striking about this statement is how untypical it is of Le Corbusier, who rarely hesitated to pronounce on “these endlessly complex phenomena” and who founded much of his architectural and planning doctrine on assumptions made in these areas. The Radiant City itself, in which this modest statement was reprinted, contains numerous assertions of Le Corbusier’s strong belief in environmental determinism, notably: “Miraculous architectural age! Everything is architecture! Architecture is the creation of order!”50 More sober, but still assigning a promotional role to environmental planning in world reform, is the following statement from The City of Tomorrow:
A form of planning which preoccupied itself with our happiness or our misery and which attempted to create happiness and expel misery would be a noble service in this age of confusion. Such a preoccupation, creating its appropriate science, would imply an important evolution in the social system. It would denounce on the one hand the harsh and futile individualistic rush for egotistical gratification, by which our great cities have been created. It would show, on the other hand, that at the critical moment an automatic recovery had taken place; that feelings of solidarity, pity and the desire for good had inspired a powerful will towards a clear, constructive and creative end.51
In 1930, the year of his modest CIAM statement, he also wrote that the world’s cities
… could become not the reliquaries of a beauty which was revolutionary in its own time, but irresistible forces stimulating collective enthusiasm, collective action, and general joy and pride, and in consequence individual happiness everywhere. All that would be needed is an authority, a man (though he would need a certain lyric sensibility) to set the machine in motion, to issue a law, a set of regulations, a doctrine—and then the modern world would begin to emerge from behind its labor-blackened face and hands, and would beam around, powerful, happy, believing….”52
In 1946, he came even closer to isolating the physical environment as the key determinant of human happiness: “Habitation is life, knowing how to live! How to use the blessings of God: the sun and the spirit that He has given to men to enable them to achieve the joy of living on earth and to find again the Lost Paradise.”53 In 1960, he continued to reiterate this ideal and his role in it: “My duty, my research, is to try to remove today’s man from misery and disaster, and to set him in happiness, daily joy, and harmony. For this it will be necessary in particular to re-establish, or to establish, harmony between man and his environment.”54
Even if the reader has accepted the argument this far, his reaction may still be: so what? That Le Corbusier overestimated the benefits of his planning system does not necessarily devalue the system itself; however, optimism might have detracted from Le Corbusier’s planning system in three important ways. First, it might have blinded him to practical difficulties or well-founded opposition to his system and so increased the odds against its acceptance. Second, his confidence in the operations of the business world and the directive power of governments might have encouraged him to advocate planning solutions that could be applied by others to achieve personal gain or mean economies rather than the welfare of the community. Third, and most serious of all, Le Corbusier’s apparently limited awareness of the nonenvironmental causes of social problems and of the possible drawbacks of modern technology might have allowed him to incorporate in his system elements that could actually detract from the quality of the environment and even accentuate the problems of society.
Perhaps the first question to ask is why Le Corbusier’s planning system did not gain the general acceptance that he was convinced it deserved (Fig. 64). He himself blamed the atrophied minds and outdated attitudes of the human products of the unreformed industrial world. But unless one shares Le Corbusier’s distinctive view of the world, one has to explain the failure in terms of the program’s unattractive input-output ratio. In other words, Le Corbusier’s planning system would have been seen as too expensive and too disruptive of existing interests to be justified by the results anticipated. In effect, Le Corbusier failed to win general acceptance for his basic claims. That his system was the path to an earthly paradise was, of course, accepted by few, and this skepticism increased the relevance of the cost factor in any decision to apply his ideas.
Here again, Le Corbusier’s optimism did not correspond with the reality seen by those who did not share his assumptions. He always maintained that all the works carried out in his system would pay for themselves, owing to a big increase in the value of developed land, as a result of high densities. This improvement value should have overcome all opposition by landowners and doubts on the part of the political authorities, and it should have attracted the necessary investment.
But Le Corbusier apparently never realized that higher densities at a given point mean lower densities and therefore lower values elsewhere. As many landowners stood to lose as those who stood to gain, while the collectivity gained nothing. Land nationalization might have provided a firmer foundation for Le Corbusier’s planning system, but realizing that it would either place a heavy compensation burden on the community or forfeit the support of landowners and private capital, he was always careful never to advocate it. Instead, he proposed “land mobilization,” a form of cooperation between public and private interests limited to development land.55 This solution conformed to his ideal of a community of interests, but in practical terms it fell between two stools, convincing neither the private nor the public sector.
If the redevelopment of land on Corbusian lines could not alone produce a capital gain equal to the investment made, it was still possible to argue that the greater efficiency of the reformed environment would produce a bigger return on all capital, whether publicly or privately invested. As it happens, Le Corbusier, who had only a rudimentary knowledge of economics, rarely made much of this argument, but it was certainly implicit in much of what he wrote. But like the landowners, business and industry looked on Le Corbusier’s proposals with a quizzical eye. Any benefits for them would be long-term, while in the immediate future they would have to acquiesce in a radical relocation of employment. In particular, Le Corbusier convinced himself that locations along the major transport routes were the most economically efficient for manufacturing industry, as well as the most socially desirable, but firms’ actual locational decisions rarely conformed to this theory. Of course, industry could be directed into new areas by political decision, but here again the support of an influential interest would be lost.
If landowners and industrialists could at best be ambivalent, the middle and upper classes had good reasons to be totally opposed to Le Corbusier’s planning. In 1922, the Contemporary City had been very crudely divided into what could be regarded as middle-class and working-class areas, but Le Corbusier was clearly not very interested in the distinction. In fact, he stated later that ever since the beginning of his researches into city planning in 1914, he had never been concerned with rich or poor, but solely with man.56 By the time of the Radiant City he had moved to a completely egalitarian arrangement, based on the assumption that housing demands, in terms of both accommodation and location, were not related to income; the allembracing community would overcome social distinctions: “I had created the prototype of a classless city, a city of men busy with work and leisure in surroundings that made these possible.”57
This residential mixing remained a feature of his system thereafter, and was incorporated into the theory of the unité d’habitation. Le Corbusier probably based the idea on the traditional mixing of social classes in Parisian apartment houses, but even there social segregation had been emerging since the nineteenth century. To design whole cities on this basis was totally unrealistic in societies where great disparities of wealth existed. It is significant that in the only city planning scheme which he was allowed to realize (Chandigarh), Le Corbusier had to accept the residential segregation of different social groups. More significant still, this segregation raised serious problems, owing to the varying demands placed on open space and social equipment within the standardized sectors.
Le Corbusier’s system might well have worked in a socialist society without great disparities of wealth and a deliberate political effort to minimize social distinctions, but, as we have seen, he did not recognize the need for so radical a measure of political and social reform. This whole dilemma is illustrated by Le Corbusier’s tentative efforts to promote his planning in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. It was pure irony that while Le Corbusier clung to his cherished ideal of the liberty of the individual (which the application of his planning system would effectively have restricted), the Soviets remained distrustful of this utopian who had no awareness of the class dimension, even though his planning was tailor-made for egalitarian societies.58 Meanwhile, Le Corbusier wasted his time appealing to fascist political forces and governments that were sufficiently authoritarian to apply his system but lacked the necessary egalitarianism.
Because the most influential forces in capitalist society were the enemies of Le Corbusier’s planning rather than its natural supporters, such elements of his planning as were put into effect were almost always devalued and distorted. His advocacy of skyscraper commercial buildings helped to sweep away building height restrictions in London, Paris, and other cities; but most of the resulting towers produced only profits for developers, not an improvement in the environment, because the concomitants of high building in his system, such as more open space, were usually ignored. In the same way, his call for tall blocks of flats as the modal housing type helped harassed local authorities to justify high-density slum redevelopment schemes that almost always lacked the amenities and social mixing which Le Corbusier considered essential. His ideas were used when they could help make private profits or save public funds and avoid political problems, but they rarely contributed to social reform or even environmental improvement.
Of course it was not Le Corbusier’s fault that his ideas were abused, nor was he the only modern movement architect to advocate tall buildings and high densities. But in making them part of a planning mode which his extraordinary artistry undoubtedly made visually exciting and stimulating, he did more than most of his contemporaries to help gain acceptance for elements of his system which, however, selfish interests applied totally out of context. Moreover, Le Corbusier was so eager for recognition that instead of emphasizing that it was necessary to apply the whole of his system or nothing at all, he usually welcomed these caricatures as a step in the right direction.
Although Le Corbusier’s doctrine was more appropriate to the socialist societies of recent decades than to capitalist ones, its technical content is not therefore beyond criticism. It was more suited to socialism because such societies possess the social controls to make it work, but in practice those controls may well be regarded as an intolerable intrusion into private lives. Without such controls, a Corbusian environment may well be associated with a new range of social problems. These problems would stem from his overoptimistic view of human motivations and behavior and his consequent overestimate of the influence of environmental determinism and uncritical acceptance of technical innovations. If worst came to worst, the result could easily be an inhuman environment, the opposite of Le Corbusier’s hopes.
The most dangerous of his assumptions was his belief in the strength of man’s communal instincts, which led him to maximize communal space and facilities, to reduce private space to a bare minimum, and to raise residential densities. This arrangement could well be associated with the desired result; however, if the residents proved less communally minded than Le Corbusier’s stereotype, the environment could be a disaster. The fate of the Pruitt-lgoe development at St. Louis showed what could happen when faith in the essential goodness of man proved unfounded. At least in this respect Le Corbusier may be said to have aimed high on the basis of his confidence in people, which indicates a strong respect for humanity.
But his equally strong and uncritical respect for technology led him into less pleasant paths. Even had he recognized that technical advance is more the product of investment choices than the operation of human genius, his respect for entrepreneurial capitalism would have kept him from all criticism. But as it was, he often argued that man had a duty to apply innovations. Part of his case for high building was founded on this argument, though fortunately in residential building he stopped at about twelve stories and restricted his advocacy of height-for-height’s-sake to commercial buildings.
More serious was his uncritical acceptance of the motor car. As a product of modern technology there could be nothing wrong with the car; that it appeared to be noisy, dirty, and abusive of space in existing cities had therefore to be the fault of the cities themselves. In particular, he argued, it was only the channeling effect of the traditional street that magnified noise and concentrated fumes, which otherwise would be imperceptible. The answer was to adapt the environment to machine-age demands, in this case by abolishing the street. Toward the end of his life, the generous provision of urban expressways was producing serious pollution and diffused noise up to considerable heights over wide areas, but it was too late for him to reconsider his position.
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Continuum of Care Services for Maternal and Child Health using mobile technology – a health system strengthening strategy in low and middle income countries
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making volume 16, Article number: 84 (2016)
Mobile phone technology is utilized for better delivery of health services worldwide. In low-and-middle income countries mobile phones are now ubiquitous. Thus leveraging mHealth applications in health sector is becoming popular rapidly in these countries. To assess the effectiveness of the Continuum of Care Services (CCS) mHealth platform in terms of strengthening the delivery of maternal and child health (MCH) services in a district in Bihar, a resource-poor state in India.
The CommCare mHealth platform was customized to CCS as one of the innovations under a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the maternal and newborn health services in Bihar. The intervention was rolled out in one project district in Bihar, during July 2012. More than 550 frontline workers out of a total of 3000 including Accredited Social Health Activists, Anganwadi Workers, Auxilliary Nurse Midwives and Lady Health Supervisors were trained to use the mHealth platform. The service delivery components namely early registration of pregnant women, three antenatal visits, tetanus toxoid immunization of the mother, iron and folic acid tablet supply, institutional delivery, postnatal home visits and early initiation of breastfeeding were used as indicators for good quality services. The resultant coverage of these services in the implementation area was compared with rest of Bihar and previous year statistics of the same area. The time lag between delivery of a service and its record capture in the maternal and child tracking system (MCTS) database was computed in a random sample of 16,000 beneficiaries. The coverage of services among marginalized and non-marginalized castes was compared to indicate equity of service delivery. Health system strengthening was viewed from the angle of coverage, quality, equity and efficiency of services.
The implementation blocks had higher coverage of all the eight indicator services compared to rest of Bihar and the previous year. There was equity of services across castes for all the indicators. Timely capture of data was also ensured compared to paper-based reporting.
By virtue of its impact on quality, efficiency and equity of service delivery, health care manpower efficiency and governance, the mHealth inclusion at service provision level can be one of the potential strategy to strengthen the health system.
With the ubiquitous proliferation of mobile phone in low-and-middle income countries (LMIC), communication technology has expanded in its scope and potential uses . mHealth technology is the use of mobile phones and wireless communication techniques for achievement of health goals. Mobile communication technology could be put to various applications in health . Mobile technology has been commonly used in serving as health call centres, as toll free emergency contact numbers, for managing disaster and emergency situations and for providing mobile telemedicine . Other common uses of mHealth technology include decision support, reminders for health care visits, monitoring of health care programs and effective service delivery . In 2009, the second global eHealth survey was conducted by the World Health Organization among the 112 member countries . It was found that mHealth is emerging as an important health intervention in most member countries.
Effectiveness of mHealth technology in improving health systems
Mobile based applications have been adapted in several disease conditions and have demonstrated effectiveness. A recent scoping review showed that mobile technology contributed to reduction in delays in accessing maternal health in LMIC . Yet another systematic review demonstrated the effectiveness of mHealth in improving access, coverage and equity gaps in delivery of chronic disease services in LMIC . A recent systematic review concluded that use of mobile technology as a health provider decision support system has modest benefits. However when the mobile camera photos were used for diagnosis a reduction in correct diagnosis was observed .
A review of mHealth innovations in LMICs showed that there is dearth of evidence to demonstrate effectiveness of these interventions on clinical outcomes. There are very few mHealth interventions which have focused on community health workers. These included data collection intervention, SMS based reminders for patients, job aids for health workers and decision support mechanisms [7, 8].
A cluster randomized controlled trial of SMS based text messaging about appropriate treatment for malaria in Kenya revealed a significant 23 % improvement in appropriate treatment in the intervention arm . A mixed methods evaluation of mHealth intervention in rural Uganda for AIDS control revealed that there was no quantitative difference between the intervention and control groups, however qualitatively reported perceived improvements in patients care, logistics and support . Use of personal digital assistants (PDA) in health related data capture in Uganda showed a 91 % perceived benefit for each unit of spending .
USAID in collaboration with World Vision implemented a mHealth intervention in Afghanistan in the field of maternal and child health and demonstrated effectiveness of the intervention in some maternal and child health outcomes .
In a study comparing paper based and mobile based monitoring and evaluation of community health worker activities showed that the mobile based system significantly improved data transfer accuracy compared to the paper based system . Several studies have shown the effectiveness of mHealth technologies in advancing maternal and child health care in low and middle income countries [14–16].
Though there is enough evidence as reported in the previous paragraphs to support effectiveness of vertical disease specific interventions using mHealth technology, little is known about the role of mHealth in strengthening health systems.
Health system strengthening
The World Health Organization defines health system as “consisting of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health in ways that are responsive, financially fair and make the best or most efficient use of available resources”. The ultimate goal of the health system is to improve the health of the community . People are at the center of this system . This includes the community, who are the beneficiaries of the system. It is the people’s resources that are utilized towards delivery of these services. The health system is described as a complex adaptive system. A complex adaptive system, as the name indicates is ‘complex’, involving a variety of components, ‘adaptive’, each component has an independent ability to adapt and change and is a ‘system’, a set of connected and interdependent parts [19, 20]. The independent parts of a complex adaptive system are capable of their own autonomous function, operate within their own environmental conditions and responses, interact with other agents and keeps evolving based on their interactions .
All interventions in health systems have system-wide effects. For example, if there is a health worker training intervention, its effects are not just limited to their efficiency alone, but involve all other components such as service delivery, resource allocation, etc. Many health interventions are not individual component level interventions but are system-wide. Health worker training is one such system-wide intervention. Thus systems level thinking will consider not only the individual components of the system but also how the components act, react and interact with each other [21, 22].
mHealth as a health system strengthening strategy
In order to assess whether mHealth innovations strengthen health systems, as described previously, systems thinking should be adopted. mHealth innovations should be viewed as a component of the complex health system. Coverage, quality, equity and efficiency in achieving the outcomes of good health, financial risk protection and responsiveness will ensure strengthening of the health system. The mHealth intervention cannot be seen as a standalone one. It should be viewed as integrated into the system.
Though there have been several studies reporting the effectiveness of mHealth systems and several case reports of successful mHealth applications, there are very few evaluations of mHealth application as a health system strengthening strategy . This study reports an mHealth application implemented in Bihar, India as a health system strengthening strategy and views it from a health systems angle.
Continuum of care services (Maternal and Child) using mHealth
A public health program to improve maternal and newborn health was initiated in Bihar by Care India with the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the overall goal of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5. As an innovation in this program, the Continuum of Care Services (CCS) - (Maternal and Child) was introduced using an mHealth platform. The mHealth platform is used for case management by the frontline community health workers (FLW). Under the CCS intervention pregnant women or newborns will be entered as a case into the system and followed up and care provided till the child is 6 years old (name based tracking of each pregnant mother and child in the FLW service area). There are specific units in the CCS mHealth application for pregnancy registration, antenatal care, birth preparedness, delivery, post natal care, exclusive breastfeeding, immunization and complementary feeding and growth monitoring. This CCS is depicted in Fig. 1.
CommCare is a technically advanced, evidence based mobile platform of Dimagi which is available for use in low resource settings for mobile applications including mHealth. Dimagi developed the CCS application based on the CommCare platform with specific inputs on content and processes from the expert team of Care India. The CCS application has a home visit planner for the frontline worker. It also has a built in scheduler and a checklist which helps the frontline worker perform her activities seamlessly and at the same time collects data from the field for real time transmission to the central database. Different multimedia job aids are also integrated into the CCS platform to help inter personal communication by the frontline worker. The central database also keeps the data of the client synchronized between the mobile phone, the supervisor’s mobile and the central database which helps in monitoring and supportive supervision. In India, maternal and child health care services are delivered by two systems namely the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD). The frontline worker for the former is the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and the latter is the Anganwadi Worker (AWW). The CCS platform had a provision to integrate the work of these two frontline workers. The end user of the application was the Front Line Workers (FLWs). They were provided mobile phones with the pre-installed application. The complete details of the software program that were existing in the CommCare mobile platform and the unique features of the CCS program are shown in Table 1.
The intervention was rolled out in the Saharsa District of Bihar in eastern part of India in the June 2012 and is ongoing. The data collection for the analysis was stopped in March 2015. Saharsa is one of the 38 districts of Bihar. The total population of the district is 1.8 million. The population is predominantly rural. The sex ratio is 906 females per 1000 males and the literacy rate is 54.57 %. In 2006, the district was named among 250 most backward districts of India and in 2013 government of India identified the district as one of the High Priority District (HPD) to promote Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent health (RMNCH + A) The district has some of the lowest achievements in terms of health indicators in Bihar. This analysis is part of a larger implementation study that was conducted in this area which looked at comparative efficiency of the mHealth intervention in select blocks of this district versus paper based routine service delivery in other blocks.
The conceptual framework employed for this study is shown in Fig. 2.
The effect of the mHealth CCS intervention on improvement of quality, equity and efficiency of services was studied. When the mother and child received appropriate package of services including early registration of pregnancy, three antenatal visits, tetanus toxoid injections, iron and folic acid supplementation, institutional delivery, early initiation of breastfeeding and postnatal home visits, the quality of service was said to be good. This was measured among the women who were eligible for these services in the district where the CCS was rolled out and compared with the regular maternal and child health service delivery data of the rest of the state of Bihar. In order to assess equity of service delivery, these key indicators were compared between various castes (scheduled castes and tribes) in the CCS area. Finally the time gap between occurrence of a specific event (like vaccination of a child) and its reporting in the regular maternal and child service database of the state of Bihar was documented as an indicator of time efficiency.
The study data were tabulated from two main sources namely, the Maternal and Child Tracking System (MCTS) database of the National Rural Health Mission for the whole of Bihar and the data captured through the mHealth CCS platform for the implementation project district. The tabulated data was summarized and compared.
The study protocol and procedures were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Committee for Ethics and Review of Research (ICERR) of the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, India. Written informed consent was obtained from all the participants in the intervention. Data confidentiality was ensured by restricting access to the data to those who needed to know.
The details of the implementation of the CCS project are given in Table 2. A total of 512 Frontline workers including ASHAs and AWWs were trained for implementation of the CCS project. Training was provided to the frontline workers through an incremental learning process. Each FLW underwent 4 h of training and practice sessions per week for 8 consecutive weeks through facilitators on the mobile application as well as provision of maternal and child health care. Additional supportive supervision was made available during the intervention at the field level. Between the period of 1st July 2012 and 10th March 2015 a total of 19,880 pregnancies and 19,888 children were registered and provided the continuum of care services. A total of 3,09,733 home visits were provided for these women and children.
Quality of continuum of care services
Good quality continuum of care services was defined using the previously described eight indicators which are essential for a good maternal and child health. Table 3 shows the coverage of each of these indicators in the implementation area for the period of July 2012 to August 2014 and compares it with the indicators for the state of Bihar for the period between April 2012 to April 2013 obtained from the Maternal and Child Tracking System database.
It is seen that registration of pregnancy, early registration, complete 3 antenatal visits, receiving at least 90 iron and folic acid tablets, institutional delivery, early initiation of breastfeeding and post natal home visits are all higher in the implementation area compared to rest of Bihar during the same time. It is also seen that these indicators are better in the same district compared to the previous year.
Equity of service delivery
In order to assess equity of services caste wise disaggregated data of coverage of services was assessed. This is shown in Fig. 3.
The continuum of care services were delivered equitably to scheduled castes/tribes and the other castes in all aspects. Only institutional deliveries were higher among the other castes compared to the scheduled castes and tribes.
Efficiency of services
Table 4 shows the time delay between delivery of service and data capture in the maternal and child tracking system database.
The average time lag of 72 days which is approximately two and half months, is overcome by the instant data capture that is possible with the mHealth CCS platform.
This study evaluated the overall feasibility and efficacy of using mHealth technology for delivering the continuum of maternal and child care services in one district of the state of Bihar. In this paper we view the CCS mHealth platform as a health system strengthening strategy from the angle of improved quality, equity and efficiency of service delivery. The analysis found that the coverage of eight key indicators of the continuum of maternal and child care services were higher in the implementation block compared to rest of Bihar and the previous year’s data (before implementation of the mHealth intervention). However the increase in Iron and Folic Acid uptake was not very high given the person interaction and inputs from the FLWs. This is probably because the supply of Iron and Folic Acid tablets is a job of the Auxilliary Nurse Midwife and not these FLWs. Moreover, there was also a shortage of supply of Iron and Folic Acid Tablets in the intervention blocks during the intervention period. Similarly receiving at least one post natal visit is also not adequately improved in the intervention areas. The reasons for poor improvements in post natal visit has been challenging and needs further exploration, which was beyond the scope of this study. It was also found that the implementation of CCS lead to equitable reach of services and the data capture was more time efficient. From all these three angles, the implementation of CCS led to strengthening of the health system in the district.
The better coverage of all eight indicators in the implementation period could indicate either better service delivery or better reporting of services. In order to verify this, it is important to look at a concurrently done household survey in the implementation area and a control area where the traditional services were provided and paper based reporting was carried out. In the household survey evaluation it was seen that the beneficiaries reported greater number of home visits in the antenatal period, within 24 h of delivery, within 1 week of delivery, and a complementary feeding home visit in the intervention villages compared to control villages. About 50 % of the beneficiaries in the intervention group and 29 % of beneficiaries in the control group received all three antenatal visits as reported in the household survey. Early initiation of breastfeeding was reported to be higher in the intervention group (76 %) compared to the control group (62 %). About 41 % of the children in the intervention group were initiated on complementary feeding at an appropriate time as against 32 % in the control group . Thus we can conclude that the findings are not just improved reporting but actual improvements in service delivery.
In a previous USAID supported mHealth intervention in Afghanistan, the use of mobile technology by community health workers led to significant improvement in knowledge of women about maternal and child health. It also led to better health seeking behaviors. When the mobile was used as a job aid it increased the participation of women in the counseling sessions led by the health workers. The mobile phone also increased coordination of referral services and delivery of medical supplies . Similarly a previous study has also shown that effective use of mHealth platforms can improve data capture efficiency and accuracy. The mHealth system also ensured a longitudinal follow up of each referral by back referral of patients. The study also emphasized the need for close supportive supervision of both paper based and mHealth system of monitoring and evaluation .
In this paper we look at the mHealth intervention from a health system perspective. When the health system, comprised of the six essential building blocks namely service delivery, information and research, medical products and technologies, health workforce, health care financing and leadership and good governance, operate with good coverage, access, quality and safety it leads to good health outcomes. These good health outcomes could be tangible improvements in health indicators, responsiveness, financial risk protection and improved efficiency . The CCS mHealth intervention improves service delivery, information capture, health workforce efficiency, good governance and also improves coverage, access, quality and equity as demonstrated in this study. By improving all these components it may be said to strengthen the health system.
There are several limitations in this evaluation. Firstly this is a quasi-experimental evaluation with its own limitations. The data from the mHealth district is compared with data from rest of Bihar as well as historical data of the previous year. This could lead to potential confounding effect in analysis. Since raw data were not accessible from the maternal and child tracking system and only summarized data was used in the analysis, fixed or random effects modeling could not be performed to assess the effects of this limitation. A more robust evaluation and analysis of the mHealth intervention and Maternal and Child Tracking Systems will reveal the unbiased effect size of benefits due to the intervention. This paper does not report the actual reasons for why certain outcome measures did not improve substantially following the intervention i.e., iron and folic acid uptake. However more detailed discussion of this intervention can be found in the report of the larger controlled study of the mHealth platform reported in this paper . Future studies should be conducted as a cluster randomized trials to have a good contemporary comparison group. Such research studies will help establish the efficacy of the intervention clearly.
The CCS mHealth intervention to help frontline workers delivery maternal and child health services in a backward district in eastern India showed significant improvements in quality of service delivery, reporting of service delivery, time efficiency of information capture and equity in delivery of services. By virtue of its impact on quality, efficiency and equity in service delivery, health care manpower efficiency and governance the mHealth intervention can be said to strengthen the health system. This project demonstrates the importance of the role of mHealth in effective health care service delivery in low and middle income countries.
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The study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through a grant to Care-India.
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RB conceived and designed the intervention and the study, collected the data, analysed and interpreted the data. VG conceived and designed the study, collected the data, analysed the data, drafted the manuscript, edited and revised it. SC, RC, TM and IC, conceptualized the study, interpreted the findings, edited and revised the manuscript. All the authors have read, finalized and accepted this manuscript.
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Balakrishnan, R., Gopichandran, V., Chaturvedi, S. et al. Continuum of Care Services for Maternal and Child Health using mobile technology – a health system strengthening strategy in low and middle income countries. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 16, 84 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-016-0326-z
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013
2 cups (250mls) chapatti or whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 table spoon oil
1/2 cup olive oil for frying
Extra flour and oil for rolling the paratha
1. Sieve the flour, add salt and oil,
2. Using your fingers mix until it looks like bread crumbs, slowly add the water to make a firm dough. Knead well, leave aside for 30 minutes
3. Divide the dough in 12 lemon sized balls
4. Take one ball of dough and roll it into a 10cm circle, place a pinch of flour and half a teaspoon of oil in the centre of the rolled dough, then bring all the sides to the centre and seal, trapping some air in the centre of the ball.
5. Make it into a perfect ball, press it down to make a disc like shape, and roll out into 16cm circle.
6. Place 1 teaspoon olive oil in a hot tava or frying pan
7. Place the paratha carefully and fry both sides for couple of minutes each side.
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Overall: 41.5 x 36 x 18.5 cm (16 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1965.238
The fearsome creature spitting Jonah out of its mouth is a creation of the artist's imagination derived from the ancient Greek cetos, a sea monster. Like other mythical beasts, such as the griffin and the sphinx, this monster combines elements of several different animals. Which ones do you see when looking at this fantastical creature?
After disobeying the Lord’s command to proclaim judgment on the city of Nineveh, the Old Testament prophet Jonah was cast into the sea and swallowed by a sea monster. He spent three days praying inside the beast before being cast ashore. Here, the beast spits Jonah out of its mouth.
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London's urban growers celebrate good mental health
Urban growers from across London came together to share ideas on how food growing can promote good mental health, and learn about social prescribing and social and therapeutic horticulture.
The Grow Well, Feel Well event on Thursday 5 July was attended by 55 keen growers and those interested in urban food growing and health, who left the event 'feeling connected'. It was hosted by Spitalfields City Farm, a diverse community city farm hidden within the heart of East London and one of Capital Growth's training hubs.
Attendees not only got to see the venue on a warm summer’s evening and network with like minded growers, but also heard a series of talks, panel discussions and workshops . This included a keynote talk by Craig Lister of TCV about the fast-evolving world of social prescribing, looking at how the NHS might engage more with growing projects. Workshops covered Mental Health Awareness, mindfulness in the garden’ and social and therapeutic horticulture.
The event, was organised in partnership with Growing Health, and the Women’s Environmental Network who have been developing ways to support food growing projects to deliver projects in partnership with health services and have produced a toolkit to help.
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Brent Bushnell is an entrepreneur, engineer and CEO/co-founder of Two Bit Circus, a Los Angeles-based experiential entertainment company. The interdisciplinary team strives to create immersive, social fun and is currently building a network of micro-amusement parks featuring free-roaming VR, robot bartenders, an interactive supper club and more. Previously they created STEAM Carnival, a traveling event to inspire kids about science, technology, engineering, art and math.
Brent is on fire about using play and spectacle to inspire inventors. He is passionate about rebranding STEM learning to STEAM with the inclusion of art and creativity. He is motivated by the power of group games and interactive media to bring people together in fun and meaningful ways. As a UCLA-trained engineer, he is a hands-on maker who uses rapid prototyping to turn vision into reality. He’s board president of Two Bit Circus Foundation, an LA-based 501c3 that deploys STEAM-based programs for middle and high school students.
Previously, he was the on-camera inventor for the ABC TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He was a founding member of Syyn Labs, a creative collective creating stunts for brands like Google and Disney and helped OK Go build the Rube Goldberg machine for their viral This Too Shall Pass music video that garnered 50+ million views on YouTube.
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“Democracy in the United States is in serious trouble,” the authors of a study on misinformation’s toxic impact on the voters of America say.
They cite a National Public Radio survey that nearly two-thirds of Americans think our representative democracy faces a crisis that could lead to its failure. The rise of anti-democratic movements based in racism, grievance for the loss of white male dominance in American culture and politics, the desire by some for an autocratic leader focused only on their causes, and Christian nationalism all contribute to the erosion of democratic values.
Sixty-four percent of those surveyed believe our democracy is on the edge of failure. That is an astoundingly high number. Among those surveyed, an even higher number, 70 percent, believe we are closer to that failure this year than we were last year.
Today, we fear each other more than we fear foreign terrorists or countries seen as America’s enemies.
“In a sharply divided country, Americans agree on this: the bigger danger to the United States comes from within,” a Quinnipiac University survey found this past January. “Seventy-six percent say they think political instability within the country is a bigger danger to the United States compared to the 19 percent who think other countries… are the bigger danger,” it found.
Divisions in America have deepened, and more than half of American citizens expect those divisions to worsen rather than heal in the coming years. Why are we becoming more fractured and what is behind the force propelling us into angry camps unwilling to listen to one another, or compromise to work toward an inclusive future for all Americans?
“One of the drivers of decreased confidence in the political system has been the explosion of misinformation deliberately aimed at disrupting the democratic process,” Gabriel R. Sanchez, Keesha Middlemass, and Aila Rodriguez of the Brookings Institute write.
“This confuses and overwhelms voters,” they write. “Throughout the 2020 election cycle, Russia’s cyber efforts and online actors were able to influence public perceptions and sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in voting, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of engaging in voter fraud.
Russia, Iran, and North Korea, all enemies of democracy, constantly work to inflame our fears and drive divisions deeper by creating misinformation pushed on the internet. We are both willing victims participating in our own deception and the victims of sophisticated manipulation.
Our distrust of one another and of our elections has deepened over the results of the 2020 presidential elections. Despite Trump’s loyal Attorney General Bill Barr saying the election wasn’t stolen, despite his campaign chair Bill Stepien telling him on election night there were no grounds for Trump claiming he won, and despite multiple Republican governors and secretaries of state saying their elections were fair, allegations the election was stolen remain truth for many Trump Republicans. Distrust in our electoral process remains strong among white Americans, according to the survey.
Lies and deception on the internet have caused us to lose trust in our elections, news media, courts, and government at all levels. As our discontent grows, you would think we would be more motivated to vote; the opposite is true for too many. A Howard University study shows that when people believe their vote doesn’t matter, they drop out of elections. That leaves the motivated extremes with greater power to shape government from the local to the national levels.
Misinformation about election security has infected not just national politics but reaches into school district, city and county board elections. Misguided zealots spurred on by false information about the security of voting machines and the honesty of election judges have made the jobs of local election officials unnecessarily stressful. Even more disgusting, election judges and clerks have faced threats of physical harm – all based on lies and misinformation.
Fighting foreign misinformation is made more challenging when its impact fits the political strategy of a domestic political party’s campaign. Creating fear in our voting process that leads to greater restrictions on voting, lowering voter turnout, especially in minority areas, serves a political purpose. “The enemy of our enemy is our friend” even if that enemy is also an enemy of American democracy and is a political strategy that drags our country down.
Misinformation doesn’t only influence voters; it shapes candidates making some more reactionary and more strident in their views and proposals. It makes them less willing to compromise.
“The Digital Informers at Howard University think that the best way to combat misinformation is through community engagement and educational efforts, including using trusted sources in the community to talk to individuals about what they believe,” the Brookings study authors write.
In New Mexico, North Carolina, Connecticut, and California, state governments are working to create programs and staff to combat misinformation. They are promoting their efforts to their citizens, hoping it will educate them on how to recognize false information on the internet.
Both our federal and state governments have a role in blocking foreign adversaries from spreading false information. We must be ready to combat it through a quick response with the truth or asking social media companies to block foreign actors’ sites.
America needs tools in place to counter the efforts to play us against one another with misinformation.
News literacy should be a required course in every state with their departments of education directed to support and underwrite local efforts.
In California, its department of education is directed to provide “instructional materials on media literacy to help students learn how to “discern legitimate information sources from advertising, political propaganda and falsehoods that abound on the internet,” the Brookings report says.
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[Activity Report] The 7th NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference – The AMR Consortium of the Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) (November 7, 2020)
The AMR Consortium (Secretariat: AMR Alliance Ja pan) of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) shared key points of its policy recommendations calling for the creation of a pull incentive to encourage antimicrobial R&D at the 7th NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference.
Over the past year, the AMR Consortium has debated schemes that would be able to incentivize antimicrobial R&D in the future.
At the NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference, the Consortium shared key points from policy recommendations that were developed based on that debate, and considered points to be discussed further in the future.
In light of the situation with novel coronavirus, this conference was carried out primarily online. On-site participants were encouraged to keep a safe physical distance from each other.
Date and time: Saturday, November 11, 2020
Program: Agenda4- Performance of PPP from the Conference and Future Issues
Participants from AMR Consortium of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases –Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) (alphabetical order by last name) :
Hajime Inoue (Deputy Director General, Office for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control, Cabinet Secretariat)
Shoji Miyagawa (Director, Division of Basic Medical Research, Department of Basic Medical Research, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development)
Takeo Morooka (Executive Officer, Head of Health Policy and Corporate Support, MSD K.K.)
Hiroyuki Noda (Councilor, Coordination Office of Measures on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Office of Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response, Cabinet Secretariat）
Kazumasa Oguro (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)
Jean-Pierre Paccaud（Director of Business Development and Corporate Strategy, Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership Foundation (GARDP)）
Takuko Sawada (Director of the Board, Executive Vice President, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
Kazuhiro Tateda (President, The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases/President, The Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology/Professor, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University)
Yasunori Tawaragi (Director, International Affairs, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
Yasuhide Yamada (Former Director-General of Coordination Office of Measures on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan Executive Officer/Executive Officer, SHIMIZU CORPORATION)
■Related events held as part of the “The Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)” project in and after FY2019 (chronological order)
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What is FASAB?
The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, or FASAB, is the body that regulates generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the federal government and its entities. The board is comprised of nine members, three of which are from federal offices and six of which are non-federal representatives.
In 1990, the Department of Treasury (Treasury), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed to sponsor a federal accounting advisory board. Later that year, after some financial management issues occurred at multiple federal agencies, Congress passed the Chief Financial Officer’s Act (CFO Act), requiring audited financial statements for selected federal reporting entities.
The FASAB was established to improve government accountability by issuing federal financial accounting and reporting standards that adhere to industry best practices. Its mission is to improve federal financial reporting through accounting standards. Oversight of the board is provided by the Treasury, the GAO, and the OMB.
Who reports under FASAB?
In 1999, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) announced the FASAB would establish the GAAP for federal entities. In other words, the board is ultimately responsible for setting accounting standards for federal government entities, which is broken down further into the article.
Several agencies use federal funds and report under FASAB, including the:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S Department of Veteran Affairs
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Securities Exchange Commission
- United States Postal Service
What is US GAAP?
US GAAP is a collection of accounting rules and policies established by various boards to keep accounting practices consistent and understandable across groups of financial reporters. The FASB, GASB, and FASAB issue standards that form the GAAP for each set of financial issuers.
GAAP was established to ensure financial reporting is transparent and consistent. Responsibility for enforcement and shaping of GAAP falls to the FASB and the SEC. While GASB, the accounting board regulating accounting standards for state and local governments, isn’t officially a part of US GAAP, it is related.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a board that creates accounting standards for public and private companies and nonprofit entities, not to be confused with FASAB. In simple terms, the FASAB creates standards for the federal government and the FASB sets standards for companies and nonprofit entities. Both sets of standards provide GAAP for their group of financial statement issuers.
The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides oversight of the FASB. The trustees of the FAF are appointed by committee and in turn, the FAF appoints members to the FASB.
The Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is a counterpart to the FASB. It provides accounting guidance for local and state government agencies. When finance and accounting professionals became concerned that FASB wasn’t covering those agencies in the 1980s, they implored the SEC to establish the GASB.
Similar to both the FASB and the FASAB, the GASB provides a set of accounting rules and standards overseen that from GAAP for local and state governments. Additionally, similar to the FASB, the FAF oversees and appoints board members to the GASB.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a government agency established as a result of the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent financial unrest. The SEC is governed by a five-member commission appointed by the president of the United States. The major responsibilities of the commission include:
- Oversee national securities exchanges, credit rating agencies, registered clearing agencies, the PCAOB, and the FASB, among others
- Provide critical market services with IT systems such as EDGAR
- Oversee securities trading and the U.S. fixed income market
- Oversee the activities of registered market participants, including investment advisors, mutual funds, broker-dealers, etc.
As part of their role to monitor and regulate securities trading, the SEC designated the FASB as the body in charge of accounting rules for U.S. public companies. Both FASB and SEC are responsible for shaping US GAAP. But while the FASB can only set the standards, the SEC has the authority to enforce them.
The SEC is at the forefront of financial accounting for public companies and helps identify any emerging accounting problems to address. They refer these issues to the FASB to provide additional guidance or clarity.
The FASAB oversees all federal government accounting. Any government agency that uses federal funds, such as the USDA or The Department of Homeland Security, reports under FASAB. US GAAP is established by the accounting standards provided by the FASAB, the FASB, and the GASB for their various financial statement issuers. Finally, FASB and GASB are monitored by the FAF, which in turn is governed by a private, appointed committee.
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Digital Maps and Geospatial Data | Princeton University
Provinces Afghanistan 1998
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- Afghanistan Information Management Service
This polygon dataset represents the provinces of Afghanistan. Provincial Administrative Boundaries of Afghanistan contains 32 provincial boundaries for Afghanistan, mapped at 1:250,000 scale. The coverage has polygon topology and was uploaded from land cover 1:25000(1993) which was digitized by FAO (Rome) and later was converted and updated to ESRI shapefile mapped at 1:100,000 scale at AIMS office.
- Afghanistan, Asia, Northern Hemisphere, and Eastern Hemisphere
- polygon, boundaries, Administrative and political divisions, and Boundaries
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When you decide to embark on a relationship with an anti-virus software, the last thing you think it would do is expose your personal data and internet history. However, it looks like AVG’s “Web Tuneup” software had a very big security lapse, which has since been fixed. The only question is, how many users have gotten their information stolen because of…
When we think of technology there is often an association with power and knowledge. Alvaro Dominguez of Wired believes that not only is tech relatable to politics, but it has also become the bad guy in 2015. But, how can something so useful that has been simplifying the lives of everyone be the bad guy?
You’re supposed to keep your votes confidential and your voter information should be securely handled. If that’s the case then why is it that a new server has been been discovered with voting data and personal information? We’re still in 2015 and server after server with personal data is still being uncovered.
We’ve already discussed the fact that responsive design is going to be a big part of the future of web development. One writer suggests that along with that notion, “design elements will become more uniform” and the “semantic web will come of age.”
Hello Kitty fans might be in a bit of a pickle as Sanrio, the company that owns Hello Kitty has had information of their users leaked. The leak affects about 3.3 million users and was discovered by security researchers Chris Vickery.
If you’ve had the annoying experience of going to a webpage only to have it tell you that their is either a 500 or 404 error then you know that it’s down for technical reasons. A new HTTP code that bares the numbers 451 will be able to tell users if the website they are trying to access has is…
Today marks 25 years since the creation of the first website built by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The total amount existing today is still up for as there are just estimates floating around in the billions. It’s a pretty large benchmark in the tech community and there has been a lot of growth from the early days of development.
It’s not a surprise that during one of the biggest shopping seasons of the year hackers are lurking and ready to celebrate all of the stolen data that are able to get their hands on. In fact, you might think with so much credit card activity companies and mobile devices used to purchase items would have taken and increased amount…
When it comes to the user experience on a website most designers tend to think that they have to sacrifice creativity in order to simplify the websites for users. Wired‘s Robert Hoekman Jr. says that simplicity is overrated and that the definition if the term “simple” may not be clear to many.
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The Logic Stage
Logic School builds on the foundations learned in Grammar School. Students develop critical thinking and reasoning skills as they explore areas of study including literature, history, Latin, math, science, art, technology, and the Bible. The Logic School curriculum integrates biblical principles in each course. Students are encouraged to take greater ownership of their learning and to grow in maturity as they pursue Christ in their daily lives.
Monday - Thursday 8 AM - 3:35 PM
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Teachers in all classes of the school are encouraged to avail themselves of the opportunity to extend the learning experience of the students through appropriate field trips and excursions. The cost for excursions is levied on the school fee accounts each year.
Extended opportunities are provided for students in Years 4, 5, and 6 via a school camp. Attendance at school camp is a compulsory part of each child’s primary school education.
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Water damage to your home is commonplace in almost every homeowner’s life at some point. Whether it happens as a result of flooding caused by severe storms or a pipe bursting in your home, it’s wise for homeowners to be aware of what can be done to prevent water damage from occurring, along with knowing what to do in the event of an emergency in order to avoid more serious issues down the line.
Thankfully, there are a number of effective ways to protect your home from water damage. As a property owner, you need to be proactive about implementing preventative measures, as these problems have a habit of creeping up on you when you least expect them. Many people won’t know where to start, so here are a few tips to help you along the way.
Fill Any Foundational Cracks
Cracks in the property’s foundation allow water to infiltrate your home, which can cause massive issues over time. You can prevent these issues from worsening by inspecting your home’s foundation and caulking or sealing any cracks.
Be Aware of Your Soil Slope
It is important for water to flow away from your property instead of pooling around its foundation. When you experience flooding after a storm, lingering water can pose a water damage hazard. You should make sure your soil slopes at an appropriate angle so that water flows away from your home.
Be Mindful When Gardening
Planting trees around your home will increase your chances of becoming a victim of water damage issues. Roots have the potential to disrupt plumbing systems and can cause real damage to your property’s foundation over time. When you are gardening, be sure to plant trees a good distance away from the structure of your house.
Check Your Roof
Another element of your home in relation to water damage issues is the roof. Check your roof from time to time to pinpoint any problematic spots. Your roof can take a severe beating in a storm, and it can also suffer from regular wear and tear, so you need to be mindful of its integrity.
Know Where Your Water Main Shutoff Is
Ask any plumber, and they’ll tell you the main water shutoff is without a doubt the most important plumbing feature in any building. This is because your water mains supply water to the entire place, and any water that enters the building that comes through the mains is then distributed to other pipes. In the event of any type of plumbing emergency at home, knowing where the shutoff is for your water mains will make all the difference when it comes to containing the issue and minimizing the damage. Knowing where this key component is means you can quickly shut off the water at the source.
Maintain Your Household Appliances
One of the most common causes of water damage in the home is faulty appliances. This is why it is important to maintain your appliances according to the manufacturer’s instructions and check for leaks regularly. Washing machine and refrigerator hoses are where many issues occur, so keep a close eye on these. As the appliance ages, the hoses become brittle and can be prone to leaks. Bear in mind that hoses usually only last about five years, so you may want to replace them after that period to avoid any issues.
Investigate Leaks Promptly
The moment you see signs of a water leak anywhere in your home, investigate the cause without delay. Ignoring the problems or putting off the necessary repairs will only cause you more trouble in the long run. If you fail to address the issue, you should be prepared to deal with mold, mildew, dry rot, and possible structural issues. It’s also worth bearing in mind that most home insurance policies only cover sudden and accidental damage, so any damage caused as a result of negligence or lack of maintenance will likely leave you paying out of pocket to fix the problem.
Use Water Detectors
Talk to your plumber about installing water detectors in your home. These small devices sound an alarm when the sensor comes into contact with moisture, and can make a big difference when it comes to spotting a problem early.
The biggest benefit of using these is that they can detect low moisture levels and slow leaks, which most homeowners won’t notice straight away. Install them near your appliances like washing machines and dishwashers as well as by the toilet.
Keep a Close Eye On Your Water Bill
Another clear indication of a leak is a sudden increase in your water consumption. If you notice that your bill is significantly higher without any reasonable explanation, this should raise a red flag, and you should investigate as soon as possible.
Call in Professional Help
Even those who are well-prepared can still experience water damage to their home, despite their best efforts. If you’ve suffered as a result of a water issue in the home, you should call in professionals like iFlooded Restoration, who will be able to give you the advice and support to help you recover in the aftermath of a stressful incident.
These professionals have experienced it all before and will know how to get your problem sorted and have your home back in working order in no time at all.
Even the smallest of issues can quickly escalate into big problems, so it’s important to be proactive as a homeowner by implementing preventative measures to spot problems early. Remember there is no one-size-fits-all solution in this area, so the chances are you’ll need to implement a combination of all the measures we’ve discussed here. There will also be times when problems will occur that can’t be solved by anyone but an expert. In such situations, it is important to know when to call in a professional to get the job done and to prevent problems from getting worse. While professional support may be pricey, it has the potential to save you both money and stress in the long run, so don’t delay! | <urn:uuid:d1f25562-2f52-47c0-90b8-de2c2366ba85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hiboox.com/preventing-water-damage-to-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95079 | 1,205 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Ensuring long term sustainability is the goal of College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) professor Mike Ward’s ongoing work to track and study grassland birds that migrate between the United States and Mexico.
“Many of the grassland birds that breed in the United States spend their winters in the Potosino Altiplano Region of San Luis Potosi in north-central Mexico. Because these species are declining, we want to understand their movement, the habitat they use, and their survival,” Ward says.
During a visit to San Lois Potosi, Mexico in 2016 with the ACES Global Academy, Ward, a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, reached out to a colleague at the nearby Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (IPICYT), who also had an interest in grassland birds. In collaboration with a local non-governmental organization (Organizacion Vida Silvestre; OVIS), the two put in a joint proposal for funding through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, a program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that addresses migratory bird populations’ needs on a continental scale and conserves birds throughout their life cycles.
Ward’s funded project “Winter Ecology of Grassland Birds” specifically evaluates the ecology of lark buntings, Brewer sparrows, and an endemic species the Worthen’s sparrow. The team is investigating the abundance, density, habitat use and preference, occupancy, local movements, parasitism, and health condition of the birds.
During January 2020, Ward visited the area to begin setting up the necessary technology for tracking and monitoring, but the COVID-19 pandemic soon put a pause on subsequent activities. This January he was finally able to return to finish setting up the tracking system and to train a graduate student at IPICYT who will catch, handle, and attach transmitters to the birds and also conduct regular surveys of the grassland birds in the region.
The research site in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi sits at the southern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, which historically had plenty of dry grasslands for migrating birds to enjoy.
“Due to overgrazing, poor water management, and climate change the habitat has become lower quality,” Ward explains.
The researchers are working with the local ejido (local community leaders) and non-governmental organizations (OVIS) to compare areas of the habitat that allow different levels of cattle grazing.
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What is Concurrency/Concurrent Computing?
Concurrency or concurrent computing refers to the form of computing in which multiple computing tasks occur simultaneously or at overlapping times. These tasks can be handled by individual computers, specific applications or across networks. Concurrent computing is often used in Big Data environments to handles very large data sets. For it to work efficiently and effectively, careful coordination is necessary between systems and across Big Data architectures relative to scheduling tasks, exchanging data and allocating memory. | <urn:uuid:d3eb0e2f-f217-407a-a9e8-621bc5b8a957> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://review.k12.teradata.com/Glossary/What-is-Concurrency-Concurrent-Computing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948317 | 98 | 2.75 | 3 |
What’s Google Hangouts?
Google Hangouts is a singular communications platform developed by Google to assist users initiate and engage in a variety of communications channels, including text, voice or video chats. The platform has been shown to work in either one-on-one implementation or in a group. For extra mobility and versatility, mobile apps for iOS and Android apparatus are also offered. Google Hangouts Google Voice
As we all continue to breakdown Google Hangouts we will additionally review ClickFunnels and the way Google Hangout/ClickFunnels intertwine together.
Despite of being perceived as a messaging platform for individual users, Google Hangouts handles with ease the communication requirements of corporate environments. The advantage in such case is that the employees get to communicate using a platform reminiscent of social networks, and feel comfortable sharing info that they know will be procured in accordance with newest protection standards.
The pricing scheme can be flexible to permit all types of companies to get grasp of its functionality.
To be able to merge both softwares it is important that you understand the fundamentals of ClickFunnels if you already do not.
ClickFunnels is a tool specifically intended to help individuals implement sales funnels within their business.
As you might or may not know, a typical funnel may incorporate one or more opt-in pages, an email auto responder (to send a sequence of emails that move them your value ladder), and one or more revenue pages, order forms, additional articles, member’s area etc..
In the past this would ask you to have a site hosting, an autoresponder service, landing page software, split-testing software, membership site applications, and a host of designers and programmers to cobble the entire lot together.
ClickFunnels enables you to do all that in 1 platform.
This not only saves you a lot of money in buying all those different products and services, it also help save you the technical hassle of trying to earn a lot of disparate tools work together.
Why Use CF using Google Hangouts?
As we already mentioned, Hangouts is often perceived as a program designed for individual usage, but the simple truth is there are many ways for companies to gain from it also. In business environments, Google Hangouts can be deployed as a cost-effective collaboration platform for enterprise clients. Business owners and entrepreneurs can socialize with their co-workers a clients via through HD video, voice or text. They can also save expenses and time on traveling with Hangout’s face-to-face performance for online meetings and conventions
For companies that engage in or need movie broadcasting, Hangouts also includes a feature called Google Hangouts on Air, which empowers Google+ consumers to stream video calls reside via YouTube. Hangouts on Air has turned out to be an efficient and inexpensive way for company to run online seminars and talk shows. Users also have to integrate it using hot business systems and support providers, among which ClickFunnels, Zendesk, Slack, Fresh Service, and many more.
However, leveraging Google Hangouts on its own isn’t enough in todays online business world. If you are not able to get people to attend your movie broadcasts or aren’t able to handle them after, then what’s the point? Google Hangouts Google Voice
It’s true, Google Hangouts effectively combines the features and functionalities of preceding Google business programs, especially the Google Chat program. Using its integration with Google Voice, Hangouts provide users with the capacity to call domestic phone numbers in their computing devices at no cost.
But as mentioned before, what is the point of all the Google Hangout functionality when you’ve got no one to share your messages and thoughts with.
Every firm has its own characteristics, and will call for a particular Communications Software solution that will be made for their business size, type of consumers and staff as well as particular niche they appeal to. It is not sensible to rely on locating an ideal services that will be suitable for every business regardless of their background is.
It might be a good idea to read a few reviews first and then keep in mind what the software is meant to perform for your business and your employees. Would you require a simple and simple app with just essential functions? Can you truly make use of the intricate tools needed by specialists and massive enterprises? Are there any particular characteristics which are especially practical for the industry you operate in?
If you are on the fence about giving both of those programs a test run, simply remember both are free. Google Hangouts and ClickFunnels have free versions to permit you to find familiar. If You’re unsure where to find them you can catch the | <urn:uuid:7d0aa23c-0e0e-4639-a23f-90370eb58013> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.web-vantage.com/google-hangouts-google-voice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936871 | 964 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Thanks to teachers, relatives, and children’s television my generation, the Millennials grew up believing that we’re precious little flowers that can do whatever we want. Once we got old enough to get our feet wet in the real world we learned that we’re no different than anyone else.
Many of us have been asked the same questions: why is unemployment so common amongst our generation? Why aren’t we using our expensive educations for something useful? I’ve dedicated a lot of my energy and time to the pursuit of writing. Because it pumps love inside me, I’ve stopped listening to the negative influences of others and the fearful what-ifs that my inner critic sometimes plagues me with.
The economy sucks and so many people under 30 are unemployed, which makes hard work a crucial weapon in the fight against an alarmingly common part of millennial life. The label that the media has used too often to describe the millennial generation is entitled. My entitlement isn’t self-entitlement, it’s an overwhelming desire to one day give generously to those that have given me the tools I need to move forwards.
The world keeps turning and everywhere I look is love – people in love with each other, with their lives, with their meandering dreams. I look at people loving each other and my eyes light up with a sense of hope that somewhere out there isn’t just a person to love but a long term path I can be proud of, and savor, many years from now, when I’m old and grey. I worship the sensation of love, all types of love, so I strive to open my heart to those that are nothing but kind and loving and to always express love openly.
I was born with a permanent, invisible disability called dyspraxia. Having a disability is like a never-ending race, where the goal is to keep up with someone else’s extremely quick pace. It’s important to note that pity is an alarmingly common reaction to the words;
“I have a disability”
Pity is a problematic response. An appropriate reaction is acceptance, love, equal treatment, and compassionate understanding. Before learning that I have a disability all people see is the fact that I’m a white, middle class, educated, young woman that was born and raised in Canada, but when you look a bit closer they’ll notice I’m also somewhat socially awkward and have poor fine motor, spatial, and mathematical skills.
In June 2014 I completed my university studies. That alone is an accomplishment. The fear of everything going horribly wrong dominated my first two years of university but I overcame that fear once I was welcomed with open arms. When I started university I had a history of being bullied and socially isolated by my peers. I unconditionally love, which has lead to plenty of bad people taking advantage of my unconditional kindness.
My history of being socially isolated by my peers has made me stronger and wiser. I have an abundance of self-knowledge and am slowly learning to be a better person through being pickier about the people I choose to spend time around. Another important life lesson was the day I learned to say no to experiences and people that don’t benefit my desire to move forwards and thrive. Pleasing others isn’t always possible therefore minimal selfish reliance on instinct comes first. Over time I’ve learned that the only way to move forwards is to never let my loving nature weaken me. | <urn:uuid:f9d8d65e-a59f-4d4f-9e14-2c9509171c02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.talkingsoup.com/soup-bowl/millennial-writing-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962612 | 726 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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