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A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (Part) Including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2001.
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William I gave Fordham church to Bec abbey in Normandy in 1087, (fn. 1) but the advowson descended with the manor from 1325 or earlier, the lord or his nominee presenting, except in 1391, 1451, 1454, 1486, 1492, and 1533 when the king presented. After the ownership of the manor was divided in 1543 the patronage alternated between the lords of Fordham Hall and Great Fordham manors, except that the bishop of London presented by lapse in 1561, as did Queen Elizabeth in 1597. (fn. 2) The Great Fordham manor share of the advowson was sold in 1893, presumably to Revd. T. M. Dunn who presented in 1897. (fn. 3) His share passed to Revd. E. V. Dunn between 1916 and 1919, and to A. Arwidson in 1928. (fn. 4) In 1961 Arwidson's turns were transferred by his executors to the Incorporated Trinitarian Bible Society Trust, (fn. 5) which thereafter took alternate turns with Balliol College to whom the Fordham Hall manor share had passed in 1921 or 1922. (fn. 6)
In 1961 the boundaries of the ecclesiastical parish were altered slightly, small portions of Copford and Stanway, and a detached part of West Bergholt being added to Fordham, and three small portions of Fordham being annexed to West Bergholt. All Saints' church, Eight Ash Green, built in 1898 as a chapel of ease to St. Michael's, Copford, was transferred to Fordham as a district church in Fordham parish with a separate district church council. (fn. 7)
The estimated value of the rectory was 10 marks in 1254, (fn. 8) and £8 in 1291. (fn. 9) Tithes assessed at 53s. 4d. in 1428 had been granted to Ogbourne priory (Wilts.), a cell of Bec abbey, and to Horkesley priory. (fn. 10) The rectory in 1535 was valued at £14 4s. (fn. 11) In 1650 tithe and glebe were valued at £116. (fn. 12) In 1723 the rector tried unsuccessfully to obtain tithes from Fordham Hall woodland. (fn. 13) The average net income in 1835 was £603, (fn. 14) and from 1875 was increased by the rent from a cottage bought with a loan from Queen Anne's Bounty. (fn. 15) In 1887 the tithe and glebe together amounted to £791. (fn. 16)
In 1610 the rectory house stood c. ¾ mile north of the church on a moated site of c. ½ a. (fn. 17) In 1662 it had 8 hearths. (fn. 18) It was replaced c. 1810 by a new square house of lath and plaster, with a tiled roof, which was in good condition in 1841. (fn. 19) In 1868 an extra wing of brick was added, financed by £500 borrowed from Queen Anne's Bounty. (fn. 20) A new rectory house was pro- vided at Wood Lane, Fordham Heath, by 1964 and the old one sold. (fn. 21)
The 29 a. of glebe, which in 1610 consisted of three fields north of the rectory house, 6 a. of wood next to Sir William Waldegrave's Priory grove with a small piece of adjacent land, and Parsonage meadow north of the Colne, (fn. 22) re- mained in 1810. (fn. 23) In 1893 the 33 a. of glebe included c. 6 a. adjoining the house, which included 'pretty pleasure gardens'. (fn. 24)
In the Middle Ages rectors, some pluralists, were appointed regularly. (fn. 25) The earliest re- corded rector was Henry in 1198, dean of Lexden, who in 1204 employed a curate. (fn. 26) Thomas of Reddeswell had a papal dispensation in 1291 to hold the living in plurality. (fn. 27) Roger Walden (d. 1406), rector briefly in 1391, was later archbishop of Canterbury. (fn. 28) In 1526 there was a bequest to keep a light before St. John the Baptist. (fn. 29) A free chapel worth 12d. a year, dis- solved by 1549, possibly the chapel in Ford Street, Aldham, was perhaps connected with the Holy Trinity guild dissolved by 1552. (fn. 30)
In 1544 disputes among parishioners dis- turbed church services. (fn. 31) In 1547 the church- wardens sold a pax and a pair of censers worth £4, and in 1548 latten, vestments, and other goods worth 41s. 4d. (fn. 32) In 1569 the church- wardens held a copyhold strip in Woolpit meadow. (fn. 33) Samuel Baghett, rector 1544-58, was imprisoned in 1555 for refusing to follow Roman Catholic practices but released when he re- canted. (fn. 34) Thomas Upcher, rector 1561-96, and rector of St. Leonard's Colchester 1571-82, was an extreme Protestant and former Marian exile; in his time stained glass was removed. (fn. 35) Thomas Wither, rector 1597-1616, was archdeacon of Colchester 1598-1616. (fn. 36) In 1618, when Robert Cotton, apparently a puritan, was rector, parish- ioners broke into the church and removed the pulpit, presumably to register disapproval of him. (fn. 37) By 1643 the living had been sequestrated; John Alsop, who had been chaplain to Archbishop Laud, was replaced by the parlia- mentarian John Owen, (fn. 38) who served until 1646 and later became an Independent. (fn. 39) Richard Pulley, his successor, signed the Testimony of Essex Presbyterian Ministers in 1648, but the living was sequestrated in 1649 and served by the Harvard-educated puritan John Bulkley, until Pulley was restored in 1660. (fn. 40)
In 1633 the church fabric and furnishings showed signs of neglect, and in 1684 a cover for the communion table and a new pulpit cushion were needed. (fn. 41) In 1705 many furnishings needed repair or were lacking. (fn. 42)
In 1723 there were two Sunday services and communion three times a year; John Pulley, the resident rector, also held Wickford where he employed a curate. (fn. 43) Henry Craske, rector 1731-43 and chaplain to George II in 1738, paid John Halls, rector of Easthorpe and resident in Fordham, to serve the cure, while he preached at a church in Bury St. Edmunds (Suff.) every Sunday; Craske also held Shotley (Suff.) where he lived two months a year. Communion was celebrated four times a year. (fn. 44) Halls was after- wards curate to the non-resident rector, Dr. James Husbands, 1743-50, who held Little Horkesley. (fn. 45) Charles Onley, non-resident rector 1763-1804, presented by his father-in-law, Samuel Savill, employed Thomas Twining, fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, as curate 1763-89. Twining, an accomplished musician, linguist, and classical scholar who translated Aristotle's Poetics, lived in Fordham in the summer only. (fn. 46) Moses Dodd, curate in 1802 and rector 1804-39, was a prebendary of Chichester prebendal school. (fn. 47)
In 1841, when two-thirds of the 160 families in the parish were said to belong to the church, the average number of communicants was 15. (fn. 48) On census Sunday 1851 attendances of 119 in the morning and 204 in the afternoon were recorded out of a population of 740. (fn. 49) The number of communicants rose to 30 by 1862. (fn. 50) T. L. Lingham, rector 1868-97, left the parish's financial affairs 'in a deplorable condition', (fn. 51) and by 1898 there were only c. 3 communicants, though more on special occasions. In the early 20th century there were three Sunday services and one for children, and saints' day services. Congregations on special occasions were some- times over 100, but attendances started to decline before the First World War. In 1932 there were two Sunday services and a monthly children's service. (fn. 52) In 1963 the parochial church council expressed a preference for an incumbent with moderate views, (fn. 53) but in 1997 the evangelical churchmanship attracted wor- shippers from beyond the parish. (fn. 54)
The church of ALL SAINTS, Church Road, the invocation recorded in 1516, stands on high ground overlooking the Colne valley. It com- prises a chancel, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower. The nave and chancel are built primarily of rubble, with small amounts of brick and flint mixed in, but the aisles and clerestorey have regular, alternat- ing bands of flint and brick. The nave is prob- ably 11th- or early 12th-century, but the church was largely rebuilt in the earlier 14th century, when the chancel was rebuilt, the three-bay nave arcades inserted, the aisles constructed, the porch and lower storeys of the tower built, and the chancel arch rebuilt. The arcades have two- centred heads, two chamfered orders, and moulded capitals and octagonal piers very simi- lar to those at Langham. The matching chancel arch was built as a single unit with the eastern responds of the arcades, and the tower arch is similar, but not identical. The contemporary clerestorey has small, squat trefoil openings. The chancel, aisles, and porch retain parts of their 14th-century roofs. In 1547 the whole church was reroofed, all or partly of lead. A rood loft was mentioned in 1548. The church was whitened, and the windows mended and glazed in 1549, but in 1633 extensive repairs were needed, and the steeple was cracked. (fn. 55) In 1684 the roof at the chancel end needed repair and the tower was so badly cracked it was in danger of collapsing. In 1705 the church floor needed levelling and there were cracks in the outside walls. (fn. 56) The shingled spire, mentioned in 1768, fell down in 1796 damaging the west side of the tower, (fn. 57) and was rebuilt in red brick.
A conservative restoration by Joseph Grimes of Colchester was completed in 1861, providing seating for 242 adults and 88 children, financed partly by grants from the Incorporated Church Building Society and the Essex Church and Chapel Building Society. The plaster was removed from the outer walls, the windows reglazed, and the floors tiled. The former rood screen fixings remained visible after the resto- ration. The chancel walls were cracked in 1869 after the drought of 1868. (fn. 58) Alterations in 1907 included the provision of an oak reredos and a chancel screen. (fn. 59) Seventeenth-century panelling is incorporated into the 19th-century pulpit. A monument in the chancel to Capt. John Pulley (d. 1715) has a bust and frieze of sailing ships.
A chalice of parcel gilt recorded in 1552 was probably made from the girdle of Alice Creffield, in accordance with her will of 1522. (fn. 60) In 1684 there was a small silver chalice and cover, and a pewter flagon and paten. Charles Onley, rector, gave a flagon, paten, and shell, apparently of silver, before 1804, and an old chalice was exchanged. (fn. 61) All the silver plate was sold and electro-plate had been substituted by 1925. (fn. 62) In 1552 there were three bells. (fn. 63) The three bells in 1684 (fn. 64) included one of 1637 by Miles Gray, the three in 1768 included one of 1723 by John Damion. In 1859 there were only two bells, Damion's and Gray's, and in 1862 one was cracked. (fn. 65) The Hanoverian coat of arms, made at Joseph Wallis's iron foundry, Col- chester, was hanging over the north door in 1997. (fn. 66)
ALL SAINTS' DISTRICT CHURCH, Halstead Road, originally in Copford parish, (fn. 67) financed by a bequest of Mrs. E. M. Searles, was built in 1898 (fn. 68) of red brick in a plain lancet style. It comprises a chancel with south vestry, and a nave with apsidal western narthex with north and south porches. There is a bell-cote above the vestry. In 1942 there were two Sunday services and from 1949 a monthly children's ser- vice. In 1942-5 the number of communicants was usually less than 20, in 1954-9 often more than 20, but after 1959 declined. In 1978 there was a Sunday school and one or two other ser- vices, (fn. 69) but by 1998 only one service a month. | <urn:uuid:17eb768e-76d0-4663-9c96-fd2bff432eca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol10/pp215-217 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97075 | 3,045 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Forbes digs deep into HWYMYL
“The Most Important Decision of Your Life You Make Every Day” — that’s the title of the article Forbes is running on How Will You Measure Your Life?. Quoting from the article:
The road to hell (and business failure) is paved with extenuating circumstances. In business this appears as the trap of marginal thinking. Companies fail because they apply their rules only most of the time and misprice the risk of doing so. People do the same thing–break the law, cheat on a spouse, backstab a client, take just one drink, fudge the numbers, obfuscate the truth–because the risk appears manageable at first. But nothing maintains a steady state. If you can justify going against your principles even once, what’s to stop you from doing it over and over?
If you’re ready to get deep, real quick, you need to read Clay Christensen’s new book, ”How Will You Measure Your Life,” co-written with James Allworth, a consultant and Harvard MBA, and Karen Dillon, former editor of the Harvard Business Review. It mixes tested business theories, a heap of common sense and Clay’s deep confidence in the authority of God. It’s one of the more surprisingly powerful books of personal philosophy of the 21st century. The questions it asks are the right ones: How do I find satisfaction in work? How do create a family with relationships that are meaningful and fulfilling? How do I raise kids who are responsible, kind and make good choices?
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, a leader of the woman's suffrage movement, became the first female candidate for president of the United States in 1872. African-American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was her running mate.
Since then, several other women have run for US president, including "Surprise Party" candidate Gracie Allen, who ran a satirical campaign in 1940, and most recently Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who lost to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Though Clinton came close to joining one of the 59 other countries that have had a woman leader, women have yet to shatter the country's ultimate glass ceiling.
Vice president of the United States
Geraldine Anne Ferraro, a lawyer, Democratic Party politician, and member of the US House of Representatives, became the first female vice-presidential candidate for a major American political party in 1984. Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected her to be his running mate in the election against Republican candidate Ronald Reagan; they lost.
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Head coach of a major sports team
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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Senate Majority Leader
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How to build a movement to confront climate change
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change.
Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
About the Author
Matthew T. Huber is Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
“Huber has written a ‘What Is To Be Done?’ for all of us who are vexed by the failure of progressive climate activism to produce a blueprint for a national action with clear strategic goals. In a blazing critique, he skewers ‘radical’ as well as liberal environmentalists who advocate market solutions to a crisis whose very cause is the cost-and-profit logic of energy markets. Equally he shows that the electoral road to a Green New Deal is a dead-end without a massive public struggle, integrally involving labor, for public ownership of the power industry. The shelves groan with books on the coming apocalypse , but here, at long last, is a concrete strategy for socialists.” —Mike Davis
“More and more people recognize capitalism as a primary driver of climate change. Matt Huber takes the crucial next step. He powerfully demonstrates not just why working class power is indispensable to a just transition but how we build it.” —Jodi Dean
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If there’s one thing Western media is going to do, it’s going to make African countries out to be the bad, irresponsible kids on the team.
Last week, South African scientists informed the globe that they had discovered and identified a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, which the World Health Organization went on to name Omicron. The variant’s influence and characteristics are yet to be understood, as leading scientists in South Africa — and across the world — scramble to understand the next layer of the COVID-19 virus. It also means that it is impossible to dictate exactly where the variant originated from.
The news broke, and the world began to panic, with the brash reactions manifesting as a near-global travel ban, to and from South Africa, over fears of the latest variant. The almost immediate ostracization has resulted in hordes of foreign nationals within South Africa being “stranded”, and South African citizens abroad not being able to get back home.
The Omicron strain was identified in neighboring country Botswana at the same time, but among a group of foreign diplomatic visitors, with two ministers warning Western onlookers from “geo-politicizing this virus”. Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera went on to openly accuse Western countries of “Afrophobia” for shutting their borders with such haste, and in a manner that seems as if they’ve been waiting for the opportunity to do so. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Regional Director on the African continent said, “With the Omicron variant now detected in several regions of the world, putting in place travel bans that target Africa attacks global solidarity.” Israel announced over the weekend that they would enforce travel bans on all African countries… except those which reside in North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, etc). U.S Governor Greg Abbott received backlash after ignorantly tweeting on Sunday that, “Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.”
According to Reuters, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and relevant parties have requested an urgent sitting this Friday with WHO’s working group on virus evolution, to discuss the new variant and what this could mean for this next phase of the global pandemic. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the countries that have implemented travel bans on the country to rethink and ultimately lift them, vocalizing his disappointment in the ease with which world leaders are prepared to shut African countries out of an issue we are experiencing as a global unit. Ramaphosa also argued that the bans would not successfully stopthe transmission of the newer variant, “The only thing the prohibition on travel will do is to further damage the economies of the affected countries and undermine their ability to respond to, and recover from, the pandemic,” he said.
This is not the first time that South Africa has been held liable for a newly discovered variant of the COVID-19 virus. Last December, a Beta variant was detected in the Southern African country and the world reacted in a similar way — inappropriately. Claims that the newly identified variant is the most dangerous are irresponsible are simply not true — scientists have little to no real information on how this variant may affect people, as it has just been discovered.
Informed individuals and social media warriors alike took to their handheld devices to set the records straight, with some congratulating South Africa’s team for being responsible in their handling of a global pandemic. Even Piers Morgan got it right.
Omicron has been detected in UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Australia, South Africa. South Africa did the genome sequencing, and shared its data immediately – for which we have punished them by singling out southern Africa for a travel ban.— Owen Barder (@owenbarder) November 28, 2021
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
It was afternoon on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and most people in the company were getting ready to leave early for a long weekend. Suddenly someone realized that the plan that was in place to support their clients over the long weekend had a big gaping hole.
A new plan was quickly developed to fill the gap. The only problem now was how to make sure that all of the employees who would be involved in the change got the message before they left that afternoon. That meant notifying hundreds of people in a very short timeframe. Many had to be convinced to delay their vacation and some even had to change their airline tickets for later flights in order to make the necessary changes.
The woman in charge of getting out the message realized that time was of the essence and that there was no way of knowing if a person was working at their desk and would receive an email in time. She decided that the most expedient way to deal with the problem was to work with the people who were in charge of making emergency loud speaker announcements. She also had to create messages that would inspire people to agree to change their holiday plans and not leave the company or their clients in the lurch.
It worked. Employees got on board, made the changes and saved the day.
Like me, it may seem that she would have gotten a big pat on the back for her work. But instead her boss found her and criticized her for using the loud speaker system so that everyone in the company knew there was a problem.
Instead of telling you how this woman responded to her boss’s criticism, let’s look at five different ways of thinking about and responding to this situation and an advantage and disadvantage for each type of response. As you read through each response think about when and where you might use each one.
- 1. Quietly take it on the cuff: “I’m sorry. It was the best I could do in the moment.”
Advantage: You are most likely able to avoid a big confrontation. For many people this feels like a safe answer.
Disadvantage: You may feel put down and your boss may see you as a weak link.
- 2. Express your resentment: “I didn’t have much of a choice. Your team made a mistake and I had to fix it fast.”
Advantage: You were able to make your voice heard and point the conversation back to what caused you to need to take these steps.
Disadvantage: You just started a fight with your boss that could undermine you later.
- 3. Take control of the conversation; “This was not a normal situation. The problem had to be addressed quickly or we would have lost some major players. I stand by my actions.
Advantage: This is an assertive stance that tough bosses often relate to easily.Disadvantage: If the boss’s criticism is coming out of fear of something like losing their job, it may leave them wondering if they can trust you to protect their back.
- 4. Fix the boss’s immediate concern; “You seem concerned about how it was announced. I apologize if I unintentionally caused a problem. How can I help you to do damage control?”
Advantage: Boss knows you got the underlying message and are concerned about making it right with your boss. This may release the boss’s tension.
Disadvantage: You just put your boss’s monkey on your back and have become an easy target to blame when other things go wrong
- 5. Focus on a solution; “What I think I hear you saying is, that there is a gap in our internal communications because we don’t have a way to alert people in a situation like this without broadcasting it to everyone. Is that correct? (If you get a positive response follow up with 2 questions) 1) What do you think we need to do immediately to do damage control and, 2) What if we put together a team to think through how we can respond in the future in a way that is both timely and directed only at the people who need to hear the message? Does that work for you?”
Advantage: You put the elephant out on the table without blaming anyone and responded with a solution so that the boss does not have to be concerned going forward.
Disadvantage: Sometimes people (bosses included) are so driven by fear that they cannot move quickly to a solution way of thinking and this can be frustrating for both people.
What do you think of these responses? How would you answer the critical boss in this situation? Are there other situations where you might respond differently? Is there a different way that you have responded to unexpected criticism that has worked for you?
In this story we don’t know if the boss was embarrassed about everyone knowing that their department had made a big mistake, worried that some people might lose their jobs over this mistake or perhaps concerned that a client might hear about it. These are all understandable fears that may cause anyone to be critical and each situation needs to be responded to in a different way.
On the other hand, in a circumstance like this, it would be understandable for someone to react to the boss’s criticism in a way that wasn’t helpful. However, if we think through situations like this now, when we are calm, then perhaps when we run up against a critical boss we might be better prepared to respond in a way
that serves everyone the best.
If you have a snarly situation and are not sure how to handle it, contact me and let’s have a virtual cup of coffee and discuss your concern. It is always my pleasure to support you to
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Some Useful Work on Critical Thinking, Research, Writing and Assignments
Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas the Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. Ed. Maryellen Weimer. 2nd ed.. ed. San Francisco; San Francisco, CA: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2011.
Beck, Sheila, and Devin McKay. "Critical Collaborations: An Information Literacy Across the Curriculum Project." (2011).
Condon, William, and Diane Kelly-Riley. "Assessing and Teaching what we Value: The Relationship between College-Level Writing and Critical Thinking Abilities." Assessing Writing 9.1 (2004): 56-75.
Dwyer, Christopher P. Critical Thinking : Conceptual Perspectives and Practical Guidelines. 2017.
Dykstra, De Vee E. "Integrating Critical Thinking and Memorandum Writing into Course Curriculum using the Internet as a Research Tool." College Student Journal 42.3 (2008): 920-9.
Edwards, S. L. "Education. Critical Thinking and Analysis: A Model for Written Assignments." British Journal of Nursing 7.3 (1998): 159-66.
Gregerson, Mary Banks, James C. Kaufman, and Heather T. Snyder. Teaching Creatively and Teaching Creativity. New York, NY: New York, NY : Springer, 2013.
Heron, Gavin. "Critical Thinking in Social Care and Social Work: Searching Student Assignments for the Evidence." Social Work Education 25.3 (2006): 209-24.
Jani, Jayshree S., and Marcela Sarmiento Mellinger. "Beyond " Writing to Learn": Factors Influencing Students' Writing Outcomes." Journal of Social Work Education 51.1 (2015): 136-52.
Kawaguchi, Linda. Designing Research Assignments to Encourage Critical Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving Skills. Vol. 19., 2011.
Leonard, Anne E., and Ian Beilin. "Teaching the Skills to Question: A Credit-Course Approach to Critical Information Literacy." (2013).
McDaniel, Kathryn N. "Read Long and Prosper: Five do's and Don'Ts for Preparing Students for College." Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas 87.2 (2014): 83-7.
Piergiovanni, Polly R. "Creating a Critical Thinker." College Teaching 62.3 (2014): 86-93.
Schmidt, S. J. "Using Writing to Develop Critical Thinking Skills." NACTA journal; Using writing to develop critical thinking skills 43.4 (1999): 31-8.
Schwiebert, John E. "The Topic/Form Grid: Diverse Forms of Writing to Enrich Thinking." College Teaching 44.1 (1996): 8-12.
Thaler, Valerie S. "Teaching Historical Research Skills to Generation Y: One Instructor's Approach." History Teacher 46.2 (2013): 267-81.
Varelas, Antonios, Kate S. Wolfe, and Ernest Ialongo. "Building a Better Student Developing Critical Thinking and Writing in the Community College from Freshman Semester to Graduation." Community College Enterprise 21.2 (2015): 76-92. | <urn:uuid:f930a5f6-54de-4e36-bdc0-a45d9017753d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bcc-cuny.libguides.com/c.php?g=824903&p=5911019 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.719874 | 700 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Deep learning and the German Data Science Job Market
Almost 2 years ago, I wrote a short post on the German data science market by analysing open position on the key job platforms; Stepstone, Monster and Indeed. Recently I received requests to update the post with fresh data.
So here it comes. To add a slightly different spin, I thought it would be interesting to see how widespread and prevalent the deep learning / AI trend shows up in the job market.
To get started, I scraped the number of available job openings from the sites: Monster, Stepstone and Indeed searching for the term “Data Scientist”.
To put the numbers in perspective, in the December 2015, I found 65 jobs on Indeed, 36 on Monster and 36 on Stepstone. As a first take-away; the data science market increased somewhere between 5 and 10 fold. The ~600 positions on Indeed are advertised by 254 companies, which is almost a 5 fold increase vs 2015.
In order to see how important deep learning is, I compare the number of open positions for the search term in relation to other data search terms. We see that there are 400 open positions with that keyword. Data mining or machine learning are more common by factor 2 respectively factor 4.5.
Looking at advertised methods, we see that it is always good to have some standard data preperation and statistic skills under the belt. Looking at the technology search terms, we see a hugh interest in spark (almost a 10 fold increase compared to the 2015 data.) What is espcially interesting here is that there are “only” 330 data engineer positions. Hence big data technologies are mentioned in a much wider range of job positions.
Finally, looking at programming languages and business intelligence tools we see that Java and Excel are still highly in demand.
Two years ago I concluded with stating: Given this analysis, I would conclude that Germany is not (yet) a hot market for data scientist. Both in terms of regional distribution as well as the low absolute and relative number of open positions suggests that the job market is not well developed.
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News Environment This French City Is Largest in Europe to Offer Free Public Transportation for All By Matt Hickman Matt Hickman Writer Emerson College The New School Matt Hickman is an associate editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. His writing has been featured in Curbed, Apartment Therapy, URBAN-X, and more. Learn about our editorial process Updated May 24, 2019 Residents of Dunkirk have responded in a positive manner to a month-old free public transit scheme that's meant to help curb air pollution and expand accessibility across France's most northerly town. (Photo: Francois Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images) Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive Between a ferocious battle and an evacuation of "miraculous" proportions, the name Dunkirk evokes the momentous role that this coastal town in the far north of France played during World War II. These days, Dunkirk is making news for an ambitious, enviable scheme that urges residents and visitors to ditch private cars in favor of free public transit. And just one month in, the plan, the largest of its kind in Europe, appears to be a smash success. Home to over 90,000 residents in the city proper and around 200,000 in the greater metro area, Dunkirk — located just several miles from the Belgian border in the Hauts-de-France region — doesn't boast an extensive public transportation network. There are no subway lines, trams or trolleys. A predominately industrial town with a sizable harbor and significant Flemish influence, Dunkirk isn't that big. But there is, however, a bus system. And it's this bus system that is now wholly fare-free — no coins, paper ticket or transit card required — as part of a move that has seen ridership numbers jump by 50 percent on many lines, and as high as 85 percent on others in the course of several weeks per the Guardian. To help make hopping on les autobus in Dunkirk more appealing and to accommodate the dramatic uptick in ridership, bus lines in this historic port city beset with "an aging, dwindling population and polluted air" have been extended and the total number of buses in the fleet has increased from 100 to 140 with many older vehicles being swapped out for cleaner, greener buses that run on natural gas. "The increase in passengers since it went free has surprised us; now we have to keep them," Dunkirk Mayor Patrice Vergriete tells the Guardian. "We're trying to make people look at buses differently. We have put the bus back into people's head as a means of transport, and it has changed attitudes." Vergriete, who pledged to introduce free public transit as part of his 2014 election campaign, goes on to explain that prior to the launch of the program,65 percent of trips around town were made by car. Only 5 percent were made by bus and even fewer — a paltry 1 percent — were made by bike. All other travel was by foot. Thanks to the "changed attitudes" of Dunkirk residents, it's safe to assume that these percentages have since shifted. "Before, I almost never took the bus, but the fact they are now free as well as the increase in the cost of car fuel has made me reflect on how I get about," admits Dunkirk resident George Contamin. "I never used the bus before," another newly minted bus commuter named Marie explains. "It was too much bother getting tickets or a pass. Now I leave the car at home and take the bus to and from work. It's so easy." Dunkirk initially introduced free bus service on weekends in 2015 before extending it to every day of the week in September 2018. (Photo: Francois Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images) The Estonian method As mentioned, Dunkirk's bold move away from fare-dependent public transit is currently the largest of its kind in Europe. But it's certainly not the first. As the Guardian details, Vergriete and other city leaders were inspired by a free transit initiative first launched in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in 2013, which has since proven to be a runaway success — and a lucrative one at that. There are, however, some key differences. For one, Tallinn is significantly larger than Dunkirk with a population of 450,000 and a network of trams and trolleys in addition to buses. And unlike Dunkirk where bus rides are free across the board, non-residents and visitors are required to pay a fare. What's more, Tallinn residents who wish to go fare-free must register with the city and fork over a negligible 2 euros for a special transit card that allows them to ride for free. In June, it was announced that free transit, specifically local bus transport, would extend beyond Tallinn and throughout the technologically advanced Baltic nation of 1.3 million residents. Individual Estonian counties (there are 15 of them) not wanting to provide free bus service have the choice to opt out, although this means they will miss out on a hefty wad of transit-earmarked cash allocated by the government. Although visitors and others still have to fork over fare in Tallinn, Estonia, public transportation is free to registered, tax-paying residents of the city. (Photo: Raita Futo/Flickr) Like in Tallinn, public transit in Dunkirk is heavily subsidized to begin with, making the elimination of fares — again, Dunkirk went one step further in this regard — all that much easier. Per the Guardian, roughly 10 percent of the system's 47 million euro annual running cost came from fares before they were dropped altogether. Sixty percent of funds come from versement transport, a national public transport levy on companies and other entities with more than 11 employees. The remaining 30 percent of funds come from the local Dunkirk transit authority. To make up for the 10 percent shortfall now that fares are out of the equation, the company transport tax was adjusted accordingly. Ordinary Dunkirk taxpayers will not shoulder any of the costs. In 2017, Niort, a smaller city in western France, saw bus ridership jump by 130 percent on certain routes after it did away with fares. Like Dunkirk, 10 percent of the city's annual operating costs previously came from fares. "Before, when they paid, it was a service and they were customers. They may have been only contributing 10 percent of the cost of running the service but they thought it was theirs," says Vergriete, noting an increase in civic bonhomie since bus fares disappeared. "Now it's a public service they look at it differently. They say ‘bonjour' to the driver, they talk to each other. We are changing perceptions and transforming the city with more vivre ensemble. We are reinventing the public space." Having halted public transit fares during air pollution emergencies, city leaders in Paris now want to eliminate them all together. (Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images) Paris flirts with bidding adieu to public transit fares Some 200 miles away from Dunkirk in Paris, fares for public transit, the Métro included, have also been lifted ... but only during periods of peak air pollution. This includes the winter of 2016 when system-wide fares were banished for several consecutive days as the City of Lights was shrouded under an oppressive blanket of smog. Like in Dunkirk but on a much more urgent and expansive scale, the idea was that by making public transit free, a substantial number of Parisians would be inclined to leave their cars at home, helping to limit additional emissions from private vehicles and, in turn, ending the days-long bout of dangerously poor air quality. This fare-eliminating trial balloon of sorts was the right, safe thing to do but also an expensive one, costing the city northwards of 16 million euros. Under mayor-cum-tireless environmental warrior Anne Hidalgo, Paris is mulling over the idea of permanently scrapping public transit fares although implementing such a dramatic move wouldn't come quite as easily as in Dunkirk where income from fares plays a more modest role in keeping things up and running. In Paris, passenger fares account for about half of the annual cost to keep 14 Métro lines, 58 buses lines, regional commuter trains and a growing tramway system in operation. "To improve public transport we should not only make it more extensive, more regular and more comfortable, we must also rethink the fares system," said Hidalgo in a statement earlier this year. Opponents of Hidalgo's fare-free inclinations worry that striking fares completely would present an unfair burden on taxpayers, who would likely end up footing the bill in a city that already has high rates of public transit use. Per a 2015 study by EU statistics agency Eurostat, over 60 percent of Parisians use buses and trains to commute versus the 25 percent who drive a car to work regularly. Critics believe that these statistics would fluctuate only slightly if fares were eliminated. "Who will the new public transport users be? All studies have shown they will be cyclists, then pedestrians and very few motorists," transport economist Frédéric Héran argues to the Guardian. "This clearly shows it's an anti-cycling, anti-pedestrian measure and not very discouraging to cars." Another critic, Claude Faucher of Union des Transports Publics et Ferroviaires (UTP) believes scraping fares for Parisians demonstrating economic hardship could "perhaps be justified" but that far-free public transit for everyone would "deprive [public] transport of resources that are useful and necessary for development." In 2014, mayoral candidate Patrice Vergriete vowed to make public transport in Dunkirk free to all. Four years on, he's delivered. (Photo: Philippe Hugen/AFP/Getty Images) 'You can't put a price on mobility and social justice' Mayor Hidalgo, who, among other things, has transformed a congested highway along the Seine into a riverside park and improved the city's bike infrastructure by leaps and bounds to help curb air pollution, points to Tallinn as one city that's successfully made permanent public transit fare-elimination work. The Parisian mayor and other proponents of free — or mostly free — public transit are also looking to a slew of air pollution-plagued German cities for guidance and inspiration. In early 2018, it was announced that five major cities in the western part of the country — Bonn, Essen, Herrenberg, Mannheim and Reutlingen — had been selected to launch trial programs that would test the feasibility of permanently axing public transit fares. "It's up to the municipalities themselves to decide if they want to try it," environment ministry spokesman Stephan Gabriel Haufe explained at a press conference announcing the pilot scheme. "The municipalities would have to come to us with the proposal of free local public transport, and then we would see if it's feasible." As the Guardian notes, the divisive plan was later reworked so that public fares in these cities would be generously reduced instead of eliminated entirely. To help compensate for the potential losses triggered by lowered fares, the German government is pitching in 128 million euros. Meanwhile back on the northernmost coast of France, things really couldn't be more hunky-dory. Dunkirk's once overlooked and under-utilized bus system is now all the rage — and all because fares were lifted. "Before the bus was for those who had no choice: the young, the old, the poor who don't have cars. Now it's for everyone," Vergriete tells the Guardian. His advice for other cities considering doing the same? "Put the advantages and disadvantages on the table and consider it realistically," he says. "It may be that the financial cost is too great, but don't underestimate the social advantages. 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A great deal of individuals listen to songs on Internet radio stations or on an additional online music outlet. There are a great deal of factors for this such as the ease of discovering music you like, less industrial interruptions, and songs is more available on-line particularly if individuals spend a lot of time on their computer systems for work or college. Musicians have experienced to maintain up with the demands of people investing time listening to music on the Internet. A lot of them release their new singles online before they come out with a new album.
Radio has traditionally been a very effective driver of album and single revenue. Individuals online music want and require to listen to the entire song and require to hear it a number of occasions till it will get into their subconscious.
Rehearse the songs. Okay, so you have determined to record wedding songs. But that doesn’t imply you take things lightly. Rehearse the numerous playlists just to make sure that the choice seems correct and the gadget works well.
When we believe of a modern life we think ‘stress’. The needs of daily life have robbed us of personal peace. We don’t have time for ourselves. Even when we do get time, the thoughts and worries dangle heavy on us. music has an essential role to play right here. The soothing impact of kenget popullore 2021 helps to remove anxiousness. It helps us to relax and occasionally places us to sleep peacefully. Some scientists have found out that listening to gentle songs forty five minutes prior to rest helps individuals sleep longer and better.
Try looking up posts on YOUR favorite bands, or most importantly, bands that are comparable in fashion to your personal – and get in touch with the individual who wrote the piece. Critiques on market bands give you something distinctive to talk about. You can relate to the author about becoming 1 of the couple of people to uncover the band. Even much better, congratulate them on finding the band in question!
I believe this is a contributor to the unlawful free downloading of songs that is so common. Much of the songs you hear throughout your day you didn’t have to spend for. We fairly much expect to listen to free songs, so some individuals don’t think two times about downloading it with out having to pay.
Make certain that your MP3 player is completely suitable with the songs you are downloading. Different websites provide downloads in different formats, and if the site you are turning to for your music offers a various format than your MP3 player uses, it could trigger you problems. To avoid pricey and time consuming issues, verify before you download.
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An unusual mirror project that reflects sunshine into a dark Norwegian valley attracted international media attention on Wednesday, when it officially cast its light 100 years to the day that the idea was launched.
Oscar Kittelsen had written in the local paper a century ago that giant mirrors could help bring sunlight into the valley town of Rjukan, which otherwise never gets sun during the winter months.
The project languished for decades but was revived by local artist and entrepreneur Martin Andersen 10 years ago. It ended up attracting enough funding and on Wednesday, local residents and a fairly large media corps packed the town square for a ceremonial unveiling. The town council hired in a press chief to handle the media inquiries after project leader Øystein Haugan was overwhelmed.
“I’m used to dealing with local medial in Telemark, but suddenly The New York Times, National Geographic and Reuters were calling,” Haugan told state broadcaster NRK.
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Hidden amongst lush Welsh woods and fields of wildflowers, grows an assortment of rare vegetable varieties. They might look ordinary enough, but many have been saved from extinction.
Each variety has its own story. The Syrian long pepper was grown from seeds taken out of the country during its conflict in 2011. The Llanover pea was brought to Wales by a German prisoner of war after World War II as a gift for a maid he had fallen in love with.
This plot is the work of Adam Alexander, a self-styled “seed detective” who tracks down rare plants, helping to preserve genetic diversity in our crops and reshape our relationship with food.
Saving vegetables like these is about more than just conserving unusual species. It could help feed our planet in the future.
The cost of mass monoculture
Between 8 and 20% of the world’s estimated 400,000 known plant species are edible. Yet we depend on just 200 plant species for the global food supply. Just nine of those account for 66% of the world’s crop production.
As a result of mass monoculture, where farmers grow a single crop, 75% of plant genetic diversity has been lost in the last century. With many of the remaining agriculturally viable species under threat from climate change, diversifying the crops we use could be a solution for future food security, species conservation and environmental protection.
Alexander is one of 180 volunteer “Seed Guardians” across the United Kingdom who share a passion for collecting and saving rare, endangered and traditional “heirloom” vegetable varieties with the hope of putting them back on our plates.
These Seed Guardians work with the Heritage Seed Library, a conservation initiative run by the horticultural charity Garden Organic. It operates like a normal library but instead of checking out books, members check out seeds. They plant the seeds, grow the plants, harvest the next generation of seeds and share the surplus with members.
The Seed Guardians are specialty growers responsible for 50% of the library’s stock.
“This is not simply about conserving the past but securing genetic resources for future generations,” says Catrina Fenton, head of the Heritage Seed Library.
There are an estimated 450 seed libraries around the world, ranging from simple seed swaps to programs at public libraries and more established institutions. By promoting the sharing of seeds, they differ from seed banks — such as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in the Arctic Circle — which are closer to a safety deposit box for seeds.
“Rather than having them sitting on a shelf … we want to share these really interesting varieties — and potentially in the future, very valuable varieties — with growers around the UK,” says Fenton.
The Heritage Seed Library is helping to conserve around 800 vegetable varieties. Thirty of these, such as the Bronze Arrow Lettuce and the Summer Sun Squash, are now commercially available again and no longer require conservation.
‘A pea nut’
In over three decades, Alexander has amassed his own personal library of 493 seeds, of which 96 have been grown for The Heritage Seed Library.
“I’m a bit of a pea nut and I grow at least 15 different varieties every year,” says Alexander. His favorite species he grows is the Avi Joan pea, donated to him by a Catalonian friend who he says was the only grower in the world before it was shared with Alexander.
The Avi Joan is now grown by members and its seeds stored in the library’s fridges for safekeeping, alongside others, like the hardy and disease-resistant leek Sim Seger and the lengthy broad bean Bowland’s Beauty.
Prince Charles — who is an avid gardener and patron of Garden Organic — also helps preserve rare species and grows some of the library’s varieties at his private residence in Gloucestershire. These include the tall and nutty flavored Mrs Lewis Purple Podded climbing French bean and the Black Valentine dwarf French bean.
Alexander says sharing seeds for others to grow can help remind us how important it is to cultivate a relationship with our food.
Whether it is herbs on a windowsill or local tomatoes on your balcony, “the thing that we can do as individuals to try and connect us with our food is first of all, try and grow something,” says Alexander.
“As soon as you put some seeds in the ground, even if it’s just to grow some basil or some parsley on your windowsill, suddenly you have a connection, a direct connection with that thing that you’re going to put into your tummy.”
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We’ve learned a lot this year! One of the highlights though has been ironing out the rough edges of communal living in a shared living space. If you think your roomis are the best and you have no complaints, well, you’re one of the lucky ones!
However, when we practice communal living, it’s easy for certain habits to start getting to each other. So to make sure your shared living space stays happy and healthy, being a good roomi is essential.
Here are some habits that you should avoid when living with roomis in a shared living space.
1. In a shared living space – when you snooze, your roomis lose
Do you hit snooze on your alarm at least 10 times before you wake up? Well, it’s bad for you – as well as your roomis – in a shared living space. They might have a different sleeping schedule. And hearing that alarm tone over and over is never a good start to someone’s day.
So when living with roomis, stop snoozing those alarms to make communal living less cranky for everyone!
2. You aren’t the eternally designated DJ in your shared living space
We know this one stings. But the truth is: except for when it’s a party and you want to play DJ while everyone socializes and gets drunk, no one likes listening to your music all the time.
So when in a communal living situation, do your roommates a favor. Invest in a good pair of earphones or headphones to keep them sane. Even if your choice in music is outstanding, not everyone might want to listen to music when you do!
RIP non headphone using roommates
And when you do plug in your earphones, don’t sing along in your shared living space all the time. It might be cute for a while but can easily cross the line and enter the dreaded annoying zone!
3. The sound of discord
So you’ve decided to pick up a new skill? And you’ve finally started taking online classes to learn the instrument you’ve always wanted to. Cheers to you! But we pity the roomis that are in a communal living situation with you.
Sound waves travel through closed doors in your shared living space
Even though it’s great to learn a new skill, if it’s at the expense of the people in your shared living space, you need to be a bit more mindful of your practice. If you can’t sleep, 3 am is not the best time to be practicing your disharmonious tunes.
Even if you play well, your roomis might be sleeping or trying to sleep. So if you have to, keep the volume down. Also, ask your roomis what time of day they’d prefer you to get some practice in.
4. The Grudge
Finding hair in the drain in shared living spaces is pretty infuriating! Remember the disgusting scene from The Grudge when hair would pop up from the everywhere? If you leave hair in the drain after a shower, your roomis are faced with this scene in real life.
Pick up your hair!
So be a good roomi and clean up after a bath when you’re in a communal living situation.
5. I love you baby
It’s adorable how you and your SO get along. And even more so, when you talk all day about nothing. Also, you make the world a better place with your love. But it is rather annoying when you choose to make everyone listen to it ALL THE TIME.
Stop broadcasting your love in a shared living space
So if you like to talk to your SO all the time, make sure you do it in your room. And not in the shared living spaces in your apartment. Even if your roomis haven’t recently got their hearts or relationship broken, it’s annoying to listen to you baby talk to your baby all the time.
6. Hey, you listening?
As a rule, when your roomis have their earphones on, they don’t want to be spoken to. They’re clearly enjoying some time alone and don’t want to be disturbed. So don’t talk to them when they have their headphones on!
If what you have to say is not important, wait for them to take their earphones out before you begin.
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Six Tips to Facilitating Successful Accessibility Trainings
By Megan Hagberg, Accessibility Analyst
Accessibility trainings, whether in-person, virtual, or a hybrid learning model, are a great way to introduce folks to what accessible information and communications technology (ICT) is, why it’s important, and how to remediate inaccessible content and create accessible content moving forward. Here are six quick tips on how to deliver a successful accessibility training.
- Prepare a PowerPoint presentation outlining the topics that will be covered over the course of the training. Make this PowerPoint available to participants prior to the event. This allows them to review it beforehand, become familiar with the content, and formulate questions. This presentation can also act a reference tool for participants to consult in the future.
- Discuss why accessibility is important. Consider emphasizing that, broadly speaking, accessible ICT provides equal opportunities to people with disabilities and helps prepare for an aging population.
- Provide sample documents/exercises to demonstrate remediation steps, in real-time. Provide participants with the same sample resources and encourage them to practice the remediation techniques on their own.
- Present the training with accessibility in mind.
- Speak slowly and clearly.
- Read what is presented visually on each slide.
- Pause often and encourage participants to ask questions and engage in the training.
- For longer trainings, consider building in five to 10 minute breaks.
- Provide participants with access to resources and tools. Examples include:
- Section508.gov - provides guidance to Federal agency staff who play a role in Information Technology (IT) accessibility
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - provides strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities
- WebAIM - expands the potential of the Web for people with disabilities
- Colour Contrast Analyzer – free color contrast checker tool that allows users to easily determine the contrast ratio of two colors
- NVDA - screen reader that can be downloaded free of charge by anyone
- Relate to participants. Recall how you felt when you started your accessibility journey (or reference another learning experience) and reassure participants that it’s okay to feel overwhelmed and encourage them to test different remediation techniques on their own. By engaging participants and involving them in the training process, they are more likely to take ownership of their learning. As Benjamin Franklin famously said- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” | <urn:uuid:0b2dac85-42b4-4afc-9680-8b8958dc8e24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neweditions.net/blogs/six-tips-facilitating-successful-accessibility-trainings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.893823 | 519 | 3.046875 | 3 |
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, with a theme this year of “Embrace Your Voice.” Explaining this theme, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center says “The things you say every day send a message about your beliefs and values. When you stand up for survivors of sexual violence, you send a powerful message that you believe and support them.” This is an area of passion for us, as we have long partnered with clients working on primary prevention of sexual violence (for example, North Dakota’s Rape Prevention and Education program).
As evaluators, the idea of “Embrace Your Voice” also calls to mind the importance of trauma-informed, survivor-centered evaluation. Throughout all types of evaluations, we aim to uplift the voices of stakeholders. But especially when working on the issue of sexual violence, applying trauma-informed principles is important because it removes barriers to survivor participation.
Trauma-informed evaluation challenges us to deepen our self-awareness and sensitivity of our own positions and those of others. We know that sexual violence is a common trauma-inducing experience; we also recognize that trauma can be a result of accidents, natural disasters, or long-term exposure to neglect or conflict and can exist on an individual, family, and community level. While there are many kinds of trauma-inducing experiences, data on sexual assault alone is staggering: in the U.S., nearly 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men have been raped at some time in their lives (statistic courtesy the CDC). Moreover, Native women experience sexual violence at higher rates. For example, a recent study found 14.4 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women had experienced sexual violence in the past year, compared to 5.4 percent of white women (statistics courtesy the National Institute of Justice).
Being mindful of these statistics, we apply trauma-informed principles that empower all individuals to participate in evaluation. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a trauma-informed approach realizes the widespread impact of trauma, recognizes the signs and symptoms of it, and integrates knowledge about trauma to avoid re-traumatization. In evaluation, this approach recognizes the dynamics of power in our design, data collection, analysis, and communication of findings. It accounts for the effects of trauma in people we engage in our evaluation and informs a significant aspect of what we measure. One way to make an evaluation trauma-informed is to structure it so we can respond appropriately when someone becomes triggered. Without trauma-informed evaluation, we run the risk of re-traumatizing or triggering difficult feelings for the survivors.
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GATE lab is committed to practicing inclusion, cultivating diversity, and rejecting discrimination in any form. GATE lab is eager to recruit new members of all races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and skin colors. The entire UC Davis community shares these sentiments.
GATE lab Study various aspects of Hardware Security
Gate lab engages in the study of efficient learning models, learning model security, and implementation of Neuromorphic Hardware
Hardware Security and Trust
Hardware is the root of trust! Secrets are stored in Hardware! Hardware also embeds valuable intellectual property. Hardware security is the science of building trust, protecting secrets, and protecting the IP.
Neuromorphic HW design is the science of architecting HW solutions for efficient execution of learning models to widen the application of learning models in low-power mobile, embedded, & edge IoT devices.
Dr. Avesta Sasan manages the Green, Accelerated, and Trustworthy Engineering (GATE) laboratory. Research of this laboratory spans hardware security, Neuromorphic hardware design, applied-learning for digital and VLSI design, and low power, trusted, and privacy-preserving IoT Solutions.
Dr. Sasan joined Univesity of California, Davis in 2021. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Sasan's research spans hardware security, machine learning, neuromorphic computing, low power design, approximate computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). | <urn:uuid:e6b078da-4379-4417-89f4-ce33ce78cce0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~avesta/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.895279 | 308 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Transmit love and not virus: Love for your pets in the time of corona!
- By Kritika Manchanda
In these tough times when we all seem to be living in a post apocalyptic period, the one thing that’s cheering us up is our pets. The corona virus pandemic has become the only talk of the town (or should we say the world). While people are quarantined, are practicing social distancing, and are self-isolating themselves, there are a few who encourage spreading false information gathered through Whatsapp University and make things worse. The situation is tough, but that doesn’t mean you start abandoning your pets.
Pets don’t transmit Corona Virus: WHO
There have been so many rumors that dogs and cats spread corona virus and that’s a major reason that a large number of pets are being abandoned heartlessly. As per current expert understanding and guidelines shared by World Health Organization (WHO), the primary transmission of Covid – 19 can only happen person-to-person. There is no information or research that proves that companion animals can spread corona virus. Rightly said that your pets only transmit love and not virus.
But as a precautionary measure it is best to wash your hands after handling your pets, their food or waste. If your pet has any sign of respiratory problem or is not eating properly, talk to your vet immediately. It can be an underlying sign of an infection so get treatment at the earliest. The central and state government is doing all it can to curb this calamity. Now is the time to act responsibly and not be a victim to false news and rumors. As on March 23rd, 2020 Modi government has told all states that veterinary services must go on because animals cannot suffer during the COVID – 19 crisis. While several states have announced lockdown which means only essential services will be available, Modi government told all states to ensure that medical help for animals is treated as essential service.
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) wrote another letter to all states emphasizing that all law enforcement agencies ensure that animals and birds do not suffer due to hunger during the lockdown due to COVID-19.
How to protect pets if you’re sick?
If you’re sick with Covid – 19 (suspected or confirmed) it is best to stay away from your pets or other animals, just like you should stay away from other people. Ask another family member to take care of your pet until you fully recover.
Keeping pets safe and preparing for emergency
We don’t know what’s going to happen the next day or even hour, so it’s best to keep yourself prepared. If you’re a pet parent make sure you have an emergency kit ready for your pet. It should have 2 weeks’ worth of food and any medications that your pet might need.
Whenever your pet comes back home after a walk, sanitize his paws. Maintain proper hygiene by washing his food and water bowl frequently. Keep your pets engaged with indoor games or play sessions indoors and avoid going out for long walks.
Love, compassion, and social distancing – the hopes we’re all clinging on to
It is such a dark phase and your pets need you as much or even more than your children do. Don’t abandon them, care for them and they’ll love you back to make this confinement period a little tolerable. And think of those unlucky furry buddies on the streets who used to survive by finding waste food? Spare a thought for them and if you have the resources, please make an extra chapatti or give the street dogs of your locality bread and milk. We are in this together and that’s how you show humanity!
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The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the triggers for problems in the family. Then how to solve it? The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the triggers for problems in the family.
The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the triggers for problems in the family. If not addressed, this family problem can lead to divorce.
According to Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, family problems that arise during a pandemic usually start from unresolved problems.
When there are unfinished problems, such as unfinished homework, plus the burden during a heavy pandemic, the problem will get bigger
Unresolved problems can trigger various other problems in the household, such as anger, violence, to divorce. The National Population and Family Planning Agency survey found 2.5 percent of families vent their anger at home.
Data from the Directorate General of the Religious Courts of the Supreme Court also shows that divorce cases in Java have increased from less than 20 thousand cases in April-May this year, to more than 57,000 cases in June-July.
So that problems in the family do not damage the household and lead to divorce, there are several preventive steps that can be taken.
Here’s how to deal with family problems during the Covid-19 pandemic.
1. Take good care of yourself
We advise everyone in the family to be able to take good care of themselves such as maintaining sleep and eating patterns. A well-groomed self is better able to control emotions so as to prevent a protracted conflict.
2. Looking for a solution
Discuss the problem with a cool head and find the best solution to solve the problem. Don’t focus on the issue, especially who is at fault. Focus on solutions and improve household harmony.
3. Get some fresh air
Take time to breathe fresh air like in the yard to calm emotions.
4. Joint activities
Find fun activities together to create a sense of comfort and affection. Some activities that can be done such as watching movies, gardening, and exercising together,
5. Provide support
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DER, in partnership with The Clemente Course in the Humanities, is delighted to announce our upcoming screening and discussion series, How Should We Live?: Cross-Cultural Journeys Through Film. The Clemente Course is a national program that offers college level humanities courses to low-income adults, and the series is aimed at engaging audiences in conversations about what it means to be human.
Over the course of the 2019/2020 academic year, we will host four screenings in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, open to Clemente alumni, potential students and other community members. Each screening will include structured discussion, under the guidance of the project humanities scholar, Julie Legas, and guest speakers, selected for each program. We’ll kick off the series in September with a screening of Steven Feld’s J.C. Abbey about a master puppeteer in Ghana.
This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We’re so excited to be bringing our films to new audiences, in our own backyard.
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A number of ‘wonderful’ minton floor tiles have been discovered during the ongoing restoration of Rochdale's town hall.
Experts and volunteers who are working on the restoration discovered the tiles hidden away in storage crates in the town hall basement.
Widely considered to be one of the finest municipal buildings in the country, the gothic building has been closed to the public as it undergoes a £17 million restoration, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
In a post on Rochdale Borough Council’s Facebook page, they say the ‘wonderful minton floor tiles…depict symbols of Rochdale’s former industries, including the wood, cotton & iron trade’.
It adds that the team are currently cataloguing and cleaning the tiles, which are likely to be reused within the building, so they can be enjoyed once again when the town hall reopens in 2023.
The Victorian town hall first opened to the public on September 27, 1871 after architect William Crossland won a competition to design the building following Rochdale’s formation as a new borough in 1856.
Previously precious artefacts including a hidden staircase were also uncovered during the restoration work.
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King Kong of Skull Island – McFarlane Action Figure
King Kong, the monstrous anthropoid that ruled Skull Island and terrorized New York in 1932.
The King Kong of Skull Island figure stands approximately 7 inches tall, is designed with over 25 points of articulation, and includes interchangeable hands and head portraits.
King Kong of Skull Island is the perfect addition to any fine monster collection!
The King Kong of Skull Island figure comes packaged in a collector-friendly window box, perfect for display.
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This was actually a secret marriage that would get the couple thrown into the Tower, so let’s back up a little for context.
Elizabeth was on the throne; under her father’s will (which had Parliamentary approval), Catherine Grey was the next rightful heir – and thus spent time at court. There, she became friends with Somerset’s daughter Jane…which helped her become better acquainted with Jane’s brother, Edward Seymour, who had been restored to the Earldom of Hertford. They quickly fell in love, and easily won the approval of their mothers (Frances Brandon Grey and Anne Seymour Somerset were both dowager duchesses whose husbands had been executed for treason – what are the odds?!) … but because of that heir-to-the-throne piece, the monarch’s permission was necessary as well.
This is where we see how unfortunate the couple’s timing was: if they fallen in love and asked Mary before she died, they likely would have gotten permission (Mary was close with both Frances and Anne, Mary didn’t want Elizabeth to inherit the throne, Mary expected to have a son of her own…). But Elizabeth was a different story. Even in 1560, after Elizabeth had been on the throne only two years, people knew she would never agree to the match. Elizabeth herself was still unmarried – and Hertford was the son of the “Good Duke” who tried to stop nobles from enclosing their lands, a man who was impliedly capable to rule in Katherine’s name. As a couple they made a stunning alternative to Elizabeth – which would have tempted rebels. This was why throughout her reign Elizabeth refused to settle the succession (“I was heir to the throne in my own time,” and “I will not put myself in a winding sheet during my lifetime”). So instead of risking permission being denied, the couple decided to take a calculated chance.
At Common Law all you needed for a marriage to be valid was an intent to marry following by sleeping together (though a witness was a good idea to prove intent, and a priest was a good idea to hallow the vows). Now, there were new rules promulgated under the Book of Common Prayer that required you to publish banns – but it was not clear that failure to publish the banns would invalidate the marriage. Katherine and Edward banked on the fact that it wouldn’t.
So one November day, when Elizabeth was leaving for a hunt, Katherine pretended to feel ill and stayed behind. Jane Seymour stayed with her, presumably to tend to her – but instead so that the two women could run off by barge to Cannon Row, where Hertford was living. Hertford ran outside and grabbed a random priest who pronounced the service with Jane as a witness, after which the newlyweds withdrew for a while so they could consummate the marriage before running back to court.
Things would unravel pretty quickly after then (Katherine got pregnant – that’s what got the couple thrown into the Tower). But today, the future seemed wonderful. I am going to stop the story here…and deal with the fallout in another post (or two).
If you like my posts, you’ll love my books! Jane the Quene and The Path to Somerset have finally been joined by The Boy King – now available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple, or even your local independent bookstore.!
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US scientists say they have successfully reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s with experimental drugs.
The drugs target and boost the function of a newly pinpointed gene involved in the brain’s memory formation. In mice, the treatment helped restore long-term memory and improve learning for new tasks, BBC News reports.
The same drugs – HDAC inhibitors – are currently being tested to treat Huntington’s disease and are on the market to treat some cancers. They reshape the DNA scaffolding that supports and controls the expression of genes in the brain.
The Alzheimer’s gene the drugs act upon, histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2), regulates the expression of a plethora of genes implicated in plasticity – the brain’s ability to change in response to experience – and memory formation.
This findings build on the team’s 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease regained long-term memories and the ability to learn.
Lead researcher Professor Li-Huei Tsai explained:
It brings about long-lasting changes in how other genes are expressed, which is probably necessary to increase numbers of synapses and restructure neural circuits, thereby enhancing memory. To our knowledge, HDAC inhibitors have not been used to treat Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. But now that we know that inhibiting HDAC2 has the potential to boost synaptic plasticity, synapse formation and memory formation. In the next step, we will develop new HDAC2-selective inhibitors and test their function for human diseases associated with memory impairment to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
HDAC inhibitor treatment for humans with Alzheimer’s disease is still a decade or more away, she said.
The chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, Rebecca Wood, said:
This is promising research which improves our understanding of memory loss in Alzheimer’s. We need to do more research to investigate whether developing treatments that control this gene could benefit people with Alzheimer’s. We desperately need some kind of breakthrough and now.
For more on the study, read this story by NHS Choices.
Source: BBC News, May 6, 2009
Are we on the brink of a dramatic breakthrough?
I hope so. Unfortunately the lead researcher said, “we are still a decade or more away.”
But, you don’t have to wait 10 years. Turmeric, a compound found in Super Curcuminoids, has been found to dissolve the amyloid plaque that shuts down the brain and leads to Alzheimer’s. Read the article, Alzheimer’s – the Cause and the Answer?, to learn more.
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“More Grazing, Less Gobbling for the Holidays”
Most of the holidays consist of layers upon layers of different recipes which turn into creations of delicious foods from families, friends, magazines, restaurants, and traditions. It is a sign of festive times and celebrations of the harvest, religions, and beginnings of the New Year. What does that mean to our nutritional lifestyles? Some people choose to “indulge and engulf” while others choose more conservative approaches to healthy choices and quantities. In the words to my song, “Moderate”, it states, “Momma used to say clean off your plate.” It doesn’t have to be like that anymore. Let’s “graze it up” instead of “gobbling “it up. Here are some helpful tips which will make the holidays more mindful versus mindless.
1) Plan your day around your meals, not your meals around your day. I find that most people with weight challenges plan their meals around their day. The day becomes more of a priority than nutritional health. Meals fit in when they can, if at all. This sort of regimen becomes self-defeating and one just settles. I believe there is no such thing as “bad” food. It is all about good, better and best choices.
2) When going to a holiday party, look at your time of your last meal before the occasion. Timing of meals is imperative in your satiety (hunger) responses. If you are not “on track” that day with your meals, the results may linger over to the festivities and the “domino theory” could ensue.
You should have a protein snack before you go to the party, which will provide long lasting energy before you walk through the door.
3) Speaking of protein, look for protein foods you are certain will fill you vs. the carbohydrate snack foods. The snack foods also tend to be higher in sodium. Beware of fried foods, selections with cream sauces, nuts in excess due to high calories from fat.
4) If you like desserts, I recommend fruit choices vs. high calorie bakery goods which contain a higher sugar content as well as fat. Keep to one choice for the occasion to commemorate a “sweet and healthy” year ahead.
5) For those who like to imbibe spirits, wine, and beer, this area needs some great awareness. Remember, alcohol has almost as many calories per gram as fat does. This is an area where I find people lose sight of their mission of weight management. A little feels good, a little more might feel better, however the end result may end of around their stomach or hips. Alcohol is distilled from a carbohydrate and reverts back to sugar after consumption. If it is not used as energy, it is stored as fat or triglyceride. Let us practice the true meaning of “moderation” and also to remember to drink responsibly.
6) No more resolutions! Make every day a holiday, a birthday, Christmas, Chanukah, or Kwanza. It really does not matter. Grazing is a form of moderation which works in all situations. Practicing this awareness will replace most mindless approaches from the past. Also, another tip is “dipping” rather than “dunking”, when it comes to sauces and dressing for salads. It eliminates the guess work from the lighter side of grazing.
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Instead of being baked in one large dish, this version of the traditional Latin dessert is made in individual ramekins.
Recipe From epicurious.com
Provided by Martha Holmes
Yield Makes 6
Number Of Ingredients 6
These are actually little flans made in custard cups. You can easily cut the recipe in half to make 3 servings. Recipe is from Gourmet Jan. 2008. Cook time also includes time to let the custards chill.
Recipe From food.com
Provided by cookiedog
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
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Leadership Empowered and Energised
An interview with Puma Energy Africa CEO Eghosa Oriaikhi Mabhena
Growing up in Africa in the 80s and 90s, it was clear to see how important it was and still is to provide people access to energy. It has a massive impact on welfare, health and economic prospects.
“I think this ambition, whether I knew it or not at the time, was always hardwired into my psyche, especially given the work my dad was doing. And technology has come a long way since then, so there was no doubt in my mind that studying mechanical engineering and following in my father’s footsteps would make for a very rewarding career.”
As a 16-year-old, Eghosa Oriaikhi Mabhena was in a considerable minority of young women in the UK. Moving to London from her home country in Nigeria, she was one of very few women determined to pursue a career in the engineering field.
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still stark. According to the Women’s Engineering Society, in 2018 just 25.4 percent of girls aged 16 to 18 in the UK would consider a career in engineering, compared to 51.9 percent of boys. In terms of employment, just 12.37 percent of all UK engineers are women.
Oriaikhi Mabhena, who has been in the industry for around two decades, is now CEO of Puma Energy’s Africa business, very much following in the footsteps of her father, who worked with Shell for almost 40 years.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
We, the citizens of UN member states, in this year of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by the UN General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948,
The Universal Declaration is a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all Nations,
Bearing in mind that:
Human rights, dignity, freedom, equality, solidarity and justice constitute the spiritual and moral patrimony on which the union of Nations is based,
Proper consideration must be given to
The right to life of every human being, from conception to natural death, each child having the right to be conceived, born and educated within the family, based on marriage between a woman and a man, the family being the natural and fundamental group unit of society,
The right of every child to be educated by his or her parents, who have a prior and fundamental right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Therefore, we call upon:
All governments to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights properly such that:
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person (Article 3)
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family (Article 16).
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State (Article 16).
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance (Article 25).
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children (Article 26).
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I just find this amazing, the four "schismatic", "excommunicated", illegally ordained bishops were leading a pilgrimage in Lourdes and celebrating Mass in the Basilica of St Pius X.
One can only assume that permission for this celebration was given Vatican approval, it follows on from a recent Anglican celebration at the grotto. However I think that this is a momentous movement forward for the negotiations between the Holy See and the fraternity.
I used to get a little concerned about modern "missionaries", I think that came from the encounters I had in the 1980s, when the Gospels were used as a proof text to support a social Gospel that was based more on Marx than Christ. Those were the "high days" of liberation theology, Jesuits especially who I met thought activating the masses was more important than celebrating the Mass. The argument put to me often was, "grace builds on nature, if people are allowed to be treated in a way that is less than human they will never achieve the liberation from the effects of sin Christ intends".
This really meant that sin was really about oppression, the poor were the victims of other people's sin, the Capitalist system, oppressive and unjust regimes, imposed poverty. The response was overthrow Capitalism, remove oppression and injustice, remove poverty, the effect in theory was to restore humanity to an original innocence, only then was it possible to preach Christ. The example was in the Gospel, Christ first healed before he preached!
In South America especially this lead to the Church so often marching with with Revolutionaries, I knew a Spanish priest who was a friend of Che Guevara, and used to celebrate Mass for his men.
Things have changed, partly because social revolution did nothing but create war and class hatred, partly because Catholics began to realise if they did not offer the poor Christ then North American Protestant Evangelicals would.
On my last visit to Rome, I met a Chilean priest, who told me how his Bishop would go around telling his priests to have constantly before their minds that they have "no gold and silver only Jesus Christ" and that whatever they might do for their people nothing was to be preferred to giving them Christ.
This little video I suspect 20 years ago would have been quite different.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Otto Messmer, who heads the Russian Independent Region of the Society of Jesus, and Colombian priest Victor Betancourt, were found dead in their apartment on Petrovka Street, with severe bodily injuries.
"They did not answer telephone calls, so their brothers in the order went to their apartment, where they found them already dead," Igor Kovalevsky, the general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia, told reporters.
The motive for the killing is not known, he said.
Earlier reports said the priests were injured in a fight near their house involving two other individuals. A local police source said the clerics died from injuries sustained in the fighting.
Eyewitness said a man of Hispanic appearance, aged around 40, killed the priests.
The Russian Independent Region of the Society of Jesus, which was officially registered in June 1992, carries out educational and missionary work throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER
28 October 2008
I write this open letter to you on a matter of immediate urgency, namely tomorrow’s debate in the Lords on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Although I was relieved that last week’s debate in the Commons on the Bill did not address the issue of abortion, I remain convinced that the Bill is misguided and certain sections are potentially most harmful.
Among these is Schedule 3 which has never been properly discussed in Parliament. It provides for taking tissue from incapacitated adults and children without their consent for the express purpose of creating embryos for research. It will be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow (Wednesday 29 October) with Government support.
The Bill could allow for the derivation and use of human eggs from the ovarian tissue of aborted baby girls, a proposal which was first aired by the HFEA in 1994. The HFEA public consultation at that time showed that 83.2% of the 9,000 respondents opposed the practice, and even the few in favour underlined the necessity of consent.
Should this Bill become law, removing tissue from incapacitated adults or children, without their specific consent in order to create animal-human hybrid or other embryos would be permissible, as would creating artificial sperm or artificial eggs from bone marrow or even cord blood.
The grotesque implications of these procedures are utterly horrifying. The proposals in this Bill represent a breach of 50 years of ethical medical research. They by-pass the Declaration of Helsinki, the Human Tissue Act, the Mental Capacity Act and the Human Rights Act. Removing parts of people’s bodies without their consent, utterly flies in the face of all BMA and GMC guidance on consent to research.
Such behaviour was last seen under the Nazis. Following the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945, the full horrors of the Nazi’s atrocities were revealed to a shocked world. The hideous savagery of their experiments convinced the civilized world that such practices must be outlawed forever. I am appalled that you are promoting a Bill which seeks, by stealth, to create a regime where extracting tissue and cells from human beings no longer requires their consent or involvement.
I am staggered that you would endorse legislation, which describes the creation of embryos from a person without their consent as 'non-invasive' and which enshrines the concept of ‘presumed consent’ in UK law. This legislation would set a nightmarish precedent, by allowing scientists to experiment on those lacking capacity - in the absence of explicit consent - largely as they see fit.
I urge you to amend Schedule 3 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill as a matter of great urgency and human decency.
Yours sincerely in Christ
+ Keith Patrick Cardinal O’Brien
Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh
If you've not already done so, visit SPUC's latest lobbying alert on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, take the action recommended and lend support to Cardinal O'Brien's splendid open letter
source John Smeaton
Hussein Mohsen Ismael, 66, a truck driver in Bartella, said:It was October last year and my family and I were living in east Mosul.
My brother Mohamed Saleh was sitting by the gate of his house. A group of masked gunmen pulled up and took him away in their car. The next day they killed him and dumped his body. Subsequently, we received a number of threats. We do not know who they were from. The following month, the situation became unbearable so we packed our belongings and fled our house along with two other Shabak families.
I was devastated at the death of my brother, I believe at the time if I had owned a weapon I would have killed myself. People have since broken into my house and written on the walls that it cannot be sold or rented, it belongs to the Islamic State of Iraq.
Deborah Haynes is the Baghdad Correspondent for The Times she has some short stories of Mosul refugees.
The one proposition that has hit the blogosphere reads:
"The synod fathers recognize and encourage the service of laypeople in the transmission of the faith. Women, in particular, have in this regard an indispensable role, above all in the family and in catechesis. In fact, women know how to stir up the listening to the Word and the personal relationship with God, and to communicate the meaning of forgiveness and the Gospel capacity to share.
It is suggested that the ministry of lector be opened also to women, so that in the Christian communities, their role as announcers of the Word is recognized."
This proposition passed with 191 votes in favor, 45 opposed and three abstentions–the highest “no” tally by far, at the synod.
Canon 230 of the Code of Canon Law states that only qualified men may be "installed on a stable basis in the ministries of lector and acolyte." The canon adds that "laypersons can fulfill the function of lector during liturgical actions by temporary deputation," which is why women currently read at Masses all over the world.
Final Lords consideration of Commons embryology amendments, action needed
Renewed thanks to all our supporters, especially those who have taken action to oppose the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill, passed the House of Commons last Wednesday. We are deeply aware of the hard work thousands of people have put in over recent months to defend with love newly-conceived embryonic children.
Although the bill is now on track to become law, the final stage in the bill's parliamentary progress remains - consideration by the House of Lords of changes made to the bill by the House of Commons. It was confirmed over the weekend that this final stage will take place this Wednesday, 29 October. The Lords passed the substance of the bill earlier this year, and parliamentary procedure means that the House of Lords will consider only those parts of the bill changed by the Commons. We therefore suggest that a targeted protest against the government will be of most value at this stage. It was the intense pressure placed upon the government by pro-lifers such as yourselves which may well have forced the government to block any amendments which would have worsened the law on abortion.
Therefore, please email:
Lord Darzi, the health minister in charge of the bill, via firstname.lastname@example.org
Baroness Royall, former health minister and now Leader of the House of Lords, via email@example.com
telling them that:
the HFE bill is fundamentally unethical, violating the right to life and dignity of newly-conceived embryonic children;
the government is showing contempt for parliament and the House of Lords in particular by scheduling this final consideration by the House of Lords without the usual minimum interval after its completion by the House of Commons.
Please copy to your messages to Lord Darzi and Baroness Royall to your own MP. (You can find out who your MP is via http://wwwspuc.org.uk/mps )
Please remember to copy any replies you receive to Anthony Ozimic, SPUC political secretary, either by email via firstname.lastname@example.org or by post to SPUC, 3 Whitacre Mews, Stannary Street, London, SE11 4AB.
Yours sincerely in defence of life,
Monday, October 27, 2008
I have always blamed the "Reformation" on Luther's bowels, in my prejudiced Catholic way.
And although the Guardian is generally unprincipled and biased in its commentary on religion, in the case of Luther it is absolutely accurate. see here
He was a rich kid - no wonder he wanted peasants killed
He became a monk to escape an arranged marriage
He wrote his theses on the lavatory
He threw dead cats in his rubbish tip -bet he killed them
Loved eating robins - he did kill them
Weighed 23 stone! - lots of robins
He was so rich he was careless about money - a collection of 250 silver coins were found in his house
His wife, not surprisingly, was careless about the marriage - archaeologists found his wife's golden wedding ring
Sunday, October 26, 2008
He said: "The harsh reality is that the noble words of so many high blown declarations have been matched with a barbaric indifference to the rights of the unborn.”
"SPUC has worked tirelessly in Scotland and the UK to fight the evil of abortion for almost 40 years but we must recognise that what really can be described as the forces of darkness have distorted the laws and consciences in our nation and that our situation is now worse than ever."
Cardinal O`Brien told his audience in Glasgow: "I called on our Members of Parliament to search their hearts and their consciences over the summer months to decide whether or not the value of human life really matters or is it simply one more commodity to be cast aside in our throw-away society.”
"We now know that final votes on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill taken last Wednesday, while the question of abortion was not debated or voted on - which in itself may be considered a small mercy - the reality remains that the vote was a tragedy for our country.”
"As a direct consequence of this legislation the value of human life will be eroded even further in the United Kingdom."
The silence that has greeted the ethnic cleansing of the Christians inhabitants of Mosul has been nothing short of disgraceful and scandalous as far as the main stream media is concerned it has past them by for more pressing matters like Madonna’s second or is it third divorce? Thousands of children and the elderly face bleak winter sleeping in tents, refugees in their own country.
The spokesman for Iraq’s government recently described the Christians of Iraq who are currently living in Iraq as “Expatriates” it was not a slip of the tongue or a mistake. It was deliberate and calculated it also had the full blessing of the Office of the Prime minister of Iraq and it was above all said to see what reaction it would draw. NOTHING was the answer, the Americans who run the Green Zone stood and watched from the side lines. Let me make it clear that the USA has taken in more than 13,000 Iraqi refugees from all sections of Iraqi society this year alone so I am not saying that the USA has not tried to help refugees from Iraq, but what we want is protection in our own land and not to be driven out of it.
We are desperate for help so if possible please lobby your members of Parliament also if you can please sign a petition on the Downing Street website http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ChristiansofIraq/
and please support the Charity Iraqi Christians in Need http://www.icin.org.uk/
by donating what ever amount you can which will go directly to help the people most affected. If any reader of this message does not live in the UK and want to help then please if you can make a do nation to the above mentioned charity.
Please do not take this as an attack on other faiths or other ethnic groups within Iraq or anywhere else for that matter it is merely a plea for help for a group of people who feel abandoned and forgotten. By the way Mosul has had people of different faiths living within it for over one thousand years in complete peace and harmony and I sincerely hope that those days will return one day soon.
Thanks for your time
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Another bishop I met here in England was part of a ecumenical group following a deluded Orthodox prophetess. The parish priest had to threaten him with deletion to Rome in order to prevent him giving communion to Calvinists, Baptists, Anglicans and others.
Following an investigation conducted by the papal nuncio and the metropolitan bishop, Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday suspended Bishop John Thattumkal of Kochi, a Latin-rite prelate in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. Last month Bishop Thattumkal had adopted a 26-year-old woman to whose visions he has attributed the discovery of financial irregularities in his diocese. source
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Whilst Flew acknowledges the remarkable achievement of The God Delusion in selling over a million copies, he declares: “what is much more remarkable is that the contents – or rather lack of contents – of this book show Dawkins himself to have become what he and his fellow secularists typically believe to be an impossibility: namely, a secularist bigot.”
He goes on: “The fault of Dawkins as an academic was his scandalous and apparently deliberate refusal to present the doctrine which he appears to think he has refuted in its strongest form. Thus we find in his index five references to Einstein. They are to the mask of Einstein; Einstein on morality; on a personal God; on the purpose of life, and finally on Einstein’s religious views. But he makes no mention of Einstein’s most relevant report: namely, that the integrated complexity of the world of physics has led him to believe that there must be a Divine Intelligence behind it.
“An academic attacking some ideological position which s/he believes to be mistaken must of course attack that position in its strongest form. This Dawkins does not do in the case of Einstein and his failure is the crucial index of his insincerity of academic purpose and therefore warrants me in charging him with having become, what he has probably believed to be an impossibility, a secularist bigot.”
The Orissa state government advanced this argument in an Oct. 20 affidavit to the Supreme Court, which is hearing a plea seeking compensation for about 100 churches and prayer halls destroyed in Hindu radical violence against Christians.
Archbishop Raphael Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar filed the plea to seek 30 million rupees (US$612,445) in compensation to help rebuild churches and places of worship destroyed during rioting that began on Aug. 24.
Seven weeks of sustained violence claimed at least 58 lives and rendered about 50,000 people homeless. Hindu extremists also burned down 4,500 houses, convents, presbyteries and other Church institutions.
The Orissa government's refusal came two days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised financial help to rebuild the churches when he met with Reverend Samuel Kobia, who had called on him. The general secretary of the World Council of Churches revealed the promise at a press conference in New Delhi after the Oct. 18 meeting.
The Orissa affidavit by Tarun Kanti Mishra, the state government's principal secretary, said: "It is against the secular policy of the State to pay any compensation to religious institutions."
It also said Archbishop Cheenath's demand was "not acceptable" to the state, and that the violence, concentrated in Kandhamal district, reflected ethnic discord rather than religion.
The affidavit maintained the "unfortunate killing" of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati sparked violence between Kandha tribal people and Christians of the socially poor Pana caste.
A Maoist group claimed responsibility for the killings of the Hindu leader, who opposed conversions to Christianity, and his four associates. However, Hindu radical groups blamed the murder on Christians.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The British Humanist Society have just started their "Atheist Bus Campaign". Well done atheists, brilliant stuff. Dicky Dawkins and Poll Toynbee should be congratulated, at least by a Catholic Priest like me. I am going to get all my converts to read The God Delusion, partly because it is so second rate and badly argued it seems to provoke people into believing rather than disbelieving. I almost believe Dawkins to be a Christian, even Catholic, fifth columnist because as I have said before I don't believe in the God Dawkins doesn't believe in.
This type of initiative is worth supporting, it gets people talking about God and what atheism has to offer. I suppose I should suggest that for atheist to say, "There probably is no God" seems more like agnosticism than the full red blooded atheism of my youth. I hope they are not becoming flabby, maybe they are just a bit worried God may sue them so they are hedging their bets.
With so many passionate artists in the atheist camp you would think they could get something more visually exciting than this, come on Gilbert and George give them a hand.
The suggestion "Now stop worrying and enjoy your life", seems a bit empty, it just makes one want to ask: Why? especially if you have your money in Iceland. There must be an atheist who could come up with something better than this. The advert seems to indicate that atheism and perhaps atheists are, err...., just the tiniest bit dull. So do encourage them, Donate online now!
From BHS website
The Atheist Bus Campaign launches today, Tuesday October 21. With your support, we hope to raise £5,500 to run 30 buses across the capital for four weeks with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
Professor Richard Dawkins, bestselling author of The God Delusion, is officially supporting the Atheist Bus Campaign, and has generously agreed to match all donations up to a maximum of £5,500, giving us a total of £11,000 if we reach the full amount – enough for a much bigger campaign. The British Humanist Association have kindly agreed to administer all donations.
With your help, we can brighten people’s days on the way to work, help raise awareness of atheism in the UK, and hopefully encourage more people to come out as atheists. We can also counter the religious adverts which are currently running on London buses, and help people think for themselves.
As Richard Dawkins says: “This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think - and thinking is anathema to religion.”
The presence of the “ship of death” in Valencia last week led to one of the largest pro-life protests in the city’s history, with large numbers of people voicing opposition each day to the ship’s services, which include bringing women into international waters to undergo abortions according to Holland’s liberal abortion laws.
On October 18, a group of 40 feminists gathered to counter the pro-life protests, which brought out four times as many people. They passed out boxes of matches with the picture of a burning church and the caption, “The only church that brings light is the one that burns. Join us!”
On October 19, the feminists met again to distribute matches but decided to disband after they were overwhelmed by the large number of pro-life protestors who gathered at the port where the abortion ship was docked.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Paul when he deals with these problems of this community, focuses on the centrality of Christ, he demands cohesion but what I suspect what would have left his readers rather ashen faced would have been his demand for celibacy, and for those who are going to "burn" with passion, the only alternative, which is less perfect than celibacy, is marriage.
Most commentators nowadays suggest Paul's challenging teaching is simply because he understood Christ's return to be imminent, I am sure that is true but that tends to be a bit simplistic and to gloss over both the remedial aspect of his teaching and the challenge it demands.
I can't help but think celibacy is the real answer today for our city's problems.
Nowadays it is quite normal for bishops and priests to not make it seem to be something radical, though they are committed to celibacy personally. If we just appear as pious bachelors or spinsters then we do celibacy a serious disservice. Today, in Brighton, and the rest of the world too, celibacy has to be presented with a new vigour, because as in Pauls day, for a Christian celibacy or marriage are the only possibilities. All this is just an introduction to this rather interesting article.
(CNA).- Manfred Lutz, a psychiatrist with the Congregation for the Clergy, has responded in an extensive article to those who consider celibacy not to be "natural" and explained that the discipline is not only necessary for priests and religious to fully live out their vocations, but that it is also a "provocation" to a superficial world that does not believe in life after death.
In the article published by the L'Osservatore Romano, Lutz commented that celibacy represents "a permanent protest against collective superficiality." It proclaims that "the earthly world, with its joys and sufferings, is not all there is."
One who cannot renounce the exercise of sexuality is not capable "of joining in a marital union" either, Lutz continued. Looking upon women as "the object of satisfaction of a personal impulse plays a key role in the criticism of celibacy," he stated. Lutz also noted that there are even times when spouses cannot "fully exercise their sexuality, as in the case for example of a temporary illness or a permanent handicap. In these cases, a spousal relationship that is truly profound is not destroyed but rather enriched.”
“In the same way,” Lutz continued, “the issue of celibacy should not be made into an issue merely of genital sexuality, but rather should be seen as a determined form of relationship that allows for a profound relationship with God and fruitful relationship with the persons confided to the pastoral care of the priest."
Celibacy, Lutz argued, enables a priest to engage more intensely in spiritual direction. "It is not true that spiritual guidance for couples would be better if it were given by spouses. Such a guide always runs the risk of unconsciously reliving the experiences of his or her own marriage and of transforming his or her own emotions into actions through a psychological mechanism without reflection."
"For this reason," he continued, "such a guide needs solid monitoring to prevent this from happening. On the other hand, a good spiritual guide has considerable existential experiences with many married couples, and therefore can reach out to the most difficult cases. This explains, for example, the surprising fruitfulness of the writings on marriage of that great shepherd of souls, the Servant of God John Paul II."
Noting that celibacy is not for narcissists who are always looking to be the center of attention, Lutz recalled that the priest "should always be interested in other human beings and their misery, he should forget about himself and should make visible through his words the splendor of God before his own sufferings."
Even so, I left with the problem, like most celibates, priests or lay people, of how to live out one's celibacy. I am sure somehow it has to be done in the context of close friendships and a loving community but if we turn again to St Paul, it is done in the context of the vision he is always presenting of what we have become in Christ.
In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,
The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me,
The walls of marble black that moisten'd still shall weep,
My music hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep.
Thus wedded to my woes, and bedded to my tomb,
O, let me, living, living, die, till death do come.
In darkness let me dwell.
Ellen Hargis, soprano; Jacob Heringman, lute; Mary Springfels, viol; from CD "A Candle in the Dark"
Don't you love the dissonance?
Monday, October 20, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Let us pray that like St Philip, Bishop Kieran and the priests of our... all that disembowelling at Tyburn, being "chained in prisons dark". A quick assassins bullet, but mention electricity, or searing flesh, mutilation, cold even ..., difficult.
diocese will prefer death that denying Christ or his Church.
Today in our diocese is the Solemnity of St Philip Howard, the Co-Patron of the diocese.
St. Philip, born 28th June, 1557, was thirteenth Earl of Arundel. His father Thomas, IV Duke of Norfolk, was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth in 1572 for involvement in the affair of Mary, Queen of Scots. Philip Howard, baptised by the Archbishop of York in the Chapel of Whitehall Palace, had Philip of Spain as one of his godfathers.
Philip married Anne, daughter of Lord Dacre of Gilsland, when he was fourteen. He graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1574 and was about eighteen when he attended Queen Elizabeth's court. Handsome, high-born, quick-witted and articulate, he neglected his wife and God but the turning point came in 1581 when he was present at a disputation in the Tower of London between a group of Catholic prisoners, Fr. Edmund Campion, Jesuit, Fr. Ralph Sherwin, Priests and others. These humble suffering Confessors awakened Philip's soul and he returned to Arundel to think about reconciliation with the Catholic Church, which he knew meant death.
He was reconciled in London by Fr. Weston, a missionary Priest, and shortly after sought religious liberty abroad. He was betrayed by a servant and apprehended at sea. On 15th April, 1585, he was lodged in the Tower and after countless interrogations, a year later was examined before the Star Chamber, found guilty of treason, fined £10,000 and committed to prison at the Queen's pleasure.
With the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 anti-Catholicism swept the country. Philip was tried again before the King's Bench and falsely charged with praying for a Spanish victory and again found guilty. His sentence: to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Thereon began his long term of imprisonment, never knowing from day to day which would be his last. Each day he spent several hours in prayer and meditation; he was noted for his patience in suffering and courtesy to unkind keepers. Weakened by malnutrition and not without a suspicion of having been poisoned, he died on 19th October, 1595. He was 39 years old and had spent the last eleven years of his life in the Tower of London.
Written on the step before the Shrine is this inscription: "The more affliction we endure for Christ in this world, the more glory we shall obtain with Christ in the next." This is a translation of the original Latin cut by St. Philip over the fireplace in the Beauchamp Tower, which visitors to the Tower of London can still see:
Quanto plus afflictionis pro Christo in hoc saeculo, tanto plus gloriae cum Christo in futuro. Arundell - June 22, 1587.
In 1971 his remains were brought from the Fitzalan Chapel in Arundel and enshrined in The Cathedral,
He was one of 40 Welsh and English Martyrs who died between 1535 and 1679. Probably best known among them are the Jesuit Edmund Campion (executed Tyburn 1581), Ambrose Barlow (Benedictine, executed Lancaster 1641), Cuthbert Mayne (diocesan priest executed in Launceston in 1577), Margaret Clitherow (executed in York in 1586) and Welsh priest John Kemble (executed in 1679 at the age of 80). The process of their canonisation was first begun as early as 1874. 136 martyrs were beatified in 1929 and Pope Paul VI announced in May 1970 that 40 of them would be canonised later that year.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
It was in the most famous of the chapels in the apostolic palace, in fact, that this afternoon the first vespers for the 29th Sunday of ordinary time were celebrated, "on the occasion of the participation of ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I in the work of the 12th assembly of the synod of bishops." "At this moment, we have truly experienced the synod," the pope commented, speaking spontaneously at the end of the extensive address by the patriarch. "Hearing the word of God," he added, "also opens one's eyes to the realities of today," and the "fathers" of the synod "will continue their work illuminated by the words" of Bartholomew.
The patriarch of Constantinople, after speaking of the "historic event" because of his very presence at the synod, expressed his hope of arriving one day at "full unity" between Orthodox and Catholics, overcoming the current differences and agreeing "fully over the role of primacy and collegiality in the life of the Church." Bartholomew also indicated some concrete objectives: "as disciples of God," he added, "it is more imperative than ever to present a single perspective, beyond social, political, and economic views, on the need to uproot poverty, promote equilibrium in the globalized world, combat fundamentalism and racism, and develop religious tolerance in a world of conflict."
The refugees now face a bleak winter without any food or shelter in what aid workers are calling a “desperate” situation.
Some 25 families fled in one day last week followed by another 50 the next day. It turned into an exodus after 13 Christians were murdered, including a father and son and a disabled man in his twenties. Most victims owned or worked in shops, suggesting a campaign to break the economic strength of the Assyrian Christian community.
The exiles have moved north and east to the villages of the Nineveh Plains, the last stronghold of Iraq’s Christian minority. In one Christian village, Qaraqosh, more than 1,000 refugees are now staying in schools and churches.
However, Qaraqosh and the others villages in the area are already overwhelmed with Christian refugees from the fighting elsewhere in the country, and Christian charities are preparing emergency food, medicine and shelter.
zenit - To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the election of Pope John Paul II, the Vatican Television Center has released a five-DVD series that compiles extensive coverage of his life and pontificate.
"The Pope Who Made History," which is being distributed exclusively by HDH Communications, chronologically follows the life of Karol Wojtyla. The first DVD spans his childhood to his election as Pope on Oct. 16, 1978.
The second and third DVDs cover the years 1988-1995, with extensive attention to the fall of the Berlin Wall and John Paul II's role as a witness to peace.
The fourth DVD covers the years leading up to 2000, and the last DVD covers the last years of the Pontiff's life, including coverage of his final farewell to the faithful in Rome.
The DVD set is being offered through Nov. 16 (in English I think that might mean until Nov 16th, does it?) at a 30% discount for purchases made through the Internet.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Byzantium 330–1453 will include great works from the San Marco Treasury in Venice and rare items from collections across Europe, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt. The exhibition begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and concludes with the capture of the city by the Ottoman forces of Mehmed II in 1453. This will be the first major exhibition on Byzantine Art in the United Kingdom for 50 years.
"The press and sometimes theologians said that the Holy Father should never have issued the letter because it divided the Church. Of course it divided the Church as Elijah divided those who had to choose either Baal or God; it divided the Church as the Lord divided it: 'He that gathers not with Me, scatters.' Certainly, it thinned the ranks of the Church just as God's order to Gideon, trimmed his army from 30,000 to 10,000 and from 10,000 to 300 to do battle with an army of about fifty thousand. Humanae Vitae, quite apart from its teaching, is perhaps the most important Church document in modern times. It enabled the Church to know how many would follow the flesh instead of the spirit."
I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one. Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? Yet not one of them has escaped the notice of God. Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.Pray to St Ignatius that priests and bishops will prefer death than denying their Lord in deed or word or thought, or by one act of mortal sin.
According to the Vatican Information Service, the Pope wrote that the event “enables reflection upon achievements in the fight against hunger and upon the obstacles facing the FAO in the new challenges threatening the life of the human family.”
“With the means and resources the world has at its disposal, it is possible to supply sufficient nourishment and to satisfy the growing needs of everyone,” he continued, criticizing public corruption and increasing military spending for diverting resources away from serving people’s primary needs.
A campaign against hunger must include more than scientific studies. It also must “rediscover the significance of human beings in their individual and community dimensions.”
Relations between peoples ought to be “based on real and constant openness” to ensure each country can satisfy those in need and to distribute earthly goods through the “sustainable use” and “fair division” of their benefits.
Pope Benedict concluded by saying both guaranteeing access to land and defending the rights of agricultural workers are conditions essential to increasing levels of food production and to preserve the identity of indigenous communities.
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A New Song for Rabbit’s Motel
Opened in 1948 in Asheville, North Carolina’s Southside neighborhood, Rabbit’s Motel was an essential respite during the segregated Green Book era. The Green Book guide, first published in 1936, provided Black travelers with listings of hotels, restaurants, and businesses that would be welcoming to them. Owner Fred “Rabbit” Simpson’s tourist court played host to a who’s who of Black travelers. But he also served his neighbors in the Southside neighborhood.
When the motel first opened, the local newspapers described its brick columns, landscaping, and red and white awnings. Guest rooms advertised chenille bedding, ensuite bathrooms, steam heat, and room service.
The Blue Ridge Mountain town was a stop for touring musicians on the Chitlin' Circuit, named for the dish of pig intestines. The “circuit” featured clubs in historically Black neighborhoods during the Jim Crow era that welcomed artists who are now considered household names. The Jade Club, now known as the Orange Peel, played host to Percy Sledge and The Commodores. The Supremes and Bo Diddley performed at The Royal Pines Casino. The James-Keys Hotel had a dance hall that also hosted touring acts like Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday. And comedian Richard Pryor, musicians Jackie Wilson and Duke Ellington, and members of the Negro League baseball teams were regulars at Rabbit’s.
The motel also had a popular soul food restaurant with an indoor fountain that served favorites like “pork chops the size of bibles” and cornbread. At the helm for much of the eatery’s heyday was Lou Ella Byrd, wife of Fred Simpson’s nephew. Locals and visitors alike could sit down and enjoy a meal, unlike at the segregated counters at Kress and Woolworths. Rabbit’s operated when Black-owned businesses in Asheville were at an all-time high.
Sadly, the Housing Act of 1949 kicked off decades of changes in the name of urban renewal all over the country, but especially in Asheville, where policies displaced many Southside residents and established housing projects. Southside Avenue was cut off and renamed in sections, and Green Book-era hotels and businesses like the James-Keys Hotel were razed in the process.
Byrd ran Rabbit’s for 50 years before closing in 2003. A 2017 fire caused her to put it up for sale. The motel's two-story building and adjacent row of rooms fell into disrepair, its paint left to peel and its windows boarded up. Southside Avenue continued to develop as Mission Hospital expanded. Dozens of craft breweries opened in the neighborhood, seemingly leaving Rabbit’s Motel and its legacy behind.
Down the “Rabbit Hole”
Despite living much of his life in New Jersey, Claude Coleman Jr., drummer for the band Ween, had a deep connection to Asheville and moved there in 2013.
“I've just always maintained this musical creative connection to [after touring the city with my band]....Seeing it, firsthand, evolve and develop into this metropolis, this cultural center of places in the South, we've always made a point to come back and return to year after year,” he says.
Coleman and Brett Spivey, a former HVAC technician and fellow musician, were both struggling to find a practice space in Asheville. A mutual friend introduced them and soon the conversation turned to finding a place to rehearse. They had trouble finding an appropriate space so they decided to create their own.
Over the course of a year and a half, Coleman and Spivey toured abandoned buildings around Asheville, including a number of motels. The architecture of these buildings was ideal for a rehearsal space because musicians could easily unload their equipment and go straight into the room. Their broker finally showed them the long-abandoned Rabbit’s Motel and it seemed like a good fit, despite being vandalized over the years. At the broker’s urging, Coleman did a deep dive into the history of the motel and the Southside neighborhood and felt like it was serendipitous.
“I was also floored by just how little is known about this history and how much it really contributed to modern-day Asheville and why it isn't part of the modern-day narrative of Asheville,” Coleman says.
There were two cash offers already on the table, but Coleman wrote a letter to Lou Ella Byrd and her family about his intentions. His earnest letter about continuing her family's legacy led her to choose the duo's offer over two others. They put the contract together almost immediately. But the work was far from over.
“We called the front building the horror movie and then the back building was the sequel to that horror movie,” Spivey jokes about the state of the motel. They found the restaurant’s old jukebox with its warped and waterlogged 45s still inside and catalogued them.
An IndieGoGo campaign helped cover some of the necessary work, but the duo also put in plenty of hours of labor as well.
“I knew exactly the kind of space that we wanted to create,” Coleman says. “I wanted us to have multiple spaces, not just like one available room. I wanted it to be exceptionally constructed for sound—really well soundproofed. And just an environment of professionalism that also is relaxing and not too stuffy.”
In December 2020, their dream came to fruition as Rabbit’s Motel reopened as SoundSpace@Rabbit’s, a music rehearsal facility that honors its building's past.
Musicians are already booking time in the studios, set in the former guest rooms, starting at $25 per hour, complete with all of the necessary gear. In addition to rehearsals, it will also host arts workshops and live-streamed performances.
“We've had bands I've never heard of that are just getting together and creating new projects, and then we have clientele coming in,” Spivey says. “We've recently had Artimus Pyle from Lynyrd Skynyrd playing and rehearsing in our spot. We've had Archers of Loaf.”
Music was always part of Rabbit’s, whether in the tunes that played over the restaurant jukebox or in the artists that stayed there after performing at venues downtown. SoundSpace is bringing it back after an intermission.
Food for the Soul
It was also important to Coleman and Spivey to bring back the restaurant that once welcomed so many.
“Once we get the restaurant up and going, we're really bringing something back to the neighborhood that the neighborhood has always had since 1947,” Spivey says. When the talk of reviving the restaurant came about, they knew there was no one more suited than Chef Clarence Robinson, who had worked in kitchens all over the city and whose aunt was a Rabbit's employee.
Robinson got his start working in kitchens all over Asheville, including the storied Grove Park Inn and Sunny Point Cafe, and develops recipes for Ingles grocery stores. He launched his own company, Cooking with Comedy Catering, which includes a YouTube series.
He grew up visiting Rabbit’s, where his aunt worked, and has fond memories of it.
“Opening the screen door, you would be able to smell it,” he says of the dishes that made the restaurant famous. “It was an amazing experience. They had a jukebox in there. There was always laughter and music.”
He is now working on reopening a restaurant in the motel, incorporating soul food dishes like the ones served at Rabbit’s, but with his own signatures. The cafe, called Areta’s Soul Food, honors his late aunt’s legacy and is currently slated to open in winter of 2021.
These two spaces bring together the common theme of what Rabbit’s was all about: community. And the SoundSpace team has the Southside behind them.
“A lot of local neighborhood people will stop in and they'll gnaw your ear off for a while, just telling you their part of the history of them growing up there,” Spivey says. Among their biggest supporters is Lou Ella Byrd herself, Spivey says “[She] is amazing. She's been very outspoken about what we're doing there.”
Byrd’s stamp of approval is perhaps the greatest compliment to the work that SoundSpace is doing in her family’s motel for the Southside and for Asheville’s musicians.
Caroline Eubanks is the author of This Is My South: The
Essential Travel Guide to the Southern States. Her work has been published by
Mental Floss, Garden & Gun, Roadtrippers, and The Bitter Southerner.
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Yesterday, we took a look at ethical challenges facing each and every one of us and our ability to turn the unethical into an ethical behaviour without conscious action. Today I’d like to take a look at some of the issues that arise from this:
If there’s a near certain truth in this life it’s that people suck at predicting what they’ll do in any given situation. We regularly underestimate the time a task will take (this is a particular curse in freelancing life when you model your contracts on your expected time commitment). We say that we’re going to stand firm on an issue but when it arises we concede without a second thought. We say that we’re going to give 10% of our income to charity and then pop the occasional coin in a charity box but it never comes close to 10%.
While we don’t set out to deceive when we make predictions; we inevitably do because we tend to base our predictions on what we’d like to do in a certain situation rather than base those predictions on past experiences of ourselves. We look to please others with predictions too because social validation is important to us.
Resolving this is difficult because we all do it (whether we want to admit it or not). However, if we learn to document our predictions and record what we actually do when the time arises… we can learn to make better predictions in the future.
When I started freelancing I would hugely underestimate the time to do work and my rates suffered for it. Now, I have a much clearer understanding of how long projects actually take and my predictions are much, much closer to reality for it.
Failure to Frame Ethical Decisions as Ethical Decisions
When the lovely folks at Ford made a decision not to issue a recall on a line of vehicles with faulty gas tanks; you can be pretty certain that nobody framed the question as… “Would it be ethically OK to kill our customers because it’s cheaper to claim on insurance than it is to pay for a recall?” Because then the decision would never have been made in the way it was made (people died and then Ford got caught and the whole issue was a permanent stain on their reputation).
What probably happened was somebody said; “Hey! I’ve just realized it would be cheaper not to recall the product and just to let insurers cover anything that goes wrong.” When the clear ethical issue disappears from the question; it disappears from the decision making process too.
You have to frame ethical questions so that it’s clear that the ethics matter. Otherwise, there’s a good chance they’ll go unnoticed and decisions will be made on other criteria.
There are many more ethical issues that can impact on user experience and we’ll be taking a look at them as this series continues.
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If you are aiming to obtain straighter teeth, you have actually possibly heard of clear aligners. They are clear plastic dental braces that are utilized to move teeth right into correct alignment. Yet what is the genuine reason for using clear aligners? Read on to learn the facts. Additionally, learn exactly how these devices can enhance your smile! – Are Clear Aligners Worth It? – A Testimonial – Contrasted to typical braces, they are extra very discreet and also esthetic. They provide the very same orthodontic modifications as metal dental braces, however are virtually unnoticeable and also can be eliminated for consuming, brushing your teeth, and also picture sessions. On top of that, you can eat your preferred foods with clear aligners while they’re working. These pros and cons of clear aligners are reviewed carefully in this post. While lots of people like the visual advantages of clear aligners, they must realize that they might not be appropriate for every person. Clear aligners are made from thermoplastic polyurethane material. They are personalized to fit your mouth. This makes them durable as well as immune to damages. However they do call for some treatment as well as correct storage space. If you do not care for these home appliances appropriately, they can start to look altered and unattractive. If you have any questions, ask your dental expert regarding clear aligners. If you have actually made a decision to get this therapy, here are a few points to keep in mind. – Always bear in mind to keep your clear aligners properly. Never ever leave them exposed to the components, as this might result in staining. If you’re bothered with losing your clear aligners, keep them in a completely dry, great area in a case. Do not neglect that food, such as merlot, can stain the plastic. Also, hot beverages and juices can harm the integrity of your aligner. If you smoke, don’t leave your aligners in your mouth. – Avoid lightening. Many people are concerned that wearing clear aligners will look ugly. These trays are developed to stay tidy and also unpleasant throughout of your therapy. Luckily, Reveal(tm) Clear Aligners are nearly unseen, so they won’t draw interest. And they’re budget-friendly too. The Reveal system sets you back much less than $1000, so you can afford it! There are numerous advantages to using clear aligners. – Wear the aligners as routed by your dental expert. Depending on your situation, clear aligners will progressively align your teeth with no metal parts. Since the aligners are made of plastic, you’ll have less of a noticeable result than with traditional dental braces. The treatment process can take anywhere from 3 to twelve months. Nonetheless, if your crowding is extreme or has actually already triggered you to miss out on a couple of school years, you’ll need an extra complicated treatment. – Clear Aligners are entirely detachable, permitting you to remove them for cleaning and flossing. As long as you use your aligners as guided by your dental expert, they need to last for up to two years. However, they can be expensive, so you may intend to discuss your repayment alternatives with your Washington, NC dental expert before undertaking therapy. If your oral insurance policy does cover the full cost, you’ll likely need to pay for the rest of the treatment yourself. If this holds true, your dental professional needs to discuss your alternatives with you as well as make certain you fit.
One of the most important things to keep in mind as you search for the best surfboard wax shop is that the level of services you receive will be determined by your choice. It is therefore prudent that you choose specialists and reap the benefits of selecting the greatest surfboard wax shop. Expertise is a difficult concept to grasp; recognizing experts and differentiating them from the crowd is one of the most difficult jobs that clients face. To be able to choose the greatest surfboard wax shop without having to struggle, you need take your time and consider several factors that will assist you in making your decision. Check out some of the things to think about before choosing the best surfboard wax shop as they are outlined in this article.
When looking for the greatest surfboard wax shop to assist you, you should first think about where the surfboard wax shop is located. The finest surfboard wax shop to choose is one that you can find and contact without having to pay a lot of money. If you require a service that will be supplied personally, you should look for a surfboard wax shop that you can contact at any time. Look for a surfboard wax shop with a convenient location that is also close by so you don’t have to spend a lot of money on things like transportation. When deciding which surfboard wax shop to use, keep in mind that a surfboard wax shop’s location is crucial because it will impact how much you will pay for their services. This will determine the amount of time and resources you will spend on reaching the surfboard wax shop.
Another consideration while choosing the best surfboard wax shop to assist you is the surfboard wax shop’s reliability. You should consider how trustworthy this surfboard wax shop is. You should look for a surfboard wax shop that has a reputation for being reliable or continuously operating well. Look for consumer reviews about the surfboard wax shop if you want to know how trustworthy it is. Positive feedback indicates that the surfboard wax shop is trustworthy and that the services it provides can be relied upon by customers. High-motivated employees, increased resilience, competitive advantages, increased profitability, and stronger brand benefits are among the characteristics of a dependable surfboard wax shop. The working team need to be dependable when it comes to delivering services.
Another item to check for are the surfboard wax shop’s strengths and ideals. You should go over the surfboard wax shop’s missions, basic beliefs, and visions to be able to differentiate lawful companies from the rest. This is a crucial factor to consider while deciding on the ideal surfboard wax shop to work with. This allows you to determine whether or not the surfboard wax shop is licensed. Your choice of surfboard wax shop will be based on the parameters of the surfboard wax shop that best suit your needs. The corporate quotation is the last thing to look at. Quotation allows you to compare the prices of various companies’ services. This will assist you understand and plan for the capital that will be used to provide services. By double-checking the surfboard wax shop quotation will help you choose the surfboard wax shop which is most affordable and reliable for you.
Ways of finding the best Court reporter
When looking for the right Court reporter, there is a need to make sure you are keen. There are several specs that you need to consider for the services that you will want to have. You should make sure you know the right quality from the products that you will need to have. You must make sure you are careful to consult the experts that you will find concern in the best Court reporter which you intend to have. It is a must that you find out the Court reporter that can handle the tasks you have well. The following hints will help you to find the best Court reporter.
For you to find the best Court reporter, it is important that you consult from the friends that you are having. You will find friends who have been getting the Court reporter that you will need to have. You should be careful to seek help from various friends who can be willing to help you find the right Court reporter. This will help you to compare different choices from the friends that tie are having. You ought to have samples for the services the Court reporter has rendered to these friends that you are having.
There is a need for you to find out the costs that you will incur for the Court reporter that you will want to have. You got to be careful to find out the best Court reporter that will be affordable to you when in need. You can find time to survey the market to find out the range for the cost of getting the Court reporter that you are looking for. This will be necessary since it will help you to budget well for the Court reporter which you want to have. It is necessary that you find the best Court reporter that will fit into the budget.
When searching for the right Court reporter to work with, it is necessary that you be careful about the quality of services that you will want to have. You will need to make sure you know the kind of services that you will want to have from the Court reporter that you are looking for. You should ensure you search for the Court reporter with the right qualifications that you will want to have. This will be important to help you have the best equipped Court reporter to work on the tasks that you are having well and achieve the plans that you are having.
It is necessary that you consider location when looking for the Court reporter that you want to have. It is a must for you to be keen to know the right Court reporter that you will access with easer for the Court reporter that you want to have. You must find time to survey your locality well to find out the right Court reporter from nearby. You should make sure you find out the right Court reporter that you will get with ease when you find out the right Court reporter. You must choose the best Court reporter within your locality.
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When it comes to making your wedding day a memorable one, it is the high you consider investing on quality wedding dresses. The fact the you want to keep this day unforgettable is an indication the you need to make sure the dresses are amazing and fitting in terms of look and quality. The kind if attire you want your maids to put on this day need to have an exceptional look to ensure the big day is memorable. You need to get someone who can designs your dress in the most recent model to suit your needs and expectations. Getting the designer who can make the dresses for you bridesmaids will ensure you have the best look ever. Most of the people fail to find reliable designers who can make the wedding attire in the best way possible. This is why it is good to pay attention to reliable sources if you want to have the best and amazing designs for your wedding dress. Even for the gown it is good have the most recent designs incorporated to have the best look as a bride and even the bridesmaids.
When it comes to ensuring the wedding dress is amazing it is good to have the internet used to research for the latest designs and models in the market. Once you have this incorporated it becomes easy to get the wedding dress which meets your needs and expectations. The good thing with the internet sources is the fact that they offers a variety of designs options for the clients from across the globe to choose from. Before you consider buying any wedding dress it is advisable to pay attention at some aspect. The first thing to check is the quality. Quality is an aspect which matters a lot when it comes to making wedding dress. Ensure the fabrics used are of top quality if you want to have the dress having an extended lifespan. Quality wedding dresses are in high demand since most if the designers in the market normally compete to make dresses which come with exceptional fabrics. The higher the quality the better are the fabrics and vice versa.
The other thing to check before you have a wedding dress ordered is the rates set. Different designers normally set varying rates for wedding dresses. This is an indication that you need to have some price comparison process conducted. The good thing with comparing the rates is the fact that it will help you get wedding dresses which are affordable and within your budget. You can even have a budget set first to help know the exact amount of cash at hand. With a budget set it becomes easy to minimize chances of over and under spending. Thus is also the best way to find the designers who make dresses at an affordable price. The other thing you need to check from the designer is the reputation. You need to work with a designer who makes wedding dress which are of high quality. The reputation in this case need to be good for a guarantee of amazing look.
The Very Best Models Exotic car rentals in Los Angeles have actually been making waves amongst vacationers as well as residents for the previous few months. The popularity has actually gotten on an upswing since the September 11 terrorist attacks in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Cops Division has actually likewise intensified security measures around the region, even introducing that no one under the age of 21 will be allowed to entrust a leased car in the location. This includes those from specific locations in the city such as Santa Barbara, Hollywood and also downtown Los Angeles. Nevertheless, one of the most preferred amongst those who frequent the Los Angeles location is the selection of unique autos for rental fee. One reason that exotic cars and truck leasings in Los Angeles are appreciating such a high appeal is because of the alternatives that are offered to those that pick to drive one. For instance, those that need a showy trip can opt for a bullet or other high efficiency lorry. Others who appreciate driving in a group of buddies can select a classier auto, one with higher performance capacities. There is additionally a selection of more economical high-end lorries that make it a low cost service with maximum comfort. These can include top end brand names like Jaguar, Rolls Royce as well as BMW, in addition to conventional compact autos from tiny suppliers such as Mercedes Benz and GMC. One more variable that makes Los Angeles a leading selection amongst those seeking the very best of exotic vehicle rentals is that rental costs have been continuously on the increase. Even during the depths of the economic crisis, those aiming to rent out a high-end auto in the city have been able to get some lots. Today, the price of an excellent high-end car leasing is still very budget friendly, specifically when you contrast it to the prices of similar trips using other settings of transportation. Those that are interested in remaining in the area must take a look at on-line resources, which often flaunt testimonials from other travelers as well as citizens that have started on exotic automobile rentals in Los Angeles. One of one of the most prominent kinds of deluxe auto rentals in Los Angeles is found in the Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG. This car is one of the greatest profile models of the brand-new centuries, and also its visibility in the market has actually had a substantial influence on the rate of other luxury versions.
At the start of the years, the rate of Mercedes Benz was amongst one of the most costly when traveling, however things have definitely altered since then. Today, you can locate a good selection of high-end autos in the range of a couple of hundred thousand dollars. When it comes to choosing a deluxe vehicle rental in Los Angeles, it is essential to take into account not just the design, however additionally the dimension of the car. The size of your automobile will depend mainly on the variety of people that will certainly be traveling with you, and likewise on whether you intend to drive the lorry on your own or let it be hired upon arrival. For example, an SUV rental will exercise best if you are planning a trip. A small sedan will certainly be optimal for a field trip, while a larger cars and truck like a mercedes g 63 AMG will certainly be better for overnight adventures. High-end automobile services in Los Angeles can typically be found at really sensible rates. The very best means to guarantee you obtain a bargain is to shop around. Speak with different companies, set a budget plan, and afterwards contrast the various makes as well as versions you locate. Likewise think about the fuel additional charges, service charge, as well as pointers for the driver as some companies bill a lot more for certain services. If you require a small cars and truck for the journey, then an economic climate car service will certainly be your best option. It will save you cash throughout the journey, as well as it will fit the needs of most of individuals that will be taking the trip with you.
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Aspects to Consider When Choosing a Custom Printing Banners Company
Get a custom printing banners company with qualified workers. Custom printing banners company workers with enough qualifications can provide the best services since they know concerning their work. One can prove their qualification by providing their certificate to show that they are suitable for their work. One can also consider checking the reputation of the custom printing banners company. Get more information from friends or family that have worked with the custom printing banners company before to know how they handle their clients and the kind of services they give. Choose a custom printing banners company that works uniquely by providing services that other companies are not willing to give. The custom printing banners company should check various comments concerning different companies then choose the one with the best reviews. Some companies carry out illegal activities within their organization; ensure that you choose a safe custom printing banners company that carries legal activities. The custom printing banners company you work with should not have been reported in illicit activities.
In this article, we will discuss some of the factors we should consider when choosing the custom printing banners company. To start with, let look at the location. The place you choose should not be far from where you live. Ensure that you select a safe place that one can access easily. It would be best to get services from a custom printing banners company nearby to get the quickest assistance. Going to a custom printing banners company far from where we live is a waste of time because time is consumed as one moves from one area. Much money is also consumed on transport costs. Get services from a custom printing banners company nearby to get fast services and handle other businesses planned for the day.
Spot the proficiency side and customer service. Does the custom printing banners company have a good relationship with their clients, and how do they treat them? Before committing yourself to the custom printing banners company, you need to know the mode of communication they use with their clients. Choose a custom printing banners company with the right communication skills. Companies with the right communication skills make their clients accessible, and they can speak up whenever they need to give suggestions on specific issues. If clients are treated incorrectly, they do not enjoy the services and may get another custom printing banners company with better customer service. The client should consider all the factors discussed here to ensure that they get the best services.
Availability is another factor that one should consider when selecting a custom printing banners company. Choose a custom printing banners company that is reliable to its clients whenever needed. The custom printing banners company has to report at their workplace during suitable business hours and days. Choose the custom printing banners company that ensures that all the things required by clients are available that they do not get them from other places. A good custom printing banners company provides an active business line where clients can contact them whenever they need their help. Choose a custom printing banners company that maintains a good relationship with its clients and can meet their standards by providing the right services.
Choosing a High pressure hydraulic regulator
It is important to note that with any service you receive that quality is the most important. Clients always strive to get a high pressure hydraulic regulator that is experienced and well equipped with the skills necessary needed for problem-solving.
If it is your first time you may be skeptical about where to start. It is important to pick a high pressure hydraulic regulator you can trust with your work. This search will require research to determine the right qualities to look at. The article. Below will guide you with the key factors that you need to look at.
Ensure you ask for references and recommendations as they will help you out. If you have sources that have had a competent high pressure hydraulic regulator handle their task you can ask them for referrals. Recommendations are highly helpful especially if you can trust the source that has used their services before. The references can give you the information in regards to the overall conduct of the high pressure hydraulic regulator. Experts in the field can also offer some very great recommendations. These tips can help you make a sound decision on if you are ready to work with the said provider.
Read client reviews. Client detailed accounts can give. Your information on how the job was done, how the high pressure hydraulic regulator conducts itself while giving services if you are timely with their work delivery among other important factors. Looking online can also provide you with overall reviews of the high pressure hydraulic regulator and its work.
Be aware of the services being offered at the high pressure hydraulic regulator. Each high pressure hydraulic regulator focuses on different services, learning of them and how they conduct their work can help you deduce if they are the right ones for your job. Ensure you visit their premises and inquire from them if they deal in your task before you can make the decision. Visiting their website can also give. You have an account of the services that they offer.
The experience level. Clients must contact the business so that they can ask about their experience. They should be experienced in the job you are requesting them to handle. Experience means that they handle handled multiple tasks and have encountered challenges and solved them. The skills that come with experience are very important as they guarantee the quality of work that the client should expect. If they are experienced the client feels more confident while hiring them.
Make sure they are available. When choosing a high pressure hydraulic regulator you want to always be able to rely on them when you want something done. Making sure you choose someone you can trust and continue to work with can be very comforting. Choose a high pressure hydraulic regulator that operates within your locality for easier and quick service delivery.
Visit as many service providers as possible before you can make a decision. It is always advisable to not be too quick when making a decision. Research and speak to many potential device providers before you can settle. Speaking to multiple companies allows you to compare the quality of services and even the prices. You can choose a service that is affordable and good.
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7 Indications Your Hot Water Heater will Fail There are several manner ins which you can inform that your water heater repair near me is mosting likely to fail, however there are just a few indicators that it will certainly be too late. One of the largest signs is when you begin to see condensation on the outside of your pipes. If you have actually noticed that condensation is building up outside of your pipelines, then you are among ten percent of heating systems that will fail. Water heater repair near me. This suggests that the water supply will be turned off quickly and replaced with brand-new water heater repair near me. It is essential to look after this issue as soon as possible to prevent water heater repair near me damage. An additional sign that your hot water heater is about to stop working is when you observe a considerable increase in the quantity of water that you make use of every day. If you see that you are using twice as much water than normal, then you may have a trouble. Lot of times the excess water is being made use of to replace the hot water heater or to clean the pipelines. This is not the very best means to utilize a water heater repair near me and it can cause it to enter into severe failure. The last point you must keep an eye out for is leaks. Water heater repair near me. Leakages should never be forgotten as well as it is particularly important to see to it that any type of faucets or pipelines that are attached to your heating unit are not dripping. If you see any type of leaking around the tank or under the container then you need to most likely take care of the issue as soon as possible. Leaks can cause all type of hazardous issues such as sewage back up and also an accumulation of dangerous chemicals in your water. Your hot water heater will certainly close down on its own if it is not kept conserved correctly. One of the most effective points you can do is to obtain a heater assessment done once a year. Lot of times these inspections can be done for complimentary and it will not damage your purse. Simply make sure that you do it right and that you look for all the obvious signs. As an example, there ought to be no tarnished water heater repair near me originating from the faucet. Water heater repair near me. Make sure that there are no broken components on the heater itself. Search for any wear or tears around the tank or the tap. You ought to likewise make sure that there are no leakages originating from the storage tank. As a matter of fact, you must have any component that might seem damaged replaced instantly. You must additionally inspect all the links on the heater to make sure that everything is functioning properly. When you are looking at water heater repair near me fixings after that you need to recognize the indications your hot water heater will fail. Water heater repair near me. By putting in the time to look for these troubles and also acting swiftly you can stop major problems from happening. This is especially vital if you reside in a location where there is wintertime temperatures in the twenty levels or colder.
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IP commonly referred to as internet protocol seeks to ensure that there is the delivery of the packets from their main source to their destination. Communication protocol that is able to relay datagrams across all boundaries is what this refers to. The possibility of using IP to be able to send and even receive crucial information by internet gets to happen. Fundamentally, getting to make sure and as well seeing to it that there is the routing of data in the best way and manner possible is the major task that it has. In addition to this, it seeks to make sure that there is easy location of things online and that emails get to be sent. It is quite difficult for all this to be accomplished without having the right kind of manufacturer in place. This can be explained through getting to be aware that the assurance of the best kind of communication solutions comes from this. Putting all efforts towards coming up with the best of IP communication solutions to help clients is the kind of work that these manufacturers do. With such, there is need for allocation of every method that can help. This calls for one of be aware of the various or rather different tips that are resourceful.
Check for recommendations. Being aware of various individuals with firsthand experience with these manufacturers is needed. This is due to the fact that with these kinds of individuals, they are in a better position to be able to guide and as well advice you on the direction to take. While making these choices, these kind of individuals are helpful in such a way that they educate you on the key areas you need to be keen on. There is the possibility of you getting the best kind of manufacturer through ensuring that you ask relevant questions.
It is essential for you to look at the prices. This entails being able to evaluate the prices that are charged by these manufacturers. Different manufacturers tend to charge differently. The fact that it is possible for you to come across both expensive manufacturers and those that are less expensive is the meaning of this. With such, you need to first of all ensure that you know the market price before making your final decision. Affordability should be what characterizes the best manufacturer.
Licensure should be keenly considered. In terms of getting to choose correctly, this gets to be very crucial for consideration. This being a sensitive area, every single manufacturer is required to have a valid license by the authority showing that they are authorized to deal in such products. This means that you should be able to demand to see a license from the manufacturer in question before deciding to work with them. | <urn:uuid:d665ec60-d3c4-4761-b196-c48c529e080d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adamaudio.us/category/auto-motor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96474 | 6,229 | 1.59375 | 2 |
There are two basic parts to any loan. One part is the sum borrowed, sometimes known as the capital. The other part is the fee charged by the lender. In terms of mortgages, this fee is usually charged in the form of interest.
At this time there are three basic types of mortgage available:
Repayment – in which the monthly repayments are set at a level which ultimately repays both the capital and the interest.
Interest-only – in which the monthly repayments only pay the interest and the borrower must make other arrangements to pay off the capital at the end of the loan period.
Offset – in which the mortgage is roughly equivalent to a huge, fixed-term overdraft.
The History of Interest-Only Mortgages and The Endowments Scandal
The endowment mis-selling scandal of the 1980s still has the power to generate strong emotions. In short buyers bought property on interest-only mortgages. They also purchased endowment policies to go along with them. The idea was that the endowment policy would not only pay off the mortgage capital but also make the home-buyer a profit. Unfortunately in many cases the endowments didn’t even pay off the mortgage capital. This meant that some home-buyers found themselves scrambling to find an alternative way to pay off the balance of their mortgage. The resulting scandal highlighted the fact that home buyers often did not understand the product they were being sold.
Interest-Only Mortgages and Buy to Let
Notwithstanding this, interest-only mortgages remained a staple of the buy-to-let market. The key difference here being, of course, that the legal home owner does not live in the property. Interest-only mortgages increasingly became a means of building personal wealth by investing in property rather than for buying a home to live in.
Interest-Only Mortgages Return to The Residential Market.
Now interest-only mortgages are starting to make a comeback into the residential housing market. Leeds Building Society, for example, is currently offering an interest-only mortgage with a choice of 3 introductory deals. There are stringent conditions attached, such as a minimum 50% deposit. Interestingly this mortgage allows for 10% of the capital to be repaid each year without early repayment penalties being applied. This means that technically it could be used in a similar way to a repayment mortgage, but with more flexibility with regards to how much is paid each month. Meanwhile the Clydesdale Bank is offering interest-only residential mortgages to high-net worth customers with a minimum 25% deposit.
The Reality of Interest-Only Mortgages
Like all financial products, interest-only mortgages need to be examined in the context of an individual’s financial situation. There are three key points to bear in mind when considering them.
Firstly the affordability criteria introduced in 2014 applies to interest-only mortgages in the residential market. You will therefore need to be able to provide evidence that you can afford the monthly repayments as well as having a feasible plan to repay the capital. When considering this point, think about what would happen if you couldn’t sell your house at the end of the mortgage period. Say there was a lull in the market or a temporary drop in house prices. How would you cope in that situation?
Secondly deposits matter to interest-only mortgages in the same way as they do for other kinds of mortgages. It is therefore important to have savings in place to be able to make a respectable down payment.
Thirdly, and possibly most importantly of all, it is absolutely vital to have a plan in place to pay back the capital. It is also crucial to “stress test this”. This includes making contingency plans for unexpected life events. For example what will happen if you are unable to work for a time, perhaps because of illness? It also includes thinking about unexpected financial situations. For example, if your plan is to pay off the capital with income from investing, what will happen if your investments under-perform?
Getting some advice from a financial adviser can help to resolve these issues and give you the best chance of finding the right mortgage for you.
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Serbia will have to work on the scaling down air pollution and securing better access to clean water in the coming years in order to improve and protect health of its population. In this endeavor it can rely on the help and support of various UN agencies as well the EU, the Round table on environment, air quality and health was told. Data shows that there is water quality gap between rural and urban areas, and that premature deaths could be directly linked to the air pollution in Serbia.
The Round table on environment, air quality, water and health, organized by the UN Team in Serbia, gathered today various stakeholders from the state institutions, international organizations as well civil society, who highlighted importance of environment protection in the context of the health, especially when it comes to the air and water quality.
In achieving its environmental goals Serbia can count on the support of various UN agencies, including UNDP, FAO, UNICEF, WHO and other partners in the Development Partnership Framework that was signed between the Serbian government and the UN Country Team for the period from 2016 to 2020 in May, 2017.
The framework foresees, among other things, cooperation and assistance in the field of environment, climate change and resilient communities, Steliana Nedera, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative, said.
The activities are focused on various fields including combating climate change, managing natural resources, waste or water pollution, as well risk assessment, monitoring, enhancing capacities to respond to health risks and environment.
Serbia supports UN 2030 development goals
Access to the clean water and sanitation, good health and well-being and climate action are among the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted together with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015 as a next step the world’s development agenda. SDGs include 17 goals, as well 169 targets.
“Serbia will continue to support the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, Assistent Minister of Environmental Protection Aleksandar Vesić said, adding that Serbia was among the first to form a body for 2030 SDGs implementation.
He added that Serbia, however, faces many challenges in the field of environment, adding that the country has good laws, but that their implementation is slow. He singled out as a problem lack of capacities in both local and central administration.
Poor water quality in rural areas
The access to clean water and prevention of waterborne diseases are among the issues that Serbia will have to tackle. State Secretary at Health Ministry Meho Mahmutović said that solving of issues like these needs engagement of all sector. “We need to work together to achieve better environmental conditions in order to protect the health,” he said.
The important instrument in this field is the Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. It is the first international legal agreement linking sustainable water management and the prevention, control and reduction of water-related diseases in Europe.
Serbia ratified the Protocol 2013, and in 2016 it took over presidency over it. it will preside over the Protocol until 2019.
Elizabet Paunović, Head of WHO European center for Environment and Health, said that the Protocol is one of three mandatory instruments in health sector in WHO Europe region, adding that it is ratified by 26 countries, and very much linked to the SDGs.
She said that every day 14 people die due to unsafe water supply and poor sanitation in the WHO European region. She pointed out that safe and affordable drinking water is an universal right.
Paunović also said that there is significant water quality gap between rural and urban areas in Serbia, adding that one third of small supplies in rural area showed fecal contamination.
Air pollution as silent killer
According to the WHO estimates, more than 5,400 people in Serbia die prematurely due to the air pollution.
Reminding that the EU supports the UN 2030 Agenda and that it has adopted the Clean air policy package, Antoine Avignone, Attaché for Environment in the in the EU Delegation to Serbia, said that Serbia has issues with air quality, naming the energy industry, steel smelters, traffic as main polluters.
He added that the EU and Serbia have been implementing many projects in this filed. Among other things, the EU has financed equipment for air quality monitoring.
Uroš Rakić from the Institutr for Public Health of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanović Batut” said that the analyses on the impact of air quality on human health were conducted for the period from 2010 to 2015 in Serbia, and that thew have confirmed that the emissions of harmful particles in the air directly correspond to the increased mortality of citizens.
He also singled out as a problem lack of systematic support for the maintanence of 45 monitoring stations, adding that there is no measuring continuity that will provide reliable data to asses the risk.
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Si-Ware Systems’ NeoSpectra-Micro (a small, chip-scale, near infrared spectral sensor) has been customised for use in Henkel Beauty Care’s Schwarzkopf Professional SalonLab Smart Analyzer. SalonLab is used by hairdressers to provide a personalised care service and product recommendation based on analysis of inner hair condition parameters. The NeoSpectra-Micro has been customised for the SalonLab Smart Analyzer, a handheld component of the system that resembles a small hair iron, which is used to scan the inner hair condition parameters. The resulting data is then transmitted to a computer tablet application and translated into a service and product recommendation for Schwarzkopf Professional care products.
The SalonLab system was initially introduced in January 2018 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and is now in pilot deployments at key sites. SalonLab won two 2018 CES innovation awards in the health and beauty category.
“Spectroscopy offers salon professionals the ability to provide data-driven insight into the inner hair condition of their clients’ hair”, said Isabell Dietz, Corporate Director Innovation, Henkel Beauty Care. “We chose to customise the NeoSpectra sensor into our device to achieve the needed accuracy, flexibility and small size.” | <urn:uuid:8aeaa85d-b482-4963-b09c-5614d1a66133> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spectroscopyeurope.com/news/si-ware-neospectra-first-spectrometer-built-beauty-product | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.912944 | 267 | 1.617188 | 2 |
What are Silestone Countertops?
What are Silestone Countertops? Surfaces made of Silestone have traditionally been linked with kitchens. In this article, we go into great depth about them.
In contemporary kitchens, the Silestone countertop is a common design feature. The material is not new, despite being a relatively recent fad, since it has long been one of the most often used options for kitchens (since the 90s).
One of the important choices we must make when designing, renovating, or building a kitchen is the countertop.
Our kitchen will last for many years if we pick our countertops carefully; else, we will need to replace them after a few years.
It is crucial to take into account a countertop’s traits, advantages, and disadvantages while choosing one.
As a result, in the following article, we will cover both the positives and negatives of Silestone countertops.
Silestone is one of the most often used materials for kitchen countertops, while it may also be used on walls and floors.
Compact quartz accounts for 94% of the material, with the remaining 6% made up of certain resins and other substances.
This material combination results in durable, resilient, and versatile surfaces.
Silica dust inhalation has been the focus of various debates in recent years since cutting this material may cause silicosis.
Not the customer is affected; rather, it is the staff of the distribution companies.
For this reason, we recommend buying a Silestone countertop from an established vendor that guarantees security.
- Silestone countertops provide advantages that other countertops made of other types of material do not.
Many people consider Silestone to be far better than granite or marble. Let’s look at the several advantages that this drug offers.
- A wide variety of colors and finishes are available on the market, which has fast become a need in the kitchen. Because there are more than 100 available colors, as well as a wide variety of treatments and textures, every countertop is different.
- Second, it is known for its hardness and resistance. Since Silestone countertops are composed of compressed quartz, they are durable and long-lasting. Throughout almost all of human history, they have been used as worktops.
- Thirdly, the stain resistance of this kind of countertop is a plus. Compact quartz has no holes. Therefore the surface of the countertop is impervious to stains. Thus, cleaning it is simple.
- The greatest quality of Silestone countertops is their ability to keep cleanliness in a space as crucial as the kitchen. These countertops have had antibacterial protection for a while, so there is no risk of bacteria growth.
- Modern Design
- High-resistance to stains and knocks
- Endless color possibilities
The Silestone countertop has only one significant flaw.
This is because, unlike other materials like marble, it is not heat resistant.
This suggests that you shouldn’t place pots, pans, or other objects like that on its surface.
However, there is a very simple and affordable solution to this flaw. Simply place trivets on the counter before removing any pots or pans from the heat, and voila!
It is quite challenging to calculate the exact cost of a Silestone countertop. The cost is influenced by the style, color, size, thickness, finishings, texture, and other details.
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|Today is the International Day of Peace. To observe this important holiday, get a tealight candle and carve a number of peace signs on its surface. Anoint the candle with an essential oil of your choice, something that represents peace and healing. Visualize the candle surrounded in a vibrant blue glow. If you wish, put on some meditative, peaceful music that aligns your mind with calm thoughts. Engage in deep breathing and slow your movements.
After you light the candle, look at a globe or a world map (even if it's on the computer) and make clockwise circular movements with the flame in front of every continent, island, country, and body of water. Take some time with this remote blessing, encompassing every area of the world.
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In theory, if you were traveling exactly at the speed of light, time would stop for you completely. Moreover, if you would be traveling faster than light, you would be traveling backward in time!
How can we intentionally move our consciousness along that “time coordinate” at all? What is the secret?
Some of the “visionary” people I mentioned above, the so-called clairvoyants or seers, are endowed with some secret “element” incomprehensible to us, common people. What is that?
The secret lies in our deep, subconscious attachment to this body and mind. Our body physically belongs to this cause-and-effect material universe and its physical laws, and its five senses virtually anchor it to this stream of experiences called “time.” Additionally, we are also identified with our minds and its countless thoughts, emotions, memories, beliefs, habits, etc. Those attachments make very dense veils that cut us away from a wide-ranging inner knowledge, including information on past and future, as well as on the other timelines as well. We can call them the veils of ignorance. In this case, they cut us off from our inherent abilities to move along space-time coordinates at will. However, the veils have their purpose in our lives. Without them, the “game of life” wouldn’t be possible at all.
What are these veils of ignorance, causing our total immersion into this very real „illusion”?
Basically, they are our misperceptions or unawareness of various layers of Reality. They are directly connected to our identifications, beliefs and other elements of personality, described in the Reintegration System. We think we are something else than we truly are. In fact, whatever we think we are, we are wrong. It can only be that we just are, as opposed to the notion that we are something or someone. Every single identification contributes a little bit to our immersion in this world of illusion.
Our various attachments make very dense veils that cut us away from a wide-ranging inner knowledge, including information on past and future, as well as on the other timelines as well. We can call them the veils of ignorance.
So, if we want to remove those veils, we must release our desires and fears, habits, emotions, thoughts, and many other parts of our personality. The best way to do that is to reintegrate them in a non-aggressive, benevolent way.
Luckily, these veils are usually being released spontaneously, through the reintegration of various elements of personality, layer by layer. And if they are not released yet, we also treat them with non-invasive meditative or psychological techniques, like all the other elements of personality.
If we are uncertain which element to deal with, we just have to look around us - the outer world is a projection of our inner universe. The holographic principle will impeccably lead us along this path.
As our work continues, our consciousness will be expanding, while unconscious limitations are being dropped away progressively. The reintegration work will be resembling the art more and more, as the mystery of life unfolds in most surprising and beautiful ways.
The main result of such an extensive inner work can be one’s spiritual growth or enlightenment, while time travel and other extraordinary abilities can only be side-effects.
Rest mass is an inherent property of elementary particles. It is the mass of a particle when at rest (its velocity equals zero).
In mathematics, an imaginary number is a number that when squared gives a negative result. (If you square any Real Number you always get a positive, or zero, result. The "unit" imaginary numbers (the same as "1" for Real Numbers) is √(-1) (the square root of minus one), and its symbol is i, or j.
The best example of this behavior is the well-known “Double-slit experiment.” For more information, see article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
Basically, the holographic principle says that each part of an entity contains complete information on the whole entity. Accordingly, within every human being, as a part of the Universe, there is complete information about the Universe. Similarly, the same correlation is between one's inner and outer reality.
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Stress and Anxiety
How much is too much?
It's normal to feel stress. It can even be a motivator! Too much stress (or stress for too long) can affect your physical and mental health. You might experience:
- anxiety or depression;
- sleep problems or poor concentration;
- digestive issues and/or irritability;
...and this is just the beginning.Manage Your Stress
What is ANXIETY?
Anxiety is a lot like stress, but it doesn't always have an easily identified source (like work overload, or taking a test).
Anxiety is often accompanied by extreme worry, and it can last for much longer than stress. It can be unpredictable, physically uncomfortable, frightening, and it can also feel downright weird and creepy.
Anxiety can be caused by too much stress, but it can also be a reaction to physical illness, or a side effect of certain medications.
Stress vs. Anxiety: Common Questions
How much is too much? Generally speaking, it's time to get help if you are experiencing any of the symptoms listed above, or if your stress/anxiety is affecting your ability to perform at school or work. Another good rule of thumb: if you're wondering if you need to do something about it....it's time to do something.
Here are answers to some common questions:
What Are Symptoms of Stress?
What Are Symptoms of Anxiety?
How Can I Manage or Reduce Stress?
How Do I Manage My Anxiety?
What's a Panic or Anxiety Attack?
Do I Need Medication?
A Few Words About Coping Skills
It's all-too-easy to cope with stress and anxiety by doing things that aren't really helpful--like numbing out with food, drugs/alcohol, video games and other types of screen time. These short-term fixes tend to make the situation worse.
It's important to know that when you experience stress, your body produces hormones that are commonly associated with fight, flight, or freeze.
Healthy coping skills help you rest and digest by calming your overstimulated sympathetic nervous system.
Happily, there are plenty of ways to rest and digest, through activities that you enjoy! All you need is a brief tutorial and some structure, and a commitment to your self-care. You'll be on your way to feeling like yourself again!Explore the Joy Primer
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What's actually in the GOP health care bill
Covering people with pre-existing conditions has been the hottest issue in the Obamacare repeal debate on the Hill. But peek under the hood of the GOP text and there are a whole lot of other changes — including some surprises — that will have broad but unpredictable consequences for the American health care system and the patients and families that rely on it. Many of the provisions don’t take effect for several years.
Here are several:
Imposes a mandate by another name — The legislation expunges Obamacare’s unpopular individual mandate requiring most Americans to have health insurance. But in its place, the bill allows insurers to charge people who have been uninsured for about two months a 30 percent surcharge on their premiums, an incentive designed to encourage people to maintain insurance coverage.
Gives tax breaks to the wealthy — The bill gifts wealthy Americans with massive tax cuts in the hundreds of billions of dollars. It scraps most of Obamacare’s taxes that are used to fund the law — including two taxes on high-income earners.
The bill eliminates in 2018 the ACA’s 3.8 percent investment tax on people earning more than $250,000. It also slashes a 0.9 percent surcharge on individuals in the same high-income bracket. The two taxes together raised roughly $27 billion in 2015. The Tax Policy Center estimates eliminating these taxes would save the top 0.1 percent of income earners about $195,000 each year. The bill also rolls back Obamacare’s tax on health insurers, medical device manufacturers, drug manufacturers and tanning bed salons.
Defunds Planned Parenthood for one year — The bill includes a provision long-sought by Republicans to cut off federal funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. The measure would block Medicaid reimbursements to those organizations for one year after enactment. The bill also includes a measure that would prohibit federal tax credits from being used to pay for insurance that covers abortion services.
Allows older Americans to be charged more — Under Obamacare, insurers can’t charge a 64-year-old more than three times as much as it does a 21-year-old. The GOP plan would let insurers charge older customer five times as much. And in states that waive that rule, insurers could establish an even higher ratio. Low-income older Americans in particular would also receive far less generous subsidies to purchase insurance compared to what’s available in Obamacare.
Allows sick Americans to be charged more — States could opt out of Obamacare’s required set of benefits or — most significantly — allow insurers again to charge some sick patients more for coverage, if they take steps such as setting up high-risk pools so that people with pre-existing conditions would have access to coverage. The latest amendment would provide an additional $8 billion over five years to help people in such states cover premium spikes but analysts say that is likely to be woefully inadequate. The wild card here is how many states would actually opt out.
Likely will mean benefit cuts for Medicaid recipients — or cause states to cough up more money — The law cuts federal funding for Medicaid by $880 billion, or 25 percent, over 10 years, and states could choose a “per-capita cap” or block grants under the most dramatic changes in Medicaid financing since its creation. Many of the groups that rely on Medicaid, which covers about 75 million low-income people from babies to nursing home patients, are likely to see benefit cuts as a result.
Could cut school services for disabled children — School superintendents, who rely on $4 billion a year in Medicaid money to hire staff and provide services to children with disabilities, say the bill’s cuts to Medicaid could hamper their ability to employ nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and psychologists and to offer services such as hearing and eye tests.
Could weaken employer sponsored insurance — A single state’s decision to weaken or eliminate its essential health benefit standards could weaken the ACA’s guarantee of protection against catastrophic costs for people with coverage through large employer plans in every state, according to some health policy experts. The ACA prevents employer plans from putting annual limits on the amount of care they will cover, and it bars lifetime limits on 10 essential benefits. But the Obama administration said that employers aren’t bound by the benefits mandated by their state and can pick from another state’s list of required benefits. Employers would be free under the House bill to choose the benefits available in a state that sought a waiver from the ACA’s benefit requirements.
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From John Goodman: Worried by reports of escalating federal debt, I sought out an answer the other day to this question: How much do we as taxpayers actually owe because of commitments politicians have made on our behalf? Turns out, the answer is not as simple as you might think.
The place to start is with a report put out annually by the U.S. Treasury. There I learned that the federal government officially recognizes an outstanding debt of $17.5 trillion. This amount consists of $10.2 trillion in government debt held by the public, plus pension and retirement benefits owed to federal employees.
On the one hand, that amount exceeds our country’s entire gross domestic product and that’s pretty bad. On the other hand I was surprised that the number wasn’t even higher because… Hey wait a minute.
What about Social Security? It’s not on the list. What about Medicare? It’s not there either.
On further investigation, I found out why. “Social Security promises are part of current law and can be changed by Congress at any time,” I was told. Ditto for Medicare. And disability insurance. And survivors insurance. Etc. Etc. That’s a bureaucratic way of saying, “We can break those promises any time we want to.”
So let’s see if I’ve got this right. I’ve been paying Social Security taxes for some 45 years or so and the federal government doesn’t officially admit that it owes me a dime. The same is true for 45 years of Medicare taxes. But it does admit that it owes pension benefits and post-retirement medical benefits to federal workers. As a taxpayer, I’m liable for all the promises the government has made to its own employees. But federal workers are not liable (necessarily) for all the promises the government has made to me. | <urn:uuid:ed72ff45-8cb5-461b-9138-efc2a6d145f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vctpp.org/p3432/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960944 | 405 | 1.625 | 2 |
By Sandra Harris
The nearly month-long occupation of Rosewood Park in East Austin by the organization 400+1 came to an end without confrontation at 11AM on Thursday, March 11 as city parks employees accompanied by Austin police officers began to dismantle tents and upend the makeshift campsite that had been set up, dumping items into garbage trucks.
400+1, a group which describes itself as, “a framework for the global empowerment and wealth of Black people,” initiated their occupation on February 14, the same day that the extreme winter storm set in on Texas. They declared Rosewood Park the capital of “Orisha Land”, which comprised an area of the historically Black neighborhood of East Austin. As part of its founding, the group conducted a vehicle caravan and march around the 11-mile perimeter of their self-designated “cop free zone”, saying it was now under the protection of 400+1 and that they would defend their encampment against any attempts to vacate it.
During and after the storm, organizers utilized the space to shelter and feed community members who were struggling through the effects of the capitalist-caused crisis in the wake of the extreme conditions.
They named the encampment “Jordan’s Place” after Jordan Walton, who Austin police murdered on February 10 while he was having a mental health episode.
During the almost 26 days of occupation, the City of Austin made various attempts to signal to camp organizers that they intended to shut them down. In contrast, Austin has not been enforcing camping bans elsewhere, but made special efforts to shut down a political camp set up in protest of the City’s racism and APD’s reactionary presence in east Austin.
In an interview conducted with Tribune, 400+1 representatives said that the encampment faced racist harassment from passersby, but also gained significant community support, especially from the working class and poor Black families still living in the area.
The encampment had been expecting an eviction since receiving notice, originally being told that they needed to leave by noon on Friday, March 5, which came and went without any action by the state. The group claimed that they were prepared to defend the encampment, though the final eviction saw no confrontation with the state’s forces.
The occupation has come to its expected end, similar to larger experiments such as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle or the Occupy Wall Street movement. A substantial difference is that 400+1 is primarily comprised of members of Austin’s Black community who have grown tired of the same expected avenues for “change” such as electoral politics. Some are Austin natives who know deeply the struggle of seeing their community displaced and their historical neighborhoods reconfigured by market forces and the ruling class.
Temporary encampments and self-declared “autonomous/cop-free zones” cannot accomplish or sustain their stated aims, power in the hands of the state rests on their violent apparatus, power in the hands of the community cannot be set up or built, it must be conquered and defended, with the appropriate use of violence. The only solution of the ruling class’s racism against Black people in the US is socialist revolution which will destroy private property which is at the root of all oppression and exploitation.
The militancy of oppressed peoples like the activists with 400+1 must be supported as it breaks from typical legal avenues. When community members and activist leaders occupy a public park and attempted to turn it into a real community center, this was a good thing. However the old reactionary state will never tolerate Black people choosing their own destiny, and the people must be organized in the fight for their daily demands, to seize and defend power, nationwide, with armed revolution. The loss of the occupation is a loss to the community, it is also a lesson which can be used to improve the fighting capacity, the tactics and strategies of the people. | <urn:uuid:f1ee613d-d7bc-4562-ab02-63bc12f04ff8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tribuneofthepeoplenews.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/austin-racist-city-government-clears-out-black-activist-encampment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972802 | 801 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Zollverein mine is one of Germany’s most important industrial relics. Operative after 1847, the complex came to occupy more than eighty hectares in precincts which included coal shafts and a coking plant to supply steel mills. It also produced secondary products including ammonia, tar and crude oil. “Mine Shaft XII”, deemed to be a masterpiece of industrial architecture, was designed in 1932 by Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer along New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) stylistic lines influenced by the Bauhaus school. Its characteristic Doppelbock winding tower was soon to become an archetype for subsequent mining installations, to the point of becoming one of the best-known icons of German heavy industry. The complex was left remarkably intact after the Second World War and, soon afterwards, became the country’s most productive mining site. Extensions to the mine in the 1970s then situated it as one of the world’s leading coke producers. After that, a dropping world demand for coke, the progressive depletion of the most accessible coal deposits, the conversion of the Ruhr valley into one of Europe’s most populated metropolitan regions, and the gradual diversification of its economy towards the technological industry and the tertiary sector led to a stage-by-stage closure of the complex, which definitively ended in 1993.
While its destiny was being decided, the premises were closed by a fence around its perimeter to protect it from any intrusion. Surrounded by new urban developments, its huge extension was cut off for several years as a reserve for flora and fauna which were left undisturbed by any human presence. Birch forests and carpets of thicket, moss, and ferns took over the artificial geography made up of ramps, pit heaps, embankments, channels, ridges, and holes in the ground. It is a landscape coated in black substrate, broken by the specular surfaces of the tailings ponds, and dotted with strangely useless objects of industrial architecture, for example ventilation shafts, slender chimneys, refrigeration towers, ovens, engine rooms, electricity poles, and piles of bricks. At one point there was an attempt to sell the coke plant to China, but negotiations broke down and the installations were then in danger of demolition. Fortunately, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired the mine site in 1986, as soon as “Mine Shaft XII” was closed. In 2001, just after it was catalogued and protected by the state, the entire complex was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Aim of the intervention
In 2002, the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas draw up a masterplan for the mining complex, and a year later the French landscaping team Agence TER produced a master plan for the regeneration of its “industrial nature”. In 2005, a public entity created by the Essen City Council and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia called for entries in an international competition with a view to converting the site into a metropolitan park. The winning proposal, based on guidelines established in the previous plans, was presented by an interdisciplinary team of architects, landscapers, artists, lighting specialists, and communications professionals. On the one hand, the project aimed to manage the opening of the site to the public by means of several progressive phases, in keeping with a long-term strategy. The proposal aimed to be sufficiently robust as to ensure that it would not be diluted over time, but also flexible enough to be able to respond to unforeseen circumstances, and also to incorporate unanticipated opportunities. On the other hand, the project needed to find a basis of consensus for a mixture of actors with widely diverse needs and interests, among them politicians, residents, tourists, families with young children, elderly people, students, defenders of industrial heritage, ecologists, artists, and technicians.
The opening of Zollverein Park took place in 2005 in full awareness that the process of its definitive consolidation, if it ever happened, was going to be a long one. Since then, in accordance with the principle of “development through maintenance”, the restricted zones have been shrinking to make way for a deliberately unfinished public park which, in this drawn-out process, is becoming accessible with a gradual and continuous contribution of improvements and new elements. The intervention highlights the values of the industrial heritage by means of its ongoing restoration. In 2008, for example, the old coal washing plant was transformed into the new Ruhr Museum, which has a permanent exhibition on the history of one of the world’s largest industrial regions. This cultural centre organises workshops, guided tours, excursions in the park, lectures, and audiovisual screenings.
The emphasis given to the pre-existing elements contrasts with the restrained landscaping, limiting the addition of objects and materials as if fearing that, with their presence, the magic of the abandoned place might be lost. However, it is also true that some striking, even sculptural, elements have been added, among them the reception building at the park’s entrance. There are also signposting devices which guide visitors through the vast space where it is not difficult to get lost, and which is not fully accessible. Nonetheless, most of the interventions are almost imperceptible and simply aspire to act as a discreet guide for the visitor. In the “track boulevard”, for instance, long extensions of concrete trace rectilinear tracks over the ground of a birch forest to show the way to the museum. The “ring promenade” is an asphalted path winding around the industrial buildings to display them from different perspectives. Playgrounds are dotted here and there, among rest areas equipped with street furniture, discreet lookouts, and tucked-away gardens, all of which invite different forms of appropriation by visitors. Without any needless showiness, a lighting system of varying intensity separates the wheat from the chaff, drawing attention only to what is worth highlighting.
Zollverein Park has already become one of the most important points along the European Industrial Heritage Route. But, far from being a mere tourist attraction, the park is also a far-reaching vindication for the residents of Essen which, despite its industrial past is now considered to be one of Germany’s greenest cities. The continuing intervention is not limited to making a museum of existing heritage but it has chosen to compose a changing but coherent landscape on the basis of pre-existing elements. The unfinished nature of the site, which is very different from the oppressive, banal determinism of a theme park, is open to intelligent interpretation by the visitor. The park even makes certain concessions to ambiguity and dysfunctionality, by which means it conserves part of the romantic spirit of an abandoned relic of the past. The effort to prolong the transition between closed precinct and open public space has become a good example of unhurried, soft urbanism, less concerned with the glamour of an inauguration than with the everyday needs of maintenance, and thus opting more for a continuous process than the finished product.
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Yes they can but will need supplementary feeding with hay and/or hard feed.. My own personal experience would say that one acre of pasture is insufficient to support two horses without supplemental feeding.
In general, professionals recommend two acres for the first horse and an additional acre for each additional horse (e.g., five acres for four horses). And, of course, more land is always better depending on the foraging quality of your particular property (70% vegetative cover is recommended).
Generally, with excellent management, one horse can be kept on as little as 0.4 hectares (one acre). Life will be a lot easier at one horse on 0.8 hectares (two acres). If running horses together, an owner would be doing exceptionally well to maintain a ratio of one horse per 0.4 hectares (one acre).
But never gather them into piles to feed them to your horse. … It’s partly because clippings are too easy to over-consume, and eating large amounts at one time can lead to excess fermentation in the hind gut, potentially causing colic and laminitis.
Horses can live on grass alone, but it depends on the horse and the type of grazing, says Dr Mac. Wild horses are living and multiplying out on the range all over the world, including South Africa.
Mowing. Make sure to mow weeds at or before they flower. This will prevent new seeds from entering the soil. Mow pastures to a height of 4 inches three to four times a year or after rotating horses to control most annual weeds.
Shorter grass contains more sugar, so if you had a choice between leaving your horse on long grass or a short neatly nibbled paddock I know where I would leave mine. Longer grass has more fibre therefore, it is better for your horse.
Consider the amount of hay or pasture your horse gets: Horses who are grazing on good pasture the majority of the day don’t need much hay, if any. Horses who don’t get much turnout or aren’t on good pasture will need more hay, whether they are inside or out.
Many horse owners prefer a mix of legume and grass hays as an ideal forage for their horses. Each type of hay falls into one of two categories: legumes and grasses. Commonly fed legume hays include alfalfa and clover, with most other hays falling into the grass family.4 мая 2017 г.
The most common acute toxins that kill horses in a few hours to 36 hours include:
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PESHAWAR -- A truck in Peshawar with one of Hayat Khan's paintings features a young girl studying a book under a thick green tree. Accompanying it is a message: "Education is light."
Khan, 55, has been painting colourful portraits on trucks for the past 45 years. His subjects previously ranged from film actresses and animals to scenic landscapes and army generals.
Since 2005, however, Khan has mostly focused on painting portraits of girls going to school.
Truck owners initially lacked interest in paintings with subjects chosen by the artists, Khan told Pakistan Forward.
"But once they saw our campaign of promoting education through truck art, they began coming by themselves and asked to paint the same on their truck," said Khan.
"We used to paint actresses, beautiful scenery and generals. But they were meaningless subjects," Khan said of the past.
Khan began promoting girls' education after he met with renowned anthropologist and filmmaker Samar Minallah Khan in 2003.
"Visuals have a strong impact, and trucks help in carrying the messages from one part of Pakistan to the other," Samar told Pakistan Forward.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the trucks roam largely with messages that promote and encourage female education.
The message is different in Punjab, however. Trucks there advocate against "swara", a form of forced child marriage in which a young girl is given away as punishment for some crime committed by her male relatives.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UNESCO have been supporting the initiative.
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In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” The idea is intuitive: Trees are the ultimate renewable resource. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature.
Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.
Weyerhaeuser, the world’s largest private owner of timber as well as its largest paper and pulp company, now markets how “wood products help remove and store CO2 and reduce the impacts of climate change.” The U.S. Industrial Pellet Association, a lobbying group for the biomass industry, proclaims that burning wood pellets from logged trees is “one of our best available tools to mitigate climate change, and achieve renewable energy goals.” The National Alliance of Forest Owners, a timber industry lobby group, has trumpeted “the important role sustainably managed forests and forest products can play in mitigating climate change.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.
This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested. In 2020, more than a hundred climate and forest scientists submitted a letter to Congress advising lawmakers not to trust the industry’s sustainability claims. There is no evidence, the scientists said, “to support increased logging to store more carbon in wood products, such as [for] buildings,” no evidence to “support the burning of wood in place of fossil fuels as a climate solution,” and no reason to support “legislative proposals that would promote logging and wood consumption,” as industry has lobbied for. The scientists counseled instead, to mitigate the climate crisis, the U.S. would need to “shift away from consumption of wood products and forest biomass energy.”
Nevertheless, the industry has garnered some allies among green groups. The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. These groups signed on to natural climate solutions as “optimiz[ing] the carbon potential of the private working forest [through] the manufacture of sustainable forest products,” and they signaled their alignment with dozens of timber and forest products companies in support of “working forests” and “managed forests” — industry euphemisms for logged forests.
The entanglement of the wood products industry and these nonprofits stretches beyond the 2020 agreement. The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S. communities and destroyed U.S. forests. The Forest-Climate Working Group’s policy platform for Congress urges the use of more wood in buildings, including in federal buildings, an expansion of state programs that promote the use of more wood products, and an increase in funding for federal Wood Innovation Grants “to stimulate … new forest product uses, and new or expanded forest products markets.”
These efforts are ostensibly in pursuit of a climate-friendly economy, the working group’s members having “found common ground on forest-related solutions to climate change” while representing a “unified voice across the U.S. forestry sector.” But some critics have called the Forest-Climate Working Group a greenwashing operation. “They give credence to the false narrative that expanding wood markets is essential to solving the climate crisis,” said Danna Smith, executive director of Dogwood Alliance, a conservation nonprofit in Asheville, North Carolina.
In the case of The Nature Conservancy, in particular, the ties to timber interests have sometimes been explicit. In 2006, TNC received a $1 million gift from the timber behemoth Weyerhaeuser that included a statement that the two entities “agreed to work collaboratively to improve their understanding of managed forests.” Until recently, millionaire hedge fund manager and major Enviva backer Jeffrey Ubben sat on a TNC investment advisory board and on Enviva’s board simultaneously. (In response to inquiries from Grist, a TNC spokesperson said that Ubben “had no governing authority” in his role and “is no longer affiliated with The Nature Conservancy in any capacity.”)
TNC’s entanglement with logging interests has made enemies of other green groups that might have been natural allies. On April 5, a coalition of more than 150 conservation, environmental, and social justice organizations signed an open letter to the Conservancy’s CEO, Jennifer Morris, charging that TNC was “promoting policies that favor the financial interests of the industrial logging and wood products industry at the expense of solving the climate crisis, protecting nature and advancing environmental justice.” The coalition demanded that TNC stop “promoting false climate solutions” that “center the financial interests of large lumber, pulp/paper, biomass/wood-pellet and other corporations.”
This was effectively a declaration of war in the genteel world of environmental nonprofits. Two of the authors of the letter, Dogwood Alliance’s Smith and the Reverend Leo Woodberry, pastor of the Living Kingdom Temple in Florence, South Carolina, co-edited an accompanying 35-page report titled “The Nature Conspiracy,” which focused on the effect of pro-logging politics in the poorest parts of the coastal plain states of the American South.
The report cites data showing that southeastern states were logged at four times the rate of the Amazon Basin during the first decade of the 21st century, making the region the most logged place on the planet. The insatiable demand for consumer wood products has been the primary cause of deforestation there, but the growing new demand is for wood pellets that are burned in overseas biomass plants to produce electricity, primarily in Europe. Smith calls the rush for wood pellets the most concentrated assault on southern forests since the invention of paper towels. The value of exported pellets in the U.S. has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021.
Smith, who says that Ubben was removed from his advisory role at TNC only after she told the nonprofit’s CEO that it constituted a conflict of interest, believes that TNC’s ties to the wood pellet industry should be enough to make it a pariah in environmental justice communities. “Logging for biomass is in rural African American areas, the Black belt of the U.S. south,” she told me. Not only is logging for all kinds of products — pellets, paper, pulp, lumber — concentrated in the Black belt, so too are many of the pellet mills, whose toxic emissions have sickened residents.
A TNC spokesperson told Grist that “The Nature Conspiracy” contains “factual errors and misinformation,” and emphasized that TNC’s position is that “bioenergy is not carbon neutral.” The spokesperson insisted that TNC has no involvement in wood pellet production and instead “focuses on the use of biomass that is a by-product of forest restoration and management activities such as thinning fire-prone forests.”
“While both TNC and The Dogwood Alliance share a commitment to working on forest conservation, climate change and environmental justice issues, we must also share the knowledge that reasonable people can disagree on approaches,” the spokesperson said.
Last September, I joined Smith for a trip across a stretch of the Black belt where North and South Carolina meet in the watersheds of the Pee Dee and Lumber Rivers, a hundred miles from the Atlantic coast. The area is heavily logged, and at just about every bend of the road there were vast clearcuts, ugly stretches of land that had been scalped. The dominant industries in this part of the Carolinas are those that feed on the forests: wood pellet mills, paper mills, pulp processors, and power plants that burn wood chips. “You can go anywhere across the coastal plain and find the same dynamic,” said Smith as we drove. “I’m 55, and in my lifetime I’ve seen a landscape-level change.”
Smith grew up in South Carolina, acquainted with swamps, cypresses, snakes, and the bewitching light of the wetland woods. After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I knew how to gather evidence and build a case,” she told me, “to advocate for the trees and the forests.”
We were headed to the 2,000-person, majority-Black town of Britton’s Neck in Marion County. We passed dozens of clearcuts, the land gray and barren, the slash from the downed trees in sad, jumbled piles. These were followed by plantations of hybridized pines, non-native, bioengineered, planted in rows, even-aged, and, hewing to industry practice, soaked in chemicals to keep the insects off.
The tops of the pines formed unbroken eaves, like the rooftops of rowhouses. “Can you see the tree line, homogenous all the way down?” said Smith. “Look at the perfect rows!” We turned onto South Carolina state highway 41, a few minutes north of Britton’s Neck, and passed a clearcut that formed on both sides of the road an empty prospect as far as the eye could see. The cut went on for miles. “And it keeps going, one after another. These are our southern forests. They’re not ecosystems. They’re fiber farms, corporate plantation croplands. This is what TNC is supporting.”
Smith had arranged a meeting in Britton’s Neck with Reverend Woodberry, a community organizer who had been dubbed “the EJ pastor.” Woodberry made a name for himself in the environmental justice community as one of the chief planners of the 2017 People’s Climate March in Washington, DC, which is where Smith met him. The two joined forces that year to help organize residents in Hamlet, North Carolina, to stop construction of an Enviva pellet plant. The effort failed, but in the course of it they became fast friends.
Woodberry is a fierce-looking 69-year-old who likes to bring environmentalism to the pulpit, making connections, for example, between the rivers that became blood in the Biblical Book of Revelation and red tides of toxic algae. “If we’re stewards of the Earth,” he once told a reporter, referring to the Book of Genesis, “we’re supposed to be doing something about this.”
One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding. It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests. To experience up close the flood devastation that logging brings, however, is altogether different. “We’ve been in homes where the flooding was so bad the floor has fallen in, and you can peer in and see the ground,” Woodberry told me over the phone before I arrived in the Carolinas. “We’ve seen homes totally taken over by black mold, where children are sick.”
When I met him, the reverend was accompanied by two members of the Concerned Citizens of Brittons Neck: Johnny B. Graves, 78, and Marvin Woodberry, 66, the reverend’s cousin. The Pee Dee River flows near town, and in 2018, when Hurricane Florence hit, the river leapt its banks, and Johnny B. was evacuated along with some 2,000 residents. Marvin told me he has fled his house three times in the last five years due to flooding. After Hurricane Matthew in 2015, Woodberry tested the local drinking water and discovered it had been infiltrated with pesticides and other chemicals from the surging river, along with contaminants from overflowing sewage systems.
Seeing all this havoc was personal for the reverend. “This is an old community, formed in 1749,” he told me. “My family came from here. My uncle says we’ve been here since slavery.”
We came to a halt at a section of cracked tarmac that was the terminus of the last big flood, during Hurricane Florence. Marvin showed me a map of town on his phone. He pointed to an area southeast of where we stood, a half-mile distant, that had been repeatedly logged. Beyond the logged area was the Pee Dee River. “It’s all through there the water comes, where those trees used to be absorbing the water,” Marvin told me. “We got to stop this. We got to keep our trees.”
“We got to keep our trees!” echoed the reverend.
At the banks of the Pee Dee River along a dirt road, we came to a stretch of wetland where tall old trees still stood, and the banks sloped to the sleepy black water. It was unlogged land, and it happened to be the spot where Marvin had been baptized when he was a young man. Cypresses towered above us, shaggy with vines, disheveled, their wide trunks furrowed and buttressed. The river ran glassy and slow, the sun shone in clear azure sky, a lone cicada rattled, and a breeze whispered in a stand of loblolly pine. To my northern eyes — I had never seen cypresses in the flesh — it was a marvelously exotic scene. To Leo and Marvin Woodberry, it was native ground, and that it hadn’t been logged was meaningful in a way no outsider could comprehend.
The southern coastal plain has become home to biomass mills that gorge on the region’s forests and turn them into wood pellets. The biomass industry asserts that wood pellet production is clean, green, and sustainable. The people I met in the shadow of the mills disagreed. Debra David, a 64-year-old homemaker turned activist, lives three miles from an Enviva mill in Hamlet, NC, which commenced operations in 2019 — the year, as it happens, that David started having trouble breathing. I met with her last autumn in a one-room Pentecostal church in town, where she and a neighbor and fellow parishioner, 50-year-old Debbie Short, described the collapse of their health.
“I use a nebulizer now. I can hardly walk,” said Short. She attributes her exploding case of asthma to air pollutants from the mill.
“I never had respiratory problems before Enviva came,” David told me. “Two years ago, I went to the hospital, it got so bad. They put me on a ventilator.”
Both women are Black, and both live in a relatively impoverished community: Hamlet’s poverty rate is 29 percent. They told me that widespread health problems among friends and family began with the powering up of the pellet mill. Short’s son, who is 29, gets headaches daily. David says her adult son suffers routine nosebleeds, though he never had them prior to Enviva’s arrival.
That the community is being sickened should not come as a shock. A 2018 investigation by the Environmental Integrity Project, or EIP, found that of 21 wood-pellet processing facilities it looked at across the South, more than half “either failed to keep emissions below legal limits or failed to install required pollution controls.” At least a third of the facilities investigated were operated by Enviva.
(In response to Grist’s request for comment about the EIP report, an Enviva spokesperson said the report has “numerous false statements about Enviva” and that “all our plants operate well inside the U.S. federal and state regulatory emission standards, presenting no risk or issue to public health or the environment.” The spokesperson insisted that Enviva has never received any community complaints about its plant in Hamlet.)
Manufacturing wood pellets is a filthy job. The logged material is dried in a wood-fired process, then pressed into pellets. Each step produces air pollution. EIP’s investigation found that emissions from the 21 facilities — which together produced 16,000 tons of air pollutants annually — included nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. The pellet mills spew the particularly noxious type of soot called PM 2.5, which is so fine that it can pass deep into the lungs and depress lung function, worsen asthma, and trigger heart attacks. When exposed to sunlight, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly.
On top of these environmental justice concerns, there is the climate cost of biomass. The industry’s vaunted declaration that it’s a carbon-neutral energy source would seem at odds with the fact that burning wood pellets for power emits more carbon per unit of electricity produced than coal. The industry, along with many European governments that have widely subsidized biomass as green energy, counters that these emissions are rendered moot, because trees are regrown in the logged trees’ place to absorb whatever carbon is released with burning. The staking of climate neutrality, however, ignores the all-important time frame of the need for decarbonization in the next two decades to avoid catastrophic warming.
In 2021, 87 scientists and economists, taking stock of the evidence, charged biomass proponents with a kind of carbon accounting fraud. The industry and its supporters in the European Union, they said, had failed to account for the effect of logged trees that no longer remove carbon from the atmosphere, the massive loss of carbon in soils due to logging’s ground disturbance, and the carbon emissions from the fossil fuels burnt to topple and haul trees and process them into pellets.
Smith and Woodberry have questioned why TNC has never spoken publicly about logging’s immense carbon impacts. A group of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Forest Service, and the World Resources Institute found that logging was the single largest driver of carbon emissions from U.S. forests between 2006 and 2010, five times more impactful than fires, land-use change, insects, drought, and wind damage combined. An open letter to Congress published last November and signed by hundreds of scientists concluded that “greenhouse gas emissions from logging in U.S. forests are now comparable to the annual CO2 emissions from U.S. coal burning.”
“In 2020, we joined environmental and justice groups and scientists from across the nation in an effort to engage The Nature Conservancy in conversation about this ongoing forest crisis,” Woodberry and Smith wrote in their editors’ introduction to the “The Nature Conspiracy.” They asked that TNC make a public statement about logging as a driver of carbon emissions in U.S. forests and commit to advancing environmental justice in communities on the front lines.
TNC, as Woodberry and Smith put it, “listened at first, but then declined to act.” The attempt by the coalition they built to engage the nonprofit was in fact a 10-month endeavor, involving multiple letters, phone calls, and meetings with TNC officials, including one directly with Morris that lasted four hours, according to Smith.
“The forestry industry is just like the fossil fuel industry. It is extractive, polluting, climate-disruptive, and destructive of biodiversity,” Smith told me. “TNC doesn’t want to hear this.”
In 2015, a conservation biologist at Duke University named Stuart Pimm, who specializes in extinctions, wanted to know whether the system of land protection in the U.S. was up to the task of preserving biodiversity at a time when many species are collapsing. He looked first at the land trusts of the Nature Conservancy. With annual revenue of over $1 billion, TNC has funded the purchase of many millions of acres of land trusts as conservation easements intended to be protected from development.
Pimm, to his surprise, discovered that one of the lowest concentrations of protected land was in the southeastern U.S., which is more biodiverse than most other parts of the country. It also has the highest rate of endemism, defined as species that only occur in a particular area and nowhere else.
Pimm expected that the planet’s most endowed conservation group would be more attentive to places teeming with life. Curious as to why there were so few TNC acquisitions in the American South, the nation’s biodiversity hotspot, Pimm believed he found the answer by overlaying on the map of land trusts a second map of U.S. counties coded by income and wealth. Most of TNC’s land acquisitions were in the richest counties, overwhelmingly in the Northeast, New England, the Upper Midwest, and in a selection of wealthy enclaves elsewhere across the country. Failing to protect the more biodiverse but economically bereft regions of the South amounted to “a spectacular failure of TNC’s national leadership,” Pimm told me.
In August 2021, Pimm, a self-described Christian, joined with Michael Malcolm, an environmental justice pastor and executive director of the People’s Justice Council, to write a letter to the chief scientist at TNC, Katherine Hayhoe, one of the few publicly-prominent evangelical Christians who believe in climate change. The intractable problem facing TNC, as Pimm and Malcolm remarked in the letter, is that it “now has a very unfortunate reputation for dismissing science for its own political convenience.” The group’s positions “on issues involving climate change and biodiversity in the southeast USA,” they charged, “are unconscionable.”
“Our Christian values teach us to stand and speak out against the things that harm community,” Pimm and Malcolm told Hayhoe. (Hayhoe, through intermediaries at TNC, did not respond to Grist’s requests for comment). “Your not speaking out against current TNC practices harms nature, harms people, and it harms you and the reputation you have worked so hard to establish.”
Hayhoe didn’t respond. “We got nothing. Zip,” Pimm told me. “It showed a level of arrogance that I found was exceptional.”
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The COVID-19 pandemic could effectively be over in a year because enough vaccine will be manufactured and distributed by that time, Moderna Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel said in an interview with a Swiss newspaper.
“If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated,” Bancel told Neue Zurcher Zeitung, according to Reuters. “Boosters should also be possible to the extent required.”
Asked if that meant a return to normal in the second half of next year, he said: “As of today, in a year, I assume.”
Bancel said people who don’t get vaccinated could develop natural immunity to COVID-19.
“Those who do not get vaccinated will immunize themselves naturally, because the Delta variant is so contagious. In this way we will end up in a situation similar to that of the flu. You can either get vaccinated and have a good winter. Or you don’t do it and risk getting sick and possibly even ending up in hospital,” he said.
Booster shots might contain less vaccine than the first shots, he said, because “with half the dose, we would have 3 billion doses available worldwide for the coming year instead of just 2 billion.”
Bancel said Moderna is developing “Delta-optimized variants” in clinical trials that will likely be used for boosters in 2022.
The Washington Post and other media outlets said Bancel’s prediction will not come true unless more vaccine is extended to poor nations. About 80% of the population in the world’s wealthy nations have received at least one dose of vaccine, compared to 20% of people in low-income nations, The Post said.
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres this week criticized rich countries for hoarding and sometimes wasting vaccines instead of sharing more readily with poor countries, The Post said.
Reuters: “Moderna chief executive sees pandemic over in a year — newspaper.”
The Washington Post: “Moderna’s chief expects enough vaccines for everyone by next year. Much of the world is still waiting.”
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Despite what many pet owners may believe, “dog breath” is not just a nuisance – it’s a sign of an unhealthy mouth. Bad breath is caused by bacteria. Over time, bacteria leads to plaque and tartar buildup on your pet’s teeth. The result is bad breath, reddened gums, and other common signs of dental disease. As dental disease progresses, other signs can include drooling, discomfort while chewing, and loose or missing teeth. Even if you’re using treats and chews to help control tartar, these are frequently not enough to keep dental disease in check. Ask us about the best ways to control plaque and help protect your pet from dental disease.
Dental hygiene is an important part of your pet’s health because dental disease can be associated with other serious health problems such as heart disease and kidney disease. But how do you know if your pet has a healthy mouth? We will examine your pet’s teeth and gums to help determine if there are any dental issues you should know about. After a brief visual examination, we may recommend a more detailed examination (which requires sedation), a dental cleaning, or options for at-home dental care.
We can offer expert advice to help you keep your pet’s teeth and gums healthy! Dental health shouldn’t be taken for granted. Fortunately, many dental problems can be managed through at-home care and by bringing your pet to us for regular dental checkups and teeth cleanings. We want your pet to live a long, healthy life, and maintaining a healthy mouth is part of that. Call today to discuss your pet’s dental care needs and how we can help!
Tustana Animal Hospital Dental Package:
Blood Work: A full total health profile is performed in the morning prior to anesthesia. This is to pick up on any abnormalities and ensure the safety of our patients.
General Anesthesia for routine prophylaxis: Each patient has their own anesthetic protocol based on their age and other factors. General anesthesia allows us to thoroughly examine the whole mouth, take dental radiographs and clean pockets and provide other treatment if indicated. It is also much less stressful for our loved ones.
Anesthesia Monitoring: Unfortunately anesthesia isn’t 100% risk-free. However, the good news is that complications are extremely rare. To reduce the risk of any anesthetic complications the doctor will examine each pet before the procedure, they will review pre-anesthetic blood work and base their anesthetic plan on those findings.
All our patients are connected to an anesthetic monitoring machine which measures the pulse oximetry(oxygen saturation of their blood), ECG (heart rate and rhythm), blood pressure, and temperature. We also have a dedicated technician monitoring the patient under anesthesia.
We maintain body temperature under anesthesia with the latest bair hugger technology- imagine a blanket of circulating warm air covering the patient.
IV Fluids: All patients have an IV catheter placed, this allows us to give them their drugs safely and painlessly. We also keep all our patients on IV fluids whilst under anesthesia to support their blood pressure and circulation.
Full Mouth Dental Radiographs: Dental radiographs are taken of all the teeth in the mouth. This allows us to accurately assess the health of the mouth and teeth both above and below the gum line. Did you know up to 60% of dogs teeth are below the gum line?
Dental Prophylaxis: The whole mouth is probed by our doctor checking for signs of periodontal disease and other issues, this is all recorded on a dental chart. The teeth are then scaled with a high-frequency water-cooled scaler to remove all the tartar and calculus. Once scaling is finished the teeth are polished to leave a smooth surface to make it more difficult for tartar to attach. Finally, a fluoride gel is applied to help strengthen the enamel.
We monitor our patients under anesthesia for several hours after their procedure before sending them home the same evening.
Our aim is to provide thorough dental prophylaxis to keep our patient’s mouths healthy and avoid having to extract teeth. Unfortunately, there are often times where we are already dealing with substantial dental disease, and teeth may be infected and causing pain and a constant source of bacteria for the body. In these cases, we sometimes will recommend extracting diseased teeth or other periodontal treatments. This will be based on probing of the mouth under anesthesia and what we see on their dental radiographs. Extractions, periodontal, and other non-routine treatment, along with medications that may need be required (antibiotics/ pain relief etc.) are NOT included in the dental package. | <urn:uuid:317f5ae9-01de-4fbf-8651-d96f4dbb19c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tustana.com/veterinary-dental-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936233 | 982 | 2.953125 | 3 |
PARIS, France, Jan 17 – Novak Djokovic’s deportation from Australia due to his coronavirus vaccine status may be the portent of worse things to come for the Serbian tennis superstar.
The fall-out from the 34-year-old’s very public stand-off with the Australian government raises questions not just about his bid for a record 21st Grand Slam title — it could affect him in many other ways.
AFP Sport picks out three potential consequences:
Novak Djokovic has always made much of his love of the history of tennis and is keenly aware of his place in it, although he said last year he found it “difficult to understand the magnitude of (my) achievements….while I’m still an active player.”
He made a bit more history at the Australian Open in being the first tennis world number one to be deported and the repercussions of his absence could be monumentally costly for him on court.
His absence could see Rafael Nadal secure what the Serbian wanted to achieve in Australia — an unprecedented 21st Grand Slam singles crown.
If 35-year-old Nadal falls short, Djokovic could lose out in another way — his record two-year reign as world number one could be ended if either Daniil Medvedev or Alexander Zverev win the Australian title for the first time.
Medvedev — who denied a tearful Djokovic a Grand Slam sweep in 2021 by beating him in the US Open final — came close to achieving that last year.
Djokovic has made no secret that his friend Medvedev is his most likely successor.
However, when he expressed that view after beating the Russian in the Paris Masters last November, he probably envisaged rather different circumstances.
“I’m sure he’s going to get it eventually, and when he does, it’s completely deserved,” Djokovic said then.
Djokovic has earned an estimated $150 million during his stellar career.
However, the $30 million he earned from sponsorship deals last year — according to Forbes magazine — may not be so sacrosanct as sponsors take stock of the situation and assess the potential damage to the image of their star and to them.
Djokovic’s Lacoste contract was his most lucrative, valued at around $9 million by several American media outlets.
The clothing firm bearing the emblem of a crocodile — the nickname of its founder, French tennis legend Rene Lacoste — indicated it may bare its teeth in talks with Djokovic.
“As soon as is possible we will be in touch with Novak Djokovic to talk about the events in Australia,” read a Lacoste statement.
Djokovic, though, can take heart from the experience of a fellow sporting superstar and anti-vaxxer Aaron Rogers.
The Green Bay Packers quarterback lost only a minor sponsor last year, who took a dim view of both his anti-vaccine stance and his claim that his critics were “a woke mob”.
Slam doors shutting?
Nadal winning the Australian Open would require Djokovic to win two more Grand Slam titles to be the sole holder of the record number of singles titles. The Spaniard has only won the Australian crown once and lost the four other finals he has contested in Melbourne.
With doubts over whether Roger Federer — the third member of the triumvirate that are level on 20 titles — can add to his haul when he returns from yet more knee surgery, Djokovic was looking good to achieve yet another record.
However, the very reason for his deportation from Australia could change the complexion of his future career because Covid is not going away anytime soon and nor will the regulations regarding vaccination made by ever cautious governments.
Wimbledon would appear the only tournament he can confidently think of playing in after the French Open doors closed on him on Monday.
The French sports ministry said a new vaccine pass, approved by the parliament on Sunday, “applies to everyone, to volunteers and to elite sportspeople, including those coming from abroad, until further notice.”
The US Open would also appear to be a no-go area for the Serb according to the stringent vaccination rules currently in place in New York.
“It is an objective, yes, to prove that I can break all the records,” Djokovic said last November. “I’m very motivated to carry on.”
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Do you let others see the real you? Do they know how you are really doing?
One of the constant comments I get after I talk about my journey of burnout is “thank you for your transparency.” Transparency is helpful because others can get help from what you have been through. Being real and authentic is powerful.
Was I always transparent? No, to the contrary. Little did I let it slip of how I was really doing. I was skilled at keeping my emotions even from myself. My standard phrase when people enquired as to how I am doing was “I’m doing ok, thanks”. I had little time for people who constantly focussed on the negative. Was that the reason I kept my guard up? No. Was it that as a people carer I could not be vulnerable?
Wisdom tells us there are times not to be transparent e.g. in parenting, our duty of care requires us to be circumspect with what we say. Children need to be protected and shielded. Conversely, there are times when we need to be transparent and we need people and places to be such.
What keeps you from being transparent?
Becoming transparent has been a journey. Several things contributed to my lack of transparency and my ingrained, closed behaviour. For those who like the short version, they were shame, lack of trust, fear of judgment and exposure.
I discovered that there is no shame in being emotionally sick. Being open with “I am burnt out” enabled people to give care and support me while I was sick. It took me three months to trust my psychologist. As the weekly sessions rolled by, little by little I began to let my guard down, sharing more about myself. I came to see that I closed myself off from others because I feared rejection, judgment, and exposure. Trust had been broken. Consequently, I had chosen to shut most others out. I chose to trust again, discovering that it was safe to do so.
Choosing to trust has a wonderful consequence. In trusting others you are naturally transparent. This openness brings others closer to you. Lack of trust causes detachment, but trust builds connection.
Who can help you build transparency?
Several years of being mentored in emotional well-being has greatly helped me build transparency. My mentor’s gentle probing questions “how are you doing?” have been so helpful. Over time I have discovered that it’s safe here to say it as it really is. A mentor is key to thriving. Our level of transparency determines the level of help we receive.
How transparent are you with your mentor on a scale of 0-10 ? 0 not at all & 10 nothing is hidden.
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The Ag-Auto-Ethanol Work Group (AAE) is an alliance of collaborating biofuel feedstock and producer groups, agribusiness partners, automobile manufacturers, infrastructure providers, and technical and academic experts who are working together to develop strategies and action plans to accelerate the transition of transportation fuels to higher octane/lower carbon blends for use in the North American light duty vehicle fleet. Natural Resource Solutions has helped to facilitate the efforts of this work group and its dedicated action teams.
Chesapeake Bay Commission
The Chesapeake Bay Commission is a tri-state legislative body representing Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Since its establishment, the Commission has worked to promote policy in several areas that are vital to Chesapeake Bay restoration, including nutrient reduction, fisheries management, toxics remediation, pollution prevention, habitat restoration and land management
The Energy Foundation is a partnership of major donors interested in solving the world’s energy problems. Their mission is to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy — new technologies that are essential components of a clean energy future.
Farm Foundation, NFP
The Farm Foundation, NFP serves as a catalyst for sound public policy by providing objective information to foster deeper understanding of issues shaping the future for agriculture, food systems and rural regions.
George B. Storer Foundation
The mission of the George B. Storer Foundation is to promote an ecologically rich and economically prosperous future for current and future generations.We believe in protecting vital natural resources that support healthy economies, and in equipping and empowering future generations to be strong leaders, engaged citizens and good stewards of those resources.We pursue our mission by focusing our grantmaking in three strategic areas:
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National Association of State Conservation Agencies
The National Association of State Conservation Agencies exists to serve and represent its members, fifty-five state and territory conservation agencies of the United States. Members agencies administer soil, water, and related natural resource conservation programs. NASCA works to facilitate communication and information sharing among its members, as well as provide needed training, forums for policy development, and representation.
National FFA Foundation
The National FFA Foundation builds partnerships with industry, education, government, foundations and individuals to secure resources for the future of education, agriculture and student leader development. Providing opportunities to help FFA members grow and succeed is the work of the National FFA Foundation, which supports the National FFA Organization and education-related organizations associated with the National Council for Agricultural Education.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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The Campbell Foundation
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United Nations Foundation
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The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life for all North Carolinians by preventing harm to, ensuring access to and enhancing the resilience of the natural systems that sustain life. The Foundation is committed to strong and sensible environmental protection. ZSR has a particular interest in broadening the base of citizens acting on behalf of the environment and supporting organizations that empower people at the grassroots to effect state and regional policy decisions. ZSR funds a wide variety of strategies to meet its environmental goals, including but not limited to: policy development, advocacy, civic engagement, communications, and litigation.
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It’s still one of the great mysteries of the Internet: with the millions of images that bombard us on the web every day, what makes us click on one instead of another? Are some pictures universally appealing, or is art always a matter of personal opinion?
Netflix has been pondering these profound questions for years. After all, images are critical to getting you to binge: A small, compelling thumbnail could mean the difference between getting you to spend the entire weekend watching House of Cards or losing interest and bouncing over to Hulu.
A powerful picture is an incredibly efficient tool: The human brain can process an image in just a few milliseconds, so the right picture can spark someone’s interest and convince a viewer it’s worth exploring a new show in a single glance. Which is why, in 2014, Netflix began gathering consumer research specifically about the images on its service.
The research indicated that looking at images not only prompted users to watch content, but accounted for a whopping 82% of their time spent browsing (as opposed to, say, reading movie titles or descriptions). In other words, the images mattered almost four times more than the text describing the storyline. Members also spent only 1.8 seconds considering each title. “We know that if you don’t capture a member’s attention within 90 seconds, he or she will likely lose interest and move on to another activity,” says Nick Nelson, Netflix’s global manager for creative services. “Images become the most efficient and compelling way to help them discover the perfect title as quickly as possible.”
Recently, Netflix–which is famously tight-lipped about its own data–has been doing experiments to better understand which images capture our attention and why, and shared some of its findings with Fast Company as well as in a post on its blog. The effort was both science and art: Data scientists analyzed user statistics, while creative teams considered the colors, emotions, and words that appear on pictures. The company tests several images for a single show or movie to try to discover what makes members click. Its first lesson was that images had to be high quality in order to draw viewers in. “We saw one clear thing,” Nelson says. “Using better images to represent content significantly increased overall streaming hours and engagement.”
Netflix’s data reveals some interesting takeaways about why people watch one thing over another, but more broadly, may be applicable to anyone looking to hook readers, viewers, or buyers with compelling imagery.
One of Netflix’s earliest findings was that interest tended to drop off when an image touting a show or movie contained more than three people. It seems that users find it hard to focus when there are too many people, and may not be able to absorb cues about the storyline. This was a surprising insight for Netflix, given that some shows are popular precisely because they have large casts. Orange Is the New Black is a good example of this. “While ensemble casts are fantastic for a huge billboard on the side of a highway, they are too complex at small sizes,” Nelson says. “They are ultimately not as effective at helping our members decide if the title is right for them on smaller screens.”
Scientists have known for a long time that humans are hardwired to respond to faces: Studies have found that infants process faces long before they are able to recognize other objects. However, one interesting thing that Netflix discovered is that people tend to focus more on images of people displaying complicated expressions over stoic or benign ones. These highly emotive images are able to quickly and effectively convey subtle details about the show or movie, drawing users into the storyline and prompting them to watch it. Take, for instance, the image for the second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which drove a lot of engagement; its thumbnail ad features Ellie Kemper’s face looking over at Tituss Burgess with an expression of surprise and possibly disbelief:
Just like complex emotions are more likely to capture our attention, images of polarizing characters also tend to grab our attention. Netflix found that members responded better to recognizable villainous characters over pictures of the hero. They found this to be true in the kids’ genre, as well as for action shows and movies.
By testing across geographies, Netflix found that there are regional preferences when it comes to imagery. For instance, Sense8, a show with a diverse, international cast, has a wide audience across countries, but Netflix discovered that different images worked better in different places. While the company didn’t offer us a clear rubric about what kind of images work best in each country, from the images they showed us, it seemed that more artistic images worked better in Germany, while American audiences were more compelled by images that revealed the storyline clearly. The point is that in order to sell the same content or product across different countries, it is worth testing several images.
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What is Challenging E-Carceration?
Challenging E-Carceration aims to change the conversation and policy concerning electronic monitoring and surveillance in the criminal legal system. In recent years mass incarceration has come under considerable criticism and been the focus of political mobilization from many quarters. But what is the alternative?
Will we merely exchange concrete and steel cages for devices like electronic monitors which convert homes in poor communities into jails?
Will we allow the state and corporations to use technology to restrict our movement and record massive amounts of information about our lives?
Challenging E-Carceration says no.
Challenging E-Carceration will use research, media, policy development and popular mobilization to limit and ultimately contribute to the abolition of electronic monitors and all forms of e-carceration. In cases where such devices are used, we support efforts to reduce the harm done by this technology, including the harm done to loved ones and communities.
To accomplish this we will mobilize those impacted by mass incarceration and E-carceration, community activists, experts and those interested in social justice to curb the excesses of E-Carceration and advocate for transformative change that challenge the criminalization of the poor, the degradation of Black, brown and Native populations, and allocates resources to communities, not to punishment.
This project will:
Build a national coalition dedicated to reducing and ultimately eliminating the use of electronic monitoring
As part of harm reduction, develop a set of guidelines for monitors that center the rights of those on the monitors and their loved ones.
Conduct research that centers the voices of people who have been on monitors and their loved ones
Highlight practices and policies that respect the rights of those on electronic monitors
Uncover and resist the ways in which electronic monitors mete out special punishment to people of color and track Black bodies
Promote policies and campaigns that support individual and community development rather than punishment
Expose the ways in which electronic monitors contribute to building a surveillance state
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Facing the constant humid and hot weather in Singapore all year round means constant exposure to UV rays and high temperatures. This can open up the skin to a lot of problems such as skin dehydration, more sweat and increased oil production. When dead skin cells mix with excess sweat and sebum, this causes the pores to become clogged, thus there is the potential of acne breakouts to occur.
Spending extended time in the sun also increases your chances of developing sun spots and discolourations on the skin. When there is prolonged exposure to the sun, melanin is excessively produced by the body. They can appear as uneven darkened patches or spots on the skin, and can worsen existing hyperpigmentation – causing it to appear darker.
There are several measures you can take to beat the heat and have your skin look its best.
Combat the heat and hydrate your skin
Skin Boosters provide hydration to restore your skin from inside out. Made from Hyaluronic acid, this natural substance is also present in the body to support the skin’s architecture, facilitate passage of nutrients and hydrate the skin. When the skin is exposed to UV rays, there is an increased breakdown of Hyaluronic acid, thus causing dehydration to the skin. With Skin Boosters, they are injected into the skin’s surface to increase the level of hydration.
As opposed to traditional face fillers, Skin Boosters are not injected under the skin to form or volumise the face. The effects of introducing more Hyaluronic acid, however, help to stimulate your body’s collagen regeneration and keep your skin moisturized. Hyaluronic acid locks in moisture that is 1000 times its own weight – giving you dewier and firmer skin with a more radiant and youthful look.
Erase dark spots
You’ve already heard how important it is to protect the skin with the use of sunscreen on a daily basis. Frequent sun exposure can cause age spots to appear as melanin is overproduced, resulting in dark patches and uneven complexion. It can also worsen existing post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, which typically occurs after an acne breakout has healed and leaves behind a discolouration area behind.
The Q-switched Nd-YAG laser is able to break down the melanin pigment into microparticles by directing light of specific wavelength into the skin, which gets absorbed by the pigmented skin lesions. The microparticles are then naturally eliminated by the body, thus lightening the skin pigmentation. This can be effective in helping you get rid of acne scars as well as sun spots. Q-switched Nd-YAG laser also stimulates collagen remodeling which results in a reduction of fine lines and wrinkles, and rejuvenate your complexion.
Control your acne breakouts
The hot weather combined with humidity is prime breakout time as sebum production is exacerbated and clogs your pores. You may also notice a bigger appearance of your pores and as you sweat more, it makes your skin vulnerable to excess oil, dirt, and bacteria to accumulate more in your clogged pores. This can make your skin inflamed and be prone to acne breakouts.
Q-switched Nd-YAG laser is also able to kill the P. acnes bacteria that causes acne and pimple breakouts. At the same time, it shrinks the oil glands in the skin which helps to reduce oil production. Another popular acne treatment is the AGNES treatment, which selectively targets problematic acne-prone pores that are responsible for recurrent acne breakouts. By reducing the oil gland’s size and oil production, blockages are less likely to happen which means no breakouts.
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Accident Benefits in simple terms
The laws of Ontario have a mechanism to ensure every person who is injured or dies in a motor vehicle accident can access financial help. The mechanism is called Statutory Accident Benefits Coverages, and this is provided, by law, in every auto insurance policy.
The compensation provided by the benefits is available regardless of fault. It is also available whether the injured person was the driver, the passenger, or a pedestrian.
Accident Benefits help create financial security after a dramatic life change. Let us look at a few categories:
FINDING A SOURCE OF INCOME
If someone is seriously injured, it is likely that they cannot work, at least for a while. Income replacement is a benefit that helps provide an income during this recovery period.
Another form of compensation is called non-earner. This compensation provides financial support to people who will not recover medically and do not qualify for income replacement.
Sometimes income replacement is needed for the person required to fill the role of a caregiver. Accident Benefits can also provide compensation to people who must leave work to care for somebody injured in a car accident in Ontario.
COVERING NEW EXPENSES
After a car accident injury, there are many new expenses. There are medical expenses, the cost of aids (attendant care), and money needed for ongoing rehabilitation to improve health outcomes.
Some expenses are less obvious, such as the need for housekeeping, family or friends’ travel to provide support during the recovery or treatment, or lost educational expenses. There is also the cost associated with the repair or replacement of the car damaged in the accident.
Accident Benefits will also cover some funeral expenses and provide additional money to family members if the insured person dies due to the accident.
WHEN ACCIDENT BENEFITS CAN BE DENIED
Accident Benefits can be denied if the injured person is breaking the law. For example: driving without valid insurance or driver’s license or driving a vehicle without the vehicle owner’s consent. Cases of fraud or driving a car while committing a crime would also likely prevent someone from claiming Accident Benefits.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A VICTIM OF A CAR ACCIDENT?
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If your pool surface has developed staining and you have confirmed it is not algae, you need to consider having Central Florida Pool Service maintain your backyard investment. Failure to remedy the situation in a timely manner may cost you thousands more than you would pay for weekly pool service.
The most common type of metal stain that we encounter is metal, specifically copper. Copper is found naturally in water and is magnified by copper water lines in your house, pool heater coils, copper algaecide, etc. Over time, the metal content in the water increases to the point that the metals attach to the pool surface and stains are visible.
We have found that many times the copper staining is due to improper pool service. Prior to hiring us for pool cleaning, residents informed us they would routinely administer copper algaecide in the pool. This was because they had algae outbreaks on a regular basis. That is when they should have called us to begin with!
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Violence begets violence. Control is the name of the game. Ireland's experience is like many others around the world today.
On Easter Monday, 1916, hundreds of Irishmen across the country rebelled against British control, most notably in Dublin. Years of simmering discontent boiled over as a band of citizen soldiers took the General Post Office and proclaimed the Irish Republic.
The rebellion saw thousands killed, 90 eventually sentenced to death, and the leaders soon executed by firing squad. Their names sound through Dublin streets to this day:
Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Thomas J. Clarke …
Britain starved Ireland for centuries, and regularly tamped down Ireland's rising call for freedom. Some of Ireland's great voices complained that the Catholic church -- code for the poor and the middle class -- brought a new oppression. In some ways they were correct.
But seven men signed the proclamation and with their confreres died at Dublin's Kilmainham jail.
Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly …
The Catholic church in 19th century Ireland oversaw a different oppression, also imported from England. Various homes for "wayward" women dotted the country -- from Cork to Dublin to Galway to Waterford to Wexford -- and by the 1840s, institutes of women religious began to manage them. The sisters built newer, bigger "Magdalene asylums," eventually housing thousands of women and, often, their children.
On the one hand, the sisters built magnificent buildings, some with world-class architecture. On the other hand, they seem guided by prevailing attitudes toward sex and unwed motherhood. To complicate matters, some families began bringing young girls with mental or physical disabilities to permanent residence in the asylums.
No doubt they all yearned for freedom, but not exactly the same freedoms the rebels sought.
Michael O'Hanrahan, John MacBride, Eamonn Ceannt …
Joseph Plunkett's notebook on display at the National Library records what happened in what today is called the Easter Rising: "GPO occupied in the name of the Republic shortly after noon (about 12:15 pm). Republic proclaimed. About one hour later a detachment of enemy lancers attempted to rush O'Connell Street. They were opposed at the Parnell Statue."
As the rebellion ran its course, the women stayed locked in their penitentiaries, some well-treated, others not. Many, but not all, eventually left of their own accord.
It seems things got worse before they ended.
Michael Mallin, Sean Heuston, Conn Colbert …
The Irish Republic, proclaimed that Easter Monday in 1916, did not settle its own affairs until the 26 counties of the Irish Free State joined together in 1922. Six counties in the north remained British. It got a new constitution in 1937, as the world headed toward another war.
Ireland itself remained mostly rural, mostly poor. Meanwhile, society looked askance at the women inside those laundry walls, no matter why or how they got there. The dirty laundry often came from the government, and from the church.
The laundries worked and worked. It wasn't just Ireland. Australia, Canada, and the United States had their share of Magdalene asylums -- mostly laundries, not necessarily controlled by nuns -- that took in teenaged girls of all descriptions. The prevailing attitude was that young girls and women who either fell or earned their livings by the "sins of the flesh" needed to be incarcerated and reformed and rid of venereal diseases.
There does not seem to be much discussion of how they "fell" or with whom, or who in society wanted to eradicate venereal disease, especially among the women likely to go back to work on the streets.
James Connolly, Sean MacDermott.
Both church and state supported the Irish Magdalene laundries. Post-war poverty brought more girls (and their babies) to the nuns' care. Another industry arose, as richer Americans adopted children born in the homes.
The American movie "Philomena" is a heartbreaking window into the ways some religious reacted to the girls and their children, and to the eventual searches of children for parents and parents for children. There are many books and documentaries, some better researched than others. Most overlook the fact that caring for discarded persons is a work of mercy. The wounds of the past remain raw today.
Ireland's politics are no less settled. Contention boils and erupts from time to time.
But secular Ireland is also walking, ever so slowly, away from the church and its mores. In 1996, the last Magdalene asylum -- on Sean MacDermott Street -- closed in Dublin. There is a Magdalene Survivors group. The Irish government has formally apologized and set aside funds for women deprived of freedom for so long.
Resurrection often takes some time, but it always comes.
[Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and has recently completed a Fulbright Specialist trip to Ireland. She will speak May 6, 2016, at the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto and Sept. 24, 2016, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Her books include Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority and In the Image of Christ: Essays on Being Catholic and Female.]
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Traveling the world opens us up to so many new experiences, from new cultures to new foods, and people. To have the trip of your dreams it’s a good idea to plan everything out carefully. If you’re keen to plan the perfect trip these easy tips are just what you need.
1 . Plenty of research
You’ll need to ensure that you do plenty of research. Perhaps you have a few key destinations in mind? A research process can help you to narrow down your options. It could be that you’re looking to include several destinations in one trip? Whatever your plans are, it’s helpful to learn as much as you can about your potential destinations. You’ll want to learn about the cultures and customs, top sights, approximate prices, and so on.
2. Get prepared in advance
Once you have a clearer idea of where you’re headed it’s a good idea to get prepared in advance. Booking your flights and hotels in advance can help you to make plenty of savings. It’s also a good idea to pre-book your activities and transfers. Other key preparations include travel and health insurance, airport pick-ups, and vaccinations.
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3. Design an itinerary
The next step is to plan your itinerary, with a detailed itinerary you can ensure that you get the most out of your time away. To help you get organized consider using a travel itinerary app, a few of the best apps include Sygic Travel Trip Planner and Trip IT. These tools have lots of handy features which can help you to plan out your trip. There are many benefits of creating an itinerary, including:
- Focus on the key traveling experiences you want to have.
- Timekeeping is helpful to fit everything in.
- Can balance active days and rest days.
- Pre-booking activities can help you to save money.
4. Keeping a record
Think about how you’re going to record your travels. When you’re going on the trip of a lifetime you’ll want to be able to look back at your memories. There are plenty of different ways to record a trip, including:
- Take lots of photographs.
- Keep a video journal.
- Use a vlog or blog.
- Record your trip on social media.
- Try an old-fashioned pen and paper journal.
- Make a scrapbook.
Whether you use traditional travel photography or a social media account, ensure that you preserve your best memories.
5. Travel inspiration
Last up, when you’re planning a traveling trip you might be glad of some inspiration. Check out travel blogs, and travel podcasts to get lots of key tips and ideas. Some of the best travel podcasts to listen to include The World Nomads and The Travel Diaries.
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The company has incorporated the IMO TIER III standard, which reduces by more than 75% the emission levels of nitrogen oxides, in the company’s four tugboats that are being built at the Group’s shipyard in Guarujá at a cost of $290,000.
The first tugboat built with this standard should start operating in February of next year and the second one in August. The project is developed by Damen Shipyards, a Wilson Sons’ partner for more than 25 years, and the vessels will have 80 tonnes of bollard pull (TBP), 25 meters long and 13 meters wide, with Escort Tug class notation.
With this technology, the new tugboats will comply with the requirements of the North American and European markets, determined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as emission control areas.
“Wilson Sons is being a pioneer in Brazil in meeting the requirements of Tier III standard, since it is not a requirement for the national territory, anticipating an eventual regulation in the country,” explained Rodrigo Bastos, director of operations of the Towage unit.
In these projects, Wilson Sons will also use another pioneering technology in the market, the “twin fin”, a set of fins that increases the drag capacity during manoeuvres, and improves the performance of the tug. With this, for the same traction, less power is demanded and, consequently, there is a reduction in fuel consumption and emissions.
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If your struggling with Stress management issues, please take our survey to see the severity
Stress Related Anxiety – How does it occur?
The Australian Psychological Association describes stress as overloading, wound-up, tensed and worried feelings when faced with a situation. On the other hand, anxiety is the anticipatory reaction to stress that is associated with nervousness, feelings of worry and apprehension.
So another way of saying this is that stress is the immediate effect you feel when faced with a situation that takes you to your various limits or out of your comfort zone. Anxiety is a mind that looks forwards in time and anticipates some sort of bad or catastrophic outcome, or generally anticipates a negative overall situation, and worries about that future event or generalized negative future.
Stress related anxiety is not bad at all. It can help you cope with everyday life situations such as worrying about finding a job or feeling nervous during a test or interview. In this case, stress related anxiety can motivate you to show your best and achieve better life opportunities. However, you should not let this type of stress continue without acting on it, as it will become an unhealthy situation in your life. Too much stress can lead to anxiety. Anxiety can in the long term then become depression. Think of uncontrolled stress as the root of anxiety and other types of mental conditions. So, tread lightly, do not be a victim of stress related anxiety! Our team can help you manage your stress and anxiety symptoms, if your suffering the effects please find out more about anxiety treatment and stress management techniques.
How can stress cause anxiety?
Stress is a normal biological and psychological reaction to the environment. It can be triggered by situations that make you feel worried and nervous. Anxiety is a reaction to stress. Some of the common stress and anxiety symptoms are stomach pain, muscle tension, rapid breathing, dizziness, sweating and diarrhea. So, how can stress cause anxiety?
Stress can bring physical changes to our bodies such as sweating, fast heartbeat, and muscle tension. The body’s stress response system works well to fight off stress and to maintain the fight or flight response. Too much stress can overpower the body’s stress response system making it hard to return to its normal state and functioning. In this case, the stress level goes up and it can lead to anxiety and other types of mental conditions.
How to cope with stress and anxiety?
Stress and anxiety that seem to be out of proportion to the stressor may be a sign of an existing anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders reportedly affect 1 in 4 Australians at some point in their life and are the most common type of mental health conditions. Almost one-third of the corporate world is reportedly suffering from some sort of depression, anxiety and stress.
As a sufferer, you should be aware of the different ways to cope with stress related anxiety. Moreover, it is also important to realise that your stress and anxiety management plans should focus on these three aspects which are body, mind and action.
Maintain a healthy lifestyle. Avoid excessive caffeine, alcohol and recreational drug intake. Limit night time digital exposure to smartphones, tablets and PC’s.
Get enough rest and exercise daily. Let this be your routine and be sure to include it in your stress and anxiety management plan.
There is a way to manage and control your stress and anxiety. Find out what triggers your stress or anxiety the most. Whatever it is… try to eliminate or reduce it somehow in your life. If your anxiety is generalized then focus on addressing the symptoms via challenging your thoughts and using some of the Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (CBT) that you can research on the internet.
Limit exposure to scary, violent or disturbing content online, especially in the evening.
Learn to cope by yourself with a little help from friends and families. Take deep organic breaths, enroll for a yoga class or participate in outreach programs to give back to the community.
Seek professional help. Do not be afraid to reach out to people and institutions that can help you. Do not rely on medication as it will not solve the issue, but simply mask it.
There is clearly a connection between stress and anxiety. Stress related anxiety is not bad at all in the short term and when related to a specific event.
However, it can become toxic if your stress level is uncontrolled and becomes prolonged, leading you to developing an anxiety disorder. Yet, there is still hope! A psychotherapist can help you achieve effective stress and anxiety management plan. A healthy lifestyle, relaxation techniques and other recreational activities can also help reduce stress and anxiety.
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“The death of cell-phone based freight tracking”
By Matthew Meeks
Fleets of all sizes want to know where their trucks and shipments are, and with good reason! Various “track and trace” solutions have been implemented – The most popular being the pinging of mobile devices and tablets. Mobile pinging is used to monitor a user’s mobile device and track its location. It has allowed owner-operators to avoid paying for the setup of expensive freight monitoring infrastructures.
Many companies still rely solely on mobile pinging without the use of any mobile apps, but this option is quickly becoming a thing of the past. The death of cell-phone based freight tracking is truly among us as more people become conscious of their digital privacy…and telecom service providers are responding.
“Sprint and AT&T have already stopped sharing location data, with T-Mobile announcing that it will stop sharing by the end of March (2019). I believe Verizon will follow suit shortly thereafter,” said Jason Traff, president and cofounder of Shipwell.
Telecom service providers initially started sharing its customers data for safety purposes like emergency services. This snowballed into eventually offering data to law enforcement and government agencies who began using the data to track people without their knowledge or consent. Hence, the government scrutiny we’ve seen in recent years.
We’ve all said or heard the, “I don’t want “big brother” breathing down my neck while I’m trying to do my job.”
Back in 2011 the company, Tom-Tom, was collecting data from drivers using their GPS devices. They were then selling the data to law-enforcement. This data included areas which saw the most cases of speeding. Police then used the information to create speed traps to ticket more drivers in these areas. Tom-Tom ended up halting the distributing of its customer’s data and apologized.
Many transportation management systems [TMS] still rely on cell-phone based pinging to offer fleet tracking automation. With pinging being phased out, it creates a major challenge:
Advances in technology have been a crucial part in revolutionizing the trucking industry in recent years, so taking a step back in terms of visibility and tracking solutions creates a counterproductive threat to the operation processes of shippers and 3PLs.
Not all hope is lost though… Sure, app-less mobile pinging will soon be a thing of the past, but there are still app-based solutions like Transflo Mobile+. This is an app that fully integrates with Transflo electronic logging devices [ELDs], while also offering telematics and Command Center dashboard premium upgrades.
And don’t get rid of your TMS…
…Transflo Mobile+ integrates with your TMS and works as an enhancement (no need to redo your processes). The app works to counter the lost tracking abilities that the new privacy rules have created for your TMS. “So, whether you have the Transflo ELD or just Transflo Mobile+ you can get location tracking as needed while still giving privacy control to the driver when using their personal device, said Salem Elnahwy, Chief Technology Officer of Transflo. “We’re also working on options to allow drivers with personal devices to pause tracking when not working.”
After all is said and done…if you think about it, the changes and new limitations to your TMS are really a blessing in disguise. Integrating an innovative mobile app with your system, creates a workflow with more tracking abilities, more data, more options, and loads more possibilities.
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March 26, 2018
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March 23, 2018
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Lord Malloch Brown is here to coax us back to Brussels. Mark Malloch Brown is trying to knit the Brexit refuseniks into a single force. But will voters listen to a former banker and UN high-flyer? Rosie Kinchen. January 7 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times. All articles now feature tags allowing you to explore related topicsÃâà...
December 17, 2017
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Why would we take 40 days to prepare for God’s plans? Below are 6 reasons why I believe God thinks 40 days is a good number of days to prepare for something new:
- Noah and the ark endured 40 days and 40 nights of rain. When the flood subsided, Noah and his family, along with the animals, began the process of rebuilding on earth. ~ Genesis 7:4
- Moses spent 40 days alone, on a mountain, talking to God. When he came down, Moses had the tablets containing the 10 Commandments. ~ Exodus 34:28
- Jewish spies spent 40 days evaluating the Promised Land before they thought about taking it as God commanded. ~ Numbers 13:25
- Goliath taunted the army for 40 days before David took action. ~ 1 Samuel 17:16
- Jesus went alone into the desert for 40 days before He began public ministry. ~ Mark 1:13
- After His resurrection from the dead, Jesus spent 40 more days on earth, appearing to hundreds of people, teaching about the Kingdom of God. He used 40 days to prepare people to spread the great news of salvation through faith in Him.
Are you laughing a bit and thinking, “Surely God isn’t planning to use me like He did Noah, Moses, or David!” What’s funny to me is that Noah, Moses, and David thought the same thing. Seriously.
We’ll start our 40 days on October 1. Before Sunday, refresh your memory of how often God used regular, unlikely men and women for His plans.
Never give in to the lie that God’s plans for you are small or not important (cousin Bev, this means you too!).
Whatever God is calling you to do, whether you think it “big” or “small,” you can be certain that the Creator of the universe thought it was important enough to be planted in your heart and whispered into your soul.
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Recent advances in assisted reproduction treatment possess allowed some couples with serious infertility concerns to conceive however the methods aren’t successful in every cases. a patient’s fertility are limited. Furthermore the techniques are only obtainable if the affected sufferers have the ability to generate gametes. Sufferers rendered sterile by medical interventions contact with toxicants or hereditary causes cannot utilize assisted duplication to conceive Rabbit Polyclonal to TRADD. a child – and often resort to donors where permitted. Stem cells represent a future potential avenue for allowing these sterile patients to produce offspring. Advances in stem cell biology indicate that stem cell replacement therapies or in-vitro differentiation may be on the horizon to treat and could cure male and female infertility although significant challenges need to be met before this technology can reach clinical practice. This article discusses these advances and describes the impact that these advances may have on treating infertility. into advanced spermatogenic stages including round spermatids (Easley to generate functional haploid spermatids or spermatozoa for fertilizing a partner’s oocyte in IVF clinics. These types of models are critical for uncovering novel underlying problems that contribute to infertility. This study group’s recent work highlighted the ability to differentiate human ESC and iPSC into various cell lineages found in spermatogenesis including SSC premeiotic NU-7441 (KU-57788) spermatocytes post-meiotic spermatocytes and round spermatids although it has not yet shown whether individual cells track through all stages of spermatogenesis (Easley (2012) showed that mouse stem cells could be differentiated in an in-vitro/in-vivo system into oocyte-like cells that are capable of being fertilized by spermatozoa and generating normal progeny. This outstanding advancement further shows the ability of pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into all cells of the adult organism. Whether the work NU-7441 (KU-57788) by Hayashi and colleagues can be adapted for human stem cells remains to be seen but this advancement is a critical step forward in NU-7441 (KU-57788) generating functional de-novo oocytes from human iPSC from female patients rendered sterile by medical interventions exposure to toxicants or by premature ovarian failure (Figure 1). Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inherited maternally have been linked to serious human being disorders including myopathies neurodegenerative illnesses diabetes cancer as well as infertility (Solano NU-7441 (KU-57788) (2009 2012 demonstrated using a nonhuman primate model that mtDNA problems could be circumvented by spindle-chromosomal complicated transfer from an adult metaphase-II oocyte into an enucleated adult donor oocyte. NU-7441 (KU-57788) These oocytes can handle becoming fertilized and providing rise to offspring that absence the deleterious mtDNA mutation but keep up with the maternal genomic DNA personal (Tachibana (2012) offers identified a uncommon human population of mitotically energetic germ cells in human being ovaries that may be purified and cultured to spontaneously type oocytes. This function highlights a distinctive potential to create oocytes from isolated cells in reproductive-aged ladies and also require a depleted follicle pool from such hereditary defects as Delicate X-associated major ovarian insufficiency. This recent advance along with those referred to above the initial methodologies becoming created to combat female-factor infertility highlight. Conclusions The book creativity by Yamanaka while others of reprogramming adult somatic cells into embryonic stem-like cells offers revolutionized patient-specific stem cell treatments in medicine specifically as GMP protocols for deriving iPSC are becoming established. Recent advancements show the ‘promiscuity’ of stem cells to differentiate not merely into somatic lineages but also into gametic lineages (Schatten 2012 The capability to differentiate a patient’s iPSC into practical haploid products can be an important step not only for providing material suitable for IVF but also for developing a model system for chemical screens to identify novel compounds capable of curing a patient’s infertility. The generation of functional haploid products from patient-specific stem cells is a noble quest but one that needs to be rigorously examined in non-human primate models before being utilized in a clinical setting. 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Chicago’s 4 Seasons
There are few things more frustrating than a cracked or chipped windshield. At Frank’s Auto Glass, we strive to be the number one choice for auto glass repair and replacement in Chicago and Chicagoland neighborhoods. A cracked or broken windshield or window can occur any time of year, anywhere in the city. There are a number of events that may cause your windshield to become cracked or broken, including weather conditions, vandalism, and road conditions. Below are some of the most common reasons your windshield may become cracked or broken because of Chicago’s four seasons:
In the hot Chicago summers, your car will find itself subject to sweltering heat and the baking sun can cause your windshield to expand causing chips and cracks. This may happen when you crank up the A/C because the abrupt change in temperature can cause the glass to chip or crack. It’s important that if you notice a crack or a chip, to get it repaired immediately to avoid a bigger and more expensive problem down the road. The best advice we can give is to park in a cool area—especially a garage—so your car can avoid the hot temperatures. Otherwise, consider keeping your windows slightly open while the car is parked in the heat so it doesn’t get too hot on the interior. Also, avoid blasting the air as soon as you get into the car. Gradually introduce cold air into the car on hot days so that a sudden change of temperature doesn’t jeopardize your auto glass.
Chicago in the fall is beautiful, but can be a dangerous time for your car’s auto glass. They call it fall for a reason. Leaves begin to fall from trees-but that’s not all that falls. Sticks, branches, nuts, and seeds fall from trees too during the fall, and put your windshield at risk of their impact. Try to park your car away from trees during autumn if you can help it. As always, we recommend parking in a garage or structure, but if that isn’t possible, try to park away from hazards that may fall from above.
Winter’s harsh conditions are your windshield’s worst nightmare. Not only do intense weather conditions like hail put your car’s auto glass in peril, but the temperature, the icy roads, and falling icicles are all hazards to be aware of. Winter has the highest rates of auto accidents of all the seasons, and accidents often mean broken windshields. Be careful driving on icy roadways, and avoid driving during harsh weather conditions when at all possible to reduce your risk of an accident. When warming your car up, be cautious to blast the heat to fast. Much like an abrupt gust of cold air hitting a hot windshield, hot air being blasted at a frozen windshield can potentially damage the glass. Finally, avoid parking beneath icicles or areas where falling debris may put your car’s auto glass in danger.
Spring is an infamous time for crazy weather patterns. Wild shifts in temperature and storms that come out of nowhere all have the potential to put your auto glass in peril. Make sure to avoid driving during storms to minimize your chances of an accident, park away from areas where falling debris from high winds and stormy conditions may fall on your windshield, and be sure to watch out for newly wet roads—they are extra slippery. | <urn:uuid:214ad40f-1e2d-4fb6-8d1d-b1e954b63810> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.franksautoglasschicago.com/blog/2016/06/09/how-each-season-affects-your-windshield/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929494 | 697 | 1.617188 | 2 |
In a world where consumer rights are so
important, it seems strange that internet companies can constantly offer ‘up
to’ speeds or fail to deliver on the speeds you pay for. In this article, we
take a look at the steps you can take to ensure the speeds you get are the
speeds you should be getting.
There are a number of ways that we can tackle
this issue, and they should all be followed in order. By the end, you should
have a good idea about how to fix any potential problems.
Finding Your Current Speeds and Advertised Speeds
Firstly, you need to make sure you aren’t
actually being offered the speeds you think you are. You may have an email,
letter, or contract that states your minimum speeds, estimated speeds, or ‘up
to’ speeds. Whatever they may be, it’s important to find it so that you fully
understand what speeds you should actually be getting.
If you are unsure, a quick call to your internet service provider can often bring you the information you are looking for. Once you know, make sure you’re not getting confused by the numbers.
Internet providers will often advertise their speeds in mbps, not MB/s. mbps is for megabits, and MB/s is for megabytes. Seem confusing? Well, think of it like this – mbps is often in lowercase, and it’s the smaller number. MB is the bigger number.
MB is eight times bigger than mbps. This means if you are running a speed test and you’re getting eight times slower speed than you think you should be, double check you’re not getting mixed up. Read our in-depth article to understand data transfer speeds properly.
Speaking of speed tests, now that you have
your advertised speed to hand, it’s time to run a speed test, but a fair one.
For this, you need to use an ethernet cable and connect directly to a laptop or
Once connected, visit speedtest.net and run a test. It’s important you use an ethernet cable because wireless speeds are never going to be as high due to walls, furniture, or other issues degrading the quality of the signal. An ethernet cable is as close as you’ll get to your real speeds.
Also, be sure to read our article on several factors that could cause your speed test results to be inaccurate. Once you know the results are good, keep reading.
If you get the speed you are advertised, problem solved! It’s time to look at better wireless connectivity, or consider connecting up your PCs to ethernet cables. There are many options for helping to boost your wireless signal at home, too.
You could use a wireless repeater to extend the signal or use a powerline adapter to run your WiFi signal through the cables running through your home. Ultimately, you’ll always get somewhat slower speeds than what you’d get when using an ethernet cable, even with extra hardware.
If you don’t get the speeds you have been
advertised, there are some methods you can use to try to get things in better
shape. The first thing to do is to consider your router, especially if it’s old
or sits by an area that gets hot. For example, near a radiator. In this case,
you should move your router to a better position, or purchase a newer router
that may have a more efficient design.
Next, you should refer to the router manual or contact your ISP to ask them if you’ve got your router plugged into the socket correctly. Sometimes, different sockets may require you to use a different microfilter. For example, a socket for both the internet and a telephone line may require you to set it up in a certain way.
Typically, it’s best to connect a microfilter to your master socket, then your router to the microfilter. There shouldn’t be any extra adapters or cable extensions as this can impact the network speeds.
Finally, make sure that you are testing the
network speed with as few devices connected as possible. To do this, visit your
web-based setup page for your router. Typically, it will be 192.168.1.1. Or
191.168.xx. You can often find the login details on the back of your router.
Once logged in, look for home network, my network devices, or something similar. This should return a list of devices connected to your network. You’ll need to manually disconnect these from your network.
Once disconnected, try a speed test again. You may find it’s faster now that your network is free from any devices that may be downloading or uploading in the background.
Problems You Can’t Account For
If you’re still not getting the speeds you
should be getting, you can contact your ISP. However, you should first consider
some problems that may be out of your control. For example, your distance from
your ISP. This can impact your speed and may mean your speeds are slightly
slower than others in your town or city.
Network congestion can be a big thing as well.
You may notice slower speeds during peak hours due to more users connecting at
once. Your internet service provider may also have rules about throttling
certain network behaviour, such as uploading files on a peer to peer network.
You’ll need to contact your ISP for more information on this.
Contacting Your ISP
Sometimes, after making sure everything is as it should be, you still aren’t getting anywhere near the speeds you are paying for. At this point, it’s time to contact your ISP.
Whilst they aren’t obliged to improve your speeds, they’ll often do what they can to help if they notice there’s a problem. The rules may be different between countries and provider, but generally an ISP can check to see if there are any faults in your area.
By testing everything else in this guide
first, you’ll be armed with all of the questions a customer service rep may
throw your way. You’ll already have tested wired network speeds, ensured
nothing is eating up the bandwidth, and configured everything correctly.
You may have to jump through a lot of hoops
whilst on the phone, but eventually they’ll check to see if anything genuinely
needs fixing. It may be entirely out of your control and in this case, getting
in touch may be the only thing you can do to get everything working again.
Sometimes, it may be a fault in your home and in this case, you will most
likely be charged for any repairs, even if you didn’t cause the fault in the
If the fault is outside of your home, the
provider may fix it free of charge. Unfortunately, you may still have no hope.
The final solution may be to move to a new provider, or perhaps even consider
That brings this guide to a conclusion. I hope
that this guide has been useful. Have any questions about the suggestions I’ve
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When he was six years old, Azzedine Boukerche recalls the day when a wandering horse put the reins on a family trip to the beach. As his relatives travelled to the seaside, his aunt's car up ahead struck the animal crossing the road.
The horse walked away but the car and its passengers were pretty banged up. And the young boy with a love of science had already begun to think of how technology could be used to avoid such accidents in the future.
"The car should have known about the horse, or the road should have been smart enough to tell the driver about it," says Dr. Boukerche, today a professor of computer science at the University of Ottawa and the Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Distributed Interactive Simulations and Mobile Computing and Networking.
Dr. Boukerche is the director of Developing Next Generation Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVA), a network that includes researchers at eight universities, as well as government organizations, and computer and telecom companies working on a large-scale research program that promises to transform the way Canadians drive.
DIVA is developing technologies to allow cars to communicate with the road, with other drivers and cars as well as with the world around them, making it possible, say, for drivers to avoid obstacles, get some assistance from the car when they're sleepy or order up interactive games and videos en route to their destinations.
"We want to make cars smart and safe and entertaining at the same time," Dr. Boukerche says of the network, which has financing from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and industry partners.
The interdisciplinary research, which applies not just to cars but all types of transportation, is based on the principle of "ad-hoc networks" and sensors that are increasingly present in vehicles, on roads and elsewhere, allowing for high-speed communications among objects that previously didn't talk before.
For example, sensors lining the pavement of a highway in Newfoundland where a moose has just passed over could detect its movement and relay that information to cars approaching, notifying them to slow down and keep an eye out. Or sensors inside a car could communicate with those on the road to assist its driver to stay in the lane, for instance at night or if the road were slippery. The system could even switch entirely to autopilot, such as with the computer-guided cars in the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report.
"That's not science fiction," says Don Aldridge, general manager of research for IBM Canada Ltd., one of DIVA's sponsors, adding that with myriad software already in cars and a growing infrastructure of sensors and wireless communications, "it's all technically doable."
He says that more futuristic applications are a ways off, but today's cars already have hundreds of sensors and microprocessors, with advanced functionality like crash avoidance systems that can turn off cruise control and initiate "active breaking." If cars with that sort of functionality could somehow talk to each other, one car slowing down could prompt the one behind it to do the same.
Mr. Aldridge, a mechanical engineer, says that a car with traction control sensors that is passing over a patch of black ice could relay that information to those coming after it, essentially saying: "You might want to slow down, you're going to hit some ice in a few seconds."
This kind of intelligence could extend to an entire highway or apply to just one lane, where all of the cars drive on autopilot, being controlled by the road and their onboard systems. Such an application could have "huge potential" to alleviate congestion, says Mr. Aldridge, allowing cars to safely drive closer together and allowing for a more efficient use of the road.
Another safety feature of the technology is that the highway sensors would be able to tell how fast cars are driving, and could even relay information about speeders to the local police.
Such applications raise privacy issues, Dr. Boukerche says, adding that the technology also presents a number of security concerns that the DIVA research is considering. "We are starting to attack these problems."
For example, it's important to ensure that software running a car or especially automating an entire highway can be relied on, Mr. Aldridge says. "How do you make sure this thing is bulletproof, and not subject to hackers or terrorists?"
These are all issues for the network protocol and applications experts in DIVA to address, Dr. Boukerche says, with a wide range of disciplines dealing with different areas that could put Canada at the forefront of intelligent transportation systems research.
"It is possible, it is not a dream, it is going to happen in the future," he says, adding that safety measures such as a system to warn drivers of animals ahead could be installed and functioning within five years. "This is truly coming down the road."
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Having a good day is not hard. All you have to do is to stay positive and optimistically look at things. You can read these happy life statuses and quotes to brighten up your day immediately!Positive affirmations and sayings have a very astounding result in life if you believe wholeheartedly.
You too can spend your life in a way that can be enjoyable for you. You too can get happiness from small things in life. All you have to do is to look at everything positively; remember good energy attracts good things.
You can read these happy life quotes and also use these as positive affirmations daily in your life.
Inspiring Happy Life Status and Quotes about Living Happy Life
- Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence. –Aristotle
- I’m a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life. –Karen Salmansohn
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. –Jim Rohn
- The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. –Audrey Hepburn
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. –Epictetus
- If you want real happiness leave all negative bullshit aside from your life. And spend your time with, what makes you happy. And you will be happy forever. –Swati Chauhan
- Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results. –Dennis Waitley
- Happiness is not about getting all you want, it is about enjoying all you have.
Everyone aims to stay happy in life but not everyone can achieve it. Some people have all the money in the world but still, they are unable to stay happy and often dwell in sadness. The main reason behind it is money cannot give you happiness, it can only create an illusion of happiness that unfortunately doesn’t last forever.
You have to truly enjoy your life to be happy. Follow your heart’s wishes and desires and go where your heart takes you.
You should not worry about the things that are not in your hand and take charge of the things that are under your control and work with them to create a happy life.
Motivational Happy Life Status for Being Happier
- Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. –Linus Pauling
- To live a happy life you need to be able to have your patience extended and let go of sadness.
- If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. –Chinese Proverb
- Happiness depends not on material things but our view of things.
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. –Thomas Jefferson
- Happiness is just waiting for me to reach it; I know it now, so I just grabbed it on my way out.
- All Life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards. –Soren Kierkegaard
- Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don’t even deserve to be an issue in your life.
Man is forever in pursuit of happiness, and this search may never end. Happiness is different for every person, some may find happiness in small things in life while others may require a grand gesture to feel truly happy.
One thing that should be clear is true happiness comes from within, no worldly treasures can give you happiness if you are not contained within your heart. Accepting the reality of life and trying to make it better is in our hands.
Life is short, so it’s better to not waste it by staying unsatisfied, it’s better to cut off ties with people who disrupt your mental peace.
Happy Life Status Ready to Share on WhatsApp
- Smile and the world smile with you.
- When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Life is beautiful if you know where to look.
- A life without suffering is a life without happiness.
- A life of success and achievement is a direct result of utilizing the power of positive thinking.
- If you live a happy life, tie a goal, not to people or other things.
- Life is like riding a Bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
- Self-care rituals for a happy life.
- Happiness starts with you. Not with your relationship, not with your job, not with your money, but with you.
- Happiness is not ready-made. It comes by our own actions.
WhatsApp is a popular mode of communication for all generations. The best thing about it is that you can put up a status that everyone in your contacts can see.
Putting up positive vibes messages on your status can brighten up someone’s day. A good positive message holds the power of uplifting someone’s mood instantly.
Life is full of happiness if you choose to see the good in everything. You can choose to ignore the flaws and look past them. One thing that is extremely important for leading a happy life is to love yourself.
Loving yourself and putting your wishes and desires before anyone can give you inner happiness and satisfaction.
Happy Life Status and Quotes for Happiness Moment in Life
- Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment, and make it perfect. –Zoey Sayward
- A happy moment can last a lifetime if you remember to smile when you think of it.
- Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain! –Louis Tomlinson
- Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments. –Mary Balogh
- Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. –Lillian Dickson
- Sing like no one’s listening, love as you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
- A good life is a collection of happy moments. –Denis Waitley
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
If you are waiting for a happy moment then you will be disappointed all your life. Don’t ever wait for the perfect moment, try to live your life in every moment and make it perfect. If you are going through a bad phase in your life, always stay optimistic and positive. This phase too shall pass, and bring happiness your way soon.
Try to live in small moments, find happiness in small things that excite you. Never be afraid of taking the risks and experimenting. Once you step out of your comfort zone, great things will happen.
Happy Life Status and Sayings for a Fresh Start in Life
- Every moment is a fresh beginning. –T.S. Eliot
- No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day. –Catherine Pulsifer
- The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. –Mike Dooley
- It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over. –F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. –Steve Jobs
- The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. –Dave Weinbaum
- As you begin to live a more positive life, it simply makes sense that you take a look at your dreams and goals to see if you are living in a way that will best allow you to accomplish them. –Chris Johnston
- We do not remember days, we remember moments. –Cesare Pavese
If you think that you have spent your life in a mundane routine, don’t ever think that it is too late to start making yourself happy.
You can follow your heart irrelevant your age. If you think that your profession is not giving you creative satisfaction, just leave it and start something of your own. If you think that being a housewife and following a daily routine is not productive, start up a business or sign-up for a job.
It’s never too late to be your true self, it’s never too late to follow your heart.
Happy Life Status and Quotes about Girls Being Single and Happy
- Single-is, not a status. It is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
- Being single is better than being in the wrong relationship.
- Stay single until someone actually compliments your life in a way that makes it better to not be single. If not, it’s not worth it.
- Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with. –Carrie Bradshaw
- The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another. –Diane Von Furstenberg
- Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your relationship status define your life but to live every day happily and let your Ever After work itself out.
- Discover why you’re important, and then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn’t completely agree. –Fisher Amelie
- Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
- Life is like a rollercoaster ride, you have may have many ups and downs but at the end of the day, it ends with a smile.
Every girl out there should remember that only you are responsible for your happiness. Don’t think that getting hitched will instantly make you happy and complete.
Getting married is indeed an important part of life, but it should not be the only aim of your life.
You can choose to be happy, and stay single if that’s what floats your boat. You can become successful by putting your career first and halting the marriage plans.
Ups and downs are part of life, the main thing is how you go through them with grace and dignity.
Happy Life Status about Happy Life Attitude
- Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed. –Vidya Balan
- I am happy every day because life is moving in a very positive way. –Lil Yachty
- Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. –Yoko Ono
- When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result. –Jack Ma
- Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
- I enjoyed my life when I had nothing and kind of like the idea of just being happy with me. –Joey Ramone
- If you want to enjoy Life is long but if you want to achieve something think life is very short.
- Before you judge how I live my life, I suggest you take a good look at your own.
- When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
Life is not fair to everyone, it can be ruthless and harsh sometimes. Ups and downs are part of life and it should be taken as such. If you are going through a hard phase of your life, more power to you, and may you see the end of your suffering soon.
Just stay strong and hope that things will work out in your favor in the end. Being unhappy is also a natural state, you can accept the things that make you unhappy and try to change them in your favor.
My Happy Life Status Quotes & Messages
- I want to live a simple life without stress or worry. I don’t need a lot of staff. I just wanted to be happy.
- Happiness in life does not mean how perfect is your life is but it means how simple and happy it is.
- It doesn’t matter for you to work harder. But, it does matter for you to make yourself happier. You deserve to be lazy sometimes, travel to your favorite place, eat your favorite food, drink your coffee and think “I am the one who has to be happy first. –Nunki Artura
- Mostly Life gives me Happiness on Lease, so I rent it whenever I can! –Somya Kedia
- It’s my choice. I get a gift every morning, the gift of a new day. It’s up to me whether I make it bright, joyful, or grey. I can choose to be Happy, Successful, and Content, or dishonor it with worry, anger, or resentment. –Maddy Malhotra
- My life is not perfect but I am thankful for everything.
- I am responsible for my own happiness.
You don’t require perfection to be happy. You can still be happy if somethings are not according to your preference. Try to be humble and grounded in life, you will start appreciating small things in life.
Your gratitude increases when you start appreciating the small things.
Waking up every morning, soaking up the sun, and sipping your coffee alone is a scenario that is enough for being happy.
Best Happy Life Status and Quotes All Time
- When you are happy at the bottom of your heart it makes everything beautiful around you.
- I don’t want a perfect life. I want a happy life.
- Be happy because everything happens in life for the purpose you have to be thankful that this happens to you.
- Life’s short, forget your problems, be happy, and live your life because you never know if there will be another tomorrow.
- I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
- There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path. –Buddha
- Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
- Depend on as little as possible, and you’ll be happier in life.
- Life is filled with challenges! don’t let happiness be one of them.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. –Mahatma Gandhi
- Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. –Benjamin Franklin
Happy Life Status and Messages
- Happiness is the only medicine that can heal a wound in the deep heart.
- Negativity will only bring sadness in your life, so you might as well let go and just be happy.
- Happiness is a flavor that you want to add in your life to make your life tastier.
- Thinks friends are like flowers – and is pretty happy with the beautiful bunch in their life!
- A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
- Happiness is not in living a good life but in understanding and feeling what a good life is.
- They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. –Tom Bodett
- If someone can make you laugh when you’re about to cry, don’t give up on them. They’re the true meaning of happiness.
- It’s magical how happy you become once you make someone else happy.
- Hard work will not only lead to success but also to happiness which is the greatest gift of life.
- There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. –George Sand
- A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. –Albert Einstein
Happy Life Status and Captions
- Start smiling from the heart it will make your life more beautiful and happy.
- There is no happy life, there are only happy days.
- You will never understand the worth of happiness if you have not seen the bad times in your life.
- The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.
- A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
- Happiness is a perfume. You cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. –Marcel Proust
- Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely to happy much of the time.
- Look beyond all the imperfections and you’ll get a glimpse of happiness.
- The key to happiness is your inner freedom, peace, and willingness to enjoy every moment of your life.
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happy Life Status in English
- Sometimes there is a special moment in a life that makes you happy, live the moment and be happy.
- Today I had the best day of my life and I just want to keep paying it forward, so keep happy!
- Inner peace leads to positive thoughts leads to a healthy mindset leads to a happy and beautiful life.
- Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
- The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
- Happiness is not a life without worries and sorrows, happiness is a state of mind.
- You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. –Jonathan Safran Foer
- Expand your happiness by sharing it with. The larger a rainbow, the more brightly it shines.
- People often don’t realize that happiness doesn’t live in any one address. Happiness is actually everywhere!
- Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
- Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. –Helen Keller
Happy Life Status for Happy Moments
- Do not do things that make others happy do things that make you happy.
- Happiness is not a life without worries and sorrows, happiness is a state of mind.
- To clear the darkness in life you need a light of happiness.
- No matter who brings you down & makes your day bad. There’s always sum-one in your life who makes it great, not sad. So be happy!
- People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
- The key to being happy knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.
- Happiness is a journey, not a destination. –Buddha
- Dear whoever is reading this… You’re beautiful and someone out there is crazy about you. SO, SMILE! Life is too short to be happy.
- Just like butterflies, happiness has no intention of being caught. It only willingly alights upon those who deserve it.
- My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
- Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. –William JamesTop of Form
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Being happy and staying content in life requires constant work. You and only you have the authority to be happy by appreciating small things in life and over-looking the things that might stress you.
Our amazing collection of happy life quotes are a sure-fire way of uplifting your spirits instantly and putting you in a good mood. Read them daily to give yourself positive vibes and put yourself in a positive mindset.
Top 7 Pop-By Gift Ideas for Real Estate
What’s the best way to connect with your clients? Presenting your valued customers with pop-by gifts as a token of appreciation is a way to retain them. Pop-by gifts are also an effective form of real estate marketing, making them remember you most casually. It is a way to retain your past or present clients and generate qualified leads or referrals.
Typically, you will be sending a gift card, but along with the card, a small token gift is always appreciated by most clients. Your agent usually gives pop-by gifts by visiting the clients, but you can also surprise them by posting them.
Here are some pop-by gift ideas for real estate clients.
Bouquets or Flower Baskets
What’s more refreshing than the beauty of flowers? Your clients will love the flower baskets and your real estate business card arriving at the doorstep. This may seem ordinary, but a flower basket works in every way and makes way to everyone’s heart. Tip: Ask your agent to deliver it personally, making it more effective.
Baked or Hand-Made Cookies
A jar of baked cookies is everyone’s favorite and one of the most preferred gift options for your real estate clients. You can also send it to your present client with whom you just closed a deal to symbolize a thank-you gift.
No one can ignore the aroma of coffee and gifts full of coffee. You can send coffee kits to your special clients who are valuable customers in your real estate business. There are various options, including coffee cookies, powders, coffee beans, and coffee-flavored chocolates. Your clients will surely appreciate this unforgettable gift basket, and it will also create an impact on them.
Summer Gifts Basket
You can also try gifting summer-themed gift baskets to your customers, which they will love. You can include items such as summer fruits, wine bottles, candy, and much more. A box filled with summer accessories is absolute love.
The Magic of Sweets
When surprising your real estate clients, the most preferred option is gifting them some sweets. It can never go wrong, and you can include sweets in trends, like candy apples, donuts, and honey jars. Tip: provide a sweet message along with your business card.
Hand Lotion and Sanitizer
Gifting hygiene products is a new norm after the pandemic. You can give your clients hand sanitizer, lotions, or soap collections and present them in a gifting box. For instance, you might match it with holiday-themed hand soaps in place of a standard hand soap bottle. Alternatively, you can provide a hand lotion, a soap bar, hand sanitizer, or a comparable item.
One of the most used pop-by gift ideas in real estate is customized gifts according to each client, and it goes a long way and leaves the maximum impression on them. Gifting customized products make your clients feel special and like they like to keep them as a token of appreciation. You can include customized wine bottles, magnetic photo frames, potted plants, and candles. Giving a personal touch to your gifts is a new way of gifting, and you can consider it.
Pop-by presents are an excellent method to keep in touch with your previous clients and ensure they will always consider you their first choice for all their real estate requirements. They will undoubtedly be touched by your considerate visit to their home to present a small gift, and it will demonstrate to them how much you cherish your connections with your customers.
7 Effective Ways to Protect Your Credit Card Information
While credit cards are becoming popular rapidly, there is also a surge in credit card scams. According to the reports, In the last three months of 2019, credit card scams cost 19.7 crores, and the number of fraud cases was 6,117, which is pretty high!
Since online platforms are taking over, knowing and understanding that your information is always at risk is imperative. Especially when you are frequently using that information on different online platforms, there are high chances of them being stolen. There are chances of extreme monetary loss due to these kinds of scams.
Here are seven ways to protect your card information!
1. Do not share your credit card information with anyone
A credit card contains a unique number, the cardholder’s name, the expiry date, and a CVV. This information is required to complete a transaction using the best credit card in India. Do not share these details, especially CVV, with anyone. This is one of the basic yet essential steps of keeping your card safe.
2. Do not click on unauthorised website links or any other suspicious links
Receiving random links on social media sites has become a common occurrence recently. These links are clickbait to lure people into falling for the scammers. Generally, these links have catchy captions that grab attention quickly, and you might click on them out of curiosity. They allow scammers to access your information without your knowledge and commit scams. Also, many random websites ask for debit card or credit card information to access them, and scammers can easily steal your information. Remember not to share any card information on these sites.
3. Do not share any OTP with anyone
A One-Time Password, also known as an OTP, is a secret pin that comes to your registered mobile number after you put the information on any website for the transaction. This pin is required to complete any transaction, so if you received an OTP you have not requested, do not share that with anyone. There are many instances where the scammers ask for OTP over call, do not be gullible and share such information with them. Generally, scammers cannot process any transaction without an OTP.
4. Create Pins that are hard to crack
Do not create pins that are easy to guess. Use at least one capital letter, small letter, number, and special character. Do not use similar pins for all cards. Also, avoid using special dates like birthdays as your pin, which are easy to guess. This will help you to stay safe.
5. Keep changing your PIN frequently
Your pin is the simple and best way to secure your card. ATM PIN is a secret number that only you should know. No one can access your card without that pin, so keep changing your pin at least once a month to stay safe. Keeping the same pin for a long time can risk your privacy.
6. Identify Secured networks before making a payment
One way of identifying a secured network is that the website starts with “HTTPS” instead of “HTTP.” This “s” in “HTTPS” signifies security. Also, the URL section will show as locked, and a little locked sign will appear at the beginning of the URL. This is one of the most common ways to identify a secured website.
Watch carefully before using your credit card on random websites. These websites are encrypted, so the data you enter remains protected through encryption and is hard to crack. Hackers can get your data for any monetary scam if the website is not encrypted.
7. Regularly check bank statements and update immediately in case of any dispute
Generally, we tend to ignore the statements sent by the banks. However, they are essential since they contain every little transaction detail. Check the bank statements carefully to notice if there is any suspicious transaction that happened that you are not aware of. The scammers can be clever, and these statements would be the best way to understand whether your credit card data is being used fraudulently.
In case of any dispute, contact the authorities immediately. Do not delay if you notice any discrepancy in your expenditure statement. Banks tend to help in such cases and reverse the payment.
Credit cards are convenient and easy for online transactions, and you must apply for the best credit cards in India as they would provide better support. However, stay alert and keep yourself updated about the scams.
You can easily avoid these by being slightly more careful.
How to Choose the Right Sports Betting App for You
Are you wanting to get involved in sports betting? These days the first place someone might go to start betting would be online or even with a betting app. Getting involved is very simple, but of course, with so much choice can often come hard decisions. You could spend hours scrolling through google and the app store for different options but how do you actually know which one is the right one? If you need a bit of help, researching is the best place to start. This article will help you choose the sports betting app which is right for you.
If you have some friends or family members that are interested in sports betting, then you should be sure to ask them the different apps that they use. These recommendations will mean a lot as you are getting them from a reliable source. Not only that but if you log on to the app and you struggle with knowing exactly what it is you need to do in order to browse and place bets, you know who you can turn to and ask for more information.
If you don’t have any friends or family that use sports betting apps then the next best option is to have a look at the different reviews that are being left by people online. People online will tend to say exactly what they think and as such, you know if there are negative opinions of apps then you will find them. Not only this but you can see specifically what a certain person doesn’t like about an app and assess whether or not this would be a deal breaker for you.
Be Sure the Site Offers What You Want
When it comes to looking at different websites, you should be sure that you have a clear image of what you want in your head, making it a lot more straightforward for you to work out whether or not the site you’re considering is right for you. This means if you want a sports betting site with good offers then look out for sites with free sports picks, if you want to place bets on more unusual sports then head over to a bookmakers, all of this is going to make it a lot more straightforward for you to decide how to move forward.
Do a Trial Run
You aren’t committed to whatever app you decide to use so why not give it a week for a trial run? In doing this, you can work out whether or not the app is right for you or whether you think it would be best to try out something different.
If you are considering getting into the world of sports betting, then you might currently find yourself a bit overwhelmed with choosing the website that is right for you. This is totally normal and as such, if you want some help with making the right decision then be sure to refer to the above.
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Biologist, Professor in Biosemiotics, evolution scientist specialising in mechanisms of species coexistence in species-rich communities and developed mathematical modelling in ecophysiology, President of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
The field of semiotics is described as a general study of knowing. Knowing in a broad sense as a process that assumes (and includes) at least memory (together with heredity), anticipation, communication, meaningful information, and needs, is a distinctive feature of living systems.
What makes the living and the non-living very different from each other is their different relation to what is not, to what is absent. That which is alive has expectancies. Once dead, one does not expect.
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The Subtle Signs Someone is in Pain
People with chronic pain and/or chronic illness will often hide their symptoms from you. They don't want you to think they're complaining or whining all of the time, and to them it's just a part of their daily life. Here are some signs your loved one is in physical pain:
Changes in their normal movements: this may include changes to the way they walk (gait), or to the way they sit or stand.
Sitting or lying down in weird or awkward positions: for those suffering from chronic pain once you find a comfortable position (no matter what it looks like) you're going to stay there as they may be few and far between
Always appearing fatigued or exhausted: physical pain goes beyond the observable. Dealing with pain, doctors appointments, and other aspects of their condition can be very draining. Plus pain can play a huge role on your mental health which may leave your loved one appearing to lack the energy required to seem enthusiastic about many things
Not smiling or laughing often: when you are in physical pain it is often hard to control your facial expression. People may think you are angry, zoned out, ignoring them, or sad.
They may withdraw from social situations: being in pain constantly puts a huge toll on an individual, both mentally and physically.
Some people may be irritable, or short tempered
Some other non-verbal indicators that someone is in pain include: shortness of breath, increased breathing rate, or higher blood pressure
Everyone experiences pain differently - some people may show many signs, and some may show very few. Also everyone has their own pain tolerance - many people with chronic pain are so used to their own pain sensation that they may be able to tolerate more than the average person. This is why we get individuals to rate their own pain using a scale such as:
The numerical rating scale: rating your pain on a scale of 1-10 with 1 = no pain, and 10 = the worst most excruciating pain you have ever felt
The Wong-Baker Faces Scale: using the individuals combined rating along with facial expression to determine their pain level
All together pain is an individual experience. If you feel like your loved one is in pain have a conversation (without judgement) with them. Try to support them in any way you can.
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What should I expect during my giant nevi removal recovery?
Following surgery to remove a congenital nevus, gauze dressings or other types of bandages may be applied to the incisions. An elastic bandage or immobilizer may be used to help minimize swelling and prevent excessive movement at the surgery site during the healing process.
Small, thin tubes may need to be placed temporarily under the skin to drain any excess blood or fluid that may collect from beneath the surgery site.
You will be given specific instructions that may include:
- How to care for the surgical site(s) following surgery
- Medications to apply or take orally to minimize pain, aid healing and reduce the risk of infection
- Specific concerns to look for at the surgical site or with overall health
- Any activity restrictions necessary to ensure proper healing of the incisions
- When to follow up with your plastic surgeon.
Be sure to ask your plastic surgeon specific questions about what you can expect during the individual recovery period.
- What medication will be prescribed after surgery?
- Will there be dressings/bandages after surgery? When will they be removed?
- Will there be drains? For how long?
- When can bathing or showering be resumed?
- When can normal activity and exercise be resumed?
- When is it necessary to return for follow-up care?
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You’ve probably heard of search engine optimization (SEO), and try to utilize it in order to build your business online. But did you know that there are two different types of SEO? It is important to understand the different types of SEO in order to determine the best strategies for growing your business online.
There is onsite SEO and offsite SEO. Utilizing the two different types of SEO is critical for developing and implementing a successful SEO strategy.
What is Onsite & Offsite SEO?
Onsite SEO: Onsite SEO refers to elements that are on your website. For example, your domain name, content, keywords, and geotargets are all elements of onsite SEO. Properly optimizing these elements helps web crawlers read your site and evaluate its relevance to certain search terms.
Offsite SEO: As the name suggests, offsite SEO involves enhancing elements outside your website. This includes your online identity across different directories, reviews, social media, and backlinks to your site from credible websites. These elements are just as important as onsite SEO and shouldn’t be forgotten.
Which Type of SEO is More Important?
Your business is made of up many moving parts, all working together for your benefit. Neglecting one element of your business can negatively affect the rest of it. Implementing an SEO strategy works much in the same way. In order to develop a successful SEO strategy, both onsite and offsite SEO need to be utilized. Focusing on only one or the other will be much less effective than implementing an all-encompassing SEO strategy.
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How five Pratt students from the 1960s started an art movement through a shared passion for crochet
Jean Williams Cacicedo, Sharron Hedges, Marika Contompasis and Janet Lipkin as students and at Off the Wall: American Art to Wear at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (courtesy Jean Williams Cacicedo)
In the late 1960s, a group of students from the Pratt Institute began crocheting their class homework. The technique was not part of the curriculum and as they inspired each other, they helped start a new artistic movement. Wearable Art, also known as Artwear or Wearable Art, grew out of the decade’s anti-establishment counterculture and reconsidered what art could be. Rather than static objects designed to be displayed in a gallery, the movement’s creations were meant to be worn as living art.
Pratt’s five students came from different disciplines, studying painting, sculpture, graphics, and industrial design. Yet they shared a passion for how textiles, long marginalized from the fine art, could offer unexpected materials for visual expression. Together, Jean Williams Cacicedo, BFA Beaux-Arts ’70, Marika Contompasis, BID ’69, Sharron Hurdles, BFA Art Education ’70, Dina knapp, Graphic Art and Design ’70, and Janet Lipkin, BFA Beaux-Arts ’70, learned techniques that were not taught in their regular classes. Recognized as the pioneers of the Art to Wear movement, the five alumni of Pratt were presented this year in Off the Wall: American art to wear at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as an accompanying catalog of Yale University Press.
View of the installation Off the Wall: American Art to Wear at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with works by Marika Contompasis, Dina Knapp, Sharron Hedges and Janet Lipkin (courtesy Janet Lipkin)
View of the installation Off the Wall: American Art to Wear at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with works by Sharron Hedges (courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Pratt in the 1960s was rich in cross-pollination between departments as students tested the limits of their disciplines. “Textiles were still decades from being considered art, but Pratt still offered us a place of adventure. So when a friend learned a new technique, others learned it too, ”Hedges said. “This is how I ended up with an eight foot wooden cubic frame with a crochet rope net inside for Sculpture, how Marika built a wire lounge chair with embroidered skin for it. industrial design and how Janet sewed and crocheted a doll for Graphics. “
Contompasis was one of the few women to take her industrial design classes and was interested in how she could bring a “female perspective to design” as the textile arts were traditionally performed by women. Her chair was shaped like a flower with pieces of knitting and crochet extending outward, inviting the model to wrap itself in the petals. His job was very different from that of his classmates, but the faculty of industrial design, including his teacher Guillaume Fogler, supported his experiment with Cacicedo, Hedges, Knapp and Lipkin: “We were really encouraged to use whatever was available. That’s what we did and we all started to learn these techniques with fiber and apply them to our work.
Jean Williams Caciedo, “Chaps: A Cowboy Dedication” (1983), hand knitted, crocheted, felted and dyed in mohair wool, wool jersey and Dacron (courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, pledged gift from the Julie Collection Schafler Dale, photo by Otto Stupakoff, © Julie Schafler Dale)
Cacicedo had learned to crochet from a neighbor while spending the summer at his family’s home on the Jersey Shore. Although it started out as a hobby to pass the time, Cacicedo was enamored with the creative potential of crochet and how it was similar to drawing in its use of stitches in space to create lines, shapes. and shapes. And because crochet was portable, didn’t require a machine, and could involve just about any flexible material, it offered limitless possibilities, perfect for the radical spirit of the 1960s. “The political atmosphere of our nation was challenged, our values drifted away from those of our parents and we were thirsty to explore new ways of thinking, ”said Cacicedo.
Back in Pratt, she shared her new chain stitch and single crochet skills with her roommates, Lipkin and Contompasis. “We shared so much of our thoughts and attitudes about art and life and in non-competitive ways,” Cacicedo said, adding that “none of us really knew that we were creating what is defined today as the movement of the American studio Artwear “. Their friends Knapp and Hedges were also learning textile techniques themselves and they all began to work together to understand how fibers and the body interact.
Janet Lipkin, “Flamingo Jacket” (1982), hand-dyed wool and angora, machine-knitted and padded (courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, pledged gift from the Julie Schafler Dale Collection, photo by Otto Stupakoff, © Julie Schafler Dale)
“We were mentors and peers to each other,” Lipkin said. “When one of us discovered a new concept, it inspired each of us to grow and develop our own styles. They broke new ground with color and organic shapes, layering crochet in intricate textures. When these pieces were worn, a person not only wore clothes, he turned into a living sculpture. They could change the way a person felt and the way the world reacted to them. “The courage we had in young artists at Pratt allowed us to explore a technique that was not used in works of art and continue to make art,” Lipkin said.
Dina Knapp, “See It Like a Native: History Kimono # 1” (1982), cotton, polyester, plastic and wallpaper, applied and transferred by Xerox (courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, pledged gift from the Julie Schafler Collection Dale)
After graduation, the five artists stayed connected even as they dispersed across the country to pursue their own practices. Each has played an important role in transforming the art of clothing in motion. Hedges and Knapp stayed in New York for a while, then Knapp moved to Florida. Her detailed hook included “Mushroom jacket”Which enveloped the wearer in shapes resembling roots. She has also had a long career in the performing arts, most notably as a wardrobe mistress for the Florida Grand Opera. She died in 2016.
Now working in North Carolina, Hedges has created elaborate pieces for home and fashion as well as textile design. His dramatic coats of the 1970s and 80s used bright colors and expressive shapes to transform the wearer into something otherworldly, like the vibrant butterfly wings of “Morpho“or the swirling colors of”Midnight Sky (Julie’s Coat)»Produced for Julie Schafler Dale, whose New York gallery was an important showcase for the Art to Wear movement.
Sharron Hedges, “Morpho” (1984), crocheted and knitted rib, wool yarn and wool jersey lining (courtesy the artist, Julie Schafler Dale Collection)
Several members of the group moved to California, including Lipkin who created dynamic crochet pieces that immerse wearers in color and form. One of his first works after graduation, the 1970 “African mask, ”Is now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and completely consumes the wearer in a hand-dyed coat of hand-spun wool, leather and wood. She also spent time in Africa and later learned machine techniques to model her works, such as her 1980s coats which responded to global destinations of Mexico To Tibet.
Janet Lipkin, “African Mask” (1970), wool, leather, wood (courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, photo by Otto Stupakoff, © Julie Schafler Dale)
Contompasis taught at colleges such as San Francisco State, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Los Angeles, and continued to study new techniques, including two-dimensional images in the wire before get started in high-end mesh. In partnership with her brother and former student of Pratt Charles Contompasis, she founded MA + CH in 2002. The studio focuses on the entire sustainable design process, from dyeing entire garments to producing and shipping the parts. Cacicedo also moved to California and made a stint in Wyoming, using a variety of techniques in his work that emphasizes handmade textiles. His mythically inspired art spans from the great wall hangings and sculptural objects to portable parts, like his 1978 “Rose petals”Jacket with appliquéd petals and knitted sleeves that is now part of the collections of the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
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Getting a new classroom ready for the beginning of the school year isn’t about reveling in the still orderly collections of supplies and perfectly curated bulletin boards. Well, okay, that’s part of the fun. But there is also science behind making classrooms warm, inviting, inspiring and visually interesting. Really.
- Sharing concepts via posters can improve metacognitive practice
- Posters can not only be a way to reinforce learning, but also a method to spark group discussions
- The visual display of information helps with both verbal and non-verbal processers
While much of the research cited above is about learning concepts in more traditional disciplines, they can also be applied to sharing and reinforcing concepts like growth mindset, which is why we have created a set of classroom posters.
Free printable classroom posters for teachers to use with students
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Yale Privacy Lab
Yale Privacy Lab is an initiative of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. We explore the connection between privacy, security, and anonymity through hands-on software and hardware implementation, such as cybersecurity workshops. As the technical arm of the Information Society Project, we are quickly becoming an intellectual resource for projects around campus, strengthening the networks between technologists, lawyers, students, and researchers.
Privacy Lab Skillshare - Software Freedom Day 2017
Date / Time
Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 9:00am to 2:00pm
Sterling Law Building (SLB), Room 122 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511
Description / Schedule
We’re celebrating Software Freedom Day with a full day of workshops and demos! Light refreshments will be provided.
9:00am - 10:00am: SFD Welcome, Intro to Yale Privacy Lab, and a remote conversation with Siim Teller, Head of Marketing & Community at Wire.
10:00am - 11:00am: Learn how to map surveillance devices with Lab Coordinator Michael Kwet, Visiting Fellow at Yale ISP.
11:00am - noon: Break. Stick around and chat or grab lunch with a friend in New Haven.
1:00pm - 2:00pm: Digital Self-Defense workshop with Lab Director Sean O’Brien. Learn how to use tricks from Snowden’s toolkit to keep yourself private and secure.
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Why Would Smoke Fill the Fire Box on a Pellet Stove?
The fire box in a pellet stove is where the wood pellets combust and burn. There should be little to no smoke in the fire box except during the initial combustion or when the stove is shut down. At these times, smoke would be a normal occurrence and you should not be concerned. When smoke occurs in a fire box, called a "dirty burn," during the burning cycle of the pellets, this is a problem and must be addressed.
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By lucb1e on 2012-11-19 23:54:45 +0100
Since I couldn't find a clear all-you-need to know guide about IPv6, I'll attempt writing one.
For everyone who doesn't want to know everything about it, I wrote some shorter pieces.
What you need to know as...
- Gameserver admin
For everyone who is more interested:
I presume you have some basic understanding of how our current internet works. I won't bore you with the details of how a packet is built from bit to bit, nor will there be any step-by-step guides. I'll try to focus on how the new stuff in IPv6 works, which gives you enough info to seek out more on anything you want to experiment with.
- What's so great about IPv6?
- Address notation
- Types of addresses
- Special addresses and prefixes
- Security now that addresses are global
- Privacy considerations
- Credits / sources
What's so great about IPv6?
I can't seem to avoid telling you that there is a bigger address space. So now that's out there, let's move on to what you don't already know: It's more efficient and smarter than IPv4 in mainly three ways.
1) An IPv4 packet may get fragmented along the way which is quite tedious work for the router, while IPv6 detects (or tries to find out) the MTU
on the path and prevents this. Chopping and rebuilding the packet is done by the source and destination, not the routers in between.
2) There is no checksum in the IP header anymore. Usually both a lower and higher layer handle this already: TCP has a checksum, Ethernet has an FCS
, and everyone using UDP knows they should take care of their own validation (though it also has an optional checksum). So why bother giving IP yet another one? It only slows stuff down by a lot. Also these TCP and UDP checksums will cover the whole packet, not just their own header and payload.
3) IPv6 works with extensions which can be chained.
The header has a field at the end called "Next Header", which tells what's coming next. For example if there are no extensions and UDP is next, it will set the value to 17 to indicate that the next header is the UDP header, and that's the end of the IP header.
If it needs an Authentication Header extension, it will set the value to 51. Then at the end of the Auth Header there is another Next Header field, which it can set to another value (another extension or udp, tcp, icmp, you name it). If it's another extension, that too contains another Next Header field. This way, if no extensions are needed, the packet can be kept very short. And if you need 10 extensions, that's no problem either.
IPv4 had a variable header length between 20 and 60 bytes, IPv6 is fixed at a 40B length which makes hardware optimization easier.
128 bits! So many gazillion addresses! We're never going to run out of space!
Actually, half the number of bits is already reserved for your LAN.
"Wait, you're telling me they reserved 18446744073709551616 addresses for my grandmother's home network?"
(That's 2^32 times more than the entire IPv4 space.)
Well, yes. Hey don't blame me, e-mail these guys
It has some use though: With the rather limited IPv4 space, networks had to be designed in a way that they were both efficient (not using unnecessary space) and expandable in the future when needed. This huge space for the so-called interface ID allows you to simply work with big subnets without taking too much space.
Anyway, the address is split in a few parts:
- The first 32 bits form the minimum allocation size; you (as an ISP) can't get assigned fewer addresses than this. This minimum is to make the size of routing tables smaller, which might otherwise become huge).
- The ISP is then free to hand out whichever subnet it wishes. It used to be recommended to use /48 subnets, but this was superseded by another recommendation (RFC6177) which leaves ISPs more free.
- Usually, last 64 bits are for the LAN-segment, and are called the interface ID. This might be more, possibly even 80 bits or more. This is up to the ISP.
8 hexadecimal blocks of 2 bytes each, separated by colons:
Like with our own number system, leading zeros aren't written. You say I got 1 million, not 0001 million. The above address could be abbreviated to:
Lastly you can abbreviate this further, I think this is best explained by example:
The double colon inserts as many zeros as possible until the length of the address is the desired 128 bits. You can obviously use it only once, else it wouldn't know how many zeros to insert at one :: and how many on the other.
CIDR notation remains the same, you can still write 72AF:B342::/32.
Some applications (like many browsers) require square brackets around the address to separate the address from a port number: https://[7F93::1337]:443/
To map an IPv4 address in an IPv6 packet, you can write the address as:
Or in full:
With 45 characters this is the longest possible address—visually at least, it is still 128 bits of course.
Both of these are identical to:
Note that this doesn't work "out of the box" and can't be used without really configuring it. It's simply a recognized way of writing an IPv4 address in IPv6 notation.
There are no broadcast addresses anymore. Basically there are three kinds of addresses now:
Unicast is an address like we are used to it: One address assigned to one interface. The only difference with IPv4 is that most addresses will be global (or 'globally routable'), so the IPv6 address of your computer will be the address with which you reach this website instead of the address from your router. I'll talk more about this in a later chapter
Multicast is going to play a slightly bigger role now that broadcast addresses are gone and all such traffic needs to go through multicast addresses. Any multicast address starts with FF::/8.
An example of a standard multicast address is FF02::2, which concerns all routers. You can see more of those in modern /etc/hosts files on Linux systems (or click here
Anycast is somewhat new to IPv6. It looks the same as an unicast address, but it's assigned to multiple interfaces. When sending a packet to an anycast address, it will be delivered to only one interface (usually the closest one). All interfaces that own this address must be configured such that they all know the address is an anycast address.
Special addresses and prefixes
:: is the new 0.0.0.0, meaning "unspecified network." For example when configuring Apache you may somewhere use "listen 0.0.0.0:80". This will now be "[::]:80".
::1/128 is the new 127/8. In case you didn't get that: The entire 127.0.0.0 block is reserved for loopback addresses; pointing to your own computer. Commonly, 127.0.0.1 is the only address actually doing that. In IPv6 that's only ::1.
2001:db8::/32 is the official documentation subnet; nobody should use it in production networks.
2001:0::/32 is for teredo clients, a technique which enables IPv6 connectivity through IPv4 networks.
2002::/16 is for IPv6 to IPv4 addresses (also known as 6to4). 127.0.0.1 would be 2002:7F00:0001::/48 (7F is hexadecimal for 127). Note that this, like ::FFFF:127.0.0.1, also requires special configuration.
FE80::/10 addresses are link local
, identical to 169.254.0.0/16. They go as far as the link
goes; for example if you connected the interface via a cross-over cable to another computer, that is the link. If it is connected via a hub or switch, then everyone connected to that is part of the link. Internet routers should not forward these packets.
Site local addresses are in the FEC0::/10 range, only the definition of what a "site" is exactly was ambiguous and these addresses are depricated already.
"You mentioned something about 'globally routable'...?"
In the current IPv4 state, as you should know, there is usually a network behind public IPs. Usually this is in the private IP range 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16, and it contains all computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, TVs, printers and whatnot. They all comunicate beyond their network through a single public (globally routable) IP address.
This works via NAT, which is integrated into consumer routers and keeps a list of connections. If your laptop just sent out a TCP connection request to 184.108.40.206 (Google), the router will remember and nicely forward the connection acceptance (or refusal) back to the same laptop.
The way it does this is by port numbers. When sending the packet, a source port is set at which Google will reply, and by which the router can lookup in its table: "Let's see, port 62031... ah that's a connection with 192.168.1.104!"
Now imagine a random packet comes in:
"Let's see, port 80... huh I don't have that one in my list!"
In this case someone attempted to connect on port 80, the HTTP port. But none of the devices in the network sent a request with a source port set to 80! So the NAT router will drop the packet (simply do nothing with it). This, by the way, is where port forwarding comes into the picture: you tell the router to always forward packets from a certain port (like port 80) to one device (like a home server or your computer or so).
Now that IPv6 addresses are globally routable, this NAT conversion to switch between a local and global address is not needed anymore. The router will simply forward your packets, but not change the address inside.
The first thought popping into sysadmin's heads when they first hear of this is "But then everyone can reach my internal network!"
No. The NAT environment forces a default-deny policy on the router; if a packet wasn't recognized it had to be dropped. Now that the destination interface (as identified by the IPv6 address) is known, doesn't mean your firewall (which is also integrated in your consumer router) will blindly pass on all packets. It will still keep a list like it did with NAT, and let the right packets through, even though it doesn't technically need to. The destination is known, but the integrated firewall protects you just like NAT used to.
So everyone in the world may have a route to your address, hence it's routable
, but that doesn't mean it's reachable
. You may even configure the firewall that it doesn't allow any
traffic whatsoever coming from the internet towards a certain IP, even if that IP initiated traffic first.
One more thing about those addresses: by default, they'll usually change every few hours. With IPv4 a client usually tries to keep the same (local/private) address as long as possible, even between reboots. For privacy considerations (the new addresses are global), this is no longer the case.
Actually this is partially due to a misunderstanding about including the MAC address in the global IPv6 address, but this may
be used, it's not that it must
be used. If it was used it would mean you could be tracked cross-ISP and without needing cookies or anything, but this was partially a misunderstanding. Anyway, now it's designed such that the addresses change regularly. Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and some distributions of Linux have this enabled by default.
Of course, like with IPv4, you can set an address to be static instead of changing every few hours. This works in the same way as IPv4; simply set the address you want in the interface's properties (as shown here
What you need to know...
Nothing at all!
If everything goes according to plan, you will not notice the change. You might need a new modem some time and in the worst case someone needs to come fix something on your computer, but that's the extent of it.
It is good to be familiar with the address notation
, you will come across it some time.
Users are usually uniquely identified by the first 64 bits of their address (the first 4 blocks of hexadecimals). Anything behind that probably changes every few hours. If you want to ban somebody, it's always good to start by blocking the address:
But if they persistently keep changing his or her IP, you might want to block this subnet instead:
As a last resort, you can keep increasing what subnet is blocked, until you've entirely disabled the ISP by blocking this:
Addresses can have a maximum length of 45 characters, everything considered. You should reserve this much space for displaying it. Storing it in the database should be done in a binary format (which is 128 bits long), but PHP has no built in conversion functions for this yet. On the ip2long page
you can ctrl+f for IPv6 though and currently the first result is an ip2binary function.
As gameserver admin
The only things changing for you is probably your server's IP and how you ipban people; so it's good to be familiar with the address notation
Banning someone works the same, just ban the address, only if someone keeps changing their IP you might want to block the entire /64 subnet. This is probably what identifies the home connection uniquely, though it might even be up to /48.
For example, someone uses this address:
If the player keeps changing the IP, you might want to ban this part:
As a last resort you can block larger and larger subnets, until you've entirely disabled the ISP by blocking this:
Many bits and pieces, but one I wanted to explicitly name was the book IPv6 Essentials
by Silvia Hagen (O'Reilly). It really cleared a lot up after reading lots of different things from lots of different sources.
Thanks to Romain Boissat
for recommending that book, reading a draft of this post and providing a lot of feedback.
Also thanks to agwa
for commenting on Hacker News
and contributing corrections.
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How do I know if my brake booster is leaking master cylinder?
The Symptoms of a Bad Brake Booster or Master Cylinder
- Illuminated brake warning light on the console.
- Leaking brake fluid.
- Insufficient braking pressure or hard brakes.
- Spongy brakes or sinking brake pedal.
- Engine misfire or stalling when the brakes are applied.
How do you check the pressure on a master cylinder?
Start the engine, depress the brake pedal, and keep it depressed for 1 minute. If the pedal sink, there is an external or internal leak in the hydraulic brake system. Depress the brake pedal and observe the brake fluid level in the reservoir.
What happens if you don’t bleed a master cylinder?
To put it simply, bleeding the brakes is the process of pushing fluid through a hydraulic brake system to ensure all air bubbles are removed. If brakes aren’t bled and air bubbles are trapped within the brake fluid, hydraulic pressure is greatly reduced, making the brakes less efficient.
Should brakes be bled after replacing master cylinder?
The only way to be sure your system doesn’t have an air bubble is to bleed your brakes after repairing the leak. If you’re replacing worn brake pads, which can cause air to enter the master cylinder. Braking with worn pads requires more brake fluid, which drains the reservoir and creates space for air.
What causes master cylinder to leak?
If pads or shoes and their respective counterpart rotors and drums become worn, the pistons that operate the pads or shoes can become hyperextended, breaking the cylinder seals and weeping fluid to the affected area.
How do I know if my master cylinder has air?
1. In the Car: With the brake system bled, pump the brakes a few times and hold. The brake pedal should be firm. If the brake pedal is spongy, this could indicate air remaining in the lines or a mechanical problem, such as a sticking brake caliper slider.
What is the purpose of the secondary cup in the master cylinder?
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Kolbutov, A.D. (1961) Geological and Geomorphological Conditions of Localizations of Southern Ossetian Paleolithic Sites. Commission to Study the Quaternary Period. Vol. 18, Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 109-119. (In Russian)
Meshveliani, T.K., Tvalchrelidze, M.G. and Lortkipanidze, D.O. (1990) Cave Dzudzuana-Chronostratigraphy of Paleolithic of Northern, Central and Northern Asia and America. Reports of the International Symposium, Novosibirsk, 231-234. (In Russian)
Sasowsky, I.D., White, W.B. and Schmidt, V.A. (1995) Determination of Stream-Incision Rate in the Appalachian Plateaus by Using Cave-Sediment Magnetostratigraphy. Geology, 23, 415-418.
Granger, D.E, Fabel, D. and Palmer, A.N. (2001) Pliocene-Pleistocene Incision of the Green River, Kentucky, Determined from Radioactive Decay of Cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in Mammoth Cave Sediments. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 825-836.
Cordier, D.J. (1998) Sequence Stratigraphy of Siliciclastic Cave Sediments: Depositional Response to a Paleohydrologic Cycle, Western Alachua County, Florida. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, 195.
Lezhava, Z., Bolashvili, N., Tsikarishvili, K., Asanidze, L. and Chikhradze, N. (2015) Hydrological and Hydrogeological Characteristics of the Platform Karst (Zemo Imereti Plateau, Georgia). Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst. Proceedings of the 14th Multidisciplinary Conference, Rochester, 5-9 October 2015, 93-100.
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Environmental issues are a major debate within today’s society. Climate change, in particular, is a controversial topic. Citizens are constantly encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint, use reusable bags and beverage containers, carpool, save water and electricity, recycle, and more in attempt to help the environment. The differences that we make have the potential to bring forth a greener future. Under these circumstances, author Ernest Callenbach decided to create a utopian society in his novel, Ecotopia, which focuses on an ecologically friendly country where citizens live in harmony with the environment.
UTM offers the course Literature and Environmental Criticism, ENG259, which allows students to develop an ecocritical lens towards literature. The course explores various novels, in which the narrative interacts with the environment. One novel in particular is Callenbach’s Ecotopia.
Published in 1975, Ecotopia is set in a fictional country that gained independence by breaking from the United States of America. Ecotopia formed when northern California, Oregon, and Washington broke apart to establish an ecologically friendly nation, which allows humanity and the environment to live in a state of equilibrium. The novel follows an American journalist, William Weston, who travels to Ecotopia on business and reports his experience to the New York Times-Post.
The narrative is written in first-person and follows William’s published columns for the newspaper. At the same time, the novel alternates into his diary, which is noted by the use of italics and incorporates his personal thoughts and experiences. William aims to report, in an objective manner, the lifestyles and laws of Ecotopian’s. Readers learn about Ecotopia’s energy-efficient cities, tree worship, and women-lead governments.
Ecotopians live in a “stable-state” ecosystem and do not produce or use any material that will harm the environment. The country has eliminated the use of individual cars, and citizens use public transport to get around. They also use biodegradable materials, such as wood, so decomposed elements don’t harm the ecosystem.
Throughout the novel, William reports on the various aspects of Ecotopian life. He begins his reports with his experience of crossing the border to enter Ecotopia. William investigates Ecotopia’s economy, population decline, children’s education, solar energy use and more.
William is unimpressed by the citizens and finds their blunt personalities bizarre. Ecotopian’s live a lifestyle of self-expression and openly disclose their emotions to strangers—a social characteristic that William is not fond of. Also, he finds their environmentally-friendly clothing to be aesthetically unpleasing. However, William meets an Ecotopian woman, Marissa, and is enticed by her personality and sexual freedom. The two form a relationship together, as William mentally compares Marissa to Francine and Pat, the women he has back home.
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Ocean View and Muizenberg have both been identified as hot spots for metal theft and illegal traders.
The two far south suburbs are on the list with Bonteheuwel, Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain and Kraaifontein.
The Metals Theft Unit, or Copperheads as they are commonly known, was first introduced in 2007 to help address an increase in cable and metal theft at City facilities.
Over the past decade, they have had to cast their net wider given the scale of the problem – in spite of their limited powers.
However, earlier this year, the National Police Minister extended the powers of law enforcement officers to be able to enforce the Second-Hand Goods Act – previously the preserve of the South African Police Service.
This means that officers can now execute search warrants on properties, conduct search and seizure operations, and seal off premises at which second-hand goods are found in order to prevent a person from conducting business in contravention of the Act.
Fresh off their haul of more than two tons of overhead copper cable in the last month, staff with the City’s Metals Theft Unit finalised training in the legislation that they are now empowered to enforce just last week.
“Cable theft continues to be a challenge and often the same suspects are arrested time and again,” said the City’s mayoral committee member for safety and security; and social services, JP Smith.
“Section 18 of the Criminal Matters Amendment Act of 2015 has given us some hope, because it allows for sentences of up to 30 years for people convicted of tampering with or damaging essential infrastructure.” He said that the additional powers under the Second-Hand Goods Amendment Act would now also allow City staff to act more decisively against scrap dealers.
In the first half of this year, the Copperheads conducted 787 inspections of scrapyards and bucket shops and made 33 arrests. They confiscated 139kg of brass, 21kg of heavy steel and 172m of copper streetlight cable.
Bucket shops are informal scrapyards normally operated from residential properties or containers and derived their name from the buckets that informal scrap dealers originally used to weigh metal.
In addition to their daily operations, the Unit also provides protection services to other City departments when they are required to install or maintain infrastructure and services in volatile or high-risk areas.
“Metal theft is big business for some and a means for a quick fix for others. Either way, the City and others like Metrorail and Eskom are constantly targeted, often resulting in great inconvenience to communities and commuters. We’ve already started using alternative materials where possible to deter theft of City infrastructure, but we’re still counting the cost. The Copperheads are doing good work, but again we are dealing with a problem that is not solved through enforcement alone,” said Mr Smith.
The City calls on community members to provide information or tips about metal theft or unscrupulous scrap dealers, so that those responsible can be prosecuted.
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Zog casts Armageddon. (U6, wisps) The Ancient world that will be
one day known as Sosaria becomes barren and lifeless. The history,
the races and the name of the ancient world is forgotten and lost
for all time.
The first sign of life appears on the world since Zog cast Armageddon.
It is the Ancient Yew Oak sprout.
Barbaric human tribes with others species of animals, along with
other races, arrive on the ancient world. The method of their arrival
is unknown. Possibly moongates.
It is around this era that the world is given the name of 'Sosaria'.
Civilizations begin to form. Magic is discovered and the cult of
runes form. Ancient Towns are built. A group of powerful rune cult
mages built the following places: The Tower of Knowledge and the
Pillars of Protection.
The cult of Truth is founded. Their order are mystic healers. Their
headquarters are located in the depths of the Stygian Abyss, where
they oversee the training of the cult of Runes initiates. Members
of their order travel among the ancient towns, offering their powers
The island of Ambrosia is battered to pieces by "rocks from the
sky". It is thought destroyed.
Humans drive the Cyclops race underground. (U1 doc)
Humans leave the ancient homeland continent that will one day be
called the Lands of Lord British and spread across the globe. A
kingdom who casts off the name of the ruler with the tradition of
the their descendants calling themselves 'The Lost King' rule the
future Lands of Lord British along with the Kingdom of Akalabeth.
The world is divided into squabbling kingdoms across three other
Lands of the Dark Unknown divided by the kingdom of the Black Dragon
and the Kingdom of Olympus.
Lands of Danger and Despair ruled solely by the Kingdom of the White
Lands of the Feudal Lords divided by the Kingdom of Barataria and
the kingdom of Rondorin.
The towns of Yew, Grey, Fawn, Dextron and Paws are founded, along
with the twin Montors.
Mondain's father, Wolfgang, is born. He becomes King of a region
in Sosaria known as Akalabeth.
Wolfgang's first son, Gerarn [Menton], is born.
Wolfgang's second son, Mondain, is born.
Richard Cantabrigian arrives in Sosaria through a blue moongate,
and meets Shamino. Shamino gives him the nickname 'British'. They
become the best of friends and in time Shamino introduces British
to various court advisors, who are impressed with the teenager's
knowledge of justice, government and law.
At age 15, Mondain's strange ways become a worry to his father Wolfgang,
and he tells the youth he must take a year off from studying magic,
and spend this time instead studying at an Abbey to learn compassion
and humility. He promises Mondain the Ruby Sun Gem as his reward
if he learns his lessons well at the Abbey. The next night, Mondain
kills his father, and takes his ruby sun gem. Gerarn, or 'Menton'
as he now calls himself, returns from studying at the Tower of Knowledge
and confronts Mondain, horrified over his father's murder. Through
untrained use of the Ruby sun gem, Mondain banishes Menton offworld.
uses the ruby gem against itself, beginning to corrupt it into the
Gem of Immortality. He retreats to Barataria, a kingdom in the Lands
of the Dark Unknown.
the death of Wolfgang, the advisors look for a successor to the
kingdom of Akalabeth. None are found. Richard Cantabrigian, along
with other advisors and council members, maintain the kingdom of
Akalabeth under the direction of The Lost King.
crosses man/Baratarian bull to create minotaurs.
Ruby Sun gem grows more and more into the Gem of Immortality.
leads an army against Akalabeth for unknown reasons.
British unites Akalabeth and The Lost King into a sizable enough
army to withstand Mondain's forces. He drives Mondain from his corner
of Sosaria ("Akalabeth"), and becomes Lord British. (Aka doc)
With the blessing of the Lost King, the lands of Akalabeth are changed
to the Lands of Lord British and the capital of Akalabeth to 'Britain'.
Various heroes enter the service of Lord British, ridding the local
realm of monsters, and earning the title "Knight".
performing vile experiments on his own servants, Mondain crosses
his own servants with reptiles and creates the Lizardmen, or Thepa.
(U1 doc; Lizard Man)
returns to the "Lands of Danger and Despair" and establishes his
own kingdom in alliance with the Kingdom of the White Dragon. He
meets and falls in love with Beatrix, daughter of the White Dragon
Various Lords of Sosaria outlaw the practice of magic. (U1 doc)
of sea monsters confirmed as the frigate Pembroke is sunk by one
in plain sight of a small armada. (U1 doc; Ness Creature)
British brings over several friends from his homeworld of Earth:
Gwenno, Iolo, Dupre, Chuckles and Geoffrey.
completes the transformation of the Ruby Sun Gem into the Gem of
Immortality and becomes immortal himself.
recruits help from "starwalking monsters of unparalleled savagery".
discovers a method of breaching Time and Space and sends his stronghold
into a Timeless void known as 'The Time of Legends.' It is from
here he controls his growing armies and Sosarian lieutenants.
powerful mages enter his service and bind themselves to the Gem
of Immortality. They shed their life and become the three liche
kings for Mondain.
At age eleven, Minax is apprenticed to Mondain. (U2 doc)
In the Lands of the Feudal Lords, a bloodthirsty warlord known as
'Belo Ondariva' rises his house to power and threatens to conquer
all the lands. Through several battles the Ondarivas are defeated
by a brief alliance of Rondorin and Barataria. Belo and the other
bloodthirsty Ondarivan's are slain by a good hearted faction from
their own family. Some survivors of the good Ondarivan faction flee
to the Lands of Lord British.
Exodus is "conceived".
Stranger appears in Sosaria for the first time, entering through
the moongate known as the "Siege Perilous". (U1 doc; U3 doc)
returns from the Lands of Danger and Despair, leaving behind his
betrothed, to assist British with the return of Mondain.
the threat of Mondain imminent, Lord British overrules the banning
of magic by the Sosarian Lords in previous decades, so that their
own mages may be trained to help against Mondain. The cult of runes
and the Cult of Truth emerge from hiding.
Stranger uses a time machine to step outside of natural time and
penetrate Mondain's stronghold. In the ensuing battle, the Stranger
shatters Mondain's Gem of Immortality and then slays Mondain. The
Gem, now shattered into three separate shards, are accidentally
scattered among the crumbling ruins of his castle as the stranger
release of magic at Mondain's death causes great upheaval, rending
time and space as his stronghold is sent back to the natural world
of Sosaria, in the ocean off the coast of the Lands of Lord British.
3/4ths of the world disappears. This may possibly have been a magical
fail-safe device of Mondain's, designed to make Lord British's realm
disappear, leaving the rest of Sosaria ripe for Mondain's conquest.
the Lands of Danger and Despair, now in their own separate world,
the Ophidian orders are established after the enlightenment from
being contacted by the Great Earth Serpent. The name of the world
is changed to Serpent Isle. Unknown persons cross orcs with humans
to create a more humanoid race: The Goblins. The goblins destroy
both Shamino's kingdom and the Kingdom of the white dragon.
is trapped in the Lands of Lord British. Nobody knows of the Serpent
Pillars at this time.
three liche-kings who bound themselves to Mondain's jewel, somehow
were granted a portion of immortality beyond the destruction of
the Gem. A large band of knights and powerful mages track down the
three liche-kings and entomb them for all time, unknowing how to
after Mondain's death, Silver Time Gates appear in Sosaria. (U2
single orc appears in a farmer's field. Despite the fact that only
a malevolent wizard would have created the orc and not stepped forward,
the people refuse to admit that a new power of evil is growing.
(Approximately 10 ("several") years pass.) (U2 doc)
now grown, begins her plans by traveling through the Silver Moongates
to the era outside of time known as "Legends". She attack's the
homeworld of Lord British and the Stranger who slew her lover and
master. The Timeline of Earth is badly altered and changed.
Stranger (Avatar) appears in Sosaria again. Barely able to escape
the Timeline change due to Lord British' intervention. [U2 doc]
The following events take place outside the normal timeline. ]]]
New San Antonio, the Stranger purchases Enilno, the Quicksword,
from Sentri the Swashbuckler (1990 AD)
the help of a stranger known as Antos, the stranger finds a way
to breach the place of Legends and confront Minax (2112 AD, and
the place of Legends, outside of time itself, Minax is defeated
by the Stranger within the castle Shadowguard.
Stranger returns to Earth a moment after the timeline was changed,
but now back in normal flow. Nobody on Earth knows what happened,
as such is the nature of time restoration.
Timeline resumes normal flow. ]]]
(Approximately 20 years pass in Sosaria.) (U3 BoP)
diary of Minax is found in the wreckage of castle Shadowguard. The
writings hint that Minax and Mondain had been lovers, and produced
an offspring, but little more.
The city of Moon is founded.
A century of peace passes, the Legacy of Mondain and Minax is forgotten
by newer generations.
Isle of Fire rises from the sea as molten lava spewing from underwater
begin attacking Sosarian settlements.
Pirate fleet appears at sea, sweeping all other ships of commerce
summons the Balance Serpent (also known as the Great Earth Serpent)
from its home in the Ethereal Void, and it takes position at the
harbor entrance of the Isle of Fire.
the Lands of Danger and Despair, the War of Imbalance breaks out.
[It is at this time that the Silver Tree of Life, currently present
in the Lands of Danger and Despair is destroyed. The Avatar, traveling
back in time from the future Serpent Isle to the heart of the war
of imbalance, restores the Silver Tree of life and then returns
to the future.]
A ship is found sailing abandoned, devoid of crew, with the word
"Exodus" scrawled in blood on its deck.
British commissions several people to map out the land in preparation
for whatever evil onslaught Exodus is preparing.
Sentri crosses over from Earth to Sosaria.
The cartographer Hawkwind discovers the functioning of the moongates.
Before he can communicate the knowledge, he is attacked and gravely
wounded outside Castle Britannia
returns from his mission of mapping the interior of Castle Death,
on the Isle of Fire. The experience renders him temporarily insane.
last of the Line of Lost Kings perishes, with no heir to claim the
throne, the Lands of Lord British begin to divide into bickering
The Stranger reappears in Sosaria, and journeys as a fellowship
for the first time with Iolo, Dupre and Shamino.
lost island of Ambrosia is rediscovered.
Stranger consults with the Time Lord for the first time.
Stranger and his companions destroy Exodus in his Castle. This triggers
a violent set of cataclysms that rearranges much of the land, destroying
several cities in the process. The destruction is likely the result
of Exodus losing control over his transformation mechanisms (used
to raise the Isle of Fire in the first place), due to his interface
to the natural world being destroyed. Most of the towns of the Lands
of Lord British are utterly destroyed in this cataclysm except for
Yew, Paws and the capitol towne of Britain. The Tower of Knowledge
and the Pillars of Protection are destroyed. The cult of Truth disappears
from history altogether.
forces of evil defeated in a vast battle on the Bloody Plains. Thousands
of soldiers die on both sides in the conflict.
seventy years pass as the world recovers from devastation and Anarchy.
Famine, plagues, rioting and wars engulf the land for decades. Lord
British keeps the kingdom together as best as he can. It is noted
that Lord British and many of his offworld associates do not seem
calendar begins. [year 0000 A.B, "After Britannia"]
band together and form Britannia, electing Lord British as Sovereign
ruler and Monarch. The Kingdom of Britannia is formed.
system of Virtues is established. The eight townes representing
a virtue each begin construction. Magincia loses site of the town's
representation of humility and becomes a city of pride.
three great keeps of the principles are erected, Empath Abbey, the
Lycaeum and Serpent's Hold. The hold being built upon the ruins
of Montor East.
British commissions three Shrines of Principle to be built on the
Isle of Fire, the former abode of Exodus.
Quest of the Avatar" is announced by Lord British.
Erstam and many others protest Lord British's system of virtues,
and leave Britannia for the Serpent Isle after discovering the Serpent
Pillars. (SI doc)
gargoyles summon the spirits of Mondain, Minax and Exodus to inhabit
their three Shrines of Principle. Exodus' summoning causes the Isle
of Fire to sink into the sea, not to be seen again for over three
Percy rids the Islands near the Cape of Heroes of evil dragons and
becomes the first member of the Order of the Silver Serpent. The
Order of the Silver Serpent is officially established by Lord British.
Serpent's Hold becomes the Order's headquarters.
is given the title of Baron and oversees Serpent's Hold.
The town of Magincia is destroyed by demons, presumably for the
pride of its inhabitants. (U4 HOB, UW1 MoSC)
The stranger, the hero who vanquished Mondain, Minax and Exodus
returns to Britannia.
stranger gathers eight companions. Eight companions to represent
the eight virtues. They include: Geoffrey, Mariah, Katrina, Jaana,
Julia, Shamino, Iolo and Dupre. Most of these are friends of Lord
British from Earth. It is possible Lord British commanded these
ones to accompany the stranger when he began the Quest of the Avatar.
stranger retrieves the artifact known as the "skull of Mondain"
from a deep well in the Great Sea. The well is the original site
of the stranger's battle with Mondain, as evidenced by the three
volcanic plumes nearby - caused by the three Shards. The removal
of the skull caused two things to happen: a volcanic island arose
(on which Blackthorn's castle was built), and the Shards were knocked
loose. Later, when the raising of the Codex caused the Underworld
to be formed, the Shards were carried from that location to almost
directly under Empath Abbey, where they were later found by Captain
stranger throws the Skull of Mondain into the Abyss, opening the
Abyss permanently and destroying the skull.
stranger descends into the Abyss with eight companions, and enters
the Chamber of Virtue at the bottom. The Codex is found, where the
stranger reads from it, and officially becomes "The Avatar". The
Avatar returns to Earth.
British forms the Great Council.
of Empath Abbey begin making wine.
in this era...]
Council raises the Codex from the GSA, and enshrines it on the Isle
of the Avatar.
instability induced by the raising of the Codex causes the formation
of the Underworld. Creatures begin pouring out of the dungeons again.
Great Council seals the eight dungeons.
great drought engulfs the northeastern quadrant of Britannia, destroying
Britannia's third largest lake, Lake Generosity, and creating the
desert known as the Drylands.
village of Vesper is abandoned and covered by the desert.
British commissions the writing of the Book of Lore.
knight Seggalion inadvertently leaves his homeland of Ashtalarea
through a blue moongate, and becomes a sailor and pirate in Britannia.
Monks of Empath Abbey stopped taking vows of silence.
shipwright of Trinsic, officially commissions the ship "Golden Hinde".
This ship is later sailed by Leodon and Lenora of Buccaneer's Den
Johne's ship sinks through a whirlpool and is lost in the Underworld.
He kills his shipmates, Astarol, Faulina and Nosfentre, who through
the power of the Shards become the Shadowlords.
The Island fortress of Bordermarch begins construction.
Seggalion retires from his career as a pirate and builds Farthing
on an Island to the southeast of Jhelom from the proceeds of his
ghosts of ruined Magincia are finally laid to rest through magical
town of New Magincia is founded.
powerful mage by the name of Elistaria turns her back on the virtuous
methods of the honest Mages of Moonglow and dabbles heavily in Demonism
and the dark arts. She commissions the construction of the keep
of Windmere in the seas north of the Drylands.
female child, perhaps twelve or thirteen, appears in Lord Shalineth's
court. She proceeds to prophesy of an unknown hero, entering a place
of great darkness, using three magical artifacts. Near the end of
her prophecy, she loses control of the vision and is killed by unknown
begins his exploration of the Underworld through the waterfall in
river Maelstrom, leaving one of his nobles, Lord Blackthorn, in
charge during his absence.
captured by the Shadowlords.
Blackthorn declares martial law, and enacts his repressive Code
of Virtue. Blackthorn seizes the Crown of Lord British as a symbol
of his new authority.
Shamino, and the other Companions of the Avatar are declared outlaws.
an attempt to save one of the Crown Jewels, the jester Chuckles
has the Sceptre of Lord British transferred by courier to Lord Malone
of Serpent Hold. Unfortunately, the courier passes through Trinsic
while a Shadowlord is present (either Astaroth or Nosfentor). The
Shadowlord steals the Sceptre and disappears.
befriends the demon (actually, gargoyle) Sin'Vraal, and convinces
him to become a good guy. Sin'Vraal flees the service of Astaroth
in the Underworld for the Drylands of Britannia.
and Shamino anonymously commission Sir Arbuthnot, the Royal Coinmaker,
to mint a magical coin in the image of the symbol of the Codex,
to use in summoning the Avatar.
Shalineth, the leader of the Lycaeum, completes the book Paths of
Destiny as an aid for the Avatar upon his return.
Avatar is called through the moongates by Iolo and Shamino.
Avatar meets with the wizard Sutek, who has divined the nature of
Avatar destroys the remaining Shards of Mondain's Gem and the three
rescues LB from the Underworld, Avatar returns to Earth.
banished by LB to an unknown land, later revealed to be the Serpent
of Zog are discovered. Oldest Britannian fossil.
Underworld collapses. Gargoyle realm begins to disappear, bit by
Hawkins' ship, the Empire, is destroyed when the crew mutinies.
Their treasure is buried on the island later known as Spektran,
and a map is created and distributed among nine pirates.
takes up abode in the former Castle of Blackthorn. He begins experiments
for unknown reasons.
cyclops Iskander Ironheart is born.
Johne sets out to explore Hythloth, and befriends the gargoyle Beh
a massive earthquake, the island of Bordermarch sinks beneath the
ocean and is lost.
begin attacking Britannia. They capture the shrines one by one.
is murdered by Michael, aka Blade.
knight Gratin and several others are heavily wounded in an attempt
to retake the Shrine of Compassion from the Gargoyles.
Avatar is called through a red moongate by the Gargoyles, who attempt
to assassinate him. He is saved by Iolo, Shamino and Dupre and escapes
via moongate to LB's throne room.
returns the Codex to the Void, and restores peace between Humans
and Gargoyles. Avatar returns to Earth.
enters a magical sleep, waiting for the Avatar to reappear and awaken
small group of self righteous knights, mages and Paladins set out
for Terfin after hearing rumors of an 'evil wizard' within. Sutek
defends himself but is turned to stone by his own hand. His statue
is cast into the ocean, several miles northwest of the Island of
is founded on the island where Blackthorn's castle originally stood.
companions of the Avatar foil a scheme that revolves around the
theft of the Runes of Virtue, and kidnapping the mayors of the eight
townes by one who calls himself 'The Black Knight'
Ironheart slays the seven Gazer princes that stole the eye from
the cyclops tribal leader. After this, he is known embarrassingly
as "Wonder Boy".
Cabirus obtains permission from Lord British and founds a new Town
of Virtue on the Isle of the Avatar. He sends out a call to the
land to join him.
crosses from Pagan to Britannia
is possessed by one of the three-liche kings who were entombed after
the death of Mondain.
builds his Dark Tower on the main island of Skara Brae
sends his minions to capture Trent's wife, Rowena, killing her in
attempts to mix a potion which can trap Horance. Due to Mayor Trent's
ineptitude, the formula explodes, destroying the entire town, killing
all inhabitants instantly.
Abyssal colony is well-established in newly discovered levels of
the original Abyss. (Described in UW1 MoSC)
Almric's fortress completed.
is occupied by a small colony of wingless gargoyles.
Vemelon, mayor of Jhelom, and a party of warriors invade Stonegate,
slaughter the occupying gargoyles and claim the keep as Vemelon's
(Later occupied by trolls and an evil wizard, after it collapsed
into the swamp...)
shipwright of New Magincia, officially commissions the ship "Anne's
infamous peeping-tom case leads to the outlawing of X-ray white
potions. Eventually, an even whiter "Light" potion takes its place
in the popular stock.
year in this area...]
Cabirus dies in the abyss. It is rumored he was poisoned.
Abyssal colony begins to quarrel and fall apart. (c0210)
Almric (probably the son of the original Baron) seals the Great
Stygian Abyss doors.
husband of Mythra, enters a cave on an exploring expedition and
allows the demon known as the Slasher of Veils to kill Garamon,
accidentally trapping it within the Great Stygian Abyss' Chamber
Almric's (probably the grandson of the original Baron) daughter,
Arial, is kidnapped.
Avatar is summoned by Garamon, and appears in Arial's bedroom during
the kidnapping. Being accused, the Avatar is sent into the Abyss
to either rescue Arial or die trying.
within the Stygian Abyss, The Avatar kills the wizard Tyball, and
the help of Garamon, the Avatar releases enough power to open a
dimensional gate at the base of the Abyss, which the Avatar uses
to banish the Slasher of Veils from Britannia.
volcano within the Stygian Abyss erupts, destroying the remnants
of the settlement. The inhabitants escape with Garamon's help, and
resettle in dungeon Despise. The Lizardmen flee down underground
rivers to a new location.
its reason for existence (and most of its settlements) gone, Baron
Almric's town abandons the Isle of the Avatar.
British contacts the Avatar in a dream, sending him to Eodon for
a brief time.
"minor wars" among feuding nobles break out. Batlin fights in these
as a soldier after training in Minoc.
"minor wars" of Britannia end. Batlin moves to Britain and becomes
a bard for a while.
meets Abraham and Elizabeth, fellow adventure seekers, in Britain.
They agree to split up and search the world for their destinies
for 10 years, then return to Britain.
a theoretical metaparaphilosopher, proposes his theory that there
are *not* rays of undetectable, invisible energy bombarding Britannia.
The populace breathes easier.
visits Skara Brae, and has an encounter with Horance and Caine,
which drives him partially insane. After this, Batlin begins to
hear the Guardian's voice. (2 years before founding)
becomes Mayor of Minoc. ("more than 20 years..")
Abraham, and Elizabeth gain permission from Lord British to found
the Fellowship. The first branch hall is established in Britain.
Mining Company founded. The town of Vesper is reformed as a small
colony of miners for the Mining Company.
petitions Lord British for permission to reopen the door to Dungeon
begins supplying blackrock ore to Batlin.
of the Generators and the Black Gate begins.
shipwright of Britain, officially commissions the ship "Dragon's
Breath". This ship was formerly the Constellation, until it was
heavily damaged and rebuilt.
Tetrahedron Generator goes online.
a mage who is going slowly mad because of the Tetrahedron Generator,
is killed by the cyclops Iskander Ironheart in an act of self-defense.
Seven Year Drought begins.
shipwright of Trinsic, officially commissions the ship "The Scaly
House of Games opens for business on Buccaneer's Den.
Fellowship branch in Moonglow is founded by Rankin.
an outspoken candidate for political office in Britain, is murdered.
Seven Year Drought ends.
shipwright of New Magincia, officially commissions the ship "Nymphet".
shipwright of Britain, officially commissions the ship "The Beast".
is elected Mayor of Trinsic.
ships built by Owen of Minoc sink, including one with Korl's brother
shipwright of Moonglow, officially commissions the ship "Lusty Wench".
is elected Mayor of Britain, defeating the farmer Brownie in a landslide.
immigrates from Terfin to Trinsic.
Time Lord is trapped by the Guardian in the Shrine of Spirituality.
week before the murder, Christopher argues with Klog and tries to
leave the Fellowship.
and Inamo are killed around 2am. The Avatar appears the next morning.
that same moment, the Isle of Fire rises from the sea again, due
to Erethian's magical interference.
joins the Avatar's party at age fourteen. He wishes to avenge his
meets the cyclops Iskander Ironheart and saves him from Eiko and
her sister, the daughters of the mage Kalineth.
a final confrontation, Hook, Abraham, and Elizabeth are killed by
the Avatar et al. Batlin escapes. The Black Gate is destroyed at
the moment of the astronomical alignment, just as the Guardian is
attempting to pass through.
one year later: LB has a party at Castle British, and the Guardian
casts a spell [UW2].
Over the course of some time, the Avatar frees not only Britannia,
but eight other worlds as well. (0362)
(Also, Lady Tory killed. Nelson killed. Patterson killed.)
frees the castle after freeing eight other worlds from the Guardian.
six months later: Avatar et al pass through the Serpent Pillars
to the Serpent Isle.
(In the process, they "skip ahead" in time a small amount, enough
for Imbalance to begin affecting Britannia.)
storms begin. The Royal Mint is teleported/exchanged with a building
from Serpent Isle.
sacrifices his life to restore the Chaos Serpent. His soul becomes
one with the Chaos Serpent.
Avatar restores balance upon the Serpent Isle, but is drawn into
the Ether in the process, falling into the hands of the Guardian,
who banishes him to the world of Pagan.
twelve years pass and the first quest takes place in Legacy in the
[Following the events of Ultima 8: Pagan beginning approximately in the year 0380]
Arriving upon the shores of Pagan, the Avatar sought a way to return to Britannia. His struggle was long and difficult as the Avatar learned of his true destiny, to become the Titan of Ether. Learning of an ancient temple once within Pagan, the Avatar gathered together five pieces of Blackrock to capture and contain the four Titans of Pagan. Mastering the magics of Necromancy, Tempestry, Theurgy, and Sorcery, the Avatar stole the other Titans' power, and emerged as the Titan of Ether. Using the Blackrock pieces, he was able to recreate a Black Gate, thus opening a path back to Earth, but without a means back to Britannia.
Over the next approximate 200 years, Britannia slowly falls into a state of general decline. While the Fellowship remains banned, many speak openly of the Guardian's power and the absence of the Avatar.
The leadership of the Great Keeps of the Principles begin openly questioning Lord British's leadership. References to the Mad Mage Erstam and his expedition to the Serpent Isles to escape the "Beast British" are often heard in taverns by drunken bards and troublemakers.
Piracy and brigands become more prevalent in the lands, as remaining guards are kept closer to the cities for protection. Buccaneer's Den becomes a central stronghold of lawnessness.
The isle of Spektran becomes settled by refugees, and is rebranded as "Haven" after a strange fable involving an undead future.
[During the events preceeding Ultima 9: Ascension approximately in the year 0565]
The Guardian's forces invade Britannia, their Wyrmguard armies being led by the former Lord Blackthorn. The Guardian caused eight Blackrock pillars to arise from the shattered remains of the Shrines of Virtue, each with their corresponding Rune corrupted into a twisted Glyph that poisoned the people of Britannia similar to the time of the Shadowlords. Lord British, sinking further and further into despair, retreated from his duties to the lands.
The Gargoyle isle of Terfin was overrun by the Guardian's forces, and a stronghold was established. The Gargish race fled to the underwater city of Ambrosia.
Empath Abbey was destroyed due to rising floodwaters near Yew, and the Monks fled to the city of Britain to establish the Cathedral of Love.
The Lycaeum, distrustful of others, sealed themselves behind magical barriers to prevent the Guardian's assault. Many mages go into hiding to flee persecution.
Serpent's Hold was submerged by the sea from the upheavals by the Guardian's magics. Jhelom also became uninhabitable, and its survivors were forced to make refuge in nearby created volcanic isles to establish Valoria.
The moongates were disabled due to the effect of the Guardian's columns, pulling the two moons Trammel and Felucca towards Britannia.
[During the events of Ultima 9: Ascension approximately in the year 0575]
Acting on the advice of Hawkwind the Time Lord, the Avatar returned to Britannia, only to see the keep of the Guardian looming above the isle of Terfin. Narrowly rescued from death, the Avatar began his quest within Stonegate, once-home to the Shadowlords. Meeting with Lord British, the Avatar set forth on his final quest to save Britannia from its enemies, and as he traveled, he met old friends and enemies, as well as new friends and allies, and as each Shrine of Virtue was restored, he came that much closer to defeating the Guardian. Sir Dupre is resurrected from the Ethereal Void.
Finally, nearing the end of his quest, the Avatar learned the true nature of the Guardian. Following the events of the First Age of Enlightenment, the Avatar, having purged all evil from his being, accepted the title and responsibility of Avatarhood. This residual evil later coalesed into what was to become the Guardian, an anti-avatar of the Virtues, bent on destroying the lands of Britannia. With the Runes and Sigils of Virtues at hand, the Avatar traveled to the Guardian's stronghold on Terfin.
By use of the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, the Avatar and his Companions used the cleansed Runes within each of the Columns, and crafted the Sigils into the Barrier of Life. Thus, casting the forbidden spell of Armageddon, the Avatar sacrificed his life for the sake of Britannia, and destroyed the Guardian and ascended into the heavens, bringing peace and prosperity back to the shattered lands.
The Columns of the Guardian were destroyed during the backlash of power from the Avatar's protected Armageddon spell. The resulting power also destroyed the Guardian's former stronghold, but lingering rumors of the Wyrmguard's presence still remain.
Due to the destruction of Ambrosia during the Avatar's quest, the Gargish race became extinct. The Council is rumored to be protecting a sacred relic of the Gargoyles.
The Three Great Keeps of the Principles are recovered from the Guardian's forces and rebuilt. There remained much lingering resentment over the Guardian's occupation of the lands, and the resulting damage that was suffered. The Companions of the Avatar are appointed as Mayors of their respective Cities.
Sightings of monsters and beasts from the Great Dungeons are reported with increasing occurance. Lord British attempts an expedition, but is overruled by his Council. Shortly thereafter, the King is rumored to fall to a magical illness.
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It can be argued that the advent of the computer age and electronic documents is second in importance only to Johann Gutenbergs invention of the printing press in the 1450s. Once computers were firmly entrenched in the worlds offices in the early 1980s, it didnt take long for business people to start wondering whether electronic documents could become the primary means of communication. Futurists were quick to dream about the day when books would be presented strictly online as electronic documents, available to all and at much lower prices. Others saw electronic documents putting paper companies and many printers out of business.
While the reality of the electronic document revolution has panned out differently than the futurists predicted, the computer has brought extraordinary changes to communication. For example, the broad acceptance of electronic documents in everyday and business life has prompted the development of style guides and resources for citing electronic documents as references. Another sign of the impact of electronic documents is the arrival of the CIAs electronic reading room which citizens can visit online to read about items of national interest. Likewise, physicians are more and more frequently getting away from thick patient files and instead relying on electronic charts. This move to electronic documents reduces the chances of losing vital information and also dramatically cuts down the chance of prescription errors.
One challenge with electronic documents that has emerged in recent years is the discovery of the difference in pixels in an online document vs. a printed document. Companies like Microsoft are exploring ways to alter the pixel density of electronic documents to make them more eye friendly. As this science unfolds, society will be positioned to take another step toward a more paperless society.
Today, electronic documents are increasingly becoming the norm for handling personal business. More and more people each year do their banking and bill paying via electronic documents. It saves time, effort and postage. Plus, many contend that it is actually more secure than mailing a check from your mailbox and risking it being stolen.
Government itself feels strong pressure to move toward a more paperless society. The 1998 Government Paperwork Elimination Act demanded that government agencies refrain from using paper to create, modify or store official records within just four short years. This act, in and of itself, forced the government to begin accepting electronic payments and signatures. The age of electronic documents achieved a new milestone!
Today what is classified as an electronic document has expanded to include a wide range of items such as emails, photographs, letters, depositions, x-rays, claims, medical records, video clips and even voice mail. Today, organizations use Document Management Systems to organize and manage these electronic documents. With the addition of each item, the move toward a paperless society again takes a step forward.
All this being said, most experts believe that we will never become a fully paperless society. There will always be those who want to print out a document and hold it in their hands. However, as people become more comfortable with the convenience of electronic commerce, finance and communication, more and more of our lives will be handled through electronic documents and our society will, as a result, become increasingly paperless. | <urn:uuid:91f09688-bdd5-4968-b09a-5d7773ffd077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.zhakei.com/electronic-documents-is-the-paperless-society-a-practical-reality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945238 | 619 | 3.109375 | 3 |
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The Permanent Court of International Justice and the 'International Community'
LEGACIES OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE, pp. 339-359, Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Christian Tams, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013
16 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2012 Last revised: 5 Dec 2014
Date Written: April 21, 2012
The purpose of this brief study is to gauge what the Permanent Court of Internation-al Justice might have had to say about the nebulous concept of the ‘international community’, as the Court administering the law of that community, but also developing it, thereby contributing to the stabilization and further integration of that community. This is done by ‘reverse-engineering’ the jurisprudence of the PCIJ, seeking to canvass how the Court understood the concept of the 'international community' and how it would have wanted it to evolve. The study surveys the Court’s case law for what are commonly accepted as the ‘hallmarks’ of an (international) community, or at least those commonly associated with the idea: the make-up of the community; the concept of obligations and action in the ‘general’ interest; and the existence of institutions providing protection of the community interest.
Keywords: international community, Permanent Court of International Justice, community interest, general interest, standing in international law, organs of the international community, institutionalisation, international courts and tribunals, obligations erga omnes, jus cogens
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September 11, 2001 made it clear that steps should be taken to help New York City firefighters do their jobs more safely and effectively. After spending 42 years of service with the Fire Department of New York, I have twelve specific recommendations.
1. Without radio communication, officers cannot command and control firefighters' response to a fire or an emergency. New York City firefighters need antennas installed in high rise buildings to enhance the signal of their portable radios. Fire officers in New York City need portable radios that transmit messages from the lobby to the roof, and from the lobby to the lowest cellar of a high-rise building.
2. The department needs a firefighter tracking system so officers can better supervise and control the movements of firefighters during smoky building fires. The current protective alarm signaling system (called "PASS" alarm) only reacts when a firefighter is trapped or unconscious. The fire service needs a tracking system that can keep firefighters from being trapped in the first place and would allow the officer in command to know the locations of every firefighter in a smoke-filled high-rise building.
3. To improve and coordinate officer command at fires, New York City fire officers should attend incident commander training at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. New York City fire chiefs and company officers rarely attend the school, which is the nation's top training academy.
4. To help them analyze a fire in a high-rise building after they arrive on the scene, firefighters need helicopters. From a helicopter, firefighters can size up fire and smoke on the upper floors of a burning high-rise building, rescue people trapped on the roof and spray a thousand gallons of water into the building's upper floors. The Los Angeles Fire Department has six helicopters and dispatches two to every high-rise fire.
5. New York City firefighters need new fireboats to help them respond to fires in buildings near the waterfront. After the World Trade Center collapsed, the water main and hydrants were buried and broken. One of the fireboats that supplied water to the fire department on September 11, 2001 was the John J. Harvey, a boat that was sold for scrap metal several years ago. The fire department used to have nine large fireboats protecting the waterways. Today they have two.
6. Firefighters in New York City also need new self-contained "rebreathing" masks. The fire service has used the same 35-pound mask since the 1950s, a mask that, according to the New York City medical division only supplies air for eight to 15 minutes. Firefighters need a lightweight mask that weighs 10 or 15 pounds and can provide two hours of breathable air.
7. The fire department needs an officer and five firefighters on every engine company responding to a high-rise fire. Today engine companies in New York City with only four firefighters must wait for another company to arrive before they can position the four lengths of hose that is necessary to extinguish a high-rise fire in a large open floor.
8. To improve training, New York firefighters need a computerized virtual simulator to make training more realistic. Virtual simulators are used to train people to bring ships into the port of New York and for landing planes at New York airports.
9. The fire department also needs robots. Robots could be used to attack fires in superheated atmospheres and search for hazardous material. The eighth annual firefighting robot competition was recently held in Hartford, Connecticut.
10. The department should have a computerized dispatch system that can warn the first firefighters to respond about hazardous building construction and materials. For example, the World Trade Center had a lightweight, steel bar floor construction with truss joints that collapsed. Those who first responded to the scene were not warned about this construction. Many hazards are discovered by firefighters during fire-prevention inspections, and firefighters should know about them before they arrive at a fire.
11. To improve rescues at fires in high-rise buildings, the fire department should have high-rise tower ladders. The maximum reach of a tower ladder in New York City is 75 feet, a height that does not extend to the roofs of many Manhattan apartment houses, let alone a high-rise building. The New York City fire department used to have 100-foot towers, but they were eliminated in the 1990s.
12. Finally, there is also a specific way to improve the command structure for firefighters in one area of the city: central Harlem. The New York fire department should return Harlem's Fifth Division headquarters back to service. Since the division was eliminated in the 1990s, the community of upper Manhattan from 110 Street to 207 Street has had no centralized command.
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[FOUNTAIN]How to use summer vacationKim Dong-gyeom, who was a deputy manager of the Commercial Bank of Korea (now known as Woori Bank), was a workaholic. Mr. Kim, who worked at the bank’s Hyehwa-dong branch for nearly six years, rarely took a leave, and he often finished his lunch in less than 15 minutes. Mr. Kim, who attracted about 15 billion won ($12.5 million) of the 30 billion won deposited in the bank’s accounts, was highly esteemed by his colleagues at the Hyehwa-dong branch. Mr. Kim’s reputation was stellar until he was arrested and detained on Aug. 17, 1983.
In the so-called Myeongseong fraud case, it was alleged that Mr. Kim attracted large sums of money by offering high interest rates, and he did not deposit the money into the bank’s actual accounts. He used it for loans to Myeong-seong, a resort developer. Mr. Kim provided the depositors hand-written copies of bank account books. Mr. Kim built his own private bank inside the bank. Through this method, Mr. Kim skimmed 16.6 billion won.
After Mr. Kim was arrested, banks adopted a new policy -- a bank worker suspected of wrongdoing could be asked to submit to a review.
On June 7, 1993, the presidents and other senior executives of the Samsung Group, a leading business concern of Korea, gathered in Frankfurt, Germany. Samsung’s chairman, Lee Kun-hee, had summoned them abruptly. After his Frankfurt declaration that Samsung executives should change everything except their spouses and children, the executives began touring ad-vanced industrialized countries to learn about management principles emphasizing “quality.” The executives had to be away form their jobs a long time, and Mr. Lee did not allow them to contact their offices. But the firms operated without problems.
A friend of mine who works at a foreign bank told me a story. He said he had 22 paid holidays annually and he had to use more than half of them consecutively. If he decided to use all of his leave at once, he would end up out of the office for more than a month. During such breaks, the bank checks to see if the long absence hinders its operation.
The summer holiday season is upon us. In a recent survey, 38 percent of LG CNS employees said they would not surrender their summer vacation for any amount of money. The poll shows that leave is absolutely precious to a working person. During employee leaves, companies should ascertain whether its system can endure their absence.
by Lee Se-jung
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- Eryilmaz, A.
- Satisfaction of Needs and Determining of Life Goals: A Model of Subjective Well-Being for Adolescents in High School.
- Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice - 2011, Vol.11, 1757 - 1764
- English (Australia, Canada, UK, USA)
Eligible for inclusion in findings archive
- No, no valid measure of happiness used. | <urn:uuid:c35a1f89-7d76-4da3-83db-d843070fd04b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/publications/satisfaction-of-needs-and-determining-of-life-goals-a-model-of-subjective-well-being-for-adolescents-in-high-school-10869/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.721848 | 158 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The full name of the IB course is the International Baccalaureate, hosted by the International Baccalaureate Organization and founded in 1968 by the Geneva International School in Switzerland.
IB课程的全称是the International Baccalaureate（国际文凭课程），
The IB program is divided into PYP (Primary School Project), MYP (Secondary Program) DP (University Foundation Program) and CP (Professional Education Program), regardless of the stage of study.
IB's teaching philosophy is to encourage students to explore and discover everything around them, so that students can relate what they have learnt to reality. The MYP Program (Secondary Program) is an academically challenging course for students aged 11 to 16 designed with an emphasis on inquiry and concepts to develop students' ability to criticize and think independently.
What is the IB MYP course then? MYP (Secondary Program) was established by the IBO in 1994 for middle school students aged 11 to 16. The MYP program emphasizes knowledge synthesis, international culture and international exchanges, and encourages students to connect their knowledge with real life, develop students' critical thinking skills, and become talented person with independent thinking.
This book is written for the needs of mid-level students in the MYP Chinese course. This book systematically explains the teaching structure and concept of MYP Chinese language acquisition, helping teachers to carry out teaching planning and classroom teaching more effectively, and help students to complete the MYP Chinese course better.
此书针对MYP 中文课程中级班学生之需要编写。本书系统讲解MYP（初级）中文语言习得的教学结构和构思，帮助教师更高效地进行教学规划和课堂教学，帮助学生更好地完成 MYP（初级）中文课程的学习。 | <urn:uuid:4f4b240c-8598-42c0-b041-ccfc9d3cb493> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learnmandarinshop.com/products/ib%E4%B8%AD%E5%AD%A6%E9%A1%B9%E7%9B%AE-myp-%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E8%AF%AD%E8%A8%80%E4%B9%A0%E5%BE%97%E6%95%99%E5%AD%A6%E5%AE%9E%E4%BE%8B-%E4%B8%AD%E7%BA%A7%E7%AF%87- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.85845 | 738 | 2.953125 | 3 |
During one of Tara Brach’s guided heart meditations, she quoted a beautiful truth by Arne Garborg: “To love someone is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.” I love this because it captures qualities that accompany love: i) a desire and receptivity to learn, ii) attention to the beloved on her/his/their terms, and iii) reminding them or assisting them in uncovering their life-force.
In early stages of romantic love, we can feel we “know” our partner and become disappointed when things aren’t quite as they were perceived to be early on. In family life and friendships, we can perceive others whom we love in our past experiences and understandings of them, sometimes blocking both relational growth and learning the many facets of our loved ones as they move through their life acquiring new understandings and wisdom from their experiences. Love is ongoing learning and deep curiosity to experience self and others anew.
As we attend with curiosity, we may notice attachment and avoidance in different areas. We tend to give our attention to what most pleases us. But love involves commitment-even when we don’t feel like it. It can mean recognizing what brings forth ourselves to the beloved more spaciously in mind and heart, and what constricts/narrows or creates distance between ourselves and loved ones. Attending is not construed as time and proximity-although it can be. It can also mean the emotional/psychological sense of presence.
Finally, love uplifts: “Singing the song in their heart” can take on so many different forms. Isn’t it true that in the presence of Love, creativity flows. And, most poignantly, the felt-sense of being well-loved, fully accepted, may be the song that awakens in them all the favorite “songs in their heart,” some delights that go way back, others emerging in joyful resonance. | <urn:uuid:9f283470-cc61-4f8d-93ae-028bdae1be2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.positivepsychologyway.com/blog/archives/01-2021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96144 | 417 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Elisabeth Fondren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Journalism, Division of Mass Communication, The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies, was recently interviewed for the 74th episode of the Journalism History podcast by host Teri Finneman, Ph.D.
Dr. Fondren discussed her recently published journal article about the unknown World War I photographer Percy Brown, who captured significant photojournalism history during 1914–20 along the Western Front. Mr. Brown continued to take pictures during his time in captivity in a German prison camp after he was accused of being a spy.
“Pictures matter, but also so do the stories that describe how these pictures were created and who was behind the camera,” said Dr. Fondren.
Dr. Fondren is the author of “‘The Mirror with a Memory’: The Great War through the Lens of Percy Brown, British Correspondent and Photojournalist (1914-1920),” which was published in the March 2021 issue of Journalism History, the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States.
As an unaccredited freelancer, with a working-class background in carpentry and figure skating, Mr. Brown did not have the credibility of a renowned photojournalist. However, through his ingenuity, grit, and sheer “war luck,” he was able to access battlefields, ports, and cities along the Western Front to provide an eyewitness account of the 21st century’s mass-mediated war.
Mr. Brown’s story—and his original wartime images—also draw attention to the larger themes of how war correspondents source information, produce news, and negotiate pressures from authorities. In the Fall of 1915, Mr. Brown was arrested by German police, who accused him of being a spy, and held him in the Ruhleben internment camp for the next three years. After the Armistice, Mr. Brown continued to report from Berlin and covered the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–20.
The podcast also covers press censorship during the Great War and the dysfunctional relationship between the military and the press. In the interest of protecting national security and shaping the wartime narrative, the British military restricted access to news and information in battle zones, which is why Mr. Brown’s untold story and photos add to historians’ understanding of the conflict.
“Mr. Brown’s story offers an insider’s view to wartime reporting during World War I through a rare perspective and demonstrates why photojournalism history matters,” said Dr. Finneman.
Journalism History, hosted by three professional media historians and available in 96 countries, reexamines the stories you thought you knew and the ones you were never told. Click here to listen to the full podcast interview. Transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/. | <urn:uuid:edcb5998-5626-48c8-9e4e-90b9ba10d451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stjohns.edu/about/news/2021-08-23/journalism-professor-discusses-photographers-impact | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960163 | 603 | 2.515625 | 3 |
While social media may not be a significant direct referrer of traffic to e-commerce websites, it does have an influence on product discovery and purchase decisions, according to a pair of studies. Walker Sands’ “2014 Future of Retail Study” [download page] finds that almost 1 in 5 consumers claim to have discovered a product through Pinterest, while YouTube videos have influenced a purchase at least once for 53% of respondents. A survey from Social Media Link, meanwhile, indicates that about 2 in 3 social media users trust the product and service recommendations they find on Facebook. That’s a slightly higher percentage than trust blogs (63%), retail websites (63%), Pinterest (56%) and YouTube (51%), though it’s unclear whether or not those results are confined to users of each channel.
Reports, such as this one, have shown that engagement with brands on social media is rising, and the Walker Sands study indicates that 3 in 5 respondents engage with brands on social media, with almost all of those (55% overall) doing so on Facebook. More claim to have engaged with brands on Twitter (21%) than on Pinterest (10%), a result which may reflect greater adoption of the former platform.
The study also demonstrates that the most common reason why consumers interact with brands on social media is for coupons and promotions (78%), ahead of discovering the latest news and products from brands (65%), receiving customer support (24%) and to see what others are buying (19%). That’s not surprising given recent survey results indicating that for Facebook users, discounts and promotions are the most appealing brand posts.
About the Data: The Walker Sands’ 2014 Future of Retail study surveyed 1,046 consumers across the U.S. on their spending behaviors in the past year, and preferences for future spending.
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Matthew 1: 1-24
The Genealogy of Jesus Christ
1 The book of the genealogy[a] of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. 3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. 4 Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon. 5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6 and Jesse begot David the king.
David the king begot Solomon by her [b]who had been the wife of Uriah. 7 Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot [c]Asa. 8 Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah. 9 Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10 Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot [d]Amon, and Amon begot Josiah. 11 Josiah begot [e]Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon.
12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel. 13 Zerubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor. 14 Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. 15 Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. 16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ arefourteen generations.
Christ Born of Mary
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being [f]a just man,and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. 20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is [g]conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name [h]Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
22 So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
24 Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, 25 and [i]did not know her till she had brought forth her[j] firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.
- What are your thoughts on what Joseph did in light of him being a righteous man (1:19)? Contrast this with how the Pharisees would have wanted to handle this.
- What do you think the scripture is talking about when it says that, “He will save his people “from” their sins” (1:21)? What implications would that have for us as believers and followers of Christ?
- What does the prophesy and fulfillment of that testify of Christ in 1:23?
Wise Men from the East
2 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, [a]wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”
3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
5 So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:
6 ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a Ruler
Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”
7 Then Herod, when he had secretly called the [b]wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.”
9 When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. 11 And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
12 Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.
The Flight into Egypt
13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”
14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
Massacre of the Innocents
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted,
Because they are no more.”
The Home in Nazareth
19 Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.” 21 Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee. 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”
- Was Jesus from Bethlehem, Egypt, or Nazareth? A simple little principle found in the answer to this question that, if applied to the understanding of the rest of scripture, will enable us to receive a fuller understanding of God’s word to us.
- What do you think this principle is?
- Can you think of other examples of this similar type of thing, such as relating to the roles of Christ, who we are and our roles as His people, or some other truths from God’s word?
- In what ways did God speak to people in this passage?
Matthew 3: 1-17
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord;
Make His paths straight.’ ”
4 Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him 6 and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, 9 and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit [a]and fire. 12 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
John Baptizes Jesus
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”
15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and [b]He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Reading 3 Questions:
- What was John’s message and contrast it with one of Christ’s teachings on the kingdom of God in Luke 17:20-22. What do you get out of contrasting these two messages?
- Compare John’s message to what the people were coming to him for in Matthew 3:5-6?
- What do you think fruits of repentance look like in Matthew 3:8?
- What is the connection between verse 8 and 10?
- What do these scriptures have to say about the necessity of both repentance and fruit?
- Forget about what you have heard about Jesus’ two baptisms, what does the context have to say about the two types of baptisms Jesus will perform in Matthew 3:11-12?
- What do you think Jesus means when He says that John baptizing hims is necessary to fulfill all righteousness Matthew 3:13-17?
Matthew 4: 1-17
Satan Tempts Jesus
4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:
‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’
‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not [a]tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus said to him, [b]“Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”
11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry
12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He departed to Galilee. 13 And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles:
16 The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light,
And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death
Light has dawned.”
17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven [c]is at hand.”
- From what we learn about the ministry of Christ from the bible, why would the Spirit have lead Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the devil (Hebrews 4:15)?
- What are your thoughts on the significance of Jesus’ response in the first temptation that “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:3-4 and Deuteronomy 8:2-3.
- In the second temptation for Jesus to cast himself down, how was the devil trying to get at Jesus to cause him to stumble and how did Jesus respond? Try to get inside the reason for Jesus’ response.
- Contrast the devils plan for Jesus to have it all in the 3rd temptation vs. the Father’s plan reveal in Philippians 2:5-11
- How did Jesus’ message in Matthew 4:17 compare with John’s message in Matthew 3:2?
Matthew 4: 18-25
Four Fishermen Called as Disciples
18 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
21 Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, 22 and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
Jesus Heals a Great Multitude
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. 24 Then [a]His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. 25 Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from [b]Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
- What was the context in which Jesus was healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people?
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From May to November it is time to harvest. Knowing what to do is important to bring to the table healthy and unwrinkled fruits and, above all, for a longer storage. To harvest we must first know that there are fruits that ripen even after being detached from the plant and others that interrupt the ripening process as soon as they are harvested. The day must be dry as well as the fruits: never harvest after the rain. During summer, the best time is given by the early morning hours, when the dew has dried; During spring and autumn, the late morning; During winter, the midday. The ripening of fruit is triggered by a vegetable origin hormone called ethylene. After being harvested, some fruits, called climacteric, still produce high ethylene quantity carrying out and speeding up cellular respiration and so the ripening. | <urn:uuid:193a607a-2e39-40d3-b728-b61e0e3634f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agricoladirosa.it/en/processing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.976603 | 174 | 3.328125 | 3 |
|This article is about an older version of DF.|
A honeycomb is a material collected from a hive. Once the hive contains a colony of honey bees it will eventually create a honeycomb (a single hive will produce exactly two honeycombs a year). The honeycomb will then be harvested by a dwarf with the beekeeping labor active if the hive is set to "gather any products" and empty jugs are available. The jug is needed for the royal jelly that is also produced in the process. Note that actual harvesting and further transport (to a stockpile or screw press) are separate processes, only the first needs to be done by the beekeeper; the harvested honeycomb may remain in the hive.
Honeycombs are categorized as a tool. If you want to make a honeycomb-only stockpile, enable "tools" under finished goods and "wax" as the only acceptable material.
Honeycombs are by default stored in finished goods stockpiles and can be stored in bins.
The only honeycombs currently implemented are from bees, called honey bee wax honeycomb. Bumble bee honeycombs do not exist. Bumble bees in reality do store food, but nowhere near as much as honey bees and their colonies are much smaller. It may or may not be a bug.
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As part of UNESCO’s efforts to promote cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, this study was initiated in order to gain a better understanding on cultural identity’s uses and abuses, as corollary of diversity. For a cultural identity to be more than just a slogan, it must evolve creatively over time. Since relations between groups are always evolving, the challenge is how to guide this evolution in a creative and sustainable manner. This is the key to the idea of sustainable dialogue, which prepares people to recognize, appreciate, criticize and celebrate cultural diversity in all its forms.Based on experiences of communal conflict in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Zimbabwe, the study explores cultural diversity and conflict prevention and resolution practices. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the role played by cultural expressions and identities in triggering or exacerbating conflicts based on factors of nationality, ethnicity, religion or language. Furthermore, the study explores the viability of tools and resources available to foster intercultural dialogue and thereby prevent or resolve conflicts between different cultures. More precisely, it makes suggestions regarding the establishment of an Observatory or a Network of observers that would be responsible for analysing the ways in which cultural diversity could be seen as an asset in Southern Africa and beyond. | <urn:uuid:daa8d85b-a708-4a47-adf9-d814bd910b0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://education4resilience.iiep.unesco.org/resources/2008/learning-live-together-sub-saharan-africa-linking-cultural-diversity-conflict | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929138 | 265 | 2.859375 | 3 |
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