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The Lanterns Display
We have decided to go ahead with our Annual St. Andrew’s Eve Lantern Festival on Saturday November 28th. It will not take the form of a procession and nor will it be ending in the Church. What we are planning though is another community event supporting everyone through this difficult year and bringing a bit of brightness and sparkle to the village in November just prior to the Christmas season. There will be further details in next month’s magazine.
Now when was that built?
Some of the older buildings in the village have whole files recording their history but when it comes to new developments there are plenty of photographs but not much in the way of documentary evidence. Here is a list of some dates from 1970 onwards mapping out some of the many changes to the village over this period. The 50s and 60s saw a splurge of building in the village incorporating Cooke Drive, Barn Park Close, Court gate Close, Luscombe Close and Clampitt Close amongst others. Mayfair Road was another still not quite completed by 1970.
1970 The Primary school moved from the Methodist Church to Biltor Road.
1974 The Roman Catholic Church was built on the site of the present-day St. Mary’s Close.
1978 Pick and Park was developed.
1981 Ipplepen Bowling Club opened
1984 The Dornafield Drive East estate was started
1986 The Danish Bakery moved across into the Spar shop (the current Co-op)
1986 The Cricket Club moved from the Playing Fields to Moor Road
1986/87 Caunters Close developed
1987 The Glebe was built
1988 The Crokers Way development started
1990 Wheelie Bins were introduced
I will add the period post 1990 next month.
We have spent some of the lockdown period updating the photographic archive. Many of these are shared on social media and will be familiar to you but some of the photographs from the 1948 Carnival provide an excellent slice of social history. You can enjoy these photos at any time on www.ipplepenlocalhistory.org.uk | <urn:uuid:09508615-22d4-4d28-a283-fe1a105253cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipplepenlocalhistory.org.uk/september-2020-newsletter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958938 | 433 | 1.570313 | 2 |
I was thinking about portraits the other day, partly because of the “Making Faces” show currently going on at the Society of Illustrators, partly because I had just received a copy of Brian Movies that features Iain McCaig’s portrait of Harlan Ellison on the cover, partly because I noted the sale at auction recently of what, to me, was a not-terribly-good painting of Robert Silverberg by the late Ed Emshwiller.
What makes a successful portrait, particularly when the subject is a writer? The answer that immediately comes to mind is: personality. If the artist is able to capture something of who the writer is, not merely what they look like, and elicit responses from viewers and which prompts conversation… then there’s a good chance of creating art, not just a painted version of Glamour Shots.
Now, I’ve never really heard of any controversy surrounding a genre writer’s portrait; certainly nothing like the brew-ha surrounding John Singer Sargent’s painting of Madame Gautreau aka “Madam X.” The flip-side is that I’ve heard very few people say anything positive about some of the clever SFF writer portraits that have been done… so I think I’ll point out a few.
Michael Whelan‘s portrait of Isaac Asimov. Since Asimov devised the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac’s AI companion is appropriate.
Edgar Allan Poe
Above, a pair of scratchboard pieces by Mark Summers: Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe respectively. Below, Michael Deas‘s portrait of Edgar Allan Poe for the U.S. Postal Service won a Spectrum silver medal.
Rowena Morrill’s painting of Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon joked at the time that she had made him look too puny.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Robert A. Heinlein
George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin as painted by Anita Kunz.
Neil Gaiman, painted by life-long collaborator Dave Mckean.
Frank Herbert, author of Dune, by Greg Manchess.
Ursula K. Le Guin
David Levin created hundreds of drawings for the New York Times Book Review like the ones seen above.
Anita Kunz‘s painting of Anne Rice.
Expanded from the original article on Muddy Colors.
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How do I combine 4 columns?
Use the CONCATENATE function:
- Use the CONCATENATE function in column D: =CONCATENATE(A1,B1,C1).
- In the menu bar, select Insert, Function. Click Text functions and select CONCATENATE.
- Enter A1 in the text1 field, B1 in the text2 field, and C1 in the text3 field.
- Click OK. …
- Copy and paste for as many records as needed.
How do I merge columns in SQL?
SELECT SOME_OTHER_COLUMN, CONCAT(FIRSTNAME, ‘,’, LASTNAME) AS FIRSTNAME FROM `customer`; Using * means, in your results you want all the columns of the table. In your case * will also include FIRSTNAME . You are then concatenating some columns and using alias of FIRSTNAME .
How do I merge two columns?
Merge two columns using Excel formulas
- Insert a new column into your table. …
- In cell D2, write the following formula: =CONCATENATE(B2,” “,C2) …
- Copy the formula to all other cells of the Full Name column. …
- Well, we have combined the names from 2 columns in to one, but this is still the formula.
How do I concatenate multiple columns in SQL Server?
SQL Server CONCAT() Function
- Add two strings together: SELECT CONCAT(‘W3Schools’, ‘.com’);
- Add 3 strings together: SELECT CONCAT(‘SQL’, ‘ is’, ‘ fun!’ );
- Add strings together (separate each string with a space character): SELECT CONCAT(‘SQL’, ‘ ‘, ‘is’, ‘ ‘, ‘fun!’ );
How do I merge two columns of data in SQL Server?
To merge two columns value as one, we can concatenate it as one and use alias for that value. This is the simplest way to do it. Here the combination of FirstName and LastName is separated by a blank space and given as FullName.
How do I merge two tables in SQL?
- use the keyword UNION to stack datasets without duplicate values.
- use the keyword UNION ALL to stack datasets with duplicate values.
- use the keyword INNER JOIN to join two tables together and only get the overlapping values.
What is MERGE command in SQL?
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Can you concatenate in SQL?
SQL string functions are used to manipulate the character expressions or to obtain various information about them. … CONCAT function is a SQL string function that provides to concatenate two or more than two character expressions into a single string.
How do I concatenate two columns in SQL Developer?
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How’s my life going with a cochlear implant (CI)?
Well, for starters—although I can’t speak for other recipients—it’s a lot LOUDER.
All sounds are louder: the ones that I recognize as well as new ones that, without any visual clues, I need help in identifying. Luckily, there are trained people standing by for this job. For years, my family, friends and I have been playing a game familiar to any person affected by hearing loss—Whazzat?, short for What’s That Sound?
And now, thanks to my new bimodal hearing (I wear a ReSound LiNX2 hearing aid on my left and a Cochlear Kanso Sound Processor on my right), we’re playing Whazzat a lot. All the time, actually. But my family and friends don’t mind telling me what I’m hearing, because they know if they don’t, I’ll keep pestering them—and possibly leave them for a nicer group of loved ones. Besides, playing Whazzat let’s them show off their good hearing; they also enjoy my reaction to the excruciating sound of people chewing potato chips.
But at only 32 days since activation, most familiar sounds bear little resemblance to how I hear them acoustically through my hearing aid. The voices of strangers sound curiously alike, as if they’re crying while they speak. What I hear do hear clearly, however, are those high frequency sibilant sounds. Think of the hiss of snakes and steam and the grocery checkout woman who asks “do you want bagss-SSS?” I groan f I’ve forgotten my sound-less cloth bags in the car; paper bags are noisy enough, but the loud crackling of plastic bags has become my Most Annoying Sound ever. In Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing, my friend Bev Biderman writes about her surprise at their harshness—she had expected that they “rustled softly in peace.”
On the plus side, I can hear butter melting in a pan—yes, yellow makes a sound! I hear water running in a sink which lessens the chance of my flooding the kitchen again. And after years of theatre-going, I now understand the fuss about people opening candy wrappers during the show. I hereby apologize to anyone, ever, who has suffered because of my oblivious, thunderous opening of candy and chips at the movies.
I’m also hearing lots barmping. ‘Barmp’ is what Newfoundlanders do when they lean on their car horn. Say ‘barmp’ out loud, drawing out the “arrr”. What you just said—ba-aar-rmp—perfectly describes what I’m hearing through my CI.
Me (in my dad’s house): Whazzat?
Louise, my sister: The fridge coming on.
Me: Oh, good heavens, WHAZZAT?
Louise: Dad listening to the obituaries on the radio. (Loudly. With organ music. But he’s 90 and losing friends fast; who’s going to ask him to turn it down?)
Me (in the car with the Hearing Husband): Whazzat?
HH: What’s what?
Me: That ba-aar-rmp!
HH: The car motor. And air brakes on big trucks. Also, drivers barmping their horns.
Me: That’s a lot of barmping.
There are exciting moments when I identify a sound all by myself. On a walk with the Hearing Husband, I heard a chittering sound, like birdies over there in the bushes. He said no, look up, it’s Canada geese flying over. I said I could hear them barmping, this was something different. He listened—and there were little birdies in the bush. Score one for Gaelie!
Nature is wonderful but so is the technical marvel of complementary devices that work with my cochlear implant and hearing aid. My smartphone rings directly in in my ears through the help of my Cochlear Phone Clip; I must look odd, jumping up for seemingly no reason and running around to find my phone. (I can’t locate it by sound, can I? It’s ringing in my ears!)
I also have an up-close-and-personal relationship with the Cochlear Mini Microphone, which is paired with both my CI and hearing aid. I plug it into my laptop to watch streamed movies and TV series, leaving me free to do yoga stretches while I watch, if I wanted to, which I usually don’t. (Previously, using my hearing aid’s telecoil and neck loop, I would occasionally forget that I was attached to the computer and, getting up suddenly, I would just about self-decapitate.)
As part of my daily aural rehab with my CI, I watch shows that are well-articulated and well-captioned and the voices are now starting to sound richer and truer, although there’s still a pervasive hissy-ness and barmping quality. Sound effects are getting better with every “listen” but music remains a challenge; I get the real high frequency percussion, but the other instruments and voices are off key, with no resemblance to how my memory of how the songs should sound.
In other breaking news—when someone covers their mouth and gives me numbers from 1 to 999, I’m doing very well, if I do say so myself, although ffff and thhhh sound the same, making some words difficult to identify. To think that a hearing person can tell the difference, without peeking, makes me feel almost anxious. I can’t imagine ever doing that. Can all hearing people differentiate between nnnn and nggg?
My father always told me it’s good to have goals. (Actually, he said it’s good to want things—which meant he wasn’t going to buy me whatever it was I wanted.) But the more I practice listening and hearing with my new devices, the clearer my goals become. And I’ve got a lot of resources, both human and technical, to achieve them.
Next in the Changing Cochleas series: Part 7, Service, Service, Service!
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If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by “p.” for a single page and pp. for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash).
Which of the following is a rule for quoting long chunks of poetry?
When quoting verse, maintain original line breaks. (You should maintain double-spacing throughout your essay.) When citing long sections of poetry (four lines of verse or more), keep formatting as close to the original as possible.
Which is the best general rule for using brackets?
Use square brackets to include words within a quote that are not part of the original quote. For example, if a quoted passage is not entirely clear, words enclosed in square brackets can be added to clarify the meaning.
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Communication Network Management
In the telecoms industry, the process of digital transformation is well established. Successive generations of network infrastructure (presently manifested in the rollout of 5G mobile) have delivered the platform on which digital services can be delivered. However, a common challenge remains. Commonality suggests the nub of it lies in a foundational change in how an organization delivers value to its customers. While that definition may suffice if we’re painting a picture with only the broadest of brushes the reality is unsurprisingly more complex. For a start, Digital Transformation has at least two familiar components; first, the transformation of networks or systems so that they support digitalised business processes and secondly, the transformation of the processes themselves.
What is Digital Transformation in telecoms? – The helicopter view
In the telecoms industry, the process of digital transformation is well established. Successive generations of network infrastructure (presently manifested in the rollout of 5G mobile) have delivered the platform on which digital services can be delivered. However, a common challenge remains. All too often across the industry, the delivery (and therefore promise) of digital services hasn’t caught up. Look at it through the prism of a metaphor to clearly understand the landscape. Telcos have invested millions in a supersonic jet that shaves half the time off a flight to New York. But frequently, they’re flying it at sub-sonic speeds. Where’s the sense in that? Many CSPs have thus only partially digitally transformed themselves. They’ve got the kit, but they’re failing to use it to maximal effect.
What is Digital Transformation in telecoms? – Under the hood
Let’s backtrack a little, however, and take a deeper dive into what digital transformation involves. Leading industry body, the TeleManagement Forum, suggests that it involves the following:
- A shift from discrete network elements to an independently managed, virtualised communications and cloud infrastructure. The benefit here is a shift from expensive and hard-to-manage discrete network elements to a virtualised environment that’s easily more run at a far lower cost. The first manifestations of this transition were driven by Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networking.
- The move to uniformly orchestrated security. Digital services have higher security requirements, so security needs to support the full technology stack, the data, the service creation process, the partners, and the physical environment. The increasing importance of IoT adds to this challenge.
- Changes in data usage, from limited to a uniformly orchestrated, data-driven enterprise. Central to the digitally transformed telco is a consistent approach to the collection, analysis, distribution, security, and monetization of data collected from multiple sources. Digital success is largely dependent on how well data is leveraged, both for internal business optimization and external monetization.
- The emergence of an Open API platform architecture. Digital transformation means an end to traditional telco closed IT architectures. Open platforms and easily accessible APIs are required to support the development of both internally developed own-brand services, and externally developed third-party services.
- The service revolution, meaning a diverse portfolio of digital services. Digital transformation means telcos expanding their service portfolios to offer new suites of digital services, addressing new vertical markets, with strong revenue growth potential.
- Building and supporting a vibrant ecosystem of partners. Transformation means CSPs ceding control of traditional relationships with vendors and partners and replacing it with a more diverse ecosystem in which partner relationships are managed in new ways.
- Replacing a limited set of business models with multiple, innovating business models across the market. It’s critical for telcos to develop new flexibility in how they create value for both themselves and their partners. This means new operational models and new business processes are table stakes.
- Culture change. Taking all of the above into account, culture change – the shift from being a traditional, network-centric organisation to partner-driven, diverse service portfolio company requires a totally new mindset, particularly to compete effectively with OTT players.
- Abandoning tradition and leveraging new ways to market. Digital Transformation revolutionises how telcos sell. Fining new communications and partner channels to drive the CSP’s brand, maximize digital services and products revenues, is critical to success.
- 360-degree omnichannel customer experience must replace traditional, more limited, relationships. User expectations increase in the digital world and to meet them, seamless, integrated experiences must be supported if the telco is to accrue benefits in increased customer satisfaction and reduced customer churn.
Why is digital transformation important?
All of this, of course, matters. The success of infrastructure investment to support Digital Transformation is ultimately measured in ROI. And just as its pointless buying the supersonic jet we referred to earlier and then flying it manually (tip: you won’t sell any more tickets with that business model), so the investment in progressive digital network technology falls far short of achieving the impact it should have if it’s not used to drive fundamental business process change. We’ve seen that at base level digital transformation has the power to make your customers happier so the question is, why are so many telcos who could do that still falling short of the mark, despite increasingly having digital infrastructures in place?
What are the benefits of digital transformation?
This brings us to an enumeration of the benefits of Digital Transformation which, by now, should already be clear. Foremost among them are:
The promise of Digital Transformation is that it delivers an easier life via technology (think social media, apps, and so on). Customers are helped to address problems quickly and efficiently. This means re-designing digitized customer journeys, increasing the speed and agility with which insights are accrued, driving the adoption of these new journeys by customers, and providing agility within the journeys themselves.
Arguably the greatest benefit of Digital Transformation is the ability to track metrics and analyze data surrounding the customer relationship. Doing this means gaining insights that let telcos optimise their strategies and process to achieve ever-better results. To do this, telcos need to leverage both structured and unstructured data and use it in both innovative and decisive ways. The reward is dramatically increased RoI.
When pretty much all a business processes and strategies are re-invented, organizational culture change is the inevitable by-product. While Digital Transformation may be a demanding process, the telco that emerges from it successfully will be better placed than ever before to compete effectively in the modern, commercial landscape.
Fast and continual improvement in the ability to both to meet customer needs and to operate effectively are fundamental benefit of Digital Transformation. As a result, the ability to adapt to market changes and lead in innovation are inevitable by-products of the shift. Success in the digital landscape translates exactly to the degree of agility enabled.
Successful Digital Transformation means staying ahead of the curve in an exponentially changing landscape where Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, advances in Analytics, and other trends are coming into play at pace. These are opportunities the telco must leverage to protect and expand itself both now and, even more importantly in the short-term future.
Digital Transformation brings both workforces and technology together to better connect with both customers and prospects. This creates an organization that is outward- rather than inward-looking and in so doing focuses the organisation precisely on commercial success.
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Based on lists originally compiled by doctormojo,
Not to worry folks, no need to buy or read them
all. In fact only a couple of these editions are even
available anymore. This is just to give an idea of some of
the editions the book has gone through over the
DAS SECHSTE UND SIEBENTE BUCH MOSIS
Abt. 6 in "Bibliotek der Zauber-Geheimniss und Offenbarungs-Bucher", edited by J. Scheible (Stuttgart, 1849)
Personal Author: Scheible, Johann. Title: Das sechste und siebente Buch Mosis : das ist, Mosis magische Geisterkunst : das Geheimniss aller Geheimnisse : sammt den verdeutschten Offenbarungen und Vorschriften wunderbarster Art der alten weisen Hebräer, aus den Mosaischen Büchern, der Kabbala und dem Talmud zum leiblichen Wohl der Menschen / [hrsg. von Johann Scheible] ; Wort- und Bildgetreu nach alten Handschriften, mit 42 Tafeln. Edition: Vierte, sehr vermehrte Auflage. Publication info: New-York : In Commission bei Wm. Radde, 1857. Physical descrip: 408 p. : ill. ; 17 cm. Subject: Magic, Semitic. Subject: Cabala. Added title: Mosis magische Geisterkunst. UP-SPECCOL CALL NUMBER COPY MATERIAL LOCATION 1)BF1613.S4 1857 1 BOOK STAPLETON
3. Scheible, 1865. (German), contributed by JHP.
TITLE: Das sechste und siebente Buch Mosis, das ist: Mosis magische Geisterkunst, das Geheimniss aller Geheimnisse. Sammt den verdeutschten Offenbarungen und Vorschriften wunderbarster Art der alten weisen Hebrer, aus den Mosaischen Bchern, der Kabbala und den Talmud zum leiblichen Wohl der Menschen. Wort- und bildgetreu nach alten Handschriften mit 42 Tafeln. Alternate Title: Coleô Cabala. Selections. German. Edition: 8., sehr verm. Aufl. Imprint: New York, Wm. Radde, 1865. Description: 408 p. illus. 16 cm. Subjects: Magic, Jewish. Other Titles: American imprints. 1865. Talmud. Selections. German. Bible. O.T. Heptateuch. Selections. German. Call Number: 296.59 G32 1865 LOCATION: St. John's University (Alcuin)
4. First English Edition:
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES,
that is: Moses' magical spirit-art, together with the wonderful arts of the old wise Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the good of mankind. Translated from the German, word for word, according to old writings, with numerous engravings. (Elizabethville, Pennsylvania: Victor Printing Company, 1880)
More information as follows from Penn State University archives, cited by firstname.lastname@example.org:
Personal Author: Scheible, Johann. Uniform title: [Sechste und siebente buch Mosis. English] Title: The sixth and seventh books of Moses, or, Moses' magical spirit-art : known as the wonderful arts of the old wise Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the good of mankind / translated from the German, word for word, according to old writings ; with numerous engravings. Publication info: [New York : s.n., 1880]. Physical descrip: 64, 128 p. : illus. (facsims.) ; 19 cm. General Note: Originally published at Stuttgart in 1849 under title "Das sechste und siebente buch Mosis" as "theil" 6 in his "Bibliothek der zauber-, geheimniss- und offenbarungs-bücher...herausgegeben von J. Scheible". Subject: Magic, Semitic. Subject: Cabala. Added author: Moses (Biblical leader) Added title: Moses' magical spirit-art. UP-SPECCOL CALL NUMBER COPY MATERIAL LOCATION 1)BF1613.S413 1880 1 BOOK ALLISON-SH
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES: The Mystery of All Mysteries. (Chicago: L.W. deLaurence & Co., 1910. Reprinted many times.)
This edition is my personal favorite. Nicely bound hardcover with decent illustrations of the seals. Sadly, it seems to have finally gone out of print within the last decade.
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES,
or, Moses' Magical Spirit-Art Chicago: Egyptian Publishing Company, 1900. Reprinted 1972 by Health Research Press, Mokelumne Hill, CA and 1997 by Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Kila, MT)
This edition featured a 15-page appendix on "Astrological Influence upon Man and Magical Cures of the Old Hebrews" excerpted from a 19th century German work on the subject, and not found in any of the other English editions to my knowledge. Original Egyptian Publishing Co. edition now long out of print and quite scarce. The Health Research reprint is a poor quality spiral-bound photocopy, but worth acquiring for the appendix, although it too appears to have since gone out of print. I have not personally seen the Kessinger reprint, but it is currently available from both the publisher (www.kessinger-publishing.com) and Amazon.com. [NOTE: This appendix is included in the German 1865 edition, pp. 371 ff. -JHP]
THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES, Complete Edition by Lady Dale (Philadelphia: Lady Dale's Curio Shop. No date given, probably 1980s?)
Inexpensive ($3.00), slightly enlarged (and therefore more easily read), offset reproduction of deLaurence edition. Probably out of print by now.
THE NEW REVISED SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES AND THE MAGICAL USES OF THE PSALMS, edited by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler (Bronx, New York: Original Publications, 1982)
A disappointment in most respects. The editor added no information beyond a brief 2-page preface and a few "editor's notes" of limited value, and abridged the section on "The Magic of The Israelites". On the positive side, she did repaginate so the seals appear on the same page as they are described. Images of the seals reproduced extremely poorly in the 1982 edition, somewhat better in more recent reprints. Widely available, but not recommended except as an adjunct to more complete editions.
THE 6TH AND 7TH BOOKS OF MOSES, with an Introduction by Paul Tice. (Escondido, CA: Book Tree, 1999)
I just found out about this one from Amazon.com today. Probably the most recent edition to date, but I have not seen it and cannot vouch for its completeness ot the quality of reproduction of the seals. Available direct from the publisher (www.thebooktree.com), Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble online. If anyone in the club should acquire this one, please post and tell us about it!
El Sexto y Séptimo Libro de Moisés
El Arte Espiritual Mágico de Moisés
The editor is,
Editora y Distribuidora Mexicana
Apartado Postal 1975 (This is the zip code)
Mexico 1, D.F.
Printed on June 7 1976 in the Talleres Cooperativa Modelo, S.C.L. Comofort 44-Mexico 2, D.F. This edition count with 5,000 copies.
It seems to be a translation of the New York 1800 version, the chapters follows that order and it has the same horrendous images.
Even worse, since it seems that the Mexican editors also misplaced some images and translate some words in an inadequate form, for example the call of Leviathan is translated as the call of the dawn this is Levantino for Leviathan.
1. "Aima" (Elinor Mary Person), PERFUME OILS, CANDLES, SEALS, AND INCENSE. (Foibles Publications, no date, probably 1970s?)
The best book about how to work with the seals. Includes suggestions for type and color candle and anointing oil to use with each seal for particular purposes. If you only acquire one book on the subject apart from the text itself, make it this one! Possibly still available from occult shops and mail order houses. Try The Cloverhorn Company in Washington DC, Indio Products in Los Angeles, or the Lucky Mojo Curio Company.
Not as good as 1 above. Identifies each seal and its traditional name and use.
Not as good as either 1 or 2 above, but useful as additional reference in conjunction with 1.
Many of the spells make use of the seals, but not indexed to the seals.
The chapter on Conjure Bags lists examples of which seals can be used in which kinds of bags for which purpose.
Definitely well worth acquiring and reading, but needs to be understood as a personal magical perspective by another magician working with the book and its seals and the magical legend and lore surrounding it. Not a substitute for developing one's own personal magical perspective on the book in the course of working with it. What I like about this one: (1) draws connection between the Tarot and the Book of Thoth in the Moses legends, (2)creative use of the Seal of Orion as the base upon which the other seals are anointed. What I don't like about it: (1) a bit too sanctimonious and dogmatic for my personal taste, and (2) only deals with a small portion of the seals.
Actually, this is a short (45 pages) compendium of rubrics and instructions drawn without attribution from the Key of Solomon and other grimoires. My guess is that it may represent materials the author used in his own personal magical experiments to supplement the often fragmentary technical instructions given in the 6th & 7th Books of Moses itself. Out of print, may be acquired as a curio if you run across a copy available inexpensively. Of some interest are the two curious seals given as figures 40 and 41, which I have not seen in any other grimoire to date. TRIVIA NOTE: Cassiel's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BLACK MAGIC confuses this book with the actual 6th & 7th Books of Moses in it's rather derogatory section "Lost Books of Moses".
1. Henri Gamache, MYSTERY OF THE LONG LOST 8TH, 9TH, AND 10TH BOOKS OF MOSES, Together With The Legend That Was of Moses and 44 Secret Keys to Universal Power. (Bronx, New York: Original Publications, 1983. Reprint of orig. pub. c.1940)
Fascinating historical and legendary speculation on Moses as Magician or, as Gamach puts it, "The Great Voodoo Man of The Bible". Establishes links between Moses and the Hermetic Tradition via the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri. Highly recommended!
Historical novel of the life of Moses by a famous American black writer known for her studies of Afro-American and Carribean magic and folklore (see other Hurston books in BIBLIOGRAPHY #4). Cited by Gamache in 1 above. Incorporates many Middle Eastern and African magical egends about Moses not found in canonical sources.
1. Zora Neale Hurston, MULES AND MEN (New York: Harper, 1990. Orig. pub. J.B. Lippincott, 1935)
Hurston's study of Afro-American folklore, including extensive discussion of Hoodoo, root work and conjuration.
Hurston's study of Voodoo in Haiti and Obeah in Jamaica.
Misleadingly titled, this book is actually about Hoodoo rather than Voodoo, and contains much interesting anecdotal information, including a few descriptions of the uses of the seals in old New Orleans folk magic.
1. Butler, Elizabeth M. RITUAL MAGIC. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Orig. pub. 1949)
Second volume of Prof. Butler's trilogy of works on the history of the Faust legend, this one deals extensively with the "Faustian School" of ceremonial magic in Reformation Germany, out of which emerged some of the magical texts eventually compiled into the 6th & 7th Books of Moses in its present form. Of particular interest is her commentary on the planetary attributions of the Seven Great Prices of the Tabella Rabellinae.
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- Part 4 of the Summary Offences Act 1988 (NSW) gives participants in a public assembly protection from prosecution for participating in that assembly but the Police Commissioner can apply under s 25(1) of the Act for an order prohibiting an otherwise authorised public assembly.
- In Commissioner of Police v Keep Sydney Open NSWSC 5 the Commissioner successfully obtained such a prohibition order in a last-minute application.
- The case highlights a number of weaknesses in the current statutory framework.
In the recent decision of NSW Commissioner of Police v Keep Sydney Open Ltd NSWSC 5, anti-lockouts advocacy organisation Keep Sydney Open Ltd (‘KSO’) had planned to hold a rally in Kings Cross on 21 January 2017 to protest the NSW government’s ‘lockout laws’, a series of provisions of the Liquor Act 2007 (NSW) and the Liquor Regulation 2008 (NSW) which restrict trading times and conditions for venues licensed to sell alcohol.
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Talking with a lot of executives at multinational companies interested in expanding their business presence in Nigeria, I learned that one of the main issues they have is finding a good and credible distributor or agent to help them reach their business goals in Nigeria. International companies in Nigeria like using local third-party logistics services and partners (3PLs) as a way to enter the Nigerian market while mitigating their risk and exposure.
Based on the numerous requests to find a distributor, I decided to write about some of the major challenges of distribution in Nigeria. Although these challenges vary from sector to sector – distribution of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) products differ from the distribution of medical devices – the challenges listed below are the main challenges that cut across most sectors especially as it pertains to Business-To-Business (B2B) distribution in Nigeria.
Here are the top 5 challenges:
Beauracracy and Red Tape: Although Nigeria has access to a coastal line that should make international trading easy, getting your product into Nigeria can be very challenging. Customs and port authorities can make it very difficult for businesses to get their goods cleared at the port. The Lagos port complex in Apapa, Lagos is the biggest port in the country and that is where most imports come through. Deciphering the regulatory environment can take time and bureaucratic red tape can leave executives frustrated even before their products leave the port and hit the roads.
Bad Roads & High transportation cost: It is not an understatement to say that the roads in Nigeria are not in very good shape for efficient distribution. Nigeria is no different from other frontier markets that struggle with inadequate infrastructure. Bad roads significantly increase transportation cost for distributors. This cost of transportation is further increased because of a fragmented market that is not always connected to the major road networks. So depending on your product and where your customer is, the distribution challenges are heightened when the consumer is not in a major city and is not connected to the major road networks. Learn more about the distribution and transportation network in Nigeria.
Warehousing & Inventory Management: After overcoming the challenge of getting your product into the country and the difficulty of navigating the bad roads, the next challenge is storage and inventory management. Some distributors do not have the appropriate warehouse infrastructure for the products that they distribute. For instance, perishable goods that have to be stored in cold rooms will suffer from the inconsistent power supply that affects every Nigerian business. Because of high storage cost, some distributors outsource their warehousing, exposing their international partners to additional risk. There is also a lack of visibility into the market because distributors lack the required information technology infrastructure, making it difficult for management to keep proper track of stock levels and to share that information with partners in the market.
Demand Planning, Sales & Marketing: Closely linked to the lack of information is the challenge that distributors have with forecasting demand and meeting their sales goals. Along with fluctuating costs and a devalued currency (Naira), distributors in Nigeria struggle to get their hands on foreign exchange. This makes it difficult for some distributors to bring in goods at a consistent and steady rate to meet the demand for the product. This is also compounded by the lack of market information and an inconsistent marketing strategy that does not allow the product to secure a dominant and secure position in the market. This is particularly frustrating for both the distributors and their international partner. The international company is unhappy about inadequate sales. The distributor, on the other hand, is frustrated with the lack of marketing and sales support from the international company. The less information shared between all stakeholders involved, the less successful the distribution strategy is.
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Here we will discuss how auto parts stores can enhance your physical security. It discusses the importance of these stores and how they can help you protect yourself from an intruder or a potential thief.
Auto parts stores are not just for auto repair anymore. They are also a good place to get a new lock, alarm system, or even a security camera. The article also talks about the importance of picking up spare car keys in case someone steals them and how you can use them to gain access to your car without having to call for help.
What is an Automotive Parts Store and How They Are Inherently Safer than Brick & Mortar Auto Stores?
Automotive parts stores are inherently safer than brick and mortar auto stores. They are more secure because they don’t have overhead costs for a physical building. They also don’t have the same risks of theft, vandalism, and human error that brick and mortar auto stores do.
An automotive parts store is a physical location where automotive parts are sold, serviced, or repaired. It may also be referred to as an auto dealership or a car dealership depending on what type of business it is. Automotive dealerships sell new cars as well as used cars while car dealerships typically specialize in selling new cars only – sometimes with used cars mixed in depending on the region or location. Buy holographic sights online from Palmetto State Armory to enhance physical security of auto parts store.
The advantages of an automotive parts store over a brick and mortar auto store include not having to worry about overhead costs such as rent
AI Physical Security vs AI Automotive Parts: How to Choose the Best fit for Your Company?
AI physical security and automotive parts are two of the most popular AI use cases. Both AI-based products are used by companies to improve their businesses. However, they both have different uses and applications.
The role of AI in physical security is to help companies detect anomalies in the environment that might indicate a potential threat. The role of AI in automotive parts is to help companies find the best fit for their needs. They can also assist them with finding new suppliers at scale and make sure that they are getting the best deals possible.
A key factor when it comes to choosing between these two use cases is whether your company needs one or both of them or not. If you need both, then it would be better if you chose a company that specializes in both fields so that you get a more customized experience.
How to Find the Best Automotive Supply Dealers Near You with an AI-Driven Search Engine
Let’s say you want to buy a new car. You would probably start with looking for the best deals on cars, right? And then you’d make a list of the different dealerships near you. But how do you know which one is the best? It can be difficult to find out, especially if there are many dealerships in your area.
Here, we will discuss how AI has been used to make searches easier and more efficient. We will also talk about how this search engine works and what it can do for consumers when they are looking for automotive supplies deals near them.
As humans, we are limited by our cognitive abilities but with AI tools like machine learning and deep learning algorithms, we have been able to create an automated system that does not require as
The Benefits of Using AI in the Automotive Industry from Technology Providers and Retailers
The automotive industry is undergoing a major change. With the advent of new technologies, customers are able to get better car deals.
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A 2011 Vitaminwater ad is making the rounds on social media again, prompting renewed cries against the company for its "irresponsible" marketing practices.
The colorful advertisement in question depicts three bottles of Vitaminwater in different flavors and touts the beverage's alleged health benefits, such as "more immunity" and "less snotty tissues."
Dubious health claims aside, it's the tagline of the ad that really seems to have people angry.
"Flu shots are so last year," the poster asserts, implying Vitaminwater can perhaps stave off the often-deadly disease as well as a vaccination can.
Although the promotion is nearly a decade old, that didn't stop people on Twitter from recirculating an image of the ad in horror.
"Someone please tell me this isn’t real," one man wrote, urging consumers not to take health advice from "Snapple fridge doors" and, instead, consult their physicians. "Flu shots save lives. Vitamin water does not."
— Jack Turban MD 🏳️🌈 🧠 (@jack_turban) November 13, 2019
"This is irresponsible marketing," wrote another man, who tagged the company in his message.
— Daniel Harrell (@danielbharrell) November 13, 2019
A Vitaminwater spokesperson confirmed to In The Know that the ad in question has not been in circulation since 2011.
"This ad was done in poor taste and should have never been issued," the representative added.
When the ad was first released, the National Consumers League (NCL) slammed Glaceau, the maker of Vitaminwater, calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to intervene and prevent it from making such "dangerously misleading" claims.
"These advertising claims are not only untrue; they constitute a public health menace," NCL executive director Sally Greenberg said at the time. "Stopping these Vitaminwater claims, which contradict information by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other public health authorities, should be a top FTC priority."
The CDC recommends everyone 6 months of age and older get vaccinated every flu season (which roughly begins in November each year and can last as late as May), as multiple strains of the influenza virus, constantly changing, make their way across the world. Each year, a new flu vaccine is made to protect against three or four viruses that are likely to cause illness in the upcoming flu season, the agency notes.
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Protecting Yourself from Fake News and Hoaxes
1. What are Hoaxes and Fake News?
2. Infodemics: How to Spot a Lie
3. Is it true? – Fact Check
4. Don't Be the One Spreading Lies.
5. Hoax and Fake News Roundup from Around the World
6. In Summary
7. Reference Websites
- What are Hoaxes and Fake News?
The original meaning is propaganda and incitement for popular manipulation by dēmagōgos (leaders of the people, politicians who in turn incite the people) in ancient Greek ※1
It means intentional, inflammatory false information, and the sender aims to inflame people's feelings or cause them to take some action by disseminating it.
There is global debate over the definition, but the policy document states:
All forms of false, inaccurate, or misleading information designed, presented and promoted to intentionally cause public harm or for profit.
– EU High Level Expert Group (HLEG) Report
The deliberate creation and sharing of false and/or manipulated information that is intended to deceive and mislead audiences, either for the purposes of causing harm, or for political, personal or financial gain.
– Report of the House of Commons Select Committee on DCMS (UK)
※1 World Encyclopedia ※2 Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications website
Why would you create false information?
There are people who are making huge profits from making fake news. The main reasons are as follows.
・They earn advertising revenue by increasing the number of visits to a specific site through sensationalist content.
・Making a profit and discrediting celebrities, companies, etc.
・Profiting by tapping into people's anxious minds in times of social and political turmoil.
・They enjoy that society is even more confused.
・Profit from demeaning a particular candidate, group or person in a political campaign or election.
・To make a profit by stealing personal information or selling products by directing people to a specific site and making them click on it.
What is the purpose of spreading it?
So what is the purpose of those who spread it?
Studies have shown that people tend to spread information because they are following the person who is spreading it, rather than the content of the information.
There is also the easy motive of "I don't care what's right and wrong because it's interesting," but there are also some people who spread it out with good intentions and a sense of justice.
In that case, they don't even question whether the information is correct, they just trust it.
With the Covid-19 epidemic, photos of empty supermarket shelves have become very popular, along with the words "out of toilet paper".
"It is said to have started as a "hoax" that the product is made in China and is the same material used to make masks.
You may be arrested
He has been known to be arrested and has also been known to cause various incidents as a result.
Under Japanese law, disseminating news is not a crime in itself, but you can be arrested if you harm the interests of a particular person or entity.
Example: Defamation Acts that defame others
(e.g., defamation of credibility, obstruction of business) When a person interferes with the business of another person by spreading false rumors or misleading others
Also, if you steal someone else's ID or password in the process of transmitting news, you will be subject to the Unauthorized Access Act.
Recently, a man was arrested on suspicion of obstructing business after spreading a hoax on Twitter saying that a zoo lion had escaped in Kumamoto immediately after the Kumamoto earthquake.
The prosecution was suspended, but could result in imprisonment for up to three years or a fine of up to 500,000 yen.
2. Infodemics: How to Spot a Lie
Infodemic = Information + Epidemic
It's a combination of the words "information" and "contagion" to describe the rapid proliferation of information.
The WHO has warned that infodemics are spreading faster and more widely than pandemics, which means that accurate information is not being delivered.
Six checks to make sure you don't get scammed
i. check the source of the information
1.Is the information source clearly stated?
・Is it a reliable source of information (whether it is a public institution or not)?
・Let's take a look at the website's operator information (About us)
ii. Check out the author.
・Whether he or she is a reliable expert (affiliation, background, etc.)
・ it's real or not (it may be a spoof)
iii. Check your account name, user name and address.
・The sender's name is Apple, but the email address is unnatural.
・He is using President Trump's account, but his user name is unnatural.
・The URL of the site is a string of numbers or alphabets, or looks unnaturally like a famous site, even though the name of the company or organization is used.
iv. Check out the title, text, and photos!
・Just for the purpose of spreading the word, such as "want to spread" or "want to share".
・! !or bold letters, or a string of exaggerated phrases
・The attachment of shocking photos.
・Take a closer look at the photos.
→Does it match the text (location, time, etc.)?
v. Check the content.
・Is the chronology correct?
・Are they telling the truth? Or is it just a personal opinion?
・Whether it is primary information (not biographical information, but the experience of the person)
vi. Check out the other mediums.
・Let's have a look at the paper media (newspapers, etc.)
・Check the official government website.
・Take a look at other websites.
3. Is it true? – Fact Check
April 2 was World Fact Check Day.
What is a "fact check"?
It is a process of investigating whether the information, news and discourse spread in society is based on facts, and writing articles about the process to share accurate information with people. In a nutshell, it's "true-false verification *4
*4 FIJ website
How do you check?
They gather a vast amount of information from social media and other sources, sift through it to see if it's suspect, and verify it based on the facts by people with expertise in their respective fields. Nowadays, information checking using A I (artificial intelligence) is also being carried out.
What are they checking based on?
The five main principles that fact checkers should follow
The commitments of the code of principles※5
The regulations are set by the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN).
A commitment to Non-partisanship and Fairness.
A commitment to Standards and Transparency of Sources.
A commitment to Transparency of Funding & Organization.
A commitment to Standards and Transparency of Methodology.
A commitment to an Open & Honest Corrections Policy.
※5 IFCN website
What kind of organization is doing this?
Reporters' Lab, run by Duke University, maintains a database of fact-checking organizations from around the world.
In Japan, there is a non-profit organisation called the FactCheck Initiative (FIJ), which promotes fact-checking.
Database of Fact Checking Organisations around the World
Links to COVID-19 related pages of each organisation
Organisations that can request a fact check
Factcheck.org, a nonprofit organization and a project of the Annenberg Center for Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
You can send them an email and request a fact check.
(English required, please read the notes on the link)
How will the results be assessed?
Fact Check Example "The Effects of Ethanol in the Kitchen"
"The coronavirus disinfection effect of kitchen ethanol has not been scientifically proven."
However, the manufacturer's counter-argument was made and it became difficult to know what was true.
The Society for the Scientific Study of Food Safety and Security (SFSS), a non-profit organization, conducted a fact-check to see if this skeptical discourse was true, and has posted the results.
NPO "Association for the Science of Food Safety and Security"]
4.Don't be the One Spreading Lies
Before you push that share button.
Would you like to take a deep breath?
Here's some material that explains how to protect yourself from fake news in easy to understand cartoon form.
It was produced by Aos Fatos, a Brazilian fact-checking organization, in cooperation with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), which is run by the Poynter Institute in the United States.。
(There are editions in various languages.)
5.Hoax and Fake News Roundup from Around the World
All of the following have been judged to be false or misinformation.
・Viruses can get into tap water and have a negative impact on your health.
・Stones such as granite have an immediate effect on the decomposition of the virus.
・Aosa is effective in preventing the infection of the new coronavirus.
・Coronavirus is weak to heat, and drinking water of 26~27 degrees Celsius has a sterilizing effect.
・A light glass of water once every 30 minutes flows into the stomach and is killed by stomach acid.
・Coronaviruses are inactivated by inhalation of water vapor for 5 minutes.
・No one has died from coronavirus alone, not as dangerous as the flu, Italian doctor claims
・It is possible to prevent and treat the hot air that comes out of the dryer.
・Colloidal silver, vitamins, tea, essential oils, etc.
・It's dangerous to take ibuprofen (WHO says it's safe)
・The river water in Venice has been cleaned up (the attached photo is from another town)
・ stays in the throat for four days before reaching the lungs, and the virus can be removed by gargling with lukewarm water containing vinegar and salt.
・Alcohol is effective in preventing infection.
6. In Summary
Everyone is filled with anxiety and fear in the current situation, which is a new disease for humanity and facing an unprecedented situation.
Now is the time to take the initiative to select, research, and understand information correctly, and that is the way to protect yourself and your community.
7. Reference Websites
【IFCN/The International Fact-Checking Network】
[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications]
Study Group on Platform Services
White Paper on Information and Communications
FIJ / Fact Check Initiative
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Where Did the Universe Come From?
Have you ever wondered why there is something rather than nothing? How about this question: Where did that something come from? These are among the most basic questions of philosophy and theology.
These questions lead to other questions. Where does morality come from? Why should we do good and not do bad?
The philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) said, “Two things fill the mind with awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
This leads us to the ultimate question: do the facts as best understood lead us to conclude that there is a Supernatural Creator—God? By God I mean a being who is the personal, immaterial, timeless cause of the universe, the designer and sustainer of the universe and the ground of moral reality. I believe that it is reasonable to conclude that God is the Originator of the universe based on these four features of reality:
- the coming into existence of the universe
- the current existing of the universe
- design in the universe
- moral reality
Where did it all come from?
Let’s think about the universe’s coming into existence. The cosmological argument sees God as the Originator of the universe based the reality that all effects must have a cause. The ball rolls across the grass—an effect. The cause? John kicked it. The book falls to the floor. The cause? Mary dropped it.
Early philosophers such as Aristotle (384-322 BC) looked at the world and saw it was full of effects. The bird flies across the sky. The bird was caused by its mother hatching an egg. The mother hatched the egg because she laid it—on and on, reason back from effects to causes, looking ever backward to what must be a first cause. Aristotle called this the First Cause, the Unmoved Mover.
Of course, one can then ask what caused the First Cause. But that’s to ask the wrong question. Remember, every effect has a cause. But a First Cause is, well … a cause, not an effect. The medieval theologian, legal scholar, and philosopher Al Ghazhali formulated an argument for God’s existence called the kalam argument (“kalam” means “words” or “discourse”). In recent years, the kalam argument has been refined and popularized by Christian philosopher William Lane Craig. He formulates the argument this way:
- The universe began to exist.
- Whatever begins to exist has a cause for its existence.
- Therefore, the universe has a cause for its existence.
In defense of the first premise, I think both scientific and philosophical evidence point to the fact that the universe began to exist a finite time ago. Scientific evidence for the beginning of the universe include:
- the expanding universe
- the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- the Big Bang Theory
Consider the evidence for the universe’s expansion. Scientists maintain that every object in the universe is moving away from every other object, such that space itself is expanding. Physicist George Gamow, says “The entire space of the universe, populated by billions of galaxies, is in a state of rapid expansion, with its members flying away from one another at high speed.”[i]
This was first posited by Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), an American astronomer who is the namesake of today’s Hubble Deep Space Telescope. Hubble was the first to demonstrate the existence of galaxies outside our own Milky Way, and by studying the Doppler Shift of light—sometimes called “red shift”—he also proposed that all the galaxies were moving away from each other at incredible speeds. (You probably know the Doppler effect more as it pertains to sound. The sound of a moving train, for example, changes pitch from when it’s moving toward you to when it’s moving away from you, which is called the Doppler Shift. The same is true of light; its wavelength is different when it’s moving toward you from when it’s moving away from you, although you’d need scientific equipment to measure it.) Noting Hubble’s idea, Albert Einstein observed, “Hubble’s discovery can, therefore, be considered to some extent as a confirmation of the theory [of an expansion of space].”[ii]
This was a big change for the scientific world, which until Hubble believed the universe was essentially stable and unmoving. Astronomer Stephen Hawking said, “The old idea of an essentially unchanging universe that could have existed, and could continue to exist, forever was replaced by the notion of a dynamic, expanding universe that seemed to have begun a finite time ago, and that might end at a finite time in the future.”[iii]
Now, some say that the universe could have been expanding from eternity; in other words, it did not have a beginning. But this is mathematically impossible, because otherwise the universe would be infinitely dispersed, which it is not. Therefore, the universe began to exist a finite time ago.
The second reason we know the universe had a beginning is the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that all closed systems will tend toward a state of maximum disorder, or entropy. In a closed system, the amount of energy available to do work decreases and becomes uniform. This amounts to saying that the universe is winding down.[iv] Think of a large clock. The clockmaker expends energy to wind up the clock, and that energy is stored in the spring. As the energy is slowly released, powering the clock, it is not replaced, and eventually it completely runs out—unless the clockmaker breaks into the closed system of the clock and puts in more energy in the form of winding it up. But left to itself, the closed system of the clock will eventually run out of energy and stop ticking.
The implications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics are considerable. The universe is constantly losing usable energy and never gaining. It’s only logical to conclude the universe is not eternal. “The universe had a finite beginning—the moment at which it was at ‘zero entropy’ (its most ordered possible state). Like a wind-up clock, the universe is winding down, as if at one point it was fully wound up and has been winding down ever since. The question is who wound up the clock?”[v]
The theological implications are obvious. Astronomer Robert Jastrow said, “Theologians generally are delighted with the proof that the universe had a beginning, but astronomers are curiously upset. It turns out that the scientist behaves the way the rest of us do when our beliefs are in conflict with the evidence. … The laws of thermodynamics . . . [point] . . . to one conclusion, that the universe had a beginning.”[vi]
The universe could not have been running down from eternity; otherwise, it would have run down by now, which it obviously has not. Therefore, the universe began to exist a finite time ago.
There is only one conclusion we can come to: the universe had a beginning. As Physicist Alexander Vilenkin says, “It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape; they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning.”[vii] Physicist Victor Weisskopf says:
The question of the origin of the universe is one of the most exciting topics for a scientist to deal with. The origin of the universe can be talked about not only in scientific terms, but also in poetic and spiritual language, an approach that is complimentary to the scientific one. Indeed, the Judeo-Christian tradition ascribes the beginning of the world in a way that is surprisingly similar to the scientific model.[viii]
It must be concluded that the universe has not existed eternally. The universe, therefore, must have begun to exist a finite time ago. The implications of this for Christian theology are obvious: There must have been something (more accurately, Some one) beyond (and “prior to”) time, space, and matter . . . that caused the universe.
The second part of the argument says, “Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence.” Carefully notice that the argument is not saying: “Everything must have a cause of its existence.”
The theist’s position is that everything that begins to exist (i.e., every finite, contingent thing) must have a cause of its existence. Everything we now know about the universe suggests that the things in the universe are caused to exist. Thus, there must be something that caused the universe to exist that is itself not part of the universe. This conclusion follows necessarily. The universe has a cause of its existence. But since this is the beginning of the physical, temporal universe itself, then the cause cannot itself be physical or temporal.
It seems the best way to account for why the universe could have come into existence only a finite time ago is if the Cause of the universe was itself timeless and eternal. In other words, the cause itself must not be, say, an impersonal, mechanical cause. Rather, the “Causer” was a personal entity who willed the universe to come into existence. If the universe cannot be impersonal and mechanical, then the cause must be personal and volitional— a being who has a will. This is so because if the cause of the universe was merely a “sufficient condition” for the universe, then the effect of the cause would have existed along with the cause.
Remember we have seen that the scientific evidence points to a beginning of the universe. Thus, we have a cause of the universe that:
- is not the universe itself
- is nonphysical
- is timeless
- is supernatural
- is personal
The Cause described by such characteristics is God.
Note, however, that this may not necessarily lead one to conclude that this cause is the God of the Bible. Indeed, the Kalam argument was originally popularized by Muslims in support of Islamic theology. However the basic principles of the argument are sound and support Christian theology, too. And Aristotle, who posited the Unmoved Mover, was certainly not a Christian, although his reasoning is also sound.
So while you can use the cosmological argument to determine that there is a thing called “god,” it is up to the arguments of Christian apologetics to prove that this god is the God of Scripture.
The Argument from Design
Another way to observe the universe is its obvious design, which is called the teleological argument. The word teleological is derived from the Greek telos, meaning “end” or “purpose.” Teleology is the supposition that there is purpose or directive principle in the works and processes of nature.
Perhaps the most famous version of the teleological argument comes from the British philosopher William Paley (1743-1805). Paley put forth a hypothetical: You are walking across a field and stub your foot on a stone. You might ask how the stone got there and conclude not unreasonably that it had been there since the beginning of time. But suppose that a few steps later you come upon a watch laying in the grass. You pick it up and examine it and see its fine detail and complex inner workings. Would it be reasonable to conclude that, like the stone, it had been there since the beginning of time? He wrote in his Natural Philosophy, “There must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed [the watch] for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.” In other words, it’s too complex and has an obvious function—therefore it cannot be an accident. Paley continued, “Every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater or more, and that in a degree which exceeds all computation.” In other words, when we look around us at the universe, we see design as fine-tuning and design as information on a far vaster scale than we do in a mere timepiece.
Astronomer Robert Jastrow has noted that the universe was constructed within very narrow limits in such a way that could support life on earth. He called this the “anthropic principle”—the view that the entire universe is created in such a way as to support mankind (anthropos).
Another part of the teleological argument points to design as information. In other words, not only does a certain thing seem to be designed, it also communicates information, something that the laws of statistics and probability cannot account for.
Now, some complexity can be explained by natural processes. You can see order and complexity in a snowflake, but that can be accounted for by known processes of physics and chemistry. But take something like the DNA molecule, and you’ll see complexity that does more: it is specified complexity. If I took the letter tiles from a game of Scrabble and just tossed them into a pile, that pile would be complex but probably wouldn’t form any words or sentences. But if I take those letter tiles and arrange them to spell words, their arrangement is not just complex; it is specified complexity because each letter is arranged in a specific order to create words—specified complexity.
We see the same in the DNA molecule. Not only is it complex, but each part is in a specific place in order to create a specific thing that that part of the molecule is coded for. According to scientists Charles Thaxton and Walter Bradley (researchers with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture), “Proponents of an intelligent origin of life note that molecular biology has uncovered an analogy between DNA and language. … The genetic code functions exactly like a language code¾indeed it is a code. It is a molecular communications system: a sequence of chemical ‘letters’ stores and transmits the communication in each living cell.”
Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, observed, “At nearly the same time that computer scientists were beginning to develop machine languages, molecular biologists were discovering that living cells had been using something akin to machine code or software all along.”
Even the militant atheist Richard Dawkins must admit, “There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.”[ix]
But Dawkins is then forced to try to explain this as a process of natural selection and random mutation, without director or purpose. Is it rational to relegate this fine-tuning to evolutionary theory? That would be putting the matter backwards. Evolution cannot be responsible for the fine-tuning of the universe since the process of evolution presupposes the fine-tuning in order to work.
Sometimes this is called the “infinite monkey” principle. If you had a monkey bashing away on a typewriter for an infinite period of time, he would eventually though randomly wind up typing Shakespeare’s Hamlet. (And you don’t need actual monkeys; that’s just a metaphor for any abstract device that produces a random sequence of letters ad infinitum.) The weakness of this theory shows the problem of reasoning about infinity by imagining a vast but finite number and vice versa. The probability of a monkey exactly typing a complete work such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of its occurring during the supposed 15 billion years the universe has been in existence is minuscule, but not zero.
Dawkins uses a variation of this. He cites the monkey “bashing away” at the keyboard until it comes upon the phrase, “Methinks it is like a weasel” (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2). Beginning with 28 characters of gibberish, the monkey succeeds in arriving at the “target” sentence in 43 “generations” (separate bashings) on the keyboard, each one moving the monkey closer to the goal. The problems with Dawkins’ example here are that the target destination is already known, which presupposes a designer or “watchmaker.” Second, the monkey’s keyboard bashings are small but definite steps in a predetermined direction, which suggest purpose. And, according to Dawkins, given enough “generations,” the experimenter will always arrive at the target sentence, although the simple laws of logic and statistics show this is nonsense. Most important, though, in order to preserve the doctrine that Darwinian evolution is unguided and without purpose, Dawkins later states, “In real life evolution there is nothing that corresponds to steering towards some distant genetic target” (71). So why use the argument at all?
In The Mystery of Life’s Origin, biochemist Charles Thaxton, mechanical engineer Walter Bradley, and geochemist Roger L. Olson wrote, “Without a doubt, the atoms and molecules which comprise living cells individually obey the laws of chemistry and physics. The enigma is the origin of so unlikely an organization of these atoms and molecules. … It is apparent that ‘chance’ should be abandoned as an acceptable model for coding of the macromolecules essential in living systems.”
Thus it seems clear that a reasonable inference from the evidence of fine-tuning and the origin of life is the deliberate, causal activity of God.
Conclusion: “It’s a Caused World After All”
Reasoning from the variations of the cosmological arguments, we can determine that the universe came into existence through the deliberate activity of a First Cause, and Unmoved Mover, because logic and reason lead us to conclude that all the causes that we see in the universe—planets moving, birds flying, ice melting, rain falling—can be explained by causes, which themselves are explained by other causes, in a very long but finite line back to a First Cause. Christians would argue that this First Cause is the God of the Bible and use apologetic arguments to make that point.
Reasoning from the teleological argument we see that the universe as we experience has evidence of purpose and design, and its very complexity, including specified complexity like that found in the DNA molecule, point to an intelligent, purposeful force that created them. Again, using apologetics, Christians will argue that the “purposeful force” is the God of Scripture.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What do we (as explained in this chapter) mean by God, or a supernatural Creator?
2. What does the cosmological argument say? What is it arguing for?
3. What is another word for the “argument from design?” Who was the philosopher that put forth the “watchmaker argument”? What does this prove?
4. What is the anthropic principle as defined by Robert Jastrow? Why is this important to the argument for creation?
5. What is the difference between essence and existence, and why is this distinction important?
[i]. “Broadening Horizons,” in The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present, 3:259. (New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987).
[iii]. Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988), 33-34.
[iv]. “The Second Law of Thermodynamics,” in The World of Physics: A Survey of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present. 1:734. (New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971).
[vi]. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1978), 16, 111.
[vii]. Alexander Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (New York: Hill & Wang, 2006), 176.
[viii]. Victor F. Weisskopf. “The Origin of the Universe.” American Scientist, reprinted in: The World of Physics: A Survey of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present. 3 vols. (New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971), vol. , page.
[ix]. Richard Dawkins. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1996), 115-116.
The bank teller smiled as I walked up with my deposit slip, asking, “How may I help you today?” The cordial demeanor faded as she noticed the company logo on the paycheck I was depositing: The check was from a very prominent local ministry, one that people in the city either loved or despised. As our conversation progressed, it was clear that the teller was not a fan of my employer. Thus began a brief talk about spiritual things. As I was explaining the message of Christ and what He did for humanity on the cross, she quickly said, “I don’t think it is so much what you believe, but that you are sincere about it.”
“Could two people each believe contradictory things, and they both be right?,” I asked.
Pausing a moment, she said, “Yes. Because what is true for one person isn’t necessarily true for another person. What is true for you may not be true for me.”
She was sincere, and convinced of this, um, truth. I was sincere, and convinced her beliefs were false.
The Implications of Relativism
Planet earth is fast becoming a “no-truth zone.” Relativism is the death of “true truth,” the “extinction of the idea that any particular thing can be known for sure.”1 The denial of absolute truth also has serious implications for Christianity. Today’s denial of absolute truth leads to statements such as these:
• All religions lead to God.
• All religions teach basically the same thing.
• Jesus is one of many great spiritual leaders.
• No such thing as ultimate truth exists.
• All beliefs are equally valid.
Have you ever heard people make statements like these?
“We all have our own truths…”
“There is no moral right or wrong. Beliefs about truth and morality are based on personal situations, cultural bias, or on one’s religious upbringing…”
“Truth is what works. If something works for the greatest good of the majority, then it must be true.”
Sadly, even some Christians believe these statements, like the young lady at the bank who told me, “We all have our own truths.” This relativistic spirit presents challenges for both missions-minded Christians and values-minded parents: How can people be convinced to turn from sin if they cannot be convinced of the true statement that they have sinned? And how can children live according to biblical morals when a relativistic posture seems to be a prerequisite in social, academic, and professional arenas?
Think of the implications of this for preaching the gospel. If there is no actual, absolute truth, or if ultimate truth exists but is unknowable, then the Christian’s claims about Jesus being the exclusive way to God are fallacious. Equally false (in the mind of many moderns) are the Christian’s claims that people are fallen, sinful, in need of salvation, and without Jesus Christ are bound for eternal lostness. Surveys validate the point that when it comes to religious claims, most Americas today are driven by relativism.
Relativism has become the most prominent worldview of our times. The assumptions of relativism (at least in terms of theology) is that all beliefs are equally valid. The claim of Christianity that people need Jesus Christ seems ludicrous to people today who are committed to what might be described as absolute subjectivism.
I believe that relativism is a belief system wrapped up in selfishness. What a person wants is no longer held against an objective standard. It becomes his subjective standard, and therefore it is true and right for him. But everyone else has his own subjective standard based on what he wants and that is right for him. This may be called selfism, the attitude that people are free to approach spirituality on their own terms.
When the truth dies, then so do ethics, because if nothing can be known for sure, then there are no real rights or wrongs. Combine this with selfism, and anything goes. Relativism is no different from having no morality at all.2This explains why people can allow society to do things like kill babies and take the lives of people deemed unfit to live. Truth has become what the majority thinks. Truth is no longer based on a firm foundation. Truth is whatever is right at the moment, according to the most people.
Frederick Moore Vinson, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court said, “Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes.”3
So Whatever Happened to Truth?
So what happened to the idea that there was one truth? How do people come to the idea that some things are true for some people but not true for others?
The roots of this thinking go back seven hundred years to the Renaissance. This historical period, which began in Florence, Italy, and spanned roughly four centuries from the 1300s to the late 1500s, was considered a time of rebirth. (In fact that is what renaissance means in French.) It was not a rebirth of man, though, but of “the idea of man.” It switched positions for God and man; instead of God being the measure of all things, as had been the case since the founding of Christianity, man became the measure.3 This was the beginning of humanism as a philosophical idea.
Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374), an Italian scholar, is considered the father of humanism.4 He promoted the idea of the strong, idealistic man and centered his works on man and man’s ability. Renaissance humanism is “the broad concern with the study and imitation of classical antiquity which was characteristic of the period and found its expression in scholarship and education and in many other areas, including the arts and sciences.”5 This thought process developed into modernday humanism, with its emphasis on human values and humanity in general.
The late Francis Schaeffer, a Christian scholar, wrote, “These paid men of letters translated Latin, wrote speeches, and acted as secretaries. . . . Their humanism meant, first of all, a veneration for everything ancient and especially the writings of the Greek and Roman age. Although this past age did include the early Christian church, it became increasingly clear that the sort of human autonomy that many of the Renaissance humanists had in mind referred exclusively to the non-Christian Greco-Roman world. Thus Renaissance humanism steadily evolved toward modern humanism—a value system rooted in the belief that man is his own measure, that man is autonomous, totally independent.”6
Humanism showed the “victory of man.” This is seen, for example, in the statue of David, completed in 1504 by Michelangelo. This David is supposed to be the David of the Bible, yet he is shown as a strong, handsome man who is obviously not Jewish because he is uncircumcised. This statue of David portrays him as the complete opposite of the young, humble David of the Bible. Most of the art of this time portrayed the same message: “Man will make himself great. Man by himself will tear himself out of nature and free himself from it. Man will be victorious.”7
The humanists were sure that man could solve every problem. “Man starting from himself, tearing himself out of the rock, out of nature, could solve all,” Schaeffer wrote. “The humanistic cry was ‘I can do what I will; just give me until tomorrow.’”8
Eventually, after several hundred years, this idea failed. The optimism of the Renaissance ended in pessimism. For many centuries learned thinkers promised they would deliver the truth, and yet the truth—the truth without God, at least—remained elusive. People finally came to the conclusion that there is no truth. As Schaeffer wrote, “We could say that we went to Renaissance Florence and found modern man.”9 Modern man, whether he realizes it or not, is governed in large measure by this pessimism about truth, a philosophy called postmodernism, the belief that there are no absolutes, including no absolute truth.
According to postmodern thinking, this is no ultimate truth; people can construct their own “stories” or narratives, and what is true for one person might not be true for another. Truth is relative to individual people, times, and places. So if truth is relative to each person, each person is then free to do his own thing—the perfect motto of the 1960s and 1970s. The hippies of the sixties preached peace and love, with a generous dose of drugs and illicit sex. Their main belief was, “Do your own thing. If it doesn’t hurt anyone and it makes you happy, do it.”10
Unfortunately many Christians bought into this worldview. As Schaeffer wrote, “As the more Christian-dominated consensus weakened, the majority of people adopted two impoverished values: personal peace and affluence.”11 The dominant ethic was to just be left alone: this was basically the attitude of apathy. Humanism in the meantime tried to make a comeback. The problem was that humanism had already destroyed everything it hoped to build on. According to Schaeffer humanism—man beginning only from himself—had destroyed the old basis of truth and could find no way to generate with certainty any new truths.
In the resulting vacuum the impoverished values of personal peace and affluence had come to stand supreme. And now for the majority of young people, after the passing of the false hopes of drugs as an ideology, the emptiness of the sexual revolution and the failure of politics, what remained? Only apathy. Hope was gone.12 This is exemplified in today’s dismissive, “Whatever.” People do not care anymore about anything so long as it does not hurt them or personally affect them. When asked, “Is something true?” they respond, “Whatever!”
A House of Cards
Dogmatic relativism can be exposed as both flimsy and hypocritical. So what can a listener do when his conversation about spiritual things is held hostage by the phrase, “That may be true for you, but not for me”?
First, aside from relativism’s inherent logical flaws, one can point out the fact that such platitudes are not livable. No one would remain tolerant of a bank teller who said, “You and your bank statement both say your account contains $5,000. That may be true for you, but it’s not true for me.” People can talk as if the world is relative, but how they live proves that it is absolute.
Romans 1:18–22 notes that truth exists and describes the destructive end of all who willfully suppress it. But a person does not need a Bible to point out problems with the relativistic worldview. One needs to simply apply common sense. Next time a skeptic argues definitively that truth is relative, the assumptions he is making should be noted. For one thing, if truth does not exist, then by definition his statement is also false. And how can relativists be certain about their position if “truth cannot be known”?
Apparently the only one allowed to be dogmatic is the relativist! To reject truth, skeptics must imply the very thing they are denying. This is a self-defeating statement. God “hardwired” our brains for rational thought. With a little practice, people can become adept at spotting error and defending truth. Culture has become like someone who is insane, someone who cannot adjudicate the real and the unreal. People often make two mistakes when talking about reality.
(1) They take certain subject protocols (e.g., history, math, languages) and apply them to other things, or
(2) they take a method of one discipline and apply it to all reality.
This is called a category mistake, wrongly attributing certain characteristics of one category to another category. So if someone asked what red sounded like, he would be committing a category mistake because red is a color; it does not have a sound. Category mistakes lead to a common problem in today’s culture, in which preference replaces truth. A preference refers to how someone feels about something, what he wants, such as a color of car or the flavor of ice cream. Examples of truth claims are the content of history, math, science, philosophy, morality, or religion.
Too many people confuse these categories. An example of this is, “You do not like abortion? Then do not have one.” Another example is, “We want sexual preference and the right to marry the person we choose.” These are expressions of preference. But these are issues of truth. Morality, despite what today’s culture would like to make it out to be, is a matter of truth! Few true relativists exist. People do not like it when someone begins messing with their concepts. They will be relativistic up to a point, but then they quickly start telling what they believe is right and wrong.
Why? Because there is something innate in everyone that tells when something is not right. This something is natural law. This is what Christian philosopher J. Budziszewski calls things “we can’t not know.”13 Everyone knows innately that some things are wrong, such as lying, stealing, cheating, murdering. The very fact that people, when guilty, try to make excuses for these actions proves that they “cannot not” know them. This is like the crook who flees the scene of the crime; as the police say, fleeing the scene of the crime is proof of guilt. This is because God’s law is written on people’s hearts, as clearly stated in the Bible:
“So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences testify in support of this, and their competing thoughts either accuse or excuse them” (Romans 2:14–15).
First Principles of Thought: Laws of Logic
Logic is not invented; it is discovered. Indeed it is part of the created order. Here are a few laws of logic:
The law of non-contradiction: A thing cannot be both A and not-A at the same time in the same sense. This also means that if something contradicts itself, it cannot be true. Relativism contradicts itself. It states absolutely that there cannot be any absolute truth. But that statement is an absolute truth. Therefore it is selfdefeating. It defies the law of noncontradiction.
The law of the excluded middle: A thing is either A or not-A. It cannot be both. The law gets its name from the construction of the classic logical syllogism, which consists of three terms.
1. All A are B.
2. C is A.
3. Therefore C is B.
Or, more simply:
1. All cats are mammals.
2. Fluffy is a cat.
3. Therefore Fluffy is a mammal.
In the case of an excluded middle, no middle term is needed.
1. Fluffy is a cat.
2. Fluffy is not a cat.
Fluffy cannot be both a cat and not a cat at the same time in the same sense. Something cannot be true and not true at the same time in the same sense. That last qualification—“at the same time in the same sense”—is important. A person can say, “Joe is a man” and mean it in the strict biological sense: a male of the species homo sapiens. But another might say, “Joe is not a man” and mean it in a sociological sense: he is not brave and does not take responsibility for his actions. In this situation it is not a violation of the law of the excluded middle because the word man is used in two different senses.
The law of identity: If a thing is A, then it is A. If it exists, then it exists. If it is true, then it is true. This is self-explanatory, but it pretty much kills any claim that something can be true for one person but not for another.
Instilling a love of truth in the hearts of people is more critical now than ever. The truth that truth exists must be asserted firmly but lovingly. Christian scholar Peter Kreeft wrote, “The modern American demands the truth in every area of life except religion. Do not cheat him. Do not lie to him. Pull no punches in giving bad news. Unless, of course, it is in regards to his final destination.” Kreeft adds, “He [the modern American] would rather go through life deceived that he was a good man and discover he was wrong, than to go through life thinking he was a bad man and discover he was right.”14
First Thessalonians 2:4–6 and Galatians 1:10 demand that believers speak the truth! They are not here to tickle people’s ears. As J. P. Moreland wrote, “Saint Paul tells us that the church—not the university, the media, or the public schools—is the pillar and support of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15).”15
Pilate asked Jesus what is perhaps the ultimate question: “What is truth?” (John 18:38). Five facts about truth that are undeniable are these:
• Undeniable fact one: Truth exists.
• Undeniable fact two: Truth can be known.
• Undeniable fact three: Truth corresponds to reality.
• Undeniable fact four: Truth can be expressed in words.
• Undeniable fact five: Truth is personally relevant.
Content such as what is presented here is designed to equip hearts and heads to stand up for truth. More than just an intellectual exercise, apologetics approaches the pursuit of truth and love for truth as necessary life skills. An authentic commitment to truth involves both orthodoxy (right belief) andorthopraxy(right action). A relationship with the One who called Himselfthetruth (John 14:6) must manifest itself in what one believes and how one behaves.
Though some in today’s culture work hard to suppress the obvious, truth does exist.
• Absolute truth not only exists, its existence is self-evident. What is ultimately true is true at all times, in all places, and for all people.
• Relativism is self-defeating, and therefore false.
• Basic logic helps us to recognize and understand the nature of truth. Awareness of truth as knowledge is available to all reasonable persons, hidden only if they willfully suppress it.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What is truth as we have defined it in this article?
2. What are the three main theories of truth and what do they mean?
3. What does the Christian worldview assert regarding absolute truth?
4. What is Humanism and what effect did it have on the idea of truth?
5. Why is relativism selfish and how would you defend truth to someone who is putting forth a relativistic belief system?
1. F. J. Beckwith, Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998), 19–20.
2. Ibid., 31.
3. Patrick M. Morley, The Man in the Mirror (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997), 59.
4. C. B. Schmitt, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 127–28.
5. Ibid., 113.
6. F. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1976; reprint, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1976), 60.
7. Ibid., 71.
8. Ibid., 78.
9. Ibid., 78.
10. L. Rollin, Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 202.
11. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? 205.
12. Ibid., 210.
13. J. Budziszewski, What We Can’t Not Know (Dallas: Spence, 2004).
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County drives restaurant parking plan
Restaurants would have new rules for providing parking for their customers, under a plan that received preliminary approval Tuesday from the Brevard County Commission.
Commissioners want the county to base the required number of parking spaces on the size of the restaurant, rather than a formula using the number of seats and number of employees. The proposed guideline is one parking space for every 100 square feet of total floor area, including outdoor seating areas.
Commissioners unanimously authorized Brevard County Planning and Development Director Robin Sobrino to prepare the needed code revisions, and schedule a public hearing, during which a final vote will be taken. That likely will happen in May, Sobrino said.
The rules would apply only to new restaurants in unincorporated Brevard County. Brevard's cities and towns would continue to have their own rules.
Sobrino said her staff surveyed 60 Florida counties and cities. They determined that total square footage is the most common method of establishing the required number of parking spaces, although there were many different formulas used. In all, there were 40 parking standards among the 60 jurisdictions.
Currently, Brevard County code requires one space for every three seats of the maximum seating capacity, plus one space for every four employees. That rule will remain for existing restaurants that do not change ownership.
In her report to commissioners, Sobrino said that "staff's concern with the current code is that a restaurant owner may arbitrarily specify seating capacity based upon the available number of parking spaces on site." In addition, she said the rule has the "unintended consequence" of restaurants potentially becoming out of compliance "if the restaurant changes, and additional seating or employees are proposed."
Sobrino said she views the planned rule of one space for every 100 square feet as "reasonable and appropriate."
The county also analyzed 10 restaurant site plans submitted to the county since 2010. It found that the new formula would require fewer or the same number of parking spaces in seven of the 10 cases.
The new rules also affect cocktail lounges and other eating and drinking establishments.
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LOWELL, Mass. - A discovery by a team of researchers led by UMass Lowell nuclear physicists could change how atoms are understood by scientists and help explain extreme phenomena in outer space.
The breakthrough by the researchers revealed that a symmetry that exists within the core of the atom is not as fundamental as scientists have believed. The discovery sheds light on the forces at work within the atoms' nucleus, opening the door to a greater understanding of the universe. The findings were published today in Nature, one of the world's premier scientific journals.
The discovery was made when the UMass Lowell-led team was working to determine how atomic nuclei are created in X-ray bursts - explosions that happen on the surface of neutron stars, which are the remnants of massive stars at the end of their life.
"We are studying what happens inside the nuclei of these atoms to better understand these cosmic phenomena and, ultimately, to answer one of the biggest questions in science - how the chemical elements are created in the universe," said Andrew Rogers, UMass Lowell assistant professor of physics, who heads the research team.
The research is supported by a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to UMass Lowell and was conducted at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University. At the lab, scientists create exotic atomic nuclei to measure their properties in order to understand their role as the building blocks of matter, the cosmos and of life itself.
Atoms are some of the smallest units of matter. Each atom includes electrons orbiting around a tiny nucleus deep within its core, which contains almost all its mass and energy. Atomic nuclei are composed of two nearly identical particles: charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The number of protons in a nucleus determines which element the atom belongs to on the periodic table and thus its chemistry. Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons.
At the NSCL, nuclei were accelerated to near the speed of light and smashed apart into fragments creating strontium-73 - a rare isotope that is not found naturally on Earth but can exist for short periods of time during violent thermonuclear X-ray bursts on the surface of neutron stars. This isotope of strontium contains 38 protons and 35 neutrons and only lives for a fraction of a second.
Working around the clock over eight days, the team created more than 400 strontium-73 nuclei and compared them to the known properties of bromine-73, an isotope that contains 35 protons and 38 neutrons. With interchanged number of protons and neutrons, bromine-73 nuclei are considered "mirror partners" to strontium-73 nuclei. Mirror symmetry in nuclei exists because of the similarities between protons and neutrons and underlies scientists' understanding of nuclear physics.
Roughly every half-hour, the researchers created one strontium-73 nucleus, transported it through the NSCL's isotope separator and then brought the nucleus to a stop at the center of a complex detector array where they could observe its behavior. By studying the radioactive decay of these nuclei, the scientists found that strontium-73 behaved entirely differently from bromine-73. The discovery raises new questions about nuclear forces, according to Rogers.
"Strontium-73 and bromine-73 should appear identical in structure, but surprisingly do not, we found. Probing symmetries that exist in nature is a very powerful tool for physicists. When symmetries break down, that tells us something's wrong in our understanding, and we need to take a closer look," Rogers said.
What the scientists saw will challenge nuclear theory, according to Daniel Hoff, a UMass Lowell research associate who was the lead author of the article published in Nature.
"Comparing strontium-73 and bromine-73 nuclei was like looking in a mirror and not recognizing yourself. Once we convinced ourselves that what we were seeing was real, we were very excited," Hoff said.
Along with Rogers, a Somerville resident, and Hoff of Medford, the UMass Lowell team included Physics Department faculty members Assistant Prof. Peter Bender, Emeritus Prof. C.J. Lister and former UMass Lowell research associate Chris Morse. Physics graduate students Emery Doucet of Mason, N.H., and Sanjanee Waniganeththi of Lowell also contributed to the project.
As part of the team's study, state-of-the-art theoretical calculations were carried out by Simin Wang, a research associate at Michigan State, and directed by Witold Nazarewicz, MSU's John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Physics and chief scientist at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which will open next year.
The researchers' work "offers unique insights into the structure of rare isotopes," Nazarewicz said. "But much still remains to be done. New facilities coming online, such as FRIB at MSU, will provide missing clues into a deeper understanding of the mirror symmetry puzzle. I am glad that the exotic beams delivered by our facility, unique instrumentation and theoretical calculations could contribute to this magnificent work."
Plans for more experiments are already underway, as the researchers seek to refine and confirm their observations and study these isotopes further.
UMass Lowell is a national research university located on a high-energy campus in the heart of a global community. The university offers its more than 18,000 students bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in business, education, engineering, fine arts, health, humanities, sciences and social sciences. UMass Lowell delivers high-quality educational programs, vigorous hands-on learning and personal attention from leading faculty and staff, all of which prepare graduates to be leaders in their communities and around the globe. http://www.uml.edu
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KATOWICE, Poland — A 150-million-year-old marine invertebrate unearthed in Africa has been named after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The bizarre creature had 10 long arms and sharp tentacle-like claws to grip the seabed.
The animal, which is called Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi, is closely related to starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins. It was a type of feather star abundant today on rocky bottoms from the equator to the poles.
“The fossil is extraordinarily well preserved,” lead author Professor Mariusz Salamon, of the University of Silesia in Poland, said in a statement to the South West News Service. “Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi had 10 massive arms and a ring of claw-like appendages near the base for gripping the substrate.”
Salmon adds that the creature was named in honor of Zelensky “for his courage and bravery in defend the free Ukraine.”
Feather stars can be a variety of spectacular colors, from deep reds to vibrant oranges and electrifying yellows. Each arm can be up to a foot long. Their appendages are used to capture food, allowing the animals to filter feeders. They sit in the water, baring their arms and allowing nutrients moved by the current to come to them.
Feather stars also have the ability to fold an arm in the same way that some lizards can their tails, which is also a anti-predator response.
“The specimen shows evidence of regenerationwhich reinforces the hypothesis of the importance of predation in the evolution of the feather stars,” says Salamon.
Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi was about two inches in diameter. Its almost complete remains were excavated at a site in central western Ethiopia.
“Feather stars, or comatulids, are best known from highly disarticulated specimens,” the authors write in their paper. “Here we report a nearly complete, and thus extremely rare, comatulid from the Upper Jurassic of the Blue Nile Basin in central-western Ethiopia that provides unique insight into the morphology of comatulid guts and claws.”
The new fossil is believed to be the earliest example of regeneration in a comet star.
Born with a stalk that they shed in adulthood, feather stars can have as few as five arms and as many as 200. They are often conspicuous to divers and snorkelers. They are not poisonous to humans, but can be poisonous to other animals.
Snails often live on them. Fish can comb through feather stars are looking for a tasty meal.
Feather stars are echinoderms, like the more familiar starfish. They are also a type of crinoid, along with sea lilies, that have a stalk.
Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi is described in the Royal Society journal OpenScience.
Report by South West News Service writer Mark Waghorn.
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One issue on which Republicans and Democrats tend to agree is the importance of buying American. However, in this conviction both parties are wrong.
Three out of four people believe buying American is important. Advocating policies that result in economic prosperity is admirable, but “buy American” does not have that effect.
Imagine if in Virginia we tried to only buy local. The commonwealth has a lot of high-quality local goods. We’re known for our wine, apples and peanuts. Our coast has crabs and oysters. Farmers’ markets deliver high-quality, affordable organic produce. Consumers need no “buy local” campaign to convince them these items are a good deal. The real question that arises is whether we should “buy local” when local isn’t the best option. For example, should we buy locally grown bananas?
Virginia is not known for wonderful bananas. The trees do not survive, and growing them in greenhouses would make the fruit prohibitively expensive. And to gain locally grown bananas, we would have to give up the land, resources and labor of other endeavors. These opportunity costs are the most critical considerations. For example, growing local bananas, which are expensive and low quality, might be at the cost of growing excellent and affordable local apples.
It is better for us to specialize where we have a comparative advantage than try to produce everything locally. This is true no matter where the lines of geography are drawn.
If the scope of “buy local” was tightened to families, we would all be subsistence farmers. We would be self-sufficient, supplying only ourselves. And all of us would be employed. However, this attempt to support family employment would be at the expense of all the benefits of civilization. On a wider scale, this same problem with “buy local” holds true.
“Buy local” advocates tend to think of trade as a way to fund specific suppliers. They would say buying from Virginia is supporting Virginia, and buying from Florida is supporting Florida. They believe the supplier receives all the benefit at the expense of everyone else. However, voluntary trade benefits both sides.
Family members divide their labor by talent and inclination because the family is better for it. Trade within Charlottesville allows each of us to benefit from the expertise of others. Trade within Virginia or the United States adds even more specialties from which we can benefit.
Expanding “buy local” to “buy American” gives us a vast number of excellent products to purchase and enjoy. As a country we have nearly all food, manufactured goods, and services covered. And yet, should we buy only U.S. bananas?
We do have a small number of domestic bananas grown in Florida and Hawaii. But national banana independence would be at the expense of Florida orange groves and Hawaiian pineapples. Most people need no convincing that coaxing banana plants to grow in America would be too expensive. In the same way, no national campaign is needed to ensure that Florida grows our citrus fruits, California our grapes, Georgia our peaches or Idaho our potatoes. The markets naturally figured it out, and every consumer is richer as a result.
Last summer we visited the Charleston Tea Plantation that produces American Classic Tea. It is the only North American tea plantation for a reason. The Bigelow family purchased the plantation in 2003, and 2012 was the first year they made a profit.
One tea bush produces about three thousand leaves each year. They are picked by hand through multiple harvests in spring and summer to avoid damaging the leaves too much. After harvesting and processing, these leaves make just a pound of tea.
Around the world, workers pick tea by hand, earning a few dollars a day. The process is labor intensive and impossible to do profitably in America. Losing money on tea production, the Bigelow family has transformed the plantation into a delightful tourist destination.
Most of the tea sold by the Bigelow family is grown in China, India or Sri Lanka and is not part of the America Classic Tea label. That’s where the Bigelows make their money.
This is the same reason why American manufacturing is moving overseas. Apple‘s iPad is assembled by Taiwan’s FoxConn. It requires about 9 hours at $1.11 an hour. Average U.S. manufacturing labor costs are $32.53 per hour. That would add an extra $283 to the cost if the production was moved home.
Trade is favorable when a country, state or individual can produce a good at less opportunity cost than its competitors. A supplier who can make a good at a cheaper opportunity cost has a comparative advantage. Even if America is better than the entire world at everything, called an absolute advantage, there will still be opportunities where we can benefit from trade. The opportunity cost of making what we are comparably worse at making will be the production of what we are better at making.
Neither tea plucking nor manufacturing is an area where the United States has a comparative advantage. Even if Americans could pick tea faster, these activities are not worth the time and effort of our skilled workers. Economically we all have better things to do. And this is true even despite our currently high unemployment rate.
Long before Americans would take jobs picking tea or assembling iPads, they would take one of the many alternatives available. Picking citrus in Florida, grapes in California or even unemployment benefits or food stamps are better than working at an Indian tea plantation or a FoxConn assembly station.
America will continue to lose jobs where we don’t have a comparative advantage and gain jobs where we do. Although we haven’t addressed any of the common moral concerns, economically this change should be welcome. When each specializes, each is more prosperous. Left to itself, the economy naturally moves towards optimum specialization. We will continue to specialize at what we do comparatively better than the rest of the world.
Although the supporters of “buy local” or “buy American” campaigns frequently use economic prosperity as their primary justification, limiting the suppliers that local consumers can buy from only impoverishes the local economy. There is no economic justification for regional self-sufficiency.
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What Happens to your Food?
Have you ever wondered What Happens to your Food when it slips and slides through your body? What happens inside your body?
OK Let’s Start
We all know food start with your mouth and what happens after that? After you swallow your food, it will go down through a tube to your stomach.
What does the stomach do?
Your stomach squeezes and mashes up the food. It also secrets a special “stomach juice” called digestive juice to help with the digestion of the food.
What Happen Next?
Once all the food is digested, it all goes through the tube to your small intestine. More “digestive juices” is found in the small intestine to make the food into smaller pieces. The tiny pieces of food are being sucked out through the side of the intestine and travel to the part of your body that needs them.
What Happen to the leftover food that a not used?
The left over food pieces will now make its way to the Large Intestine. They are now quite watery and sloppy. The Large intestine is wider but shorter than the small intestine. It sieve through the left over food pieces and sucks out the water, so the left over food pieces becomes sluggish and useless.
At the end of the journey, we have to let the unused food pieces out of our body – HOW? By visiting the toilet.
Something you can do with your children:
Mums and Dads, do some research about snails through Google about food – What happens after the food you have eaten? A good way to learn is through YouTube, TV programs or books.
Or books through the library or digital books from amazon.
This is the book that I used when my kids were younger and you can either get it from your local library, books shops or through Amazon.
This is a great book to share with your child.
WATCH HOW YOUR FOOD SLIPS AND SLIDES THROUGH YOUR BODY WITH THIS AMAZING BOOK! LIFT THE FLAPS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE YOU WHEN YOU EAT.
Questions you can ask your children
(1) Classify food groups
(2) Learn about the body organs
(3) Learn what are proteins, carbohydrates etc.
(1) Colour of food – example- banana: yellow or green, vegetables – cucumber: green
(2) Talk about their favourite food
- Draw and colour-in
- Cut and paste
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The Corner London City is a new concept design hotel and the greenest hotel in London, located near Aldgate East on the footsteps of the City of London. Green credentials, quirky style, futuristic design and sustainability are the revolutionary values at the heart of the hotel, that set it apart from all other hotels. Bespoke, handmade furniture and locally sourced fixtures and fittings also add personality: no two of the quirky rooms are the same!
They pride themselves on being London’s Greenest Hotel! With 41% less water consumption than other UK hotels and 67% less CO2 emissions than the industry average, they aim not just to do their bit but to lead the pack and here’s how:
Inside the rooms:
- Recycling bins to separate plastic, paper and general waste
- Sustainably sourced design in every room, featuring a unique all-in-one pod that includes the bed and bathroom
- Bee-Kind organic toiletries
- Hansgrohe Airdrop shower heads in the bathroom mix air with water, reducing the amount of water used by 25% per minute without affecting the shower’s water pressure
- Super king-size mattresses from UK based Natural Mat - handcrafted, natural, organic and made from renewable and sustainable sources
- Bottled filtered water is available in the rooms and in the restaurant, helping to eliminate the use of plastic throughout the hotel
- Furniture in rooms and around the hotel are re-purposed / re-used pieces, including desks made of reclaimed wood and lamps made using old hosepipes
- Guests staying multiple nights who volunteer to not have their room cleaned will receive a £5 voucher to spend at the bar as a way of saying thank you for being part of the green effort
Throughout the hotel;
- C02 emissions are 67% less than industry average - the same as 125 family car trips around the Equator!
- Water consumption is 41% less than other UK hotels. That’s the equivalent to four Olympic sized swimming pools.
- Electrical consumption is 8% less than industry standard - which is equivalent to boiling 321,745 kettles.
- All lighting is LED and energy efficient, and have solar panels on the roof meaning the hotel runs on East London sunshine!
- Corridor lights are run on light saving sensory controls.
- The bar and kitchen strive to use local suppliers where possible.
- There are electric car charging points in the hotel private gated car park.
- The hotel recycles all plastic, paper and glass.
- Non-toxic cleaning products are chosen whenever possible!
- Accessible Rooms
- Disabled facilities - Disable access and Disable room available on request
Booking & Payment Details
- American Express accepted
- Visa/Mastercard/Switch accepted
- Contactless payment only
- Individually wrapped toiletries
- Free WIFI
- Free Parking on Site - available on first comes first serve basis
- Air conditioning
- Television available
- WiFi or internet access
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By Josefino R. Gomez
Investopedia defines Growth Investing as a strategy whereby an investor seeks out stocks with what they deem good growth potential. In most cases a growth stock is defined as a company whose earnings are expected to grow at an above-average rate compared to its industry or the overall market. There are no exact formulas or specific methods for evaluating this potential. We will try to present some guidelines and strategies for picking growth companies by standing on the shoulder of some of the growth investing giants.
Michael Moe, founder and CEO of ThinkEquity Partners who identified the world famous coffee company named after a Moby Dick character long before it became famous, wrote in his book his framework for finding growth companies. We will expound on some of his main points:
Find industries which are growing or will continue to grow in the future due to excess demand.
We can also search for identifiable megatrends such as globalization, growing middle class, urbanization, growth in trade, cloud computing, online shopping.
Look at the companies in an identified growth industry. Specifically, look at the following:
People: The management must be great. They must be visionaries and must have character and skills to manage a company. Preferably owns a good chunk of the company.
Product: Their products must have a huge demand from their customers.
Potential: Are the products of the company scalable? If it’s a restaurant, will they be able to duplicate the taste and quality of their food? If it’s a port operator, will their efficient operations and past experience be usable and applicable to other countries?
Predictability: Looking at the historical financials and envisioning their future, is their growth predictable? Are the earnings consistent with the growth in sales? Can we reasonably estimate the earnings and revenue growth of the future?
A disciplined way for valuing companies will reduce the risk of chasing a stock that’s gone ahead of itself without any supporting fundamentals.
P/E to growth is a classic way growth investors value growth companies. P/E is the stock price per share to earnings per share ratio. If the normal P/E of a company is 10 times and its earnings per share is growing at an annual rate of 20%, the P/E/G ratio is 0.50. It means that it is trading at a discount because the general rule is that a normal growth company in a normal market environment should trade at a P/E/G ratio of 1 or 100%. Other metrics such as P/S or Price to Sales and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method may also be used. Of course each of these valuation methods has their own strengths and weaknesses.
Phil Fisher, a long time successful growth investor and the author of the classic book “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” presented some of his investing philosophy as follows: (I will also put in parenthesis quotes from Peter Lynch, a retired and successful portfolio manager from Fidelity Magellan. Observe that they have a similar investing philosophy.)
Buy stocks in companies with disciplined plans for achieving long term growth in both sales and profits. They must have a moat or a competitive advantage that will make it hard for new companies to reduce their market share. (“If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings – assuming the company in question has earnings. As you’ll see in this text, I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.”)
Find these companies when they are ignored, unloved and unwanted, when the market conditions are unfavourable or most investors do not properly see their true worth. (“I’ve found that when the market’s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won’t get there by reading ‘Now is the time to buy.’”)
Hold the stocks until there has been a fundamental change in business fundamentals or it will no longer grow at a faster rate than the economy. Don’t sell simply due to short-term market volatility. (“As long as the same-store sales are on the increase, the company is not crippled by excessive debt, and it is following its expansion plans as described in its reports, it usually pays to stick with the stock.”)
Since the goal is long term appreciation of capital, a low or no dividend pay out is generally expected. (“Buying stocks in a utility company is good because it gives you a higher dividend, but you’ll make money in growth stocks. Over the long term, it’s better to buy stocks in small companies.”)
There are relatively a small number of truly outstanding companies. Concentrate on your best ideas. Holding more than 20 companies is not advisable. (“Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.”)
Invest in what you know. Be more knowledgeable than others and use your judgment after thoroughly analyzing the facts and objectively measuring your risk for each situation. Have the courage to act against the crowd when your judgment tells you that you are right. (“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. Buy or do not buy the stock on the basis of whether or not growth meets your objectives and whether the price is reasonable.”)
Recognize that mistakes in picking stocks are inevitable. Trying to learn and understand from these mistakes is a must. (“You should invest in several stocks because out of every five you pick, one will be very great, one will be really bad, and three will be OK.”)
And finally…success in investing is highly dependent on a combination of hard work, intelligence and honesty. (“You shouldn’t just pick a stock – you should do your homework. As I look back on it now, it’s obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. If stock picking could be quantified, you could rent time on the nearest Cray computer and make a fortune. But it doesn’t work that way. All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.”) | <urn:uuid:8cafc224-c3d2-4080-8041-20e81dd4f3fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moneysense.com.ph/growth-investing-strategies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961459 | 1,360 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Anthrax outbreak in wild boars in Athirappilly forest region
Several wild boars have died in Kerala’s Athirappilly forest region in the last few days due to an anthrax outbreak, the state government said on Wednesday.
”Wild boars have died en masse in the Athirappilly forest area. Subsequently, the Health Department, the Animal Husbandry Department and the Forest Department conducted an investigation. Samples of these were tested to confirm the case of anthrax infection,” Health Minister Veena George said in a statement.
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Kerala college student die from rabies
A college student in Kerala passed away in the early hours of Thursday, June 30, a month after she was bitten by a dog and was being treated for rabies. The eighteen year old young woman, who lived in Mankara area of Palakkad district was bitten by a dog on May 30, when she was on her way to college. She was studying Bachelors in Computer Application (BCA) at a college in Coimbatore, where she was a first year student.
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How much climbing do you need to do to justify a road trip? For people with unlimited free time—a.k.a. college students—that’s a silly question. Any road trip is worthwhile. But for weekend warriors, calculating whether it’s worth the time, gas money, and neglected chores to drive to a distant crag can be a tough assignment.
I have to make this decision several times each winter, when the warm limestone of Shelf Road is a tempting target. Shelf is about three hours’ drive from my home. If I have one free day, is it worth driving that far for just a few pitches? Or should I stay home and try to eke out the same pitch count on colder crags—or just go to the gym?
Fortunately, there’s an answer to this question. In fact, there are several answers.
The Quota (Pitches Per Hour)
This simple rule, followed by many climbers, was given its name by Kolin Powick in an article in Climbing265: You have to climb at least as many pitches as the number of hours you travel by car and/or plane. It takes me about six hours, round-trip, to drive to and from Shelf Road, so six pitches is the minimum for a worthy day.
The Floor Equation (Climbing Days Per Mile)
The problem with the Quota is it doesn’t always work well for multi-day trips. Let’s say I spend the full weekend at Shelf, but my finger hurts on day two and I only complete seven pitches for the weekend. An average of 3.5 pitches a day doesn’t sound too good, even though the total of seven pitches meets the Quota.
To work around this, Wyoming climber Dennis Horning borrowed a concept from mathematics called the floor. The floor function identifies the largest integer (a non-fractional number) less than or equal to x. Horning’s version of the floor is to take the one-way distance for any climbing trip and lower it to the nearest multiple of 100 (235 miles = 200; 575 miles = 500; and so on). He divides the resulting number by 100, and this gives him the number of days necessary for a road trip to be worthwhile.
Example: If Horning plans to drive from his Laramie home to Devils Tower (309 miles one way), he needs to spend at least three days there: 309 becomes 300, divided by 100, equals three days. The Floor works pretty well for both short and long trips. My drive to Shelf Road (about 148 miles) is worth a day trip under the Floor. But if I want to drive to Smith Rock (1,143 miles), I’d better plan to spend at least 11 days there. Sounds about right.
The Five-Star Exemption
The Floor doesn’t work every time, though, because it assumes you’re climbing a lot. But what if you get snowed out of Smith on your spring road trip (it happened to me), and you end up climbing only a few pitches in a week? In that case, neither the Floor nor the Quota justifies the trip.
But we all know that some journeys are totally worthy even if you only climb a few pitches—as long as those pitches are unforgettable. These are the Five-Star Exemptions.
I have a friend who drove all the way from Boulder, Colorado, to Canyonlands National Park in Utah for a weekend. It was a little over 400 miles from home, a 15-hour round trip (including a long section on a dirt road), and neither the Quota nor the Floor would justify that distance. He only climbed seven pitches. But he was perfectly happy because those seven pitches led up Moses, the greatest tower in the desert.
This is a useful way to look at any road trip, whether you use the Quota, the Floor, or some other method to justify your travel. The lesson of the Five-Star Exemption is this: Once you get to the crag, make it count.
Got your own system for determining a road trip’s worthiness? Tell us in the comments.
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For 50 hours, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet and Japanese Coast Guard and naval forces frantically searched for Gas Turbine Systems Technician 3rd Class Peter Mims — a sailor who went missing from the USS Shiloh.
Now, more than a week later, Mims has been found alive, hiding in the engine room, Navy Times first reported on Thursday. How he survived there for seven days is a mystery, but we’re willing to bet MREs and piss bottles were involved.
When they couldn’t find him on June 8, the crew of the USS Shiloh presumed Mims fell overboard and ordered a massive search-and-rescue party.
Aircraft from the USS Ronald Reagan along with destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS McCampbell assisted Shiloh and the Japanese Navy in a comprehensive search of roughly 5,500 square miles of ocean, according to a statement from the 7th Fleet. But the Navy called off the search on June 11 after the mission proved unable in finding Mims.
“We are thankful to have found our missing shipmate and appreciate all the hard work of our Sailors and Japanese partners in searching for him,” Rear Adm. Charles Williams, commander, Carrier Strike Group 5 and Task Force 70 said in a statement on Thursday. “I am relieved that this Sailor’s family will not be joining the ranks of Gold Star Families that have sacrificed so much for our country.”
The circumstances by which he managed to hide out in the engine room are now under investigation. The Navy did not divulge Mims’ condition, but he is being flown off the Shiloh for evaluation.
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It is clear and obvious that communication requires two parties.
But, effective communication requires two parties that are each willing to say that his or her respective world is not the only world. An essence of learning requires a person to be humble enough to recognize there can be something about how he thinks that is missing or distorted and that can be improved. Empathy is a learning that involves a strong willingness to putting oneself in another’s position and to reevaluate especially those things considered “obvious” within himself.
In some sense, we all live in fishbowls. Just knowing that another world is outside of our own provides much of the impetus to at least recognize it and perhaps incorporate it into our own world.
After watching this video created by a person with autism, I went over to the director’s impressive and extensive website. I think I have spent the past hour there at least. Please note, the first several minutes of the YouTube video are “In My Language” – wait for the 3:12 mark for the translation.
There are several people who are saying that the methods of communication presented by the writer/director are possibly a hoax. I’ll let you decide for yourself. As far as I can tell, though, there are a ton of well written posts and responses on her website that ring very true to the autistic’s plight.
In this respect, regardless of whether of not presentation is “fake,” the movies and blog function well as a wake up call to others to say that there are worlds of people out there that do not receive the respect they deserve as human beings – simply because of a breakdown of communication.
How much of this communication could even happen without the presently evolving systems of multi-player/multi-user environments such as virtual worlds and the Internet? It is fascinating to see that this massive communication project, in process of being built by individual bloggers, technicians, electricians, gamers etc., is also in turn helping us to better recognize the limitations we’ve had in understanding each other.
So in some sense, humanity is (unconsciously?) attempting to gain connections to one another. But it is still the onus of the individual to recognize his limitations in order to learn from others.
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Many people ask us what to do with all those traditional bulbs that we will change in the months or years to come for more efficient bulbs, energetically speaking. In fact, many countries have already banned them and the vast majority of countries are expected to do so soon. Well, we already have several examples of bulb recycling on the web.
You can also switch to efficient lighting with this other article: How to make a homemade LED flashlight.
Here we leave you 16 original ideas to be able to reuse all those bulbs that we are removing or removing from our homes in a short period of time. By investing little money, with work and skill, you can achieve all the designs that we offer.
- A ship in a light bulb.
- Coffee maker with two bulbs.
- Make decorations for our Christmas tree.
- More Christmas decorations.
- Make our own homemade Christmas balloons.
- Hourglass with two candle bulbs.
- Spirit lamp.
- Salt – Pepper shaker.
- With LED diodes to decorate.
- Pot with flowers.
- Convert our bulbs into lamps.
- Spice jars.
- Home decorations.
- Hanging vases.
- Christmas wreath.
- Mini – flowerpots with bulbs.
- Small greenhouse for cultivation.
1. A boat in a light bulb.
Explanatory video where you can find the instructions for doing it at home.
2. Coffee maker with two bulbs.
A manual shared on YouTube by user Rulof Maker, a “Do it yourself” expert with some pretty interesting ideas.
3. Make decorations for our Christmas tree.
Some fantastic decorations that you can make with the little ones in the house. You can reduce the amount of garbage produced at Christmas.
4. More Christmas decorations. Full instructions.
Light bulbs are a great raw material for making all kinds of Christmas decorations. Experiment, surely many possibilities are presented to you.
5. Make ours christmas balloons home made.
A complicated project but with a spectacular result.
6. hourglass with two candle bulbs.
A very original hourglass.
7. Alcohol lamp.
With a wick and alcohol we can make a super original lamp.
8. For example in this the Web, they relocate them in the kitchen.
Salt and pepper shakers for your kitchen.
9. In this other They replace the old filaments with LED diodes, for decorative purposes.
By adding LEDs, we can use them as decorative items.
10. Vase with flowers.
Very original and easy to make vases.
Eleven. Unlimited bulbs at home, a company that sells a kit to convert our bulbs into lamps.
This company is dedicated to designing modern lamps using old traditional light bulbs as the base.
12. Spice jars.
A project that I love. One species per bulb, you can also make the base yourself.
A magnificent mini terrarium which will hallucinate all those who see it.
A miniature aquarium in a project for the brave.
Beautiful decorative balloons relatively easy to make.
16. Home decorations.
With a little imagination, you can use light bulbs as a base for your interior decorations.
17. Hanging vases.
Some hanging vases to make your porch unique.
This if you didn’t expect it 😉
19. Christmas wreath.
A Christmas wreath with those colorful bulbs that we used years ago to add a touch of color.
twenty. Mini – pots with bulbs.
21. Small greenhouse for cultivation.
How to convert a traditional light bulb into a small greenhouse for growing plants at home.
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Black Life in Bellevue: Documenting African American Cultural Landscape Along the Chesapeake Bay
Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society and its Past is Present Initiative will partner with Bellevue Village, located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in Talbot County, and the Bellevue Passage Museum, to conduct a field school aimed at using the venue’s cultural landscape to advance historical understanding and cultural conservation of an African American community, whose aspirations and development were shaped by the Chesapeake estuarine environment.
Call for Applications: Field School, July 5-July 30, 2022
The Field School is open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as life-long learners. Applicants should prepare a 1-2 page typewritten statement providing their contact information, relevant educational or occupational experience, and why they desire to participate in the field school. This information should be forwarded by email attachment to Dr. Michael Chiarappa at firstname.lastname@example.org or by regular mail to the address listed below.
The Field School is driven to give African Americans the tools and experience to research their heritage and design interpretive programming and tourism that will benefit their communities.
The materials generated through these exercises will be used to create history exhibits and public programming for the Bellevue Passage Museum, as well as serving as resources for heritage tourism in the area. In addition to these outcomes, field school exercises will contribute to the design of a web-based presence for the museum and the community’s wider history, along with providing greater vision for how such documentary work can facilitate cultural conservation and community identity in Bellevue.
About the Program
This field school is inspired by the Bellevue community’s commitment to its African American history and the curatorial vision of longtime resident Colonel William DeShields, U.S. Army-retired. His lifetime commitment to collecting Bellevue’s historical materials highlights the power of community-driven initiatives and underscores why the curatorial care of the historical landscape is critical in advancing a fuller understanding of the places and spaces that animated Bellevue’s African American life.
Led by field school co-directors Michael Chiarappa, Ph.D. and Janet Sheridan, M.A.
and community coordinators Drs. Dennis and Mary DeShields, students will be immersed
in Bellevue’s historical/cultural resources and its contemporary cultural life. Residing
and working in Bellevue for four weeks, students will learn the skills required to
document cultural landscapes—measuring, drawing, and photographing buildings, using
historic documents and visual materials, and conducting oral histories with longtime
residents. Complementing these approaches, students will be introduced to new methodologies
that employ geographic information systems (mapping), computer-aided recording and
visual presentation, and other digital technology that serves to gather and utilize
information that can be used to present Bellevue’s history and its cultural significance
along the Chesapeake Bay.
- Program dates: July 5-30, 2022
- Location: Bellevue Village, located on Maryland's Eastern Shore in Talbot County, and the Bellevue Passage Museum
- Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as life-long learners
- Participants can elect to take the field school for academic credit, or as non-credit enrollees
- Field school students can choose to receive undergraduate credit through Washington College, or they may choose to arrange independent study arrangements as undergraduate/graduate students at their home institutions.
- Students and practitioners from any number of disciplines or occupations are encouraged to apply, but must have an abiding interest in the buildings, places, and local history of African American life.
- Applicants should prepare a 1-2 page typewritten statement providing their contact information, relevant educational or occupational experience, and why they desire to participate in the field school. This information should be forwarded by email attachment to Dr. Michael Chiarappa at email@example.com or by regular mail to the address listed below.
- Limited to nine students, each applicant will be interviewed either through online video conferencing, or in-person. Due to limited enrollment, potential participants are encouraged to apply early, and no later than April 8th, to receive the fullest consideration.
- The field school is supported by the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the University of Virginia's School of Architecture through funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which means students will incur no cost for any room, board, or transportation expenses associated with the field school.
- Additionally, each student will receive a stipend/living allowance during the four week session.
Meet Our Team
Michael J. Chiarappa is Co-Director of the field school. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is Research Professor of Chesapeake Regional Studies and Director of Cultural and Natural Resource Initiatives at Washington College’s Center for the Environment and Society. Dr. Chiarappa was previously Professor of History at Quinnipiac University and a faculty member in History and Environmental Studies at Western Michigan University. He is co-author of Fish for All: An Oral History of Multiple Claims and Divided Sentiment on Lake Michigan (2003), co-editor of Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds (2012) and the author of articles focusing on vernacular architecture/landscapes, regional material culture, and marine environmental history. Dr. Chiarappa’s research and teaching is focused in the areas of American environmental history, the history of America’s built environments and landscapes, American maritime history, and local/regional history. He is also specializes in public history and historic preservation and formerly co-directed the Public History Program at Western Michigan University where he taught courses in historic preservation, documentation methods, and cultural resource management. He has conducted numerous field schools focusing on historic preservation, maritime preservation, museology, oral history, and local history and has worked on historic preservation, maritime preservation, and public history projects in the Middle Atlantic, New England, Chesapeake and Great Lakes regions, and in the Pacific Islands. He is currently co-editor of the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s journal, Buildings and Landscapes and serves on the Scholarly Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. A graduate of the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, he has worked extensively with a variety of museums and government agencies, including the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service.
Janet Sheridan is Co-Director of the field school and is a cultural landscape historian and historic preservation consultant based in Salem County, New Jersey. She holds a master's degree from the University of Delaware, and attended the Laval Université Summer Field School in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes in Gaspé, Québec. The diversity of fields she has engaged in over the years—ecology, photography, civil engineering, historic architecture, historic preservation planning and advocacy—she applies to the study of historic cultural landscapes. Her research, much of which has been funded under research grants from the state of New Jersey, has documented African American sites, farmsteads, outbuildings, and pre-industrial timber frame architecture in southwestern New Jersey along the Delaware Bay. Her first African American research project followed her discovery of the 1798 home of Reuben Cuff, one of the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816. After that, she investigated the history of Marshalltown, a forgotten antebellum free-Black settlement, which she surveyed and listed as a historic district on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 2013 and which received a statewide award in 2021.
Mary and Dennis DeShields
Drs. Dennis and Mary DeShields are Community Coordinators for the field school. Dennis is a fourth-generation descendent of Bellevue, where his father and aunt continue to reside. While visiting his grandparents in the 1980s, Dennis was consistently taken by Bellevue’s location on the Chesapeake, its community spirit, and its history. Eventually, Bellevue became a holiday and weekend retreat for the DeShields’ and their young family and in 1998 it became their home. Since this time, the DeShields’ have become committed to preserving Bellevue’s rich culture and heritage and are leading the effort to establish the Bellevue Passage Museum, a place where this history can be presented to wider audiences and serve as a center of cultural conservation for the community.
Candace Henry is Assistant Community Coordinator for the field school and is currently
the Director of the Disability Resource Center at Salisbury University. In addition,
she represents District 2 on the Talbot County Board of Education and was recently
named the first Managing Director of the Water’s Edge Museum located in Oxford, MD
(Talbot County’s first fully accessible African American history museum). As an educator,
Ms. Henry is committed to educating young people who are empowered and socially awakened
to the value and importance of inclusion for all.
Kentavius Jones is one of the field school’s historians and holds a B.A. and M.A. from Washington College. He is a musician, community educator, and historian of African American life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He was a fellow on the 2021 Hip Hop Time Capsule project—an initiative that uses African American gospel music as a vehicle to more broadly examine African American history and culture in Kent County, Maryland and throughout Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The Hip Hop Time Capsule program is part of a partnership program with the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Together, these partners shape the broader Chesapeake Heartlands project which focuses on the study, interpretation, and dissemination of African American cultural history in Kent County, Maryland. Jones is also the Music and Creative Director for the Maryland Spirituals Initiative at the Water’s Edge Museum in Oxford, Maryland, an African American art museum that honors the founding Black families of Maryland and America. He sits on the board of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland and he is currently the interim Director of Talbot Mentors.
Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz
Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz is the Director of Collections and Visitor Engagement at Stratford Hall Plantation. She earned a BA in Black Studies and History from the College of William and Mary, and a MA and PhD in African American Studies from U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of critically acclaimed book, Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine.
Tony C. Perry
Tony C. Perry received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, an M.A. in American Studies from Purdue University, and a B.A. in English and Africana Studies from Bowdoin College. He is Curator of Environmental History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH). Prior to assuming his position at NMAH, Dr. Perry held post-doctoral faculty appointment at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Perry’s research focuses on the environmental history of slavery in the U.S. In this work Perry examines how the institution of slavery informed enslaved people’s relationship to the environment, how this relationship diverged from that of slaveholders, and how differences in the enslaved community contributed to differences in said relationship among slaves. He argues that across several dimensions of the environment – the land and landscape, the aquatic, the weather, and the supernatural – enslaved women and men relied heavily on the latter as the primary arena of power from which they drew, even as they frequently found the environment an antagonizing entity in their daily lives.
Dr. Perry is currently working on his first book, which will feature his research on the environmental history of slavery in Maryland. He has also published an article based on this work in Slavery & Abolition titled “In Bondage when Cold was King: The Frigid Terrain of Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” which he completed during his time as a predoctoral fellow in the Carter G. Woodson Institute.
Elizabeth Seidel is the Director of Washington College's Past Is Present Archaeology Laboratory, having founded it in 1999 as the college’s Public Archaeology Lab. The work of the lab has included field investigations of several African American sites on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. As an archaeologist who has worked for the Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology, the University of Maryland College Park, and Anne Arundel County, she has extensive background in the material culture of the region, as well as skills in historical research. Ms. Seidel's interests and experience also encompass museums and public education. She previously served as Director of Education for London Town Public House and Gardens and as the Administrator for the Queen Anne's County Historic Sites Consortium where she oversaw twelve small museums throughout the county.
Mrs. Erica McMaster is the GIS Program Director at Washington College. She has over fifteen years of experience in GIS and ESRI software products, and is a certified GIS Professional (GISP) through the GIS Certification Institute. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Geography, with a specialization in Geographic Information Systems. Her experience spans academia, as well as both public and private sectors, having previously worked for University of Delaware, the National Park Service, and McCrone, Inc. Civil Engineering. At Washington College, she serves as both an Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology, teaching courses in human geography, GIS, and remote sensing, and as the Director of the GIS Laboratory, a geospatial technologies hub with a mission of providing students with experiential learning opportunities through professional work experience.
John L. Seidel
John L. Seidel is an historical archaeologist whose work focuses on human intersections with the environment, especially in maritime contexts. Dr. Seidel has led numerous interdisciplinary research teams, while also developing innovative curriculum that engages students in learning by doing. Although his work has taken him to the Middle East and Central & South America, his primary focus is the Chesapeake Region. Of particular interest are archaeology and architectural history, tourism and museums, cultural landscape analyses, and the use of new technologies in research. At Washington College, Dr. Seidel is on the faculty in Anthropology and Environmental Science & Studies, while also directing the Center for Environment & Society. | <urn:uuid:b48133bb-7837-4a48-9c7f-b43e20b58ed8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wciii.washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/ces/black-life-bellevue.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949602 | 3,087 | 2.25 | 2 |
Anyone who has occasion to sit in the County District Courts of North Carolina, the state where I reside, can’t help but see and hear the endless parade of defendants appearing before the judge on routine traffic infractions resulting in the imposition of court costs and sometimes fines.
The court costs are generally $189.00. If someone is unable to pay, a late fee of $70.00 is tacked on and the privilege to operate a vehicle is revoked. If caught operating a vehicle while the privilege is revoked, that person could, until very recently, be subject to up to 120 days incarceration, even though the sole reason for the revocation was inability to pay a fine. The legislature, not long ago, amended the statute to repeal incarceration as a penalty, provided the reason for the revocation was neither Driving Under the Influence nor Reckless Driving. | <urn:uuid:e07c71de-3071-43d0-be5b-12a1f08c0ba5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ifthisbetreason.com/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948093 | 172 | 1.625 | 2 |
Mindfulness Tools for Smartphones
The Mindfulness App by Mindapps: The app comes with guided meditation practices of 3, 5, 15, and 30 minutes in length. There’s also a silent meditation option and a brief body-scan practice. Like most meditation apps, you can customize your meditation and track your progress. You can set location alerts to remind you to stop and meditate at a particular time or day of the week, or when you enter a certain location.
Buddify: Clear, simple design and relaxing guided meditations. Customize your meditation to your location: It offers tailored guides for when you’re at home, walking or at the gym.
Simply Being: Short guided meditations, with or without music and nature sounds, for relaxation and presence are the focus of this app. Perfect for beginners looking for something simple. Simply Being is highly rated for being user-friendly and customizable.
Headspace (on-the-go): The comprehensive guided meditation sessions offer clear and straight-forward mindfulness instruction for beginners. Ten day starter program available free of charge. You can continue to access videos and audio meditations by subscribing for a monthly fee.
Smiling Mind: Designed specifically for young people, this app makes meditation fun, easy and accessible. Created by a team of psychologists who specialize in adolescent therapy, the app offers programs catered to different age groups, from 7-11 years old to adult, and also includes reminders.
Mindfulness Meditation by Mental Workout: Provides guided meditations for both beginners and more experienced mindfulness practitioners. The app features an eight-week program, inspiration talks, body scans and relaxation instructions. Designed by renowned meditation teacher and psychotherapist Stephan Bodian.
Walking Meditations: This app by Meditation Oasis, the makers of Simply Being, is geared toward mediation on-the-go with three different guided walking meditations. The app comes with a diary for users to keep track of their progress.
Meditate – Meditation Timer: A basic meditation timer app that allows you to follow your own practice, either silently or accompanied by bells. The statistics feature also allows users to track their practice and chart progress.
Online Mindfulness Bell: Can be used to support your mindfulness meditation practice by setting the intervals at which you want the bell to ring. It can also be set to ring at regular intervals through out the day as a reminder to stretch, take a few conscious breaths, smile, express gratitude, or whatever it is you need to do remind you to be present.
Mindfulness Bell for Android Phone: Works similarly to the online bell above – you can set it up to ring periodically as a reminder to be present.
Mind: A simple iPhone app that lets you set the number of minutes you want to mediate for, and rings a gong to signal the end.
Insight Timer: Tibetan singing bowl bells that can be set for various lengths of time. Best for those who prefer silent meditations. | <urn:uuid:fefc06e1-3251-4494-b056-df38eccab906> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bcalm.ca/resources/mindfulness-tools-for-smartphones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.910523 | 611 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Flint Water Resource Sites
The Flint Water Resource Sites is an effort by the State of Michigan to share resources with residents impacted by the Flint water crisis. The website provides a list of places where residents can pick up materials and supplies, as well information on assistance programs that may interest those affected. Free lead testing for children under 7, utility bill assistance, eviction and foreclosure services, emergency financial and food provisions, home heating bill assistance, and housing programs are among those listed. The website also lists addresses for food distribution from a mobile food pantry and clothing distributions.
The website publicizes where people can go to pick up bottled water, water filters, filter replacement cartridges, water testing kits, and deposit recycling from previous supplies. In addition, information on lead and tips on how to avoid lead contamination in water are provided, such as replacing lead pipes with copper pipes, replacing faucet aerators, and running the cold water tap for five minutes before using it for drinking or cooking. | <urn:uuid:35f6e7f5-d910-433a-b7f2-fb8315135ec8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://uswateralliance.org/organization/flint-water-resource-sites | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944428 | 198 | 2.75 | 3 |
NEW YORK, July 22, 2019—The Museum of Modern Art announces a major gift of 45 works of African contemporary art from the prolific collector Jean Pigozzi. The gift includes a selection of sculptures by Romuald Hazoumè (Beninese, born 1962) and Bodys Isek Kingelez (Congolese, 1948–2015); paintings by Moké (Congolese, 1950–2001) and Chéri Samba (Congolese, born 1956); an extraordinary group of photographs by artists such as Seydou Keïta (Malian, 1923–2001), Ambroise Ngaimoko/Studio 3Z (Congolese, born Angola. 1949), and Jean Depara (Congolese, born Angola. 1928–1997); drawings by the mystic Gedewon (Ethiopian, 1939–1995) and Abu Bakarr Mansaray (Sierra Leonian, born 1970); and one of the landmark works of the 20th century: Alphabet bété (1991), a pictographic alphabet of 449 syllables by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivorian, 1923–2014) that the artist hoped would be a new tool for universal communication. This gift makes MoMA a unique institutional leader in this aspect of contemporary African art.
Pigozzi first started collecting African art in 1989, after seeing the exhibition Magiciens de la Terre in Paris. In the ensuing decades, with single-minded vision, dedication, and passion, he assembled, with the help of curator André Magnin, one of the largest privately held collections of African contemporary art in the world today, the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC).
“Several years ago, we began a conversation with Jean about the possibility of making a major gift to the Museum from his remarkable collection. Subsequently Jean allowed us to study his collection in depth and not only encouraged us but was instrumental in helping us realize Sarah Suzuki’s groundbreaking 2018 exhibition Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams,” said Glenn D. Lowry, The David Rockefeller Director of The Museum of Modern Art. “Now this gift, the result of an extensive dialogue with Jean, will have a transformative effect on MoMA’s collection and exhibition program, and will play an important role in the Museum’s reimagined collection installation when MoMA opens its newly expanded campus on October 21, 2019.” | <urn:uuid:9cea3ff3-4715-4223-b61a-bcc826880535> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artandobject.com/press-release/moma-receives-transformative-gift-african-contemporary-art | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.904396 | 503 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Quote: Not to mourn him but to make sure he was dead (1952)
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Wed Dec 4 06:21:50 UTC 2013
In a classic Hollywood anecdote a powerful and detested movie mogul
dies and when his funeral is held people are flabbergasted by the
enormous attendance. Finally, an acridly witty individual suggests an
explanation: "The only reason so many people attended his funeral was
they wanted to make sure he was dead."
The Yale Book of quotations lists a version of this quip attributed to
Samuel Goldwyn in a key 1960 citation. The expired potentate was Louis
B. Mayer whose funeral was held in 1957. Nigel Rees has the same cite
in Cassell's Humorous Quotations. Sometimes the role of the late
unlamented movie man is filled by Harry Cohn who died in 1958.
Here is an instance of the joke in 1952 which suggests that quipsters
were repeating an existing barb, or the anecdote(s) were fictitious.
[ref] 1952, Joey Adams' Joke Book by Joey Adams, Quote Page 213,
Frederick Fell, Inc., New York. (Verified on paper)[/ref]
When he died, thousands showed up, not to mourn him but to make sure
he was dead. Nobody wanted to give the eulogy at the funeral because
nobody could think of anything nice to say. They finally induced one
man because, "You know his family, and you knew him better than
anybody else. Maybe you can think of one nice thing to say about him."
He finally consented, and after much thought said, "This man lying
here was a cheat, a faker, a no-good bum and a stinker, but he's got
six brothers and compared to them, he's an angel."
Off Topic: Many list members have helped me in a variety of ways to
explore quotations, and I wish to heartily thank them all for their
kindness and resourcefulness!
The number of unique visitors to the Quote Investigator website for
the year 2013 has exceeded 2 million according to Google Analytics.
(The metric "unique visitors" is distinct from "visitors". If a single
visitor returns to a website many times he or she is only counted once
by the "unique visitors" metric, in theory. This metric also differs
from hits, page views, etcetera)
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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The Nine-Fairfax Media deal, billed as the biggest shakeup in the Australian media landscape for decades, was widely anticipated once the Turnbull government repealed the main anti-concentration laws in 2017. It may well result in the loss of a highly respected independent quality media voice. It has certainly fired the starting gun on a new phase of media concentration.
It’s the latest and arguably the most dramatic episode in the media concentration saga in Australia. This is already among the most concentrated media markets in the world, behind countries like China and Egypt. These developments signal that media diversity policies need a major overhaul to take account of the impact of the media-tech platform giants on traditional news media businesses.
In many ways this by now widely telegraphed process of media convergence has been the strategy of two of Australia’s largest legacy media companies to survive a bit longer against the onslaught of the Silicon Valley FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) behemoths. If approved it will create Australia’s largest media company – and presumably the loudest private media voice with the most political clout in the country.
Former prime minister Paul Keating notes that this could have been predicted from the first implementation of cross-media rules back in the late 1980s. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says he’s “ownership agnostic” – if we can just park the fact that it was the government’s horse-trading efforts directed towards crossbench senators that led to precisely this outcome. And the Coalition and its supporters would welcome regulatory approval of the deal by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Many believe that subsuming Fairfax Media will assist in muzzling the edgier, more critical journalism in the group’s mastheads and generally advance an editorial position that is favourable to the government. After all, former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello chairs the Nine board. In the lead-up to a federal election in 2019, the timing could not be better for the conservatives.
Clock’s ticking for local news
The deal, if it goes forward, has also fired the starting gun on a process of further dismantling media in the bush. As print media audiences are reaching their expiry dates, we can expect to see the loss of important local newspapers such as the Newcastle Herald and the Launceston Examiner.
Newspapers like these play a key civic journalism role in those communities. They have, for example, pressured governments to set up royal commissions such as the inquiry into institutional responses to sexual abuse.
So local, regional and suburban journalism will be among the losers in this convergence of media platforms. Even major metro titles like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are under a cloud as Fairfax’s more profitable digital media assets, such as the Domain real estate site and streaming service Stan, have become the focus of the business.
While some sector-specific ownership and control rules remain in place, these are limited in number and scope. They apply only to legacy media of commercial television, commercial radio and associated (print) newspapers. The rules would not affect the combined reach of Nine News and Fairfax’s well-recognised online news brand.
Who’s left to defend diversity?
So will the ACCC’s inquiry come up with any public interest regulatory antidotes? Its digital platforms inquiry does extend to investigating certain aspects of pluralism or media diversity. This was one of several outcomes of the legislative and policy changes of 2017, which included the repeal of cross-media ownership laws.
However, such a decision by the ACCC would be surprising. That’s because effective media pluralism policy that is capable of addressing these kind of integrated cross-platform deals requires bipartisan support at the highest political levels. That’s not something that tends to happen much in Australian media policy.
Yet the ACCC review and the possibility of regulatory intervention using competition law is the only alternative policy lever available to regulate the adverse consequences of cross-media concentration.
The ACCC inquiry is focusing mainly on market power in relation to advertising on digital platforms. But it is also examining the role of search engines, aggregators and social media platforms and their implications for the production, delivery and consumption of sustainable quality news online.
An issues paper noted that the inquiry would consider “the impact of algorithmic selection on the plurality of news and journalistic content presented to Australian consumers”. Recommendations about the implications of automated news delivery will be critical.
But this new baked-in logic of an automated public sphere is very different to the voice concentration that has arisen out of the calculated deregulation of cross-media laws. As US legal scholar Frank Pasquale argues:
New methods of monitoring and regulation should be as technologically sophisticated and comprehensive as the automated public sphere they target.
Although it is still early days, the regulator is unlikely to stand in the way of media businesses whose rhetoric is all about “scale” and “survival”. In other words, media voice concentration is recast as a second-order issue compared to the survival of these traditional Australian media corporations.
Perhaps that survival duration should be measured in election cycles? Even better, why not look at laws and policies to ensure that the instruments of media policymaking maintain media ownership, pluralism and diversity objectives?
Tim Dwyer, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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More states are allowing the permitless concealed carry of handguns. Twelve states have adopted this level of freedom so far. New Hampshire is one of these states, and if a bill introduced by Congressman Richard Hudson and Senator John Cornyn is passed, residents of New Hampshire would be able to carry concealed throughout much of the country. The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Palazzolo writes:
The legislation, introduced in January, has broad support among Republicans, who hold a two-vote majority in the Senate. But it would need 60 votes for Senate passage, a steep climb in this hyperpartisan climate.
If passed, the measure could hasten the spread of permitless-carry laws, which were rejected in at least 15 states where lawmakers introduced bills in the most recent legislative sessions, gun-control activists said. States with strict permit regimes likely would face pressure to lower their standards to make carrying guns as easy for their residents as for out-of-state visitors.
The National Rifle Association calls the reciprocity bills its highest priority and a necessary substitute for a confusing patchwork of agreements among states that allow concealed-carry permit holders to travel with their guns to some places but not others.
“The right to defend yourself against a violent attack doesn’t end when you step outside your home or cross state lines,” said Jennifer Baker, an NRA spokeswoman.
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You’re halfway there! See what’s going on with you and your baby
At 20 weeks pregnant, you’re halfway through your pregnancy
You may start to feel your baby’s movements around 20 weeks
At your 20-week ultrasound, you should be able to tell the gender of your baby if you wish to
At 20 weeks pregnant, you are halfway through your pregnancy. While you’re anxiously waiting to meet your little bundle of joy, there’s a lot still going on in the inside. While your baby and your belly are getting bigger, you’re getting closer and closer to meeting your new addition.
From what is happening to your body to how your baby is developing, here’s everything you need to know about this pregnancy milestone.
How your body is changing
At 20 weeks pregnant, your belly is seemingly getting bigger by the minute. While your stomach is getting larger, this can lead to some pretty big aches and pains, as well. Your cute baby bump may start to cause you some back problems at this point. Your bump is also probably pretty noticeable by now.
Everyone is different, and every woman will carry differently. Don’t worry if you’re showing a lot or not at this point. Your size and genetics can play a significant role in how you carry. This will likely have nothing to do with the size of your baby.
What you’ll experience
By this point, you may also notice your appetite is getting bigger. Make sure you drink plenty of water and keep up with your snacks. Even if you don’t feel as queasy as you did in those first few weeks, it’s still vital to supply your baby with enough calories.
“At 20 weeks, you may also see that your hair and nails are getting stronger and thicker. Enjoy this nice pregnancy perk.”
Unfortunately, heartburn and indigestion can be pretty brutal at this stage of pregnancy. To help ease your symptoms, you can try and chew some sugar-free gum after your meals. The extra saliva helps neutralize stomach acids.
What is happening with your baby?
Your baby is getting bigger quickly at this point. You may start to feel your baby’s movements around this time as well. Those butterfly flutters you may have felt a couple of weeks ago may soon turn into full-blown kicks.
At 20 weeks pregnant, you only have four months to go. At this point, your baby is about the size of a sweet potato weighing around 10 ounces. Your baby is starting to put on weight, and the brain and organs are developing more.
If you are having a girl, her uterus is formed at this point. If you are having a boy, his testicles are starting to drop, and the scrotum is growing.
What to expect at your next appointment
“At your 20-week ultrasound, you should be able to tell the gender of your baby if you wish to. This appointment is also where some additional genetic testing may be done. Your doctor will be looking for substances in your blood to see if they are at risk of Down syndrome, a neural tube defect, or another genetic condition.”
Your doctor will also probably measure the growth of your baby at this point. They may talk to you about any follow-up ultrasounds or measurements that are needed. Babies move a lot, so don’t worry if you need to move around or change positions to get a good look at the sex of your baby.
In the weeks to come, make sure to stay hydrated and stretch a little when you can. Your ligaments, joints, and muscles will be getting overworked in the weeks and months to come, so keep moving and try to get comfortable.
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You need to really understand mosquito biology to do mosquito control properly. There are a variety of species in the area and they have very different breeding selection sites and life cycles.
Larviciding is the killing of larval mosquitoes, while there are in the water. This is by far the cheapest and most effective way to control mosquitoes. If possible, eliminate or drain breeding sites. Fish can be added to small ponds. If you have a larger, permanent pond, consider stocking it with the rare native California fish, the Sacramento perch. Contact us for information. Tree holes in oak tress are a major breeding site for our springtime mosquitoes, so fill tree holes with sand.
Other or larger bodies of water can be treated with the bio-control agent, Bacillus thuringiensis (bti), if the timing is right. We also use specially-made mosquito oils to suffocate the larvae.
Adulticiding is the application of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes. Foothill-Sierra Pest Control staff can use pesticides, including a repellent garlic spray if desired, to control adult mosquitoes.
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There was a time not so long ago when ‘microcars’ where often viewed as the future of city transport. Small, practical and environmentally friendly, they seemed to represent all the values necessary for 21st century city living. Perhaps the best known microcar was the Renault Twizy. Launched back in 2012 to critical acclaim, many expected Twizys to soon populate every street corner in Europe. However, despite its affordable price from a sales perspective the Twizy never really took off. Many consumers viewed it as too light and fragile, as well as uncomfortable. Also, try taking a Twizy out in the rain and you’ll soon know all about it – to say it isn’t watertight is an understatement.
But before the Twizy there was the Carver One. Launched almost twenty years back, unlike the Twizy it was not electric but instead powered by a small 65 bhp motorbike engine. The One was well received by journalists, like the Twizy, but didn’t perform strongly from a sales perspective, also like the Twizy. But now Carver are back, and this time they’re all-electric.
The new fully electric three-wheeler is simply dubbed the Carver. Fully Charged presenter Jack Scarlett immediately noted the Carver’s main selling point, DVC (Dynamic Vehicle Control). A patented technology, it keeps the car stable and enables motorbike-like turning. With room for two (just), the Carver is available in a number of colors and even comes with a spoiler as standard.
Despite its top speed of around 30 mph, Jack still had immense fun driving the Carver – largely thanks to the car’s DVC cornering ability. And the extreme low weight of the Carver means it needs just a 5.4kWh battery, which costs only around £0.25 ($0.35) to fully charge at home on UK night rates. It also has a 60 mile range, which is more than adequate for city driving. Parking in the Carver is an ease, meanwhile visibility is fantastic. The interior is basic, but has all you’ll ever need. Jack concluded that the Carver was a fantastic way to get around a city, and infinitely more fun than a Renault Twizy.
Pricing for the Carver starts at €9,980 ($11,806) in its native Netherlands. However, there are multiple versions available: the Carver Comfort (which comes with floor maths, Bluetooth and a phone holder), the Carver Sport (black alloys and better acceleration) and finally the Carver Cargo (you guessed it, it’s a van variant). Will the Carver revolutionize city transport as its makers intend? Probably not, but for the select few city dwellers aware of it the Carver could make a fantastic second car.
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In this blog post, you will learn how to fly large drones over 55 pounds using a section 333 exemption. Furthermore, we also compare FAA 333 exemption to Part 107. Which is the best option for commercial drone pilots? And why? Read on to find out.
It is a known fact that commercial drone pilots need a Part 107 certification to comply with the law of the land. However, when it comes to extremely small drones (weighing less than 250 grams [.55 pounds]) and really large drones (weighing more than 55 pounds), drone certification requirements are quite different.
For drones weighing less than 250 grams, commercial drone pilots do not need any certification at all. In fact, according to the industry rumors, the eagerly awaited DJI Spark 2 might fall in this category.
However, when it comes to large drones weighing more than 55 pounds, things are not so simple. Large drones are used for applications like crop spraying, drone deliveries, and LiDAR. The world’s largest drone, the Feihong-98 tips the scale at a large 5.25 tons.
According to the latest drone rules, anyone wanting to fly a UAS over 55 pounds will have to seek exemption under Special Authority for Certain Unmanned Systems (49 U.S.C. §44807). Section 44807 of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act replaces FAA 333 exemption of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012.
No. Section 333 is not dead.
You can still fly your drone under a Section 333 exemption. According to the FAA website, a total of 5551 exemptions have been granted to date.
Section 44807 of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act states that:
“Notwithstanding any other requirement of this chapter, the Secretary of Transportation shall use a risk-based approach to determine if certain unmanned aircraft systems may operate safely in the national airspace system”.
So, how does the FAA plan on implementing this risk-based approach to ensure the safety of the national airspace system?
These are some essential pointers for filing your Section 44807 Exemption:
No doubt, getting your Part 107 certification is a far easier option. Let us first discuss the advantages of getting your Part 107 certification over a Section 333 exemption.
For starters, only Part 61 manned aircraft license holders can apply for a Section 44807 exemption. Compared to this, there are no such requirements for getting your Part 107 license. Anyone who is above the age of 16, can speak good English and is in sound mental and physical condition can apply for a Part 107 license.
Drone registration requirements for Section 333 exemption holders mandate that they must use the traditional Part 47 process. Part 47 is a cumbersome and paper-based process that takes much longer than Part 107.
While the entire Part 107 certification process can take as little as 15 days, getting your Section 44807 exemption can take as long as 120 days.
If you are applying for a Section 333 exemption, you MUST furnish a medical certificate
Section 333 exemption holders must use a visual observer at all times. Using a VO is not mandatory for Part 107 license holders.
You can check out all the requirements in this FAA’s application for a Blanket COA
Getting a Part 107 license is undoubtedly the better option if you are flying one of the popular consumer drones like the Phantom or Mavic. However, if you wish to fly a large UAS over 55 pounds, applying for a Section 333 exemption is your ONLY resort.
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Cosemi has introduced new USB 3.1 Gen 2 active optical cables, which support full speed USB connections at distances of up to 100 meters. The cables are designed primarily for industrial applications. Cosemi’s USB 3.1 Gen 2 active optical cables feature a USB Type-A connector on one side as well as a USB Type-B connector with a screw locking mechanism on another side. The cables can enable data transfers at up to 10 Gbps speed, but they cannot power devices (which is what hybrid active optical cables are needed for), which somewhat limits applications they can address. USB 3.1 Gen 2 active optical cables like the ones offered by Cosemi are primarily used to connect industrial equipment, such as machine vision systems, to computers located off...
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The number of US mutual funds is shrinking at the fastest pace in at least two decades, reflecting cost pressures and consolidation across the investment industry and strong competition from exchange traded funds.
Consolidation among asset managers in recent years has hastened the process of closing and merging funds that fail to attract sufficient flows from investors.
After peaking at 9,616 in 2018, the number of outstanding US mutual funds has fallen towards 9,000, the lowest level since 2013, according to data due to be released this week by the Investment Company Institute.
“It is not surprising to see funds being liquidated or merged during periods when markets are volatile,” said Shelly Antoniewicz, senior director of financial and industry research at the ICI.
“Even the large fund operators are under a lot of competitive pressure and they are unable to keep a fund open that is not gaining investor traction.”
A total of 644 mutual funds were shut or combined last year, the highest figure since 2009, according to the ICI. Meanwhile, the number of mutual fund launches, 268, was the lowest since the ICI began compiling data in the late 1990s.
Mutual funds have been a staple of the US retail investment landscape for decades but their popularity has eroded in part due to the rise of the ETF, which can be bought or sold as easily as stocks and typically charge lower fees. Half the money in mutual funds flows from retirement accounts such as 401k plans and IRAs.
The number of new ETFs rose to a record 313 in 2021 although, reflecting their growing maturity, there were also a record 182 ETF liquidations last year.
Also pulling attention away from mutual funds have been collective investment trusts, which now make up one quarter of the investment options offered in 401k plans, from just 6 per cent in 2000, according to the ICI. Collective investment trusts operate under a lighter regulatory regime than mutual funds and can often be cheaper.
The downward trend in mutual funds has continued into 2021: so far this year, 64 have been liquidated and 53 have been merged, according to Morningstar.
Last month, T Rowe Price merged two US large-cap equity funds, and the asset manager said client transfers from mutual funds to other portfolios, including trusts and separate accounts, totalled $5.6bn for the first three months of the year.
Invesco is currently merging funds in the wake of its 2018 acquisition of Oppenheimer funds.
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Microbial regulation of host nutrient metabolism and immunity
Digestion and absorption of dietary nutrients are the primary physiologic functions of the intestinal tract. Impairments and augmentations in dietary nutrient harvest contribute respectively to malnutrition and cardiometabolic disease. Despite the central importance of intestinal nutrient assimilation in metabolic health, our understanding of underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms is far from complete. The ability of the microbiome to modify dietary nutrient metabolism has emerged as a key feature of host-microbe relationships in the gut. This capacity has been most extensively described in the mammalian colon where microbial fermentation of otherwise indigestible complex carbohydrates in the diet produces monosaccharides and short-chain fatty acids that can then be absorbed by the host. However, the vast majority of dietary nutrient digestion and absorption occurs in the small intestine where the contributions of the microbiome remained relatively unexplored.
Our lab has made pioneering contributions to our understanding of how the microbiome regulates dietary nutrient metabolism in the small intestine and responds to nutrient availability. We first made the landmark discovery that the microbiome stimulates IEC absorption of dietary fats and their subsequent metabolism in the liver. We also recently established the zebrafish as a model for studying physiology and environmental regulation of enteroendocrine cells (EECs). EECs are specialized sensory epithelial cells that detect luminal nutrients and microbial products, and communicate that information to the rest of the body via release of hormones and direct synaptic connections with sensory neurons. Using a combination of in vivo imaging, genetic and gnotobiotic manipulations in zebrafish, we are exploring how EECs respond and adapt to nutritional and microbial stimuli, and how these EEC responses impact upon systemic metabolism and gut-brain communication. We are currently seeking to define the specific molecular mechanisms by which bacteria regulate these aspects of host metabolic physiology. To this end, we are establishing genetic methods in bacterial strains known to regulate zebrafish metabolism such as Exiguobacterium acetylicum. We are also working with collaborators to develop organoid platforms for analysis of host-microbe interactions and nutrient metabolism in the mammalian intestine.
The intestine faces the daunting challenge of maintaining homeostasis in the context of dynamic microbial and chemical challenges. Impairment in these physiologic functions can contribute to the etiology of sepsis, IBD, and other inflammatory diseases. The mechanisms by which the host maintains intestinal barrier function and homeostasis, and modulates the immune system in response to these challenges, remain unresolved. Chemical models of intestinal injury in mice (e.g., DSS, TNBS, Oxazolone, NSAIDs) have proven to be useful tools for identifying mechanisms underlying epithelial barrier function, inflammation, and restitution. Our work has established the NSAID Glafenine as a useful chemical model of intestinal injury in the zebrafish, and used it to uncover protective roles for multi-drug resistance efflux pumps and IEC shedding in the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis. Our work has also advanced understanding of the host effector proteins that communicate microbiome colonization status to the systemic innate immune system. We found that microbiome colonization affects diverse aspects of intestinal and systemic neutrophil function. We also recently discovered that a host effector protein produced by the intestine in response to microbiome called Serum amyloid A (Saa) serves as a systemic signal to neutrophils to restrict aberrant activation, decreasing inflammatory tone and bacterial killing potential while simultaneously enhancing their ability to migrate to wounds. This work provides a critical frame of reference for our current efforts to define novel immunoregulatory factors produced by the intestine and other tissues in response to members of the microbiome.
Kanther, M., Sun. S., Mühlbauer, M., Mackey, L.C., Flynn, E.J., Bagnat, M., Jobin, C., and Rawls, J.F. (2011) Microbial colonization induces dynamic temporal and spatial NF-κB responses in the zebrafish digestive tract. Gastroenterology 141(1): 197-207. [PMCID: PMC3164861]
Semova, I., Carten, J.D., Stombaugh, J., Mackey, L.C., Knight, R., Farber, S.A., and Rawls, J.F. (2012) Microbiota and diet regulate fatty acid absorption and metabolism in the zebrafish intestine. Cell Host & Microbe 12: 277–288. [PMCID: PMC3517662]
Kanther, M., Tomkovich, S.1, Sun, X., Grosser, M.R., Koo, J., Flynn, E.J., Jobin, C., and Rawls, J.F. (2014) Commensal microbiota stimulate systemic neutrophil migration through induction of Serum amyloid A. Cell. Microbiol. 16(7): 1053-67.
Goldsmith, J.R., Cocchiaro, J.L., Rawls, J.F., and Jobin, C. (2013) Glafenine-intestinal injury in zebrafish is ameliorated by mu-opioid signaling via enhancement of Atf6-dependent cellular stress responses. Dis. Models & Mech. 6(1):146-159.
Wong, S., Burns, A.R., Stephens, W.Z., Stagaman, K., David, L.A., Guillemin, K., and Bohannan, B.J.M., and Rawls, J.F. (2015) Ontogenetic differences in dietary fat influence microbiota assembly in the zebrafish gut. MBio 6(5): e00687-15.
Bae, S., Mueller, O., Wong, S., Rawls, J.F., and Valdivia, R.H. (2016) Genomic sequencing-based mutational enrichment analysis identifies motility genes in a genetically intractable gut microbe. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113(49): 14127-14132. [PMCID: PMC5150387]
Williamson, I.A., Arnold, J.W., Samsa, L.A., Gaynor, L. DeSalvo, M., Cocchiaro, J.L., Carroll, I., Azcarate-Peril, A., Rawls, J.F., Allbritton, N.L., and Magness, S.T. (2018) A high-throughput organoid microinjection platform to study gastrointestinal luminal physiology and the microbiome. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology 6(3):301-319. [PMCID: PMC6092482]
Murdoch, C.C., Espenschied, S.T., Matty, M.A., Mueller, O., Tobin, D.M. and Rawls, J.F. (2019) Microbiota-induced Serum Amyloid A in the intestine directs systemic neutrophil function. PLoS Pathogens (in press)
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Andrew Polaszek and colleagues propose an open-access web-register for animal names, which they believe is vital to move taxonomy into the twenty-first century.
How can we maintain and continue to benefit from our planet's biodiversity? A first step, the effective exchange of information about biodiversity, needs an efficient and stable means of naming species. For animals, this is achieved with the Linnaean system of binominal nomenclature, introduced in 1758, and a comprehensive set of rules administered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). Although the Linnaean system and the ICZN code have been hugely successful, they are often perceived as failing to meet the needs of today's biologists. To meet these new demands, we propose the creation of a mandatory web register for all new animal names, and the subsequent inclusion of all existing animal names and nomenclature in a single information system.
With more than 1.5 million animal species described so far, the scale of taxonomic study today poses considerable challenges to a system developed in the age of letter-post and printing press — when the community of taxonomists and biologists was much smaller. Each year 15,000 to 20,000 new animals are named according to the rules of the current code (ICZN, 4th edn, 1999). These new names and descriptions are scattered across many journals and other publications. In entom-ology alone, taxonomically relevant information can be found in more than 1,100 specialized journals.
Moreover, sources such as books and conference proceedings are difficult to access or have low print runs. Where the code allows publication in different types of media, this adds to the complexity. These problems not only affect the progress of taxonomy, they also make it harder for taxonomy to be used by non-specialists.
One for all
We propose a register of new zoological names — ZooBank — to be established and administered by the ICZN, and bolstered by a mandatory requirement, in the next edition of the code, for the registration of new names. The register would be web-based and open-access, and would cover all taxonomic ranks relevant to the code.
The idea of a register for newly discovered organisms is not new. Such a register already exists for bacteria, and was considered and rejected by the plant-taxonomy community who decided that with fewer taxa (and some excellent existing databases) it was not needed.
We believe that ZooBank could have huge benefits for taxonomists and for biologists in general. First, many names currently published do not conform to the current code, and sorting out the ensuing mess wastes time. ZooBank would improve code-compliance by using automated tools that are integrated into the registration process. We stress that assessing the merits of different taxonomic hypotheses would not be part of ZooBank's function; it would be a register, not a peer-evaluation system. Second, anyone could sign up for automatic e-mail alerts, which would notify them of any additions or changes to the taxonomy of a particular group. Third, it would democratize taxonomy and allow those without access to major libraries to retrieve essential information.
The current code is a complex document, and there are many technical issues involved in developing an online register. These include establishing the precise date when a name becomes available (at publication or registration), effective feedback systems for correcting errors, and the problem of archiving. We are confident that these issues can be successfully addressed, as they have been for molecular databases such as GenBank.
Eventually, ZooBank could allow retrospective registration of existing names, and of all nomenclatural acts in zoology. Although this would require considerable resources, ongoing projects that seek to catalogue existing names should help immeasurably. Support from Zoological Record — the closest thing currently available to a register of animal names (http://www.biosis.org.uk/ion) — is particularly important. Other resources are the uBio nameserver (http://www.ubio.org/nameserver), Species 2000 (http://www.sp2000.org), Integrated Taxonomic Information System (http://www.itis.usda.gov) and GBIF's Electronic Catalogue of the Names of Known Organisms (http://www.gbif.org/prog/ecat). Rather than replace these projects, ZooBank will link to them and provide the definitive naming authority.
Through its website (http://www.iczn.org), the ICZN is initiating a year-long period of consultation on the merits of mandatory registration and the details of ZooBank's creation. Using existing resources, the register will be established and will accept names on a voluntary basis. Compulsory registration will begin only with community support and when resources to run the project for at least ten years are in place (with the expectation that it would continue indefinitely). Our target is to have ZooBank, and a fifth edition of the code, completed by 2008, the 250th anniversary of Linnaeus' animal nomenclature.
Taxonomists are often criticized for failing to act together as a community, not least in Nature. However, the almost universal, voluntary adherence to the current codes of nomenclature is arguably one of the strongest examples of international scientific cooperation. The success of the ICZN in facilitating this cooperation over many years makes it the right organization to spearhead a universal system for the registration of zoological names. We appeal to all taxonomists to support this project and to engage in the consultation needed to design the best system. We also appeal to all biologists, whose work depends on taxonomy, to throw their weight and influence behind this initiative.
It is inevitable, and to be welcomed, that taxonomy will rely increasingly on electronic forms of communication. Molecular methods in taxonomy, such as the current Barcode of Life initiative, will increase in importance. Integrating ZooBank with such projects will be critical in maintaining the coherence of taxonomy and avoiding conflicting systems of names. What we propose will make animal taxonomy a truly modern science.
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Polaszek, A. A universal register for animal names. Nature 437, 477 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437477a
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The animal kingdom is a truly magical environment. Every day we see something new with animals that truly blow our minds. We’ve seen countless species form an unlikely friendship with other animals. We’ve seen animals rescue other creatures and we’ve seen a whole heap of adorable animal reunions.
Well, we’ve found another story of some unlikely animals performing incredible acts of kindness towards another living creature. This story comes from Botswana in Africa.
Wildlife photographers Evan Schiller and Lisa Holzwarth witnessed a truly baffling sight while out on a game drive.
Luckily, they managed to photograph the events that unfolded and it’s truly remarkable.
The story started when Lisa and Evan spotted a lioness attack a group of baboons. The lioness managed to capture and kill one of the female baboons during the ordeal.
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Parents who don't strap their kids into safety seats when they're riding in vehicles will be paying bigger fines.
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a bill that increases first-time fines to $75 from $50. But the governor's office says parent can have that first violation waived if they own a safety seat and attend a safety course.
The new law increases subsequent fines to $200 from $100.
It goes into effect Jan. 1.
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The powerful health benefits of probiotics include improving gut health, increasing nutrient intake, boosting the immune system, weight loss, improving mood, treating diarrhea. It also has anti-cancer potential. They help to maintain the vital balance of good and bad bacteria in our digestive tract while alleviating muscle pain and fatigue.
What are Probiotics?
Probiotics are live bacteria that, when consumed through foods or supplements, are beneficial to our digestive system. They are also called good, healthy or friendly bacteria. Our digestive or gastrointestinal tract usually has trillions of gut bacteria and yeast, collectively known as ‘gut flora’. For the gastrointestinal system to function properly, the gut flora must be in balance. This helps counteract the negative effects of certain dietary choices, illnesses or medications.
When a person contracts a bacterial infection, antibiotics are often turned to as the immediate solution, but antibiotics kill bacteria arbitrarily, wiping out both good and bad bacteria in the intestinal tract. By eliminating the beneficial bacteria, the body is vulnerable to various digestive issues. Rapid replacement of these beneficial bacteria is very important, and introducing probiotics to a health regimen is an increasingly popular method to do just that.
Probiotics contain important strains of bacteria like lactobacilli and bifidobacteria which maintain and strengthen the gastrointestinal tract and helps overall health.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is not the result of a known organic factor, and is characterized by abdominal pain, unpredictable bowel movements, and bloating. A number of different causes have been cited, including environmental, physical, and mental stress. Adding probiotics to a health regimen or diet is shown to decrease the severity and frequency of IBS. Particularly, the strain called Bifidobacterium Infantis appears to be the most successful in trials to this point.
Diarrhea is on the other extreme of digestive issues, and studies show that probiotics can also help regulate the intestinal processes to decrease diarrhea. This uncomfortable affliction can be labeled as antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), acute infectious diarrhea, or Clostridium difficile disease (CDD), a condition also related to the use of antibiotics. Antibiotics can be very damaging to your intestinal processes, frequently resulting in AAD or CDD. By replenishing the good bacteria eliminated by the antibiotics with probiotics in your diet, it is possible to decrease or eliminate chronic or individual episodes of diarrhea.
Another common reason for the use of probiotics is as a treatment for constipation. Probiotics can balance the enzyme activity and help to speed up the process of digestion and excretion, thereby eliminating the uncomfortable condition of constipation that afflicts many people in varying levels of severity.
Gastroenteritis is one of the main causes of acute diarrhea. It is the inflammation of the mucous membrane of the intestine. Research studies suggest that probiotics may help in decreasing gastrointestinal symptoms in children suffering from atopic dermatitis. Probiotics such as Bifidobacteria and Streptococcus thermophilus help in preventing diarrhea in infants (rotaviral diarrhea) and traveler’s diarrhea.
Probiotics contain bacteria that are effective in lowering total and LDL (bad) cholesterol. Probiotic bacteria absorb fiber from the intestines and as a result, they generate propionic acid. This particular acid has the ability to reduce the production of cholesterol by the liver.
Mental Health Conditions
Research shows that they play a major role in improving mood because there is a strong connection between the gut and the brain. People who were suffering from sadness were given probiotics and they showed signs of improvement and a reduction in negative thoughts. Studies are being undertaken to test if probiotics can help alleviate depression.
By consuming probiotics and actively working to maintain the balance of good and bad bacteria within your gastrointestinal system, you can actually improve the strength and efficiency of your immune system. Probiotic bacteria can inhibit the reproduction and survival of harmful pathogens in the gut, and they can also regulate the number of antibodies present in the intestines. This, in turn, leads to a stronger immune system that is better suited and prepared to fight off disease and illness. Autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, and ulcerative colitis are more common when the levels of good and bad bacteria are imbalanced, so probiotics can help regulate intestinal homeostasis, and even save your life.
Studies show that probiotics may help in weight loss and tackle belly fat and that obese people have 70% or less gut flora than people who are at a healthy weight. Further research also showed that eating yogurt, which is a natural source of probiotic bacteria, prevented age-associated weight gain. Certain gut bacteria may also change insulin sensitivity in people, helping maintain stable sugar levels and burning fat which the body would have otherwise stored.
The consistent use of probiotics has also been effective in the treatment of yeast infections in women. Studies have also reflected that these types of probiotics can help to treat urinary tract infections and bacterial vaginosis, as well as the more common yeast vaginitis. Previous modes of treatment did not approach the problem with an oral or intestinal solution, but various Lactobacilli strains of probiotics can be ingested orally and the beneficial effects will treat symptoms in the reproductive system.
Gut health is linked to skin health. When the gut flora is in balance, the body is able to absorb nutrients and eliminate toxins. This helps prevent chronic inflammation, which causes acne and other skin problems.
Probiotics can positively impact bio-availability, which means that the body is more capable of extracting beneficial nutrients from the food we eat so none of it goes to waste. Higher levels of these nutrients can positively affect the body in countless ways, including increased bone health and blood oxygenation, and improved memory.
Adding probiotics to your diet can also help reduce chronic fatigue. Recent studies have shown a link between intestinal bacteria imbalance, the immune system, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Although CFS is not fully understood, the symptoms can be reduced or eliminated by the use of probiotics.
This inability of the body to process lactose (due to a lack of the enzyme lactase) can cause serious digestive problems, but some studies have shown probiotics to lessen the effects of lactose intolerance when lactose is ingested. This is due to a strain of probiotics called Acidophilus, as well as other similar types of bacteria, which produce similar effects as lactase and are able to break down and promote the digestion of lactose. Using probiotics does not eliminate the condition of lactose intolerance in individuals, but it can alleviate certain irritating and painful symptoms.
Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus acidophilus may help in treating the symptoms of cold, cough, and fever.
According to a study published in the Clinical Microbiology Review, probiotics contain lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, which has the potential to reduce the risk of cancer due to their ability to lower the carcinogenic levels. Reoccurrences of cancer around the urinary bladder also reportedly reduced due to the consumption of probiotics. Furthermore, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Journal published the investigations conducted by the researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, which stated that Lactobacillus reuteri, found in probiotics, could slow the progression of cancerous tumors.
Types of Probiotics
There are a number of different probiotic types or “strains” that are specifically chosen for their unique properties, depending on what gastrointestinal symptom the user would like to alleviate or eliminate. The most commonly used types are:
- Various types of yeast like Saccharomyces boulardii
Probiotics can be ingested through:
- Fermented dairy products like yogurt
- Goat’s cheese, kefir, and buttermilk
- Kombucha, a fermented tea
- Fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi, tempeh, miso, and pickle
- Dietary supplements
- Certain leafy greens also contain probiotics, but in lower concentrations
The use of probiotics has many health benefits, but they may also have certain health risks:
- Probiotic Sepsis: Excessive consumption may increase the risk of sepsis in adults and children.
- Intestinal Distress: Although they are often used to treat or prevent serious intestinal conditions, the addition of billions of new bacteria to the gut can often cause an increase in less serious symptoms like bloating or gas due to the high levels of daily probiotics some people add to their diet.
- Intestinal Damage: For some people who have already had intense physical stress on their intestinal systems, such as ulcerative colitis or bowel perforations, caution should be taken before adding huge numbers of microbes to your intestinal system. If the gut is already compromised, it could also be damaged further. Negative effects of this type are quite rare but must be noted. Consult your doctor if you’ve had this type of condition in the past and are considering adding probiotics to your health regimen.
- Immune System Vulnerability: It can occasionally have negative effects on an already compromised immune system. Balance is important in all things, and an excess of microbial growth in the stomach, even of beneficial bacteria, can cause the immune system to weaken or malfunction, opening the door for a host of dangerous pathogens and diseases. If you have a chronically weak immune system, be cautious before using probiotics and consult with your doctor before moving forward in your dietary change. | <urn:uuid:bf189d22-e309-4067-bd43-15c365bad652> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/other/health-benefits-of-probiotics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.930301 | 2,079 | 2.609375 | 3 |
By Minquan Liu and Yuming Cui*
As the world’s largest commodity-trading nation and second-largest economy, it’s no surprise that China’s recent trade policy moves have sparked debate. As the main supplier of many traded goods, China has an even greater impact on global price stability as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to threaten international energy prices and food security.
As the global economy struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine, two major energy and food exporters, has caused some countries to turn inwards . For example, India and Indonesia imposed export bans to stabilize their domestic prices. This global price volatility is also putting increasing downward pressure on China’s domestic economy.
In 2021, China’s merchandise trade reached US$6.05 trillion (RMB 39.1 trillion), an increase of 21.4% from 2020. Of this total, China’s exports and imports China are valued at US$3,360 billion and US$2,690 billion (RMB 21,730 and 17,370 billion). 21.2 and 21.5% respectively compared to the previous year. In the first quarter of 2022, China’s exports and imports grew by 13.4 and 7.5 percent respectively, leading to a 36.6 percent increase in trade surplus compared to the same period in 2021.
These figures clearly indicate that, despite its strict zero COVID policy, China remains a major supplier and consumer of goods in the global market. As such, China continues to make a significant contribution to global price stability.
Take, for example, fertilizers. Crucial to agricultural production, the global price of fertilizers is rising sharply due to supply chain disruptions caused by the Ukrainian invasion. China’s policy on fertilizer exports in 2021, introduced in response to rising global inflation, is causing concern.
But according to statistics from China Customs, China recorded a trade surplus of RMB 56.1 billion (about $8.4 billion) in fertilizers in 2021. In the first quarter of 2022, exports and imports of fertilizers from China were valued at 1.787 and 1.047 billion dollars. This is an increase of 11.2% and 42.2% respectively compared to the first quarter of 2021, although the volume traded has decreased considerably.
Like many other economies, China faces tough internal and external challenges. Disruptions to China’s domestic supply chain and weak domestic demand, mainly due to its zero COVID policy, have added a high level of uncertainty to the country’s economic outlook. China’s export growth is also expected to decline in the second quarter of 2022 due to domestic production and supply chain disruptions in Shanghai and other lockdown manufacturing cities.
In the meantime, foreign demand for Chinese exports may decline as other major economies recover from COVID-19. Like many other countries, China has made some adjustments to its trade policies to meet domestic demand and stabilize prices in response to the challenging global economic environment. But it is also true that a big country like China should take more responsibility in the global economy. While export bans can stabilize domestic supply and price levels in the short term, they can also damage a country’s credibility with its long-term trading partners.
China’s trade policy should be seen in the broader context of the global macroeconomic environment. It would not be constructive to claim that China alone is somehow responsible for global price volatility. On the contrary, judgments on a country’s trade policy should be determined within the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Criticisms leveled at a few specific goods traded by some specific countries without considering the wider national and global macroeconomic environment are not helpful in addressing global challenges.
Facing serious global economic and geopolitical challenges, all countries, including China, should aim to work together in adopting cooperative trade policies within the framework of the WTO. By refraining from unilaterally changing trade policy, further systemic disruptions in the global economy can be avoided. China should be fully aware that its trade policy decisions – taken in response to domestic economic challenges – could have a negative impact on its relations with its trading partners. Needless to say, the same is true for other major economies around the world.
*About the authors:
- Minquan Liu is a professor in the Department of Development Economics and founding director of the Center for Human and Economic Development Studies at Peking University.
- Yuming Cui is an associate professor at the School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ).
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5. Is any additional imaging recommended?
Occasionally, the radiographer / RT may become involved in discussions regarding further imaging of a patient following a mobile examination. Such situations may result from difficulties in visualising naso-gastric tube position or establishing the presence of free air within the abdomen. Such situations may require modified views or alternative projections and would commonly warrant discussion between the medical team and radiology. It may be that such situations are governed by locally available protocols and that imaging will need to extend beyond radiography. As previously stated there may be an enhanced role for prone imaging in severe cases of COVID-19. Chest radiography in the prone position may also enhance the visualisation of the posterior lung bases in the presence of a pleural effusion. A virtual simulation of this technique is provided in the image below (Figure 9).
Figure 9. A set of 'virtual' images of a patient undergoing a prone chest X-ray examination. Images courtesy of Dr Phil Cosson (Shaderware Ltd, UK).
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What Is A Sleeve Gastrectomy?
The Sleeve Gastrectomy has become the most common bariatric surgery procedure performed in the United States. The surgery involves removing approximately 70-80% of the stomach. Using laparoscopic techniques the stomach is cut longitudinally creating a long tube or sleeve. This decreases the food capacity and it results in weight loss.
In average patients that undergo a sleeve gastrectomy can experience 60-70% excess body weight loss. This weight loss is usually achieved between 12-18 months.
The gastric sleeve was first described for super-obese patients. In other words, it was for patients to overweight to have a gastric bypass. Surgeons were doing a sleeve gastrectomy and after 1-2 years they will go back and convert the sleeve gastrectomy to a Roux en Y gastric bypass. After several years they found that many patients did not require convertion to a gastric bypass because they had adequate weight loss. Eventually, the gastric sleeve became its own one stage bariatric procedure.
The sleeve gastrectomy is one of the simplest and safest weight loss procedures. Unfortunately, complications can still arrive. If you are considering bariatric surgery of any kind, we recommend that you read this blog post about possible bariatric surgery complications.
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- Short hospital stay
- Excellent weight loss
- Low risk
- Short surgery time
- Minimal anatomic changes
- Potential for leak
- Potential for narrowing
- Potential for reflux
- Potential for dumping syndrome
How Is A Sleeve Gastrectomy Done?
The sleeve gastrectomy is done laparoscopically or with five small incisions in the upper part of your abdomen. The largest incision is approximately 15 mm, this is usually the incision were the cut portion of the stomach is removed from the abdomen.
Using a high definition camera, monitor and long special instruments a large portion of the stomach is removed. The stomach is divided with a special mechanical stapler that is designed to cut and sew the stomach. After the stomach is divided an endoscopy is performed to evaluate the staple line and to make sure that no leaks are present.
The surgery takes approximately 45-60 minutes. The patient is then awakened from general anesthesia and is transported to recovery room.
Life After A Sleeve Gastrectomy
Most patients after surgery will be admitted to the hospital for two days. The day after surgery you will be started on sips of water. The second day you will be advanced to sips of protein drinks. After discharge, you will strictly follow the diet that was given to you prior to surgery during the preop class given by the bariatric coordinator. The diet progresses from liquids, to puree, soft food and eventually to regular food in a period of 6-8 weeks.
After discharge, you should stay away from any heavy lifting or any excessive physical activities for 4-6 weeks. Most patients will return to work 2-4 weeks after surgery. The routine follow up with Dr. Angel Caban is 2 weeks after surgery followed by visits every 3 months for the first year.
Weight loss after a Sleeve Gastrectomy is highly dependent on your initial weight, gender, age, diet, and exercise. Younger male patients with an initial weight around 400 pounds will tend to lose more weight than a 60-year-old post-menopausal female with an initial weight of 200 pounds.
The first 3 months after surgery are crucial for your success. You will lose the majority of the weight in this period. It is imperative that you put great effort during the first quarter to lose as much weight as possible. Weight loss starts to taper down after the first 3 months and most patients will achieve maximum weight loss after surgery around 12-18 months.
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Non-steroid users can try the use of steroids for their torn ligaments but as has been mentioned above, they do not heal or repair torn muscles and ligaments. In short, they might help in the short-term, but are unlikely to help in the long-term. However, since steroid use increases the amount and activity of testosterone levels, it can also help the body build more muscle and can increase testosterone levels, best steroids for putting on muscle. This in turn makes the body stronger and reduces the chance of injury to muscle fibers.
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However, if a long-term solution is required, then a steroid prescription may be necessary. Your doctor may take you off the long-term steroid regimen during the season. This time off may help reduce the chance of side effects, which could prevent the problem from growing in the future.
The Steroid Dosage Formula
Each steroid has its own specific effect on the body, but it may help to keep in mind that they do a great job of helping relieve some of our pain. If your doctor prescribes a large number of steroids – either as part of a comprehensive steroid regimen for your chronic pain or for a short-term relief, then you cannot forget that each individual steroid is going to be different.
Your doctor is going to help you understand the specific strengths of each individual steroid, which will allow you to tailor the use of each for your specific needs. Most importantly, the dosage needs to be made appropriate with regards to your health. Remember too, that individual steroid prescriptions vary – so you should always consult a personal expert who will be able to tell you what is appropriate.
While these steroid doses are based upon the manufacturer’s recommended daily dose, we will also discuss the dosages used by many long-term steroids users. It’s important that you use this steroid dose to help you reduce the pain and inflammation.
While the dosage will vary based upon the particular steroid you pick for your health, some common formulas can be used for determining the appropriate dosage to take. These are all the formulas that are used by long-term steroid users:
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Comfortable, safe, cozy, and created for the right size to fit a bowl, that is what making a bowl cozy pattern is all about. Download the free pattern in this tutorial, get the right fabric and batting, and away you go! This pattern comes in 3 different sizes as well as round or square corners so you can get the perfect size and shape.
Bowl Cozy Pattern Tutorial
A bowl cozy is a really neat way to insulate a bowl and protect your fingertips from being scorched. Bowl cozies are an ideal way to present a hot meal in a bowl straight, to the table. They are also great for a TV dinner and an ideal gift. Why not use one to protect your hands when eating a cold bowl of ice cream!
WARNING – Bowl cozies are not designed to go in the microwave but rather protect your hands from hot bowls once they are removed. The amount of protection will depend on the type and thickness of the batting you choose. Some microwave cozy patterns say they can go in the microwave but I don’t recommend this. Certain battings can contain lead and are not compatible with microwaves. You may end up with a few sparks flying and damage to your microwave.
Supplies to Make a Bowl Cozy
You will need:
- FABRIC – Square pieces of cotton fabric, in a suitable size for the pattern. This pattern is ideal for use fat quarters or fabric scraps.
- BATTING – Natural cotton batting. Must not be polyester as this can melt.
- CUTTING TOOLS – Scissors or a rotary cutter and an appropriate cutting mat.
- SEWING TOOLS – Sewing machine, 100% cotton thread. A walking foot is a good optional extra to help sew thicker fabrics and batting.
- MARKING TOOL – A marking pen or tailor’s chalk that won’t show through the fabric.
Best Fabric for a Bowl Cozy Pattern
When you choose the fabric for your bowl cozy it must be 100% cotton. Bowl cozies are a great way to use up scraps of fabric as long as you know they are 100% cotton. This applies to the batting too.
INSULATING BATTING – Batting should be 100% cotton or you can purchase heat-insulating batting. If you use this type of batting it is extremely important that you do not place the bowl cozy in the microwave as it may contain traces of metal or lead and catch fire.
Bowl Cozy Pattern Download
Safety and Your Bowl Cozy
As previously stated, it is very important to ensure the fabric and the batting are 100% cotton and are not placed in the microwave or stove. Carefully remove the hot bowl from the heat of the stove or microwave and nest it inside the bowl cozy. Depending on the absorption heat of your batting, you may still feel the heat through the cozy so still, be extremely careful, and don’t burn yourself.
How to Make a Bowl Cozy Step by Step
Step 1 – Cut the Fabric
Cut your pre-washed and ironed main piece of fabric to size. You can enlarge or make the cozy smaller if you wish to sew another size.
Cut two squares of fabric and 2 squares of batting for added insulation. You can see on the paper pattern that you have the choice of rounded or square corners as well as 3 sizes.
Step 2 – Quilt the Fabric and Batting Together
Lay one square of fabric face down on the table and place the batting on top on the wrong side. Mark and stitch diagonally across the batting side in an x as shown. Do the same on the other piece of fabric and batting. A walking foot can be a big help in sewing batting so it doesn’t catch or wrinkle.
Step 4 – Stitch the Darts
From your paper pattern, cut out the triangles of the darts. Transfer the dart markings to the batting using a removable pen or chalk. (Note you are only cutting the paper pattern – don’t cut these triangles from the fabric.)
Fold the piece of fabric and batting in half along the darts with the right sides touching. Sew the darts in the 4 places.
Now you have two halves of the bowl cozy with batting and a set of darts.
Step 5 – Stitch Outside and Inside Together
Trim the darts to ¼ inch (6mm) and press them open.
Inset one bowl cozy into the other, right sides together. Line them up so the corners match and the sides meet. Sew all around the edge with a ½ inch (12mm) seam allowance and leave an opening on one side of about 2 inches (5cm) for turning the bowl cozy through to the right side. The raw edges will be encased so there is no need to finish the seam with a serger or zig-zag.
Step 6 – Turn and Press
For the square corners, clip the corners. If you are making the bowl cozy with the rounded edges, do small clips at the corners so they turn neatly.
Turn the bowl cozy through the gap and press. Press the edges in at the gap and then top stitch all around the edge of the bowl cozy. If the edges are too thick to go through your machine, just hand stitch the gap closed using an invisible stitch. I found it easier to hand stitch the gap as my machine was skipping stitches due to the thickness of the double batting layers.
There you have it a completed bowl cozy. The bowl cozy keeps the contents warm while protecting your fingers.
Washing Your Bowl Cozy
Wash your bowl cozy in cold water and lay it out flat to dry. Alternatively, dry in a dryer on a low setting and press with a steam iron to return the bowl cozy to its shape.
Bowl Cozy Pattern – In Conclusion
A fabric bowl cozy pattern is such a practical idea but at the same time makes a decorative addition to the table. A winter warmer for your delicious soup or a pot warmer should you decide to make a bigger size.
More Sewing Patterns for Your Kitchen
Sewing Basics Machine, thread, markers, scissors
- Cotton Fabric
- Cotton Batting
*This cozy bowl is not designed to be put in the microwave. Be cautious when placing the hot bowl in the cozy as the amount of insulation will depend on the batting you have used.
Download and tape the pattern together. There are 3 sizes and a choice of round or square corners.
Cut 2 pieces of fabric and 2 pieces of batting.
Lay the batting on the back of the fabric. Sew across the diagonals in a cross.
Cut the dart shapes from the paper pattern and transfer the markings to the fabric. Stitch the darts. Trim the darts to ¼ inch (6mm).
Put the 2 pieces right sides together and stitch around the edge with a ½ inch (12mm) seam allowance. Leave a 2 inch (5cm) gap on one side.
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Rendered to Re-Establish Purity
Welcome to Rendered & Restored! These teaching sessions are taught LIVE in Laura's home church. This first lesson draws a beautiful, interactive parallel of the need for a temple cleansing through the account of King Hezekiah. For this lesson you will need a small black piece (s) of paper either for yourself or the ladies in your Bible study. Then you will also need a paper bag or trashcan handy! Make sure you watch this introduction video before beginning the accompanying homework. You will find the fill-in notes for this session on pages 8-9 in the Rendered & Restored Bible study workbook.
LESSON ONE (PART 1):
PROPOSAL, PUNISHMENT, & PROMISES
This video teaching is separated into three parts due to the nature of the LIVE teaching. (*Not all teachings will be separated into parts.) Each teaching is no more than 30 minutes and are to be watched all together before moving onto Lesson Two. In this teaching session, Laura gives an overview of the first three chapters of Hosea and the narrative aspect of what the Lord called Hosea to do. Ultimately, we will see God's promises triumph over all! Accompanying teaching notes found in the workbook on page 21.
MY ISHI & MY LORD
In this session, Laura teaches on a New Testament account where the individual relationship that Jesus sought to have with those He loved can give us a better understand of what the Lord meant in Hosea when He said that one day Israel would call Him, "My Husband." This session will challenge us to pursue relationship rather than religion. Accompanying notes found on page 33 of workbook.
Drawing from examples of both the Old and New Testament, Laura teaches the dangers of pious religion and morality. Law obeyed under the motivation of religion lead the Israelites to the sin of pride and self-righteousness. Our desire is to obey God's Law under the motivation of our relationship with Christ and the love He has for us!
PURITY IN ABSTINENCE
Israel had been accused by the Lord for their behavior in excess, areas where they were severely lacking self control. There are many grey areas in life where we as Christians must use discernment in the choices we make. Laura helps to give more clarity to these issues according to Scripture. Accompanying lessons found on page 62 of the workbook.
AN INSULTING PRIDE
In this teaching session, Laura highlights the specific ways pride had manifested itself in the hearts and actions of the Israelites. Despite the Lord's plead for humility, they continued in these prideful ways. As we allow the Holy Spirit to place the looking glass over our lives, we are drawn to examine how pride may be disguising itself in our hearts and actions. Accompanying notes found on page 77 in the workbook.
A MEMORIAL OFFERING
The offerings brought to the Lord by the people of Israel in Hosea's time were detestable to Him. God desired mercy, not sacrifice. He desired motives to be right and integrity to be genuine among His people. In this lesson, Laura takes us to an account in the New Testament where a man named Cornelius offers a sacrifice that undoubtedly pleased the Lord. His offerings can help us to understand the way the Lord remembers what we do for Him with pure intentions.
It would be wonderful to think that idol worship was merely a thing of the past! Certainly, in the days of Hosea, idols were very real and tangible in ways that we, as Christians, do not utilize them today. We know that God hates idol worship and is very clear in His Word about it! But in this lesson, Laura shows us how we sadly can fall prey to idol worship in other forms, not merely bending the knee to a clay mold of a false god.
A THREE-FOLD PROPHECY
Hosea 10:8 presents for us a three-fold prophecy in Scripture. Laura shows us in this lesson where we see the additional references from Jesus and in Revelation. Sadly, the response of Israel to God's judgment sets the tone for humanity's future response to it as well. Yet, for those who are in Christ, we have nothing to fear!
Despite the heartache stemming from His rebellious children, the Lord reveals a deep compassion for Israel. In this lesson on Hosea chapter 11, Laura teaches on the tenderness and unrelenting love of the heart of the Father. The kind of love that compels us to love Him with everything we are and in everything we do!
We, similar to the Israelites, often suffer from spiritual amnesia. It's easy to forget God's goodness and faithfulness, especially when things are tough! And it's also hard not to develop spiritual apathy when things are going good. It's in those times that our dependence on the Lord often wanes. God knows our tendencies and frailties in these areas, therefore He helps us to remember by reiterating His truths in Scripture. In this lesson, Laura will unfold these hard truths given to the Israelites, but also the remedy to their frequent forgetfulness...ours too!
RENDERED & RESTORED
As we close our study, Laura asks key questions and highlights the overall objectives of our study. In light of such wonderful and often convicting truth, how are we to respond to the prophetic word of Hosea? And have we come to understand truly how great a sacrifice our Lord made for us through Jesus Christ, allowing us to enter into His presence and experience His mercy for all eternity! | <urn:uuid:ead7961e-d95e-4557-be7f-33f9adc16aa8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laurakford.com/rendered-and-restored-hosea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939196 | 1,260 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Do you know what is common to companies like for example Tam-Silk oy, Lumituuli oy, Arctic Smart Villages oy in Finland, Unicus, My Dream Now, and Rag2Rug in Sweden, Sonido and BlindArt in Latvia, and Scult in Estonia? It is not the sector, not the business form, size, or revenue generation model either. But they still have something that most businesses don´t.
In this article, we introduce nine enterprises that could be seen as inspiring examples of companies that do something good by doing their business. All these companies work in different sectors: Tam-Silk oy produces textiles and clothing, Rag2Rug hand-made rugs, and BlindArt unique art and handicrafts; Lumituuli is a wind energy company, Arctic Smart Villages oy, Unicus, and My Dream Now focus on consultancy, Sonico is a call center, and Scult is an expert organization in the field of preventive health care, physical activity and sports. They have different business forms, and they differ from each other by size, business idea, and by their revenue generation model.
What these companies have in common is that they all have a social mission. How should the social mission be understood? A social mission can refer to any social problem, e.g., basic human needs, providing services to groups or regions where purely commercially oriented enterprises have no interest, environmental issues, or social justice.
Beneficiaries, clients, or target groups can be specific groups locally or globally or just common good. EU defines that social enterprises have a social or societal objective of the common good which is the reason for their economic activities (European Commission 2019, 18) Moreover, in social enterprises the profits are mainly reinvested to achieve this social objective (European Commission 2019, 18). Social enterprises can also have a particular governance model (European Commission 2019, 18).
The social mission of the companies introduced here vary: Lumituuli oy, for example, produces and promotes wind energy, whereas Tam-Silk oy wants to bring the textile industry back to Finland and make it environmentally and socially sustainable.
Other examples focus more on people: The mission of Arctic Smart Villages oy is to benefit individual residents and municipalities in sparsely populated areas by creating smart housing solutions that are based on the shared ownership model. My Dream Now, in turn, wants to contribute to the better inclusion of young people, especially refugees, into society and to the working life as well as to reduce segregation, discrimination, and youth unemployment.
Also Rag2Rug, Sonido, and BlindArt offer jobs for minorities but they all have a different approach: Rag2Rug employs refugee women and uses only recycled materials, whereas Unicus recruits IT experts who have Asperger.
Towards new learning experiences
Since social enterprises have both economic goals and a social mission, specific competences are needed. iSEE-project (LAB 2021) creates new learning materials and will launch a new aligned course on social entrepreneurship for degree students in LAB University of Applied Sciences, Riga Technical University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and University of Tartu. Later on, international education is developed for social enterprises and for any enterprise interested in social impact as well.
Anna Pajari (MSc., MSc in Bus. adm. & Econ.) works as a senior lecturer at LAB University of Applied Sciences in the Business unit. Her specialization area is Corporate Social Responsibility. In the project iSEE – Innovating Social Entrepreneurship Education she works as a specialist.
Heidi Myyryläinen (MSc in Bus. adm & Econ.) works as an RDI specialist in LAB University of Applied Sciences in the Business unit. In the project iSEE − Innovating Social Entrepreneurship Education she works as a project manager.
European Commission. 2019. Social enterprises and their ecosystems in Europe. Updated country report: Finland. Author: Harri Kostilainen. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. [Cited 1 Oct 2021]. Available at: https://europa.eu/!Qq64ny
LAB. 2021. iSEE. Innovating social entrepreneurship education. Project. [Cited 13 Dec 2021]. Available at: https://www.lab.fi/fi/projekti/isee-innovating-social-entrepreneurship-education
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In the Presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson runs for President and Aaron Burr for Vice President on the Democratic-Republican ticket. Both get 73 votes in the Electoral College. This forces the election into the House of Representatives, where the Federalist Party holds the majority. Opposition to Jefferson causes many Federalists to vote for Burr. Repeatedly casting ballots, the House is unable to reach a majority for any candidate until former treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton intervenes with Federalists and persuades them to vote for Jefferson on the thirty-seventh ballot. This event spurs demand for the Twelfth Amendment. | <urn:uuid:72218340-2e35-4d1e-a987-f460a5654665> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/timeline_event/house-of-representatives-votes-to-break-an-electoral-tie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.932528 | 120 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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Thirty-nine companies have applied for registration with the Dutch central bank to provide cryptocurrency services, the regulator told news.Bitcoin.com. They include crypto exchanges and custodial wallet providers.
Dutch Central Bank Begins Registering Crypto Service Providers
De Nederlandsche Bank NV (DNB), the Dutch central bank, has started actively registering companies to provide cryptocurrency services.
As a result of the implementation of the fifth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), providers of exchange services between cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies and providers of custodial wallets must apply for registration with the central bank. They must demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act and the Sanctions Act of 1977.
The 5AMLD implementation went into effect on May 21 in the Netherlands. Since then, cryptocurrency service providers can only carry out their activities if they are included in the public register of the central bank.
A spokesperson for the Dutch central bank told news.Bitcoin.com:
So far we received 39 applications.
According to the public register on the central bank’s website, four companies have been granted registration to offer crypto services. They are Rotterdam-based 2525 Ventures, Amsterdam-based Amdax, Nijmegen-based Blox, and Veghel-based Phoenix Payments.
2525 Ventures also operates under the trade names Litepay, Lightpaid, Lightbit, Litewallet, Litedeal, and Litebit. Phoenix Payments also operates as Anycoin Direct.
“It was with great pride that we received the good news that we were one of the first parties to successfully complete the registration process,” Anycoin Direct CFO Bram Ceelen commented, elaborating:
It was a tough challenge to go through this process. We made significant adjustments to our order process in order to meet the registration requirements.
Companies that were already providing cryptocurrency services before May 21 and have applied for registration before that date can continue to perform crypto activities during the registration process.
The central bank “only supervises compliance with the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act and the Sanctions Act 1977,” it explained. “The registered companies are not subject to the prudential supervision of DNB or the conduct supervision of the AFM [Authority for the Financial Markets]. This means that financial business risks are not monitored and there is no specific financial consumer protection.”
What do you think about the Dutch central bank registering crypto service providers? Let us know in the comments section below.
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The University of Ottawa Library supports a variety of digital initiatives to promote access to unique collections and ensure their preservation for future generations. Our digital collections feature scholarly books, historical maps, air photos, and archived web content relating to Indigenous health and well-being.
Historical topographic maps – Ontario Council of University Libraries
The uOttawa Library contributes to this province-wide collaboration that inventories, digitizes, georeferences, and provides broad access to early topographic maps of Ontario. The collection provides open access to georeferenced topographic maps covering towns, cities, and rural areas in Ontario from 1906 to 1977.
French digital books – Internet Archive
With funding from the Government of Ontario, the University of Ottawa and the uOttawa Library, the Library has digitized more than 20,000 French books published before 1923, and made them freely available on the Internet Archive.
Historical air photos of Ottawa-Gatineau
The University of Ottawa Library has digitized its collection of aerial photographs taken over the Ottawa-Gatineau region from 1928-1945. These images are available for searching and downloading.
National Aboriginal Health Organization website
The Library uses Archive-It to preserve important web content in danger of disappearing. With consent from the National Aboriginal Health Organization’s (NAHO) Board of Directors, the Library and the Indigenous Program at the Faculty of Medicine have archived NAHO’s website, last updated on June 29, 2012 and no longer publicly available. The resources found here (reports, publications, audio, and video files) serve to advance and promote the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada.
Theses, research and teaching materials
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Through a letter addressed to the former Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and another to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, we request the signature and adhesion of the Argentine government to the Escazú Agreement. The agreement will be open for signature from September 27, 2018 and needs 11 countries in the region to sign and ratify to enter into force.
“Below, we offer a google translate version of the original article in Spanish. This translation may not be accurate but serves as a general presentation of the article. For more accurate information, please switch to the Spanish version of the website. In addition, feel free to directly contact in English the person mentioned at the bottom of this article with regards to this topic”
The Escazú Agreement is the “Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean,” adopted in Escazú, Costa Rica, on March 4, 2018 , by 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Argentina. After a negotiation process that formally began in 2012 at the Rio +20 Conference with the Declaration on the Application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, it was adopted an agreement that seeks to guarantee the effective implementation of access rights: access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters. It will be open for signature by the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations headquarters in New York, from September 27, 2018 to September 26, 2020, and will be subject to subsequent ratification, acceptance or approval of the States that have signed it. At least 11 countries must sign and ratify it so that it can enter into force. In order to achieve the entry into force of the Escazú Agreement, we presented a letter addressed to the former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Rabbi Sergio Bergman, and another letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Jorge Marcelo Faurie, requesting the signature and adhesion of the Argentine government to the regional agreement. At the same time, we urge you to support the efforts of the governments and civil society organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean to invite the other governments of the region to sign this important treaty. In the letter addressed to the national authorities we highlighted the importance of the regional agreement since it is the first treaty on environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the first in the world to guarantee the protection and safety of people, groups and organizations defending human rights in environmental matters. We hope that Argentina, as well as the other countries of the region, will sign and ratify the regional agreement on Principle 10. In this way we will have an international instrument to reaffirm the right of all people to a healthy environment and sustainable development, the fight against inequality and discrimination, as well as ensuring the participation of citizens in decisions that affect their lives and environment.
Writer: Ananda Lavayen
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Have you decided to quit substance abuse?
Are you worried about addiction relapse?
When you are trying to get a healthier and addiction-free life, combating addiction relapses is one of the toughest challenges. No matter what, you can not let addiction win over you at any cost. This is why opting for a rehabilitation or detox treatment is essential.
If you are looking for a recovery center, you can consider visiting https://www.oceanrecovery.com/.
They will not only help you in quitting any sort of substance abuse, but they will also guide you with some effective tools and tactics to combat addiction relapse. Let’s start with a basic idea about addiction relapse.
What Is Addiction Relapse?
After you attempt to quit substance abuse or go through a period of absenteeism, the resumption of substance is addressed as a relapse in addiction treatment. For example, a person who goes back to drug use after several months in rehabilitation is experiencing a relapse.
Major Reasons Of Addiction Relapse
In order to fight against relapses, you have to develop a proper understanding and knowledge about the trigger points or the reasons for addiction relapse. For your reference, we are mentioning some of the major reasons here.
So, let’s check them out now.
Within the first week of stopping substance abuse, many patients relapse. Withdrawal symptoms are the main reason behind it. In order to deal with physical and mental issues as a part of the withdrawal symptoms, a lot of individuals go back to their old addiction.
Withdrawal symptoms are for real, and if not handled properly, it even can be fatal. Here are the symptoms.
- Cold sweats.
- Muscle aches.
2. Poor Self-care
When you are going through an addiction recovery process, you have to pay attention to the self-care part. Improved self-care will always make you feel much better about yourself and also send you a message to yourself that you are indeed taking good care of yourself.
At the same time, poor self-care will deliver messages like you do not care about your well-being and will accelerate relapses. Poor diet plan, eating more junk, and sugar along with low nutrients will result in poor neurological and physiological health and can lead to low mood, and eventually cause drug or alcohol cravings.
3. Pride And Overconfidence
Sometimes, individuals who are going through the recovery procedure get determined that they will not ever step into any sort of substance abuse. In most cases, they have some bad memories associated with their substance abuse that triggers their will to quit the addiction.
This confidence is pretty great. But at the same time, one should remember that everyone is eligible for relapsing. All it needs is a millisecond in the wrong place, wrong time, and wrong people to get into substance abuse again. So, do not take too much pride in yourself or be overconfident.
4. Uncomfortable Emotions
In active addiction, when you get angry, you use substance abuse; when you are tired, you do the same. It continuously repeats when you get any sort of complicated or uncomfortable emotions like feeling sad, agitated, angry, or even frustrated.
During your initial recovery days or after completing the treatment, when you start leading life on your own, you will encounter all these emotions. These are some immense parts of our life, our human nature. So, you have to ensure that you are taking experts’ help in order to go back to your substance abuse habit again.
5. Boredom And Isolation
We can say that boredom and isolation are some of the top reasons for relapsing, especially in the early recovery. In those initial days, when you are recovering, you get plenty of time for yourself. Those free times world here as the devil.
When you are in rehabilitation, you are already away from your family and friends. Plus, those free times end up feeling boring, and eventually, you might experience a relapse without even understanding it. This is why experts always advise you to keep yourself busy.
6. Being Around Addictive Substances
In most cases, substance abuse victims do the addictive activities in a group. They usually prefer to develop a group separated from their family and normal friends; with them, they practice substance abuse.
During or after the treatment, you have to cut those people out of your life. No matter who they are and what they have done for you, if they are still into substance abuse, you can not simply be around them.
7. Social Pressure
As we have mentioned earlier, uncomfortable emotions actually lead to addiction relapse. Those uncomfortable emotions often are the result of social pressure. These social pressures lead to mental pressure, and for a quick escape, individuals turn towards substance abuse.
Social pressure for one’s education, good grades in college, a well-established career, and several other things are some culprits here. So, being in society, we have to behave accordingly for the betterment of an individual here.
8. Unrealistic Expectations
Expectations make us do some evil things. Substance abuse is one of them. It is also a part of our human lives, but if we want, we can control them. Whenever we expect something and that does not happen, we mostly can not handle the push.
As a result, we end up with addiction or substance abuse. However, you should always set your expectations high, but at the same time, you also need to live in reality. So, in case something does not occur as per your plan, you will be able to handle it.
9. Surrounding Environment
The places, things, and people play a huge role in triggering relapses. So when you are out of the recovery center, you should avoid those places, people, and also things, which might trigger your quitted addiction.
In case you are into alcohol addiction, you should avoid those casual meetings in the pubs, stop spending time with people who are into substance abuse. Changing your surroundings will help you develop healthier life and habits.
10. Untreated Mental Issues
Mental health is equally important as physical health. In case you are not feeling mentally healthy or fine for a considerable amount of time, it is best to consult with an expert. If you are feeling depressed, or frustrated, or anxious, consult with a psychologist immediately.
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How far might young rats disperse if they find themselves in a place with few other rat competitors? It’s an important question, with implications for deciding what surveillance is needed to detect invasions in predator-free islands, sanctuaries and ultimately, large predator-free mainland areas.
But to find out how far rats disperse you need to release some into the wild and watch what happens – then be able to catch them again. The last thing scientists want to do in such a situation is to help wild rats to colonise an area of hard-won, low rat density forest.
“The dispersal process is a poorly understood aspect of animal behaviour, largely due to the difficulty of collecting empirical data. Here, we report on a field study aimed at measuring post-weaning movement distances of juvenile ship rats (Rattus rattus) and their mother away from a known natal nest site in an area with low conspecific population density [very few other rats].”
Finding a single rat intruder in a large area like a sanctuary or island is a bit of a needle-in-a-haystack task. The researchers were interested in finding alternative ways to manage incursions, involving low numbers rather than a single individual.
“The movement behaviour of invasive species at low density is of particular interest, as it can inform design of surveillance arrays to detect incursion into predator-free areas. Detecting a single invading individual requires intensive effort. An alternative approach is to focus on detecting newly established breeding populations, while they are still spatially-restricted and able to be eliminated with timely and effective incursion response.”
“Given that impacts on prey species are generally correlated with predator density, a limited number of ship rats in a spatially-restricted area of an otherwise predator-free landscape would likely cause minimal ecological damage to healthy native species populations under most circumstances. The critical aim is therefore to prevent the re-establishment of a widespread adult breeding population.”
To assess whether this approach would work, it is necessary to know what distance rats are likely to disperse.
“Empirical measurements of post-weaning ship rat movement distances are needed to evaluate the viability of this approach, especially in low to zero population density environments. It was our aim to provide measurements of this kind by simulating an invasion by a pregnant female ship rat into an area recently treated with 1080 (sodium fluroacetate). We expected that, as a unit, a mother rat with a litter of pups would be easier to detect than a single invader for two main reasons:
- there would be more individual animals to be detected, and
- the spatial extent of the invasion would be larger due to the juveniles being expected to disperse away from the mother’s range and each other as they attained maturity.”
First the researchers needed to find an area of forest suitable for rats which had very few rats living there.
“The trial took place in beech-kāmahi forest at the confluence of the Jackson and Arawhata rivers in South-Westland, New Zealand. The Jackson-Arawhata site had been subject to a trial of a novel 1080 prescription, in which 2300 hectare was aerially treated with 1080 on 7 July 2017. Subsequently, a 394 hectare core area within the treated zone was intensively monitored over 55 nights with no rat sign detected.”
The reason for choosing a mother and her young offspring is that other researchers, including Dr Kim King, have previously shown that juvenile rats are active explorers and dispersers.
“King et al. (2011) used a removal experiment to study the reinvasion of forest fragments by ship rats. Marked individuals re-colonised eradicated fragments from the outside within a few days. Importantly, the age and sex ratios of invading rats were significantly skewed towards young male animals, with few older breeding females colonising fragments from the outside. Nevertheless, despite our comparatively thorough knowledge of dispersal and movement behaviour in ship rats, there are few, if any, empirical measurements of distances moved by juveniles away from a known natal nest site.”
A biomarker were used to identify the rats once they were released. Rhodamine B makes a persistent stain in growing hair tissue, which is visible under a fluorescence microscope
“Wild-captured male and female ship rats (sourced from Kaituna Valley Forest Reserve, Banks Peninsula) were paired at the ZIP captive animal facility in Lincoln. All rats were fed on a diet of laboratory rodent pellets, supplemented daily with food items such as seed mix and fresh fruit and vegetables. A litter of seven pups was born to a female on 8 August 2017. The mother and her litter were transported by road to the ZIP field staff accommodation at Haast on 16 August and were cared for in place by ZIP staff.”
“A 20 g ball of peanut butter, seed mix and oats containing 0.1% Rhodamine B biomarker dye was fed to the mother and pups on three occasions, when the pups were 12, 16 and 18 days old. A collar-mounted VHF radio-transmitter weighing 7.75 g was attached to the mother on 27 August (4.5% body weight). On 30 August, the mother and her litter were carried into the field site in a secure nest box and placed at a central location in the study area.”
The behaviour of the mother and her offspring was monitored for 12 weeks.
“An array of non-lethal detection devices was laid out along pre-existing monitoring lines that had been used to measure outcomes of the July 2017 1080 treatment. The initial detection area was an irregular polygon shape (due to unsafe access to certain areas) covering an area of 236 ha, with the release site located centrally in this area. As the trial progressed, we progressively extended the monitored area with the intention of monitoring outside of the expanding movements of the mother and all juveniles, and in the final configuration a total area of 300 ha was being monitored.”
The team also attempted to locate the mother by radio-tracking to her daytime den site at least once per week between 1 September and 16 October, as weather allowed.
Having allowed the mother and her offspring to disperse, the rats then needed to be trapped and positively identified.
“Kill traps were deployed progressively throughout the trial. An additional 119 T-Rex traps in tunnels were deployed progressively from 30 September, at which point the rat pups were 53 days old (34 days since last access to RB). Our intention in beginning trapping at this stage was to allow ample opportunity to trap all juveniles before they were 90 days old; the earliest point at which they may have become sexually mature. Additionally, we expected RB marking to become increasingly unreliable with time elapsed since last access to the biomarker.”
“From 30 October, a further 131 T-Rex traps were deployed on the existing 100 × 50 m detection array. Instead of being placed in tunnels, these traps were nailed directly onto trees at 1.2 m height above-ground and lured with Nutella. In addition, in the near vicinity of the release site, 44 tree-mounted traps were set 20 m away from existing stations and lured with Colby cheese (Mainland Ltd.) to provide intensive trap density and an alternative lure in this area (9.5 ha coverage).”
All rats caught in kill traps were kept and tested for bio-marker ingestion.
“A sample of 8−12 whiskers was plucked from each rat, dry-mounted on a microscope slide under a coverslip and examined with a fluorescence microscope. Final capture locations ranged up to 675 m from the release location for the juveniles, with 796 m between known siblings. The total range length for the mother exceeded 1.5 km.”
“Although ship rats are weaned between 21−28 days old, all available location data for the mother suggest that she remained in the near vicinity of the release site until her litter were around 35−40 days old. This pattern is consistent with what little information is available on interactions between ship rat mothers and their offspring in the wild. When the mother eventually did move away from the release site, she made a long-distance movement of 595 m to a new centre of activity. Average ship rat home range lengths are in the order of 103−200 m for females and 159−550 m for males in New Zealand radio-tracking studies in forest. Thus, a movement of nearly 600 m exceeds typical home-ranging behaviour (particularly of females) and resembles the exploratory behaviour of translocated rodents in the absence of conspecifics.”
So how does this information relate to a surveillance strategy for predator-free areas?
“Although we found no evidence that the dispersal extent of a rat litter aged 90 days exceeds that of an individual adult invader, the presence of multiple individuals in a landscape increases the likelihood that at least one will be detected. The concept of an efficient landscape-scale detection strategy targeted to breeding events therefore warrants further investigation. Such a strategy could rely on sparsely deployed detection devices intercepting at least one of an invading family and alerting managers immediately via an automated reporting system, triggering a rapid response to remove the nascent population while it is still restricted to a small area within the larger predator-free landscape.”
“Clearly, the efficiency of this strategy is critically dependent on the rates of reinvasion and breeding events at a particular site, as well as the speed and social acceptability of repeated response actions. We envisage that a family-based detection strategy will be most suited to large-scale mainland areas where intensive surveillance would be prohibitively expensive and logistically difficult to achieve, and where reinvasion is infrequent due to strong protection at its boundaries; for instance significant natural barriers, or an intensive ‘virtual barrier’ of trapping. We anticipate that sites meeting these criteria will become increasingly common as New Zealand progresses towards its goal to be predator-free by 2050.”
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Heavy Vehicle Enforcement South Australia Police
Submission Date: 2007
Economic growth is reliant upon safe and efficient road transport. South
Australia is no different from the rest of Australia with a high reliance on road
freight to carry most of its commodity, product and consumer needs.
Within SA there is approximately 100,000 km’s of road network within a
landmass of 984,377 square kilometres.
Transport accounts for approximately 4.5% of the State?s employment and 5%
of the State?s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contributing about $2.9 billion in
2004/2005.i The road transport sector in SA currently employs approximately
30,000 people. In accord with national growth predictions, a doubling of the
freight task is predicted within SA by 2020. About 80% of that task is
predicted to be by road freight.
Vast distances and remote areas provide challenges for community policing,
especially the rigors of traffic law enforcement. Many rural highways traverse
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TAMPA, Fla. (FOX 13) - The Hillsborough County sheriff wants parents and guardians to know of the dangers of co-sleeping after two children died last month.
In 2018, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, eight children died from co-sleeping and seven more suffocated from "unsafe sleeping environments." Monday, Sheriff Chad Chronister issued a public safety announcement on co-sleeping, or sleeping in the same bed as a baby.
"Parents, I know you're tired, and it's easier to let your baby sleep next to you in bed or on a couch, but it's extremely dangerous. Not only can you roll over on your child, but your baby can also get trapped between the mattress and the wall or suffocate from blankets, pillows and stuffed animals," Chronister said.
He said the safest place for a baby is in their own crib or bassinet. Tampa General Hospital Child Safety Coordinator Paula Pizzaro agrees, pointing out a baby's anatomy is still developing, making a safe sleeping position critical.
"Children have very short tracheas," said Pizarro. "Anything that leans their head forward will cut off their tracheas."
Pizarro insists that parents put babies to sleep on their backs in otherwise empty cribs. She also warns against letting them fall asleep on your chest.
"It doesn't matter your race, your religion, your socioeconomic, it can happen to any woman," said Pizarro.
The American Adademy of Pediatrics recommends babies be placed on their backs to sleep, in their own bed.
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A Survey of Malachi
God's people didn't know it, but they stood on the brink of silence . . . God's silence . . . for the four hundred-year period between the Old Testament and the New. And Malachi was the last call of the Old Testament. Prophesying after the days of Nehemiah, Malachi witnessed the settled, stagnant, corrupt indifference of God's people, which the prophet deplored. The people's intermarrying with foreigners (non-Jews), neglecting to pay tithes, and offering blemished sacrifices at the altar caused Malachi to confront them and warn them of the consequences of such atrocities. Silence came soon after, but as long as Malachi was on the scene, the nation heard plenty!
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Turtles are just so adorable and fun to watch, whether they are eating, swimming, digging, or basking under the sun.
But how can you say when they are playing? Or do they really play?
How about fighting? With the calm demeanor of turtles, are they capable of attacking others?
Signs Your Turtles Are Playing
Your turtles are playing if they are engaging themselves with the toys and other objects that you put inside their tank. They can push or move these objects and do some climbing or digging.
You might be always thrilled to go to pet stores to buy new toys for your turtles or search for new stuff that you can put in their aquarium.
Whenever you place the new trinkets that you bought in your pets’ place, you are feeling happy and fulfilled.
Yet, at one point, you suddenly ask yourself if your turtles will be pleased as well with what you got for them? Are they really playing with all those toys that you keep on getting or are just going to be decors?
Yes, turtles are solitary animals, but that does not mean they have boring personalities. They are actually very active and love to play!
Your turtles are playing if they are making themselves busy with the things around them.
They might be tripping empty shells or pushing some toy boat or ping-pong ball along the water. These are some ways for them to have fun.
If you are a first-time turtle owner, it might worry you if you will see your turtles digging. Don’t be as this is very natural for them.
They simply love plowing substrate and burrowing themselves. This makes them feel closer to nature!
During their active time, you can see your turtles climbing on sticks or rocks inside their enclosure.
They can be walking persistently in the obstacle maze that you personally made, expecting their favorite treats at the end. Seeing this will make your heart happy, for sure! And, you can undoubtedly conclude that your turtles are indeed playing.
Signs Your Turtles Are Fighting
Your turtles are fighting if they are attacking and biting each other. Likewise, you will notice behavioral changes in the turtles that have been battling such as being upset, aggressive, or terrified. They may lose appetite and have wounds or scratches as well.
Not everyone can easily distinguish whether the turtles living together in a tank are having fun or actually harming each other.
You should be a keen observer as some potential signs of aggressiveness might show off even if your turtles have spent quite some time together already.
The real noticeable sign of fighting between your pets is the attacking and biting scenario.
If one of your turtles suddenly tries chasing others, then something is wrong.
The fighting turtles will come at each other and will try to show their dominance.
The aggressive turtle might even do some unusual arm motion indicating that it is up for a fight! The dominant turtle will flatter its hands to its opponents.
They will hit and nip and will not just simply stop until they get satisfied. Even though the less assertive turtle gives up already, the dominant one will continue to chase that is why it is important to set up a large tank.
Interestingly, you should not quickly jump to a conclusion as the biting behavior can also indicate mating.
As part of courting, male turtles are giving gentle bites to females’ neck, tail, and feet to see if these gals are up for some love. Males might be a little aggressive but have no intention to hurt.
Now, if the aggression leads to harmful bites, then it is no longer a mating ritual. There is a fight going on already!
If you suspect that your turtles have been fighting but do not really catch them in the act, you can observe their behavior and physical condition.
If turtles get into a terrible fight, they are usually not eating and prefer to stay in a corner. These are, perhaps, the bullied ones that were not able to defend their territories. They may show defensiveness and fearfulness as well.
Since fighting involves attacking each other, you might want to check if your turtles have wounds, scratches, or even damaged shells. Because of their shells, the injuries are limited to the head, neck, legs, and tail.
Reasons Turtles Fight
Turtles fight because they are naturally solitary and prefer to be alone so territorial disputes happen. They also become violent if they are competing over food, are living in a tiny space, due to mating routine, when they reach maturity, or their species simply have aggressive characteristics.
The first major reason why turtles fight is because of their nature as solitary animals. They can perfectly live apart from others and would still be active and happy.
With this nature, your turtles living together can experience territorial disputes. They will fight for their space in the enclosure or simply want to show dominance.
This can highly take place if they have a cramped enclosure. The tiny space can stress them out plus the fact that they are living so close to each other, which they do not prefer.
Your turtles also battle over food so make sure you are feeding them sufficient meals. You might just find one day that your small turtles became an instant meal for your huge turtles!
Observe how much food each of them consumes, especially if they are of different species. Shortage of food can make them aggressive as their instinct is primarily after survival.
Another explanation why your turtles fight is due to mating routines.
Male turtles will usually manifest their dominance through fighting other turtles as a way to impress female turtles.
This might be a piece of new knowledge to you but usually, turtles are becoming aggressive once they reach maturity.
Interestingly, younger turtles do not usually exhibit a hostile type of behavior compared to the older ones. You can put these babies in a similar tank but should be watchful of their actions as they grow up.
Lastly, some turtles simply cannot avoid fights as their species are naturally antagonistic.
What To Do If Your Turtles Are Fighting?
If your turtles are fighting, you must stop them and separate them right away. Look for the reasons why they are attacking each other.
Turtles are quiet creatures that you might not ever think of getting themselves involved in a grapple!
They may be peaceful to watch, but they can be very aggressive if they need to.
When you see your turtles fighting, you must promptly stop and separate them as they might seriously hurt one another.
A turtle’s bite causes a wound that can be infected; thus, you must carefully check your turtles that are involved in the aggression as they might be injured.
It would be so dreadful seeing your turtles biting each other.
There is a great chance that your small turtle will get severely injured or even die with the bite of large turtles.
That is why it is not recommended to put turtles of different sizes in one tank. They might do well with each other at first, but you never know when they will be triggered to entrap others.
Should I Let My Turtles Fight?
No. You should not let your turtles fight as they will end up hurting each other badly. The disastrous attack could also affect your turtles’ behavior unfavorably.
If it is your first time seeing your turtles attack and bite each other, you should put an end to their competition right away.
True enough, they are calm and harmless creatures, but they will fight with each other as if there is no tomorrow if they are put on the spot!
As small as they can be, your turtles can be highly aggressive with each other. Their hostile instinct will be triggered as they compete for territories, dominance, food, and mating partners.
Aside from the serious injuries that your turtles can get, their behavior can change as well.
The threatened ones can show defensiveness, acting fearful, and lose their energetic personality.
How To Stop Turtles Fight?
To stop your turtles from fighting each other, they should be satisfied with their living conditions so they will not get stressed out. Contentment means having a large home, adequate food, clean water, entertaining toys, vast basking space, and not putting multiple male turtles together.
Your heart might still be aching whenever you see a turtle alone in its tank, though you know that living solo is really what it desires.
Most of the turtles simply want to live peacefully on their own. Thus, sharing a space with others will usually turn out to be terrible!
So, what can you do to effectively prevent fights between your turtles without hurting them?
Well, it is not usually recommended to put two adult turtles in a similar living space.
There is no exception even if they are of the same size or breed. You cannot really predict when your pets will show hostility towards each other.
If you have no choice and need to keep several turtles in the same tank, you should ensure that their place will have everything they need for healthy growth. You must also keep an eye on their behaviors at all times.
The tank of your turtles should be big enough which can accommodate the standard gallons of water for every inch of each turtle inside it. If the tank is too small, your turtles will be uncomfortable, stressed, and will start to fight each other.
Another reason for fighting is food. If your turtles are starving, they will definitely compete for food following their instinct of survival.
You should ensure that you will provide sufficient food for all of your turtles to sustain their healthy living.
Clean water is a must as well! Turtles love to swim and play in the water. Some even spend most of their life under the water.
If the water is dirty, their anxiety level will increase, and fight other turtles as a means to release their frustration.
To maintain good quality water in your tank, you should regularly change the water and use water filters.
Toys are also a great distraction and a means of entertainment for your turtles. If they are busy and having fun, they will care less about the other turtles around them.
A large basking area is very important as well. Basking under the sun is essential for your turtles’ growth and health.
Never have a tiny space that cannot accommodate all your turtles to bask at the same time. Count your turtles and measure their sizes to make sure they can all fit on the basking area.
You should also avoid putting males in the same enclosure. Although female turtles can fight too, male turtles are way aggressive, territorial, and dominant.
The best and most effective way to prevent your turtles from fighting is to simply separate them and put them in different tanks.
This way, you can ensure that there is no way for them to hurt each other even without your watch.
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Why Is Communication Important in Nursing?
Communication is important in nursing as it helps nurses to understand patient needs, it ensures they can deliver safe care and it encourages patients to share their experiences and invest trust in healthcare professionals. Nurses who want to enhance their communication skills have the opportunity to take communication classes.
Nurses who communicate well are able to put patients at ease, which leads to patients sharing information regarding their feelings and experiences, which can help healthcare professionals improve their outcomes. When nurses develop a relationship with their patients through communication, they can carry out interventions.
Good communication also allows nurses to deliver care that is unique to each patient. Once a patient tells the nurse about his fears and symptoms, the nurse can record that information and work towards a diagnosis. To ensure this process is effective, it is important to maintain patience and confidentiality. Failing to do this can cause a patient to withhold information.
Communication is also important in terms of delivering safe care. Being able to use key words when communicating under pressure prevents accidents, which is especially important in surgery. In addition, nurses must develop the right communication tools to maintain good relationships with their colleagues. This is sometimes difficult when there are generational gaps, which is why some choose to engage in courses that enhance their skills. | <urn:uuid:f72e88e0-0a39-474d-a211-bca06d343255> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reference.com/business-finance/communication-important-nursing-6f3ee175935e966e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965816 | 258 | 3.65625 | 4 |
After two years of mostly no in-person celebrations for NAIDOC Week, it is refreshing to finally celebrate NAIDOC across the country, together.
We held our own NAIDOC celebration with an Open Day at Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia) on Tuesday. Staff, children and families of Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe were thrilled to welcome the wider community and showcase our work across learning, health, creative arts, community development and governance – all led by First Nations knowledge and culture.
Traditional Owner for Mparntwe and Senior Arrernte Educator Felicity Hayes led the Welcome to Country before guests were invited to smoke themselves with Arrethe (erimophila) bush.
Young Arrernte girls performed the rainbow anthepe (Arrernte women’s dance) while their Elders sung and guided them.
We all had a good feed of roo tail, stew and damper and listened to First Nations leaders speak strongly about the importance of NAIDOC and our inspiring old people:
“The old people did the hard work for the common good – for all. Their commitment was bigger than their self interest. They gave themselves – not because they had much – but they knew what it was like to have nothing. And they knew it was their responsibility,” said William Tilmouth, Chair and co-founder of Children’s Ground.
“They questioned the systems and they questioned the status quo. They got up. They stood up. They spoke up. They showed up.”
“We at Children’s Ground listened to what the old people said over many years,” William added. “They have always been calling out for systemic change. Their voices may have been quiet, but their intention was loud and clear. We put their vision in a new system – driven by our people, in our communities.”
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The use of compost and fermentation products as fertiliser and for soil improvement is attractive in many ways.
An independent and regular quality control, such as that carried out by the Bundesgütegemeinschaft Kompost e.V. (BGK) or QLA (Quality Assurance Agricultural Waste Utilisation) is of great importance for producers in the recycling industry. The end user is thus provided with a product that demonstrably meets the high standards of quality assurance and is identified by appropriate seals, e.g. that of the BGK.
Within the framework of the RAL quality assurance by the BGK, fresh and finished compost, substrate, solid as well as liquid fermentation products and organic fertilizers must be analysed regularly. WESSLING possesses many years of experience and know-how in the analysis of compost and digestate. Both our samplers and our state-of-the-art testing laboratories have BGK recognition. Our experts examine your samples for physical, chemical and biological parameters, nutrient content, hygiene parameters and heavy metals.
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Best of Sicily
Food & Wine
Map of Sicily
Some of the most important descriptions of Norman
Sicily (1071-1200) come to us from Arab and Muslim
sources. These are especially important in their objectivity because, unlike
visitors from northern (Christian) Europe, those from Muslim regions brought
to their observations a somewhat more sophisticated point of reference.
They weren't easily impressed by the more superficial aspects of a wealthy
kingdom. Most of the greatest literary and scientific achievements of the
Middle Ages emanated first from the East (the Byzantine Empire) and subsequently
from Arab influences. Sicily was fortunate to be touched by both of these
flourishing cultures. Idrisi is the best known of the Arab geographer-poets
to have visited Sicily, but another is equally distinguished.
Abu Hussain Muhammed ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr (or Jubair) al-Kenani
was born around 1145 in Valencia, then a thriving region of "Moorish"
Spain, and by 1182 was high secretary for the Emir of Granada. The following
year Jubayr left for a Hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca. His travels took him
across the Mediterranean, reaching Alexandria in Spring 1183. En route back
to Spain, in January 1185, he reached Sicily. He described the volcanic
"At the close of night a red flame appeared, throwing up tongues
into the air. It was the celebrated volcano (Stromboli). We were told that
a fiery blast of great violence bursts out from holes in the two mountains
and makes the fire. Often a great stone is cast up and thrown into the air
by the force of the blast and prevented thereby from falling and settling
at the bottom. This is one of the most remarkable of stories, and it is
true. As for the great mountain in the island, known as the Jabal al-Nar
(Mountain of Fire), it also presents a singular feature in that some years
a fire pours from it in the manner of the 'bursting of the dam.' It passes
nothing it does not burn until, coming to the sea, it rides out on its surface
and then subsides beneath it. Let us praise the Author of all things for
His marvellous creations. There is no God but He."
His description of Palermo is a vivid one:
"It is the metropolis of the islands, combining the benefits of
wealth and splendour, and having all that you could wish of beauty, real
or apparent, and all the needs of subsistence, mature and fresh. It is an
ancient and elegant city, magnificent and gracious,
and seductive to look upon. Proudly set between its open spaces and plains
filled with gardens, with broad roads and streets, it dazzles the eyes with
its perfection. It is a wonderful place, built in the Cordoba style, entirely
from cut stone known as kadhan (limestone). A river splits the town, and
four springs gush in its suburbs... The king roams through the gardens and
courts for amusement and pleasure... The Christian women of this city follow
the fashion of Muslim women, are fluent of speech, wrap their cloaks about
them, and are veiled."
He also described the Martorana church, and specifically its bell tower
(higher then than now), shown here with the church of San Cataldo, and the
city of Messina as predominantly Greek Orthodox (rather than Catholic or
Muslim). Jubayr recorded the story of the words of King William II to his
subjects following an earthquake in 1169: "Let each of you pray to
the God he adores; he who has faith in his God will feel peace in his heart."
Yet the subtle storm of religious intolerance was gathering force even
in the days of Jubayr's visit, and by the time of the Vespers uprising a
century later the Muslims of Sicily had converted to Christianity (usually
Catholicism) or departed the island.
Jubayr's record is useful for establishing the continuity of the Palermitan
cultural atmosphere over the centuries. It is, in effect, a link in a chain.
Writing in 972, the geographer Ibn Haukal (actually a merchant from Baghdad
with a penchant for writing) described an Arab-Byzantine Sicily in the time
long before Idrisi and Jubayr, and a Bal'harm (Palermo)
just as prosperous as in the time of Jubayr a century later. Jubayr also
visited Jerusalem and other places, and wrote about these. He died in Alexandria
in 1217. We do not know precisely what Ibn Jubayr looked like; the painting
shown here is speculative.
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Modern warfare relies on electrical power like never before to drive, run, or operate a plethora of equipment across airborne, naval and land domains. This article looks at how the need, by military systems – many of which are becoming increasingly smaller every day – for readily-available power and its ‘measured’ delivery to various sensors, weapon systems and ancillary equipment, relies on power electronics of various kinds and why this market is only set to grow massively.
Military systems, both small and large, require electrical power to be delivered to them, often in very specific ways and amounts, if they are to perform optimally. Power electronics, such as voltage regulator systems, transformers, conversion systems, help ensure power, from source to application, meets the right parameters for the job at hand.
Power electronic systems are found in almost all electronic equipment delivering power conversion of AC to DC, DC to AC, AC to AC, DC to DC, power conditioning to remove distortion or harmonics, voltage dips and over-voltages. And they are also used for high-speed and/or frequent control of electrical parameters such as currents, voltage impedance, and phase angle. In most mobile devices, ruggedized tablets, for example, increasingly adopted by military users, DC-DC converters are used to maintain voltages at a steady, fixed level, no matter what the device’s battery voltage level is; such converters are also used for electronic isolation and power factor correction. Another type of DC-DC converter is the power optimiser, developed to maximise the power supplies that can be harvested from renewable energy sources, such as solar photovoltaic cells and wind energy, both widely used as power sources in military smart energy and water applications. Another power electronic solution is the rectifier, or AC-DC converter, a solution employed every time an electronic device, such as a computer, a field medical monitor, or a video monitor screen, is connected to a mains or generator-based electricity supply. Rectifiers might only convert AC to DC, though they can also change voltage levels to the equipment. In addition, voltage regulator systems, mains power transformers and frequency converters are just some of the other power electronics widely used in a range of tri-service and space-based scenarios, from naval on-board electronics and propulsion, to aircraft starting, support and maintenance equipment, tank and armoured vehicle simulation and training suites, satellite design, drone systems and more.
In modern electronics, such power conversions as mentioned are performed with ever smaller semiconductor switching devices, including diodes, thyristors and power transistors, including the power ‘metal oxide semi-conductor field effect transistor’, or MOSFET, and the Insulated-Gate Bi-polar Transistor, or IGBT. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) and laterally diffused MOS (LDMOS) have been used in electronic systems and devices for many years and silicon-based LDMOS FETs as well as GaAsFETs are now widely used in RF and millimetre wave communications solutions. But the need for small ‘size, weight and power’ consumption (SWaP) devices in military systems is, today, one of the key reasons that advances in semiconductor technology and component integration is so important in helping equipment manufacturers achieve the smaller end-product sizes users demand.
With defence systems typically requiring very reliable electrical power in the form of three-phase/single-phase AC, or 50 Hz/400 Hz, or regulated 5, 12, 24, 28, or 48-Volt DC, no matter what shape the electrical power takes the conditioning and control of electrical power supplied to increasingly smaller and highly sensitive electronics components inside latest military systems and equipment, is being guided by certain trends. Such trends include the need for more acute cooling and thermal management, open architecture adherence, striving for greater power-density and SWaP, as well as a much greater use of commercially off-the-shelf systems. The quest for miniaturisation in many defence systems is one of the reasons driving the trend in SWaP; as user systems demand evermore power density from the smallest possible batteries, components, or power storage devices, this size and weight reduction in, for instance, the electrification of vehicles and aircraft, and in satellite design, is critical. And with a growing number of vehicular defence applications involving electrical powertrains and greater electrification of all onboard systems, including advanced, specialised sensors, many requiring their own dedicated and reliable sources of high-quality electric power, exacting use of power electronics is critical. Such systems as azimuth and elevation servo drive units, outrigger drives, various power and servo amplifiers, communication systems, radar, consoles and displays all require their own main and stand-by power sources, in turn needing effective power electronic solutions helping to manage the electrical conversion and delivery, from source to application, across the platform.
If there’s any doubt about the importance and widespread nature of power electronics solutions and use, a recent report on the market in both the defence and commercial arenas, by Fortune Business Insights, is worth a brief mention. It looks at the very latest trends and developments in this critical area of electronics, addressing and separating out its analysis of power electronics solutions by type, material, voltage, end-user and ending with a regional forecast and market projections from 2021 out to 2028. The report underscores the importance of power electronics in the support of power management solutions that will both improve energy conservation while reducing energy losses from systems such as aircraft engines, satellites, military vehicles and weapon systems. It explains that a rising demand for automated weapons and electric vehicles for military applications alongside the growing aerospace and defence industries in the economies of China and India will drive growth opportunities for the power electronics sector in the coming years.
The report says that progress in technologies enabling the development of evermore advanced semiconductors, nanotechnology and the Internet of Things are expected to propel the power electronics sector in the forecast period. That said, silicon is, according to the report, likely to remain the most widely employed material used in power electronics for some time due largely to its availability, compatibility with a variety of substrate materials used in power electronic production, as well as low production costs themselves. It also describes a rising need for high power density IGBT modules, (as mentioned earlier), in aircraft applications due to lightweight and advanced feature design criteria demands, including moves to arrive at all-electric systems. Indeed, IGBT module demand is set to increase rapidly in order to improve electronic device performance and reduce the overall weight of aircraft and advanced weapon systems, as well as spacecraft of all descriptions.
As for some of the key players in the power electronics space, the report makes mention of companies across the globe, including: TT Electronics in the UK, STMicroelectronics in Switzerland, Infineon Technologies in Germany, NXP Semiconductors in the Netherlands, Renesas Electronics and Mitsubishi Electric Corporations in Japan, as well as a range of US players such as Microsemi, Texas Instruments, On Semiconductor, Collins Aerospace and others.
Regional splits for global analysis in the report are: Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world, with North America set to lead the way in the coming years driven mostly by its quest for advanced weapon systems and its space programme. Taking second place, however, is the AP Region with China’s military industrial complex and its race to achieve global military superiority with advanced weapons cited as driving main demand, bolstered also by its space programme and the space programmes of regional neighbours, India and Japan.
As the above report illustrates, power-hungry military systems and sensors that require reliable and high-quality power, managed and precisely delivered for everything from handheld drones, communications, satellites, vehicle-borne and soldier-worn sensors, naval propulsion, hybrid-electric drives, aircraft engines and more, will ensure the health of the power electronics sector for years to come and drive its R&D to find new ways of doing the same things, though in smaller, lighter, more efficient packages.
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Making your own news broadcast has never be easier or more affordable. With so many people giving it a go, how do you make sure that your broadcast is the one people stick with? Here we’ve put together 5 Amazing Assets for Broadcast News, as well as some top tips.
Live News is a WordPress plugin designed to look like a television news ticker. You can customise the plugin to fit your website, and it’s perfect for displaying information like news, weather warnings or sports results, in real time.
A one-page graphic template for Adobe Photoshop, News Website UI is a perfect starting point to create your broadcast site. Clean and contemporary, it’ll help your project look professional and trustworthy.
A nice little vector logo for either Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, the News Logo Template is highly customisable and comes with a variety of colours included. Perfect for streaming, podcasts and broadcasting services.
The News of the World font is a bold typeface designed to emphasise your content and grab the attention of your audience. There are four different styles, so you can maintain a sense of style without too much repetition.
Gazeta is an impressive Drupal theme perfect for news and magazine-style websites. You can create any number of news categories and have multiple authors each with their own profile.
Each asset here is from Envato Elements, where you can download unlimited resources for a monthly subscription.
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We have published a new paper “Efficient Processing of Streaming Data using Multiple Abstractions” at the IEEE Cloud 2021 conference. (to be available at https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2021/)
From the abstract of our paper:
Large websites and distributed systems employ sophisticated analytics to evaluate successes to celebrate and problems to be addressed. As analytics grow, different teams often require different frameworks, with dozens of packages supporting with streaming and batch processing, SQL and no-SQL. Bringing multiple frameworks to bear on a large, changing dataset often create challenges where data transitions—these impedance mismatches can create brittle glue logic and performance problems that consume developer time. We propose Plumb, a meta-framework that can bridge three different abstractions to meet the needs of a large class of applications in a common workflow. Large-block streaming (Block-Streaming) is suitable for single-pass applications that care about the temporal and spatial locality. Windowed-Streaming allows applications to process a group of data and many reductions. Stateful-Streaming enables applications to keep a long-term state and always-on behavior. We show that it is possible to bridge abstractions, with a common, high-level workflow specification, while the system transitions data batch processing and block- and record-level streaming as required. The challenge in bridging abstractions is to minimize latency while allowing applications to select between sequential and parallel operation, while handling out-of-order data delivery, component failures, and providing clear semantics in the face of missing data. We demonstrate these abstractions evaluating a 10-stage workflow of DNS analytics that has been in production use with Plumb for 2 years, comparing to a brittle hand-built system that has run for more than 3 years.
This conference paper is joint work of Abdul Qadeer and John Heidemann from USC/ISI.
Plumb is open source software and will be available at: https://ant.isi.edu/software/plumb/index.html
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Textures enable you to map images/procedural textures to materials, in order to create detailed effects such as wood grain, meshes, tile as well as fine imperfections like scratches, which will add that little “extra” to your renderings.
In this section we will cover the various types of textures, the way they are mapped both in regards to the the appearance and the position on the parts.
The textures of a material are located in the Texture tab of the Material panel. You can apply textures from the library, select local files or create/adapt textures based on the texture types (2) found in the panel.
- Drag the texture onto the part you want to apply it to in the Real-time view a map dialog will appear, where you can select which Map type you want to texture used as.
- Drag the texture directly onto the relevant Map type in the material panel.
2. Add textures from file: If you want to use an image from your local directory, you can do it in various ways
- Double click the relevant map type and browse to the file.
- Select the map type, click the folder icon and browse to the file.
- Drag an image from outside KeyShot onto the part in the Real-time View and a map dialog will appear, here you can select which Map type you want to texture used as.
- Drag an image from outside KeyShot onto the relevant map type in the Material panel
3. Create/adapt textures based on the texture types: Below the the Map types you can find the Texture Type drop-down. In addition to the regular image texture it offers advanced image textures (eg. video maps) as well as 2D and 3D Procedural textures. Select a type and adapt it to fit your purpose.
If you want to change the material but keep the textures you have applied to it. You can hold the Alt-key when you drag and drop the new material from the library/outside KeyShot onto the part in the Real-time view.
Working with Textures
- Mapping Type: Via the Mapping Type drop-down you can select the method for mapping the texture that fits your object best.
- Move textures: To get the position and size of the texture just right, you can launch the Move Texture widget. This will let you adjust the mapping parameters from the Real-time View.
- Copy textures between Map types: In some cases it makes sense to use the same texture on multiple Map types, you can easily copy a texture from one to another, simply hold Ctrl/Cmd while dragging the thumbnail from one map type to another.
- Sync textures: If you want to make sure the textures are kept synchronized make sure to check the Sync checkbox for each map type
If you for some reason want to remove a texture from the material you can do it in 2 ways:
- Disable: Unchecking the check box in the upper left corner of the texture map will disable the texture, so you can see the material without the texture applied, without loosing all the work you have put in, to customize the texture.
- Delete: If you wan to remove a texture completely from the material, simply select the map type, and hit the delete icon. | <urn:uuid:7d736aa2-dcab-4db0-80a4-e00a0f04248d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manual.keyshot.com/manual/textures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.891201 | 683 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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as some of ours. Of course, German spelling does not present the difficulties of the English. If one knows how to pronounce a word, he can usually spell it; so this saves a great deal of trouble to the teacher, and mistakes seldom occur. Spelling by sounds, or analyzing words, I have heard here very thoroughly taught. In drawing, also, the pupils are made to be very accurate. They draw with pencil and crayon, mostly with the former, but the style of the finished pictures is scarcely ever as bold and free as with the scholars of our best drawing teachers.
The class invariably rise when the professor or a stranger comes into the room, and remain standing till permission is given them to be seated. I do not see, otherwise, any great difference between them and American children in school manners. The classes are never so quiet as in our schools, and the noise and whispering do not seem to trouble the teacher very much.
There are in Berlin very many of what are called Kindergarten schools, to which the youngest children are sent before they are old enough to enter the larger schools. These are conducted after Froebel's plan, and only in these schools, so far, are his ideas adopted. But his intention was that the same principles which govern the management and teaching of these schools should be carried on still further into the higher ones. Pestalozzi is followed here, but one great idea of Froebel's was that the child must be taught himself to do with his hands what he sees; that he must first see and understand and afterwards do it. For their hours of recreation they have spades and rakes and hoes and wheelbarrows, and each a little garden plat, and they are taught to use all these things, to plant and care for flowers and vegetables, and to watch their growth and development. Perhaps it is hardly to be wondered at by those who know the opposition which manifested itself when it was proposed at Harvard to extend the course of study in the natural sciences, that there is considerable objection to these schools on the ground that they do not teach enough religion, and that their tendency is anti-Christian. For “religion "please read “ theology." Every school here must have a clergyman connected with it, and these clergymen are sometimes much shocked at finding that the little child of three years, whom he finds occupied in cutting a cross
from paper for a birth-day gift, is not able to tell him of what the cross is a symbol, and persists in declaring simply that it is for a book-mark and is intended “for mamma." This seems, to say the least, unreasonable, but in a state where religion must form a part of the regular study of every school, and where it stands on the same ground as arithmetic or geography, with the only difference that the hour devoted to religion is more tiresome than perhaps any other, it can hardly be wondered at. To an American it seems as if everything was fettered here, and as if the people must chafe continually like a high-spirited horse with a cruel curb continually irritating him. It seems as if they were allowed no liberty of thought, even on those subjects on which no one should dare to come between the soul and its Maker, and one understands readily how the girls who are thus trained from earliest childhood, never throw off the mental clothing which has been so closely fitted to them, while the boys, in withdrawing themselves eventually from parental restraint, shake off at the same time all restraint, and cast aside as fables and idle tales the doctrines which have been so tirelessly taught to them in their childhood. All these regulations are for the safety of the kingdom and the king; but one continually wonders—and especially now when we can almost hear the roar of the cannon which may throw all central Europe into a fearful struggle, and entirely change the condition of Germany, how long this will last, how long it will be before all the misery and suffering which lies concealed behind the splendor of royalty will come forth and claim its right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I cannot close without speaking of a Geography on which Mr. Theodore S. Fay, for so many years our minister to Switzerland, has been engaged for some twenty years. Mr. Fay leaves Europe for America early in July to publish the book and to make an effort to introduce it into our American Schools, so that you will soon have an opportunity of judging as to its merits. I have seen the maps which are to accompany it, and which have been most carefully corrected and approved by the best geographical authorities here, and can most sincerely say that they are the most perfect and thorough I have ever seen. No labor or expense has been spared in their preparation and correction, and when they are pub
lished they will be as exactly correct, even to the smallest particulars, as the knowledge of man can make them. They contain many new features with regard to mathematical geography, as to length of days, change of seasons, &c., of which every teacher will be glad to avail himself; and the “voyage map," as it is called, on Mercator's projection, is destined to be a source of endless pleasure and profit to both teacher and pupil. The text which accompanies the maps is most carefully and thoroughly prepared. I am certain that the excellences of the book must commend it to every teacher. It will save an incalculable amount of labor and trouble, and fix all the details of geographical knowledge so firmly that the child will no longer need a map for reference because he has the knowledge in his mind. I shall impatiently wait for its publication, knowing, as none but those who have taught geography can know, how much time and patience it will save; and I am sure that all American teachers will give it a hearty welcome as a help in a direction where so much help is needed.
A. C. B.
ON TEACHING GEOMETRY.
My method may not be new to all, but it may suggest something new to a few. It has been wrought out during several years of teaching, and every part has been thoroughly tested. The results of the trial in my own classes, composed of girls sixteen years of age and upwards, are far superior to any I could obtain by the use of old methods. It is always hard to make new plans, - plans in which we have confidence. There must be time to try many methods, to digest the results of experience, and to rearrange material. And since I know how much more may be done provided one has a good plan in the beginning, I venture to speak of my method, for the sake of those whom I can help, though it may contain nothing new to many of my readers. The evidence that there are those who need help accumulates with every new class that comes to me for instruction. I find many who have studied the subject before, but in such a way that the memory alone has been exercised, and that to a merciless degree. A theorem is demonstrated as a list of
prepositions might be repeated. Certain words in a certain order, are learned mechanically. There is no understanding between the mind and the eye as to the figure upon the board, except so far as the letters, placed in exactly the same order as they were learned in the book, aid in recalling the words. Change the letters, turn the figure upside down, or ask for any particular step in the reasoning and the recitation is stopped. That Geometry has anything to do with reasoning, or is a discipline for any faculty except memory, has in many cases never occurred to the scholar. It is a hard thing to say, but its truth has been proved.
• With my first class I experimented, trying to ascertain what had been the exact method by which they had been taught. I changed the position of the figures, changed letters, asked questions which showed the class there were such things as relations between facts, that one thing followed from another, and I found that they had no conception of the nature of the subject. For that term, I allowed them to go on, demonstrating with the aid of the figures, and labored to teach them to reason. The disgust with which they soon regarded the old ways, and the pleasure which they felt when they could put two things together, and see the relation, and how a third grew out of a combination of those two, amply repaid me for the work. But the results in all cases were not quite satisfactory.
With the next class, I varied the method somewhat. After going over the first book for instance, using the figures, sometimes with letters, or the Arabic signs, and sometimes nothing but such words as were appropriate, the class reviewed, demonstrating every theorem without a figure. I required that it should be done so fully and carefully that a person listening should not feel the need of a figure. Take Prop. XIX., Book I, of Davies' Legendre:- If two straight lines meet a third line, making the sum of the interior angles on the same side of the line met, equal to two right angles, the two lines will be parallel.
Through the middle of the secant line draw a line, perpendicular to the lower given line, and prolong it till it meets the upper given line, thus forming two triangles. By Prop. I., the angles formed by the secant line and upper line are equal to two right angles. By hypothesis, the two interior angles on the same side of
the secant are equal to two right angles. By axiom 1, these two sets of angles are equal to each other. By axiom 3, taking away the common angle, the remaining angles are equal. These angles are corresponding angles of the triangles. The angles of the triangles, formed by the secant and the proof line are equal, because they are vertical. By construction, the sides which are parts of the secant are equal. By Prop. VI., the triangles are equal. By construction, the angle formed by the proof line and the lower line is a right angle. Its corresponding equal angle must then be a right angle. Therefore the proof line is perpendicular to the upper line, and conversely, the upper line is perpendicular to the proof line. By Prop. VIII., the two given lines are parallel.
When a scholar can give a demonstration like that, she knows it; she can commence in the middle as well as at the beginning; she can tell you the reason for every step; and with all this exercise in reasoning, she has the benefit of the thought necessary to put it all in concise, clear language. The lesson proves to be one in many things.
Accuracy in habits of thought is to be one of the results of the study of mathematics. The reasoning must be accurate, that the conclusion may be correct. Carrying out the principle, the language should be accurately used, and the order of the parts of a demonstration accurately observed. It has been my practice to give first the theorem in general terms, then the application to the figure in question (when using figures), making that application in the exact words of the theorem. I would banish the word "let" entirely. Thus, applying Theorem I. Book I., “ If the straight line A B meet the straight line C D, the sum of the two angles A B C and A B D will equal two right angles." The theorem is the general statement, the application the particular. Why should we say, “ Lct the straight line A B meet the straight line C D, &c.”? It seems a trifle, but as part of a system it becomes important. Next comes the preparation of the figure for proof, all proof lines dotted, and lastly, the proof itself.
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The Declaration of Restrictions was created a long time before the smart phone, communication by email and the popular internet.
Yet, it is still the Supreme Law of the Land in Indian Hammock.
The Declaration of Restrictions is exactly what its name says, Restrictions; Taking away some of the Individual Owner/Member’s Rights, in order to create a livable Community.
The Originators and Developers of Indian Hammock put a lot of thought, time and legal minds into the creation of the Declaration of Restrictions.
While taking away some of the Individual Owner/Member Rights, the Declaration protects the Owner/Member by establishing that any future removal of Owner/Individual rights can only be done by a 2/3 majority vote of the club’s Members.
Simply put, no Restrictions, Laws, Rules, Procedures, or whatever someone choses to call them, which take away any of Owner/Member Individual Rights are legal or enforceable, unless they were put for a vote and accepted by 2/3 of the club’s members.
There is only one exception to the above.
There is only one place in the Declaration of Restrictions where the power to make additional restrictions was given to the Board of Directors, and this is only in regard to Motorized Vehicles.
As per Article VII Section 5. “No vehicle of any type may be operated on the property so as to create a nuisance, a hazard or do damage to the common areas. Because of their rapid proliferation and unforeseeable evolution, the board shall make rules regulating the use of, or prohibiting the use of, any type of motorized vehicle.
Nowhere else is there such power given to the Board to create anything that takes away from Owner/Member’s rights; it can only be done by the Club (being the Members) requiring a 2/3 majority vote. | <urn:uuid:4e21c6df-6464-4745-a51b-78e66e94af32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ihmyhome.com/category/declaration_of_restrictions/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932961 | 388 | 2.390625 | 2 |
All the recent hoopla surrounding whether government should cover such things as contraception for women or pills for erectile dysfunction for men distracts us from very real, basic issues about health.
Men and women may have any number of reasons for wanting or not wanting to have children. Who’s to judge the validity of these reasons?
And hormones marketed as being for birth control are not always prescribed for that reason. Some young women, in consultation with their physicians, often choose to take birth control in order to even out their cycles. Maybe they have painful periods. Maybe they have headaches and it’s suggested that taking “the Pill” can help.
But when the birth control is hormone based, then physicians really need to explain the pros and cons as well as what hormones do in the body. For example, do physicians explain to women that when they are on a hormone-based method of birth control that they are not ovulating—they are not actually cycling?
If not, they are doing a disservice to their patients, because suppressing a natural cycle can interfere with their overall health. This is not to say that women may take the Pill for years and go off and be able to easily conceive and bear healthy children. And of course, in today’s rush-rush world, the appeal of not having a period is pretty obvious, though also sad in that we don’t revere a process that in the deep past was celebrated.
Reproductive health, fertility—whether women’s or men’s—is really the Holy Grail of health and indicates not just the health of an individual, but the health of the ecosystem the individual lives in. The fact is, our bodies are wise. Anovulatory cycles in women and low sperm counts in men raise deep and, often for us, troubling questions about our own vitality: Are we vital enough to reproduce? Is the planet vital enough to provide us the energy to carry on such activities?
That’s why use of hormones is so troubling, whether birth-control pills, hormone replacement therapy, or steroids used by bodybuilders. Why? Because these are not fully metabolized, so they get excreted and, like other pharmaceuticals, end up in our water where they not only disrupt the hormonal balances of other species such as fish, but end up inside us as well.
How is it fair to someone who chooses not to partake of these things to be dosed anyway, without consent?
The fact is, there are alternatives. For fertility itself, an excellent book is Katie Singer’s The Garden of Fertility, which teaches women or couples how to chart a woman’s monthly fertility cycle so that she knows if she’s ovulating—and when. This can help a couple to plan when they want to have a child or to abstain from intercourse or use some other method if the time is not right. (Note: This is not the rhythm method, which uses the past to predict the future, but taking temps and checking cervical fluid daily to know when a woman ovulates.)
Likewise, if a newly menstruating young woman is having cycle issues, there are diet and lifestyle changes and plant remedies that can help—many herbs are quite kind to women in this regard to help regulate the liver and kidneys which govern flow and rhythm, respectively, throughout the body, including the reproductive organs. Herbs can also help with the pain when there’s dysmenorrhea. And plants may also help women to more easily conceive.
Male fish with eggs. Lowered sperm counts in humans. Increasing infertility among women. Dumping of toxic wastes and cleanup of Superfund sites, though still a problem today, seems like a 1970s-era issue. Hormone-based and other kinds of pharmaceuticals being found in our drinking water is our era’s Love Canal and truly underscores the idea that there is no “away.” | <urn:uuid:6e92636f-a4c6-40a9-9640-e071421c29b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artofearth.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/bottoms-up-hormones-in-our-drinking-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959435 | 813 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Arjuna: Benefits, Precautions and Dosage
Arjunarishta is a herbal supplement that is well-known for its cardiovascular benefits. This is a herbal concoction composed of various medicinal plants that go through a distillation and extraction process to achieve the right composition of the beneficial nutrients required for heart health.
It was used routinely by ayurvedic practitioners for over a thousand years ago to treat heart health issues. The natural ingredients used to make this miracle tonic are:
- Terminalia arjuna bark
- Woodfordia fruticosa flowers
- Madhuca Indica flowers
- Vitis vinifera , dried grapes
Benefits of Arjuna
Arjuna has phytochemicals that aid in boosting and repairing heart related health issues. These phytochemicals are antioxidants that can prevent not only the heart but also other organ damage. Arjuna Health Supplement Capsules are known to have the potential to combat various other diseases as well. Let’s look at some:
- Heart Disease – There are many facets in heart health. These include proper health function owing to the imperative role the heart plays in a body, protection from damage due to aging and also healing from cardiovascular diseases. The heart is prone to oxidative stress. The flavonoids present in Arjuna Health Supplement Capsules help protect against the damage caused. When the lymph system around the heart dysfunctions, this herbal supplement drains the lymph and thus regulates the muscular pumping of the organ and the blood flow.
- Angina – When the heart gets less oxygen, there is a blockage and pain is experienced in the chest area generally. These are signs of coronary heart disease more commonly called “Angina”. The arjuna herb benefits this condition as effectively as allopathic drugs. It guarantees improvement in heart function as well as reduces angina disorder symptoms.
- Gut Health – Gut health is of utmost importance as this is the most delicate system in the human anatomy which is overworked in today’s times, causing a lot of health issues. The stomach lining (Gastric Mucosa) is strengthened and maintained by a regular dosage of Arjuna Health Supplement Capsules. For centuries, traditional Ayurveda has used Arjuna as an antacid due to its antibacterial properties to prevent heartburn and acidity. The bacteria in the digestive tract cause ulcers, gastritis, and other stomach infections which lead to more abnormalities, Arjuna has been held as the digestive tonic or medicine to cure and clean the system.
- Diabetes – While it is a known fact that amongst the benefits of arjuna, blood sugar management still hasn’t been talked about as much as it should have been. Correcting insulin sensitivity is as significant as reducing blood sugar levels and Arjuna improves this overall. Also, it benefits hyperglycemia.
- Liver and Kidney Health – The dynamic antioxidants present in this herbal composition of Arjuna show great promise in healing most of the organs especially the liver and kidneys. The main function of these organs is to get rid of the accumulated toxins from the body. Particularly in the case of the liver, bile production is an absolute necessity and Arjuna helps boost that while simultaneously removing the toxins from the system. It has been indicated that arjuna has notably been used in liver cirrhosis cases and has shown considerable improvement.
- Cancer – Research in animal studies has shown that the arjuna bark is productive in controlling the formation of any kind of tumors. While it is still in the initial stages of development for human vs. cancer studies and experiments, it has been said that Vitis Vinifera kills cancer cells efficiently.
Although there isn’t a lot of research on the side-effects of consumption of Arjuna Health Supplement Capsules, some people do experience minimal symptoms of headaches, body aches, nausea and constipation. Not recommended for pregnant and breastfeeding women as well as children. As only finite information is available, it is likely to behave in any way with different medications.
In case one is on prescription medication, it is better to speak to a healthcare practitioner before taking arjuna.
Arjuna is available in many forms. In syrup form but that is not advisable for diabetes patients as it has some quotient of jaggery which is raw cane sugar available in Asia. Also, a tincture should be taken in a glass of water with just a few drops. The easiest and most popular form is capsules, which can be taken as 1200 mg of strength on an empty stomach before or after meals. The dosage is not to be exceeded as a precautionary measure.
The bottom line
All in all, this versatile herbal supplement has so many healing and strengthening qualities, it should be made part of the daily regimen. Traditionally, arjuna for heart has been the most popular reason for taking it, but this miracle herbal concoction has many other benefits.
Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of ayurveda. | <urn:uuid:1b23e45f-0aa4-4ded-ac6b-939439ff1405> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roarnaturally.com/arjuna-benefits-precautions-and-dosage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947264 | 1,080 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Washington, DC – For the first time in 25 years, a new spacecraft is finished and ready to go.
The Ares 1-X rocket will be used to launch the Orion capsule in October, which will be used for manned missions when the space shuttle retires.
Standing 327 feet tall, the test rocket has been assembled on the top of a modified mobile launcher. The final step was to use a crane to hoist the simulator launch abort system tower off the floor and place it on top of the Ares I-X.
NASA will now run extensive tests on all the systems, including the set of instruments that will measure the rocket’s movements as it launches and the first stage separates.
These tests will include a process called “modal testing,” which will shake the stack slightly to test stiffness of the rocket including the pinned and bolted joints and make sure the rocket can handle the strain of launch and ascent. While those tests are conducted, a team of about 30 launch controllers will also practice their roles in the firing room. | <urn:uuid:7bc6ec78-2fb7-4938-ab68-dd80fda8c1dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tgdaily.com/science/space/nasa-completes-ares-1-x-rocket/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951716 | 213 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Stirchley Primary School's Safeguarding Page
Meet our Designated Safeguarding Leads
Keeping children safe in Stirchley Primary School is everybody's responsibility. Safeguarding children and young people means protecting them from abuse or neglect, getting the right support in place as early as possible and creating an environment in which children and young people feel safe and healthy.
We all have a personal responsibility to notice when a child or young person may be at risk of harm and pass our concerns to someone who can act to protect them.
Our Key principles are:
- Always see the child first.
- Never do nothing.
- Do with, not to, others.
- Do the simple things better.
- Have conversations, build relationships.
With these principles in mind, Stirchley Primary School takes the welfare of children in our care very seriously. Our staff and governors have been trained on safeguarding in line with the KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE IN EDUCATION document and follow the principles of WORKING TOGETHER TO SAFEGUARD CHILDREN. We also take part in 'PREVENT'. Our DSL is also a WRAP trainer and all staff take part in RIGHT HELP, RIGHT TIME awareness . We also hold a weekly Safeguarding meeting, which is compulsory for all staff to attend.
If you have concerns surrounding a child's safety at Stirchley or in the wider community you can also contact the Birmingham Children's Advice and Support Services (C.A.S.S) Team on
0121 303 1888
Please take time to look at this short video and our Safeguarding and Child Protection policy below. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting Davie Clifford, Gillian Yeomans, Karina Chivers or John Hemming who will be able to provide you with support and advice. | <urn:uuid:37350cbf-d21e-4166-9629-6880c599850d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stirchly.bham.sch.uk/about-us/safeguarding | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.931079 | 387 | 2 | 2 |
Why are weeds bad for farmers?
Farmers are often concerned that weeds may reduce crop yields. They also use resources such as water, sunshine and space that might have gone to crops. The more similar the weed and crop requirements, the more they will compete for those resources. Weeds that compete aggressively with crops reduce their yield.
How do weeds affect crop growth?
The bad news for other plants in your yard is that weeds compete for nutrients in the soil and sunlight, which can lead to stunted growth for your vegetables, flowers and lawn. On a similar note, weeds also take up space, which can make it harder for gardens to flourish.
Are weeds harmful How?
Weeds are harmful in many ways. Reduction in crop yield:- Weeds compete with crops for water, nutrients and light. Being hardy and vigorous in growth habit, they grow faster then crops and consume large amount of water and nutrients, thus causing heavy losses in yields.
Are weeds good for soil?
Weeds Bring Nutrients to the Surface Weed roots absorb nutrients and bring them up towards the surface of the soil where they are more easily accessible to other plants. Some weeds also produce carbon which can help with water retention and further increase nutrient levels and organic matter in the soil.
How can weeds be controlled?
Weeds can be controlled using weedicides: It is a chemical, which is sprayed in the fields to kill all available weeds. Weedicides are not harmful to crops. The best time for the removal of weeds is before they produce flowers and seeds. The manual method of removing weeds is with the help of a khurpi.
How do you control weeds in crops?
Weed control is important in agriculture. Methods include hand cultivation with hoes, powered cultivation with cultivators, smothering with mulch, lethal wilting with high heat, burning, and chemical control with herbicides (weed killers).
How do organic farmers control weeds?
The use of clean seed, mowing weeds around the edges of fields or after harvest to prevent weeds from going to seed, and thoroughly composting manure before application can greatly reduce the introduction of weed seeds and difficult weed species.
Are weeds good for anything?
Beneficial weeds can accomplish a number of roles in the garden or yard, including fertilizing the soil, increasing moisture, acting as shelter or living mulch, repelling pests, attracting beneficial insects, or serving as food or other resources for human beings.
What kills weeds permanently 2020?
Yes, vinegar does kill weeds permanently and is a viable alternative to synthetic chemicals. Distilled, white, and malt vinegar all work well to stop weed growth.
What are the three methods of controlling weeds?
Weeds can be controlled or eliminated by any of the following methods.
- Cultural method of weed control. a.
- Biological Method: This involve the use of living organism, plants or animals to control weeds or reduce the weeds. a.
- Chemical method of weed control: This involve the use of chemical such as herbicides.
What farmers use to kill weeds?
Many farmers choose to use chemicals to keep weeds and pests from destroying their crops and to add more nutrients to the soil. There are three different kinds of pesticides; herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. All three of these pesticides are used to kill different kinds of pests that can be found on a farm.
How do you get rid of weeds so they never come back?
Weed Killer for Areas Never to Grow Again To kill all vegetation in walkways, driveways and other areas where you don’t want any living thing to grow again, mix two cups ordinary table salt with one gallon of white vinegar. Do this in a container that is larger than one-gallon capacity so you have room for the salt.
Are weeds really that bad?
Weeds not only make it more challenging to pull up the desirable parts of your edible crop, but they also can damage their root systems of your plants, making them more difficult to trim without damaging the entire plant. | <urn:uuid:44dfd0bb-6520-41fe-9024-1b82dcadbffb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nosubjectlosangeles.com/why-are-weeds-bad-for-farmers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941451 | 831 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Caravan, Invasion, Exodus: A Photo Essay
It is near 5pm on Monday, November 5, 2018 when I arrived at the sports stadium Jesus Martinez “Palillo” in Mexico City. The first Central American Caravan—alternatively called the exodus or Migrant Walking—had arrived two days earlier.
Mexico had never seen so many people move, en masse, through its territory, but migratory flow is nothing new. According to Marta Sanchez Soler, coordinator of the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement, around 800 to 1,000 Central American migrants enter Mexico on a daily basis. This exodus, started on October 13, is different: the number of people (around 7,000, many families or women traveling with children), the swiftness of their organization, the abandonment of secrecy or invisibility, the determination to travel main roads demanding the right for free and safe transit through Mexican territory.Why are these people leaving their homes, risking their families’ lives, and setting out for the U.S.-Mexico border? The answer is incredibly complex. For decades, the Central American region has endured a destabilized political, economic, and social situation. Among the destabilizing factors, we can point to the failure of the neoliberal economic agenda and the rise of terrestrial cocaine corridors throughout Central America in the early 1990s and the U.S. military interventions and support for undemocratic governments, both of which led to extreme violence in the so-called Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). Life has become unbearably dangerous and impoverished for millions of Central Americans.
So, as the caravan moved out of San Pedro Sula, an industrial city in northeast Honduras, it grew. Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and even Mexicans joined this instrument of survival, this single-minded quest for United States asylum. They are not looking for charity, but for jobs and the chance to live with dignity. They want only basic human rights.
Back at the stadium, I am shocked to learn there are no restrictions to entry. Dozens of migrants, mostly young men, spill out onto the sidewalks, sitting to chat or walking to get food. About a dozen police monitor the traffic, giving priority to the Central Americans on foot. By the next day, all that would change: the entrances would be fenced, police presence heightened, and vehicles coming and going with donations.
Inside Ciudad Deportiva (Sports City), I follow a river of people past a tent designated “Collection Center,” filled with second-hand clothing, toward a fragile village of handmade tents, cobbled together from plastic, cardboard, wood, or blankets. These are filled with small families, women and children, or gatherings of men. Everywhere, groups of migrants chat together or on their cell phones, resting their feet. I notice their shoddy footwear; sandals are not fit for their journey, yet here they are.
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I also encounter dozens of volunteers, journalists, nuns, and staff from national and international organizations verifying the conditions provided for the migrants. The lines to enter and exit the stadium are equally long, guarded by just one police officer. When I finally enter the Stadium, I can see that the upper levels are filled to capacity, and the field has been turned into a refugee camp. The last time anything similar was seen in this country was in South Mexico, when some 50,000 Guatemalans fled genocide in the 1980s. Now, in the middle of CDMX, hundreds huddle in tents.
Among the service areas, I find a zone of portable toilets and hand-washing stations. Long lines snake from each, and signs reading “Migrant, remember that the subway is free for you” are taped to the porta-potties. Organizations like UNICEF and OXFAM have set up tents as day care centers for over 300 children; their parents carried them or pushed them in rickety strollers all this way.
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As the stars rise, the Stadium’s lights come to life. It is cold, and it’s been raining for days. I wander off to watch young volunteers play soccer with Caravan children. In a kind of subtle invitation to kick it, the ball crosses my path. I hear a voice over my shoulder: “They want you to play.”
I explain to the smiling man that I don’t know how to play, and ask how he had come to join this Caravan. “I am from San Pedro Sula,” the man answers simply. With barely contained emotion, I tell him I lived in Honduras years before. His name is Victor, and he walked with the Caravan from the very first day. His wife Lorena is here, too. Victor tells me everything is challenging in his country; if you’re over 35, it’s almost impossible to get a job. He is 49, and impressed that older people in Mexico can make a living with their street stalls. In Honduras, violence is everywhere, and gangs extort pretty much everyone, including the street stall vendors, he says.
Indeed, studies show that, from 2009 to 2011, Honduras and El Salvador had the world’s highest rates of homicides. Anthropologist Mo Hume refers to the area’s “violence ritualization,” which saturates everyday life.
Victor tells me that every night there are assemblies, but he does not know how long the Caravan will remain in CDMX. He and his wife are traveling without children, but his wife’s niece and three children, one of whom is an eight-month-old infant, are here, too. If things get tough at the U.S. border, Victor and Lorena might just stay in Mexico. He asks me whether life is tough in Mexico. I don’t know how to answer.
***The arrival of the first Caravan in Mexico City allowed all the migrants to regroup after a separation in Veracruz, where the government promised but never delivered buses to transport some to Mexico City. Out of desperation, some migrants continued on foot, and others sought public and private transportation. It also allowed a sort of census of the Caravan: of 4,814 people, 3,088 are adults. There are 184 people with a disability, 87 members of the LGBTQ community, 320 children between 0 to 5 years old, 24 pregnant women, and a number of unaccompanied minors. Of the total, 85% are from Honduras, 8% Guatemala, 5% Nicaragua. and 2% other countries. By mid-November, at least three women had given birth in Mexico, and a small group of about 400 (including 87 LGBTQ members) had arrived in the border city of Tijuana. It had been about six weeks since the first Caravan left Honduras and, according to Periodistas de a Pie (Foot Journalists), a media collective that has been with the group since October 13, a total of four Caravans comprising 10,000 migrants were on their way to request asylum in the United States.
The reactions to these Central American migrants in Mexican territory has been mixed. Spurred by racist and xenophobic social media posts, small protests have broken out. Some of the same myths deployed against Mexican immigrants living in the United States are being used against the Central American migrants in Mexico: that they will take jobs, that they are criminals, that they want to take advantage of Mexico’s social services, that this is an invasion and an economic burden.
Of course, because of their social vulnerability, these migrants, like many already in the United States, could only take the most precarious jobs. And even if all 10,000 asylum-seekers remained in Mexico, it would barely change the country’s demographic. Among the world’s lowest immigration receiving countries, Mexico has nearly 120 million residents, and less than 1% is foreign-born. This is no national economic crisis. This is no invasion. This is an exodus.And so, as luck would have it, expressions of solidarity with and empathy toward the Caravan have overwhelmed the xenophobic responses. Perhaps because they understand, it has been the most marginalized Mexicans who have dominated this support; in Chiapas, the poorest Mexican state, entire families helped feed the migrants. The Mexican federal government has been inefficient, but churches, NGOs, and civil society have responded quickly and efficiently in the face of the Central Americans’ diverse needs. The Caravan’s members had faced rain, heat, cold, hunger, fatigue, illness, dehydration, and childbirth by the time they arrived in Mexico City.
They stayed five days, and I was there for three. I witnessed how families, students, and neighborhood groups visited the migrants with food and clothes, as well as love and support. People bypassed the Collection Center and entered the Stadium, because they wanted to personally deliver their donations, share words of support and good wishes with the migrants.
For my part, after meeting Victor and Lorena, I launched a Facebook fundraising campaign. My students from Bryn Mawr College (through the Migrant Rights Coalition, a student-led club) helped raise $1,153 dollars in less than a day. With that money, we donated basic hygiene products (toothbrushes, deodorant, toilet paper, etc.) as well as some suitable traveling clothes.
The migrants’ stay in the Stadium was their longest, best-equipped stop on their way to the U.S. border. There, they had the opportunity to undergo medical, dental, and psychological checks. There were “Know Your Rights” workshops about requesting asylum and refuge in the United States, and the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (COMAR) detailed how to apply for refuge in Mexico. There were even moments to relax, as local groups hosted movie and game nights, boxing classes, and massage sessions.
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Delivering the last donations on a Wednesday night, I said goodbye to Victor and Lorena. When I asked Victor when they would start traveling toward the northern border, he said, enthusiastically, “If tomorrow they tell us that we are going, we are ready.” His enthusiasm gives me hope. We embraced and I wished them the best of luck. They still have over 1,500 miles to go before they reach the United States.
With the help of various organizations, churches, state authorities, and 125 buses, the first contingent of asylum-seekers started arriving at the border on November 13. And with their arrival, a second phase of the exodus begins.The Trump administration has sent more than 5,900 active-duty soldiers to the border to support United States Customs and Border Protection agents, who process asylum applications. Although most of these soldiers are concentrated in Texas, the situation in Tijuana (on the California border) is tense. The already impenetrable border fence has been reinforced. In violation of federal law, Trump has announced that the right to request asylum will be denied to anyone who fails to apply at one of the assigned entry ports.
On Sunday, November 25, in a desperate attempt, some 500 asylum seekers attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border along the San Ysidro-Tijuana crossing point. With tear gas and rubber bullets, the U.S. military and U.S. Border Patrol agents managed to contain the river of people (which included women with young children). Today, the situation in Tijuana is tense, especially for the 5,221 asylum seekers sheltering in the sports complex, Benito Juárez. While in Mexico City, civil society and dozens of NGOs generously supported them; here in Tijuana, the migrants are facing heightened xenophobia and racism, as well as refugee-camp level living conditions and an unknown timeline. No one knows whether or when their applications for asylum will be considered. And all this would have been unimaginable only a few years ago.
Even so, the mere physical presence of thousands of Central Americans who have traveled almost 2,500 miles to request U.S. help sends a message of fierce determination and peaceful resistance. No wall, no matter how big and thick, can stop this manifestation of humanity. | <urn:uuid:06867ee9-c2fc-441b-b4d2-3e3e616104cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://contexts.org/blog/exodus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959959 | 2,536 | 2.390625 | 2 |
9-30-10 2pm Eastern Time
Topic Title: Aging in Place 2.0 by Louis Tenenbaum
This session will review the key points of Aging in Place 2.0 and introduce a roadmap to reaching the infrastructure and business model spelled out in the report. Louis will describe his plans for the Aging in Place 2.0 Institute to create the market for business success serving older folks in their homes that is so tantalizing yet too often seems out of reach. Familiarity with the report before the call will be helpful, though not necessary.
About Louis Tenenbaum:
A former carpenter and contractor, Louis Tenenbaum is now a leading thinker, speaker and consultant on Aging in Place–the idea that our homes are the most desirable and economical place for housing and care. Based in Washington, DC’s Maryland suburbs, Louis helps businesses, nonprofits and individuals formulate and refine design, strategies, marketing and programming for Aging in Place homes, products and age friendly communities. Recently, he authored Aging in Place 2.0 – Rethinking Solutions to the Home Care Challenge, published by the MetLife Mature Marketing Institute. | <urn:uuid:47ec6763-d758-47f4-a4d8-68c18f95e286> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.grandcare.com/2010/09/29/thursday-9-30-10-grandcare-call-aging-in-place2-0-by-louis-tenenbaum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.903 | 309 | 1.617188 | 2 |
We’ve used a number of mobile prototyping tools over the years to go from initial concept to interactive prototype.
We’ve used a number of mobile prototyping tools over the years to go from initial concept to interactive prototype. Most of them were decent enough, but they were all lacking in some way which kept us looking for better options. Many do not support scrolling, some have chunky screen transitions, and most have awkward UI that is frustrating to work with.
We eventually decided not to spend time learning tools that are limited to prototyping and instead to invest in becoming proficient at using Xcode, the de-facto tool for iOS development. Xcode prototypes are easy to get started on, are as simple or as complex as you need, and are a great stepping stone to building the final product.
And in this post, we’ll be walking through exactly how to use Xcode to prototype your app:
1. Don’t be Scared
Xcode can be a bit intimidating at first because there is a lot going on in the multiple panes and tabs of the interface. Once it’s set-up though, and you get familiar with the structure, you can quickly start your mobile prototyping using Interface Builder and Storyboards. Screens are built by dragging and dropping view controllers and UI elements into the Storyboard.
Basic screen transitions like push, slide-up and flip are built into the segues that connect the views. There’s definitely a bit of a learning curve, but not much more than other prototyping tools. Xcode prototypes can be as simple as a couple of sketches hooked together with transparent buttons or they can use final artwork to simulate the finished product.
We prefer to build screens using gray boxes, placeholder text and stock UI.
It helps keep the process fast and fluid without getting caught up in the details.
Mobile prototyping with pixel-perfect visual design can look too much like the real thing which can cause confusion as to what is the prototype and what is the finished product.
If you want to achieve more complex interactions that are beyond what is available in Storyboards, you’ll probably need to enlist a developer to help out. Not every designer has this luxury, but if you’re not working with developers that can pull off the custom animation you dreamt up, then it’s probably not going to make it into the final product anyway.
2. Touch and Feel
Previewing your prototype using Xcode is no problem because you can easily run your app on a device or in the simulator. You can quickly try out different flows and transitions and because you’re using native UI, you can get a real feel of what it would be like to use the app. The big win is that once you’ve shared your prototype around and everyone involved in the project buys in, it can be used as the blueprint for building the real thing.
Developers can get a better sense of the app and the intended UX. They can copy and paste rough layouts directly from a prototype into new Storyboards and start hooking up placeholder labels and image views to real data. There is no translation pain sifting through Photoshop files or static wireframes.
The final app will never end up exactly as it was envisioned in the prototype. Once real data and visual design are added to the equation, changes will inevitably need to be made. Through user testing and iteration, you’ll discover ways to improve upon the initial concepts that were impossible to predict at the beginning of the project.
Mobile prototyping with Xcode will help get you on the right path sooner and allow you to transition from prototype to final product more quickly. As a designer, learning how views are structured in Interface Builder will also give you a better sense of what image assets are needed to create your final artwork more efficiently.
3. Storyboard Mobile Prototyping Tutorial
This tutorial will help you build a simple prototype with drill-down navigation based on categories. Like many apps where content is grouped into categories, a category contains a number of items and each item has some detailed information about it. In this case it’s a music festival app where the category is “Artists” and each artist has a photo, description, sample track and shows. This is a stripped down version of the prototype we created for the East Coast Music Association app.
- Download Xcode.
- Install Xcode and select Create a new Xcode project from the Welcome to Xcode screen.
- Select iOS and Application in the left pane, then choose Single View Application and press Next.
- Enter a Product Name (e.g. MusicFest).
- From the Devices drop down select iPhone and press Next.
- Choose a location for your project folder (anywhere is fine) and press Create.
- Select MainStoryboard.storyboard from the Project Navigator (left panel).
- Select the first tab in the right panel and uncheck Use Auto Layout. This will remove constraints and simplify working in Interface Builder for beginners.
- When prompted to Disable Size Classes? ensure that Keep size class data for: iPhone is selected and press Disable Size Classes.
- We want to start fresh, so delete the View Controller Scene that is already in the Storyboard by clicking on it and pressing the delete key.
Our Home Screen will contain a large Feature view at the top and a grid of buttons for the other main content areas below.
- Show the Object Library by selecting the third tab on the bottom right panel. Find Navigation Controller and drag it onto the page. It will add both the Navigation Controller and a Table View Controller to your storyboard. Table View Controllers are an easy way to layout scrolling content.
- Select the Navigation Controller and then show the Attributes Inspector in the right panel (4th tab). Set the Top Bar to Translucent Black Navigation Bar. Also select Is Initial View Controller.
- Select the Table View (inside the Table View Controller) and from the Attributes Inspector tab change Content to Static Cells and change Separator to None. With static cells we can set up our prototype table view exactly how we like it, with no coding necessary.
- Scroll further down in the Attributes Inspector and change the Background colour to Dark Gray. This gives you a nice, neutral backdrop to work on.
- From the document outline click Root View Controller to enter a title from the attributes panel.
- Select the first Table View Cell and increase its row height to 200. You can drag the handles to resize or you can enter exact dimensions in the Size Inspector (5th tab in right panel). Cells can be as high as you want and they’re a great way to create groups and hierarchy in your layout. They’re also really easy to reorder to try out different arrangements.
- From the Document Outline, expand the top Table View Cell and select the content view within it. Change the background colour to Light Gray. This creates the feature area which would have an image background in the actual app.
- Drag a Label into the Content View and type in “FEATURE”. You can change the font, size and colour of your text in the Attributes Inspector.
- The first cell in your Table View should look something like this: (The document outline on the left shows the nesting of the different elements.)
- Change the height of the second Cell to 150.
- Drag a Button into the second cell and make it 150 w x 140 h so it fills half the width of the cell.
- Change the Button Type from System to Custom to remove the text. Type “Shows” in the Title input and change the button background to Light Gray. You can also change the position of the text within the button using the Inset values and Alignment.
- Copy and paste the Button so you have two. Put them side by side to fill the cell. Tip: to quickly duplicate an item you can use the command-D keyboard shortcut.
- Select the Table View Cell and change Selection to None. The buttons are the interactive elements in this case so the Table Cell doesn’t need to be selectable.
- Copy and paste the Table View Cell to create a grid of four Buttons. Name them “Shows, Artists, Gallery and News.” Now you have the main entry points for your content. The home screen should now look something like this:
- Now is a good time to see this screen in action. Run the app on iPhone Simulator (iPhone 5s) (using the button at the top left of Xcode) to make sure everything is working. You should be able to scroll the view up and down and highlight the buttons. While mobile prototyping it’s good to get in the habit of running your prototype often to see how your changes take effect in the app.
This screen contains a scrolling grid of artist photos with a search bar.
- Drag in a Table View Controller to the storyboard, to the right of our MusicFest table view controller.
- Connect the screens by holding down the control key and drag from the Artists Button on the home screen to the new Table View Controller. Select Push for the Action Segue transition.
- Notice how the storyboard automatically shows you that the navigation bar will be on this new screen? Go ahead and name the new screen “Artists” the same way you named the other screen.
- Select the Artists Table View and from the Attributes Inspector tab change Content to Static Cells, change Separator to None and set the background to Dark Gray.
- Drag in a Search Bar and Search Display Controller in between the Navigation Bar and the Artists Table View. The search bar will automatically add itself to the right place. This will give you the default search bar behaviour and help your prototype feel more real.
- Change the height of the first Table Cell to 105.
- Drag a Button into the first Table Cell, change the size to 100 w x 100 h. Change the Button Type to Custom and set the background to Light Gray.
- Name the button “Artist” and position the text in the bottom left using Alignment and edge Insets. This gives you the basic building block for the grid.
- Copy and paste the Button and to make a row of three in the cell.
- Select the Table Cell and change Selection to None.
- Delete the two extra table cells from the table view.
- Select the Table View Section and increase the number of rows to 5. Xcode will automatically duplicate your first cell to fill out the table view.
- Your Storyboard should now look something like this:
- Run your prototype and you should be able to navigate into the Artists screen and scroll it up and down.
This screen shows the details about each artist including their name, photo, bio, sample track and list shows.
- Drag in another Table View Controller to the right of the “Artists” screen.
- Hold down control and drag from each Button in the top two rows of the “Artists” screen to the new Table View Controller. Select Push for the Action Segue transition. You will end up with a Segue for each connection. You can hook up all of the buttons on the “Artists” screen but it will get a bit messy so we usually just hook up a few of the top ones so the functionality is there. We’re just mobile prototyping, remember!
- Give the new Table View Controller a name: “Info” seems appropriate.
- Drag a Bar Button Item into the top right of the Info screen’s Navigation Bar. In the Attributes Inspector tab change the System Item to Action. This is the standard Share Button style.
- Set the Table View content to Static Cells and change the separator and background colour as before.
- Change the height of the first Table Cell to 200.
- Drag in an Image View, change the size to 310 w x 195 h and set the background to Light Gray.
- Drag in a Label and position it above the Image View in the bottom left corner.
- Change the Label’s text to “Artist Name” and set the colour to White.
Description Text View
- Change the height of the second Table Cell to 140.
- Drag a Text View into the second cell. Change the size to fill the cell. Tip: use the Arrange drop down menu to quickly change the size to fill its container. This menu is also handy for centring views or aligning multiple views together.
- By default the Text View will be filled with placeholder text. You can delete some of it so the view doesn’t scroll, or uncheck Scrolling Enabled.
- In the Attributes Inspector of the Text View uncheck Editable so the text is read only.
- Change the background colour to Dark Gray and the text colour to White so it blends in nicely with the table background.
Sample Track Cell
- Select the third Table Cell and change the height to 60.
- Drag in an View, position it at the top of the cell, and set the size to 300 w x 1 h to create a horizontal rule. Tip: small views like this can be hard to select in the visual editor, but you can always select them using the outline display on the left side.
- Copy and paste the rule View and move the copy to the bottom of the cell.
- Drag a Button to the left side of the Table Cell and change it to 44 w x 44 h.
- Enter the Unicode character (BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER, Unicode: U+25BA, UTF-8: E2 96 BA) into the Button Title. Start editing the button text, then open the Edit menu and select Emojis and Symbols. Find the character (you can search for the name) and double click (or drag and drop) to put it in the text. Using Unicode symbols for placeholder icons instead of images is a good time saver. You can even use Emoji!
- Add a Label to the Table Cell – “Sample Track.”
- Drag in another Table View Cell to the Info Table View and add a Label “Shows.”
- Drag in another Table View Cell, change the height to 60 and drag a View inside it.
- Size the View to fill the width of the cell and be 59 h so there will be a gap at the bottom. Change the background to Light Gray.
- Drag in an Image View and two Labels to be the show’s photo, name and time.
- Duplicate the last Table Cell a few times (by copy and pasting or by increasing the section cell count) to fill out the screen.
Once there are more cells in a Table View than can be shown in that screen height, you have to select an item within the Table View and scroll down to see them.
Your Info Screen should now look something like this:
…and your Storyboard should look something like this:
You now have a basic Xcode prototype built using native UI and without writing a single line of code. You can run your prototype on the iPhone Simulator as much as you like. To run it on a real iPhone or iPod touch, you need to enroll in the iOS Developer Program.
If you got stuck, or just want to skip ahead, you can download a copy of the Xcode project to play around with.
Make it Happen
Xcode is now our standard approach to mobile prototyping. It might not look pretty, but it’s a great way to get a feel for an app on device and try out ideas quickly.
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- Scientific Data Networking -
EGI In Numbers formed part of their Why EGI campaign which urged scientist and policy makers to trust in EGI and what they were accomplishing with their organisation an their current members.
EGI - The European Grid Infrastructure, based in Amsterdam, delivers advanced computing services to support scientists, multinational projects and research infrastructures.
Working at EGI on a contract where I operated within their existing brand guidelines to create supporting work for their promotional campaigns, web graphics, infographics and data visualisation as well as working on their Book of Abstracts which was produced in conjunction with EGI's annual conference.
I really wanted to step back from the previous aesthetic approach and utilise a much simpler and less cluttered strategy that would be far more easily digestible. I felt that if I found it easily absorbed then a researcher or scientist would invariably find it considerably more so and typography played a big part in that strategy.
Each day of the conference were colour coded in the colours that were used in traditional ring binder dividers. There was a very large amount of information that had to be presented with utmost clarity to make the programme as easy to digest as possible.
In addition to colour coding the days I took the ring binder concept further by adding the specific sections on both the left and right hand pages to further clarify which area the reader was looking at. The relevant section was printed in black and the others were printed white.
The content of each section was then set up in a grid fashion, with each abstract (subject of study) set out in three columns with the authors (or conveners) credited in the third column. Pages were set out in this grid formula throughout the book.
The look and feel of the booklet was largely in keeping with EGI’s brand guidelines, I made the addition of introducing an additional typeface to help breakup the information.
The data for the document was created primarily in an .xml file which was then imported into InDesign.
The EGI Solutions campaign focused on promoting EGI to potential users across the European Union. The campaign outlined the benefits of working with EGI and how it could increase potential users productivity and deliver solutions that would benefit their goals.
Along with the booklet a series of discipline specific posters were also produced to be displayed at relevant seminars and events which would further explain how EGI could benefit target audience goals. The posters were aimed at a more general audience as well as industry specific areas of science.
Part of the project involved creating a series of icons which would indicate what and for whom each piece of literature was intended to be targeting
Aimed at Research Infrastructures and Resource Centres already within the European Grid Infrastructure EGI community.
Aimed at helping the individual researchers and the research teams that have problems in accessing and using computational services for their research activity.
Targeted at researchers and research communities that need to access digital resources on a flexible environment
Aimed to help individual researchers, and research communities that have large scale data management and computational capacity requirements.
With the EGI Solutions project I also took the opportunity to look at some of the interior graphics that had been previously used and refreshed them to make them cleaner and easier to absorb.
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BASF promote wHen2gO for 2020 season – a smart tool that connects data to improve water stewardship when applying quinmerac and metazachlor.
BASF wanted to further reduce the potential of actives – the chemical ingredients in crop protection products – unintentionally entering waterways.
“Current guidelines from the voluntary initiative, OSR Herbicides, are reliant on dates. While these are really useful straightforward lines in the sand, they are based on averages and in some years, this has the potential to push growers in a tight window for applications, when other variables – such as wind – may make applications inadvisable. We wanted to improve on the foundations of the initiative and give growers something smarter. The wHen2g0 tool is the result of that work.”
Stewardship and Value Chain Manager, BASF
BASF wanted to improve on these guidelines by providing growers with something “smarter”. The result, developed by Agrimetrics, was wHen2gO. First released in August 2019, the smart tool has been updated and improved for the 2020 season.
wHen2gO combines data from Defra, the Met Office, and the Environment Agency to calculate the risk of leaching when applying products containing metazachlor and quinmerac.
To improve user experience, the smart tool is available as a mobile application, with most of the required informed pre-populated. This enables growers to receive field-specific forecasts in under a minute.
wHen2g0 has been positively received by farmers, who in the event of water quality issues are ultimately responsible for evidencing that they are not the cause, or had at least done everything in their power to prevent it.
This sentiment has been echoed by Severn Trent. Water companies are responsible for ensuring water is of a specified quality and mitigation measures in catchment areas – such as wHen2gO – can lead to substantial savings.
“[Mitigation measures] are the most sustainable approach. Not only is it cost-effective but there are wider environmental benefits too. So we’re really supportive of any development, like the wHen2g0 smart tool, that benefits farmers, water companies and the many other stakeholders.”
Agricultural Team Member, Severn Trent
Accelerated by The Agri-food Data Marketplace
The most time-consuming part of creating data-driven tools like wHen2gO can be finding and manipulating the data. This process can be made significantly quicker and easier by accessing pre-linked data, such as that available on Agrimetrics Data Marketplace.
“Agrimetrics made the process of developing wHen2gO far simpler. Rather than going to five or six organizations and getting individual data streams from each, Agrimetrics brought all the data together in one place,” concludes Paul Goddard.
The Data Marketplace contains field-level, pre-linked data from suppliers including: Airbus, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Environment Agency, European Space Agency, Met Office, NASA, Natural England, Rural Payments Agency, and Weather Logistics.
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The Steiner School of Speech Arts offers one-week intensive blocks as an introduction to the artistic forming of speech through Rudolf Steiner’s exercises in articulation and breathing.
Any block may be taken separately, and all blocks are appropriate for any level of experience. Taken together in sequence, the blocks are cumulative and provide a foundation for more advanced study. This series can be considered the beginning of a training in the art of Creative Speech.
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Russia’s campaign to modernize and strengthen its armed forces is increasingly putting U.S. and European forces at risk, with some defense officials raising concerns Moscow’s military soon could challenge the U.S. and its allies for dominance across the continent.
Most of the focus in recent weeks has been on Russia’s newfound confidence in its nuclear arsenal after President Vladimir Putin boasted about four new delivery systems designed to make U.S. defenses “useless.”
Of equal concern to U.S. and European officials, however, is Russia’s remade conventional military might, which has been displayed and tested in places like Ukraine and Syria.
“Russia’s increasingly modernized military is operating at levels not seen since the Cold War,” the commander of U.S. forces in Europe, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, told lawmakers in Washington, Thursday, warning the U.S. has no choice but to keep pace.
“Given their [Russia’s] modernization and the pace that it’s on, and what we are aware of they’re doing, we have to maintain our modernization so we can remain dominant in the areas that we are dominant today,” he said.
Dominance possible by 2025 or sooner
Scaparrotti, who also serves as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, further underscored that any failure by Washington to continue to modernize its forces could enable Russia to challenge the U.S. “in almost every domain, in a military perspective, by 2025.”
In some areas, like the Arctic, Russian dominance could come even sooner, Scaparrotti said, estimating Moscow could exert control over northern routes there in as little as two to three years.
The U.S. and NATO are not alone in their concern.
A new report by the Rand Corporation concludes Eastern Europe is especially vulnerable, warning NATO ground forces there would be “badly outnumbered and outgunned” if Moscow were to launch a conventional attack.
“Russia would have a substantial time-distance advantage in the initial days and weeks of its ground campaign because of its strong starting position,” the report states.
It also determined Russia forces would benefit from a strategy “that emphasizes mobility and repower and trains to conduct larger-scale operations, strengthening Russia’s ability to engage in conflicts between mechanized forces close to its border.”
More tanks, troops
According to the report, while Russia has about 78,000 troops along Europe’s eastern flank, NATO has 32,000. Russian tanks also outnumber NATO tanks 757 to 129.
Questioned by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, Scaparrotti pushed back against some of those concerns, noting any potential conflict would not be fought with ground forces and tanks alone.
There also are some doubts about the likelihood Russia would try to engage in such a conflict.
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service asserts in a report earlier this year the threat of a direct Russian military attack in 2018 “is low.”
Still, the Estonian report cautioned that Russian forces along Europe’s eastern flank and the Baltics “have consistently strengthened their presence in the region with the most modern weapon systems as well as the establishment of new units and commands.”
Equally concerning to U.S. and European military and intelligence officials is Russia’s ongoing influence campaign — part of what Scaparrotti describes as Moscow’s “whole of society approach” that can soften up potential targets well in advance of any use of force.
“It can really undermine a nation because all they have to do is sow some confusion,” he said. “It’s subtle but it’s constant.”
Every aspect of Europe
The commander of U.S. forces in Europe also expressed concern that Washington may not be doing enough to counter Russia, questioning whether there is “an effective unification across the interagency, with the energy and the focus that we could attain,” despite reinforcing the military’s cyber operations across Europe.
“They’re involved in just about every aspect of Europe in one way or the other,” Scaparrotti said, pointing to the Balkans, and Serbia, in southeastern Europe, as a particular area of concern.
“Russia’s at work in the Balkans, and I think we’ve kind of taken our eye off of the area,” he warned. “I’ve seen an increase in the year and a half I’ve been on the job.”
Russia, which has religious and historical ties to Serbia, has long objected to efforts by other Balkan nations to move closer to the West, including NATO’s acceptance of Montenegro as a full member this past June.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. began deploying additional rotational forces to Europe as part as its European Deterrence Initiative.
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The introduction of COVID-19 yielded a new accessory to everyday wardrobe: masks. While people use masks to protect themselves from the virus, they also use them to express their personality.
Major brands like Victoria’s Secret, Nike and Under Armour started selling masks on their websites when the pandemic started. Many brands and small businesses started making a profit from this new accessory that people needed to wear out in public.
Sydney Stricker, senior in fashion studies major, is currently living in New York City and attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. She gave some insight on how she styles masks and uses them to her advantage since the pandemic began.
“The main way I have utilized wearing a mask in the fashion industry is by making sure that my mask always matches my outfit,” Stricker said. “When COVID first started, I was all about having enough options to have a mask to match any color I would wear. Now I typically stick to an all-black mask because I love how sleek it looks.”
Masks are having huge impact on how people express themselves — from the patterns and colors to the type of fabric.
“I use masks to show off my personality by showing people I am not afraid to have fun with my outfits and express myself. Some of my masks are definitely fashion-statements in themselves,” Stricker said. “I have two different all-rhinestone masks and a Chanel logo mask. These masks definitely draw attention to themselves, but I love wearing them. I don’t let others’ opinions stop me from having fun with what masks I wear.”
While masks are now considered a fashion statement, there are some things they have made difficult.
“I would definitely want to create and advertise masks that are centered around keeping your glasses from fogging because that is my biggest struggle with wearing masks,” Lydia Vriezelaar, sophomore in elementary education, said.
Sydney Barclay, junior in apparel and textiles said she always considers style when wearing masks.
“Being comfortable is important, but I feel I do my best when I look my best,” Barclay said. “So if I have to wear heels to feel awesome and be on top of my game, so be it.” | <urn:uuid:10a6b071-7d96-40bf-8299-bc24247072fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kstatecollegian.com/2021/03/17/students-find-ways-to-show-personality-through-masks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970609 | 484 | 2 | 2 |
I had done a dna analysis with ancestry.com a while ago. Recently I uploaded the raw data to FamilyTreedna which is really cool. First, it offers access to a different pool of matches, so there are more people who share chromosome strands with me than just those on ancestry. Secondly, FamilyTree has some really awesome features. With those who have uploaded a family tree, you can click on their tree to see what possible ancestors you have in common. To make it easier, there's a search box where you can plug in a surname to see if it appears in their tree, then click on the results to view them. These are just some of the features of FamilyTree that make it worthwhile to test there, or to upload results from other tests to it.
Anyway, I was browsing through the family trees of those on my dna matching list. I noticed the name Ebenezer Humphrey of Hingham on two of them. Ebenezer was the father of Mary Humphrey who married.... you guessed it! Zerubbabel Hersey! One of these 2 members who had him on their tree shared other ancestors with me, but the other one had only that line in common with me, so I thought that bolstered my theory that Zerubbabel was in my direct line.
I shared this revelation with my brother David (who had done a lot of research on our family genealogy years ago and continues to be involved), and he dug out an old sketch of a family tree for the Herseys, made back in the 1800's.
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By Kellen Kiambati
Businesses face risks every day. How successful they are in managing those risks is all too apparent when major business failures unfold: failure is often the result of poor risk management practices. Risk Management is a term used to describe the processes which aim to assist organisations understand, evaluate and take action on their risks with a view to increasing the probability of their success and reducing the likelihood of failure. Effective risk management gives comfort to shareholders, customers, employees and society at large that a business is being effectively managed and helps the company or organisation confirm its compliance with corporate governance requirements. Risk management is relevant to all organisations large or small. Effective risk management practices support accountability, performance measurement, and reward and can enable efficiency at all levels through the organisation. Risk management requires a detailed knowledge and understanding of the organisation and the processes involved in the business. The Components of Risk Management (RM) are as follows:-
- Risk Capacity – the maximum amount of risk that can be supported by a company, expressed as a sum of money. Determined by available capital, earnings strength/stability
- Risk Appetite – Amount of risk that management are willing to take, given risk capacity, strategic business objectives and culture. Risk Appetite serves as an overall guide to resource and capital allocation. The amount of risk that an organisation is willing to seek or accept in the pursuit of its long term objectives.
In contrast to Risk Tolerance, Risk Appetite is about what the organisation does want to do and how it goes about it. So, it is the board’s responsibility to define risk appetite. Risk tolerance is the boundaries of risk taking outside of which the organisation is not prepared to venture in the pursuit of its long term objectives. Risk tolerance can be expressed in terms of absolutes, e.g., “we cannot expose more than x% of our capital to losses in a certain line of business” or “we will not deal with certain types of customers“. Risk limits – allocation of appetite (in metrics relevant to a specific risk) to business units and functions. It reflects expected returns and risks.
Risks and corporate governance
Effective strategic risk management is built around a clear understanding of how much risk your business is prepared to take to deliver its objectives, and a timely and reliable evaluation of how much risk it is actually taking. Types of Corporate risks include strategic e.g., a new competitor into the market, compliance/ hazard risks e.g., introduction of a new legislation, financial e.g., increased interest charges on a business loan or non-payment by a customer and operational e.g., loss / theft of key equipment. Financial risks are typically well controlled and are part of the routine focus of board risk discussions, with strong impetus coming from the increased regulatory, accounting and financial audit focus. As financial information is a key element of stakeholder communications, performance measurement and strategic delivery, board risk discussions will devote considerable time to these risks. Operational risks are typically managed from within the business and often focus on health and safety issues where industry regulations and standards require. These internally driven risks may affect your organisation’s ability to deliver on its strategic objectives. Hazard risks often stem from major exogenous factors, which affect the environment in which the organisation operates. A focus on the use of insurance and appropriate contingency planning will help address some of these. However, there is often a danger that as many of these risks cannot be controlled, boards and senior management will not reflect these in their strategic thinking. Confining strategic management to controllable factors will leave your business at risk of failing to address these factors. Strategic risks are typically external or affect the most senior management decisions. As such, they are often missed from many risk registers. The board has a responsibility to make sure all these types of risks are included in their key strategic discussions.
Risk management frameworks
Frameworks for risk analysis first start with analyzing the sources of risks which include: climate change, customer needs / wants, economy, financial markets, competitor, natural hazard / catastrophe, public relations, regulatory / legal, shareholder expectations and technological innovation. Many executives are worried that the risk frameworks and processes that are currently in place in their organisations are no longer giving them the level of protection they need. Boards are seeing rapid increases both in the speed with which risk events take place and the contagion with which they spread across different categories of risk. They are especially concerned about the escalating impact of ‘catastrophic’ risks, which can threaten an organisation’s very existence and even undermine entire industries. Boards feel they are spending too much time and money on running their current risk management processes, rather than moving quickly and flexibly to identify and tackle new risks.
The risk management process involves:
- Establishing Context: This includes an understanding of the current conditions in which the organization operates on an internal, external and risk management context.
- Identifying Risks: This includes the documentation of the material threats to the organization’s achievement of its objectives and the representation of areas that the organization may exploit for competitive advantage.
- Analyzing/Quantifying Risks: This includes the calibration and, if possible, creation of probability distributions of outcomes for each material risk.
- Integrating Risks: This includes the aggregation of all risk distributions, reflecting correlations and portfolio effects, and the formulation of the
results in terms of impact on the organization’s key performance metrics.
- Assessing/Prioritizing Risks: This includes the determination of the contribution of each risk to the aggregate risk profile, and appropriate prioritization.
- Treating/Exploiting Risks: This includes the development of strategies for controlling and exploiting the various risks.
- Monitoring and Reviewing: This includes the continual measurement and monitoring of the risk environment and the performance of the risk management strategies.
Management selects a risk response strategy for specific risks identified and analyzed, which may include:
- Avoidance: exiting the activities giving rise to risk
- Reduction: taking action to reduce the likelihood or impact related to the risk.
- Alternative Actions: deciding and considering other feasible steps to minimize risks.
- Share or Insure: transferring or sharing a portion of the risk, to finance it.
- Accept: no action is taken, due to a cost/benefit decision.
Risk Assessment, Audit and Management
There are two elements of a risks: the Consequence (also called impact) when a risk occurs and the Likelihood (also called probability) of the risk occurring Operational Risk Management (ORM) i.e. the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events must be addressed because it has benefits such as:- reduction of operational loss, lower compliance/auditing costs, early detection of unlawful activities and reduced exposure to future risks. There are principles that should be followed which include value creation, making the approach integral part of organizational processes, being part of decision making, explicitly addressing uncertainty, being systematic and structured, transparent and inclusive, dynamic and responsive capable of continual improvement and enhancement. | <urn:uuid:5f98f7fd-f069-4312-94ec-0281671e934a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://accountantjournal.com/managing-corporate-risks-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947795 | 1,468 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Collapsible soil can prove to be problematic for structures due to its large settlement potential. It has a great capacity to withstand pressure with a small settlement but undergoes large, sudden, and sizable volume reduction as it gets wet.
Engineers should, therefore, find a suitable solution to tackle the problems associated with the collapsible soil. Sometimes, the removal of collapsible soil is a good option when the thickness is low.
However, if the soil layer is thick, it should be treated to decrease settlement potential; for example, compaction is one of the methods that can be used to work with the thickness.
How to Deal with Collapsible Soil Before Building Construction?
1. Soil Replacement
If the collapsible soil layer is thin, then the removal of the soil layer is the best solution. After that, compact the construction site during grading. The removed material is either placed back in several compacted layers or replaced with strong filler materials.
Sand or crushed stone is a suitable material for collapsible soil replacement. Not only does the new material increase the bearing capacity of the construction site, but it also decreases settlement possibilities substantially. The method is suitable for road pavement construction.
2. Chemical Stabilization
Chemical stabilization involves the modification of soil properties to reduce settlement potential. Cement, lime, or any other chemical additives that can react with soil can be used for collapsible soil treatment. The addition of fly ash to cement or lime would further improve soil stability.
Flooding trenches with solutions of sodium silicate and calcium chloride to stabilize the soil is possible. The material solution should reach the desired depth; otherwise, it would not be effective.
Flooding or forcing water through a collapsible soil layer is another solution to tackle its settlement. The soil layer would densify and reach equilibrium conditions as water moves through the soil. Flood or force water through wells into the building footprint to wet the soil layer.
Subsurface investigation is necessary to check the effectiveness of the solution technique. Prewetting should be used in combination with preloading or dynamic compaction to achieve the desired result.
Nonetheless, flooding or forcing water into collapsible soil should be avoided if there are structures around construction. The buildings adjacent to the construction site may get damaged.
4. Select Suitable Foundation
Sometimes, appropriate foundations can deal with the issues of collapsible soils. A deep foundation can bypass collapsible soil and transfer superstructure load to a hard soil layer. Additionally, a mat or raft foundation can withstand large expected settlement of the collapsible soil.
It has a great capacity to withstand pressure with a small settlement but undergoes large, sudden, and sizable volume reduction as it gets wet. The collapsible soil is problematic for structures due to its large settlement.
The collapsible soil experiences great settlement as it gets wet. As a result, the foundation of a structure suffers significant settlement and may damage severely.
There are several methods for enhancement of collapsible soil bearing capacity, such as soil removal, chemical stabilization, pre-wetting, and selection of suitable foundation to bypass problems of this type of soil.
The most suitable type of foundation for collapsible soil is deep foundation, especially when multi-story buildings are constructed.
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There is something just magic a few day spent fishing. Spring comes with the commerce shows devoted to lively life-style and sports activities “Recreation and Sports 2017”, “Hunting and Fishing 2017”, “Bike 2017” and “Baltic Boat Show 2017” to be held from 24-26 March at Kipsala Worldwide Exhibition Centre!
On 29 September 1912, stating: “Could the normal spirit of our affiliation pervade these new rooms!”, the Chairman of the German Gymnastics Federation Dr. Ferdinand Götz, a resident of Leipzig, laid the muse stone for Germany’s first multi-storey concrete gymnasium, the Leplaystraße sports corridor.
The function of CBR programmes is to promote elevated participation of people with disabilities in recreation, leisure and sports activities; and supply support to mainstream organizations and programmes to allow them to strengthen their capability by offering appropriate and accessible recreation, leisure and sports activities.
The person was Dr. Ludwig Guttmann; the activity was later to change into wheel-chair polo and from his easy experiment was born the idea of aggressive crew sport for paraplegics. Although not a public vacation, the day provides a possibility to all South Africans to be actively concerned by collaborating in recreation activities that can improve their well being and well-being.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Bike lanes, bump outs, and physical barriers along the side of the road, in theory, are supposed to help every pedestrian on the road stay safe.
For GoBike Buffalo, that has been their goal. Now, they're bringing their mission over to Forest Avenue, and it's not sitting well with some of the community.
Buffalo Department of Public Works Commissioner, Michael Finn said GoBike came to them with the idea and wanted to continue their mission of making Buffalo a safer place for all travelers.
"GoBike got a grant to do a pilot project and install a cycle track," Finn said.
With the way that some people are talking about this new addition to Forest Ave., it's not pretty. They're skeptical about the width of the road now that the new bike lanes have taken up more space. They believe this could lead to more accidents or side-swipes.
"They assured me they're going to make some corrections and remedy some of things folks were pointing out as being issues," Finn said.
But it is still a project that is unfinished. Both GoBike Buffalo and the city are aware of this.
"That is a work in progress. It's not totally complete, but some of the parts that were completed need to be adjusted," Finn said.
GoBike said they had sent out over 700 letters in the mail to Forest Ave. residents to let them know this was happening. They even held events to gauge community interest, which is why they pushed forward with the plan. Even with those who aren't happy right now, they'll be listened to.
"It is not inappropriate for residents to be communicating how they feel about this because it's not complete," Finn said.
The project is like a demo of sorts. GoBike will have this plan for the next four months, conduct studies on this street, and then hand results over to the city. Once that is done, the community will get involved once again, and then Buffalo will make final touches on something official before the repaving that's happening next year. | <urn:uuid:1aae6506-f50a-4b42-9b4f-bbc904190111> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/forest-ave-residents-upset-with-new-bike-lanes-installed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985264 | 441 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Pandemic widened persistent financial health gap between men and women; Black and Latina women and low-income women fare the worst in new findings.
CHICAGO --News Direct-- Principal Financial Group
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ - The Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on financial health, in partnership with the Principal® Foundation, today released The Gender Gap in Financial Health report, exploring why women in America continue to fare worse financially than men. The study explores the systemic challenges to women’s financial health and reveals an interconnected set of issues that constrain financial security.
Key findings include:
Women report worse outcomes than men on every measure of financial health: spending, savings, borrowing, and planning.
Women are more likely to report that their financial situations worsened during the pandemic than men.
Significant disparities exist along racial and ethnic backgrounds, with only 11% of Black women and 7% of Latina women being considered Financially Healthy, compared to 25% of White women.
Women who are married or living with a partner (24%) are more likely to be Financially Healthy than women who are not married (13%).
While income alone is not a sole determinant of financial health, it is important to note that the report found women overall report lower income than men due to unequal pay, occupational segregation, discrimination, and disproportionate caregiving responsibilities.
“From shouldering childcare responsibilities to a persistent wage gap, women have long faced barriers to financial health, and the pandemic only worsened this situation,” said Financial Health Network Senior Director Meghan Greene. “Families, communities, and the economy benefit when women make financial health gains, and tangible action can be taken now by employers and policymakers to close the gap through building up our care infrastructure with paid leave and expanded childcare options, bridging the wage gap, counteracting gender discrimination, and expanding opportunities to build wealth.”
The report identified four systemic barriers to the financial health of women that, if addressed, could make a significant difference in their financial lives:
Income disparities and challenges meeting basic needs
Women are more likely to have low household incomes (defined here as $30,000 or less) than men; and only 4% of women with low household incomes are considered financially healthy, compared to 50% of women with household incomes over $100,000.
Nearly half (45%) of women with children under four say they sometimes or often worry about how to afford diapers.
A quarter (25%) of women report that they worry about affording menstrual products such as pads and tampons for themselves or another person in the household.
Cost of childcare and lack of caregiving infrastructure
70% of women with children under 18 report making a career change, such as reducing their hours, taking a leave of absence, or switching to a less demanding job because of their parenting responsibilities, compared with 55% of men.
More than half of women with children under 12 who are not working or working part-time say they would like to work more but cannot due to the cost of childcare.
More women than men report carrying unmanageable debt levels (39% compared with 31%).
44% of women aged 18-29 say that debt has led them to delay homeownership, marriage, children, or other life adjustments, compared with 34% of men in the same age bracket.
Almost 2 in 5 Black and Latina women (39% and 36%) say they have altered their life trajectories due to debt, compared to a quarter of White women (26%).
Insufficient long-term savings
35% of non-retired women aged 50-64 report having no personal retirement savings.
Women trail men in retirement savings and are less likely to report having longer-term investment vehicles in their own name, including retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, pensions, and other financial assets.
“While women show tremendous resilience and hope for the future, these findings illuminate the depth of the gender gap between men and women and the detriment to women's long-term financial health,” said Jo Christine Miles, director of the Principal Foundation. “We have a clear opportunity to do better by women, especially women of color, as our nation continues to build out from the pandemic.”
Findings also revealed that being subjected to harassment on the job is associated with materially lower financial health:
40% of women reported being subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace.
Gender discrimination in the workplace was reported by 36% of female respondents.
Women who reported being subjected to harassment were seven percentage points less likely to be considered Financially Healthy than women who did not report harassment.
This report is the Financial Health Network’s first comprehensive look into financial health gender disparities. A nationally representative study of more than 3,000 people was conducted in late 2021 and supplemented with focus groups among women in early 2022. Survey questions were created in consultation with internal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee members and staff, advisory committee members, and SSRS project team members in an effort to create inclusive questions on gender, race and ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
For more information regarding the Gender Gap in Financial Health report, and to see specific recommendations for policymakers and employers, please visit our website.
About the Financial Health Network
The Financial Health Network is the leading authority on financial health. We are a trusted resource for business leaders, policymakers and innovators united in a mission to improve the financial health of their customers, employees and communities. Through research, advisory services, measurement tools, and opportunities for cross-sector collaboration, we advance awareness, understanding and proven best practices in support of improved financial health for all. For more on the Financial Health Network, go to and follow us on Twitter at @FinHealthNet
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DOCTORS OR BROKERS?
Dr. Prerna Kherajani
“Doctors are the Brokers for the pharmaceutical companies”. This is a statement that many of the professional medical practitioners are faced with on a day to day basis and it’s not unheard of to us either. Every day, in our family or friend circle we come across people making these statements to us – medical students. Newspaper articles, research studies, all claim doctors to be the intermediaries between the pharmaceutical companies and the patients.
But, how much truth lies in this statement is unknown to the common man and frankly to us medical students as well!
The COVID 19 Pandemic turned out to be a benediction for pharmaceutical companies as they flooded the market with new drugs to fight the deadly bug. Remdesivir and Tocilizumab vials were being sold at exorbitant prices when their role in fighting the virus didn’t even have substantial evidence. Fabiflu, Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Baricitinib were sold more than lozenges – and at premium rates! But how much can we blame a doctor for this? Those poor chaps were just trying to do all they could to save the patient’s life from this exotic disease!
In the past, we have seen multiple “Scams” being brought to light, one of the biggest being the “Cholesterol Vilification”. The ACC/AHA lowered the cut offs for normal Blood Cholesterol levels for the prescription of Statins in order to reduce the Cardiovascular disease related mortality. According to these cut offs around 40% of the population over the age of 50 years would have to be prescribed Statins! It was however seen that to achieve a small reduction in mortality, around 99.7% people would need to be on medication for 3 years to prevent just 1 heart attack! This was done without taking into consideration the various Adverse Drug effects of Statins. All this for Profit?
Similarly we have seen guidelines for the Blood Pressure and Normal Blood Glucose levels being changed umpteenth number of times!
Doctors in private practice are known to prescribe medicines using the brand names rather than the more economical generic ones, in order to receive remittance in kind- expensive gifts, vacations abroad, tickets to a game and to reap all the benefits of being the Ambassador for the pharmaceutical companies!
Despite all this, is it right to blame all the Doctors? Turns out that a lot of them are merely following the guidelines that are laid down by the standard organizations so as to safeguard the patients health, and some prescribe a particular brand as they see better results with it!
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is unprecedented and is placing huge demands on the whole healthcare system. The situation is ongoing and rapidly changing.
The Clinical Policies and Decisions team have created this section of the website to host links to national websites for coronavirus related information.
Points to note:
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Information on the local Derbyshire pathway for patients who are identified as follows:
COVID-19 Medicine Delivery Unit (CMDU)
There are a modest number of patients who will not be identified automatically.
Referral can be made to the local CMDU service via the Electronic Referral Service, or via the direct number used for Red Hub referrals 0300 1000 432 or by emailing email@example.com.
Out of Area information can be found here
Latest advice on the COVID Vaccine Allergy Advice & Guidance services
The green book recognises that an allergy specialist advice is sought in specific patient groups.
There is now an updated local pathway for adults which has been developed based on the Green book for managing patients who have either a history of allergic reactions or who have allergic reactions to a previous dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
This service will be managed by the DCHS Vaccination centre operating a Multi-Disciplinary Team model with specific allergy advice and guidance.
Referrals must be made by using the referral template, completed by the GP, submitted via the following email address firstname.lastname@example.org. This route should also be used for Out Of Area requests assessed by an Allergy Specialist to vaccinate.
Children (U-18) who require allergy advice for Covid-19 vaccinations should be referred to local paediatricians via the standard referral process for our main providers.
|Derbyshire Adult C19 Vaccine Allergy Service Guideline for clinicians|
|Derbyshire Adult C19 Vaccine Allergy Service Referral Template|
|C19 Vaccine Incident Reporting Procedure|
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Information on COVID-19, including guidance on the assessment and management of suspected UK cases
|Overview of all NHSE/I guidelines for primary care, secondary care and community based health, social care, mental health trusts and ambulance services|
These guides are aimed at specialists working in hospitals in England during the pandemic. They aim to help departments continue essential care for patients while supporting the wider hospital and community to provide care for people with COVID-19.
|Overview of all SPS specialty guidance for medicine optimisation|
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|This resource series brings together current advice from experts within the BGS relating to older people and the current COVID-19 pandemic|
|Overview of all BSR's resources on rheumatology and COVID-19|
During the pandemic, BTS worked with a range of partners to produce guidance and collate information relating to COVID-19 including management of existing conditions, shielding and the resumption of services.
Please note that the individual guidance documents, some of which may have been more relevant during the peaks of the pandemic, are not being reviewed or updated. This should be considered when referring to the information provided.
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|DDCCG intranet page for COVID-19 updates for practices|
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|The proposal is: IL-6 inhibitors tocilizumab and sarilumab are recommended to be available as treatment options through routine commissioning for adult patients (aged 18 years and older) hospitalised with COVID-19 in accordance with the criteria set out in this document|
The latest news and information about COVID-19 for kidney patients
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|PSNC’s COVID-19 hub contains links to information, guidance and resources on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic for community pharmacy contractors and their teams.|
|This page has been set up for CCGs and Health Boards to share the resources that they have developed locally to support their local areas with COVID 19 issues.|
This PCPA COVID-19 Hub has been set up as a central point for peer to peer sharing of resources and information. Access is free to all pharmacy professionals.
These resources have been shared on this group and are updated as they are received.
|Guidance and support on the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic|
|Advice for people experiencing voice problems after COVID-19|
The new 'Your COVID recovery' service forms part of the NHS plans to expand access to COVID-19 rehabilitation treatments for those who have survived the virus but still have problems with breathing, mental health problems or other complications.
This guidance is aimed at clinicians who are consulting remotely with patients through a digital channel (e.g. online, email, text, video-link) across healthcare settings in England.
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Cognitive Assessments: Yet Another Casualty of the COVID-19 Shutdown
The challenge of cognitive assessment in primary care settings was further complicated by the pandemic shutdown, leading to delayed diagnosis and care of cognitive impairment in older adults. More options for virtual cognitive testing are needed.
Systematically assessing cognition in older adults has been a challenge for the medical community. Unlike guidelines for colonoscopies, mammograms and other screenings, guidelines for cognitive assessment aren’t straightforward. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommends that cognition and memory be discussed during wellness visits with adults age 65 and older, but doesn’t specify how.
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In 2019 Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Geriatric Medicine introduced one approach. Cleveland Clinic primary care teams were trained to use the Mini-Cog tool with patients age 65 and older at annual wellness visits. A workflow in the electronic medical record was developed. By 2020 the program was running across Cleveland Clinic’s health system.
Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, and in-person annual wellness visits stopped.
“For several months, we mostly delivered care virtually, and that’s when we saw the decline in cognitive testing,” says geriatrician Saket Saxena, MD. “We realized that what we had designed was limited because we couldn’t do it virtually.”
As medical societies release impact statements about delays in screenings, surgeries and other care, delay in cognitive assessment deserves equal billing, he says.
“We hear about the detriment of deferred cancer screenings and vaccinations due to COVID-19 shutdowns, but we don’t often hear about the impact of delayed cognitive testing in primary care — partly because it is not a standard practice to begin with,” says Dr. Saxena.
At the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), Dr. Saxena raised awareness of the challenge of cognitive assessment in primary care settings and how it was further complicated by the pandemic, leading to delayed diagnosis and care of cognitive impairment in older adults.
A study of in-person cognitive assessment of older adults in primary care at Cleveland Clinic revealed that approximately 7,000 Mini-Cog assessments were performed from January 2019 to November 2020. Ninety-five percent were normal (n = 6,739) and 5% were abnormal (n = 387).
During the COVID-19 shutdown in April 2020, no Mini-Cog assessments were performed. In May 2020, only nine were performed.
“Every month we report abnormal Mini-Cog results, which could lead to diagnosing cognitive impairment,” says Dr. Saxena. “Clearly, during the shutdown we were missing some.”
Volumes have surged since the shutdown. One year later, in April 2021, 670 tests were performed and 46 were abnormal.
“But these numbers only reflect about 40% of Cleveland Clinic primary care patients eligible for Mini-Cog testing,” notes Dr. Saxena. “Our goal is to reach at least 80% of eligible patients — somewhere between 1,600 and 1,800 patients per month. Potentially 100-200 people per month could be diagnosed with cognitive impairment or dementia with further workup.”
Options for virtual testing
Some tools do exist for assessing cognition virtually. For example, the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) 5-minute protocol can be performed by telephone. However, these tools require more practice and training, making them unsuitable for systemwide use, says Dr. Saxena. Quick and simple tools are more preferable for widespread adoption by primary care practices.
The Mini-Cog tool, while quick and simple, is not validated for use by telephone or videoconference. Even tablet computer-based tools, many of which are being developed, often require in-person instruction.
“We need to begin making these tools accessible on patients’ personal devices,” says Dr. Saxena. “How can we leverage pervasive smartphones and tablets to assess cognitive capability just by how users manipulate them and use them over a period of time? I think we will get there, but it’s a work in progress.”
As the U.S. population of older adults grows, virtual assessments will help increase screening compliance even when there isn’t a pandemic shutdown.
“We need to raise awareness of cognitive impairment and how this impacts the healthcare needs of older adults throughout all healthcare systems,” says Dr. Saxena. “The goal should be to have conversations about cognition and cognitive screening during annual wellness visits or other visit types, using assessment tools that work well with available resources and expertise in the primary care practice, and identify cognitive impairment early.” | <urn:uuid:844c3f85-d1e2-4e63-bec8-7ff9862f1551> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/cognitive-assessments-yet-another-casualty-of-the-covid-19-shutdown/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956252 | 1,032 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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