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God and country. The words are commonly used together, as if they’re natural companions. But are they always? Do Christianity and patriotism go together? Or do they sometimes come into conflict?
It’s a question I’m thinking about (not for the first time) as I write on Independence Day. It’s typically a day of celebration, and as an American, I have a lot to celebrate. But there are right ways and wrong ways to celebrate — and right and wrong ways to be patriotic.
Patriotism Gone Wrong
There are forms of patriotism (“nationalism” may be a better word) that are lazy at best and idolatrous at worst. If you think your country is uniquely God’s country, set above all others, you may well have strayed into that territory. Likewise, if you assume that, in every war waged by your government, its army is God’s army and its cause is God’s cause. Beware of developing a cocky assurance that God is always on our side, rather than humbly examining, on a case-by-case basis, whether we (that is, our rulers) are on God’s side.
Another way to go wrong is to assume a complacent attitude that your country is eternally blessed. It’s one thing to say we’ve been blessed: We should do that. It’s another to expect that will continue. Politicians of both parties routinely say things like “America’s best days are ahead of her.” Christians have no reason to believe that. The same God who blesses nations also judges them. And our actions (or failures to act) over the long term have consequences.
A Better Perspective
Christians should measure right and wrong as God does in His Word. By that standard, we shouldn’t romanticize our country — past, present or future. We can, however, love it. We love it like we love our families, with all their virtues and their vices: We’re happy about its virtues, sad about its vices, but we don’t love it less for the latter. Our love is unconditional. That’s why we want it to be the best it can be.
That kind of patriotism leaves lots of room to celebrate much of our national heritage. In fact, looking back and honoring those things can be a step toward regaining them when they’ve been lost. In America, our heritage includes strong Christian foundations and a form of limited government that was rooted in a Christian understanding of original sin. We’ve lost quite a bit of both, and the Founders would be the first to say it’s no accident: As several of them warned, when our religious and moral foundations erode, so does our capacity for self-government.
Purpose of Freedom
Another thing we can celebrate about our past is its sense of the purpose of freedom. Modern Americans tend to think of freedom as an end in and of itself: It doesn’t matter what you do with your life, just that you’re free to do it. Earlier generations thought less in terms of rights than of responsibilities. You had obligations to God, family and community to live virtuously. Not everyone did so, but few if any claimed personal autonomy was the highest good. Freedom was a blessing: It was to be used well.
Things like this are what healthy Christian patriotism celebrates. It’s not so much proud of them as it is thankful for them. It wants to see them preserved or, as the case may be, restored. And while it may find moments of pleasure in feel-good stuff — fireworks and brass bands — its main purpose is to see that the country uses its blessings well.
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The Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land. A viable repeal-and-replace effort may or may not be forthcoming in Congress, but until one materializes the provisions of the ACA remain in effect, and the Trump administration is bound by law to enforce them.
But the administration has made little secret of the fact that it does not want to enforce them—especially not the pieces that will tend to erode political support for repeal. Many of the 19 Republican-led states that have resisted the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid to low-income healthy adults, struggling with public-health issues like the opioid crisis and enticed by ample federal funding, are now reconsidering their involvement. And the Trump White House appears desperate to do what it can to stop them.
Most states waited to see some kind of resolution to the ongoing congressional debate over the American Health Care Act, the Republican Obamacare replacement, but inter-caucus dithering and the lengthening odds of any reform passing the Senate have spurred some states to action. So far, that action has been unkind to Medicaid expansion proponents. In mid-March, the Idaho Senate rejected a Democratic plan to extend Medicaid coverage for some of the sickest uninsured people. In one of the most conservative states in the country, in early April, the Kansas House fell just three votes short of overriding a veto by Governor Sam Brownback of the legislature’s Medicaid expansion plan. An expansion plan by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe also failed before the state legislature in April, and despite political pressure to act, Georgia and South Dakota both failed to advance Medicaid expansion plans through their legislatures.
Still, the resistance among Republican-controlled state governments appears to be loosening. Kansas may still muster the votes to override the governor’s veto, and health-infrastructure challenges and hospital closings in Georgia seem likely to force the state’s hand. Nebraska is also seriously considering a Medicaid expansion bill, and the general volatility of the national health-care discussion seems to be at least encouraging states to consider accepting Obamacare funds for expanding Medicaid. Seema Verma, the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, has signaled the administration’s willingness to accept expansion waivers that implement provisions favored by conservatives, like work requirements and substantial premiums for covered able-bodied adults, further softening resistance to expansion.
North Carolina is one of the states that seems to have been moved by Verma’s repositioning. It’s considering separate plans favored by Republicans in the General Assembly and by Democratic Governor Roy Cooper. The “Carolina Cares” plan written by State Representative Donny Lambeth is the state’s first Republican proposal to include some adults not previously covered under Medicaid, but it still bears the clear stamps of conservatism. It imposes substantial premiums and a work requirement, while also providing insurance to vulnerable rural residents. In an email statement, Lambeth was adamant that the structure would not pass costs to taxpayers, but would instead split them among providers and beneficiaries, saying “this option is a win-win for the patients, the State, the providers of care and for the taxpayers of North Carolina.”
It’s unlikely Cooper and state Democrats will agree to that plan as-is, but if conservative-leaning Medicaid expansion plans take hold in state legislatures, it might endanger the White House’s apparent strategy of stepping back to allow the ACA’s problems to compound on their own. Perhaps to counter the likelihood of the tide turning in favor of the expansion among the remaining states, the administration announced last week that it would help defray some of the uncompensated care costs for uninsured patients in Florida by increasing the state’s federally-backed low-income pool from about $600 million to $1.5 billion. The funds don’t come close to offsetting the missed funding from Medicaid, but they appear to be enough to tide Florida over—at least until the next renewal.
In doing so, the White House is signaling that it is backing off one of the key negative pressures the Obama administration used to push some states towards accepting the Medicaid expansion. The low-income pool (LIP) program started as a limited CMS demonstration in 2006, and quickly evolved into a slush fund to backstop state spending to care for people who were left uninsured. But after the ACA, President Obama refused to provide funding via LIPs for people who would be insured under Medicaid by the ACA’s expansion standards, meaning the funding for the non-expansion states that had been participating in the demonstration project plummeted. Trump’s decision puts increased funding back on the table for demonstration states that continue to hold out on Medicaid.
“There were a number of states that had a low-income pool,” says Robin Rudowitz of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “They were all subject to CMS guidance around restructuring their pools at the same time that Florida was. So presumably if there’s a change in the interpretation for Florida, some of these other states might also seek a change.” While there are only four non-expansion states in the LIP demonstrations, the two participating states of Kansas and Tennessee are vulnerable enough for the signal from the White House to matter immediately in Medicaid expansion decisions. The remaining two states—Texas and Florida—are home to 40 percent of all the Americans now caught in the “coverage gap” without any form of affordable coverage.
Texas’s LIP renewal is up next. Its conservative government seems unlikely to expand Medicaid, although a Trump bailout via the demonstration grant would give the state budgetary room to cut state spending on Medicaid. Even though relatively few states participate in the LIP program, signals matter—and the White House is signaling that it’s interested in paying states to bury Medicaid expansion plans. For the White House, a continued stalemate might be the closest thing to a win. | <urn:uuid:4e51537b-9681-4256-885a-0cd846922b61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-low-income-pool-florida-medicaid-expansion/525132/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949108 | 1,214 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The term “artificial intelligence” might always remind us of Black Mirror or The Matrix, but there’s no denying that the once-futuristic tech has infiltrated our lives in nearly every way. Now, tech-minded skin-care founders are using machine learning to tackle concerns like acne, reports Allure.
AI in skin care
“The skin-care industry is very marketing driven and product development is based on trendy ingredients,” says Meghan Maupin, CEO and cofounder of Atolla, customized skin care designed to become more effective with each monthly shipment, thanks to subtle reformulations powered by customer feedback and a patented algorithm.
“Our approach is to let the data show us patterns across different customer groups, and what formulations might work best for each… machine learning is the start of the skin-care industry becoming more data-driven.”
Atolla collects its data points through a quiz that covers the participant’s skin goals and history, allergies, current product routine, medications, and lifestyle; a mail-in skin test that seeks to measure hydration and sebum levels through a blotting paper-like tool; and a selfie that helps remote aestheticians assess concerns.
How does this algo work?
Its algorithm then compares your data to other users who have similar skin concerns — seeing what worked for them — and scans for ingredient conflicts in your routine before generating a customized serum, which it will auto-ship to the customer for $39 a month or bundle with a cleanser and moisturizer for $69 per month.
“For customers with acne or breakouts, we’re able to titrate your dosage of active ingredients up or down each month in response to your skin progress,” Maupin adds.
Importance of the data collection
Atolla is just one of many new companies that understand the monetary value of data, the appeal of bespoke personal-care products, and the power of a subscription model. In some respects, there’s a data-driven beauty gold rush happening.
Then there are brands, like Curology, which use the expertise of medically-trained providers (doctors, physician assistants), to create unique formulations that target breakouts, fine lines, and other skin concerns.
Similarly, there is Docent, which employs medical doctors to assess a makeup-free selfie and vanity shelfie before shipping your skin prescription.Machine learning is even being used to improve the subscription box model.
“We use data to connect customers to products that work and curate high-performing skin-care routines that they never would have assembled on their own,” says Katrina Moreno Lewis, founder and CEO of Kura Skin, a quarterly subscription box that offers a complete, bespoke routine — from cleanser to sunscreen — that starts at $99 or can be purchased as a one-off.
How effective is this process?
“Self-reported data has limits,” says Corey L. Hartman, M.D., a board-certified dermatologist based in Birmingham, Alabama, explaining that the very language we use to describe our skin concerns is up for interpretation. “There aren’t very many specific parameters or criteria for some of these terms that we put a lot of credibility on.”
For example, he says the reason why medical papers don’t use the terms “dry,” “oily,” or “combination” is that they mean different things to different people. “These are things that we talk about in beauty spaces and marketing, but in terms of real scientific data, there’s nothing that’s tied to that, so what does it really mean?”
Is Your data safe?
Margaret Foster Riley, a health privacy expert and professor of law at The University of Virginia, raises a few red flags about this growing trend. “Sometimes you’ll see companies will assert that they’ll never sell or use your data improperly but what’s unclear is what happens in a succession context,” she says, noting that your data might not be protected in a bankruptcy or acquisition.
Then there are potential long-term risks: “A lot of people [who willingly provide their data to companies] are young and healthy and not thinking of the impact that might be with health insurance or, even in some contexts, employment,” Riley adds.
“They go into it willing to share everything, then, later on, they recognize that if things come out they may have an obligation to share it with a long-term care company or a life insurance company and they weren’t thinking about that at the time.” It gets more complicated when more-in depth tests are involved, a natural progression of the trend we are undoubtedly going to see increasing.
Right now, the tech is geared towards women, but Egan says they plan to expand to men in the future. “We focus on women because we test estrogen and progesterone, which are female dominant hormones, but have had men take the test,” she says. “In the future, we’ll be able to provide more customized insight for men.”
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Most sewer backups give off warning signs before they become big problems. Usually the problem builds up over time, and so if you are paying attention, you can catch the signals that show there is a major blockage occurring somewhere down the line. (There are exceptions, of course, like flash flooding or sudden weather systems that cause instant damage.)
Pipes do get clogged over time — grease, hair, toilet paper. You may have even heard of the “fatbergs” plaguing certain cities’ sewer systems. For homes, it’s important to take proper care of your drainage, keeping things like “disposable” wet wipes and grease out of the pipes as much as possible.
Even so, sewer backup can still happen. If you notice any of the following, there is a chance that things are going haywire in the pipes and that a sewer backup is coming for you.
You know what we’re talking about here. The stench can resemble rotten eggs or much worse, and you can trace the source directly back to the sewage pipes. If there is an unpleasant odour coming up from your drain, it’s a good idea to think about addressing the problem by calling your local drainage experts.
If you are having a shower and notice that the water is rising around your ankles rather than draining, there’s a good chance that there is a blockage down the pipes and that the worst is yet to come. You might also notice this problem occurring in a sink after you wash the dishes. This is a sign that people often ignore for a while but we recommend you taking action as soon as you notice a lag in how quickly the water is draining.
This might take the form of soap residue that’s drying high up around the basin of the sink or tub orbits of foreign things floating in the toilet after a flush. This is usually a very clear sign that there are major problems in your pipes.
Yes, bubbles. Air can get trapped while water is trying to get past an obstruction in a drain, and this can cause bubbles too, well, bubble up. It can happen in the toilet, sink or tub and once you notice them, an alarm should go off in your head that something isn’t right.
Like with many home maintenance things, keeping an eye on things so you can catch them before they turn disastrous always pays off. This is especially true for drainage and pipes. We know the quick fix might be pouring very harsh chemicals down the drain and hoping for the best, but it’s usually not the best solution for these problems.
Calling in professionals who have the tools and technology to go in, assess the problem and properly fix the damage might seem like a hassle, but it’s actually a surefire way of protecting your home against a full-blown catastrophe. You will wish you had done it if you are cleaning up the mess from a sewer back up. | <urn:uuid:311dadf1-8353-4d16-a695-565fe806f059> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cercdrainage.ca/blog/category/sewer-backup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950157 | 607 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Experts tested the electric power system under running conditions and maneuverable characteristics of the vessel under different draft variants.
“The program of sea trials has been fully implemented,” says Mustafa Kashka, Director General of FSUE Atomflot. The shipbuilders, contractors and the delivery crew have done a great deal of work. We are satisfied with the results. The Arktika nuclear icebreaker is ready to sail to Murmansk.”
On September 22, Arktika, the lead universal nuclear-powered icebreaker, will depart from the completion embankment of the Baltic Shipyard towards the Murmansk sea port. The passage is planned to take about two weeks. During this time, the nuclear icebreaker will be tested in ice conditions.
The lead universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 is being built by the Baltic Shipyard on commission of Rosatom. The keel for the icebreaker was laid on November 5, 2013 and the launch of the vessel took place on June 16, 2016.
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|Motto||Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat|
Motto in English
|Fortune favours the bold|
|Established||1823 – Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts|
1992 – Liverpool John Moores University
|Colours|| Navy blue|
Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU) is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, England. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823. This later merged to become Liverpool Polytechnic. In 1992, following an Act of Parliament, the Liverpool Polytechnic became what is now Liverpool John Moores University. It is named after Sir John Moores, a local businessman and philanthropist, who donated to the university's precursor institutions.
The university had 25,050 students in 2019/20, of which 20,105 are undergraduate students and 4,945 are postgraduate, making it the 30th largest university in the UK by total student population.
It is a member of the University Alliance, the Northern Consortium and the European University Association.
Founded as a small mechanics institution (Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts) in 1823, the institution grew over the centuries by converging and amalgamating with different colleges, including the F.L.Calder School of Domestic Science, the City of Liverpool C.F. Mott Training College, before eventually becoming Liverpool Polytechnic in 1970. The university also has a long history of providing training, education and research to the maritime industry, dating back to the formation of the Liverpool Nautical College in 1892.
The institution then became a university under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 under the new title of "Liverpool John Moores University". This new title was approved by the Privy Council on 15 September 1992. The university took its name from Sir John Moores, the founder of the Littlewoods empire. Moores was a great believer in the creation of opportunity for all, which embodies the ethos of LJMU in providing educational routes for people of all ages and from all backgrounds. This belief led Sir John Moores to invest in the institution and facilities, such as the John Foster Building (housing the Liverpool Business School), designed by and named after leading architect John Foster. With the institution's backgrounds dating back as far as 1823, many of the university buildings date back also, with aesthetically pleasing Georgian and Victorian buildings found on a few of the campuses.
LJMU now has more than 27,000 students from over 100 countries world-wide, 2,400 staff and 250 degree courses. LJMU was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2005.
Currently, Liverpool John Moores University is receiving more applications than previously seen; according to data in 2009, the total number of applications submitted to LJMU was 27,784.
On 28 March 2022, former student and founder of Mowgli, Nisha Katona was installed as Chancellor of the university. Previously, in 2008, astrophysicist and Queen lead guitarist Brian May was appointed the fourth Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. He replaced outgoing Chancellor Cherie Blair, wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Honorary fellows in attendance at the ceremony included astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and actor Pete Postlethwaite. May was succeeded as Chancellor by judge Sir Brian Leveson in 2013.
LJMU is a founding member of the Northern Consortium, an educational charity owned by 11 universities in northern England.
The university is separated into two campuses in Liverpool:
Between the two campuses is the Copperas Hill Site, opened in summer 2021, containing many faculties moved from the former IM Marsh Campus, and home to the Student Life and LJMU Sports Buildings. Its location between the two sites has been described by the university to help connect both of its campuses together, and is not regarded to be part of either. It is however closer to the Mount Pleasant Campus and separated from the City Campus by the A5047, and Liverpool Lime Street railway station.
There are currently two libraries operated by LJMU, one for either campus:
There is an LRC present in the Learning Commons of the Student Life Building on the Copperas Hill site between the two campuses.
Students of the university can use any library in term-time and some non-term time periods within the library's opening hours. The Student Life Building is open 24/7 in term time. Students need their student identification card for entry to all buildings.
There are more than 68,500 books in the Libraries' collections, with 1,630 work spaces available for students 24 hours a day. In addition to this there are over 16,000 e-books and 5,000 e-journals available. It is a member of the Libraries Together: Liverpool Learning Partnership (evolved from Liverpool Libraries Group) which formed in 1990. Under which, a registered reader at any of the member libraries can have access rights to the other libraries within the partnership.
The Tom Reilly Building houses the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences and the School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, which are both part of the Faculty of Science. Some 8,000 students use the building which is located at LJMU's City Campus on Byrom Street. The five storey, 6,493 m2 (69,890 sq ft) building was completed in November 2009 and opened in March 2010 by Liverpool F.C. captain Steven Gerrard. The building provides sports and science facilities including; appetite laboratories, psychology testing labs, neuroscience labs, an indoor 70-metre running track, force plates, caren disc, physiology suites, a DEXA scanner, a driving simulator and a chronobiology lab.
The university is organised into five faculties (which are each split into schools or centres), most of the faculties are based at a particular campus site however, with many joint honours degrees and some conventional degrees, the faculties overlap meaning students' degrees are from both faculties. The five faculties are:
LJMU is highly ranked for teaching and research in Sports and Exercise Sciences. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) awarded LJMU £4.5 million over five years for the establishment of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). The CETL award recognises LJMU's record for Physical Education, Dance, Sport and Exercises Sciences. LJMU is the only United Kingdom university to be awarded an Ofsted Grade A in Physical Education and it is also the premier institution for both teaching and research in Sport and Exercise Sciences.
Liverpool Business School (LBS) is located in the Redmonds Building on the Mount Pleasant Campus and has over 2,500 students and 100 academics.[self-published source?]
LBS offers undergraduate, postgraduate (including an Executive MBA) and research based programmes.[self-published source?] Research areas include International Banking, Economics and Finance, Sustainable Enterprise, Public Service Management, Development of Modern Economic Thought, Performance Management, Marketing, Project Management, and Market Research.[self-published source?]
In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), LJMU reported notable research strengths in general engineering and sports-related sciences. By the 2008 RAE, LJMU was the top-performing post-92 university for Anthropology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, General Engineering, Physics (Astrophysics) and Sports-Related Studies. According to the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2014 (RAE 2014), LJMU every unit of assessment submitted was rated as at least 45% internationally excellent or better. In 2012, the university's scientist published notable research suggesting that the dinosaur's extinction may have been caused by increased methane production from the dinosaurs, with some informally saying that dinosaurs "farted" their way to extinction.
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Liverpool John Moores University was included in the new 2013 Times Higher Education 100 under 50, ranking 72 out of 100. The list aims to show the rising stars in the global academy under the age of 50 years.
First Destination Survey results show that 89% of LJMU graduates are in employment or undertaking postgraduate study within six months of graduating.
Main article: John Moores Students' Union
Students at the university are represented by the John Moores Students' Union.
Representation for all students is central and is conducted by executive officers elected annually. In most cases, these students will be on a sabbatical from their studies. The election process is normally contested in mid April, successful candidates assuming office the following academic year.
Liverpool John Moores University has BUCS-registered teams in badminton, basketball, cricket, football, cycling, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, tennis, volleyball, swimming, and American football. Many of the sports teams compete in BUCS competitions. Liverpool Students' Union has 15 BUCS sports, from which 36 teams run, catering for over 800 athletes. In recent years, LJMU students have competed for BUCS representative squads, in national finals and at World University Championships. In addition, the Students' Union also runs intramural sports leagues.
The university also enjoys success at national and world level. Gymnast Beth Tweddle studied at LJMU and has achieved national, Commonwealth, European, and World medals whilst also competing at the Olympic Games.
Every year the university sports compete for 'The Varsity Cup' in the inter-university derby, Liverpool John Moores University Vs. University of Liverpool. The competing sports include: badminton, basketball, hockey, football, netball, volleyball, swimming, tennis, and the snowriders racing team. | <urn:uuid:143e7594-3d4b-49a5-a53b-b837c9ece038> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/Liverpool_John_Moores_University | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947111 | 2,296 | 1.914063 | 2 |
👅 While piercing the tongue, lip or cheek may be attractive to some, there are a number of health-related risks associated with oral piercing. Find out the dangers of oral piercing via WebMD. The Oral Surgery DC Team
It’s a way to express your style, but it can be dangerous. Your mouth is filled with bacteria that can lead to infection and swelling. A swollen tongue can make it hard for you to breathe. In some people with heart disease, bacteria can lead to a condition that can damage your heart valves.
The jewelry can cause issues as well. It can break off in your mouth and make you choke. You can chip your teeth on it while you eat, sleep, talk, or chew on it. If the break goes deep into your tooth, you can lose it or need a root canal to fix it.
Mouth piercings also may:
- Make it hard to speak, chew, or swallow
- Damage your tongue, gums, or fillings.
- Make you drool
- Make it hard for your dentist to take an X-ray of your teeth
- Lead to serious health problems, like gum disease, uncontrolled bleeding, long-term infection, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C
- Lead to an allergic reaction to the metal in the jewelry
Because of these risks, the American Dental Association warns against oral piercings. And you especially shouldn’t get one if you have a job or do things that would make it more likely to cause you trouble.
People with certain conditions that might make it hard for the piercing to heal are particularly at risk for health problems. Those include heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia, and autoimmune diseases.
Pick a piercing shop that appears clean and well run. Look for a piercer who has a license, which means he was specially trained. The piercer should wash his handswith germ-killing soap, wear fresh disposable gloves, and use sterilized tools or ones that are thrown away after one use.
You’ll want to make sure that:
- The piercer is happy to answer your questions
- The people who work in the shop have been vaccinated against Hepatitis B (It’s fine to ask.)
- The shop doesn’t use a piercing gun
- The needle is new and has never been used
- The needle is placed in a sealed container after it’s used
- Jewelry is made of surgical steel, solid gold, or platinum
Take Care of Your Piercing
Once you leave the shop, you’ll need to make sure your piercing heals and doesn’t get infected. Healing usually takes 3 to 4 weeks. During that time, you should:
- Rinse your tongue or lip piercing after every meal or snack and before bed. Use warm salt water or an antibacterial, alcohol-free mouthwash.
- Not kiss anyone while you heal (avoid contact with someone else’s saliva)
- Not share cups, plates, forks, knives, or spoons
- Eat small bites of healthy food
- Not eat spicy, salty, or acidic foods and drinks
- Not have hot drinks, like coffee, tea, or hot chocolate
While it heals, you should be able to remove the jewelry for short periods of time without the hole closing. If you get a tongue piercing, the piercer will start with a larger “barbell” to give your tongue room to heal as it swells. After the swelling goes down, dentists recommend you replace the large barbell with a smaller one that’s less likely to bother your teeth.
After your tongue has healed, take the jewelry out every night and brush it like you brush your teeth. You might want to take it out before you go to sleep or do anything active.
When to Get Help
Watch out for signs of infection such as:
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A Proposed Sketch of a Distance Education Model for the Enrichment of Adult Literacy in Pakistan
Various efforts have been made to overcome the problem of illiteracy throughout the world, particularly in the developing countries. But, none of these had valuable results. Therefore, in most of the developing countries like Pakistan, governments are concerned about handling the literacy problem effectively. The present paper was conducted in view of the poor literacy condition in Pakistan.it focused upon the analysis of existing literacy situation in Pakistan as well as finding out workable suggestions for overcoming the literacy problem. The study revealed that there was no use of broadcast media or the motivational techniques to attract the illiterate people to the literacy centers. Above all there was no consistency in the literacy programmes due to political factors. The main objectives of the study included to analyze the past literacy programmes in Pakistan and to create a distance education literacy model for Pakistan. The modern way for imparting literacy should be used rather than following the conventional methods. For this purpose a distance education model for enhancing literacy is proposed to be used in Pakistan. This is a theoretical model workable in the low literacy areas with suitable physical provisions.
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So, after years of working hard and thinking things over, you finally want a house you can call your own. Now, this leads you to the all too usual homebuyer’s conundrum as you decide which option to take: to build or to buy. Inevitably, each option has its pros and cons. However, you might be leaning towards the idea of creating a home rather than purchasing a previously-owned abode.
Take the time to explore the factors that may help you decide to build a house rather than purchase one.
The Benefits Of Building A Home
Most times, buying a home is a case of “What You See Is What You Get”. Thus, customization options are slim to none.
Conversely, you can customize your dream house if you build it from scratch. If you’re particular about meeting your littlest of needs and preferences, it could benefit you immensely if you can call the shots in terms of specific home design elements.
But, the level of customization might depend on the home builder you work with. Having said that, you might want to consider hiring the services of an established contractor, like Watara Homes.
In your new home, everything is new. From pipes to the heating and cooling systems, the fixtures are fresh from the manufacturer or supplier. Thus, you don’t need to spend on costly repairs, which would most likely be a necessity when purchasing an already used abode. Building a home might be more expensive than buying a house, but the costs actually end up less in the long run since you may not have to deal with endless repairs.
Also, you may include energy-efficient appliances and devices as parts of your new home. For example, your heating and cooling system might come with energy-efficient functionalities, thus helping you save costs in the long-term.
In comparison, you might need to stick with the equipment included in an existing home if you decide to go through the path of buying an already built dwelling. Those appliances and devices may not be energy-efficient models. Even if you saved cash in purchasing the house, you might still have costly electricity bills to deal with for weeks, months, or years to come.
You can have better options for your new dwelling if you opt to build rather than purchase.
For example, a new subdivision will have several open lots you could choose from. But, purchasing a built house limits your options to just the area where the property stands.
Search for suburban neighborhoods that are newly opened to the public. Aim to buy open lots as early as possible. At that time, prices might not be as expensive as compared to buying the property after a few years. Take note that land prices can appreciate over time. So, purchasing properties as soon as they are marked for sale can help lessen overhead costs.
Many old homes offer that vintage aesthetics that specific homebuyers love. But, some houses with classic designs might be bad for the health of household members.
The older the establishment, the higher the possibility of health hazards, like asbestos, lead, and mould, crawling around the house. Also, you might have to deal with illegal renovations or faulty wiring. Rectifying these concerns can put an additional strain on your budget. Furthermore, these issues could create significant threats to the lives of household members, as well as the environment.
With that said, it’s best to build a home from the ground up, knowing you’re going to install new and safe equipment for the property. Thus, you’re guaranteed that the wiring, paint, and foundation come from reliable sources and employ materials that are completely non-dangerous, especially health-wise, and eco-friendly. So, the risks of acquiring illnesses from the house could be lower when you build the residence from scratch.
Repairs Are Far Down the Road
Since almost everything in your new abode is new, the chances of appliances, gadgets, and other components breaking down is significantly low. With that being said, save yourself from sudden financial woes with new appliances, furniture, and equipment.
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Catering trainees had a cake baking and icing session. The trainees enjoyed and learned from it, we would like to thank Sarah from Cake Lady for taking the time to come over. Catering have also provided a icing a cake recipe see below.
Icing a cake
1. The board must be 2-3 inches larger than the cake to facilitate extra decorations. (Rope detail)
2. Make the moist sugar paste to place on the board. This is to prevent the cake from slipping. Melted chocolate can be used too.
3. Place the cake on the board. Cover with the warm apricot jam.
4. Roll out the marzipan. Fold over your arm, place gently on the cake.
5. Smooth out edges with a smoother and your hands. Trim the edges.
6. Wet the marzipan with water before applying the sugar paste.
7. Roll out the icing fold over your arm, place gently on the cake.
8. Smooth out the edges with a smoother and your hands. Trim the edges.
9. Make the figurines. ( These can be made in advanced )
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11. Repeat this exercise with the coloured icing.
12. Lay the 2 rolled out icings side by side.
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The heart is one of the largest muscles in the body. The wall of the heart is the muscle that does the pumping, and it is called the myocardium. In a heart attack, this muscle tissue is denied oxygen-carrying blood due to a blocked artery. When the shortage of oxygen gets so bad that many cells die, it's called infarction. The medical name for a heart attack is an acute myocardial infarction (MI).
Heart attack is directly responsible for about 10% of all deaths in Canada every year. This represents half of all deaths due to Coronary Artery Disease. Although having a heart attack is very serious, the chances of survival are greatly increased if you are able to get to a hospital right away.
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Every organ needs oxygen-carrying blood to stay alive, and the myocardium (the muscle that forms the wall of the heart) is no exception. It has its own oxygen supply, via the coronary arteries. In coronary artery disease, fatty deposits (plaques) form in the inner walls of the coronary arteries, narrowing them and reducing blood flow to the heart. This process is called atherosclerosis.
Most heart attacks occur when the atherosclerotic plaque lining an artery ruptures. Blood then forms a clot on the damaged artery, which may partially or completely obstruct blood flow. If the blockage gets severe enough, heart attack symptoms appear, and heart muscle cells may start to die. This is now considered a heart attack.
Rarely, a coronary artery spasm stops blood flow through an apparently healthy coronary artery, causing a heart attack. In most of these cases there's no identifiable cause.
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Most heart attack victims feel some symptoms in the days leading up to the attack. The most common symptom is Angina (chest pain). Chest pain results when the heart muscle is not getting enough oxygen, a condition called ischemia. Angina is likely to get worse or more frequent as the heart attack approaches. Other possible symptoms are extreme fatigue and shortness of breath.
If someone has angina, they may have difficulty distinguishing angina symptoms from heart attack pain. Heart attack symptoms are usually much more severe and longer-lasting (more than 20 minutes) than angina. Heart attack symptoms are relieved only slightly or temporarily by rest or medications used to relieve angina.
Many people report feeling a sense of warning as a heart attack approaches. There can be tightness, pressure, pain, and a "squeezing" feeling in the chest. The pain may also be felt in the back, jaw, shoulder, or arm (especially the left arm). The heart may speed up and beat irregularly. Although chest pain is usually the first symptom, up to 20% of people having a heart attack do not experience chest pain.
These other symptoms may or may not develop:
Almost everyone who suffers a heart attack experiences Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats). Some of these irregular heartbeats are harmless, while other types can cause serious problems, even death. One type, ventricular fibrillation (VF), can lead to death in about 5 minutes. The left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart, quivers uselessly instead of delivering blood to the body. The heart does this because of the lack of oxygen delivery.
Not all heart attacks are this severe. In fact, some heart attacks go unnoticed or are shrugged off as heartburn or angina. Distinguishing a heart attack from heartburn is not as easy as you might think - antacids and belching can actually relieve heart attack pain, though it usually returns quickly. Nitroglycerin sprays or pills, often carried by people with angina, may also relieve pain temporarily. However, chest discomfort caused by most heart attacks is not relieved by nitroglycerin. It is important to use your discretion and common sense: if the discomfort feels worse or different than usual, consult your doctor.
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A doctor can tell a lot about a heart with a stethoscope, but the standard test for heart attack is the electrocardiogram (ECG). Electrodes are taped to the chest and the electric signals made by the heart are monitored. Different parts of the ECG wave give information on different parts of the heart and this tells the doctor if there is ongoing damage and where in the heart it may be located.
There's also a blood test that reveals the presence of a heart attack by looking for a protein that is released when heart cells die. This helps to eliminate the possibility of other conditions that might be confused with a heart attack, such as a blood clot in the lung or pneumonia.
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If someone experiences symptoms that might be a heart attack, they should call an ambulance right away. A variety of effective treatments, including thrombolytic ("clot-busting") medications, are available to heart attack victims, but these must be given quickly in order to be effective. 50% of deaths due to heart attack occur within 3 to 4 hours of the beginning of the symptoms. Depending on the hospital, you may be brought directly to the cardiac catheterization laboratory to do an angioplasty, a procedure where a tiny balloon will break open the clot directly. The most important thing you need to do is the reach the hospital as quickly as possible. This will increase the chance of survival.
The hospital's primary tasks during a heart attack are to stop the damage to heart cells by restoring blood flow, and to deal with complications like ventricular fibrillation. The first medication a person will be given upon entering the hospital is a chewable Asa* (acetylsalicylic acid) tablet. This will help inhibit platelets from forming a blood clot, preventing further blockage of the artery. A range of medications is usually given to reduce the heart's workload, to dissolve the clot, and to prevent further clotting. An oxygen mask may also be used to increase the level of oxygen in the blood.
A defibrillator is a pair of high-voltage paddles that can deliver an electric shock to the heart. Its purpose is to stop ventricular fibrillation.
After a heart attack, 1 or 2 days of bed rest is usually necessary, but staying bedridden too long can prevent the heart from regaining strength and tends to worsen natural feelings of nervousness or Depression. Most people are able to walk a few steps on the third day, but should be careful about straining and lifting heavy objects for a few months.
Medication therapy with ASA or Clopidogrel is commonly given to prevent the blood from clotting. Other medications called beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors may also be prescribed. These medications help reduce the heart's workload and allow easier blood flow from the heart. Cholesterol medications are also important, even if you have "normal" cholesterol levels. Your doctor will recommend these medications depending on your risk of having another heart attack.
If you smoke, it is very important to stop immediately. Heart attack is a complication of coronary artery disease, and it's best prevented by avoiding the risk factors for coronary artery disease, including smoking.
The early treatment of a heart attack aims to restore blood flow and preserve heart muscle. After a heart attack occurs, you need rehabilitation or post-MI care for the heart to heal and to prevent future attacks. Cardiac rehabilitation programs can usually be planned for in hospital and, depending on the severity of the heart attack, may continue for weeks or months once you return home. Post-MI management includes medication, lifestyle changes, and psychological care.
Finally, following a heart attack, some patients may suffer from depression or experience psychological difficulties related to anxiety or anger. Rehabilitation programs offer help in these areas, providing support and counselling for those who may need it. Although having a heart attack can be a frightening experience, most people can return to their normal activities.
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One thing I have learned after inheriting a church building that is over thirty-five years old: don’t change something until you get an idea of why it was there. Sometimes, when I investigate why something was put up, I find it to be a matter of tradition, preference, or taking a shortcut (and okay to remove, improve, or replace). Other times, I discover that there was a reason something was put together the way it was; and I have no business trying to change it without compromising the entire structure of our building.
In life and ministry it is no different.
Be careful about trying to tear down the spiritual legacy your forefathers have passed down to you. Certainly, there are some man-made traditions that can and should be removed, replaced, or improved. But, there is so much that our forefathers have passed on to us that cannot be changed or removed without compromising the entire structure on which we stand (God’s Word).
Take, for example, the matter of ecclesiastical separation. Our fundamental forefathers blazed a trail for us of separation from denominations and movements that began to teach doctrine contrary to Scripture. These were men who faced the rise of the issues of their day and, by God’s grace, took a biblical stand. Many of them sacrificed their reputations and their present ministries to stay true to sound doctrine. Out of their sacrifice was born the independent Baptist movement.
It has been said “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Even so, if we forgot our history it will be to our own detriment. If we begin to follow leaders who have unbiblical doctrine and philosophies (not concerning mere nominal preference issues, but critically fundamental doctrinal issues such as calvinism, Bible versions, ecumenism, etc.), we will by such a choice be moving in a direction that is defiant of God’s truth and deviant from the trail our forefathers blazed for us. More devastatingly, we will set our posterity on a course where they will most certainly be led astray from sound doctrine.
This is why I say to you: don’t try to change or remove something until you get an idea of why it was there.
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.—1 Corinthians 3:10–11
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A Study Of Fuzzy Metric Space
Swati Balkrishna Kurdekar
The aim of this paper is to introduce some characterization of various fuzzy bounded sets in fuzzy metric spaces & some fixed-point theorems for multi valued mappings are also defined. The original concept of a KM-fuzzy metric—we call this modification by a GV-fuzzy metric. This modification allows many natural examples of fuzzy metrics, in particular, fuzzy metrics constructed from metrics. GV-fuzzy metrics appear to be more appropriate also for the study of induced topological structures. Along with the principal interest of many researchers in the theoretical aspects of the theory of fuzzy metrics—in particular, the topological and sequential properties of fuzzy metric spaces, their completeness, fixed points of mappings, etc.—fuzzy metrics have also aroused interest among specialists working in various applied areas of mathematics. Among others, fuzzy metrics have been used in decision making problems with uncertain and imprecise information and other engineering problems.
Keywords- fuzzy set, fuzzy metric space, continuous t-norm, fixed point theorems ,Cauchy sequence
Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1903032Page Number(s) - 186-188Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 3 | July 2019DOI (Digital Object Identifier) - Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)
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The coronavirus pandemic brought on many challenges to our communities, homes, and businesses. As we continue to face instabilities from ongoing crises both domestically and abroad, there is one thing our elected officials should find common ground on to boost our economic outlook for the foreseeable future: reforming the U.S. immigration system to match workers across all skill sets with available jobs.
Immigrants have long improved Texas industries, making up large shares of our workforce in a variety of sectors, from construction to food production and services to healthcare, and representing nearly a quarter of our overall workforce. They are major economic multipliers, holding an estimated total annual spending power of over $120 billion, and they contribute to state programs such as transportation, education, and social services through $40 billion in state and local taxes annually.
However, our nation’s antiquated and complex immigration system has rendered it almost impossible for immigrants to fully join the workforce in a meaningful capacity due to a lack of authorization, inaccessible work permits, or uncertainty of what will come next in terms of legal status. Even though about 1.6 million undocumented Texans contribute the same as any other citizen – to the tune of $6.5 billion in state, local and federal taxes – and are vital to our economic well-being, current policies prevent them from building a stable future.
As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently stated during a fireside chat around the state’s economy, “The workforce propels businesses; the workforce propels Texas.” However, cultivating a stable, balanced workforce with people of all skill levels is a tricky business, and key industries – such as construction and home services, among others – are struggling to hire employees. I have witnessed this firsthand. My company, ABC Home & Commercial Services, is facing difficulties hiring employees of all skill sets. Nationally, 51 percent of small businesses had openings that they could not fill at the end of last year.
While some businesses are starting to take matters into their own hands by leaving the status quo and implementing new operations, leaders at the state level are also working to address labor issues. The Texas Workforce Commission directed nearly $20 million in funds for programs dedicated to training workers to fill job openings, and several industries, such as the energy sector, have resorted to upping pay and benefits.
However, more can and must be done to get more workers on the job, and efforts at the federal level must provide innovative and forward-thinking solutions for all Texans. Texas representatives in both the House and Senate must pass immigration reform to recognize the true economic potential of Texas’ immigrant community and allow qualified, skilled workers to join our workforce.
If our leaders in Congress do not address this issue soon, we will have to face even greater labor challenges. Today, experienced workers are aging out of the industry, and there are not nearly enough applicants from the younger generations who want to work in laborious fields such as construction, agriculture, and building/grounds maintenance.
What we need are ready and able workers, and the public also agrees, with the majority of Americans supporting a pathway to citizenship.
It is my hope that the conversation around immigration reform continues to shift as more and more leaders and communities recognize the enormous benefits of immigration becoming more apparent than ever. Texas representatives in Congress must see the urgency of this situation and work with their colleagues to pass immigration reform measures such as the Dream Act and Farm Workforce Modernization Act that will help our state to succeed.
As Texans and as the state with the ninth largest economy in the world by GDP, we must bring innovative and forward-thinking solutions to the table. Immigration reform is a good place to start.
Bobby Jenkins is the CEO of ABC Home & Commercial Services and chairman of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority.
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By Ron Dorner
For Christians, it is important to follow biblical principles. Yet, during my years of speaking and counseling believers there is one principle I see frequently violated. The Bible calls it surety; we call it “co-signing.”
The dictionary defines it as pledging to make a lender secure against damage or loss. Proverbs warns against surety at least three times. One specific text is:
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, if thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger; thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor; give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids; deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Proverbs 6:1-5)
There are many warnings about co-signing. Don’t confuse this with signing for a loan for a business, such as a partnership or corporation. The warnings seem to be directed toward surety between individuals. This biblical principle is often violated between parents and children.
Qualifying for a loan or credit in the United States has been going through a transition from responsible to irrational qualifying over the past thirty years. The younger generation has been raised as the “haves and needs” generation.
Proverbs 17:18 says, “A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.”
Notice the term “void of understanding.” This means that you have not given careful thought to the result of co-signing. I urge anyone who is asked to co-sign to give much prayer to the situation.
Co-signing often places children in an unbearable payment position before their financial situation matures. Remember, if today’s creditors will not lend without co-signing, that tells you there is no way the person should go in debt for that object!
A better way to help your children is to give them money if you are able. If you can’t afford this option you need to ask yourself, “Can I afford to make the full loan payment on what I am co-signing for?” It is possible that you may have to make those payments or have your credit record impacted.
Remember that the definition of credit is being able to have something before we can afford to pay for it. Anytime we buy on credit we are making assumptions about our future income.
Proverbs 11:15 says, “He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it, But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.”
This verse warns against being surety for a stranger, but notice it also says you are secure, or can sleep at night, if you hate providing surety. This applies to all co-signing, even for your children.
Take the counsel of God’s Word and sleep well at night.
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The University Training and Research (UTR) program within the Crosscutting Research portfolio supports novel, early-stage research at U.S. colleges and universities that advances the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) mission of delivering integrated solutions related to minimizing the environmental impacts of fossil fuels while working towards net-zero emissions.
By investing in the education and training of America’s future scientists and engineers, this program highlights the key role technology plays in addressing America’s energy challenges, promotes the development of innovative and disruptive technologies, and reinforces workforce development as a part of our nation’s continued economic prosperity. With a special emphasis on diversity and inclusion, UTR program provides opportunities for traditionally underrepresented communities in STEM fields
The University Training and Research program supports the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU–OMI) and the University Coal Research (UCR) programs. The core mission of both programs is the following:
Between fiscal years 2010 and 2021, the UTR program made 122 R&D awards valued at more than $41.6 million and helped to support 189 students at various stages in their academic careers, including undergraduate, master’s, and PhD levels. The UTR program conducts a nationwide competitive solicitation each year. Research and development projects are awarded as grants ($250-500K) with a typical duration of 2–3 years. This educational outreach initiative enhances DOE’s ability to develop and sustain a national program of university research that seeks technology development to reduce carbon emissions and also train the workforce of the future that is prepared to address the global challenge of climate change.
A yearly breakdown of the awards is shown in Figure 1.
The program provides a mechanism for cooperative research among minority-focused institutions, the private sector, and Federal agencies. The central thrust of the program is to generate fresh ideas and tap unique talent, define applicable fundamental scientific principles, and develop advanced concepts for generating new and improved technologies across the full spectrum of fossil energy and carbon management R&D programs. Since its inception, the program has emphasized improving the energy and environmental capabilities of advanced coal, oil, gas, and environmental technology concepts. The program supports DOE’s Strategic Plan to advance domestic and global industrial competitiveness, clean energy research, national security, diversity initiatives, and environmental quality.
As of October 1, 2021 (first quarter of FY21), there are 42 active UTR projects, the product of five different Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs). Figures 2 and 3 below show locations of participating universities and colleges states and city locations for both HBCU-OMI and UCR programs.
For more than 30 years, NETL has supported the HBCU–OMI program, making it one of the longest-running university training initiatives within FECM. The key objective for HBCU–OMI program includes providing R&D opportunities for traditionally underrepresented populations in STEM fields. These activities align with the Biden Administration’s Justice40 Initiative which seeks to advance environmental justice and revitalize the economies of disadvantaged communities.
Figure 2 below show locations of participating universities and colleges states and city locations for HBCU-OMI program.
The UCR program emphasizes research and development efforts that are structured to achieve FECM strategic goals in concert with student education in relevant carbon management topics. Key research areas supported include (but are not limited to): near-zero-emission power plants, carbon capture, computational energy sciences, development of advanced high-performance materials, sensors and controls, and the development of hybrid power generation systems.
Figure 3 below show locations of participating universities and colleges states and city locations for UCR program.
The University Training and Research program develops a wide array of technologies in its two components, University Coal Research and Research by Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions. The active solicitation issued in 2021 and seeks projects in five areas of interest:
Funding opportunity announcements of recent years (with still-active projects) have sought projects in these areas of interest:
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The merger has been long in the making, in contrast with some other cases, where the initiative came from the ports themselves (for instance the nearby Ghent and Zeeland Seaports merger into North Sea Port, and the merger of Copenhagen and Malmo Ports), this initiative has long been advocated by the Flemish government.
The public owners of the port development companies, the cities of Bruges and Antwerp, initially were more hesitant. The synergies between Zeebrugge and Antwerp (ports that are around 100 km apart and have fairly limited inter-port flows), are less obvious than in the case of North Sea Ports, which really can be regarded as an integrated complex.
Nevertheless, there are clear synergies, especially with regard to new energy related developments such as LNG, hydrogen and the capture, storage and use of carbon. The merger also is a demonstration of the rising importance of the energy transition for ports. While in the past talks about synergies were focused on the container segment, synergies for that segment are not highlighted in the merger announcement – apart from the ‘bragging rights’ because in all likelihood, a Port of Antwerp Bruges can call itself Europe’s largest container port.
Overall, this merger is likely to create value for port users and society at large, but one aspect is still missing – a better composition of the supervisory board. This board will be made up of six local politicians from the city of Antwerp, three from Ghent and four independent members. These latter ones will be selected ‘taking the regional embeddedness into account’.
The high number of politicians, as well as the stated relevance of the regional background of the independents, suggests that further steps are required to shift to a truly independent and professional board.
I would even argue (in line with a wealth of studies demonstrating the value of diversity, in all its dimensions, like gender, industry background and nationality) that it would be healthy to add a couple of foreign board members with a fresh take on the new organisation.
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- AI will bring considerable benefits to ship navigation.
- For AI to be effective, it needs to pass the Turing test to demonstrate the computer can act like a human.
- There are many challenges – technical, legal and operational – to overcome in developing autonomous ships. But he thinks progress is being made.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will bring considerable benefits to ship navigation, but there are still many challenges to overcome, according to the expert panel at Riviera Maritime Media’s How AI is automating navigating systems webinar, says an article published on their website.
When was the webinar held?
This event, held 26 January 2022 during Riviera’s Vessel Optimisation Webinar Week, brought together academics and experts from around the world to debate how AI will improve navigational safety and lead to autonomous ships.
On the panel were World Maritime University associate professor Dimitrios Dalaklis, GMATEK president Glenn Wright, Fraunhofer-Center for Maritime Logistics and Services’ head of department for sea traffic and nautical solutions Hans-Christoph Burmeister and Northumbria University PhD researcher Eva Szewczyk.
AI, Fourth industrial revolution
Professor Dalaklis defined AI and outlined its capabilities to problem solve by learning how to mimic human brains and reactions. He said AI developments could lead to autonomous systems and eventually unmanned ships. “We are in the fourth industrial revolution,” he said. “With AI we are in a new operating paradigm.”
For AI to be effective, it needs to pass the Turing test to demonstrate the computer can act like a human. This means machines need to operate rationally and within task confines.
“Autonomous vessels should abide by the collision regulations,” said Professor Dalaklis. “AI systems should make decisions by themselves with no human input.”
Challenges to overcome
There are many challenges – technical, legal and operational – to overcome in developing autonomous ships. But he thinks progress is being made.
“Change is here to stay,” said Professor Dalaklis. “We are in an era of reduced crew on board and unmanned enginerooms, so we should concentrate on finding solutions to the challenges.”
Mr Burmeister agreed legal issues and technical details need to be solved and also said human-machine interfaces should be improved. “In the next three years the robustness of these systems should improve so they can be used in navigation to prevent groundings,” he said.
Mr Burmeister said there was a need to deal with “interfaces between machines using AI and humans” for remote control and autonomous systems.
Tactical voyage optimisation & hazard avoidance
Fraunhofer-Center for Maritime Logistics and Services is researching how AI is used for “tactical voyage optimisation and hazard avoidance, using classical algorithms” for safer navigation.
Ms Szewczyk explained what could go wrong with AI technology and who would be to blame. She said there were “varying levels of autonomy” from having crew on board remotely operated vessels, to semi-autonomous and fully autonomous ships.
If there is a collision or a grounding, there could be legal issues. “If something goes wrong, investigators would be looking at standards, departure from collision regulations, seamanship and shipmanagement,” said Ms Szewczyk. “There could be liability issues for equipment manufacturers if there is an accident.”
Although there could be many causes of a collision, product providers need to “explain the AI model and standards for the technology, its integration and interaction with operations,” said Ms Szewczyk.
“As technology has a growing influence on decisions, humans must not be made the scapegoat.” She also asked if classification societies and technology verification organisations would have liabilities if there was an accident.
To be their eyes & ears
Mr Wright explained how AI systems are reliant on sensors “to be their eyes and ears” for observing the surrounding environment, identifying hazards, for better understanding and making decisions.
But inaccurate information could reach the decision processing modules and programs from sensors. “Sensors will degrade over time,” said Mr Wright. “Sensors have failures and there is interference.”
Observational sensors, cameras and navigation aids above the water line and those focused underwater such as sonar, could all be affected, as could sensors on board measuring engineroom systems and those observing the outside environment.
Possible solutions would be to keep humans in the loop for monitoring and decision support. “We need help from labour, keeping seafarers in the loop,” said Mr Wright. “But their roles will be changing and evolving.”
Attendees of the webinar agreed that humans would remain in the loop and would need retraining. They were asked a series of question in a poll of their opinions on how AI is automating navigating systems.
Question by attendees
In the first of these questions, 94% of those who responded agreed monitoring and shore-based personnel supervising AI-applications in maritime navigation should be trained according to (to be developed) STCW principles, 6% disagreed.
Webinar delegates were asked if maritime regulators will agree in the coming three years on how to evaluate safety for maritime AI-applications that are independently making safety-critical decisions, such as for collision avoidance or anti-grounding. 61% agreed and 39% disagreed.
Attendees were then asked: what is the main driver for today’s maritime AI applications in navigation? 52% said it was for better ship efficiency, 22% for better safety, 19% for looking or being innovative and 7% voted for new logistics offers.
In another poll, delegates were asked: how could automation go beyond collision regulations (COLREGs) Rule 5 that merely requires sight and hearing? The majority (81%) of responders said through greater fusion of multiple sensing capabilities to form a more comprehensive picture.
Another 19% said bandwidth could be increased to include night vision and other sensors such as radar, sonar, microwave and lidar. None voted for sight and hearing range can be extended through 360º and to greater distances.
Attendees were also asked how sensors, like seafarers, are required to pass physical and medical exams to be fit for duty? 55% of those responding voted for brittle tests (can sensors be relied upon to consistently perform as expected? Another 36% said visual acuity tests (are the sensors seeing what I am seeing?), then 9% thought it should be resolution tests (can sensors see as well as or better than I can?).
In another poll question, attendees were asked what distinctions are made between sensor degradation and malfunction. 35% thought normal operations with natural degradation, for example fog, rain, ice and salt encrustation.
30% voted for normal operation with abnormal degradation (interference and misalignment), and another 30% said abnormal operations due to fault or failure (such as power or communication loss or failed internal components). Just 5% voted for abnormal operation due to accident or nefarious activity (damage and destruction).
Finally, attendees were asked if voice recognition applications seem the most promising interface between humans and machines, in the case of a mixed operations environment. 32% disagreed, 20% strongly disagreed, while 28% agreed and another 20% strongly agreed.
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Representatives of the Stupava based Mast Food Association along with Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Gabriela Matečná (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) made the first “Stupavské zelé” (sauerkraut produced in Stupava) a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) as part of the traditional Dni Zela, or Cabbage Days in English, in the town of Stupava near Bratislava.
After Žitavská paprika, paprika from the Žitava area in the south of Slovakia, Stupavské zelé is the second Slovak food that has been added to the PDO category.
The European Commission-sponsored designation means that the quality and characteristics of the product are exclusively linked to a particular geographical environment and that all stages of its production are carried out in that defined geographical area.
“The Mast Food Association along with the Agriculture Ministry have successfully applied for the cabbage from this area and the fermentation process to receive the Protected Designation of Origin label,” said Matečná as cited by the TASR newswire, adding that the PDO designation is an excellent marketing brand. “It is not at all easy to obtain something like that, as you must control the whole process - from planting and harvesting to the final product, which is the fermented sauerkraut.”
Members of the Mast Food Association hope that the designation will contribute towards increasing the interest of producers in growing cabbage and processing Stupavské zelé in the area.
“The Protected Designation of Origin label for Stupavské zelé is a guarantee for customers that the local cabbage has been processed in a traditional way without the use of any additives other than salt, and all made in Stupava,” said chairman of the association Jozef Fabian. “It is a product that cannot be tasted or bought anywhere else in the world, which gives it added value.”
The European Union protects, supports, registers and monitors products divided into three categories - the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and the Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG).
As many as 19 Slovak products have so far received one of the three labels. In addition to Stupavské zelé, these are, for example, the sheep's cheese 'bryndza', Skalický Trdelník (a cake made of leavened dough, wrapped with nuts and baked over an open flame), Oravský korbáčik (a sort of steamed cheese) and Bratislavský rožok (a fine, crescent-shaped pastry filled with nuts or poppy seeds). | <urn:uuid:166f6824-3ca2-47e1-af8b-bffc5e05a5c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20662808/stupava-manufactures-the-first-sauerkraut-with-a-protection-label.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.920071 | 603 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope in Chile plan to announce a "major result" Wednesday (Aug. 28).
The finding relates to research on medium-size stars, scientists said. The results will "shed light on a long-standing mystery about stars like our own sun," according to a statement by the European Southern Observatory, which operates the Very Large Telescope. The results come from data collected by the UVES spectrograph on the telescope.
The project was led by Brazilian astronomers at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo, and includes an international team of researchers.
The scientists will share their discovery and discuss its implications during a press conference at 11:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 local time) at the headquarters of the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences.
The presenters will include the following astronomers:
- TalaWanda R. Monroe (University of São Paulo)
- Jorge Meléndez (University of São Paulo)
- Claudio Melo (ESO)
The Very Large Telescope, which began taking images in 1998, sits high above Chile's Atacama Desert on Cerro Paranal. The observatory includes four telescopes, each with a main mirror 27 feet (8.2 meters) wide, which can be used together or separately.
Visit SPACE.com on Wednesday (Aug. 28) for full coverage of the announcement.
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I love Christmas and in many ways, I am still a kid at heart (more looking at life with excitable eyes way, not so much the tantrums).
So, it makes sense that among all the other things I love about the festive season that I really enjoy reading kids’ books about Christmas, to my nieces and nephews if they are around – a task made all the harder by COVID lockdowns this year; thank goodness for Zoom – or just for my own, life-feels-simpler-for-a-moment pleasure.
With that in mind I decided to assemble five newly-acquired Christmas kids’ books and read them through and do a mini one-paragraph review about what I like about them and why they make the season feel all the more cosy and special.
And yes, once we make it up to see my nieces and nephews this Christmas, I’ll be looking forward to reading them aloud and sharing the literary joy that comes at the most wonderful (reading) time of the year.
JINGLE BELLS (A Little Golden Book)
Inspired, it won’t surprise you to learn by the traditional Christmas carol we all love so much, Jingle Bells by Kathleen N. Daly, features a bear family happily dashing through the snow on, what else, a one-horse open sleigh, illustrated on a wondrously snowy backdrop that feels all your images of a cold Christmas rolled into one evocatively lovely series of drawings. While they chomp on plum pudding, Hubert the Horse, who were assured loves pulling the sleight is all merry and brightly spirited, as the townsbunnies of the rather pragmatically but accurately named Rabbit Warren who join the sleigh ride, followed Patrick Pig, Katie Kitten and a host of other friends. Ignoring the load limits of the sleight being exceeded for a second, they end up giving Santa a ride, he delivers all his presents, Christmas is saved, food is eaten and festive partying of the most delightful kind is had. The book is all about cosiness and belonging, all things we love about Christmas and which make the season so heartwarmingly wonderful.
WHAT DOES SANTA DO WHEN IT’S NOT CHRISTMAS?
I love this title! It makes it sound like Santa is sitting down for his annual performance review – quite who employs him is not clear but let’s just say he has a board of directors or something – and being quizzed about what he does for the 364 days of the year he is racing round the globe to deliver presents to all the children of the world. What Does Santa Do When It’s Not Christmas? is surprisingly coy on exactly what the big man in red is up to, but rather happily and entertainingly, it’s far more forthcoming on everyone else at the North Pole is doing, from the elves (getting toys ready with state-of-the-art software) to the Christmas Tree Angel (glitter and more of it, and yes, extra teddy bears too! Psst the bears suggested that one), from the snowmen who forget they can melt when they make summer plans in Paris, to Mrs Claus (cards to write, and lots of them!) and the reindeer who get the best lines of the book. In a gorgeously illustrated book that sticks to playful rhymes throughout, author Health McKenzie, noting that the reindeer have flown around the world in one night, “So really they’re far too exhausted to rhyme properly now, thanks very much.” That line is emblematic of a book that manages to be very Christmassy and mischievous, and thoroughly, laugh-inducingly entertaining all at once.
FIRE TRUCK SANTA
Much as everyone in Australia adores the idea of snowy Christmases and carols and Santa in a thick red suit, the reality for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere is that it’s summer when the festive season arrives and celebrating here therefore takes on a much different form. Fire Truck Santa by Mic McPickle (writer) and Nathaniel Eckstrom (illustrator) does a beautiful job of bringing the differences alive by featuring of the iconic parts of Christmas down under where local fire stations often bring Santa to community gatherings. Forget the sleigh since we have no snow – better to arrive on a big, red vehicle that’s so eagerly awaited by kids that, as the book observes, “They were gathered on the dry nature strip [the grass outside the house next to the footpath/sidewalk], patiently waiting for a special saint Nick!” This is Santa as anyone up north has never seen him, giving dogs bones, getting an engine leak sealed by a farm kid with duct tape and soldiering on with a fire truck that has clearly seen better days! The message of the story, where Santa suddenly finds himself without a ride is that Christmas is all about supporting each other and lending a hand which Aussies, especially in the country, witness every day through the volunteers like local firepeople who work on their behalf. Fire Truck Santa does a beautifully uplifting job of celebrating a festive icon here in Australia without which Christmas simply wouldn’t feel the same.
PADDINGTON AND THE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE
There is no such thing as too much of Michael Bond’s sublimely lovely creation Paddington Bear. Sweet, innocent and happily well-intentioned, he makes everything and everyone better, and that applies to Christmas as much as anything. In Paddington and the Christmas Surprise, illustrated with vividly-coloured and nostalgic warmth by R. W. Alley, we see Paddington get far more than he bargained for when he takes the Browns shopping at Barkridges store. His ride through the store’s Winter Wonderland is a bit of a letdown, as is visiting Santa and when the Browns have to beat a hasty retreat when the overly-officious store manager think they are altogether too much trouble – god bless Paddington but he brings chaos wherever he goes – it looks like Christmas is a bust for the lovable bear from Darkest Peru. But this is a Paddington story and so, things ends rather wonderfully, most especially with the gift given to the wellies-wearing bear by Santa who, as housekeeper Mrs. Bird observes, “knows exactly what everyone wants for Christmas”. This is the book to read, especially after almost two years of pandemic, if you’re feeling like life, and Christmas are one big disappointment; going on this festive adventure with dear old Paddington will remind you of how perfectly delightful things can be, especially when the most wonderful time of the year hasn’t quite lived up t expectations.
OLLIE’s CHRISTMAS REINDEER
This book is pure reassuring happiness. Ollie is a little girl who is awoken on Christmas Eve by a strange “jingle jingle jingle” noise that leads her outside – I’m guessing the parents are passed out from too much port and cheese to notice her leave the house? – where she makes a reindeer friend who, to her surprise, takes her flying across the snowy night sky on a grand festive adventure across the world and back to her snug and cost bedroom. She may not meet Santa, and naturally the reindeer is one of the fabled eight, but she gets to do something extraordinarily special before waking the next morning to find the best present possible, one that will serve as a permanent reminder of a very special night before Christmas. Awash in the cutest, most evocative by author Nicola Killen, Ollie’s Christmas Reindeer is a hug made up of tinsel, fruit mince pies and Christmas trees, a book that celebrates how special Christmas can be, no matter what it is you get up to. | <urn:uuid:cba108c8-a4e0-44a9-ac75-ad19f0386dd2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sparklyprettybriiiight.com/its-beginning-to-look-like-a-kids-books-christmas-jingle-bells-what-does-santa-do-when-its-not-christmas-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949038 | 1,646 | 1.523438 | 2 |
To study and
To protect and preserve wildlife
and the environment.
To stimulate public interest in,
and promote protection
and preservation of nature.
Who we are
The Midland Penetanguishene Field Naturalists Club (MPFNC) is one of the oldest affiliates of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. The objective of the Club is to promote public awareness of natural history, conservation and the environment. We feature lectures by expert naturalists on a range of fascinating topics at our monthly meetings. We also schedule outings (field trips) and nature study.
We meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month, 7:30 PM at the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre No meeting in December, July or August. Our June meeting is held at Tiny Marsh.
For a printable shedule of meetings & events click: MPFN 2019 2020 Season Brochure
The MPFNC is involved in many projects in the area including the Christmas Bird Count as well as environmental and wildlife surveys, the Tiny Marsh BioBlitz and the Sweet Water Harvest at the Wye Marsh. The club also supports the Owl Foundation at the Christmas Bird Count Potluck Wrap-up at the Wye Marsh. This year we raised $300 for the Owl Foundation of Vineland through our famous Mystery Gift Not-So-Silent Auction.
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State needs real rainy day fund for schools
There are two things I know to be true: (1) an effective, stable public education system is critical to our long-term success; and (2) students should never be the victim of bad economic circumstances.
Serving in the Legislature since 2013 has granted me a lot of opportunities to fight on behalf of our students and work across the aisle to establish an environment where our schools and students can flourish. But, my time in the Legislature has also brought agonizing decisions where due to financial circumstances, I had to vote to cut budgets for our schools and the services that support students who are most in need of our help.
I’ve made these decisions because many of us felt there was no other choice – and to a large degree there truly was no other choice. When oil and gas prices decline, there is an absolute certainty that the New Mexico state budget, and therefore funding for public education, will suffer as a result.
I agree with many of my colleagues, we need to do more to diversify our economy so we can weather the impacts of the energy market. But, I also think we need to leverage the dollars we already have, dollars that belong to New Mexico’s children, to smooth out the peaks and valleys of our revenue sources so our children can reap the benefit.
As of December 31, 2017, our state’s Land Grant Permanent Fund (LGPF) had a total value of over $17 billion. This fund has been built from payouts of non-renewable energy resources and invested as a long-term safety net for funding state government on the day that the last drop of oil has been drilled and the last piece of coal has been mined. When our state can no longer make money off these non-renewable energy resources, and the rainy days come, the LGPF is supposed to be our safe haven. It has been invested for our future generations as a backup plan in case we don’t have the kind of economy we need to support ourselves in the absence of these non-renewable energy resources.
That’s all fine – and I agree that a backup plan has value. But, I want to know how I can protect the current generation of children from a volatile energy economy so they can have the opportunities they need to lead our state in a direction where the backup plan isn’t the only thing we rely on. That’s why I introduced HJR10 during the most recent legislative session.
Here’s the idea: create a real rainy-day fund for education and use a tiny portion of the LGPF as seed money to start it. HJR10 would ask the voters to create a Permanent Education Emergency Reserve (PEER) Fund so there was money available to help fund public education in times of an emergency.
An emergency would be triggered only when state revenue was forecasted to decline by 5% or more – something that has happened less than five times in the last 25 years.
What some people may not know is that 85% of LGPF, or approximately $14.7 billion, is earmarked for schools. Only schools are allowed to receive these dollars. I propose we start the PEER Fund by making a one-time, .025% transfer from those dollars already earmarked for schools. The total transfer would be about $36 million. We could invest this small amount of money, just as we’ve done with the LGPF, and over time have a robust emergency fund that would help ensure public school budgets are not cut during times of economic downturn. Keeping in mind our future generations, after the PEER Fund has grown to a comfortable funding level, we can pay back our initial investment so the LGPF doesn’t have to suffer a prolonged loss in revenue.
I think it’s time to get creative because I don’t want to have to feel like I have no other options but to cut public schools again when our state experiences an economic downturn. I want options because I think New Mexicans deserve the best plan possible for both our children now and our children in the future. At the end of the day, a student shouldn’t suffer because a barrel of oil is worth less money.
Our children should feel confident that their schools are stable, that the money that belongs to them is being used effectively, and that our long-term investment in them guarantees that they will no longer be the victim of bad economic circumstance.
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Organic Allspice Berries
Organic Allspice, Pimenta dioica (formerly Pimenta officinalis) , comes from the family Myrtaceae (myrtle family) and is closely related to clove, eucalyptus, guava and the bay rum tree. Allspice was discovered on the island of Jamaica by Columbus during his second voyage to the New World. Columbus called Allspice pimiento, which is what the Spanish called black peppercorns, because the dried Allspice berries looked similar to large smooth brownish black peppercorns.
Allspice is the only spice that is grown exclusively in the Western Hemisphere and is native to the Caribbean (Jamaica), Mexico, Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras) and South America (Brazil, Leeward Isle).
Allspice is called bahar halu (Arabic), duo xiang guo (Mandarin), toute-epice, poivre de Jamaique (French), piment neugewurz, nelkenpfeffer (German), orusupaisu (Japanese), pimento de Jamaica (Portuguese) and pimiento de Jamaica (Spanish). It's also known as Jamaica pepper, clove pepper or myrtle pepper.
Jamaican Allspice is considered by many to be the best quality allspice, with the highest volatile oil content in the world. Mexican Allspice berries have the largest size and darkest color (compared to other allspice growing countries). Typically, Allspice that is harvested in Mexico and other Central American countries (Guatemala and Honduras) has a greater variance in the size of the berries and volatile oil content. This is due to these berries being harvested from wild growing trees more often, while Jamaican Allspice cultivation is much more controlled and tightly regulated by the Jamaican government (and therefore significantly more expensive).
In Mexico and Guatemala, the Allspice tree and fruit are called "pimienta gorda" which means "fat pepper".
Allspice berries contain between 1.5% and 5% essential oil with Jamaican at 5%, Guatemalan 3% and Mexican at 1.4% to 3%. To most cooks the difference in flavor is negligible.
Mexican Allspice is typically harvested in July and August, Jamaican Allspice is harvested in August and September and Guatemalan Allspice in June, July and August.
Our Organic Allspice Berries are cultivated in Guatemala.
The genus name Pimenta (add italics) comes from Spanish "pimienta" for black pepper. Its name has quite a bit of confusion surrounding it. In Late Latin, the word "pigmentum" meant "dye", but over time it took an additional meaning which was "spice" or "condiment". The Portuguese and Spanish languages formed their word for "pepper" not from the Latin "piper" (which translates to "pepper"), but from the Late Latin "pigmentum" -- Portuguese "pimenta" and Spanish "pimienta". The Spanish controlled the import of Allspice into Europe during the 1500's and because Columbus originally referred to Allspice as pimiento, this was often how the spice was introduced into other European languages - ie French (pimenta) and Ukrainian (piment).
To add even more confusion to the naming convention, contemporary Spanish uses the masculine form, pimiento, for paprika and the feminine form, pimienta, for pepper.
The first known use of Allspice was by the ancient Mayans (2600 BC - 1500AD) and Aztecs (1250 - 1521AD), who both used Allspice berries to flavor their favorite chocolate drinks.
Allspice was imported to Europe in 1601 as a substitute for cardamom. Many food historians believe that it was the British in the early 17th century who gave this berry the name Allspice because of the dried berry's aroma which smells like a combination of spices, most notably cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg.
After Columbus introduced Allspice to Europe, there were numerous attempts to grow the tree in the spice producing regions of the east, but these attempts proved futile. Even though allspice possessed a strong aroma and flavor similar to other spices that were highly coveted throughout Europe, allspice never became as popular as cinnamon and pepper. The British started regularly importing Allspice in 1737, and while other new world imports like sugar and coffee were dominating the rest of Europe during this time, allspice did gain a loyal following in England, and it even became commonly called English Spice.
In 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia in what was known at the time as the Patriotic War, and legend has it that the Russian soldiers put allspice in their boots to keep their feet warm.
The first mention of allspice in an American cookbook was in "American Cookery" published in 1796. In this cookbook was a recipe for "pompkin pudding" (not a typo, and today this is called pumpkin pie) that called for both allspice and ginger.
The allspice tree, a tropical evergreen, will often reach a height of between 25-60 feet. The trees don't begin to bear fruit for about 5-6 years, and will reach full fruit bearing maturity at 20 years. There have been some mentions of allspice trees producing berries for up to 100 years. Allspice trees are either male or female, although some male trees produce a small number of berries. Fully mature female trees produce 10-20 pounds of berries each year.
The allspice tree has smooth whitish - grey bark that peels in thin sheets like birch trees. The leaves are large, about 8" long and 2" wide, oblong shaped with a leathery appearance, a glossy green color and they're quite aromatic. Small white flowers begin appearing in mid-summer and are about 1/4" across and borne in many flowered pyramidal cymes originating from the leaf axils. The small white flowers quickly develop into clusters of green pea-sized berries with 1 or 2 berries each.
Allspice berries lose their aroma once they've completely ripened, so they're picked once they've reached their full size but are still green. The harvested berries are ‘sweated' for a few days, and then they're spread out on a concrete platform called a ‘barbeque' where they finish the drying process. Once completely dried, they are a dark reddish brown in color.
Organic allspice from Guatemala is sourced from small farmer co-ops of mostly indigenous Q'eqchi' people (one of the Maya peoples in Guatemala and Belize). In Guatemala's Peten forest (located in the northernmost region of Guatemala), allspice is gathered each year during June, July and August by pollarding (a pruning system in which the upper branches of a tree are removed) seed-bearing trees of their branches and drying the harvested seeds. Although the practice sounds destructive, allspice trees soon sprout new branches and the tree can be harvested again after six years of re-growth.
Mexico is the world's largest exporter of allspice (32% of total production), followed by Jamaica (25%) and Guatemala (17%).
Allspice is more popular in the West, especially in American, British, Caribbean, German, North African and Scandinavian cuisines. It is not typically used in Asian cooking.
The Caribs (American Indian people who inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the neighboring South American coast at the time of the Spanish conquest) used Allspice for preserving meat and fish. The Spanish assimilated this practice and used this same meat preserving technique on voyages to and from Europe.
The British add allspice to stews, sauces and pickled vegetables. In the Caribbean, it's added to barbecues, curries, stews and sweet potatoes. Whole allspice berries are added to "pimento dram", a popular Jamaican drink, and allspice is a key ingredient in Jamaican Jerk seasoning. In Germany, allspice is used in biscuits, cakes, pies, pot roasts, relishes and stuffings. In North African cuisines, Allspice is added to "Mrouzia" a lamb tagine and is also a signature spice in the seasoning blends Berbere and Moroccan Vegetable Rub.
Use allspice to flavor vegetables like carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, turnips and winter squash, soups (especially chicken, tomato and vegetable), apple pie, fruit compote, pumpkin pie, chili sauces, plum pudding, rice pudding, cookies, gingerbread, spice cakes, sweet rolls, pickles, relishes, gravies, hamburgers, meatballs, lamb stew, beef roast, stew and meat marinades.
Allspice also works well in combination with chili powder, cloves, coriander, garlic, ginger, mustard, pepper, rosemary and thyme.
In the countries of origin (especially in Mexico), fresh Allspice tree leaves are often used for cooking or smoking meat. They have a different flavor, woodier aroma with less intense notes than the berry. Allspice leaves have a similar texture to bay leaves and are often infused during cooking and then removed before serving. Unlike bay leaves, they lose much flavor when dried so there is not much of a commercial market for them.
Allspice is warm and sweetly pungent with floral undertones.
Mexican Allspice has a mellower flavor and is not quite as sweet as Jamaican or Guatemalan grown Allspice.
Allspice can be used as a substitute, measure for measure, for cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg. Conversely, to make a substitution for allspice, combine one part nutmeg with two parts each of cinnamon and cloves.
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Office and building managers have a responsibility to ensure that staff members are properly protected by a fire alarm system that is regularly tested and working in the way it should.
These systems require constant tests, maintenance and care, in the same way that any home security system should be tested. “In fact, we recommend that these workplace systems be tested even more frequently than a home system would be checked. There is the obvious aspect that you have more foot traffic and more equipment at your place of work than at home, which requires more frequent testing of this important safety system,” says Andrew Worthington, general manager: Fidelity Fire Solutions, a division of Fidelity Services Group.
“A number of regulations govern the industry and they need to be adhered to at all times. The SANS codes in particular are clear about the legal requirements that apply.”
The codes state that:
• SANS 10400:2010 T1(1) … any building shall be so designed, constructed and equipped that in case of fire: (e) Adequate means of access and equipment for detecting, fighting, controlling and extinguishing such fire, is provided.
• T2 meanwhile warns that any owner of any building who fails to maintain any other provision made to satisfy the requirements of sub-regulation (T)1(1)(e), shall be guilty of an offence.
• SANS 10139:2012 Part 12 is about maintenance, servicing and routine testing of fire alarm systems. Fire alarm systems should be visually inspected for damage or errors daily and serviced by an accredited fire alarm installer every six months to stay compliant to regulations and building insurance requirements. Services must be recorded and faults, changes and updates listed in a logbook.
“Fire safety is a long-term investment that must be carefully planned to ensure the business’s continuity and ultimately to properly protect both people and property,” says Worthington.
There are basic steps that any company or workplace can take today, to help protect staff and equipment from fires. Putting the proper preventative measures in place and generating a general staff awareness of fire risks and how to prevent these risks is a good first step to take.
“We also recommend that office and building managers carefully study the relevant occupational health regulations and legislation that is relevant to their industry as these might have additional measures that should be put in place,” says Worthington.
Other dos and don’ts to consider are:
• Do test the system regularly. Keep a careful log of when the system was tested and by whom, as well as which parts of the system were tested (including the test outcome).
• Do make sure your staff know what to do when an alarm is triggered. Every workplace should have an evacuation plan in place, which is shared with team members and practised on a regular basis.
• Do follow up on test errors. If your test showed a faulty sensor or any other technical problems, contact your service provider as a matter of urgency to have these addressed.
• Do allocate more than one team member to your fire system’s testing routines. There is a risk involved in having only one person who knows how to properly test the fire alarm system.
• Do test the fire alarms during normal office hours. Yes, this will be disruptive to normal operations but that is the intended purpose behind a fire alarm system. Testing it outside of office hours when there are no staff members around, defeats the purpose.
• Do connect the fire alarm system to your monitoring system. If you haven’t asked your armed response company if they can also monitor your fire alarm system, then ask them how you can set this up.
• Don’t confuse testing the fire alarm with regular system maintenance or scheduled visits by your service provider. The test is intended to determine the system’s ability to register a fire and to alert you, while a maintenance visit will be done by your service provider who will focus on technical work or upgrades that might be required.
• Don’t test the same part of your system every time. If possible, look at testing a different sensor or aspect of the system each time a test is conducted.
• Don’t ever ignore potential workplace fire hazards. This includes overloaded power plugs, dust on your fire sensors, or the actions of staff members that can lead to fires such as cigarette butts dumped in trash cans.
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Double Chin – Double Jaw
The double chin or double jaw is due to the accumulation of adipose tissue and the significant looseness of the skin tissues under the chin and neck, causing an annoying aesthetic problem in women and men. The double chin or double jaw as a local fat in our body may not be reduced during a period of balanced diet and intense physical exercise.
The double chin or double jaw is caused by the poor diet (e.g. Sugar, Salt, Fats, Alcohol), lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, hormonal changes, heredity and food intolerance e.g. Gluten.
These factors cause the accumulation of fat throughout the body, which in turn leads to further fluid retention and increased volume of adipose tissue.
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When it rains, it pours. Hours after pulling its service from DirecTV following failed carriage talks with the satcaster, NBCUniversal-owned The Weather Channel announced a new initiative in its campaign to boost its status as a public utility. The company said it will start promoting new weather emergency Twitter hashtags #GotFuel, #NoFuel and #PowerLineDown established by the White House, FEMA, and the Department of Energy, adding to recent efforts to rebrand as a key resource for information in the event of natural disaster and weather emergencies. TWC says its promotion of said hashtags “will enable local citizens to report important emergency information” and thus aid “survivors, first responders, FEMA, DOE and utility companies” in the face of emergency. The timing isn’t coincidental.
Related: Weather Channel Tells TV Critics That DirecTV Is Putting Americans At Risk; Critics Dubious
In the recent buildup to their contract talks with DirecTV, TWC has been hastily trying to build an image as a public utility company that promotes safety. The campaign began last Friday when TWC urged subscribers to lobby DirecTV on their behalf as the contract deadline approached and DirecTV launched their own competing WeatherNation channel. DirecTV followed TWC’s removal last night with a statement, saying: “Consumers understand there are now a variety of other ways to get weather coverage, free of reality show clutter, and that The Weather Channel does not have an exclusive on weather coverage – the weather belongs to everyone.”
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The Case Against Maneuver Warfare
Ever since the 1970s/1980s, maneuver warfare has been regarded as the ideal form of warfare. It’s associated primarily with the German Army of WWII and the Mongol Empire, and everybody wants to emulate their successes. However, Maneuver Warfare has several real weaknesses that do not translate well into the American way of war. In this essay, we will look at 2 ways in which maneuver warfare can be defined, their weaknesses, and then how America can incorporate their benefits into its own doctrine.
Definition #1: OODA Loops
The first definition of Maneuver warfare brought up by reformers is the ideal of always getting inside an opponent’s OODA Loop. This is the time-honored art of beating one’s opponent to the punch and doing it over and over again. While this is desirable, it is not a complete doctrine in and of itself; it is one variable among many. Being able to hit an opponent faster than he can react only works if one’s own decision/action can have an effect; actions that effect no change are wasted and slow the tempo. Since the American mind desires to impose our own will upon the situation, and change it to our liking, we require a certain set of tools in our toolbox. Some of these must necessarily slow the tempo in order to impose change, and we have designed our military to withstand any blows that may land while we take aim.
Reducing all doctrine to quick reaction times also does not consider the possibility of facing an opponent who makes decisions at the same speed, particularly if he has short interior communication lines. Even on the open plains, two equally mobile and reactive opponents can block each other’s moves, cancelling each other out. These opponents must then resort to other means in order to break the stalemate, as happened in the Overland Campaign in 1864.
A third issue is that relying solely on one’s ability to beat an opponent to the punch under all circumstances requires varying degrees of luck. Most of the greatest maneuver warfare victories in history depended on the winner being extremely lucky. During Operation Barbarossa, maneuver warfare’s finest hour, the Germans outnumbered the Russians by 1.1 million men and accidentally caught them out of position, hundreds of miles west of their fortifications, mid-deployment to Ukraine, understrength, and with all major decisions requiring approval from commissars with little understanding of military tactics. The same happened in France 1940: The German attack through the Ardennes could have been blunted or stopped completely had the Franco-British commanders unleashed their bombers on the backed-up German columns.[i] Yet when firepower warfare wins under such lopsided circumstances, the successes are automatically dismissed out of hand. General Grant and the Soviet Union both defeated their opponents with only a 2-to-1 numerical advantage, rather than the traditional 3-to-1, and both are still described as senseless butchers today.
Relying heavily on luck can lead to spectacular victory, or backfire horribly. Sometimes we’ll miss the mark or throw our opponent off balance only for him to land on top of us. Beating an opponent to the punch is the ideal way to utilize one’s resources but does not offer insights or guidance as to which resources or goals should be pursued. Many supporters of maneuver warfare boast of the superiority of the ‘moral’ level of war over the physical, but this necessarily presumes that our opponents are at a moral disadvantage: either unwilling to fight or will surrender because of a few clever maneuvers. This also requires a rational enemy- it’s hard to win moral victories against an irrational or stubborn opponent.
By contrast, firepower warfare does not rely on luck or a weak-willed enemy and offers clear guidance in many fields. It calls for maximizing the ability of individual soldiers and small units to inflict significant damage onto their enemies, and to make every enemy movement costly. America’s offensive, attrition mindset further gives us incentive to relentlessly hammer our opponents harder, and for longer. Like the Greek virtue of Andreia (Courage), the virtue of perseverance and endurance, it is not mutually exclusive with seizing fleeting opportunities when they arise. Andreia was the mark of true masculinity in the Ancient Greek world because it was not impulsive or easily discouraged by hardships or setbacks. One could joke that Murphy’s Law is more relevant to America’s Army than Sun Tzu ever will be. Maneuver warfare embodies Greek Thrastyes, or boldness, which is powerful in the short-term but collapses in the long term. Maneuver warfare’s biggest enemy is time.
On the Moral Level of war, firepower warfare assumes the enemy is willing to fight, and won’t automatically surrender. If the enemy does surrender, then those forces tasked with reducing his defenses can be redirected to exploit. The OODA version of maneuver warfare prefers to focus on the moral/strategic level of warfare at the expense of the physical/tactical levels, but firepower warfare believes that destroying an enemy’s ability to fight is more important than messing with his head. Anyone can change his mind, but dead men don’t win wars.
The underlying issue being brought up in this context is the need for decentralizing command structure, and creating a better command culture. Although this is not strictly doctrine, it is arguably more important. An army can have perfect doctrine, but if its leaders are subjected to micromanagement, petty feuds and backstabbing, then the organization will fail. BG Bolduc has written several excellent columns dealing with leadership and administration issues that must be resolved before America’s Army can expect to take on a peer opponent, regardless of doctrine. I, too, have suggested in two other columns some basic steps to further this goal. Another good move already underway is the Army’s decision to employ freshly-graduated 2nd Lieutenants in Boot Camp to assist with training and administrative duties. The Military’s literature is chock-full of timeless wisdom that is perfectly applicable today, so what remains is implementing it now as ruthlessly as George Marshall did in 1939.
Definition #2: The Eastern Way of War
Orientalism is nothing new in the West, and the second most commonly used definition of maneuver warfare argues in favor of the Eastern style of warfare. Most proponents focus on the Mongols and Chinese and describe their style of warfare as a blend of deception and mobility. This also arises when discussing the Vietnam War, and the supposed combat superiority of the VC/NVA as they presumably ran in circles around slow-moving, overburdened American conscripts, evading their firepower. The key element of Asiatic warfare that is almost always overlooked, however, is their reliance on sheer weight of numbers. The Mongols outnumbered their enemies in every major battle. The Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese, and even North Koreans all relied on numbers as their primary weapon. Although Russia’s way of war is distinct from the Asiatic way of war, it still contains many of these same elements. Soviet Deep Battle Doctrine also utilizes mass, and Russia today is pioneering the mass introduction of drones onto the battlefield.
Why should mobile warfare, particularly in Asia, be so dependent upon numerical superiority? The first reason is its tactic of choice: encirclement. An army performing an encirclement must necessarily have longer front lines than its opponent and must deploy in depth to prevent breakouts and rescues. Such a move is manpower-intensive against a serious opponent, or in a large theater of operations. The second reason is the choice of arms for mobile forces. Mobile forces are very lightly armed, and therefore lack punch. A large enough mass, however, can compensate. Finally, mobile forces are lightly armored to preserve their speed, which reduces their survivability; therefore, larger armies can more easily absorb losses. The crippling weakness in relying on numbers, however, is crowd psychology. Crowds are prone to mass panics and extreme emotion swings; thus, relying on the strength of the crowd means that if the crowd breaks and flees, there is little that can be done to stop or reverse it.
The second attribute of Asiatic/Eastern warfare is its dualist worldview. Most Americans are familiar with the Yin-Yang dynamic, and this translates to a push-pull approach in war. Eastern Armies deliberately have units yield, in order to draw the enemy into a trap, while other units apply pressure to prevent the enemy from escaping or taking advantageous ground. This worldview, however, is very one-dimensional, and requires using live troops as decoys. It can be countered using the same tactics used at Leuctra by the Thebans; i.e., defeat the strong and the weak will lose heart. As for the secrecy of Asiatic warfare, this is a defensive, not offensive, tool, and America’s Army is by nature an offensive-oriented culture. Good concealment and misleading the enemy is useful in preventing him from using his strongest elements, but surprise does not add to one’s own strength. Deception wears off quickly once battle is joined, concealment doesn’t protect against massed artillery strikes, nor do they blast an enemy out of his fortifications.
Western culture and warfare are based on trinities rather than dualities. The maneuver warfare school of thought is dualist when it describes firepower warfare/maneuver warfare as contradictory opposites. Yet to a Trinitarian worldview, this artificial constraint makes no sense. Like in boxing, most fighters or armies can manage 2 out of 3: heavy hitter, fast mover, and endurance fighter. Of the three possible combos, the American Army currently uses the heavy hitter-endurance fighter model. American firepower can deliver knockout blows (and take punishment), while our logistics enable us to keep fighting over a prolonged period of time. Tactically, the trinity is between firepower, maneuver, and guerrilla/ranger[ii] tactics. Airland Battle was intended to employ conventional fire-and-maneuver tactics, while using ranger tactics on an operational level.[iii] Deep Battle, on the other hand, utilized great volumes of firepower at the tactical level, large-scale operational maneuvers,[iv] and left ranger tactics[v] to the strategic level.
Should America adopt Asiatic-style warfare, we would have to give up one of our two existing advantages. Between strength and endurance, the current trend is towards retaining the latter and weakening the former through reliance on light infantry and light vehicles. Against the Chinese, Koreans, or Iranians, this strategy would result in a draw at best. Against the Russians, such an approach would be crushed like eggshells. In both cases, widespread conscription would become necessary, as casualties would be massive, and America’s army is nowhere near big enough to have numerical superiority on more than one front.
So how can America integrate the benefits of maneuver warfare into Multidomain Operations? The main problem to be solved involves:
- A mixture of massed artillery/missile/drone strikes
- Asymmetric warfare
- The enemy possessing the numerical advantage
- A2AD anti-weaponry platforms.
The Chinese are most likely to rely largely on A2AD and superior numbers/firepower on the offense. Defensively, China will utilize A2AD and asymmetric forces. Iran is most likely to rely on proxies for both offense and defense. Russia’s military falls somewhere in the middle, with a more balanced blend of conventional and unconventional tactics. China believes it can defeat the Unites States in a rapid victory, while Russia and Iran represent opponents who believe that an attritional, guerrilla-style struggle is necessary to wear out America’s will to fight.
The first task is command decentralization. As mentioned above, the OODA Loop proponents believe that reaction times are key, and a decentralized command structure will maximize ours, regardless of the type of unit in question. Personnel policy should be modeled around the notion that every man must find his niche, and then reward him for staying there. Other ideas for seamless integration could involve requiring high-ranking officers to share an office in peacetime, regardless of branch. The 5-Paragraph Order could incorporate ‘Commander’s Intent’, as Mr. William Lind suggested in his 1986 ‘Maneuver Warfare Handbook.’[vi] Further integrating 2nd Lieutenants into basic training after they complete officers’ training should become a permanent fixture.
On a practical level, the Trinitarian view provides a firm foundation for combined-arms warfare. Such a mindset produces many useful triads:
- Infantry, Cavalry/armor, artillery branches
- Shock/firepower, mobile/maneuver, ranger/guerrilla tactics
- Heavy, light, special/unconventional forces
- Binary, triangle, square orders of battle
Thus, some forces should be optimized for purely mobile warfare, while others should specialize in siege/urban warfare. In terms of how to fit these numerous styles together into the order of battle, America should opt for combined-arms warfare simultaneously on all three levels: tactical, operational, and strategic. Maneuver warfare theory proposes copying the Germanic-Prussian method, which only has combined-arms on the operational level (usually division),[vii] and the current IBCT uses this model. The German Army in the 20th century quickly discovered, however, that combined-arms was also necessary at the tactical level, and so resorted to ad hoc Kampfgruppen, which were not permanent formations. They believed this was an effective way to empower junior-level commanders, but this is not the only method for doing so.
America ought to reorganize her order of battle to design all companies, battalions, brigades, divisions, and corps to be self-reliant at combined-arms warfare. This partially exists already and should be carried out to its logical conclusion. Tank companies should include infantry platoons, just as infantry companies include weapons platoons. Battalions, brigades, and even divisions should contain light and heavy variants of infantry, armor, and artillery (including nuclear weapons), all mixed together in various combinations. The variety alone allows units to be custom-tailored for a wide variety of possible scenarios and adopting combined-arms at all three levels turns the debate into one of degree, rather than of kind. America’s army operates in all climates, environments, and against every sort of enemy; thus, we need a flexible system that offers all-of-the-above in terms of weapons and doctrine.
In the end, Multidomain Doctrine is the best doctrine for America’s military, and should be pushed to its limits. Maneuver warfare is too limiting, physically and mentally, by relying on a single sort of specialist and a dualist worldview. Specialists are crucial to the military’s power, and it is the duty of doctrine to bring them all together. Every man and idea must have his niche. Soldiers who believe that urban warfare requires its own specialists should have a place. Soldiers who believe in the power of dedicated COIN formations should have a place. The list goes on. Doctrine cannot be reduced to equipment or maneuvers alone, it must have them all. The Russians did not make this mistake, and neither should we.
[i] This did not happen because the reports from reconnaissance planes were dismissed as impossible by the Generals. Even without bombing, the Germans suffered massive traffic jams and confusion on the narrow roads of the Ardennes.
[ii] Guerrilla and ranger tactics are the same, but historically the former term was used when fighting defensively while the latter term was used when these tactics were used offensively
[iii] i.e., fighting retreats, local hit-and-run counterattacks, targeting Soviet reserves and supply columns, etc.
[iv] Particularly encirclement of entire enemy armies
[v] like Spetsnaz and paratroopers
[vi] Mr. Lind is an outspoken opponent of the American way of war, but unwittingly endorsed the 5-Paragraph order as a useful tool for teaching leaders how to think when he suggested this addition.
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If Your Supplements Have This One Ingredient, Stop Taking Them Immediately
Researchers found some contain banned or experimental stimulants that can be harmful to your health.
The world of dietary and sports supplements can be a crowded, confusing place, with products claiming health benefits that can sometimes be dubious at best. But scientists are warning that you could end up doing your body more harm than good if you happen to pick the wrong product. According to a recent study, you should avoid taking any supplements that list deterenol as an ingredient. Read on to see why this should never be a part of your daily regimen, and for more on other products you should avoid, check out This Is the One Vitamin You Should Never Take, Doctors Say.
Deterenol has been banned from use by the FDA for almost two decades.
A joint study conducted by scientists at NSF International (NSF), Harvard Medical School, and Cambridge Health Alliance recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Toxicology tested 17 brands of over-the-counter supplements purchased online that listed deterenol as an ingredient, MedPage Today reports. This is despite the fact that the ingredient has been banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2004 and has never been approved for use by the agency.
Besides the main illicit ingredient, results also showed that the products contained nine other potentially harmful experimental stimulants banned from use in supplements. The list includes phenpromethamine (Vonedrine), BMPEA, oxilofrine, octodrine, higenamine, 1,3-DMAA, 1,3-DMBA, and 1,4-DMAA.
And for another supplement to be wary of, check out If You're Taking These Supplements, the FDA Has a New Warning For You.
The stimulants in these products can cause adverse side effects.
The use of deterenol remains banned due to the potentially life-threatening side effects it can cause, including nausea, vomiting, sweating, agitation, palpitations, chest pain, and cardiac arrest. But researchers point out that many consumers may not even be aware they're taking something that could be harmful and that the side effects of the other discovered ingredients are unknown.
"We're urging clinicians to remain alert to the possibility that patients may be inadvertently exposed to experimental stimulants when consuming weight loss and sports supplements," Pieter Cohen, MD, the study's co-author who is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance, said in a statement. "We're talking about active pharmaceutical stimulants that have not been approved by the U.S. FDA for oral use as either prescription medications or dietary supplements. These ingredients have no place in dietary supplements."
And for more on how you can keep yourself safe, check out If You're Taking This OTC Medicine More Than Twice a Week, See a Doctor.
The potentially dangerous combination of stimulants raises concern among doctors.
The study results also indicated that some products carried as many as four unapproved stimulants per supplement. Researchers worry that these ingredients' combined effect could pose a major health risk to anyone taking them.
"These hidden stimulant cocktails have never been tested in humans and their safety is unknown," John Travis, study co-author and senior researcher at NSF International, said in a statement. "You never want to find unlabeled ingredients in supplements, but it is especially concerning to find these strange brews of experimental stimulants in products that are readily available in the United States."
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Speak with your doctor if you feel sick after taking any supplement.
Researchers hope the findings will help convince the FDA to enforce their ban on products containing deterenol and raise awareness about its dangers. But for now, two of the study's co-authors in the Netherlands and Belgium advise speaking with your doctor if you're feeling unsure about whether or not a product you're taking or considering purchasing is unsafe.
"If consumers feel unwell after taking a food supplement, they should immediately stop taking it and seek medical advice," Bastiaan Venhuis, MD, senior researcher at the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), and Celine Vanhee, senior researcher at the Belgian research and public health institute Sciensano, both urged in a written statement. "Clinicians can then send the food supplement to independent testing authorities in order to exactly pinpoint the cause of the adverse effect."
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Luxury Family Hotels, a group of small hotels throughout Britain, previously a winner of FTF’s Top 10 Getaways for Tiny Travelers Award, gets a fresh look in 2015.
Britain’s aptly named Luxury Family Hotels are just that. The members of this exclusive hotel family are eight inns: Woolley Grange, a 17th century Jacobean Manor House in Wiltshire (8 miles from Bath); Ickworth, the late 18th-century home of the Earl Bishop of Bristol in Suffolk (part of the National Trust); Fowey Hall, a Queen Anne Chateau, completed in 1899 on the South Cornish coast in Cornwall; Moon Fleet Manor, a Georgian Manor in West Dorset; The Elms, the newest property, located in Worcestershire; Polurrian Bay, a beach manor privileged with the the view of sunset, the sea and the sky; New Park Manor, once owned by King Charles II, now a tranquil place in ancient New Forest (an hour and a half’s drive from London); and Thornbury Castle, an old keep where Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn once walked. While Thornbury Castle restricts young visitores to those over the age of 10, the rest of the properties welcome babies, toddlers and children of all ages, and provides complimentary baby equipment including cots, high chairs, bottlewarmers, bed guards, potties and more. Some welcome dogs as guests, too.
Rather than being stuffy they are cozy, but also quite grand, and extremely welcoming to families. The hotels offer a wide range of accommodations, including some connecting rooms, suitable for families of all sizes. The seaside or countryside locations, and the manicured grounds and gardens provide varied and spectacular backdrops for a fun-filled and relaxing holiday for all ages. Best yet, these “luxury” hotels deliver on their promise with gourmet meals and a staff that won’t let mom or dad worry about anything.
As part of a family of their own, the eight properties have much in common and a most important feature that they share is excellent childcare. Supervised playrooms for newborns through age 8 are called Bear’s Dens, and there are extensive recreation facilities for older children. Each nursery is registered with OFSTED, a British government organization which insists on high standards for staff training, safety, cleanliness and health in daycare centers. They perform spot checks on all facilities, as well as background checks on all nannies, and provides information for emergency procedures. All of the Bear’s Dens offer complimentary, supervised care, and the indoor facilities offer a wide array of toys, drawing and painting equipment, while the outdoor play areas feature climbing equipment, sand boxes, slides and swings, areas for lawn games and swimming pools. Remote baby monitors, as well as private babysitters are available. Some of the properties offer a Nursery High Tea served from 5pm to 6pm.
Each of the eight Luxury Family Hotels also offers an unsupervised indoor and outdoor area for kids who have outgrown the nursery, or when the weather is fine, with features such as an adventure playground, bikes, football nets, squash and tennis facilities, board games, pool tables, music, video games and movies. When not hiking, biking or sightseeing, families tend to gather here to “play” together, especially after meals.
All of the Luxury Family Hotels’ rooms are tastefully decorated and are equipped with phones, televisions, video players, radios, hairdryers and adult-size bathrobes, and most provide guests a daily newspaper and morning tea. All emphasize healthy cuisine and feature locally grown, organic fruits and vegetables in their restaurants, and they all offer a swimming pool (mostly indoors), and massage, spa and/or holistic beauty treatments. Each region offers something different to explore, whether nearby medieval towns, museums, cliffs and coastlines, or the gardens and antique shops of the English countryside.
The childcare and use of facilities is free of charge, and children stay free in their parent’s room and are charged only for meals. There is a Bed and Breakfast option, as well as a Bed, Breakfast and Dinner option.
Check the website for detailed information on each of the eight properties to find the best one for your family.
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Electability is back in the news again thanks to a recent spate of attacks on Bernie Sanders, who seems to be the slight frontrunner in both Iowa and New Hampshire a week ahead of the first contest. The Pete Buttigieg campaign sent out a fundraising e-mail this past weekend warning his subscribers that “Bernie Sanders could be the nominee,” and the question of what constitutes “electable” candidates has re-entered the public discourse. Polling proves that the elusive term of “electability” is what Democrats prioritize most in 2020, which makes sense since none of this ideological infighting will matter much if Trump wins a second term. That has led candidates like Mike Bloomberg and Deval Patrick to make late entries into the race, asserting that their centrist politics have a better chance to win a general election than Sanders’s universal programs. The fact that the Senator from Vermont is currently polling the highest he has yet in the race suggests that this kind of attack has not been very effective.
The notion of what constitutes an “electable” candidate basically boils down to an older white guy with centrist politics. At least, that’s the insinuation behind this term that only seems to challenge progressive candidates, women and people of color. The thing is, if you look at who has actually won presidential races in the 21st century, they look nothing like the “safe” candidate imagined by the beltway consensus.
The 2000 Republican primary mainly pitted longtime “maverick” Senator John McCain against conservative firebrand George W. Bush. Al Gore ran against W. as the candidate to continue the legacy of the center-left Clinton coalition, and the man considered least electable by the beltway consensus in those two races won both of them, introducing the 21st century to the Republican Party.
The 2004 election pitted a weakened incumbent president (Bush’s approval/disapproval rating fluctuated between +8 and -2 throughout 2004) against longtime centrist Democratic Senator, John Kerry, who followed in John McCain’s footsteps in losing to a hard-right conservative Republican playing the kind of culture war politics deemed too extreme to win over “the political center.”
McCain lost again in 2008, this time to a black man with Hussein for a middle name. Mitt Romney finished 2nd in the GOP primary that year, and in 2012 his center-right politics also could not defeat President Barack Hussein Obama. Come 2016 when the 2008 establishment candidate/runner-up to Obama, Hillary Clinton, chose centrist Senator Tim Kaine as her VP in order to signal her intention to win Republican votes against a game show host who couldn’t stop telling everyone how badly he wanted to date his own daughter, Clinton and Kaine combined to make the most “electable” candidates 0 for 6 this century against those who have actually won the presidency.
The election of Donald Trump should have ended the myth of the reasonable moderate electoral juggernaut. Heck, that belief really should have died with Obama. That’s not to say that a theoretical centrist candidate who can dominate electoral politics can’t exist, but the point every 21st century presidential election stresses to us is that we don’t know what constitutes an “electable” politician. The presidency has been controlled by a Texas cowboy, a Harvard educated community organizer and a reality TV show star. The word’s very definition (“capable of being elected”) is only knowable after the fact. It’s more of a descriptive term than a predictive one.
What makes our current discourse around “electability” especially frustrating is that if The Apprentice’s Donald Trump and brand new unknown Senator Barack Hussein Obama are the poles upon which that range rests, then it’s a term which encompasses the entire Democratic Primary. It’s absurd to suggest that Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar cannot win the presidency, when a woman won the most votes in the last election. Picturing America electing a young gay man like Pete Buttigieg is not easy given how far we still have to go to ensure equal rights for everyone, but that seems more doable in 2020 than electing our first black president was in 2008, much less a black president who shared a middle name with the guy who made us so mad we renamed French fries just five years prior.
To say, like George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum did yesterday, that Bernie Sanders cannot win is to not only ignore consistent polling which reveals that he is the candidate whom voters generally trust most—but also his good polling with Independents—which supports the beltway’s traditional “electability” argument. Because American politics distorts ideology and only measures it upon one left/right axis (when all ideological surveying done by political science operates on at least two axes), there exists a self-evident notion that the only way to win Independent votes is to have policies closer to the center. Sanders’s appeal among Independents proves that it’s a lot more complicated than this simple façade makes it seem.
The belief that centrist politics appeal to Independents obviously has ideological merit that is supported by hard data, but politics does not lend itself well to broad mandates, especially when talking about the…uh…complexity, that is American political ideology.
In Monmouth University’s latest poll (an A+ rated pollster by FiveThirtyEight), Joe Biden wins the largest share of moderate to conservative voters at 35%, but Bernie Sanders gets the second largest slice at 19%. Michael Bloomberg places third at 10%—tied with “don’t know”—and no one else polls above 6%. Bernie Sanders can appeal to Independents in part because he himself has been an Independent his entire career. “Independent” is not synonymous with moderate, and that assumption is a polisci 101-level mistake that got Howard Schultz laughed off the stage last year, yet still exists as an article of faith among many of the Very Serious pundits on TV who dream of The Great (White) Centrist Hope.
The Bill Clinton presidency led the Democratic Party to declare that “the era of big government was over” in the wake of Reagan’s realignment, and this notion of centrism being an electoral inevitability took root in American politics—despite the fact that Clinton only won 43% of the vote in 1992. To put that in some perspective, that’s the exact same percentage of the Democratic Party that Bernie Sanders won in 2016. Neither should be considered a mandate, yet one was taken to be by a generation of political reporters.
Longtime beltway journalist John F. Harris admitted that there is an unfair bias paid towards this ideology which has not proven to have a whole lot of purchasing power among the 21st century electorate. Per Harris in Politico:
The right has been fulminating for decades about liberal bias in the media. More recently the left, including Bernie Sanders, has inveighed against capitalist bias caused by corporate ownership of news organizations.
Meanwhile, a quarter-century covering national politics has convinced me that the more pervasive force shaping coverage of Washington and elections is what might be thought of as centrist bias, flowing from reporters and sources alike. It is a headwind for Warren, Sanders, the “squad” on Capitol Hill, even for Trump. This bias is marked by an instinctual suspicion of anything suggesting ideological zealotry, an admiration for difference-splitting, a conviction that politics should be a tidier and more rational process than it usually is.
A confession: I’ve got it. A pretty strong bout, actually.
One hundred percent of the presidents this century won either a primary and/or general election race against someone whom conventional wisdom deemed to be more electable than them, proving that candidates like Donald Trump and Barack Obama are objectively more electable than “electable” presidential candidates like Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. The term is meaningless.
If you’re a Democrat who just wants Trump out of office, it may be more informative to look to recent history for your guide as to whether the incumbent president will win. Just before his reelection day in 1996, Gallup had Bill Clinton’s approval rating pegged at 54%. Super Tuesday 2004 saw George W. Bush’s approval resting at 53%, and in 2012, Barack Obama’s sat at 51%. George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter—the last two first term presidents to lose reelection—both saw their approval ratings hovering around and below 40% throughout the entirety of their reelection years. Trump’s approval rating currently sits at 44%. It has not eclipsed 46% and his average approval rating throughout his entire presidency is 40%. If this trend continues through election day, it’s likely that any winner of the Democratic Primary will be definitionally “electable” in 2020, so leave the punditry to the pundits and just vote for who you think best represents your interests.
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- Sola Scriptura:
“Scripture alone” is authoritative for the faith and practice of the Christian. The Bible is God’s inspired, inerrant, infallible, all sufficient word. Scripture alone can utterly bind the conscience of believers (2 Timothy 3:16).
- Sola fide:
“Faith alone” is important because it is one of the key points that separate the true biblical Gospel from false gospels. At the very core of this tenet is—on what basis does God declare man justified (man made right with God)? Scripture makes it very clear that, no human being is ever justified in God’s sight through his own attempt at law keeping (Romans 3:19-20).
- Solus Christus:
“Christ alone” accomplished our salvation by his historical and mediatorial work (Hebrews 7:14; 7:24-25; 9:24). His sinless life and substitutionary atonement alone are sufficient for our justification and reconciliation to the Father.
- Sola gratia:
“Grace alone” acknowledges that the Bible teaches that the totality of our salvation is a gift of God’s free grace. As it says in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” It is the acknowledgement that salvation from the wrath of God is based on God’s grace and mercy and not on anything good in us.
- Soli Deo Gloria:
“To God alone be the glory” is the goal of life; moreover, all glory is to be given to God. Particularly, salvation, sanctification, and glorification are accomplished through God’s will and action not man’s effort, even including the good works of men (Ephesians 2:10). The idea of soli Deo gloria is found in 1 Corinthians 10:31.
The five solas of the Protestant Reformation offered a strong corrective to the faulty practices and beliefs of the time, and they remain relevant today. We are called to focus on Scripture, accept salvation by grace through faith, magnify Christ, and live for God’s glory. These form the basis of Protestantism as much as they do for the Reformed tradition.
- Total Depravity
- Unconditional Election
- Limited Atonement, or, better, Particular Redemption
- Irresistible Grace
- Perseverance and Preservation of the Saints
These five distinct points of doctrine derive from the decision of the Synod of Dordt (1618-19), popularly known as the Canons of Dordt, on the five main points of doctrine in dispute in the Netherlands .
Although this was a national synod of the Reformed churches of the Netherlands, it had an international character, since it was composed not only of Dutch delegates but also of twenty-six delegates from eight foreign countries.
The Synod of Dordt was held in order to settle a serious controversy in the Dutch churches initiated by the rise of Arminianism. Jacob Arminius, a theological professor at Leiden University, questioned the teaching of Calvin and his followers on a number of important points. After the death of Arminius, his own followers presented their views on five of these points in the Remonstrance of 1610. In this document and later in more explicit writings, the Arminians taught election based on foreseen faith, universal atonement, partial depravity, resistible grace, and the possibility of a lapse from grace. The Synod of Dordt rejected these views and articulated the Reformed doctrine on these points, namely, unconditional election, limited atonement, total depravity, irresistible grace, and the perseverance of saints. These points of doctrine are based entirely on the Bible, and refute Arminian theology which is, at the heart, synergistic, relying on a cooperative effort between man and God.
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The overarching theme of the Bible is the concept God’s kingdom, and how God administrates his kingdom through covenants. Through covenants God condescends to reveal himself to humanity. The entire history of the Bible is divided into just two covenants: the “covenant of works” in Adam and the “covenant of grace” in Christ. The covenant of works was God’s arrangement with Adam and Eve before their fall into sin. The covenant of grace governed the rest of the Bible. All stages of the covenant of grace were the same in substance. The stages differed only as God administered his one covenant of grace in Christ in various ways throughout biblical history. Biblical covenants emphasized what was needed at specific stages of God’s kingdom by advancing the principles of previous covenants. God started with Adam to reveal his own kingship, the role of humanity, and the purpose he had planned for the earth (Genesis 1–3). These principles were then carried forward as God promised stability in nature for humanity’s service in Noah’s covenant (Genesis 6, 9). God further enhanced his previous covenants by promising that Abraham’s descendants would become a great empire and spread God’s blessings to all other nations (Genesis 15, 17). God built on these covenants by blessing Israel with his law in the days of Moses (Exodus 19–24). Every previous covenant was taken to new heights as God established David’s dynasty and promised that one of his sons would rule in righteousness over Israel and over the entire world (Psalm 72; 89; 132). All Old Testament covenants were then furthered and fulfilled in Christ (Jeremiah 31:31; 2 Corinthians 1:19–20). As the great son of David, His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and return eternally secure the transformation of the entire earth into God’s glorious kingdom.
That is to say, Christians have neither jobs nor careers; they have vocations (callings). The term “calling” deals with how God works through human beings to bestow his gifts. The best biblical expression of this concept in Scripture is found in 1 Corinthians 7:17, “Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him.” God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer, the baker, the cooks, and the clerk at the checkout counter. He creates new life — the most amazing miracle of all — by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates beauty through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom he has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions. He proclaims his Word and administers his sacraments through the calling of pastors. He cares for his sheep through the calling of pastors and ruling elders.
Before God, all biblically lawful vocations are equal. Our standing before him is based solely on Jesus Christ, our sin-bearer, our redeemer, and our righteousness. But as we receive God’s grace in Christ, we are then sent into the world to live out our faith in the daily routines of ordinary life — that is, in our vocations. The purpose of every vocation is to love and serve our neighbor, and God is in it all.
Faith Presbyterian is a confessional church, meaning that we adhere to a written confession of faith that we believe is a good and accurate summary of the Bible’s teaching.
Our foundational doctrinal statements are found in The Standards of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, which we hold to be “the system of doctrine which is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone” (Associate Reformed Synod, May 31, 1799). From time to time position statements are written to address specific topics of concern.
Our confessional standards consist of the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. Acceptance of every confessional distinctive is not a requirement for membership at Faith Presbyterian. You may become a participating member by affirming the evangelical distinctive that salvation is accomplished by grace alone through faith in Christ alone. Officers of Faith Presbyterian must adhere to the doctrine taught by the Westminster Standards according to the Form of Government of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
We also affirm and use the doctrines of historic Christian orthodoxy defined by the Apostles’ Creed, as well as the ecumenical councils of Christian history known as the Councils of Nicea, Chalcedon, Constantinople, and others. These historic council doctrines include affirmations of the Trinity, the deity of Christ, and the atonement of Christ.
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The latitude and longitude gps coordinates of Palenque (Mexico)
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Palenque is a city in Mexico.
The stright distance between Palenque and Mexico City
is 484 miles (778 kilometers). Percent change from previous month (Jul 2022) by the visitors: -70%
Distance between Palenque (Mexico) and an optional place as the crow flies:
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Beige and shaped like a flattened oval, barley is usually sold pearled, where it is hulled and polished to cook more quickly.
Barley can also be found in quick cooking, whole hulled, Job’s tears (large hulled grains) grits flakes and flour varieties.
Used to make beer, whiskey and cattle feed, barley is a gluten grain it should be avoided by those with gluten sensitivity.
Glycemic Index = 36
Glycemic Load = 11
Hulled (also called whole-grain) barley has only the outer husk removed and is the most nutritious form of the grain. Scotch barley is husked and coarsely ground. Barley grits are hulled barley grains that have been cracked into medium-coarse pieces. Hulled and Scotch barley and barley grits are generally found in health-food stores. Pearl barley has also had the bran removed and has been steamed and polished. It comes in three sizes coarse, medium and fine and is good in soups and stews.
Serving size: 1 cup(s)barleyView Calorie Breakdown
Omega-6 / Omega-3 ratio: 9 : 1
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Alfa Romeo P2
|Drivers||1924 + Antonio Ascari, Giuseppe Campari, Louis Wagner, Ferdinando Minoia, Gastone Brilli-Peri|
|Suspension (front)||Rigid Axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs, friction shocks|
|Suspension (rear)||Live axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs, friction shocks|
|Engine||Front mounted, Alfa Romeo,|
Straight-8 (two straight 4 blocks),
|Gearbox||Alfa Romeo 4 speed manual|
|Wheelbase||103.5 inches (2623 mm)|
|Track||Front 51.2 inches (1300 mm), Rear 47.2 inches (1198 mm)|
|Dry weight||614 kg / 1353.6 lb|
|Debut||1924 Circuit di Cremona, Antonio Ascari, 1st|
|Constructors' Championships||1925 Automobile World Championship|
|Drivers' Championships||Not applicable before 1950|
1927 Coppa Acerbo Giuseppe Campari
The Alfa Romeo P2 won the inaugural Automobile World Championship in 1925, taking victory in two of the four championship rounds when Antonio Ascari drove it in the European Grand Prix at Spa and Gastone Brilli-Peri won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza after Ascari died while leading the intervening race at Montlhery.
Although 1925 brought drastic changes of regulations, from 1924-1930 the P2 was victorious in 14 Grands Prix and major events including the Targa Florio. It was one of the iconic Grand Prix cars of the 1920s, along with the Bugatti Type 35, and enabled Alfa Romeo, as world champions, to incorporate the laurel wreath into their logo.
The P2 was introduced by Alfa Romeo for the Circuit of Cremona in northern Italy in 1924, where Antonio Ascari won at over Template:Auto kmh, and then went on to win the speed trial at Template:Auto kmh. The car was the first creation of Alfa’s new designer Vittorio Jano who had been recruited from Fiat by Enzo Ferrari when Nicola Romeo scrapped the P1 after its poor performance in the 1923 Monza Grand Prix against Fiat. The P2 was powered by Alfa’s first straight-8 cylinder supercharged engine with 2 carburettors placed after the compressor.
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|8-cyl.||8C - 2300 / 2600 / 2900|
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The Wall Street Journal got its hands on a financial report filed by Google in December last year. The Internet company, which is also the most valuable brand this year, intends to deliver ads on almost any IP-enabled device that it has access to in the future.
“Our expectation is that users will be using our services and viewing our ads on an increasingly wide diversity of devices in the future,” Google said recently. “We expect the definition of mobile to continue to evolve as more and more ‘smart’ devices gain traction in the market.”
“For example, a few years from now, we and other companies could be serving ads and other content on refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities,” the company said.
The company says that their ads are becoming more device-agnostic. Now, I really don’t know how many of us would really want to see ads on our refrigerators and car dashboards. Instead of having different ad platforms for different devices, the company wants to serve the same ads through any possible device such that it reaches the right user at the right time irrespective of the device they are using.
Are you getting worried? Well, why shouldn’t you? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and other groups have also raised concerns about the potential for privacy intrusions in a world where many things that people use on a daily basis are connected to the Internet.
Keeping the concerns aside, let’s try and think how can it be beneficial. Well, next time you walk into a grocery store, your refrigerator might message your mobile phone that you’re out of milk. Wouldn’t that be something? Of course, this new technology comes with a lot of concerns, the biggest one being privacy and misuse of customer data.
Considering Google knows how to serve ads properly, you’ll at least see ads that are relevant to you. The more information you share, the better it will get. Moreover, of all the companies, Google is one that has always been open about what they do with user data. Hopefully, the ads will continue to be unobtrusive like the ones on Google Search. Also, this will take quite a lot of time to hit the shelves, especially in India. Till then we can stop worrying about ads and think of the wonders it can do! | <urn:uuid:a6551dbf-0594-4b34-b88b-a1d9149600b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prateekpanda.com/youll-soon-see-google-ads-refrigerator-watches-much/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959027 | 512 | 1.929688 | 2 |
From 7 to 10 July, four translators worked on foreign-language plays, visited performances at the festival and talked about the particularities of translating new texts: The Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany (KJTZ) organised a workshop for translators for the sixth time as part of the "Starke Stücke" festival. Translations of new plays for children and young people from Albanian, English and French were discussed and worked on.
Unfortunately, the public part of the workshop had to be postponed due to the pandemic.
For more information, please contact Nikola Schellmann: email@example.com.
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Antoine I Neyrat, pair of fluted-stem candlesticks with collars, Clermont-Ferrand, 1687, h. 16.8 cm. (6³?/??”), weight, 693.9 gr. (24.47 oz.)
In an article about this rare collection, La Gazette reported on Marcel Sztejnberg’s interest in antique French silverwork and why he decided to sell his collection. Part one included 140 lots obtaining a total result of €1,920,064. The pieces sported a wealth of hallmarks from Clermont-Ferrand, Rennes, Strasbourg, Dunkirk, Dôle, Nantes and Angers, recalling the vitality of silversmithing in the provinces.
A pair of incredibly modern-looking candlesticks fetched the highest bid. If it weren’t for the date, 1687, they could be taken for an Art Deco model. These major pieces made by Antoine I Neyrat in Clermont-Ferrand fetched €243,200. They date from a time before items like this were melted down to fund the French kingdom’s wars. An eight-sided saltcellar "à rouleaux" (weight: 128.1 gr./4.51 oz.) crafted by Théodore Chastelain (admitted as master 1656) in Paris in around 1670-1671 sold for €74,240.
An attractive silver toiletry set with four powder boxes, made in Rennes in around 1750-1753, was expected to fetch the highest bid but finally achieved second place with €204,800: a fine sum, nonetheless.
In this gleaming parade, a lidded vermeil bowl from Strasbourg (1775, 271.1 gr./9.56 oz.) bearing Prince Louis Armand de Rohan’s monogram fetched €83,200, a pair of candle snuffers on a kidney-shaped platter made in Rennes (1720, 442 gr./15.59 oz.) €76,800, and a sugar bowl with twisted sides made in Dôle €70,400. The Musée de la Renaissance d'Écouen preempted a folding traveling place setting (the fork’s three prongs can fit into five loops on the back of the spoon), stamped in Paris between 1600 and 1610, for €10,880: an action the collector expected. | <urn:uuid:2a2799e1-80d7-4417-a65a-950e24243811> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gazette-drouot.com/article/silverwork-sets-the-table/21244 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.876687 | 535 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Located on a small penisula on the East side of West Lake, Tran Quoc Pagoda is regarded as the most ancient pagoda in Hanoi with its history line of more than 1,500 years.
The architecture of this Buddhist center is a subtle combination between the solemn and beautiful landscape on the peaceful and quiet ambiance of West Lake’s surface. Thanks to these historical and architectural values, Tran Quoc Pagoda attracts many tourists to pay a visit, both inside and outside of Vietnam.
Tran Quoc Pagoda was first erected with the name “Khai Quoc” (Opening a country) during King Ly Nam De Dynasty, between year 544 and 548 on the bark of Red River (approximately within Yen Phu Ward, Tay Ho District now). Till the 15th century, during King Le Thai Tong reign, it was renamed to “An Quoc”, which means a peaceful country.
In 1915, due to a serious landslide ingrained into the pagoda’s foundation that made the incumbent government and people to move the whole construction to Kim Ngư Island on the East of West Lake, and this is Tran Quoc Pagoda’s current location that you can witness in this day and age.
The renaming process didn’t stop until it was changed to the name “Tran Quoc Pagoda”, meaning protecting the country, during King Le Huy Tong dynasty (1681-1705). Through each name of the pagoda, we can see a milestone of the country as well as the wishes of its people attached to this holy sanctuary.
Famous for stunning scenery and sacred sanctuary, Tran Quoc Pagoda used to be a favorite sightseeing place of many kings and lord of Vietnam, especially during festivals, full moon days or Tet. Up until now, the pagoda can still preserve its fame although the landscape has been affected by urbanization.
Besides the front gate facing the crowded Thanh Nien Road, this 3,000m2 complex is surrounded by sliver tide of West Lake, and is designed according to strict rules of Buddhist architecture with many layers of buildings and three main houses called “Tiền Đường”, a house for burning incense and thượng điện. These rooms are connected with each other to form a Công script (工).
The precinct of Tran Quoc Pagoda is highlighted by a high stupa that you may recognize from a far erected in 1998. This stupa is composed of 11 floors with a height of 15m; each floor has a vaulted window holding a statue of Amitabha made from gemstone. On the top stands a nine-storey lotus (Cửu đỉnh liên hoa) and is also gemstone. This stupa is situated symmetrically with the 50-year-old Bodhi tree gifted by former Indian President on the occasion of his visit to Hanoi in 1959. Abbot Thich Thanh Nha of Tran Quoc Pagoda explains the meaning of this correlation: “The lotus represent Buddha while the Bodhi is a symbol of supreme knowledge”.
Not only that, Tran Quoc is also a small museum of priceless antiques dated thousands to hundreds years old like worshiping statues in the front house. These statues are all engraved and polished meticulously by skillful craftsmen, which all bear spectacular features. Among them, the outstanding one is the statue “Thích ca thập niết bàn”, which is evaluated as the most beautiful statue of Vietnam.
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- Mycotoxin Risk
- Feed preservation
- Mycotoxin Risk
- Feed preservation
The Hidden Risks of Maize Silage
New research shows dairy cows’ vulnerability to established and emerging mycotoxins, and sheds light on their prevalence in feed.26.08.2020
The rumen is not capable of fully degrading mycotoxins, and acidosis can further increase a cow’s susceptibility to mycotoxins.
Silage contains a variety of mycotoxins, including both known varieties such as zearalenone (ZEN), deoxynivalenol (DON) and nivalenol (NIV), as well as emerging mycotoxins, about which less is known.
Testing silage for mycotoxins is crucial to developing an action plan for mycotoxin management.
Cows were long believed to be less susceptible to mycotoxins than other animals. The rumen’s ability to degrade toxins was thought to prevent them from passing into the intestine, where they can lead to decreased absorption of nutrients, “leaky gut” and a higher risk of infections. Unfortunately, we now know that the rumen can’t fully manage the threat of mycotoxins, and certain conditions worsen the rumen’s ability to protect the cow. For example, a high dry matter intake leads to a faster passage rate, which reduces the time available for detoxifying these compounds. Additionally, if a cow is experiencing subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA), the cow will become less capable of degrading toxins, leading to a higher likelihood that they reach the intestine.
Mycotoxins in feed can harm animals and decrease production by depressing the immune system and reducing fertility, inevitably lead to farm inefficiency and economic losses. New research has shed light on just how prevalent mycotoxins are, particularly in silage, and how damaging they can be to cows’ health without proper testing and management strategies.
Risks from silage
Silages comprise 50-70% of a dairy cow’s diet in many parts of the world, and can contain a variety of mycotoxins. Ruminants are exposed to many more feedstuffs in their diet (e.g., grains, by-products, etc.). The 2019 Biomin® World Mycotoxin Survey, which analyzed more than 21,000 samples in 86 countries, found that 75% of samples were contaminated with more than one mycotoxin, and co-occurring mycotoxins can have synergistic effects, making them more powerful than each mycotoxin individually.
This composition of risks for ruminants has been poorly addressed, and in practice, only around half of the Dairy Global / Biomin® webinar participants reported that they analyze their silage for mycotoxins. To better understand these risks, one study was conducted to evaluate the exposure of European dairy cows to mycotoxins through maize silage, and to assess the impact of the four most relevant toxins on bovine intestinal cells. Between 2014 and 2018, 158 samples of maize silage from Europe were analyzed for 61 mycotoxins. The twelve most relevant are shown in Figure 2, selected for their prevalence and known detrimental effects on cows.
On average, each sample was contaminated by 13 different mycotoxins (Figure 2). Aflatoxins (AfB1), Ochratoxin A (OTA) and ergot alkaloids were less common in maize silage. These results are of particular interest since aflatoxins (for example, AfB1) are one of the most feared mycotoxins by the dairy industry, however when it comes to maize silage there are many mycotoxins more commonly found which also threaten the health of dairy cows.
Zearalenone (ZEN), deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV) and HT-2 which are all well-known mycotoxins from the trichothecenes family, were found in a large portion of the samples, but emerging mycotoxins, which are mycotoxins that are neither routinely measured nor legislatively regulated, were the most common mycotoxins found in this survey. The Biomin® World Mycotoxin Survey also found rising incidence of emerging mycotoxins, and beauvericin and enniatins, emerging mycotoxins which can damage the immune system, were especially prevalent in Europe and the Americas. This represents an enormous challenge since very little has been done to understand the risks they pose to livestock, especially ruminants.
Under SARA, more toxins pass intact through the rumen
Another recent study explored the degradation of mycotoxins in in vitro models, which simulated the capacity of an actual cow rumen to degrade the mycotoxins under a normal pH (6.8) and a lower pH (5.8), simulating acidosis. For DON and NIV, the microbial degradation was slower when pH was decreased; a delay in degradation would be a concern when the passage rate is accelerated due to high feed intake, allowing some mycotoxins reach the intestine intact. For enniatin B (ENNB) on the other hand, degradation was weak under both conditions. With a normal pH, the maximum degradation achieved was 75%, whereas a lower pH worsens it by degrading only a maximum of 20% of the initial concentration.
Mycotoxins’ effects on the intestines
In addition to looking at the prevalence of mycotoxins and how they’re degraded in real-world conditions for the first time an in vitro model using calf intestinal epithelial cells (CIEB) was used to determine the toxic effects of Fusarium toxins (DON, NIV and fumonisin (FB1)) and enniatin B (ENNB)—selected for their relevance for dairy cows since they were highly prevalent in silage samples—on the intestines.
All mycotoxins caused cells to die or deactivate, increasing the possibility that mycotoxins or other harmful substances like gram negative could bacteria reach the bloodstream and cause systemic infections. NIV and DON had the greatest detrimental effects. Even at concentrations of 138 ppb NIV and 172 ppb DON, the cell viability was reduced by 25%. Furthermore, the ENNB and FB1 led to the same 25% reduction at 1,500 ppb and 3,383 ppb, respectively. For NIV and DON, the numbers align with trials on pig and human intestinal cells. Although it is not always easy to translate in vitro results to in vivo results, the fact is that intestinal cells of ruminants are as sensitive as those of pigs and humans, according to the author.
Three tips to mitigate risks of mycotoxins in dairy cows
Taken together, these studies clearly indicate risks for dairy farmers. Mycotoxin degradation is incomplete even in ideal conditions, and significantly compromised during high feed intake and acidosis. Given the prevalence of mycotoxins in corn silage, failing to implement a mycotoxin risk management strategy for ruminants could result in losses in production and, subsequently, profit. Follow these three tips to ensure mycotoxins don’t compromise the health of your herd.
- Test Early and Often. It’s important to understand the mycotoxin load in your silage feeds because of the number and diversity of mycotoxins it may contain. Sampling and analyzing silage and feed for mycotoxins is essential for creating the right detoxification strategy.
- Bind and Deactivate. After analysis, nutritionists, technicians and farmers need to consider the load of mycotoxins coming from the feed and establish the level of risk. Once this is done, the right combination of binders and deactivators can be determined and added to feed.
- Support. Support bovine gut health with the right mix of probiotics and phytogenic feed additives to improve nutrient absorption and immunity.
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A career in Finance and Banking is always viewed as one of the most thriving and globally regarded careers globally, thanks to the ever-growing demand for qualified manpower in these sectors. The Banking sector always prefers qualified employees with hands-on experience and knowledge of banking and finance along with the familiarity of computer technology and understanding customer orientation. Diploma in Banking and Finance or DBF exam conducted by the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF) is the only examination recognized by the Indian Banks Association (IBA). So, if you are looking forward to building a successful and fruitful career in the Banking industry, here’s an insightful blog to help you with everything you need to know about this exam.
This Blog Includes:
Also Read: Banking Courses after 12th
What is DBF Exam?
Diploma in Banking and Finance is a flagship program that aims to educate the students about the operational processes and contemporary banking systems. With a competitive edge, the students clear the DBF exam and are directly absorbed by the banks and financial institutions. For students to be ready to take the step into the banking world, IIBF conducts the exam twice a year in the month of May/June and November/December. Along with the DBF exam, Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF) also conducts various banking exams for its IIBF certification courses, namely
- DRA Exam: DRA stands for IIBF Debt Recovery Agent and is conducted once in a month or with a greater frequency which is decided time to time by IIBF. This exam is for recruitment of Debt Recovery Agents or DRAs in the country and is stipulated by RBI to ensure that certified professionals are selected for this profile.
- JAIIB Exam: JAIIB refers to Junior Assistant of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance and is held by IIBF twice a year on a Sunday in May/June and November/December. This certification exam trains banking professionals with the basic and foundational knowledge of banking arena, from building and strengthening customer relationships to ensure other legal and administrative aspects.
- CAIIB Exam: CAIIB refers to Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance and is conducted twice a year. After completing and qualifying JAIIB, you can appear for the CAIIB exam which equips banking professionals with advanced-level knowledge of financial, risk and banking management.
DBF Exam 2021
DBF Exam procedure spans across two main sessions, i.e. February to July and August to January. For the Feb-July session, the exam is held in May-June and for the August to January, the exam is held in November to December. It is conducted in the online mode and the candidates need to take the test at the exam centre allotted to them in their admit card. DBF Exam 2021 dates have been released and are as follows:
DBF Exam May 2021
|May 2, 2020||Principles and Practices of Banking|
|May 9, 2020||Accounting and Finance for Bankers|
|May 16, 2020||Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Banking|
|24th February 2021 to 28th February 2021||Usual Exam Fee|
|1st March 2021 to 14th March 2021||100 INR extra + Exam Fee|
|15th March 2021 to 21st March 2021||200 INR extra + Exam Fee|
DBF Exam November 2021
|November 7, 2020||Principles and Practices of Banking|
|November 14, 2020||Accounting and Finance for Bankers|
|November 21, 2020||Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Banking|
|September 1st, 2021 to September 7th, 2021||Usual Exam Fee|
|September 8th, 2021 to September 21st, 2021||100 INR extra + Exam Fee|
|September 22nd, 2021 to September 30th, 2021||200 INR extra + Exam Fee|
Both the DBF exams for May and November sessions will be conducted online and timings will be provided in the admit card.
For the candidates to be able to apply for the DBF Exam, they need to fulfil the following eligibility criteria and failing to do so might result in the cancellation of their candidature.
- The candidate must have cleared their 10+2 or equivalent from a recognized board of education in any discipline.
- Even the candidates who have cleared their BC/BF examination conducted by IIBF itself are eligible to appear.
- There is no age limit for the candidates to apply for the DBF Exam.
Note: Individuals who are associated with IIBF in any way are not eligible to apply. Instead, they can appear for JAIIB (Junior Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers) Examination.
Modules of DBF Exam
The DBF exam comprises of 3 modules for which the examination is conducted on 3 separate days. The candidates are tested on different aspects of the banking and the financial systems prevailing in the country. Let’s take a brief look at the different modules and topic covered under it:
|Exam Modules||Topics Covered|
|Principles and Practice of Banking||Indian Financial Systems; Banking Technology;
Functions of Banks; Marketing of Banking Services
|Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Banking||Legal aspects of Banking Operations;
Regulation and Compliance;
Commercial Laws with reference to the Banking Operations
|Accounting and Finance for Bankers||Final Accounts; Special Accounts;
Basics of Business Mathematics;
Principles of Book Keeping
DBF Exam Study Material
To help students gear up for the Diploma in Banking and Finance exam, IIBF has provided a list of reference books that are specifically designed for the preparation of this exam. Take a look at the following list of books (in both English and Hindi) which you need to have to crack this competitive exam:
|English Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Banking||M/s Macmillan India Limited|
|Principles & Practices of Banking||M/s Macmillan India Limited|
|Accounting & Finance for Bankers||M/s Macmillan India Limited|
|Banking ke Vidhik Paksh (Hindi)||M/s Taxmann Publications Private Ltd.|
|Bankeron ke liye Lekhankan Avam Vittya (Hindi)||M/s Taxmann Publications Private Ltd.|
|Banking ke Sidhanth Avam Vyavahar (Hindi)||M/s Taxmann Publications Private Ltd.|
DBF Exam Pattern
When you’re preparing for any professional exam, it is important for you to know the pattern to be followed. Simply, cramming the portion all night long won’t be helpful if you don’t know how much amount of portion of your subject or topic will be covered in the exam paper, its corresponding marks or simply the duration of the exam. Therefore, we have come up with the DBF exam pattern to help you prepare better. Take a look at the table below:
|Exam Modules||Maximum Marks||Passing Score||Total Number of Questions||Duration of the Exam||Negative Marking||Mode of Exam|
|Principles and Practice of Banking||100||50||120||2 Hours||No||Online|
|Legal And Regulatory Aspects of Banking||100||50||120||2 Hours||No||Online|
|Accounting and Finance for Bankers||100||50||120||2 Hours||No||Online|
DBF Exam Syllabus
The syllabus for the DBF Exam has been separated into the different modules as well as papers prescribed by the IIBF. The following tables aims to provide you with an overview of the exam syllabus bifurcated across different sections:
DBF Exam Paper 1: Principles and Practices of Banking
|Module A: Indian Financial
|Indian Financial System; Banking Regulation;
Wholesale and International Banking;
Role of Money Markets,
Debt Markets & Forex Market; Recent Developments in
the Financial System; Introduction to Risk Management;
Role of Capital Markets; CIBIL, Fair Practices Code for
Debt Collection, BCSB
|Module B: Functions of Banks||Banker Customer Relationship; Ancillary Services;
Cash Management Services and its Importance;
Different Modes of Charging Securities;
Types of collaterals and their characteristics;
Non-Performing Assets; Bankers’ Special Relationship;
Priority Sector Advances; Operational Aspects of opening
and Maintaining Accounts of Different Types of Customers;
Cash Operations; Financial Literacy
|Module C: Banking
|Essentials of Bank Computerization; Role of Technology
Upgradation and its impact on Banks; Preventive Vigilance
in Electronic Banking; Gopalakrishna Committee
Recommendations; Security Considerations;
Overview of IT Act; Payment Systems and
Electronic Banking; Data Communication
Network and EFT systems
|Module D: Support Services,
Marketing of Banking
Services & Products
|Marketing; Channel Management;
Distribution; Pricing; Social Marketing/Networking;
Marketing Information Systems; Consumer Behavior
and Product; Promotion
|Module E: Ethics in Banks and
|Banking Ethics: Changing Dynamics; Ethics,
Business Ethics & Banking; Work Ethics
and the Workplace; Ethics at the Individual Level;
Ethical Dimensions: Employees
DBF Exam Paper 2: Accounting & Finance for Bankers
|Module A: Business Mathematics
|Calculation of Interest and Annuities;
Capital Budgeting; Depreciation and its Accounting;
Calculation of YTM; Foreign Exchange Arithmetic
|Module B: Principles of Bookkeeping
|Definition, Scope and Accounting Standards;
Trial Balance, Rectification of Errors and
Adjusting & Closing Entries;
Basic Accountancy Procedures;
Bills of Exchange; Maintenance of
Cash/ Subsidiary Books and Ledger;
Bank Reconciliation Statement;
Capital and Revenue Expenditure
|Module C: Final Accounts||Balance Sheet Equation;
Accounting in a Computerized Environment;
Preparation of Final Accounts; Ratio Analysis;
Final Accounts of Banking Companies
|Module D: Banking Operations||Banking Operations &
DBF Exam Paper 3: Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Banking
|Module A: Regulations and
|Legal Framework of Regulation of Banks;
Control over Organization of Banks;
Financial Sector Legislative Reforms;
Regulation of Banking Business;
Recent Legislative Changes in the RBI Act;
Public Sector Banks and Co-operative Banks; etc.
|Module B: Legal Aspects of
|Different Types of Borrowers; Deferred Payment Guarantees;
Laws Relating to Bill Finance; Types of Credit Facilities;
Case Laws on Responsibility of Paying Bank;
Secured and Unsecured Loans,
Registration of Firms and Incorporation of companies;
Laws Relating to Securities and
Modes of Charging – I & II;
|Module C: Banking Related Laws||Recovery of Debts due to Banks
and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (DRT Act);
The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987;
Securitisation and Reconstruction of
Financial Assets and Enforcement of
Securities; Bankers Books Evidence Act, 1891;
Interest Act (SARFAESI); Tax Laws, etc.
|Module D: Commercial Laws
with Reference to Banking Operations
|Indian Contract Act, 1872; The Companies Act, 1956
(Now Companies Act, 2013);
The Sale of Goods Act, 1930;
Limited liability partnerships
formation, registration, rights and liabilities
of partners; Indian Partnership Act, 1932
Note: To know the detailed syllabus of DBF Exam, click here.
Application Fee Structure
Since the members of the IIBF are only eligible for appearing in the JAIIB exam, the fee structure for the non-members applying for the DBF exam depends on the number of attempts taken to clear the test. Below is a table to help you understand the application fee structure:
|Attempts||Fee Amount (in INR)*|
* the mentioned amounts are estimates and exclusive of GST, as applicable.
To apply for the DBF Exam, click here
DBF Exam Benefits
Having an IIBF diploma in your hand after successfully clearing all the three modules of the DBF exam, will build a whole new level of career opportunities waiting for you. If you are wondering what a Diploma in Banking and Finance can do for you, read the points given below.
- After clearing the DBF exam successfully, your CV is shared with more than 600 members of the institution like Banking and Financial institutions for hiring.
- For those who have cleared the written test for Bank exams such as IBPS PO, SBI PO or clerks and are looking forward to the interview round, can easily make their way after passing the DBF exam.
- The diploma holders can be exempted from taking the JAIIB exam. However, most of the banks give additional incentives and increments to those having the JAIIB degree.
- Career in Bank Management: A Path to Success
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Help, I’m trapped!
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.” — Hāfiz
For those of us that are believers, we are very familiar with the good news of Christ. If you are unfamiliar, this spectacular information can be summed up with the words of John 3:16 [translation taken from The First Century Aramaic Bible in Plain English], “For God loved the world in this way: so much that he would give up his Son, The Only One, so that everyone who trusts in him shall not be lost, but he shall have eternal life.” We note that Jesus is the heartbeat of the story through these words. There is no engine room without him and no one responsible for pumping life-altering blood into every aspect of our humanity. The story could end there, yet more good news resides within this gospel story. One facet of the extra good news centers on forgiveness and our responsibility to extend what has been so freely given to us.
If you have a life like mine, there is no single day where forgiveness isn’t required. Think this over with me: You owe me — honor, an apology, a promotion, time with you, gratitude, ___________ (you can fill in the blank.) We curate binding lists, infinitely long at times, of grievances holding ourselves and others captive by the realness of our bitterness — leaving us ravaged by poison and trapped by the power of unforgiveness. Hebrews warns us that this type of unforgiveness should be something we keep our eyes on. “Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.” — Hebrews 12:14–15.
The Bible illustrates that forgiveness has spiritual benefits; scientific studies have also found that forgiveness can reap huge rewards for your health, lowering the risk of heart attack; improving cholesterol levels and sleep; and reducing pain, blood pressure, anxiety levels, depression, and stress.¹ Maybe this is why God emphasizes forgiveness as an intricate facet of the gospel? Even at the point of death, Jesus taught us to forgive with the words, “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.” In Deuteronomy, God commands that you “give up your claim to what is owed you by your brother.” Highlighting that in life and death, we are only truly free when we forgive.
What claims are you holding against others? What is snuffing out your life and laying claim in your heart? Trust me; I am holding up a mirror as I type these words in front of me. Recalling words by Chris Renzema, “in the promise of Your light, I’m found, and all the world is right.”²
Perhaps today is the day to forgive. Release yourself from the chains of torment. Release him, her, them from the narrative where you are enslaved. Release, you have been the one held prisoner. Release, and have a heart full of forgiveness, and this new light of redeeming love will light the entire sky.
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October 27th, 6h
We need to finish all the small details inside the wing in order to rivet the bottom skins and finish the wings.
- So, I applied E6000 to the conduit.
- We started setting up the wiring of the pitot, but then we realized that we need to buy more wire and connectors
- We looked at the wiring for the lights, not much to do there. We tested passing it through the conduit, it worked great.
- We wired the magnetometer through the conduit, it was pretty easy to drive through, and not much setup needed.
- We wired the roll servo by making a connector and a cable for all the wires. As well, we glued some zip-tie attachments to control routing the cable and relieve strain.
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How I Pick My Classes Each Term!
One of the most exciting times of the academic year for me is when we get to pick classes for the upcoming term. I love seeing what departments are offering new classes, and what timetable would work best with my schedule. Near the end of each term, the course election portal is opened, and we are able to pick three classes. How does one know which classes to take? Here are three ways I guide my course selection:
- No. 1
The most important aspect of choosing classes, in my opinion, is personal interest. Each time the course catalog comes out, I go through it and write down the classes the pique my interest. I always find that if I am interested in a class, I will do better in it! Some of the classes that I’ve taken because of personal interested are: “Religion, Politics, and the Presidency” and “Narrative Journalism”.
- No. 2
Major or Minor Requirements
Majors at Dartmouth typically require around 10 classes to complete. Minors range anywhere from 5-7 classes typically! Each major has a different set of requirements and classes that you must take to fulfill it. Some majors require prerequisite classes, and others, like my religion major, allow students to jump in and start taking any level of class. Some classes that I’ve taken to fulfill my major requirements are: “Ancient Egyptian Religions” and “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”.
- No. 3
To fulfill Dartmouth’s liberal arts degree, all students are required to take a set of distributive requirements. These classes range from a literature requirement, to a quantitative and deductive science requirement. Distributive requirements can be fulfilled at any point during your four years as an undergrad but must be completed in order to graduate. Some classes that I’ve taken to complete the distributive requirements are: “Geovisualization” and “The Music of Today”. | <urn:uuid:9705b526-2536-4664-ac4e-44611edb44b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/follow/blog/julianna-thomson/how-i-pick-my-classes-each-term | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.93505 | 427 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Professor writes of refugee experiences
I haven't been able to let go of interview transcriptions from my sabbatical project with immigrants and refugees. Each person had been gracious and open; I'd left the meetings with strong impressions that have resurfaced during contacts with people who have come to Oshkosh from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Two Hmong interviewees arrived in the U.S. after the fall of Saigon. One who had worked for the CIA said:
"We just leave everything behind, home and everything, carry whatever we can and some money. We cannot sell anything because we escaped at midnight — we know that tomorrow the communist soldiers were coming. So we travel ten days to get to the border of Thailand and then the Thai soldier just stop us there and they said you have to wait for the answer of the government. So we stay ten days and we run out of food, we run out of everything else..."
The accounts of escape across the Mekong or another river, years in refugee camps, and encountering both kindness and prejudice in this country bring thoughts about today's refugees. Have we learned, as a country, better ways of welcoming the stranger in our land? Or are they often met with stares, distrust, fear because of current waves of terrorism?
A Bosnian family hadn't experienced racial discrimination or prejudice, but were we aware of the horrors they'd experienced? What can we learn from people who have struggled with the language, finding jobs, raising their children here? What can we do to ease their fears, support their efforts?
"Memories of Bosnia in the war and after are too hard to talk about. We want our children to remember the language in case they go back someday to visit. All other things they must forget."
Two immigrants from Mexico had different experiences in the U.S., but both spoke of eventually adapting to life in Wisconsin while maintaining their language and cultural values. A young, divorced woman with children was struggling, but determined to complete a technical college program.
"I really want to touch people's lives and say, 'it's possible in this world to juggle with everything and still doing good, but the key is wanting to do it."
A middle-aged man who had worked as a dishwasher and graduated from college with a teaching degree was working as a consultant at his school district's central office.
"I wanted to become a citizen because I love this country. You know, this country gave me the opportunity to become what I am, and I am very, very grateful for it. My children are both American citizens — born right here."
A retired businessman from Europe also spoke of opportunities in this country.
"I went to school in Milwaukee, and I know a lot of people that were in the same group that I was, and they didn't know the language, they didn't have good jobs, and they had a lot of children. They all were able to give those kids an education."
I wonder what these people think about current immigration issues and political rhetoric and what might change after this fall's election. I think about the cuts to public education and reduced opportunities for students of all backgrounds.
While volunteering at the Oshkosh Area Community Pantry recently, I met an Oshkosh resident with two young children and an older woman who carefully said "thank you" in English several times. I thought about the example the mother was setting for her children and wondered how many of our newcomers have a new friend like her.
Peg Olson is an emeritus professor at UW-Oshkosh. She wrote this essay based on several interviews with Hmong and Bosnian refugees and Mexican and European immigrants for a sabbatical project in 1999. It includes quotes from the interviewees and thoughts she's had related to current issues related to refugees and immigrants. | <urn:uuid:8aed6ee2-6155-44ff-bdda-099a118b9fb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenorthwestern.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/10/28/professor-writes-refugee-experiences/92877816/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.983676 | 786 | 1.882813 | 2 |
I.O.U.S.A. a 2008 political and economics documentary examining the history of US Federal debt level relative to gross domestic product (GDP), a figure that has reached frightening highs in the last decade.
Of course, the US has been in debt for almost all its history. In fact, the 1830's was the only time that Federal debt got down to 0% of GDP. Today it is approximately $20 trillion dollars or 106% of GDP. This makes one sceptical about president Donald Trumps new plan for a Space Force branch of the army. Perhaps he thought “Starship Troopers” was a documentary?
In February 2007, the United States federal debt stood at $8.7 trillion, more than doubling over the term of George W. Bush's presidency. The situation will only get worse over time with known future spending such as payment of social security to the baby boom generation. The issues? The United States has had a history of consumption, spending more than it has available, especially during war years, most specifically during World War II and the Iraq conflict of the 21st century. There is also a history of non saving, both by the government and by individuals which leads to lack of investment moneys. And in the new global economy, the United States has the highest trade deficit in the world, reliant on other countries, especially China which holds more than half of the United States' treasury bonds. Overriding these issues is a lack of political leadership, politicians who really don't seem to know how to get the country out of this financial hole. | <urn:uuid:6f1b5e91-1e8f-4025-9a3b-4515b08d774c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docur.co/documentary/iousa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.975529 | 325 | 2.859375 | 3 |
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Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance (New York: Fordham University Press 2014) 236pp. $75 Hb, $26 Pb. ISBN: 9780823262526
Kathleen Frederickson’s The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance is a dexterous negotiation of Victorian ‘instinct’ both as an impetus for progress and as a means of demarcating the social agencies available to women, labourers, and indigenous persons in European 'assemblages of liberalized, sexualized governance' (20). Frederickson’s analysis engages with a range of literary histories, expansively including works of eighteenth-century biological and political thought, as well as late twentieth-century concerns about reinstating an 'architecture of […] subjective thickness' (8) for Victorian queer theory in the wake of Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I. Although Frederickson moves freely between this Foucauldian Victorianism and the mid-to-late-Victorian texts of her first two chapters, and though she likewise situates her last two chapters at the extreme cusp (1908-13) of 'late Victorian semiotics' (95), the broad temporal scope of her philosophical concerns accords well with the crux of her argument. Whereas works like Lauren Goodlad’s Victorian Literature and the Victorian State articulate questions of liberal governance within specific state cultures, Frederickson’s analysis spans whole countries, continents, languages, literary forms, and Victorian disciplines. This literary reach allows Frederickson to chart a fuller spectrum of social implications arising from contemporaneous understandings of ‘instinct’, whether or not this term manifests explicitly in all of her chosen texts.
In Chapter One, for instance, Frederickson reads George John Romanes’ Darwinian analysis of insect behaviour, and John Stuart Mill’s therapeutic shift from strict rationalism into the imaginative possibilities of Romanticism, in connection with legal debates surrounding Victorian pornography. Here, Frederickson elucidates how Victorian ideas of instinct could achieve the seemingly contradictory ends of positioning pleasure as a mark of distinction among 'elite men' (44), while also identifying its manifestation among the working classes as an atavistic tendency in need of social corrective. Strikingly, in Frederickson’s analysis, both the men ruling in the R. v. Hicklin obscenity case and pornographers like the anonymous 'Walter' demonstrate a strong belief that sexual content maintains its power to arouse (or degrade) even when isolated from its original context. However, in Frederickson’s assessment, only the pornographers extend this conviction to credit readers with a capacity for self-selection, and therefore personal agency, that surpasses unthinking instinct. In so doing, although Walter does not foreground ideas about instinct in his erotic writings, his work still elevates what is elsewhere regarded as the 'beastliness' of sex (41) to a body of choices and sensations existing far above simple, 'mechanistic sexual materialism' (59).
Chapter Two then advances the labour-oriented implications of instinct by contrasting bodies of economic thought, as seen in the writings of Herbert Spencer, Walter Bagehot, William Stanley Jevons, and Marx, with sexology’s fascination with labour in relation to questions of 'sexual inversion' (ie cases of human sexuality that do not fit a strict procreative paradigm, but which might arise from instincts similar to those of social insects). This juxtaposition of formal disciplines allows Frederickson to read ideas about individual instinct against ideas about collective instinct, both within the existing class strata of European cultures, and between European cultures and their 'civilizing mission[s]' (76) among indigenous peoples. Frederickson here explores negative figurations of species variation, like Bagehot’s conviction that 'modern savages' have lost the ideal instinctiveness of their ancestors, only to gain habits counterproductive to any further civilization (71-2), as well as ambivalently positive ones, like Edward Carpenter’s approach to 'homogenic instincts' (89), which advances a more inclusive evolutionary paradigm while still echoing broader concerns about the resonance of such instincts with Frankensteinian acts of human 'miscreation' (92).
In the wake of concerns surrounding the possible death drive present in many labour- and sex-oriented instincts, 'Freud’s Australia' (Chapter Three), shifts the location of and linguistic context for Frederickson’s overarching argument to indigenous populations starkly diminished by the genocidal encroachment of white settlers. Here, Frederickson sustains the book’s Anglophonic focus through the interwoven ideas of Darwin, Mill, William James, and a selection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anthropologists, including Francis Galton and Fison and Howitt. Frederickson especially illustrates how Australian indigenous societies, with their intricate marriage systems but also extreme vulnerability to eradication, posed a problem for European ideas around the civilizing power of social instincts. Frederickson argues that Freud resolves this concern by negating the capacity of indigenous persons to hold 'self-reflective relationship[s]' with their institutions, such that indigenous institutions merely 'express the instincts of a collectivity of individual savages' (106). In Frederickson’s analysis, Fison and Howitt similarly regard indigenous persons as capable only of immediate, unthinking, law-upholding responses to major communal transgressions. This framing of indigenous agency allows turn-of-the-century anthropologists to rule out the possibility that Australian indigenous societies hold a genuine interest in their own futurity (114)—and in so doing, elides European responsibility for the destruction of entire peoples.
With Chapter Four, Frederickson’s negotiation of ‘instinct’ in relation to Victorian conceptualizations of liberal governance returns to and closes in England, where suffragette hunger strikes provide a nexus for interrogating both the nature of instinct at the turn of the century, as well as the assumption that men were, on an instinctive level, better designed for full participation in political life. Frederickson’s analysis of New Woman literature, including Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and the 'fraught' writings of Eliza Lynn Linton (132), outlines a social economy in which women, by eschewing traditional models of feminine intuition, destabilized notions of their own inability to engage in acts of higher reasoning necessary for political life. According to Frederickson, the subsequent hunger strikes in pursuit of voting rights offered a further 'intervention into the logic of sex-defining instincts' (123), while also allowing activists to wield all claims to an instinctive sex-based hierarchy against their initial proponents. If the pronounced susceptibility of male persons to certain societal vices was to be regarded as only natural, after all, such that 'feminized hunger [both nutritive and sexual] might be less voracious than men’s' (135), then it would follow that women, not men, should make better, more rational participants in political life.
Despite venturing into philosophical terrain highly susceptible to simplistic binaries—between sexes, and cultures, and classes—Frederickson engages fluidly with a wide range of literary forms, figures, and locales throughout The Ploy of Instinct. In so doing, her work provides a dynamic spectrum of thought around the implications of biological modelling for labour-, sex-, and ethnicity-oriented conceptualizations of liberal governance, both within and well beyond the Victorian era.
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A few months ago we talked about underground wine cellars, do you remember? We wanted to point out an optimal solution for all those wine lovers who do not have much space available, perhaps living in the city and not having the possibility of using a real cellar. Another trendy solution for the storage of our favourite drinks is the one known as the wine cellar pod. Let’s find out more about it.
Wine cellar pods: the new trend in the world of wine
One of the main problems today, especially if you are not lucky enough to live in the middle of nature, is undoubtedly space. The luckiest of us can afford a more spacious house, but almost never so spacious as to have the place even for a wine room or a real cellar. This is a big problem for all those who love wine as they need to arrange large quantities of bottles.
We have already talked about it in this blog and if you ordered our wines you know even more: to preserve wine is not a joke. There are specific rules to follow to take care of our favourite bottles, and whether it is a common wine or the most expensive wine in the world makes little difference.
Our bottles must be in an environment that keeps them at the right temperature, away from direct light sources, primarily that of the sun, and possibly should be placed on shelves that keep them tilted and absorb vibrations. It is clear that in order to comply with all these rules, a special environment is needed, one that is created taking into account the needs of the product.
This is where underground wine cellars and the wine cellar pod enter the day. While the underground wine cellars, as we have seen, are a wine storage solution that allows you to create an accessible underground environment in which to organize your collection of bottles, the wine cellar pods, as the name suggests, are a less demanding solution than allows you to create a pod, a limited space under the floor, inside which you can place your bottles. Like any wine cellar solution, the wine cellar pods also respect all the rules to take care of even the most precious bottle, keeping the temperature constant and preserving the wines away from light.
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Treatment for substance abuse and dependence and addictive behaviors can be very extensive, as it should be, but it can create some discouragement in a person struggling and just wanted to get better and healthy. If an individual is already suffering from addiction and then hears that they have to be in rehab for at least 28 days (hopefully longer), and then attend Intensive Outpatient Treatment while (hopefully) they live in a halfway house, recovery can seem like a daunting experience. It is important to make this experience go as smooth as it possibly can, but lets be realistic, it’s going to be a struggle.
There is an age-old saying: Recovery is a Journey, Not a Destination. Although the client may not be dependent on or abusing their drug or behavior of choice, they will always be in recovery, which can be hard when the mindset is, “Fix me now so I’m healthy again.” I try to explain to my clients that there are steps to the recovery process, and if completed their journey to recovery can be positive and successful. I describe it as, “The Ladder of Recovery.”
When someone is struggling with addiction they are, “stuck” on top of the ladder. To get down, they have to go down one rung at a time. Once their feet touch the ground, they are stabilized.
Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP)
Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP)
Outpatient Programs (OP)
Individual Therapy/Counseling (Private)
Anonymous Meetings (AA, NA, CA)
It seems like a lot of work, but isn’t that what recovery is all about? We can put so much work into our addictions; it is only fair to put that much work into getting better. I encourage devoting at least a year to maintaining a healthy road to recovery on the ladder before branching off and weaning off of the treatment process, but all too often the aftercare plans are, “forgotten.”
Personally, I enjoy being a part of an individual’s aftercare plan; it is when the serious work begins. The individual is now released from the inpatient programs and now have to deal with the people, places, and things that triggered them in the first place. Emotions that were once masked with addiction are now emerging and we have to learn to feel them again and be comfortable with the negative emotions (depression, anxiety, anger, etc.).
It is important to note that although an individual may be on a certain rung, they can also combine treatment levels to make the therapeutic process more intensive/full time. For example, Joe may be attending Intensive Outpatient treatment, so he is attending group therapy at least three days a week, however, as a recovering alcoholic he also has to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He discovers that he also wants an individual approach to therapy and starts seeing a private therapist for individualized therapy. He has now combined three treatment approaches, which increases his chances of accountability and responsibility to help him be successful on the road to recovery. | <urn:uuid:baa88794-f38c-4906-9e7a-281f9ae52cc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.napervillecounseling.com/blog/afterthoughts-aftercare | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96792 | 655 | 1.726563 | 2 |
A recent study Charles Schwab finds that Americans have very different views of what wealth means. Their definitions of the term range from a specific amount of money to a specific state of being.
When it comes to a monetary definition, the firm found that Americans set the bar high. Asked how much money is needed to be wealthy, Americans on average reported $2.4 million or 30 times the actual median net worth of U.S. households. This is of particular concern for advisers considering the common notion that financial advice is an option only available for the wealthy. However, research indicates several Americans desire advice about saving and investing.
“Wealth is often thought of as a lofty, unattainable number that doesn’t apply to most of us, but that’s an old-fashioned notion that needs to be retired,” said Terri Kallsen, executive vice president and head of Schwab Investor Services. “It doesn’t matter whether you have a lot or a little—what matters is that you think about the money you have as your wealth, and that you pay attention to it. Being engaged is the only way to reach your personal goals.”
However, Kallsen believes the industry as a whole could improve its efforts to erase the misconception.
“Not every investment firm is built to encourage this level of engagement across investors of all types and sizes, Kallsen explains.” We’ve watched as many firms set their account minimums high and their fees higher, making it difficult for people to access professional planning and advice. As Americans’ definition of wealth evolves, the industry needs to modernize its approach to find new ways to deliver good value and a great experience to a broader population.”
But even though the top answer respondents picked when asked to define wealth was having a lot of money (27%), the survey found Americans also associate wealth with a state of being or a state of mind.
The next top answers were enjoying life’s experiences (24%),being able to afford anything they want (22%), living stress-free and having peace of mind (19%), and having loving relationships with family and friends (12%).
These results were generated from Charles Schwab’s “Modern Wealth Index.” The annual study aims to gauge how Americans across the wealth spectrum are planning, managing, and engaging with their wealth.
The study also found that written financial plans help Americans make good choices.
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Groom Mining District Records
Scope and Contents
Collection primarily consists of correspondence to an from William Wheatly, Patrick Sheahan, T. J. Osborne, C. N. Roberts, N. O. Bradley and E. C. Farnsworth (attorneys at law), and E. Richardson. Correspondence deals with operations, agreements, and the sale of mining claims. Many of the letters are individual sheets of tissue either removed from a letterpress copy book or created individually. These letters are extremely difficult to read and very fragile.
Also included are a small number of legal documents, deeds, agreements, and mine location notices. Only one document, a deed, is from 1873; all other documents date from the mid- to late-1890s.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Discovered in the late 1860s and located in Lincoln County, Nevada approximately 50 miles north of Indian Springs and 100 miles southwest of Pioche, the Groom Mining District was officially organized in 1869. The Conception Mines were the first worked in that area in about 1871 with production first reported in the 1869-1870 edition of Report of the State Mineralogist of Nevada, published in 1871. Wheeler’s 1871 Report accorded a lengthy article noting the large amount of low-grade ore present. The name “Groom” or “Groome” seems to have appeared in the early 1870s as the result of an English financing of the Conception mines by the name “Groome Lead Mines Limited.” Mines produced only silver and lead and did not contain any recoverable gold. The first significant work occurred in 1873-1874. Other nearby mines included the Willow, Maria, and White Lake.
Jonas Brown (J.B.) Osborne and his partners acquired the claims at Groom and patented them in 1876. Thomas James (T.J.) Osborne, of no relation to J. B., acquired these interests in the 1890s. T. J. Osborne visited his mines at least once a year in an effort to maintain his claims according to federal mining law. Interest in the Groom District renewed with the mining boom of Tonopah and Goldfield. L. L. Patrick, famous for his Goldfield promotion work, leased the mine for a year. In that year, he completed the first detailed report of the mine. He also paid for a report by a mining engineer who did not recommend the property.
For nearly each year thereafter, different operators leased the property, but it was not until about 1916 when Osborne leased the mine to McCormack that they began to see the fruits of regular production. In June 1916, the claims were incorporated as the Groom Nevada Lead Mines Company and as the Groom Southend Mining Company. In 1918, the death of T. J. Osborne caused the lessees to withdraw resulting in the closure of the mine. The mine briefly resumed operation after World War II following litigation with the federal government, but closed permanently in the early 1950s.
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder)
Language of Materials
Groom Mining District is located in Lincoln County, Nevada and produced lead and silver from the early 1870s to 1916, then again after World War II to 1950. Collection primarily consists of correspondence and includes deeds and other legal documents. Materials between 1873-1903.
Arranged in the following series: 1) Correspondence, and 2) Agreements, Deeds, and Other Legal Documents
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Holabird-Kagin Americana in August 2007.
- Business correspondence
- Deeds -- Nevada -- Lincoln County
- Groom Mining District (Nev.)
- Groom Nevada Lead Mines Company -- Records and correspondence
- Groom Southend Mining Company -- Records and correspondence
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Lincoln County
- Osborne, J. B. (Jonas Brown), 1831-1913
- Osborne, T. J., 1860-1918
- Roberts, C. N.
- Sheahan, Patrick
- Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- Lincoln County
- Wheatly, William
- Guide to the Groom Mining District Records
- Jessica Maddox
- November 2017
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Smartphones are now also heading to different gaming technology to make the experience better than before. On Tuesday, Arm introduced its new flagship Immortalis GPU with the capability of hardware-based ray tracing.
Recently, Qualcomm has also announced lightweight AR glasses with wireless capabilities, and these Glasses will be available to buy from OEMs later this year.
ARM Announced Immortalis GPU with Ray Tracing
The smartphone GPU chips leading brand ARM has made their first chip to make ray tracing possible for Android phones and tablets with its Immortalis-G715, which also includes other enhancements.
As we all know from the past few years, tech giant such as AMD & Nvidia is making their Graphic cards for PCs and Consoles with the capability to support Ray Tracing for both hardware & software, and now its the turn of the smartphone industry.
And we can’t say it is industries first GPU chip that allows Ray Tracing for smartphones. Samsung has already made one with AMD. Apple’s A15 Bionic chip & their Mali-G710 enable software-based Ray Tracing.
The company has also introduced some demos of it, which look impressive. Still, graphic quality lacks Anti-aliasing, but Ray Tracing seems better than we saw it first on PCs & Consoles.
If we talk about other specs and improvements, it has configurable 10 to 16 cores and has a performance boost of 15% from earlier, and it is also 15% more energy efficient.
For making this chip, ARM has also partnered with well-known Mediatek because the company has already used this capability, but through software-based Ray Tracing in its flagship Dimensity 9000 chipset, with the last year’s Mali-G710.
The company has also mentioned its availability. The Immortalis-G715 will be arriving in the flagship smartphones at the start of 2023.
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Blue skies, sun shining, cool nights and warm days-perfection is currently available on the Tablelands! With all this sunshine it’s the ideal time to top up the old vitamin D levels. Vitamin D, aka the ‘Sunshine vitamin’, is incredibly important to us. It’s synthesised on the skin by sunlight but there are only a few foods that contain the sunshine vitamin and not in great enough quantities to ignore the action of sunlight. The sunshine vitamin is necessary for the absorption of calcium so it’s indispensable to our bones. Rickets is not as common as it once was, but it is a prolonged vitamin D deficiency that causes it. Vitamin D deficiency has been named and shamed as contributing to a variety of conditions including osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, diabetes, weight gain, asthma and low immunity…that’s quite a list!
I’m sure that’s brought up plenty of questions so here come some answers! You’re more likely to have a vitamin D deficiency if you are vegan (more on that in a minute), have limited exposure to sun, impaired digestive function, have darker skin or the frail and/or elderly. That’s the short list but you get the idea.
As mentioned, there are some foods that contain vitamin D. These are butter, milk, egg yolks, cod liver oil and sprouted seeds. This is why vegans are at a greater risk of vitamin D deficiency. But vegans don’t need to miss out! Plant based sources include mushrooms and tofu. Some foods are fortified with vitamin D. There are also supplements. And of course, sunlight! Sunlight is the most important source of vitamin D.
And the big question is always how to get enough sunlight without risking skin cancer. I consulted the Cancer Council for this, and it turns out that we only need a few minutes of sunlight a day up here on the FNQ tablelands. Opt for times outside peak UV levels which are usually before 10am and after 3pm. Take your shirt off! The skin is a massive organ and the more you expose to sunlight the more vitamin D is made.
So, grab your morning cuppa, show some skin and bask in the morning sun to warm up and strengthen your bones the passive, lizard-inspired way!
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Wet felting is used to bind animal fibers, usually wool, by matting, condensing, and pressing them together to form a solid piece of cloth. In the felting process, hot (sometimes cold) soapy water is applied to layers of wool while repeated agitation and compression cause fibers to weave together into a single piece of fabric.
Felt is a durable natural material with antibacterial properties, stain-resistant, repels liquids, insulates even when wet and keeps you warm in the winter.
Nuno Felting is a rather new technique, invented in 1992 by Polly Sterling, an Australian fiber artist. The name is derived from the Japanese word “Nuno” meaning ‘cloth’. The technique involves felting loose fibers, usually wool, into a sheer fabric such as silk gauze or other open weave fabric, creating a soft, lightweight, and durable fabric. Nuno felted fabric is ideal for scarves, shawls, etc. or whenever you desire a lightweight fabric with a surface design. | <urn:uuid:1b343bf4-2903-4d5c-a800-5e0cd9850adf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.feltbykicka.com/process | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.92158 | 230 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Tuition Incentive Program
** We are no longer accepting applications for the 2020 TIP Cohort **
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health's Division of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (DPH-SAPC) is partnering with the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) to enhance the substance use disorder (SUD) workforce.
DPH-SAPC and CCAPP are recruiting highly motivated individuals to enroll in the Tuition Incentive Program (TIP) and become Certified Substance Use Counselors. This program is aimed at addressing issues of low economic opportunity and employment barriers in communities of color and others impacted by the War on Drugs (WoD), including: South Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and Downtown Los Angeles. If accepted into the TIP, DPH-SAPC will cover the cost of tuition and book fees for the 56-week program. After successful completion of the required coursework, candidates will have the opportunity to connect with employment opportunities in the Los Angeles County treatment provider network.
CCAPP Academy Locations:
In 2017, an estimated 14.5 million people aged 12 or older had an alcohol use disorder.– Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Substance Abuse Counselors rank #4 in Best Social Services Jobs and #50 in 100 Best Jobs. - U.S. News & World Report
In 2017, an estimated 1.7 million people aged 12 or older had a pain reliever use disorder. – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Sri Lanka reports 13 Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, toll rises to 15,112
Sat, Jan 8, 2022, 10:27 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka Saturday reported 13 deaths due to COVID-19 after the figures were confirmed by the Director General of Health Services on Friday, January 07.
Among the deaths reported today, 08 are of males and 05 of females. While the majority of deaths – 11 – are of elderly people in the 60 years and above age group. A male below 30 years of age also succumbed to the disease.
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In terms of international pricing benchmarks, according to the CP data released by Saudi Aramco, the propane contract price (CP) in March was $895 / ton, up $120 / ton from the previous month, up 15.48% from the previous month and up 43.20% from the same period last year. Butane contract price (CP) in March was 920 US dollars/ton, up 145 US dollars/ton compared with last month, up 18.71% month-on-month, up 54.62% compared with the same period last year; In March, CP in Saudi Arabia rose sharply, giving a strong boost to the international and domestic LPG market. Benchmark LPG prices are higher than a year ago as the economy continues to recover and demand for crude oil continues to repair. According to this trend, the market price of water reducing agent will also be affected to a certain extent.
Using concrete additives is the most effective, economical, and simple technical way to reduce the cement dosage, improve the utilization rate of industrial waste residue, and realize the high durability and performance improvement of concrete. It is a necessary material for manufacturing modern concrete. It is regarded as the third breakthrough of concrete technology after reinforced concrete and prestressed reinforced concrete.
Development Course of Water Reducing Agent:
As one of the most important concrete additives, water reducing agent plays an irreplaceable role in the development of modern concrete. Since the 1960s, Japan and Federal Germany have developed β -naphthalene sulfonate formaldehyde condensates and melamine-formaldehyde condensates superplasticizer, commonly known as high efficient water reducing agent, resulting in the worldwide high efficient water reducing agent research, development, and application of the boom.
This kind of traditional polyelectrolyte water-reducing agent, including naphthalene, melamine, sulfamate, and lentisulfonate, has a good working performance for fresh concrete, has been continuously developed and applied for more than 30 years, and still occupies a certain market share. At that time, due to the limitations of their own structure and dispersive mechanism, they had a series of insurmountable problems, such as large slump, large shrinkage, and environmentally unfriendly.
Later, the development of polymer synthesis technology accelerated the development of new efficient water reducing agents. In the early 1980s, Japan took the lead in successfully developing polycarboxylate series water reducing agents. This new generation of polycarboxylate superplasticizer overcomes some disadvantages of traditional superplasticizers and has such outstanding advantages as low yield, good slump protection performance, the low shrinkage rate of concrete, and strong adjustability of molecular structure, large potential of high performance, and no use of formaldehyde in the production process. It is the developing direction of high-performance concrete admixture at present.
Introduction to Polycarboxylate-based High-performance Water Reducing Agent:
Polycarboxylate-based high-performance water reducing agent is defined as containing carboxylic unsaturated monomer and other monomer copolymerization. It is a type of water reducing agent with excellent performance used to help concrete with reducing water, collapse protection, strengthening, shrinkage, and environmental protection.
According to the invention patents all over the world, polycarboxylate-based high-performance water reducing agents can be divided into two categories according to the structure of the main chain: 1. Polyether with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid as the main chain grafted with different side chain lengths. 2. Polyether with maleic anhydride as the ink branch with different side-chain lengths. At present, the main differences of polycarboxylate products on the market lie in: the main chain chemical structure and length, side-chain type, length and graft density, Ionic group content, molecular weight size, and distribution. Because the molecular structure of polycarboxylate has a large degree of freedom, it possesses the potential for high performance.
Suppliers of Superplasticizer:
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We accept payment via Credit Card, T/T, West Union, and Paypal. Trunnano will ship the goods to customers overseas through FedEx, DHL, by air, or by sea.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected economies and chemical companies in many countries around the world. Measures such as extending holidays and resuming work were taken to control the development of the epidemic, and the normal operation of some chemical enterprises was also affected to some extent.
We provides high quality water reducing agent with reasonable price. “In order to feedback to old customers, the company is still in full operations to provide water reducing agent with competitive price.” said Olina, the sales manager.
Chemical production is highly dependent on transportation, and the epidemic affects the circulation of people and materials first. Predictably, none of this is rosy. In densely populated areas with large mobility, the situation of epidemic prevention and control becomes more severe in the later stage. If you are looking for the water reducing agent, feel free to contact us.
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Early strength agent is an admixture which accelerates the development of concrete early strength and has no significant effect on later strength.…
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Left Hand Flexibility for Bassists
When playing the bass, flexibility is far more important than strength. In fact, if body mechanics and gravity are used intelligently it takes surprisingly little strength to play our instrument. Flexibility, however, is paramount to many of the things we must do well. In the left hand (or fingering hand for the lefties!) it is especially important. Lack of flexibility can have an adverse effect on intonation, can limit fingering choices and can even cause pain and damage to our bodies over time.
There are a great number of stretches and exercises we can do away from our instrument to help maintain or improve flexibility. These are valuable, but playing a few exercises at the instrument itself is also essential if we are to take our flexibility and apply it directly to our playing. The following exercises can be helpful in this regard.
Some notes on the exercises:
- Always use minimum effort, use weight over muscle whenever possible. Concentrate on ease of motion. Keep the fingers light on the string.
- Release into the extensions and stretches: never force it.
- Keep the thumb loose, flexible and only lightly touching the neck when not in thumb position.
- Widen at the base joints of your hand (the ones closest to your palms).
- If you can’t make the complete extension as notated, don’t worry. Stop when you reach your limit and contract.
- Don’t push too far too quickly. Take your time and look for gains over weeks and months. A few minutes a day is sufficient.
- If it hurts, stop.
- Slide between every pitch. Hear every microtone as you extend and contract your fingers.
Lower note stable – Ex. 1:
Lower note stable – Ex. 2:
*Apply this concept to every possible finger combination an all sets of adjacent strings in both neck position and thumb position..
Upper note stable – Ex. 1:
Upper note stable – Ex. 2:
*Apply this concept to every possible finger combination an all sets of adjacent strings in both neck position and thumb position.
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There are times during speech-mapping hearing aid verification, when I need a bit more gain to match target, I increase gain in the hearing aid fitting software in the higher frequencies, but I don't see any increase in the real ear aided response output. What's going on?
It’s certainly tempting to think that there is something wrong with the software, the hearing aid, or maybe a procedural problem with the probe microphone. The most probable reason for this finding, however, is that the fitting is open and you are using the incorrect equalization method. This is sort of old news, as Todd Ricketts and I published a paper on this 12 years ago, but maybe the message never found its way to you.
Historically, going back to the 1980s, we've typically used concurrent equalization. Concurrent equalization means that the reference microphone is continually on, and is continually monitoring the output signal. This loop enables it to maintain the output signal at whatever level you set it, and its constant monitoring allows for corrections of minor head movements. This is the default equalization procedure in most, if not all, probe-mic equipment.
There is a second equalization option called stored equalization. With stored equalization, you calibrate everything initially, but then you turn the reference microphone off. While you're conducting your testing, it is not calibrating. With stored equalization, the patient can't move his head because you have calibrated it to one specific place. With most probe equipment, since concurrent equalization is the default, you have to actively select something in the probe-mic fitting software to change to stored equalization. Stored equalization is used with open fittings, so depending on what equipment you use, you may have to select "open fitting" or "open" or something similar in the software in order to use stored equalization—check with your manufacturer if you’re not sure how to access this setting.
So back to your question—What happens if you forget to do this and you accidentally use concurrent equalization with a patient who has a relatively open fitting? Amplified sound will leak out of the ear canal and be picked up by the reference microphone which is still active. If you have the hearing aids set to 15 dB of gain or more, which is usually the case, it is very possible that this sound leaking out of the ear is greater than the sound coming out of the loudspeaker. The reference microphone thinks the sound leaking out of the ear is output from the loudspeaker, and automatically reduces the input. You think you are using the input you selected on the screen, when actually the reference mic is actively reducing the input because it's responding to the sound leaking out of the ear. On your screen, the result will be less than the true hearing aid output. The more you turn up the gain, the more sound leaks out of the ear. The more sound that leaks out, the more the reference mic turns down the input.
Several factors will affect the magnitude of this error. The more gain you have in the hearing aid, the greater the likelihood this will happen, and the bigger the mistake. The better your feedback reduction system is in the hearing aid, the more likely this will happen because it will allow you to put in more gain. How open your fitting is will also affect this, because you will see this effect at the residual ear canal resonance of the patient. So, if you have a very open fitting, you'll likely maintain nearly all of the patient's ear canal resonance, which is typically in the area of 2000 - 3000 Hz, and that's where you will usually see this mistake (i.e., if the ear canal resonance is 20 dB, this will be added to the amplified input signal for this frequency region).
In Figure 1, I show a case where I used both the correct equalization (stored; pink curve) and the incorrect equalization (concurrent; green curve) for an open fitting. As you can see in Figure 1a, with the concurrent equalization, the result was an almost perfect fit to target, except for a 5 dB dip at 3 kHz. Being a prudent target-fitting audiologist, I'm going to start turning up gain to see if I can hit the 3K target. With the equipment still set to concurrent equalization, I raised gain until I nailed my target at 3 kHz. Then, I went in and used the correct equalization - stored equalization - to see the actual output in the ear, shown in Figure 1b. You see by the pink curve in Figure 1b, that using the incorrect equalization would have resulted in a very serious mistake in this case - overshooting the target by about 18 dB. I have heard people say that the NAL-NL2 is too tinny and causes feedback. Well, in many cases, the problem may be that the wrong equalization procedure was used, resulting in 15 to 20 dB more gain or output than what the fitter thought they were getting, and the fitting was nowhere near the NAL-NL2 targets.
It is critical to pick the correct equalization, and with open fittings the correct choice is stored equalization. You also can use stored equalization with closed fittings if you want to - just remember that once you have the equalization stored, then the patient can't move his or her head during your measurements.
Figure 1a (left) and 1b (right). Using stored equalization (pink curve) and concurrent equalization (green curve) with an open fitting. Using concurrent equalization with an open fitting can result in the erroneous conclusion that the output is below target (Figure 1a, green curve). This error is further confounded if the fitter compensates by increasing gain and overshooting the target (Figure 1b).
Okay, that all makes sense, but here is a follow-up question. What if I'm using the correct equalization, and I see something similar - then what?
So what if you are seeing this same problem, but you know it has nothing to do with the type of equalization? Again, there could be a couple different reasons for this, but my first thought would be to consider your MPO settings. In particular, if increasing gain does not result in a change, or only a minimal change in the REAR only at the highest input level, which is usually around 75 dB, your observation could be related to the MPO. This means you might want to take a look at the REAR85—as measure that once was called the RESR (real ear saturation response), but in the most recent ANSI standard it's been changed to the REAR85 (or REAR90 if you use that input level). That is the brown line in Figure 2 and is a swept tone, usually conducted at 85 dB SPL.
The white asterisks at the top of the graph connected by the white line are the measured, frequency-specific loudness discomfort levels (LDLs) at 500 Hz, 1500 Hz and 3 kHz. It is important to measure frequency specific LDLs to determine the targets, as the REAR85 should fall 5 dB or so below those levels. Do not use average LDLs as there is a very wide range of "average" and you may well be off the mark for your individual patient. The MPO fitting in Figure 2 is a pretty good match to target (just below measured LDLs). You have multichannel AGC-O, so at 1k Hz, I would take the kneepoint and lower it about 5 dB so that the 85 dB SPL swept tone curve falls below the LDLs about 5 dB all the across the spectrum.
Figure 2. Consider the relationship between the MPO setting and the peaks of speech.
The teaching point here relates to the earlier problem: If you have very low MPO settings, as you raise the gain of the instrument, you may not see an increase in the REAR, simply because you're bumping up against the AGC-O. In this case, you would have to decide whether the MPO is set correctly, and then decide how to manage the issue. What you'd normally want to see is a very systematic separation between your REAR curves for soft, average and loud inputs. If you have roughly the same distance between the soft and average curves as between the average and loud curves, you're likely in good shape. | <urn:uuid:a7016f62-6b94-4da2-9fa4-d216ebb8f94d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.audiologyonline.com/ask-the-experts/speechmapping-puzzling-results-22127 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955102 | 1,738 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Brain Waves: The Wise Whale
In Brainwaves: The Wise Whale, players lay nine cards showing different colorful sea creatures face down after trying to memorize which creatures are on which cards. During a player’s turn, they reveal a new card from the deck. Then, they must reveal a card that matches either the creature or the color on this new card. If they do, they claim this card, and then lay out a new card face down in its place. Whoever collects the most cards wins. For 1-4 Players. For ages 8 and up. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3yrs. | <urn:uuid:958f05fe-b396-47ee-acca-c8a7df1b788b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jazams.com/products/brain-waves-the-wise-whale | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938774 | 144 | 2.875 | 3 |
Novel expertise, together with custom LASIK, has developed results for a multitude of LASIK patients.
LASIK or Laser assisted in situ keratomileusis is an eye-sight rectification method that can amend optical blunders like astigmatism, myopia (short-sightedness) and hyperopia (distant-sightedness). Fresh technical dimension like custom LASIK enriches its consequences for an array of LASIK under-goers.
Custom LASIK enables the surgeon to not only deal with the refractory deficit, but also with higher level abnormalities. Complex grade irregularities are the vision troubles that need distinctive examinations for detection and cannot be solved by just quality corrective lenses. Inabilities to see at night, loss of sight in low-light consequences, starbursts, failure to stare for a long time are some of the instances of such abnormalities. Custom LASIK technique perfectly assesses every patient’s higher level peculiarities. It is simply like gaining a corneal “fingerprint” of every single patient. Surgeons then utilize these “fingerprint” dimensions to conduct a tailor-made LASIK over the one.
LASIK surgeons have been stimulated by the outcome of maximum tailor-made LASIK processes. Since the procedure can be customized to the definite need of every patient, the potentiality of any after-surgery consequence is minimal at Custom LASIK. In essence, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy Surgeons General sanctioned custom LASIK for their combatant flyers. Aeronautical researches post custom LASIK demonstrated healthier after-surgery night-time eye-sight for flying jobs like landing plane haulers at dim atmospheres.
Every individual’s eye pairs are different and each one will realize a distinctive consequence of laser eye-sight rectification technique. To know whether LASIK is apt for you, meet a certified and veteran LASIK surgeon. | <urn:uuid:10060d50-9ef5-41dc-83c2-fea50480719b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.delhieyecentre.in/news/what-is-the-concept-of-custom-lasik/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.869826 | 413 | 1.5 | 2 |
Health care spending growth is slow but rising
Health care costs have been growing at a historically low rate but are poised to increase again starting this year, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report out today.
Though growth over the next nine years is likely to be lower than it was from the 1990s through most of the 2000s, it will average 6% from 2015 to 2023, up from the 5.8% CMS predicted last year.
That's below the 7.2% increase in health care spending from 1990 through 2008.
The growth in health spending for 2013 is estimated to have slowed to 3.6%, but the rate will rise to 5.6% for 2014, the report says.
The leading contributors to the increased growth are more people being covered through the Affordable Care Act, expected economic growth and the aging population, CMS says. Some of the impact on the older populations is tempered by the fact that Baby Boomers are healthier than many other new enrollees in Medicare as most are coming from private insurance, the study says.
Since the 2007-08 recession, economic recovery has been weaker than anticipated, which has tamped down the rate of health care spending.
Every year, CMS releases an analysis of how Americans are likely to spend their health care dollars in the coming decade.
Sean Keehan, a study co-author, says increasingly high health care cost-sharing by consumers helps to slow growth. When people, rather than their insurers and employers, pay more out of pocket for their health care, they simply choose to have fewer procedures.
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner says the report shows "health care costs are increasing at a slower rate thanks to the Affordable Care Act."
The number of uninsured is likely to decline by nearly half from 45 million in 2012 to 23 million by 2023 as a result of the coverage expansions associated with the Affordable Care Act, the CMS report says.
Dave Osterndorf, a chief actuary at benefits consulting firm Towers Watson, says that although the report largely tracks CMS and the Congressional Budget Office's reports on health care spending growth, much of the economic growth will come from hiring at companies that provide health insurance.
"Health care spending growth will continue to outpace the rest of the economy, so all payers – employers, government and consumers – will have an incentive to try to control costs," Osterndorf says. | <urn:uuid:e6c41db5-cbaa-4828-a9c7-108a49171a5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/03/health-care-spending-projections-obamacare-aging/15025709/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972304 | 492 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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The traditional warm, dry summer weather has returned to North Bend. As the weather continues to warm and land dries out, brush fire risk increases. There are simple, low-cost changes you can make around your home and yard to increase wildfire safety.
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The AGU Fall Meeting 2019 abstract submission deadline is 31 July. Please consider submitting your abstract to the session 'Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change (B128)'. Session conveners are Christina Schaedel and Elaine Pegoraro. For submitting your abstract to our session you can use the following link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81978
Session Details: Permafrost carbon (C) remains one of the most important C cycle feedbacks to climate, with implications for global society. Permafrost region soils contain 1440-1600 billion tons of C; release of just a fraction of this pool as carbon dioxide and methane can accelerate climate change. Permafrost degradation can change ecosystem C storage by enhancing microbial activity and ecosystem respiration, but can also stimulate plant growth and increase C stored in vegetation and surface soil. This session invites papers that examine factors causing losses and gains in permafrost C that contribute to current observations and future projections of changing permafrost C through time. Papers may address any aspect of this topic from microbial communities to the global scale, using a range of field or laboratory measurements or modeling to detect and forecast permafrost thaw and the influence on the C cycle and future climate. | <urn:uuid:f7b627f8-a975-4dd1-853b-92552d9efa4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.apecs.is/news/polar-and-alpine-community-news/3352-call-for-abstracts-agu-2019-vulnerability-of-permafrost-carbon-to-climate-change.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.85329 | 268 | 2.03125 | 2 |
“Justice” book is a series of articles published at Akhbar al Youm Newspaper, since August till November, 2013, titled “Principles”.
Justice is one trait of God – blessed be His name. Justice and truth constitute the base of the judgment of God, the perfectly just One. God demanded man to pursue his life justly, as fulfilling justice on earth is a humane and spiritual duty, and it is the base of spreading peace, prosperity, and construction of societies.
We have tackled the concept of justice in language, in the philosophic notions and in religions. Then we discussed the concept of God’s justice through stories and situations of some historical figures. Afterwards, we previewed justice in societies, and the relation between justice and other virtues like mercy and peace. We have also referred to the social justice and the importance of it being applied to societies, which are destructed by oppression. Eventually, we pointed out to some fair characters in the history of mankind.
May God make this book a reason of blessing for all who read it, through the intercessions of St. Virgin Mary, the prayers of the great martyr St. Mark the Apostle, the preacher of Egyptian homes, and through the prayers of His Holiness Great Pope Tawadros II, the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
31st of August, 2015 AD
25th of Misra, 1731 AM
The anniversary of the 114th Pope, Macarius’ departure
The General Bishop
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The news of the ‘moon wobble’, or further instability in the moon’s orbit in the 2030s, comes as devastating floods have been seen worldwide in July, with Germany, Belgium and China seeing sweeping floods across rural and metropolitan areas which have left hundreds missing and thousands homeless.
The study carried out by NASA is the first to take both oceanic and astronomical flood causes into account, with the results indicating that the next moon wobble to occur could see mass high tide flooding across US coasts and beyond, with rising sea levels aligning more closely with lunar cycles set to have a drastic impact on coastal cities and neighbourhoods.
Moon wobbles might sound like a new phenomenon, but they have been occurring since as early as the 1700s, according to NASA.
But the next phase of the shift in the moon’s orbit merits greater concern, scientists have said – here’s why.
What is a ‘moon wobble’?
Unlike the Chandler Wobble, which describes the movements in the Earth’s orbit, a moon wobble describes the fluctuations in the moon’s orbit – with wobbles occurring as a result of changes in the moon’s elliptical orbit and their resulting gravitational pull on the Earth.
Such changes are part of the moon’s natural cycle, in which its 18.6 year span is split down the middle, with half of its cycle seeing more suppressed daily tide levels and the other half amplifying tide levels.
With the moon currently in the latter half of the cycle, it’s easy to see the impact rippling out across the world as flooding appears to have hit much harder than years previously.
Rising sea levels make matters much worse, however, as their continued surge is currently being amplified by the moon’s more extreme gravitational pull on the Earth.
And it is this that NASA scientists believe means that when this half of the moon’s cycle returns in the mid-2030s, the impact on coastal communities worldwide could be devastating.
How is climate crisis making it worse?
The NASA study indicates that while flooding along US coastlines has not yet become too significant or topped flooding thresholds, the next decade “will be a different story” as “global sea level rise will have been at work for another decade”.
With this set to see a huge rise in flooding events across all of the US’ mainland coastlines as well as Hawaii and Guam, the rest of the world is also due to experience the dramatic effects of climate crisis on rising sea levels combined with the amplifying effects of the lunar cycle and moon wobble.
Since satellite data for global sea levels first began to be monitored by NASA in 1993, global sea levels have risen by an average of 3.4 millimetres.
These were most recently recorded in March 2021 as climbing to 96.7 millimetres – an increase by over 10mm in the last five years.
Will the UK be affected by moon wobble flooding?
NASA’s study, while focusing on US coasts and regions likely to be hit hard by nuisance flooding, also indicates similar rises in flood risks for low-lying areas worldwide if sea levels continue to climb.
“Low-lying areas near sea level are increasingly at risk and suffering due to the increased flooding, and it will only get worse,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “The combination of the Moon’s gravitational pull, rising sea levels, and climate change will continue to exacerbate coastal flooding on our coastlines and across the world."
Phil Thompson, assistant professor at the University of Hawaii and lead author of the new study, said: “It’s the accumulated effect over time that will have an impact.
“But if it floods 10 or 15 times a month, a business can’t keep operating with its parking lot under water.
"People lose their jobs because they can’t get to work. Seeping cesspools become a public health issue.”
In the UK, low-lying areas in Scotland with rivers and coasts nearby are among those often prone to flooding, and recent outlooks by climate awareness organisation Climate Central predict that many coastal areas of the UK, including parts of Falkirk, Fife and Glasgow, as well as English areas like Grimsby, Hull and Southport, could be below water level by 2050.
With Scottish climate experts recently warning that Scottish areas like Edinburgh, which was hit by sweeping flash floods and considerable rainfall at the start of this month, could see more severe weather events, it is likely that the impact of the moon wobbles in 2030 will amplify flooding in the UK – particularly when combined with storm surges and an increasingly volatile atmospheric climate. | <urn:uuid:f5d047f3-dcd5-4620-9f59-d228ac923c56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scotsman.com/news/weather/moon-wobble-what-is-the-moon-wobble-what-causes-it-and-will-it-impact-the-uk-3319369 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959831 | 988 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Vayaira – Chayai Sarah 5771
BS”D Vayaira and Chayai Sarah 5771
Among the many questions that arise from the parasha, one is conspicuously glaring.
When HaShem informed Avraham of His intention to destroy the five totally evil cities of the-then fabulous area of the eastern plain (picture Las Vegas or San Fransisco), Avraham reacted in defense of the evil doers by beseeching HaShem to find some way to spare them. However, when Avraham was told to take his beloved son Yitzchak and offer him up as a sacrifice, Avraham obediently accepted Yitzchak’s fate without uttering a word in defense of his son. Why?
The fate of the peoples of the plain was sealed by the evil they had wrought. However, Avraham, being the tzaddik that he was, believed that no man is beyond teshuva when the circumstances of his present existence change. Fifty righteous men should be sufficient to save the lives of the cities, claimed Avraham; and he even succeeded in lowering the number to ten righteous men. Today the majority of those people are evil, but there is hope for tomorrow.
This is the task of the tzaddik, to eradicate evil while inspiring the evildoer to change.
The episode of Yitzchak was on a quantum different spiritual level. Yitzchak’s life was to be taken away not as a punishment for sins committed, but for quite the contrary. His death as a sacrifice would raise up his soul to a spiritual sphere that no soul before him had ever reached. His soul was to enter into the most inner spiritual precincts of creation, just short of the kisay hakavod – the highest throne of HaShem.
In these circumstances, could Avraham have requested that Hashem renege on His desire to draw Yitzchak to Him?!
When surveying the difficult history of our people in Eretz Yisrael from the first day of our independence in 1948 until now, one might conclude that HaShem chose this generation of Jews in the Holy Land for collective punishment. Wars, rationing, economic hardship, terror, military threats, absorption of millions of olim, boycotts, international condemnations, etc. – all these and more have been the lot of the Jews who have returned home. One might conclude that HaShem is relating to us with the severe quality of judgment (midat hadin) somewhat along the same lines – though not as extreme – as the judgment meted out to the people of Sedom and Amora, Ninveh and Rome – each in his time.
However, nothing could be further from the truth.
The difficulties we are facing are not punishments. Rather they fall into the category of akaidat Yitzchak, who underwent immense stress in order to reach greater spiritual heights. So too, the difficulties we are facing in the Holy Land are all designed to raise us to unprecedented spiritual heights.
Throughout our two thousand years of galut when any “two-bit” Christian or Moslem criminal could kill, burn, exile and force conversion on any Jew or on an entire Jewish community, we were powerless to defend ourselves. This untenable situation produced a psychological response within the leadership, and certainly among the nation as a whole, that this would be our fate until the Mashiach appears.
Our lot was to be trampled upon, crushed, violated, encroached on, annihilated, repressed, scattered, subdued, subjugated, suppressed – eventually to be branded with a number and then turned into soap. It is an ugly picture of what the galut did to us.
The results of the inhumane treatment we received at the hands of the goyim is projected in the most glaring way in pictures of Jews in Eastern Europe and the Mellahs of North Africa.
“These cannot be the people whom God had chosen, for it is so easy to dehumanize them”, was the accepted feeling among the Church leadership and the Imams of Islam.
We were universally viewed as the eternal “wandering Jew,” cursed because of our rejection of Muhamed according to Islam and our rejection of Yeshu according to Christianity.
It was so accepted and logical that many Jews willingly converted out of Judaism, while those who remained faithful stooped low under the physical and mental loads of “Jude” yellow patches and other degradations – each Jew with his own personal inferiority complex.
Out of the ashes of our degradation, HaShem created Medinat Yisrael. On the 5th of Iyar 5708 (May 14, 1948) Jews all over the world looked up to see the flag of Israel raised in Yerushalayim. The following day we were invaded by seven Arab armies (with many German volunteers), led by British officers. The barely existent and fledgling army of Israel defeated the invaders and increased the size of the Medinah threefold. Jewish hearts began to pulsate as they had not done in 2000 years. A Jewish homeland in Eretz Yisrael! A 2000-year dream come true, just as the prophets had predicted.
Jewish soldiers destroyed the enemy, which had not been done in Spain, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Yemen, Iraq and more.
With each military victory the Jewish soul comes closer to healing. Every air force sortee, every enemy killed, indeed every house and tree has revived the atrophied hopes and dreams of our people.
Here in Eretz Yisrael, HaShem the ultimate healer, is drawing us away from the galut complex of pessimism, inactivity, acceptance of anti-Semitism, passivity and tolerance as second-rate citizens in gentile lands.
The difficulties we are encountering here are aimed at drawing us closer to Hashem as His chosen people, just as Yitzchak was drawn closer to HaShem while being bound on the altar waiting to be sacrificed.
With every terrorist that we kill, whether he be from Chamas, Chizbala, “Palestinian?” authority, flotilla terrorists or their supporters – the world becomes a cleaner, more hygienic place and we take one more giant step away from the inferiority complex imposed upon us by the galut.
Now if one should argue that this is not the way of gentle, happy, compassionate, Chofetz Chaim Judaism, recall that the Jewish nation upon entering the Holy Land was commanded to perform three immediate mitzvot: After appointing a king (leadership), the king would then raise an army to destroy Amalek and then build the Bet Ha’Mikdash.
We don’t have a king today, but we have national leadership. We cannot build the Bet Hamikdash at this moment in our history, but we can plan and study its laws and rituals. Amalek? They abound here within the land as a fifth column and without. The Rambam defines Amalek as anyone who plans, dreams and prepares to kill Jews. The mitzva of destroying Amalek is being carried out daily, albeit not at the rate that would have satisfied the prophet Shmuel when he admonished King Shaul for not fulfilling the mitzva in its entirety.
Often, when walking down the street and seeing a soldier with beard and payot, I put my hand on his shoulder and say, “This is how a Jewish soldier has to look”. I would do it to every soldier, but the ones with beard and payot understand what I mean and embarrassingly reply “toda”.
To be convinced of what I stated above, one need not do more than compare the links in the generation chain in Eretz Yisrael with those in the galut.
Tens of thousands of our youth study Torah in yeshivot and ulpanot (girls’ schools) implementing their studies in the love of the land and pride in being Jewish. They serve in the army in the most dangerous and special units for the boys, and National Service for the girls. They know Yerushalayim, the Temple Mount, Chevron and all other holy places like the palm of their hands.
Their brains are not occupied with fast cars, great weekends, the Giants against the Eagles, Harvard or Princeton. Our healthy youth worry about the next hillside and how to connect it to the nearby settlement.
The galut Jew continues in his atrophied state of do-nothing of historic importance, while their Jewish identification wilts as an unused muscle and paralyzed limb.
Eretz Yisrael is called “Eretz Ha’chayim” because here a Jew comes alive, Chazal declared every inch of chutz la’aretz to be contaminated with “Tum’at eretz ha’amim” – the gentile lands of impurity, because the soul of a Jew who lives there becomes inflicted with its tuma.
We still have a way to go to rid ourselves of the 2000 years of galut, as witnessed by Medina’s concern about what the “nations” might say if we act in our defense, or the presence of such a large number of disloyal Arabs in the country, or the large influx of illegal Africans to the country, or the limitations put upon soldiers even when waging a war. But time will teach us how to act.
The strong and proud stance of a Jew, as expressed in parashat Vayaira, would seem to appear incompatible with Avraham’s demeanor vis-a-vie the municipal leaders of Chevron. He bowed down twice before them while negotiating the purchase of Me’arat Ha’machpela as a burial place for Sarah.
We find a similar passivity on the part of Ya’akov when he prostrated himself seven times before his brother Aisav, and when he objected to what his two sons, Shimon and Levi had done to the city of Shechem.
Is this the same Avraham who led his army of 318 men in battle against the four kings, destroying them and their nations? Is this the same Ya’akov who was prepared to do battle with his brother Aisav, if need be?
So who were the real Avraham and Ya’akov? Were they like the Jews of Europe’s ghettos and those of Brooklyn, or like the soldiers of King David and the soldiers of Medinat Yisrael’s navy commandos?
I submit that Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya’akov were servants of HaShem. They did not act in accordance with their personal feelings or thoughts, but what would best serve the “idea” for which the world was created – the Jewish nation that will connect the spiritual and physical worlds through the Torah.
When we first meet the nation’s fathers and mothers in the Torah, they are just a family and not yet a nation. The antagonism of the goyim in Eretz Yisrael to the first Jews in the world was personal – Nimrod against Avraham, Paro of Egypt against Avraham, Avimelech the Phillistine against Avraham, Lavan against Ya’akov and the people of Shechem against Ya’akov’s family.
Individuals against individuals.
On this level, the enemy is also to be seen as individuals, with no collective responsibility on those surrounding them.
When receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, we attained the status not only of a nation but of God’s chosen nation. From then on, until this very day, the antagonism of the gentile turned into establishment, institutionalized “anti-Semitism” – hatred of the Jew because we are God’s chosen people – and was directed against both the collective “Jewish nation” and against every individual Jew.
Here everything changed.
The antagonism of individuals towards individuals changed to religions vs. Judaism and gentile nations vs. the Jewish nation.
Now here the lesson for our time.
Before the Allies bombed the city of Dresden, Germany – eventually killing over 200,000 residents – did they warn the civilians to leave?
Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “atomized” and reduced to ashes, did the US warn the Japanese to evacuate their women and children?
War, by definition, is not one individual soldier confronting another individual soldier on the other’s land. It is the battle for life between nations.
In this situation the men fight, the women support and the children dream of revenge. There are no innocents among those who identify with the enemy.
When Yehoshua liberated the Holy Land from the occupying Canaanites, not one Canaanite leftist professor was left to write their history. King David knew this when he fought in his time, and his future descendant – the Mashiach – will also know how to treat the collective enemies of Am Yisrael.
We, in Medinat Yisrael, are fighting two wars. One is the silent undeclared war of the Christian world against us, because we are God’s chosen nation and they know it.
The other is the declared war of Islam fought by the battalions of the Arab countries, the PLO, and Iran through their proxies of Chamas and Chizbala.
In this war against Islam, there is no place for traitors of the ilk as the South African Judge Goldstone or the so-called Human Rights Commission of the UN, who would have every Israeli soldier to be accompanied with a legal expert advising him when he may or may not shoot – if the soldier lives long enough for the expert to check his legal books.
The soldiers of Tzahal are the emissaries of the millions of Jews who were murdered by the gentiles for their one “crime” of being Jews.
The responsibility of the Israeli government is to expose the hypocrisy of the Christian and Moslem religions, and give the green light to the soldiers of Tzahal to perform their duty in protecting the Jews in Eretz Yisrael – in the spirit of Yehoshua bin Nun, King David – and Dresden.
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The building which houses the hotel was built in 1911. Maria Luisa Eizaga was born here and it was her family home until 1987, when Mari Carmen Alonso and Jose Ignacio Alkorta decided to remodel the house and turn it into a hotel.
It became Mundaka's first hotel and it is one of the first hotels in the region. The building has typical English architecture and is classified as being of architectural interest.
This unique building has strong lines that stand out from Atalaya park in Mundaka. It is located in front of the church and very near the sea.
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The grandson of Genghis Khan Hulagu is known for destroying and plundering the prosperous city of Baghdad in 1258.
A joint group of Mongolian and Turkish archaeologists believe that they have discovered in the province of Van in eastern Turkey the ruins of the palace of Genghis Khan's grandson, Khan Hulagu. But other scientists aren't so sure and say more research is needed, according to Business Insider.
Scientists who have been excavating in Turkey suggest they may have discovered the remains of Genghis Khan's grandson's palace. During the excavations, the remains of tiles for the roof, bricks for the walls, as well as ceramic dishes were found. Scientists believe that this place could be the palace of Khan Khulagu, which was built in the 1260s.
Various historical records of the 13th century indicate that the Hulagu Palace was located exactly at the place where the excavations were carried out. Archaeologists also found S-shaped symbols similar to a swastika on the tiles.
“Although now the swastika is associated with Nazi Germany, in the 13th century it was one of the symbols of the Khan's power in the Mongolian states. And here the Hulagu palace could have been built in the era of the Ilkhanate” , says archaeologist Munkhtulga Rinchinhorol.
Khan Hulagu (1217 – 1265) was one of the leaders of the Mongols during their conquest of the Middle East. He is known for capturing, almost completely destroying and sacking the prosperous city of Baghdad in 1258.
Already in 1259, the huge Mongol Empire began to disintegrate into smaller parts. One of the countries that appeared on the map after the collapse of the empire was the Ilkhanate. This state just created Hulagu in 1256 and it lasted until 1335. The country included a significant part of the Middle East and Western Asia, as well as the eastern part of modern Turkey.
“Our excavations continue, but this palace, which we believe could belong to Hulagu, has been heavily looted and destroyed. The discovered historical artifacts, plus data from historical sources, still indicate that this is the Khan's palace,” says Rinchinhorol.
But Timothy May of the University of North Georgia, USA, believes that this palace may have belonged to Hulagu, but more research is needed to be convinced of this.
“I do not rule out that it could be Hulagu's palace. But in the 13th century, it was an important region for the Mongols, where you can find the ruins of settlements and even palaces from the Ilkhanate period, but the fact that this is the palace of Hulagu Khan has yet to be proven,” says Michael Hope from Yonsei University, Korea.
According to archaeologists who are excavating in Turkey, they will provide a full report on their research in the coming months.
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If we want to successfully perform any surface tratment repairing process, we must first understand how the manufacturer is applying the coats and prepairing the piece/vehicle in order to achieve its final result.
Basically, the body is washed, degreased, electrodipped in zinc phosphate, oven baked, sanded, sealed, dried, cleaned (with chemicals), primered, baked, painted, baked, clear coated, baked and then inspected for faults (which are repaired). All high volume manufacturers have fully automated lines that take between 14-18 hours to finish a single body.
Even if the paint process may be different among manufacturer & sectors, the main process looks something like this:
The result is layers of carefully laid out coats, all of which put together is only slightly thicker than the average human hair.
Cathodic e-coating gives the car body a primer coat. It protects the car from corrosion , especially the cavities of the body that cannot be reached easily by spray application.
Primer: evens out any irregularities of the underlying layer. It can be sanded easily and provides a smooth surface.
Basecoat: gives the main color to the piece, therefore it plays a significant role in establishing the final visual impression.
Clearcoat: seals everything else and is applied last. It protects the car from external elements like snow, UV radiation, dirt, etc…
Why is this important? Because it will help you imitate the factory finishing in your workshop and achieve a better result on your repairs. Next time you perform a paint job, check the background on that piece! Knowledge is everything.
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The News Where You Are
That’s all from us. Now it’s time for the news where you are.
The news where you are comes after the news where we are. The news where we are is the news. It comes first. The news where you are is the news where you are. It comes after. We do not have the news where you are.
The news where you are may be news to you but it is not news to us.
The news may be international, national or regional. The news where we are may be international news. The news where you are is never international news. Where you are is not international. The news where you are comes after the international and national news.
The news where you are may be national news or regional news. However, national news where you are is not national news where we are. It is the news where you are.
If the news where you are is national news it is only national where you are.
The news where we are is national wherever you are.
On Saturdays, there is no news where you are after the news where we are. In fact there is no news where you are on Saturdays. Any news there is, is not where you are. It is where we are. If there is news where you are but not where we are it will wait until Sunday.
After the news where you are comes the weather.
The weather where you are is not the national weather. The weather where you are comes after the news where you are, and after the weather where you are comes the national weather. Do not confuse the national weather with the weather where you are. The weather where you are comes first but is lesser weather than the national weather.
Extreme weather is news. However, weather that is more extreme where you are than where we are is not news. Weather that is extreme where we are is news, even if extreme weather where we are is only average weather where you are.
On average, weather where you are is more extreme than weather where we are.
First to go was the television. That wasn’t hard. It was mostly rubbish that came out of it anyway. And the news was better on the radio. No, not better, weightier. Yes, that was part of what she craved: substance.
Next, the computer. The daily wade through e-mails, the fatuous chatter of so-called friends on social networks – gone. She had to cancel her on-line banking facility, and arrange to receive bills by post and pay them by cheque, and this would be dearer but she didn’t care, there was something civilised about slowing down. She found her old typewriter in a cupboard but the ribbon was dry and the keys stiff, so she took it to the charity shop, and rediscovered the pleasure of writing with a fountain pen. Her first correspondence was with the TV licensing authority, who assumed she was either mistaken or lying.
The mobile phone went. One last text went out to everybody – AS OF NOW I AM NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON THIS NUMBER – and, once she’d chopped the SIM card up with the herb cutter and recycled the dead phone, she wasn’t.
For six days she lived in blissful tranquillity, sleeping, gardening, making soup and reading Anthony Trollope.
On the seventh day her daughter arrived, puce with rage. ‘So you’re not dead or lying helpless on the floor,’ she said.
‘It would seem not.’
‘And how would I have known? All my messages have bounced back and your answer-machine’s not working.’
‘It was, when I took it to the charity shop.’
‘What’s going on, mum?‘
‘I want to go back,’ she said. ‘I hate this world of gadgets. I hate that word “connectivity”. I don’t want that, I want human contact. And look, here you are. You’ve come to see me for the first time in months. I’ll make some coffee.’
‘This is pure hypocrisy,’ her daughter said. ‘I bet I know how you spend your days now – with your nose stuck in a book and your mind so far removed from reality that you don’t hear the phone ringing. What kind of human contact is that?’
‘You have a point,’ she said. ‘Come in and let’s talk about it.’
‘It’s simply not fair,’ the Minister said. ‘Here we have an elderly lady, a widow, and because she can no longer look after herself, the family home has to be sold to pay for her care. That precious place with all its memories, which she had intended her children to inherit, is going to have to be disposed of. It’s wrong, and that’s why we are doing something about it. In future the maximum that lady will have to pay for her care is £75,000.’
It was an emotional interview. He left the studio with tears in his eyes.
On the street, between him and the ministerial car, stood a woman. She looked about sixty, but it was hard to tell.
‘Could you spare a pound, sir?’ she said.
‘You see, if you give me a pound, and if I can get a pound from thirteen other people this week, then I’ll be all right.’
‘What do you mean?’ the Minister asked.
‘They’ve changed the benefit system,’ the woman said. ‘I live in a council flat, and because I have a spare bedroom they’re cutting my housing benefit by £14 a week. And if I can’t make up the difference I’ll have to move out, though God knows where to. But I just can’t afford to lose that kind of money.’
‘But surely you don’t need the extra room?’ the Minister asked.
‘It was my daughter’s room. She still comes and stays once a week, to help me out with things. It’s been difficult since my husband died.’
‘Your husband is dead?’ the Minister said. ‘Did you share a bedroom with him?’
‘Oh yes, right to the end. We loved each other very much.’
‘Then you not only have a spare bedroom, you yourself have a double bedroom, is that correct?’
‘Yes, but if you could spare a pound that wouldn’t matter.’
‘Matter?’ the Minister roared. ‘Of course it matters. Out of my way, you greedy, thieving, idle woman. How dare you waste my time for the trifling sum of £14.’
This story is grotesquely exaggerated, crudely simplistic and politically biased. At the same time, however, not a word of it is a lie.
The Total Eclipse of Scotland
On this day, the first recorded total eclipse of Scotland took place. Such events must of course have occurred before, but no one could say for certain when. Advances in astronomy and meteorology meant that for the first time the exact moment and duration of the eclipse could be accurately predicted. As a result there was mass observation of the spectacle.
Despite many scientific reassurances that the eclipse was an entirely natural phenomenon, it was an unnerving seven minutes for many Scots. As the sun, moon and Scotland aligned, the lunar shadow rapidly and ominously spread from west to east across the Outer Hebrides, the inner islands, Argyll, Galloway and Wester Ross, until the whole country was cast into utter darkness, and did not begin to re-emerge for some three minutes.
A not insubstantial minority was convinced that the event must carry some fateful meaning: some said it signified God’s displeasure in a backsliding and licentious people, while others thought it heralded the dawn of a new age for the nation. Picts, Druids and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles gathered at standing stones and similar prehistoric monuments. Several suicides and a number of never to be solved murders took place during those seven minutes, in places as far afield as Campbeltown, Cumbernauld and Arbroath, although no convincing evidence that the eclipse was responsible has ever been produced.
Civic Scotland responded in different ways. In Edinburgh, a fireworks display on the castle battlements marked the occasion. In Inverness, pubs were allowed, indeed encouraged, to stay open for 24 hours as refuges for the nervous or superstitious. Along the 96-mile border with England, relays of cyclists, runners and, in the Tweed, swimmers, ‘raced’ the eclipse from Gretna to Berwick, cheered on by thousands of spectators: those to the south, bathed in sunshine, enjoyed marvellous views, while those to the north, plunged in gloom, were unable to see a thing.
In a post-eclipse opinion poll, 35% of the population said the eclipse should become an annual event; 25% said they would prefer a total, and permanent, eclipse of England; and the remainder said they didn’t care what was eclipsed so long as they got the day off work.
The Acknowledged Expert
The Professor stood clapping like some circus animal, peering over his glasses to make sure that everybody else was doing the same. When the applause died down, he spoke.
‘Thank you, Dr Saunders, for such an engrossing and, ah, stimulating lecture on one of the undoubted geniuses of our literature. It is customary on these occasions for the guest speaker to take, ah, questions, and you have already intimated that you are willing to, ah, do so. Perhaps I might take advantage of my position as departmental head, as well as convenor of this seminar, to pose the first one?’
‘Just get on with it,’ Dr Saunders said encouragingly.
‘Ah, quite. I was surprised by your suggestion, made almost in passing it seemed, that Austen coined many new phrases. This is not something one associates with her. Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, yes – but Jane Austen? Could you perhaps elaborate?’
Dr Saunders rose again.
‘There are countless examples,’ she said. ‘Austen gave us so many expressions – either new words or words used for the first time with a particular meaning. Thanks to Austen we have macaroon, life cycle, bedroom eyes, crampon…’
‘Crampon?’ the Professor queried.
‘Yes, in Persuasion. After Louisa Musgrove falls at the Cobb Mr Elliot remarks rather unpleasantly that she should have been wearing crampons.’
‘Oh, I’d, ah, forgotten that. Any others?’
‘Yes, double jeopardy, jumpsuit, chainsaw…’
‘Actually, no, that was Ann Radcliffe in The Romance of the Forest. I meant to say internal combustion engine. That occurs in Mansfield Park, when Henry Crawford says to Maria Bertram that he can sense that her heart is purring like one.’
‘Like an internal combustion engine? Are you quite sure? I can’t help thinking – ’
‘Chapter 34,’ said Dr Saunders. There was a furious turning of pages.
‘Well, you are, ah, the acknowledged expert on Austen,’ the Professor said. ‘You have, after all, written fifteen books on different aspects of her work.’
‘Sixteen,’ Dr Saunders said. ‘My latest is out next month.’ She stared at the serried ranks as if daring anyone to challenge her. ‘Serried,’ she said. ‘That’s another Austen coinage. As in serried ranks. It’s in The Watsons. Any other questions?’
None was forthcoming.
The Illiterate Hordes of History Have Their Say
You think you saved us from savagery with your lines and circles and dots. You think you liberated us from ignorance. You did the very opposite. We were alive and you killed the spirit of life that was in us. We roamed freely and you tethered us. We knew no boundaries and you fenced us in. We had a natural philosophy and you destroyed it and put utilitarianism in its place.
You built roads through our country where before were only paths and landmarks. We had songs and stories as our guides and you covered them over with maps. You tied down the stories, choked and shackled them. Books are their prisons. You hunted the songs, caught them with nets and traps, and then complained when they were wrongly sung, but it was you who wronged them.
You promised that the world of writing and reading would have no limits. You lied. You narrowed our vision, you clogged our minds with information we did not need and you destroyed our ability to remember the things we cherished most. Once, we knew our ancestors even to the twentieth generation, and they were with us always, through our days and through our nights. Once, our history was in our blood. Now it is dead, and our people squabble over the scraps and bones which are all that survive.
Once, we read the weather, the seasons, the prints of animals, the healing powers of plants, the mysteries and dangers of the forest. Once, the world was our library and we wrote messages among its stacks. The rain came, or the sun – storm or fire – and in the aftermath our library still stood and our marks could be written again.
Now everything is stored, yet nothing is secure. Time eats into us as worms devour books, and we fall apart. You have felled the forests of the world to flatter the vanity of knowledge, yet you know nothing of value that we did not know, and much more that is valueless.
We had wisdom: you gave us stupidity. We had faith: you gave us doubt. We had strength: you gave us fragility. We had life: you gave us books.
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Once it is determined that kidney transplant will be required, the patient (along with his physician) should consider the advantages and disadvantages of three types of therapy.
- Hemodialysis (in the hospital or at Home)
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the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 30, 2019
This was the editorial in SPARK workplace bulletins, for the week of September 23, 2019.
The current UAW strike against GM is the first national company-wide strike in auto since 2007, when there were two strikes, one lasting two days, the other six hours! This one has already lasted longer than any company-wide auto strike since 1976 when all of Ford was shut down for 28 days.
For four decades, faced with financial crises that weighed down the economy, companies pushed to increase their profits. Union leaders argued that workers could protect jobs only if they put company interests first. Many workers accepted that view. Strikes became a thing of the past.
Facing little resistance, the three American auto companies got rid of automatic annual wage increases. They stopped cost-of-living protection in the years of high inflation, and workers never made it up. They dumped the principle that every worker doing the same kind of work should have the same wage. They eliminated protection for layoffs and for short hours in a work week. They tore up the principle that every worker should have a pension after a lifetime of work. They took back our weekends from us by shredding overtime pay. These were not luxuries—they are the minimum protections needed so we can have a decent life.
These sacrifices didn’t protect jobs. Plants that once had 10,000 workers went down to 6,000, then 4,000, then 2,500—all the while putting out the same number of cars or engines. Yes, there was new technology; yes, there were robots; yes, there were engineering efficiencies. Those had been paid for by the workers’ labor, and the workers did not share in their benefit. Unchecked speed-up took its toll—on jobs and on health.
All this resulted from policies putting company profits before workers’ needs. Company profits soared; our standard of living collapsed.
Executive pay and bonuses shot up. Four decades ago, top company executives made 20 times what the average worker made. Today, GM’s Mary Barra makes 281 times as much. Stockholders and banks got so much money from stock splits and buy-backs that they couldn’t find things to spend it on. So they speculated, endangering a fragile economy already mired in speculation.
What happened in the auto industry did not stay in the auto industry. It was repeated in every other industry—from factories, to stores, to offices, to schools to city and state offices. Strikes almost disappeared from the scene.
The capitalist class multiplied its wealth exponentially. The working class fell backwards.
We shouldn’t worry about what reasons lay behind the decision of UAW leaders to finally call a strike. They did it. That’s what counts.
But what happens next can be up to GM workers—and Ford workers, and Chrysler workers and every other worker who understands this is a fight that involves all of us.
An interesting thing has been happening so far. Workers from Ford and Chrysler have been showing up on GM picket lines. Sometimes local union leaders organize contingents to go; sometimes workers organize their own contingents.
But there’s more to a fight than just walking for some hours on a picket line. Workers need to take charge of their fight, meet when they want, decide what to do. Together, workers will invent their own ways of carrying out a strike.
They can put themselves in the room where negotiations go on. Why not? GM knows what’s going on. Only the workers are kept in the dark.
GM workers can pull others along with them. Who says Ford and Chrysler workers have to wait? Together, they can make a common strike the big political issue of the day, just like the Flint sit-down strike was the big issue, shutting down much of the industrial Midwest.
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The Peasants’ Revolt Reaches London
- June 12th1381 -
In 1990 much of Britain was erupting in violence as the full impact of the hated Poll Tax was taking effect. Police were fighting running battles with rioters in Trafalgar Square as they tried to force their way into Downing Street and Parliament. Up and down the country similar protests ended up in chaos. The Poll Tax, introduced by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government, was seen as unfair on the less well off in society. It was also to bring about her downfall when she resigned as leader in November 1990. Had she seen the impact of a previous poll tax in the fourteenth century she might well have shied away from introducing it. However, as we well know, unfortunately we never learn from history.
So it was that in 1341 the peasants in England were angered beyond what could be tolerated. The reasons were many. England was doing badly in the 100 Years War and a young King, Richard II, only 14 years old, was being manipulated by a group of advisors ruling for their own benefit and political manoeuvring. Also prominent on the scene was a ‘rogue’ priest by the name of John Ball. The Church had put him in prison a number of times as he preached a message of equality. He was one of the first to espouse the notion of socialism. Why should some people be rich and others poor? Why should some drink wine whilst others dirty water? Why should some live in manor houses and palaces whilst others live in hovels? For hundreds of years the Church had preached that people were born into their own level of society and that was what where you stayed. There was little argument about it. If you wanted to get into heaven you accepted it and got on with life. Only the Church could get you into heaven so what choice did you have? Such was the power of the Church in medieval Society. Now here was a man, a priest no less, who said that this was wrong. People started to question their position and role in society. The Black Death of 1348-50 had already made the peasants rebellious as their labour was more in demand and they could ask for higher wages. That was until the Government clamped down and in 1351 introduced the Statute of Labourers that declared it illegal to pay a peasant more than they did before the Black Death. This obviously benefitted the ruling class but not those at the lower levels of society. Resentment and anger further increased.
With the war going on in France money was needed to support it. In 1377 a Poll Tax of 4p was introduced. In 1379 another was collected but the government got their sums wrong and tripled the sum the following year to 12p. This pushed the peasants too far and when tax collectors arrived in the Essex village of Fobbing the population fought them off. Other officials were sent in and one of them violated a young girl whom he claimed was old enough to pay but her father said she was not. A fight broke out and the tax collector was killed. In other villagers similar disturbances broke out. The spark had lit the bonfire of pent up frustration and anger. Rebels from Essex and Kent now marched on London. Other counties joined them, especially in East Anglia and Lincolnshire. Maidstone Prison was captured and John Ball released. Rochester Castle was captured and a man called Wat, a tiler, was appointed as the leader. He was helped by Jack Straw. As they moved towards London more and more men joined them until on 12thMay they arrived outside the City gates. These had been locked but merchants inside unlocked them to let them in, as they were sympathetic to their cause. They also hoped that rioting might help them sort out their own personal feuds.
Those seen as responsible for the Poll Tax and general poor government were targeted. The Archbishop, Simon Sudbury, had already had his palace destroyed in Canterbury and he headed to the Tower of London to seek refuge with the treasurer, Robert Hales. John of Gaunt, another advisor to the King, had his palace, the Savoy, burnt down.
The rebels asked to speak to the King. They had no grievance with him and carried his coat of arms on banners. They did not want to be accused of treason. The King agreed to meet them the next day at Blackheath and duly arrived on a barge, sailing down the river. His hated advisors were with him and this caused such a disturbance on the riverbank that he could not hear what the peasants were asking. The advisors quickly issued instructions for the barge to be rowed away. This further enraged the crowd who moved back to London. Another meeting was arranged for the following day, June 14th, at Mile End. Here the King agreed to many of their demands including being free of their feudal duties – in effect making the villeins, or serfs, freemen. He did not, however, agree to the execution of his advisors saying that it was for a court to decide that. Charters granting their freedoms were drawn up and a representative of each village was asked to stay to collect them the following day.
For Wat Tyler these demands did not go far enough and the men from Kent rioted that afternoon and evening in London. They stormed the Tower of London and came face to face with the King’s mother. They also found both Sudbury and Hales. The latter two were dragged out of the tower and beheaded with their heads stuck up on pikes. It took six blows to remove Sudbury’s head. Fearing a complete revolution the King agreed to meet Tyler the next day on June 15that Smithfield – significantly outside the city walls.
When the two sides met Richard’s small entourage was completely outmanned. Contemporary accounts give the figure of 60,000 peasants – certainly a number that is too high. What happened next is open to conjecture. Some say that Tyler was deliberately set up in what was an assassination, others that Tyler went too far and deserved everything that came his way. The peasants’ leader rode toward to the King. There was talk and Tyler was either offered, or asked for, a drink. It is said that he spat this out in the direction of the King. Some maintain that this drink was spiked. There were angry words between the groups. One of the King’s men wound Tyler up and called him the greatest crook in Kent. At this Tyler drew a dagger. Drawing a naked blade in the presence of the King was an act of treason and the Mayor of London, William Walworth, struck Tyler with his sword. He fell, fatally wounded, to the ground. The peasant army looked as though they would charge the King but the young boy rode calmly toward them, as if rehearsed. “Sirs, would you kill your King?” he asked. “I will be your leader, follow me.” This they dutifully did and he led them out further into the countryside and asked them to go home. Leaderless and in the presence of the King they meekly did as they were told.
Later, in front of another group of peasants, the King tore up the charters granting them freedom. “Peasants you are,” he said, “and peasants you will remain.” The King’s men went around the countryside rounding up and executing the rebels and their leaders. John Ball was hanged, as was Jack Straw. Hundreds died in this way and their freedom was not granted. It seemed as if the revolt had failed. However the government had been given a fright. There were to be no more poll taxes, wages started to rise and within a hundred years almost all peasants were given their freedom – not all due to the revolt it must be said. As for Richard, his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, deposed him in 1399. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in September and although no one is sure, it is thought he was starved to death, or was murdered around February 1400.
As in so many events of this nature there are rarely clear winners and losers. Most people lost although in the long term the freedom so greatly wanted by the peasants was won. It is surprising that such an astute politician like Margaret Thatcher could fall into the same trap. The similarities between the two events are quite stark. The advisors of Richard II had become divorced from the real world. Many felt that Thatcher had become the same. If only more people remembered and learned from their history then the world would be a more peaceful place. | <urn:uuid:58377b2f-08ca-4665-9c07-75e134c10c6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://squaducation.com/blog/peasants%E2%80%99-revolt-reaches-london | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.993093 | 1,786 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Learn about how the ancient wisdom of The Vedas makes sense in our modern world.
by Grace Edmunds
Have you ever read something out of a book or text and it just felt right? As if you had seen or thought those exact words before? This is what happened to me when I first started reading the Veda’s. It shocked me when I discovered that these ancient texts contained wisdom that could be applied to my life today, thousands of years after they were written.
What are the Vedas?
Veda is a Sanskrit word for “wisdom” or “knowledge”. The Veda’s are a group of four ancient, sacred texts of the Hindu religion: Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda. The wisdom in these texts was thought to be passed down from sages and spiritual masters for hundreds of years until they were finally written on palm leaves in 500 BCE. Hindus consider these texts to be the word of the divine, and wisdom that can help them to access the divine. The oldest Veda is the Rig Veda, dating back to 1500 BCE and containing the first mention and definition of the word “yoga”. All of the texts contain a mixture of hymns, ritual instructions and philosophy.
How Ancient Scripts Can Teach Us Modern Lessons
Pay Attention to Your Mind
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.”― Krishna Yajur Veda
Mindfulness has popularized in the last decade as a way to manage stress, regulate difficult emotions, and feel more at ease in the body and mind. This quote from the Upanishads is talking about a specific mental function that we strengthen when we practice mindfulness called meta-attention. Most of the day we are wrapped up in our thoughts without realizing that we’re day dreaming. Mindfulness develops our ability to become aware of our thoughts, words, action, and habits. Clearly, the popularization of mindfulness shows that this piece of ancient wisdom is still relevant today.
Give From an Un-biased Place
“One should perform karma for the benefit of humanity with an unbiased approach because bias gives birth to evil, which creates thousands of obstacles in our path. ”The Rig Veda
‘Karma’ in the Veda’s refers to our actions. This quote is suggesting that we should be unbiased in our positive actions. We all live with inherent bias that we have learned from being raised in a society or under a certain belief system. We are now starting to see the detrimental effect that bias has on our communities. Luckily there is a way to notice our own bias so that we can operate in a new way, and that is through mindfulness. If we apply the presence of mind, we will see how our bias are limiting our ability to connect with certain people and choose instead to connect with them anyway. The more we can operate past our own biases, the more empathy and connection we will feel with all humans.
Do Good For Others
“The Person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.”– The Rig Veda
This piece of the Veda’s ancient wisdom rings true today yet so many people miss it. We are all seeking to be happy, no matter who you are or where you live on the planet, we all want it. However, many people look to material possessions, wealth or fame as a way to become happy. If you look close enough, you will be able to tell that these are unsustainable sources of happiness. However, there is a way to happiness that is sustainable and that is through generosity and compassion, ie. ‘good deeds’. The more one performs these acts, the happier one will become.
Experience Stillness of Mind
“When thoughts become silent the soul finds peace in its own source”– The Upanishads (Rig Veda)
Meditation is a practice that many on this planet are now engaging in to help attain inner peace. The Veda’s gave instruction on this practice thousands of years ago. Luckily, there are many centers and teachers you can learn from today. Once you get the hang of meditation, you may catch glimpses of this peace in your sitting practice from time to time. This inner peace is a feeling of relaxation, ease, and a sense that everything is going to be okay. There is no need to worry or get caught up in the stresses of the mind. A clear mind is a byproduct of a meditation practice that happens in time. Do not worry or think self-critically if you do not experience it right away. This experience takes time, practice and patience.
Ancient Meets Modern
The most fascinating part of recollecting this wisdom from The Veda’s, is reading about the modern science that supports the ancient knowledge that the wise people shared. There is so much we are still yet to learn about our inner-world that we can look to these ancient books for as reference. I hope that they help you in the tending to your own soul!
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We know that a very common source of confusion for people is the distinction between sensory integration therapy and sensory play. To help us explain the key differences, and why the two are related but not the same, we spoke with Kath Smith – consultant occupational therapist at ASI Wise, and clinician, innovator, lecturer, mentor, Research Active EASI UK and Ireland lead, and general fount of knowledge on sensory integration. Keep reading to learn more about Kath’s take on the question: ‘sensory integration vs sensory play – what's the difference?’
Let me begin by saying that the answer to this question is complicated because sensory integration is a discrete neuroscience. People often assume that by using equipment intended to aid sensory integration that they are then receiving sensory integration therapy – but that’s not the case, and the difference is all in how the equipment is used.
Let me give you an example: a common piece of equipment used in sensory integration is a swing. Now by simply using the swing you might be experiencing sensory play, but not sensory integration therapy. The use of the swing becomes therapy when an occupational therapist is involved, guiding the use of the swing with sensory integration theories and therapies in mind. It’s all about the skill the therapist employs to do 20 different things with the swing, and how that swing can be used for different clients and to support different objectives. It’s not just a case of sitting on the swing and playing.
Now, keeping that in mind, you have the basis for an answer to the question, ‘what is the difference between sensory integration therapy and sensory play?’ - but let’s dive a little deeper.
We are all sensory beings. You cannot deprive a person of sensory experiences; if you do, then the person will fail to thrive. We all need sensory input to grow, learn and develop throughout childhood and as adults as we continue to use sensory experiences to become wiser. Sensory integration, in this regard, is a process that every human does all the time.
Occupational therapists utilise sensory integration theories to help them distinguish when sensory integration and processing is or isn’t developing as expected. There are three key ways sensory integration theories can be used:
Here’s where the important distinction between sensory play and sensory integration therapy comes in – sensory play actually contributes to point one of the above list. Sensory play supports normal sensory development. Sensory enriched play is something every therapist wants to see to encourage normal development – ultimately, it can be preventative of sensory integration and processing difficulties.
Point two of the above relates to using the Ayres’ theory of sensory integration to understand whether normal development is occurring – but it’s not the actual application of therapy.
Point three in the above list relates to the use of sensory integration theories combined with therapy to target specific sensory difficulties within the context of clinical reasoning. And that’s when you’ve got sensory integration therapy.
By this, I mean that clinical reasoning (the integration and application of different types of knowledge to weigh evidence, critically think about arguments and to reflect upon the process used to arrive at a diagnosis) is needed to effectively use sensory integration therapy to support patients with sensory difficulties. Using their clinical reasoning a therapist, for example, may also look to combine sensory integration therapy with cognitive behavioural therapy, depending on the diagnosis of the individual – sensory integration therapy doesn’t have to sit in silo. The long-term role of the therapy as a whole is to help people function better in their life - sensory integration theories can help to unpick how and why the sensory systems aren’t doing that.
In conclusion, sensory play can contribute towards sensory development – but it isn’t therapy
All in all, sensory play is always a positive and is something that families and schools can deliver to enrich sensory development. But it isn’t the delivery of therapy – sensory integration therapy is the combination of sensory integration theories with clinical reasoning and a therapist’s wide-ranging expertise to target specific sensory difficulties.
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Osteochondrosis of the neck is a disease that occurs with pain in the corresponding area of the spine and is characterized by pathological changes in the intervertebral discs. Most often, it is faced by people who lead a sedentary lifestyle and spend a lot of time in one position. One of the methods of treatment is physical therapy exercise. Those who are at risk, but do not yet have such a diagnosis, should adhere to preventive measures. Such classes require prior consultation with a doctor and her recommendations.
Exercise at home or at work
Those who are faced with such a diagnosis should regularly devote time to warming the cervical vertebrae. Otherwise, this disease can turn into more serious health problems. There are exercises that can be performed during breaks at work or at home in front of the TV:
- Lie on your back, put a small pillow under your head and press it with your head for 30 seconds. Then roll and press your forehead to the pillow for another 30 seconds.
- Lie on the bed so that your neck and head are over the edge. First, lower your head, lying on your stomach, then on your back, then repeat the same on the right and left sides.
- Sit in a chair with your hands down. Legs slightly apart. Do a slow but deep head tilt forward first, stretching your neck as far as possible and reaching your chin to your chest. Then back, trying to touch the back of the head with the back.
- In the same position, make circular movements with your shoulders, first forward, then backward. Try to perform the exercise with a large amplitude.
- Without changing his position, he tilts his head first to his left shoulder and then to the right.
- He raises his hand, bend it at the elbow and reach the opposite ear with his fingers, passing his hand behind the back of his neck. Then do the same with the other hand.
- Sit with your back straight, tilt your head back and reach out to the corresponding shoulder with your ear, first on one side and then on the other.
- Keeping your head straight, gently turn it first to the left and then to the right.
- Place the palm of your hand on your forehead and press on it. In this case, the arm is immobile, the resistance should only be felt in the neck muscles. Hold on like this for 20-30 seconds and do the same with the palm of your hand behind your head. Then you need to alternately press first on the right cheek, then on the left.
- Stand up, throw your head back and, tensing your neck muscles, gently lower your head forward.
- Touch your chin to your chest and gently turn your head left and right.
All exercises must be performed in 5 repetitions in each direction. If their implementation is accompanied by pain, support with hands is required.
Physical exercises of the medical complex
Physical therapy for cervical osteochondrosis involves the following set of physical exercises:
- Stand up or sit up straight, align your head so that your gaze is directed forward. Only work with your eyes. Look at them from left to right, in the opposite direction, up and down, in different directions, rotate in a circle.
- Starting position - as in the previous exercise. First rotate your head several times to the left and right, then tilt your chin first on one shoulder, then on the other.
- Lie on your back, spread your arms to the sides parallel to the floor surface and turn your body to the sides. When turning to the right, the left foot also goes to the right and vice versa. When turning - exhale, when returning to the starting position - inhale.
- Lie down, arms at your sides, legs straight. Sit down slowly and without sudden movements, helping yourself with your hands. Then take your starting position.
With such a diagnosis, it is necessary to perform not only physical exercises associated with a certain load, but also breathing:
- Stand up or lie on your back, put your hands on your stomach. Inhale slowly, filling and inflating the stomach, and exhale even more slowly, drawing it in.
- Lie down, place one hand just under your neck and the other under your chest. Take a breath and contract your muscles. Then exhale - relax. Do it slowly and smoothly.
Perform all physical exercises 4-5 times and complete the complex as follows: grab the supports with both hands, standing between them (two tables, two chairs); bring your legs together and go up to your toes. Rotate in a circle with your lower body, first in one direction, then in the other. The body must be relaxed.
Prevention is always better than cure. But, unfortunately, no one thinks about it until a doctor makes a diagnosis. Those who spend a lot of time in one position, rarely move around and ignore sports, should follow these tips:
- Every hour, get up from your workplace, cross your palms behind your head, join your shoulder blades, and turn your body left and right. Turning around, you must stop for a split second, then take the starting position. This should be done slowly and without sudden movements. Breathing is calm and deep.
- While at work, you need to stretch your spine as often as possible and lean left and right.
- At home, you can do floor exercises without carpet. To do this, lie on your back and straighten your legs. Pull your right leg to your chest first, bending it at the knee, and then to the left. In this case, you can squeeze the leg with your hands and press it to yourself.
- Get on your knees and lean your upper body towards the floor. Bend your back as much as possible, lifting your neck and head, then turn it around, pressing your forehead to the floor.
- After a day of work or exercise, you just need to lie down on a hard, flat surface for 10 minutes, completely relaxed. You can bring your legs up to your stomach and hug them.
Such prevention can prevent not only the disease itself, but also the exacerbation of an existing one. You have to do this regularly, not from time to time. Then it will be possible to avoid bending over and neck pain.
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The increasingly interactive and interconnected network of “smart” devices, commonly referred to as the “Internet of Things” (IoT), is reshaping how we all experience our daily lives. Avery Dennison, which has been pioneering change for decades, has developed a portfolio of Intelligent Label Solutions – meaning label applications that can store or capture information and transmit data wirelessly.
“RFID is a game changer,” said Georg Müller-Hof, vice president marketing for Avery Dennison Europe. “The technology is at the core of the IoT, and it’s revolutionizing labelling and product packaging. By taking advantage of our Intelligent Label Solutions,” he added, “label converters and brand owners have a golden opportunity to be on the cutting edge of a phenomenon that’s changing our world.”
The company takes advantage of its significant presence at Labelexpo 2017 in Brussels to showcase its recently introduced Intelligent Label Solutions.
Building on its show theme of “Pioneering Change,” Avery Dennison will introduce a set of innovative products that have RFID technology at their core. The products are engineered to help label converters and brand owners grow their business in a world increasingly shaped by the IoT, by enabling interaction between their products and such devices as smartphones, with other networked objects containing RFID. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) estimates that by 2020, more than 50 billion objects will be networked. Many of those objects will use RFID. It follows that the IoT is heavily influencing the course of product packaging.
With Avery Dennison Intelligent Label Solutions, converters and brand owners can grow their business by embracing this revolution. Intelligent Label Solutions currently include:
• RFID Product Portfolio – An extensive portfolio of RFID inlays. These are designed and manufactured by Avery Dennison for use in retail, medical, transport, logistics, manufacturing, and other industries. Wafer-thin, tough, and economical, RFID inlays can be used in a wide variety of objects, including virtually any pressure-sensitive label construction.
• TT Sensor Plus™ 2 – A small (⅓ of a credit card), wireless, single-use, self-adhesive label can be adhered to, or placed inside of, a shipping package to log and store temperature data. The data is stored in a near-field communication (NFC) microchip and can be uploaded to the cloud via a smartphone or a computer at any point in the package’s journey. TT Sensor Plus 2 is intended for pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and other industries where careful monitoring of a temperature-controlled supply chain ensures compliance and quality.
A leader in the development and manufacture of RFID inlays, Avery Dennison continues to pioneer change by being at the forefront of the IoT and intelligent label revolution. The company is committed to helping label converters take advantage of opportunities to grow with this trend.
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The main principle of the CRD [carbohydrate-restricted diet] was to eliminate carbohydrate-rich food twice a day at breakfast and dinner, or eliminate it three times a day at breakfast, lunch and dinner... There were no other restrictions. Patients on the CRD were permitted to eat as much protein and fat as they wanted, including saturated fat.What happened to their blood lipids after eating all that fat for 6 months, and increasing their saturated fat intake to that of the average American? LDL decreased and HDL increased, both statistically significant. Oops. But that's water under the bridge. What we really care about here is glucose control. The patients' HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin; a measure of average blood glucose over the past several weeks) declined from 10.9 to 7.4%.
Here's a graph showing the improvement in HbA1c. Each line represents one individual:
Every single patient improved, except the "dropout" who stopped following the diet advice after 3 months (the one line that shoots back up at 6 months). And now, an inspirational anecdote from the paper:
One female patient had an increased physical activity level during the study period in spite of our instructions. However, her increase in physical activity was no more than one hour of walking per day, four days a week. She had implemented an 11% carbohydrate diet without any antidiabetic drug, and her HbA1c level decreased from 14.4% at baseline to 6.1% after 3 months and had been maintained at 5.5% after 6 months.That patient began with the highest HbA1c and ended with the lowest. Complete glucose control using only diet and exercise. It may not work for everyone, but it's effective in some cases. The study's conclusion:
...the 30%-carbohydrate diet over 6 months led to a remarkable reduction in HbA1c levels, even among outpatients with severe type 2 diabetes, without any insulin therapy, hospital care or increase in sulfonylureas. The effectiveness of the diet may be comparable to that of insulin therapy.
Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet
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Architecture is often intertwined with political context. This deep connection is especially evident in Northern Ireland, a place of infamously complex politics. The state came into existence as a consequence of war in 1921, when Ireland was partitioned into an independent Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) and Northern Ireland, an industrious region still controlled by Britain. Conflict has since ensued in Northern Ireland between a majority pro-British Unionist population, and a minority, though significant, Irish Nationalist community. The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a brutal struggle, with over three thousand people killed, thousands more injured, and harrowing images spread across the world.
The turbulence of Northern Ireland’s conflict is played out in the architectural development of Belfast, its capital city. With thirty years of war from the 1960s to 1990s, the architecture of Belfast embodied a city under siege. When the prospect of peace dawned in the 1990s, an architecture of hope, confidence, and defiance emerged. In the present day, with Northern Ireland firmly on a peaceful path, Belfast has played host to a series of bold architectural ideas and landmark public buildings by award-winning architects. With the rich, bitter, emotive history of Northern Ireland viewed through multiple, often conflicting prisms, the architectural development of Belfast offers a tangible narrative of a city which burned, smoldered, and rose from the ashes.
The period of Northern Ireland’s history known as “The Troubles” began in earnest in the 1960s, an era which saw Belfast became a despondent, disinvested, heavily militarized city. Its urban fabric endured over thirty years of bombing campaigns targeting commercial and civic buildings, with the central Europa Hotel earning the label of “the most bombed hotel in Europe.” The architecture of the period by necessity followed the mantra of “Form Follows Security,” with public buildings dominated by solid twin walls, security barriers, and no windows.
During this time, architectural evidence of the city’s strife consisted of walls as well buildings. Belfast was carved into sections by Peace Walls designed to prevent clashes between pro-Irish Nationalist and pro-British Unionist communities. Many Peace Walls survive to this day, including the Shankill/Falls Wall, which has now existed for longer than the Berlin Wall did before its 1989 demolition. Barriers dominated the urban landscape, with a security “ring of steel” encircling the commercial core to facilitate checks and searches. The idea of a connected, flowing urban fabric was alien to the Belfast of the late twentieth century.
Throughout the 1990s, Northern Ireland moved towards peace. Dialog intensified between prominent political parties, and between the governments of Ireland and Britain, with heavy input from the Clinton administration in the US. Architectural developments reflected the growing optimism of a new era. A notable milestone of the era was the 1996 completion of the Waterfront Hall by local firm Robinson McIllwaine, with its large, curved, glazed façade dominating a generous public realm on the banks the River Lagan. With the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the governmental structure of Northern Ireland that we know today was established, setting the North on a democratic path which, although turbulent, continues to see sustained growth across the region.
Throughout the last decade, the architecture of Belfast bares the hallmarks of a city transformed. Renewed confidence in the robustness of the Peace Process has seen heavy investment in the tourism and arts industries, laced with the architectural works of award winning architects. The jagged brick massing of the Lyric Theatre by RIBA Gold Medal recipients O’Donnell and Tuomey sits at a threshold between the grid pattern of Belfast’s brick suburbs and the serpentine parkland of the River Lagan. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) by local firm Hall McKnight lies at the heart of Belfast’s trendy Cathedral Quarter—a symphony of brick, glass, and basalt, with a sharp robustness harking back to the 19th-century brick warehouses which once dominated the area.
Reflecting further on Belfast’s rich industrial heritage, 2012 saw the completion of the Titanic Centre by TODD Architects, commemorating the ill-fated ship built at Belfast’s shipyards. Historically the city’s industrial heartland, the surrounding Titanic Quarter will undergo a £7 billion LEED Gold-awarded regeneration project, creating a series of urban villages linked by open, green, public space. The 185-acre masterplan, like the ship whose name it bears, represents Belfast’s historic ability to dream big.
While undoubtedly traveling on a peaceful path, Belfast is still only part-way through its long journey towards harmony, on both a political and architectural front. The recent collapse of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government and uncertainty over the effects of Brexit offer only some evidence of the challenges Northern Ireland faces on its path to inclusive prosperity. In terms of urban development, these variables sit against the backdrop of Belfast’s restrictive, divided urban landscape, with thirteen miles of peace walls, and a ring of motorway circling the city’s commercial core. The architectural community in Belfast is responding to the challenge, with design-led grassroots organizations such as PLACE NI and the Forum for Alternative Belfast offering a series of urban strategies for a connected, shared, equitable built environment.
The Peace Process in Northern Ireland has been an inspiring success story. The violence which once plagued the region has been consigned to history, replaced by democratic institutions which, though not perfect, have been a vehicle for change. In tandem, the rubble, ruins, and barriers which once defined Belfast have been replaced with architectural works to rival any city in Ireland or Britain.
As a new generation of designers emerges, removed from bitterness and conflict, the architecture of Belfast will continue to depict the determined, aspirational spirit of its citizens—tangible monuments to the power of equality, respect, and peace.
32 From the architect. The Lyric Theatre stands on a sloping site at triangular junction between the grid pattern of Belfast’s brick street scape and the serpentine parkland of the River Lagan. The architectural design was developed in response to the urban and landscape conditions of the site.
77 Titanic Belfast will open its doors to the world on 31st March, 2012. The world’s largest ever Titanic-themed visitor attraction and Northern Ireland’s largest tourism project, Titanic Belfast is the result of a successful collaboration between the Concept Design Architects CivicArts/Eric R Kuhne & Associates and the Lead Consultant/Architect Todd Architects.
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This essay is part of the Middle East-Asia Project (MAP) series on “Harvesting Water and Harnessing Cooperation: Qanat Systems in the Middle East and Asia.” See Essays and Resources …
The water harvesting and underground transmission system called a karez in the Uygur language, or kan er jing in Mandarin, has provided sustainable water supplies in some communities of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), China for over 2,000 years. These water systems have also been used in countries in North Africa and West Asia, as well as other Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.
The karez is an impressive hydraulic engineering project as well as a cultural achievement. In China it was recognized as one of three major ancient engineering projects, along with the Great Wall and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Because the karez system has provided a safe and reliable water supply over the centuries, the communities that rely on it have referred to it as the “mother river” and “spring of life.” This is particularly true in the Turpan and Hami prefectures in Xinjiang, where most of the region’s karez systems are located.
However, karez systems have faced great challenges over the past several decades, including drying up, abandonment, damage, and pollution as a result of over-exploitation of groundwater through deep wells, the construction of reservoirs upstream, the development of oil fields, and other human and natural activities. In recent years, the United Nations and national governments have raised concerns about and recognized the importance of karez systems. Works have been planned and implemented to revitalize some karezes for use and to preserve some for cultural purposes.
Karezes depend on factors such as climate, topography, hydrology, geology, and nearby agricultural activity. The karez system has been used to provide water for both domestic purposes and agricultural irrigation because it possesses the following advantages: it is gravity-fed, so it avoids energy requirements; its underground transmission reduces evaporation; and its underground coverage protects against sediment from wind storms in the desert and assures good water quality.
In most cases, the karez system is not only a structure to extract groundwater, but is also an integration of the history, culture, and unique knowledge of its builders. Karezes have created strong cohesion in their communities owing to the traditions and beliefs attached to them. Religious beliefs and cultural traditions also helped the karez system to be handed down as a legacy. In the past, the social arrangements in karez-based communities were directly related to the karez system. Essentially, people’s importance and value were judged according to their water ownership rights in the system. A household’s proximity to the system was a good indicator of the social or economic status of its residents.
The karez system is an important part of the ecosystem as well, as karezes provide water for native vegetation and play an important role for the survival of wildlife by providing habitats through underground tunnels, shafts, and pools.
In 2003, there were over 1,784 karezes with 5,272 km of underground channels in Xinjiang. Among them, over 97 percent were located in the Turpan and Hami prefectures (Figure 1). Unfortunately, only 614 of these karezes were still flowing. Indeed, karezes have been disappearing at a shocking rate of 20 to 30 per year.
Figure 1. Karez systems located in Turpan and Hami, Xinjiang Region.
Karezes in Turpan and Hami are made up of vertical shafts, underground tunnels, and above-ground canals and storage ponds. Melted water from glaciers and snowmelts from the northern and western Tian Shan Mountains are their major water source. The length of the horizontal underground tunnels varies greatly, from 3 km up to 50 km. The size of the tunnels is between 0.5 to 0.8 m wide and 1.2 to 1.8 m high. The vertical shafts are located approximately 10 to 20 m apart in the lower reaches and 30 to 70 m apart in the upper reaches for ventilation and maintenance. A storage pond located at the end of the horizontal channel is used for keeping water at night and may also be used as a means for measuring and dividing water among different users.
Most karezes were constructed in semi-arid regions with high evaporation rates that receive small amounts of average annual precipitation. The Turpan Basin has a continental and extremely arid climate, with average summer temperatures reaching 38 °C and low annual precipitation of 9-25 mm (Figure 2). Such conditions make Turpan an ideal place for developing a karez irrigation system.
Figure 2. Temperature and precipitation in Turpan, Xinjiang from 1971 to 2000
Source: China Meteorological Administration (http://www.cma.gov.cn/).
Modern Technology and the Karez System
With advances in irrigation technology, deep wells have been drilled to pump groundwater to meet growing demands for household and agricultural use as well as the development of oil fields in the Turpan area. As a result, the groundwater level in a shallow aquifer, from where a karez system draws its water, continues to decline. According to Guan et al, groundwater had declined 25 meters over 10 years in some areas of the Turpan Basin. In turn, karezes lost their source water and went dry.
This is a typical example of the Javons paradox, which occurs when technological progress facilitates exploiting a resource and thereby increases the rate of consumption of that resource. With advances in pumping and irrigation technology to improve efficiency, we have seen an increase in the consumption of limited water resources in arid regions such as Turpan. The repercussion is that the groundwater reserve is being mined much faster than the aquifer is being replenished.
However, the karez system has its own limitations that curb its ability to compete with new technologies, such as a low discharge rate and—despite its low level of technology—intense labor requirements and high costs for construction and maintenance.
Preserving the Karez System
With karezes disappearing at an alarming speed, the United Nations and national governments have raised concerns about their preservation. To protect the historic and cultural value of the karez system, multiple measures have been undertaken by agencies in Turpan. These include establishing and implementing government rules and regulations for the protection of karez systems, designating select karez systems as protected areas, controlling the development of surface water systems at the headwaters of a karez, and curtailing the exploitation of deep groundwater in areas where the karez system will be preserved.
To continue to utilize the karez system, we recommend that it be considered an important component of the new framework in integrated water resource management. This framework promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources in order to maximize their resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.
Efforts have also been made to preserve the karez system as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Nowadays, the karez systems in Turpan attract thousands of Chinese and international tourists. In fact, a museum has been established to showcase the karez system in Turpan. Because karezes constitute a global heritage of human civilization, such international cooperation to protect karezes and to formulate strategies and technologies for their continued utilization should be encouraged.
It is inevitable that karezes will continue to face challenges as technology progresses. While technical approaches have been developed to protect the integrity of the physical structure of the karez system, policies and institutional measures should also be established and enforced to reduce the impact of human activity and modern technology on it. With local efforts and international cooperation, such an ancient system can not only be preserved for future generations, but also continue to serve as a powerful tool in sustainable development.
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Creating Peace Champions
With the support of European Union (EU), Peace and Education Foundation (PEF) has successfully implemented a 30-month project “Engaging diverse religious leaders to promote culture of tolerance, reconciliation and peace” from January 20, 2016 to July 19, 2018.The project goals were to: Trigger and nurture a process of social change for peace, reconciliation and dialogue between Muslim sectarian and non-Muslim religious communities in Pakistan to build culture of tolerance and coexistence‘. The project was aimed in engaging multi-layered religious engagement includes imams, madrasah faculty and interfaith leaders and their preachers ‘, community members and opinion leaders to maximize support and cooperation for peaceful co-existence in diverse communities.
Through this European Union funded project, PEF has developed and mobilized diverse religious leaders, and their communities in key vulnerable districts of Punjab, KPK and Islamabad to build tolerance, reconciliation and peace-making potential of religious leaders, their institutions and their communities for years to come. Under this project, 985 Mosque Imams, Madrasah teachers and interfaith religious leaders were capacitated and then equipped with specialized skills and resources to amplify the peace building messages to some 29,506 people within their communities. Further through media project goals and messages were disseminated to more than three million people.
Multi Layer Programs
Mosque Imam Training
‘The Imam training program was designed according to the acute community demand, as there exist no standardized Imam development programs in Pakistan. The proposed Imam engagement initiative will utilize the grassroots reach of the mosque and the systemic messages of media to enhance peace building by reducing intolerance in Pakistani society and potentially curb ethnic and religious violence. For more details click here
Madrasah Teachers Training
‘Peace Education and Islam’ textbook was introduced by Peace and Education Foundation in 2014. Introducing peace textbook program for madrasahs aims at making teachers and students as an integral contributor in peace-building process, spreading tolerance, respecting diversity and democracy to bring about behavioral change in their communities. The methodology of peace textbook specifically designed to cater the need … click here
Interfaith Skill Development
The project seeks to address the vulnerability and pervasiveness of religious narratives based on violence and intolerance at the community level. The project is targeting 18 districts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) including Islamabad. Under this project, 200 interfaith leaders representing Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and all Muslim schools of thought will be engaged within span of January, 2016 to July, 2018…click here
Community Engagement programs (CEPs)
Community Engagement programs (CEPs) by Faith Peace Champions
PEF faith Peace Champions have initiated a number of community engagement programs to promote tolerance, coexistence and culture of peace and harmony among different sects and religions at local level. PEF fully provided its support to the religious leaders in the implementation of community engagements programs. Through these CEPs, peace champions have provided a platform to diverse local communities where they meet and develop a better understanding about each other. As a result, formation of diverse religious networks in districts of both provinces of Punjab & KPK including capital Islamabad.
Under this project, a total of 29,506 people from different walks of life were engaged (male 27,030-female 2,476) through 747 follow up Community Engagement Programs (CEPs) within defined districts both provinces of Punjab & KPK including capital Islamabad.
Project has created unprecedented commitment from the targeted communities and religious leaders to continue to work for religious freedom for all faiths and halt and prevent violent-extremism within their communities. Recognizing the importance and necessity to sustain such efforts, diverse networks of faith leaders were formed and a cadre of religious champions capacitated to counter religious-based narratives of violence and oppression at the community level.
- Over 29,000 people representing local faith-based communities including women have participated in community-based initiative Community Engagement Programs (CEPs) that promoted peace, reconciliation and dialogue among Muslim sectarian and non-Muslim religious communities.
- PEF model for religious engagement ascertained its effectiveness by creating a specialized model of capacity building thru intensive professional and personal development and graduated specially selected religious leaders called Peace Champions.
- These Peace Champions with specialized skills mobilize other religious leaders, civic communities and youth at their communities in the targeted districts of Punjab, Islamabad and KPK to sustain tolerance, reconciliation, religious freedom and peacemaking efforts. As a result of their continuous efforts at the community level, local awareness and acceptance among diverse faith-based communities have been increased as they created supportive environment and built trust among diverse faith communities.
- The participants and communities engaged thru this project recognized the need to sustain efforts in building-tolerance, reconciliation and peace-making within their respective communities for years to come. Under this project, diverse networks of faith leaders were formed at district level and many organizations were established by Peace Champions such as Society for Peace & Interfaith Harmony in Faisalabad, Punjab province, Jeevan Foundation in Bahawalpur, Punjab province, Ibn Rushd Foundation in Mansehra, KPK province, Interfaith Commission for Peace & Harmony in Karachi, Sindh province that will constantly counter religious-based narratives of violence and oppression based on bigotry, rumour, and collective punishment at the community level.
- PEF ‘s madrasah partners have taken ownership of such initiatives now, they are in communication with the relevant ministries to contribute for peace, reconciliation and coexistence and improve madrasah education system at a policy level as well as they are collaborating with the other civil society networks.
- Recognizing the effectiveness of this extensive multi-layered religious engagement model, PEF was awarded third times by DAI- USAID in a project ―Engaging Religious Leaders as Community Leaders in South Punjab to Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that developed synergies with the EU funded project. Under this project, imams and interfaith leaders are engaged and prepared cadre of Peace Champions from both groups in three districts of South Punjab to promote a message of peace and tolerance at the community level.
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In this session you will learn why and how women worked in the First World War, as well as look at some of the jobs they did. You will have some literacy activities to complete throughout the session
Watch our short video tour to explore three of the memorials at the Arboretum:
After you have taken your tour, test your knowledge by answering the questions below.
The First World War was known as the Great War. This was because countries from all over the world were involved in the war. The war involved two sides, the Allies (which included Britain, France, Russia Italy, the United States of America, Commonwealth Countries and many others) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria.)
The First World War began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918 with the signing of an armistice agreement between Britain, France, and Germany. We remember this date every year, it is called Armistice Day. Many people buy poppies to remember this day.
Women worked before the First World War, but they did not have a wide choice of jobs. The best jobs for women were as teachers, shop assistants, typists, and dressmakers. Others worked as servants for rich families, washed clothes or worked long hours in bad conditions in factories. Once women got married, they were expected to look after their husbands and children.
When the First World War started, life changed for everyone. Many men were away fighting so more women had to work outside their home for the first time. The work that women did was vital to the war effort, both at home and on the front line.
There were many different jobs that women could now do such as munitions workers (making bombs and shells for the war), bus drivers, farmers, and police officers, as well as jobs in the armed forces.
The money women earned helped their families. They made new friends through their jobs and had some independence. By 1918, there were five million women working in Britain, almost a million of these worked making ammunition.
Women were able to join the armed forces, but they could not go onto the front line to fight. They also worked in factories, on transport or on farms and wore uniforms. Some women wore trousers in their jobs, this was very unusual as trousers were not worn by women before this.
Can you match the word with its meaning?
Women were not allowed to fight on the front line, but some were very close to it when they were nursing injured soldiers. At the beginning of the war, there were not enough trained nurses. To help, women volunteered as part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). In the summer of 1914, there were nearly 50,000 women and girls that had volunteered. By 1916 women in the Voluntary Aid Detachment who had hospital experience were allowed to go overseas.
During the war, there was a huge need for bombs, bullets, and missiles. Women went to work in munitions factories. This work was well paid, but it was also very dangerous. The women worked with dangerous chemicals every day. One chemical that was used in bombs called TNT turned the women’s skin yellow. This is how they got their nickname ‘The Canary Girls’.
Because of a shortage of food during the First World War, the Minster for Agriculture recruited women to work on farms and join the Women’s Land Army (WLA). The women were given the nickname of ‘Land Girls’. By the end of 1917 there were 23,000 women working in the WLA as well as over 250,000 women and girls that worked as farm labourers. Land Girls could volunteer to do three different roles:
The job of a bus conductor was new for women. The first woman conductor started in November 1915 and 3,500 women were employed in London during the war. The role of the conductor was to stop the bus by ringing a bell when a passenger wanted to get on. Once the passenger was seated the conductor rang the bell and the driver would start the bus again. The conductor carried a ticket machine and a money bag and would sell the passenger a ticket and then clip the ticket. Female bus conductors had the nickname ‘Clippies’.
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Many women who worked in the First World War had a lot more freedom than they did before the war, and they proved that women could do jobs just as well as men.
When the war ended men returned and many women lost their jobs. They were expected to go back to working in their old jobs or stay at home as they did before. How do you think this made women feel?
The role that women played in the war helped them get equal rights to men, though this did take a few more years.
In the war, posters were used to encourage women to go out to work.
Design a poster to inspire women to start doing one of the jobs you have learned about.
Here is an example:
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Papers, 1854-1926, collected by John Albree in preparing lectures on Elizabeth Van Lew. Includes letters, notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Includes typed copies of her scrapbook. Collection also includes material concerning Jefferson Davis and Civil War letters from North Carolina. Acc. 2000.54 is microfilm of the collection. Folders 1-10 of the Elizabeth Van Lew Papers are available in Swem Library’s microforms area on 1 reel of microfilm, call number E608 .V34...
- Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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Randolph County Courthouse
Cuthbert Historic District
Randolph County Courthouse located in Cuthbert, Georgia. It was built in 1887 in the Queen Anne architectural style and designed by Kimball, Wheeler and Parkins. Unique features of the courthouse include a Dutch stepped gable over the main entrance and the tower roof that begins as a pyramid and ends as a cone. This is a contributing building on the National Register of Historic Places (NRIS #75000607) and a part of the Cuthbert Historic District.
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Global Food Myths #16: Do Italians never eat spaghetti with a spoon?
LSG Group experts clarify food myths from around the world – Episode 16 is about spaghetti and spoons.
Eating a plate of spaghetti can be a challenge. Probably the most unwieldy of all pasta types is predestined to splash sauce everywhere – and especially on the places it shouldn’t. No cutlery seems capable of delivering the long pasta strand safely from dish to mouth. Good thing, then, that there are at least spoons to twirl the spaghetti against, right? Delia Martina Landwehrmann, Executive Chef at LSG Sky Chefs, knows whether doing so is socially acceptable in Italy.
“Absolutely not,” says Italy expert Landwehrmann. “Eating spaghetti with a spoon will, at the least, be met with double takes from locals. What’s even worse is cutting it with a knife. Etiquette dictates we only use the fork and the plate. To avoid an awkward bite due to too many noodles being grabbed, it’s best to fork up noodles from the edge of the dish and not in the middle.”
The fact that eating spaghetti causes so many problems for non-Italians could have something to do with another widespread misconception. After all, pasta is usually eaten as an appetizer and not as a main course. It is therefore served with less sauce than chefs in other countries who simply want to feed their guests. This also explains how Italians manage to avoid stains. | <urn:uuid:ff647adb-7ff6-40ca-b151-31830c2e1e42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lsg-group.com/news/global-food-myths-16-do-italians-never-eat-spaghetti-with-a-spoon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947308 | 320 | 2.09375 | 2 |
When Kristin Paulson and her family moved from their West Lake neighborhood to Community First, she found more than just a new home.
By Courtney Runn, Family photos by Courtney Runn, Community First photos courtesy of Community First
When Kristin Paulson moved to her new neighborhood last year, not all of her neighbors were happy to see her. One neighbor in particular challenged Paulson’s presence, her confusion and frustration and their many tense conversations encapsulated in one question: “Why don’t you go back home to your Westlake house and your privilege?”
The question was a tender one for Paulson, who was already wrestling with her place in the community.
“Do I belong with the rich privilege?” she remembers asking herself. “Or do I belong in East Austin, with my formerly homeless neighbors?”
Paulson and her family live at Community First Village, a master-planned community on the edge of East Austin designed to be a permanent home for Austin’s transitioning homeless population. They left their West Lake Hills, Texas, home in August 2017 to live full time with the formerly homeless.
Paulson thought the biggest challenges facing her would be living in a tiny home without all of her things or watching her kids move outside their comfort zone, but neither proved to be a problem. Instead, she found herself staring down her own identity and purpose in the world. Could her own privilege, pain and past be redeemed and was she enough for her new neighbors? A year at Community First proved to provide a new home, but also a place of healing.
The Most Talked About Neighborhood in Austin
In 1998, Alan Graham started driving throughout Austin, offering meals to the homeless. His desire to serve the city quickly grew into what is now Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a mobile food-truck ministry that provides hot meals to the city’s most needy. Graham could be considered an expert on homelessness and is the published author of Welcome Homeless: One Man’s Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home. In 2015, Graham received the prestigious Austinite of the Year award.
Despite his accolades, when he presented his idea for a planned community for the homeless, the city fought back. Many Austinites were hesitant to live next to a community of formerly homeless people (a common national response when unwelcome development is proposed, known as Not in My Backyard) and the government presented obstacles as well.
Graham helped rescue one person from the streets in 2004, and, in 2015, the first residents moved into the village. Community First is now officially a branch of Graham’s MLF nonprofit. Despite Community First’s rocky beginning, the city now embraces the village and it’s truly a community affair. Alamo Drafthouse donated a large movie screen that shows weekly Friday night movies that are open to the city, Charles Maund Toyota partnered with the community to install an auto shop where residents can work, and Paul Mitchell donated hair products to the village’s Community Hair Studio, which is also sponsored by Academy of Hair Design. The village also boasts one of the country’s largest tiny-house bed-and-breakfast sites, where visitors can rent tiny homes, tipis or travel trailers just like they would any other vacation rental in the city.
Today, more than 160 formerly homeless Austinites call the 27-acre Community First property home, and communities throughout the country are attempting to replicate the model, as it’s the first of its kind. According to its website, the community currently offers 120 micro-homes, 100 RVs and 20 canvas-sided cottages.
To live in the community, residents must be chronically homeless (or serve as a ‘missional resident’ like Paulson) and follow three rules: They have to pay rent (Rent varies from $220 to $440 per month based on housing models.), follow civil law and follow the rules of the community. While some residents are disabled and unable to work, many have jobs in the village.
Give or take a few hundred, Community First estimates Austin has 2,000 homeless residents, and once the property reaches capacity, it will house 200, making a 10 percent impact on housing Austin’s homeless population. Once phase two of the village starts, 24 acres and 350 homes will be added, making an even larger impact.
Thomas Aitchison, communications director, says it has “become one of the most talked-about neighborhoods in Austin, Texas.”
Needless to say, Community First is providing a viable solution to homelessness and now offers symposiums so anyone interested in starting a version can come learn what has made this model so successful.
Unlike transactional models, like food pantries or homeless shelters that treat an immediate need briefly, Community First operates as a relational model. Aitchisonsays while transactional models help solve the larger puzzle of treating homelessness, Community First believes a relational model addresses deeper wounds.
“It’s our core belief that the single largest cause of homelessness is when an individual experiences a profound catastrophic loss of family,” Aitchison says.
To fill this relational void, the model dictates that 20 percent of residents are “missional residents,” people who, like the Paulsons, do not come from a background of homelessness but are willing to live in the community alongside the formerly homeless to act, as Aitchison describes them, as “shepherds” to the community. The residents don’t need administrators; they need friends to walk alongside them as they navigate living in a community for the first time in years, or even decades.
Aitchison says many residents have difficulty adjusting to their new life. When a new resident moves in, the community hosts welcome-home parties, officially welcoming them into the community. An integral value of the village is dignity. Homelessness strips dignity, so it was important to Graham and his team to intentionally design the community to restore dignity to its residents.
Residents get to pick their housing, and all the furnishing inside is brand new, a contrast to the used donations the homeless are often used to receiving. Communal bathrooms and showers separated by gender are located throughout the property, offering residents privacy and immediate access. One of the most poignant spaces in the community is the remembrance garden, where neighbors who die are buried. When a homeless person dies on the streets, it is often without notice or ceremony, leaving their friends no information of their whereabouts or a way to mourn and remember them. The remembrance garden not only provides a space for grieving, but also gives residents solace, knowing they will be remembered and missed.
Westlake to East Austin
Before living at Community First, Paulson barely spoke to homeless people like those she’s now living alongside. She drove by one woman on a West Lake street corner for 12 years.
“I never asked her her name,” Paulson says. “I’ve waved to her. I’ve given her change. I didn’t know how to talk to her. My attitude was she’s on drugs or there’s a mental illness there or there’s something wrong with her and I’m not equipped to handle that, so I don’t even know where to start.”
Today, the two are neighbors and Paulson now knows her name is Emily.
“I had to go to her and say, ‘Will you forgive me for those 12 years I drove by you and never asked your name?’ ” Paulson says.
Emily, who Paulson describes as a beautiful person, lives at Community First, works several jobs and recently got married. Outside and inside the village, her reputation precedes her and she’s always stopped to say hi. Now Paulson considers her a good friend.
Paulson first heard about the village at her church, Austin Ridge Bible Church. She kept meeting people involved with the community and when she met a top-level executive who lived there with his wife, she was intrigued. What inspired these people to leave everything behind and go live in this community? At the same time, she was also questioning her own purpose. Living comfortably in West Lake wasn’t fulfilling her.
“I went to the gym a lot and played squash and I thought that was going to make me happy,” she says. “It wasn’t until I found out why my life was my life and what I was supposed to do with that that I started to say, ‘OK, God, what do you want me to do with this? How am I supposed to use my story to help people?’ ”
After continually hearing about Community First, Paulson and her husband, an associate dean and executive director at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, decided to jump in, not fully knowing what they were committing to. They first heard about the village in the fall of 2016, and less than a year later, moved in, in August 2017.
While their college-aged daughter was skeptical, their two teenage sons weren’t fazed by their parents’ decision. With supportive friends and family behind them, they packed up their West Lake home, rented it out on Airbnb and moved into an 8-foot-by-32-foot tiny home.
The night before moving into their new home, two missional residents from Community First took them on a “street retreat,” a chance for them to experience the reality their new neighbors once lived.
Armed only with a sleeping bag and water bottles, the four of them spent the night on the streets, looking for food and shelter. Paulson and her son slept on the basketball court of a church basement, while her husband and other son slept under a bridge. When they arrived, exhausted and sweaty, at Community First the following day, they found out their tiny home wasn’t ready, and their temporary trailer was completely empty. After a night on the streets, they only felt gratitude at the sight of an air-conditioned space. Thus began their journey at Community First.
A Place of Healing
While moving to Community First began to add more meaning to Paulson’s life, she didn’t feel her purpose was complete yet. Like the woman who questioned why Paulson didn’t return to her privilege in West Lake, Paulson herself began to doubt her place in the village. She didn’t feel equipped to love the people around her; she didn’t share their past, she didn’t feel patient or loving enough.
“In my desperation, I thought, ‘God, maybe I’m not cut out for this,’ ” she says.
It wasn’t until she began to examine her own past that healing and purpose flooded her life. Before living at Community First, Paulson began volunteering with The Refuge, a rehabilitation center for survivors of sex trafficking. She helped design the cottages where the girls live and joined the speaking team because she had one thing in common with these girls she served: Paulson was raped at 16.
She carried that story with her for decades, the details tucked away in shame. The more she shared her story, the looser the grip her past had on her heart. She started to accept her past as a way to change the future for others.
While Paulson grew up going to church, she says it wasn’t until she was in her 40s that she truly began to examine and claim her faith. Several years ago, she decided to get baptized, a public sign of what she believes.
“That public confirmation that I believe that Jesus is my lord and savior just helped bring that confidence in who I was and how my story was OK and that I actually like my story,” Paulson says.
Because of her story, Paulson always felt drawn to fighting against sex trafficking and continued to volunteer after moving to Community First. While working on an art project for The Refuge, she discovered she had more in common with her homeless neighbors than she realized.
Paulson partnered with Community First this year to paint ceramic doves that now hang in the cottages at The Refuge. While working on them at the village, neighbors would ask her what the doves were for. When she told them they were for The Refuge and explained the concept of sex trafficking, the women often responded with, “Oh, I was sex trafficked.”
Many of the women living in the village, Paulson says, have also experienced sexual abuse and were forced to sell their bodies to survive on the streets. Until she defined abuse, many of them had never been able to explain what had happened to them.
Once again, Paulson’s past forged a new path for others. Sharing her story with her new neighbors gave her the confidence to love them, to cast aside her doubts of worthiness or purpose.
“If I hadn’t healed from my past, it just would’ve reintroduced trauma into my own life,” Paulson says. “It pushed me into having to deal with my past.”
On a hot day early this fall, Paulson and her family prepared to go to the village’s weekly Thursday night community dinner. Her husband had just come home from work and her two boys were chattering about homework. They told their dog to be good and left their tiny home.
They joined other neighbors slowly making their way to Unity Hall, a large structure in the center of the village. Paulson joined the already long line queuing up for their weekly free dinner provided by a volunteer group from Steiner Ranch. As she made her way to the end of the line, she stopped to greet each person, asking questions about their pets or a recent illness.
After piling her plate with Indian food, she joined a table with Emily and a few of her other friends. Emily showed her a picture on her phone, laughing at the meme a fellow neighbor had made of her.
Conversation flowed easily and the room resembled a large family gathering. After the dinner, Paulson made her way back home, her younger son stopping every few feet to floss dance and show her his other Fornite-inspired dance moves.
They stopped to talk with a couple that lives across from them. Paulson joked with them that people would see a Westlake woman with big hair and automatically make assumptions about her lifestyle. They’d be shocked to know quite a few of them are living at Community First, she laughs.
Her son rushed inside and her husband lingered, drawn into a conversation with a neighbor. The sun was setting and it felt like the end of a September day in any neighborhood in Austin.
Paulson says they had originally only planned to stay for one year in Community First, as a family challenge.
“Now we don’t put a timeline on it,” she says. “We don’t feel called away. In fact, we feel more called.”
Similar to their Thursday night dinner, on Tuesday nights, the community gathers for a night of stone soup. Taken from the folk tale of the same name, the dinner involves attendees bringing one type of food and mixing it together to create a meal for everyone. The idea of a community making food together almost seems as quaint and sweet as the folk tale that inspired it. It’s this very sense of togetherness, though, that sets Community First apart.
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TOPIC: Pajama top theory
Jeffrey MacDonald's pajama top was found on top of Colette MacDonald's chest when CID investigators arrived at 544 Castle Drive on February 17, 1970. The pajama top was placed in a plastic bag by CID investigators William Ivory and Robert Shaw, and later transported to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory at Fort Gordon. The Fort Gordon forensics team began marking and processing the evidence on February 21, 1970. The pajama top contained 48 puncture holes and two cuts with 17 of the puncture holes being found in the back of the garment. This struck CID investigators as extremely odd, for Jeffrey MacDonald did not receive any stab wounds to his back and Womack Hospital medical reports could only verify four puncture-type wounds on MacDonald's body. This led CID investigators to the conclusion that the 48 puncture holes were the result of Jeffrey MacDonald placing his pajama top on Colette's chest, obtaining an ice pick inside the residence, and stabbing Colette with that ice pick through the pajama top.
In 1971, a year after the conclusion of the Article 32 hearings, the FBI was asked to analyze some of the physical evidence found at the crime scene. Paul Stombaugh, chief of the chemistry section of the FBI laboratory, looked at the puncture holes under a microscope. He noticed that all 48 puncture holes were perfectly round with no ragged or torn edges indicating that the pajama top was stationary when punctured. This conclusion was at odds with MacDonald's claim that he used his pajama top as a shield to fend off an ice pick wielding intruder in the living room. Stombaugh and CID investigators were convinced that in MacDonald's scenario, the pajama top would have been in motion as he was blocking the thrusts from the ice pick, yet none of the 48 puncture holes had any torn edges. Three years later, Stombaugh was asked by government lawyers if there was any way to prove that the pajama top was punctured after it was placed on Colette MacDonald's chest.
In 1974, Stombaugh asked physical science technician Shirley Green to assist him in proving or disproving this theory. Stombaugh and Green first looked at the autopsy report of Colette and crime scene photographs of the pajama top on Colette's chest. The autopsy report stated that Colette sustained 21 ice pick wounds to her chest, 16 on the left side of her chest, and five on the right side. The pathologist also indicated that her body was stationary when stabbed with the ice pick. The crime scene photographs demonstrated that the right sleeve of the pajama top was folded inside out and the left panel, which contained no puncture holes, was trailing off alongside Colette's body. The combination of the autopsy report and the crime scene photographs raised the curiosity levels of Stombaugh and Green to new heights. In 1971, Stombaugh analyzed the pajamas worn by Colette and similar to her husband's pajama top, every single puncture hole in her pajamas was perfectly round with no torn edges. He realized that the totality of the puncture hole evidence pointed towards the ice pick penetrating Colette's body, her pajamas, and her husband's pajama top while they were stationary.
Stombaugh then instructed Green to attempt a series of experiments to determine whether or not the puncture hole pattern in Jeffrey MacDonald's pajama top matched the ice pick wound pattern in Colette MacDonald's chest. Shirley Green's attempt to align the 48 puncture holes in the pajama top with the 21 ice pick wounds in Colette's chest was akin to fitting a broken piece of headlight glass found at a hit and run scene back into the light on the suspect's car. Green was subsequently able to find a matching pattern using three different techniques. Green's techniques included a graph paper overlay, a numbering system using push pins, and the insertion of steel rods into the puncture holes in order to duplicate the hole patterns. Several weeks before the 1979 trial, Green was able to replicate the results of her experiments using the same three techniques.
At trial, Brian Murtagh began his direct examination of Shirley Green by asking her about the significance of the steel rods that were inserted into each puncture hole in MacDonald's blue pajama top. Green stated that the rods or probes were used to "demonstrate the alignment of the holes" in the pajama top with the wound pattern on Colette's chest. Green admitted that some of the probes went through several layers of fabric and that a singular probe could encompass a grouping of puncture holes. For example, Green discovered that puncture holes one through 12 could be aligned with five separate probes. Murtagh then asked Green whether she was able to align all 48 puncture holes in MacDonald's pajama top with 21 probes going through any other holes. Green stated that her painstaking analysis, "took over a week just to find one solution, to find this solution."
Green then described how she was able to replicate this pattern using a completely different technique. Green began by folding MacDonald's pajama top in the manner in which it was found on Colette's chest. Green pointed to several crime scene photographs which depicted the "inside of the pajama top facing upward, the right collar area over to the right, to the victim's left, right shoulder seam over to the right." Green then placed a piece of graph paper over a box, she put the folded pajama top down on the box, and inserted 21 push pins through the pajama top. Green discovered that the puncture hole pattern in the graph paper and the box matched the puncture wound pattern in Colette's chest. | <urn:uuid:6a46a646-4aad-4917-b911-e278c1aeda47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://macdonaldcasefacts.com/html/pjs_sub_pjtop_theory.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962908 | 1,190 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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While recently only a few knew what it was, today it can be said that the powders, with all their types, different smells and various origins, are experiencing a golden moment. Eco organic cosmetics is becoming more and more popular. This is not only for the benefit of our health, but also for that of the planet, if we consider how much they pollute most of the products normally used to wash body and hair.
But let's see what it is.
Cleaning and Health
Daily hygiene is a necessity, since it is important to eliminate all those substances produced both by our body, such as sebum and sweat, and suffered from the outside, such as smog, dust and so on.
But as the Latins said, in media stat virtus, that is, virtue is in the middle. To exaggerate with continuous stresses and the use of excessively degreasing products, can have even worse results, such as favoring the onset of irritations, dandruff, bad smells, or even weakening the physiological defenses of our skin, making it more sensitive to external attacks and potentially more prone to dermatitis, etc.
So what to do? The millennial knowledge of many peoples, from the Mediterranean to India, can be very useful. One way to wash oneself repeating the physiological balance of the epidermis, in fact, is to use substances that do not excessively lower our ph (or the degree of acidity of the epidermis, which if unaffected - around 5.5 - allows it to defend itself effectively keeping themselves healthy and beautiful) as soaps do, but still capable of removing dirt.
What are washing powders
With the term "powders", or rather "washing powders", we indicate all those products that rise to the function of cleaning the body and hair in an extremely delicate manner, some by binding to dirt mechanically, rather than chemically - as happens with surfactants - and taking it away with it at the time of rinsing, others containing doses and quality of saponin that cannot alter our ph. Often they are herbs, but also clays or real flours, with sebum-balancing properties and the ability to effectively remove dirt, and sometimes, unexpected healing virtues.
Indian cleansing powders
They are various, and all derived from plants. Specifically there are:
-the Reetha (or Aretha or Aritha), or the powder derived from Indian saponiferous nut. It is mixed with water, binding to which it forms a particularly effective foam in cases of hair or oily skin. Excellent detergent even for delicate garments, such as silk.
- Shikakai is an herb of the acacia family. Among the Indian powders it is the most complete, but it is used only for hair treatment. In fact it cleans and at the same time disciplines and softens. A sort of shampoo and conditioner two in one! In addition, it nourishes hair and scalp as a true beauty treatment.
- Amla is a typical fruit of India, from which, among other things, the homonymous powder is obtained. It is very rich in vitamin C and therefore is a real boon for both skin and hair. It cleans the pores and revives the tone, while it seems to be a sort of age for the hair, slowing its graying. It can be mixed with other natural dyes such as henna (lawsonia), which dulls the red, darkening it. This too has conditioning power.
They are all used as a pack. Mix with very hot water to form a paste to hold on the hair for a few minutes and then to rinse (with a little patience). They are often used together to enhance their effects. Amla is also very effective as a face mask.
To get a good result and have a soft and clean skin, you can also use real flours. Yes, just the flour.
Obviously the use of wheat is not recommended due to excessive stickiness. But to wash the skin is excellent that of rice, delicate and fragrant, that of buckwheat, with excellent cleaning power, and that of oats, with the well-known emollient effect.
For hair, on the other hand, legume flours are excellent. To top among these is the chickpea flour, which honestly does not smell very well, but to wash, wash and how.
In order to use them, it is sufficient to mix them with hot water to create a paste that is not too liquid and not too thick to use as a compress and leave on for a few minutes.
For the face, the best are the "greasy" flours, such as almonds or sunflower seeds, which capture the fat of the skin for "affinity", but at the same time leave it soft and hydrated.
Finally, a protagonist among the washing powders is undoubtedly a clay typical of the Mediterranean area: the Ghassoul. This natural mineral is extracted from Moroccan deposits and has always been used in the Middle East and North Africa to wash both skin and hair. It cleans and frees pores excellently and cleanses hair just as well. It has a slower shutter speed than other washing powders, and it rinses better. It can be mixed with other products to better adapt it to subjective needs (yogurt, honey, lemon, various essential oils ...), but it has no conditioning or softening power. Obviously it is also sufficient to mix it only with hot water.
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A wireless, mobile camerabot.
The Roving Camera
I have been working on the right
solution for a roving, wireless video camera. Here is my best
A quad treaded tank carries the
heavy payload. Three light sensors provide full IR radar coverage
and cause the robot to turn left, right, or back up. Four motors
provide the power to the treads. A separate battery box powers
the wireless video sender. The RCX battery alone would not
provide enough power to the camera, IR, light sensors and
The back shows the battery box and
excess wiring for the camera.
I mounted a single technic 16 stud
beam to the X10 Video Sender using two screws.
I then built a wide cage around the
video sender for easy mounting. I spliced a standard Lego power
cable to the 12v power supply cable that came with the video
sender. I will eventually find a better solution for power since
the video sender is rated at 12v and the Lego battery box only
provides 9v. The movie below shows the quality of the video from
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Home Island: Kauai
High School: Waimea
Institution when accepted: Kauai Community College
Akamai Project: GEODESS Documentation
Project Site: Northrop Grumman GEODSS at Haleakala, Maui
Mentors: Albert Esquibel & Harold Wergers
The GEODSS project is used to tracking man made objects in space for the Air Force. Documentation of preventative maintenance for Northrop Grumman’s Ground-Based Electro Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) project is important in order to train new employees. The goal of this project is to have Video documentation that co-insides with Computer Based Training (CBT) will make it easier to train future workers and get them onto the work site faster. The training covers several ways of learning including visual, how-to and written communication. The final project with be a SVD and or CD and will be sued on the Northrop Grumann sites for training. | <urn:uuid:5c435626-b3de-4842-980a-921a6ef9df32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.akamaihawaii.org/ryan-baptiste/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.868395 | 207 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Acupuncture Can Help Treat Migraines
Acupuncture Can Help Treat Migraines
Acupuncture can help handle migraine headache frustrations. This was discovered after a loved one research study was do with common health care. In most cases, it likewise quits it from happening which helps boost the way of life for the person.
To understand simply exactly how acupuncture aids migraine frustration sufferers, you require to understand that in standard Chinese medicine, it is believed that an inequality in the blood circulation of blood in addition to power causes this to happen.
In order to treat it, the expert needs to remove the anxiety by placing needles right into the body to improve the blood flow to the mind consequently decreasing the pain experienced throughout a strike.
Since it is an all-natural chemical that affects capillary as well as additionally has an obligation to play in migraine headache frustrations, the needles made usage of help the body balance the serotonin levels. The a great deal much more continuous these sessions are the much better. It could additionally include an aspect where the particular element of telephone call disappears needed yet the fundamental exhilaration itself.
Conclusion result of taking on acupuncture is great. If you experience 15 to 20 days of agonizing pain, this could be count down to simply 8 days. You will certainly not likewise call for to use that much medication any kind of longer as formerly.
For those that are working, this is superb to make certain that they are not missing out on from task that a whole lot in addition to there will certainly not be that much decreases in their wage.
Specifically exactly how well acupuncture does for one individual could vary with an extra. This relies upon the issue of the individual as well as additionally the strike.
The suitable element worrying acupuncture is that there are no side effects in addition to it is pain-free. If the private makes use of non multiple-use needles, it will definitely be a great deal much better.
Acupuncture has really been worked out in the United States for higher than 2 years. Exams have really exposed specifically just how dependable it can be to take care of certain dependences along with consistent issues, much more research study studies call for to be done to see where else it can be useful.
One evaluation has in fact revealed that acupuncture can help migraine headache frustrations, different other assessments will absolutely similarly have in fact to be done to validate if this is actual. Till such time that end results are launched, people will definitely require to rely on typical medicine that is suggested by a medical professional.
You do not need to await the end results to find out. If you think it is worth a shot, go for it. Merely demand a referral from your physician as there are many experts that have really authorized the fact that various sort of medicine can similarly aid an individual.
You can furthermore find someone online. You can be specific they are recognized if they are determined by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture as well as Oriental Medicine.
Besides that, you should certainly in addition make some lifestyle modifications as there are trigger aspects that have really been acknowledged to produce migraine headache frustrations. Anxiety and also stress and anxiety is main on the list so you acquire enough rest along with exercise along with a well balanced diet plan program.
People that are withstanding from migraine frustration requires to furthermore evaluate if acupuncture is covered by their HMO. Most of insurance policy protection business as well as likewise HMO’s nowadays cover all or element of the expenditure nevertheless there are constraints so you require to analyze what is covered by your strategy.
Acupuncture can assist offer with migraine headache frustrations. The finest part worrying acupuncture is that there are no side influences as well as it is pain-free.
Acupuncture can aid offer with migraine headache frustrations. Conclusion end result of embarking on acupuncture is great. Acupuncture can assist bargain with migraine headache frustrations. The end result of carrying out acupuncture is amazing. The finest part worrying acupuncture is that there are no side effects as well as it is pain-free. | <urn:uuid:cafd05e6-8083-48b0-9a28-d158b423606e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://europe.tianmedical.com/acupuncture-can-help-treat-migraines-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966603 | 816 | 2.15625 | 2 |
These are the most commonly asked questions for everything HIIT. We are constantly updating it with your new questions so if you have any questions about HIIT this is the first place to check. If your question is not answered on this page, head on over to the contact page and ask it there. We will be more than happy to answer it!!
What is HIIT?
HIIT is an acronym for High Intensity Interval Training. It consists of short, intense bursts of exercise with either active recovery, by doing less intense exercise, or completely resting in between bursts. It can be applied to both cardio workouts and strength routines.
We have decided to base our exercise system on HIIT style workouts for two reasons: first, it’s effective and two, it’s time efficient. The workout is less than thirty minutes but this style of exercise will help the body burn fat for up to 48 hours later.
Do I have to stay home to do HIIT Training?
No. You can it at your favorite gym, or practically anywhere else. Although We’ve never been big on going to the gym, it’s great seeing so many people interested in their fitness. But sharing weights and waiting for space or machines only adds time to the workout length.
What equipment should I get?
A lot of the exercises use bodyweight, not only because of the simplicity, but because sometimes that’s all you have. So most of the equipment is simple and easy to transport. Throughout the course of the exercises we will be demonstrating our workouts using resisted bands, kettlebells, stationary bike and a heavy bag etc.
Is Tabata Different than HIIT?
No, Tabata is a style of high intensity interval training. One Tabata lasts 4 minutes with intervals of 20 seconds of highly intense activity followed by 10 seconds of lesser intense activity. You can multiple Tabatas to make your workout longer.
What are the benefits of HIIT?
The benefits we focus on are the time factor and a phenomenon called the afterburn effect. Afterburn is when the body will continue to burn fat after a workout. A HIIT workout will produce this effect for upwards of 38 hours after its completion but has the strongest effect up to 16 hours after. As we stated earlier, a HIIT workout doesn’t last very long, which leaves time to do other things.
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Redevelopment is becoming a more attractive alternative for owners and developers as natural resources become less available.
Redevelopment is key piece of the smart growth initiative. By developing in existing areas with adequate infrastructure, environmentally sensitive lands are preserved. Often times an area within a municipality is designated an area of redevelopment by ordinance.
CEC has significant experience working with developers and municipal officials drafting a redevelopment plan for a particular site. Our professionals perform due diligence on a site to determine all environmental constraints and available utility services and assess the condition of existing infrastructure to sustain the proposed development. Once the redevelopment plan is approved, CEC will prepare site plans for Planning Board approval and obtain all necessary local and state approval and permits. | <urn:uuid:e6639a28-703f-446b-aa09-7f3c590c7736> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://carrollengineering.com/markets/redevelopment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932224 | 150 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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