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Nyárádkarácson is one of the most densely populated rural areas in the micro-region. The settlements under its administrative jurisdiction lie on the two banks of the Nyárád – Niraj River. Most of its inhabitants deal with vegetable growing, which explains why the area was given the nickname “Murokország” – “Carrot Country”.
The first written source to mention the settlement (Karachonfalwa) dates from 1444. We also know that as early as 1602 a school functions on its territory. In 1968 Nyárádkarácson becomes administrative centre of Csiba – Ciba, Folyfalva – Foi and Káposztásszentmiklós – Nicoleşti. | <urn:uuid:79f20920-a92d-4cbd-a147-663bfa057e4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.nyaradmente.ro/en/discover/craciunesti.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.933267 | 172 | 2.078125 | 2 |
See It Big! Vilmos Zsigmond
Friday, Apr 22 - Sunday, May 29, 2016
One of the preeminent American cinematographer of the 1970s, Vilmos Zsigmond (1930–2016) was the D.P. of choice for directors seeking a visual style of poetic realism. Robert Altman, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma, and Steven Spielberg were among the directors who were drawn to Zsigmond’s ability to create indelible, larger-than-life images, with radiant lighting and vividly textured compositions. He was a quintessential “See it Big” director who used the movie screen as a canvas for his astonishing work.
大看！ 是一个正在进行的系列，由 反向射击 编辑 Michael Koresky 和 Jeff Reichert、首席策展人 David Schwartz 和副电影策展人 Eric Hynes。 | <urn:uuid:2c302ac5-fb40-4360-b68d-2f7e02f6f74c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://movingimage.us/zh/series/see-it-big-vilmos-zsigmond/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.844479 | 243 | 1.578125 | 2 |
We know that we cannot predict, nor stop, every human-induced and natural disaster. But what we can do is prepared for them.
Social Media is going to play a key role in contingency planning, for both business and our society. Social Media brings multiple communication channels for collaboration to the implementation of Emergency Management plans.
President Obama is promoting the ability for most, if not all, Americans to have access to fast wireless communications. This will further enable the abilities of Social Media to play a critical role in Emergency Management.
Obama’s wireless plan involves nearly doubling the space available on the airwaves for wireless high-speed Internet traffic to keep up with ever-growing demand. This would be accomplished in part by auctioning off space on the radio spectrum to commercial wireless carriers. The White House says this would raise nearly $30 billion over 10 years, and the money could be spent on initiatives that include $10 billion to develop a national broadband network for public safety agencies and $5 billion for infrastructure to help rural areas access high-speed wireless. Additional money could be used to reduce the deficit, the White House says. | <urn:uuid:5701301f-d6d0-4ff1-b2fa-4e12ca7d88b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://olinkscorp.com/2011/02/10/disaster-preparedness-will-advance-through-increased-wireless-access/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942064 | 228 | 2.453125 | 2 |
When we think about safer sex and ourselves, we have to try our best to engage in what is considered an informed decision. Just like anything — a risky move on the freeway, giving your phone number to someone you just met, or having unprotected sex –making an informed decision around any risky activity means that we take into account the risks we take when we choose to do these things. Giving a guy head is no exception, and you need to know the facts of what you can and cannot get (or pass on to your partner) when you do it without a barrier.
Fellatio, when performed to climax, is considered an activity that puts both parties at moderate risk. This means that according to HIV prevention guidelines, you are almost in the high risk category. Fellatio without ejaculation is in the low risk category, though pre-come may contain viruses. Whether you are on the receiving side or the giving side, unprotected you are at risk for sexually transmitted diseases. If mouth sores, cuts in the mouth, or there are tiny cuts from having recently brushed or flossed your teeth, then your risk is increased. Some STD’s can remain dormant for as long as a few years, and it’s possible to give someone something you didn’t even know you had.
Viral STD’s like herpes, HPV, Hepatitis C or HIV can be contracted by either of you through fellatio if you have cuts or sores in your mouth. It is essential to use protection if either of you has one of these viruses. If one of you has a bacterial infection, you must use latex (or non-latex) barriers until you’ve completed treatment. Because the medical community’s conventional wisdom changes on safer sex often, check with the CDC for new information.
Download my free e-book (in a variety of formats) The Modern Guide to Safer Sex (Digita Publications) for a handy reference chart for all sex acts and their variations.
The barrier of choice when going down on a guy is an unlubricated condom. Unlubricated condoms are available in latex and non-latex versions, and some of the latex versions come in unlubricated flavors. For plain latex condoms suited to your oral adventures, try Durex, which come in clear, or Ria, which come in a fun assortment of colors. LifeStyles’ Kiss of Mint are a popular choice, are thin, cream-colored and unlubricated, and taste like, well, latex and mint. Trustex makes the tastiest (though lubricated) condoms in the business, and they come in flavors such as banana, chocolate, cola, stawberry, grape and vanilla. All condoms I’ve listed usually cost around 55 cents each when sold individually.
When using a condom for oral sex, you can greatly increase the wearer’s sensations inside the condom by first placing a drop or two of lube inside the tip of the condom before putting it on. The pinch the tip to keep any air out of it, and place the condom at the head of his cock. Grasping the sides of the condom, keep the top on with one hand and roll the condom down the length of his shaft with the other. Some people like to put the condom in their mouth, and apply it to his penis hands-free – this takes some practice, so either find a willing volunteer or practice on a dildo before you try to impress him with your skills.
To find out even more about safer fellatio, how to use safer sex gear to make sex more spontaneous (yes, it’s true!), and many very handy safe sex tips, get The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio. Visit the Babeland web site to buy your condoms or any other safer-sex supplies, and find them there in non-latex versions as well. Be safe. Make any unsafe sex you decide to have a mutual decision based on knowing the facts about you, your partner, and the risk you’re taking.
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This week I’m interviewing Michael Kimball as part of his blog tour for Dear Everybody, a novel with a fascinating structure. I’m not actually going to talk much about the novel, because Michael’s answers to my questions illuminate so much of the work, and the way that he created it, that I don’t think you need much of a overview from me, other than to say that if you’ve ever thought that you couldn’t be gripped by a novel whose ending is clear from the first page, think again. One of the pleasures of this novel is filling in the gaps that lead you from knowing the end, to understanding it, and it’s a very satisfying, if sometimes melancholy, experience.
When I thought about what I wanted to ask Michael, the structure of the novel loomed very large in my mind, and so I started with that question.
Epistolary novels are a fairly old form, but you’ve given this idea of a story told in documents a very new twist, in part because there is no surprise at the end here – we already know that Jonathon Bender died by his own hand, and that his brother, Robert, is attempting to piece together Jonathon’s life by means of documents left behind. Why did you choose this structure for such a bittersweet narrative?
The beginning point was accidental. Dear Everybody started with one short letter, a man apologizing to a woman for standing her up on a date; the man is wondering if they had gone out that night, if maybe his whole life would have been different, better. At first, I didn’t know then who was speaking or that it was a suicide letter, but I did have a strong voice and a skewed way of thinking. That one letter led to hundreds of short letters—Jonathon, apologizing to nearly everybody he has ever known. After that, I added the obituary, the eulogy, and the last will and testament. After adding those framing elements, the novel opened up for me in a new way. I realized that I could include anything. I added the mother’s diary entries, conversations with people from Jonathon’s past, the psychological evaluations, encyclopedia entries, weather reports, yearbook quotes, to-do lists, a mixtape, and other sorts of documents that fill in the parts of Jonathon’s life that he can’t tell us with his letters. Writing a novel made up of 349 short pieces allowed me to deal with difficult material – abuse, mental illness, suicide – that might have become sentimental if handled as traditional narrative. And that also allowed me to put huge amounts of story into the novel. Each little piece is its own story.
There’s another narrative monolith lurking behind Dear Everybody, because there’s also a sense in which you’ve written the antithesis of the Great American Novel. Jonathon’s unwanted birth and his family’s move from California to Michigan begin a series of diminutions in which his life, world and opportunities get ever smaller and more constrained. How deliberate was your focus on the intrinsic value of smallness and failure as opposed to bigness and success, as subjects of fiction?
It was pretty deliberate. I recognized that particular way of thinking in the first letter I wrote—a desire for something else that is not possible, always finding failure in whatever is happening (whether it is a failure or not). Psychologists call it a negative affect and that thought very much animated the writing of Dear Everybody. It is anti- both in the sense of things not turning and also in the way it is told, the non-traditional narrative.
We get to know Jonathon entirely through his relationships with others, although Robert, his brother, actively rejects some of Jonathon’s experience and even censors a letter in which Jonathon has said something about their father that Robert cannot accept. The reader has to guess what to put in the gaps between the letters – to what extent are you happy that a reader might find a very different view of Jonathon to your own?
I’m OK with different readers having different views of Jonathon. It was a risk I had to take when I decided to write the novel that way, with all the different kinds of documents (and it is part of the function of the other documents that aren’t letters, to fill in those gaps). This way of telling the story is also one of the reasons the novel can cover so much ground, tell so much story through implication and accumulation. And that particular passage, those blacked out lines –my feeling was that spelling it out would have lessened the emotional power and narrative complexity of the novel.
You’re very involved in the world of micro-fiction and the condensing of life experience into tiny formats. What is it that appeals to you so much about very short fiction?
I am fascinated by implication, by how much story can be conveyed in how few words. I think writers owe that to readers—to give them as heightened an experience as they possible can.
Tom Bender, the father, is a ghastly character – he has no redeeming features at all! Do you see him as a genuine monster or as a version of a certain kind of masculinity at a certain period of history – in other words, is he unique or could some aspect of him be lurking in many men?
It’s kind of sad to say, but he is a somewhat torqued up version of my father and the fathers of many of my friends—a conglomeration of the worst.
And I always ask this: if you were abandoned on a desert island, with just one book for company, what would it be?
Just one book is tough, but I’m going to go with Daniel Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness – for the way Schreber’s mind unfolds and unfolds in irresolvable ways.
I hope that I’ve managed to fill in some of the gaps, and illuminate some of the ‘implications’ that Michael uses so effectively to tell one life, in letters and documents, and turn it into a sweet and melancholy meditation on why people may end their lives, and what that does to those they leave behind. | <urn:uuid:4051ff74-ee4d-44e6-aa44-e693e9da8223> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kaysexton.com/?p=253 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97662 | 1,319 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Researchers at the University of Alabama Birmingham have spent the last two decades screening over 300,000 compounds in their search for an orally bioavailable drug to treat diabetes.
Now, it appears, all that hard work has paid off.
Through their experiments, the researchers were able to identify a small, nontoxic molecule that works not only to normalize blood glucose in obese diabetic mice but also in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice, a model for type 1 diabetes.
The molecule, known as SRI-37330, was able to improve four separate detrimental characteristics of diabetes:
- Hyperglucagonemia or the elevation of glucagon hormone which counteracts the effects of insulin and promotes glucose production
- Glucose production by the liver
- Hepatic steatosis, or fatty liver disease
Within days of starting the new oral drug, the mice experienced normalization of blood glucose. Despite the drug’s apparent interference with glucose production within the body, there were no instances of hypoglycemia recorded.
The researchers noted that the effects of this drug far exceeded even those seen with the leading oral diabetes drugs, metformin, and empagliflozin.
While no human trials have been completed yet, the drug has been tested on isolated human islet cells with very promising results.
Dr. Shavlev, would you say that SRI-37330 had a curative effect in obesity-induced diabetic mice? Would you expect it to have a similar curative effect in humans with type 2?
Yes, SRI-37330 normalized blood glucose control in a very stringent and severe mouse model of obesity-induced diabetes and taken together with the promising results in isolated human islets and the fact that the targeted signaling pathway is very well conserved between mice and humans, we hope that it will have similar beneficial effects in humans with type 2 diabetes.
You’ve mentioned that the drug treatment could be beneficial to treat people with type 1 diabetes as well as type 2. By what pathways do you believe SRI-37330 would help in type 1 and would you expect it to be curative or simply make the disease easier to manage?
Like in type 2 diabetes, the drug would be expected to lower and normalize glucagon levels and thereby prevent excessive glucose production by the patient’s own liver. However, we believe that in the case of type 1 diabetes, an additional important pathway would come into play. We have previously shown in mouse models and humans with type 1 diabetes that inhibiting TXNIP, the toxic protein targeted by SRI-37330, protects pancreatic beta cells and promotes their survival and insulin-producing function.
SRI-37330 has the benefit of being formulated as a simple, oral drug. Would you expect patients to have to take the drug for life to continue to receive the benefits? Would this differ between type 2 and type 1 patients?
Yes, diabetes is a chronic disease and we would expect that individuals with type 1 or type 2 diabetes would have to continue to take this oral drug to maintain its benefits.
What are the next steps for testing this drug? Is there any notion as to when it might be available, assuming trials prove its efficacy and safety?
The next steps include completing any remaining safety testing to get an Investigational New Drug approval and to move it into a phase 1 trial. Clinical trials testing new drugs such as SRI-37330, are not only extremely expensive but also typically take years, even in the best-case scenario, to make sure that the drug is safe and effective.
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Soldiers and muggles talk about PFC Kim Jaejoong on FB
JYJ3’s Dictionary: muggle means non-fan,
Edited again! Not sure how many soldiers are there lol
Soldier: This is unbelivable. There is no one like him (Note: A soldier get shocked after seeing Kim Jaejoong)
Another’s Soldier: He is only one.. ㅎㅎㅎ(Softer laugh)
Soldier: ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ (Tears or crying)
Another’s Soldier: Don’t get too discouraged
Muggle 1: You guys are all soldiers, right?ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ? ㅎㅎ(Softer laugh)
(Note: A curious muggle asks his soldier friend)
Soldier: ㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴ ( No no No no No no No no) But we are different species…
Muggle 1: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (LOL) Aren’t we all same human beings???
Muggle 2: Is there anybody like him in your base?
(Note: A female muggle asks a soldier after seeing Kim Jaejoong’s photo)
Soldier: What if there is?
Muggle 2: Show me a photo.
Soldier: If there is a person who looks like that, I would date him ㅋㅋㅋ (LOL)
Muggle 2: Why would you date him? ㅋㅋㅋ (LOL) You should introduce him to me.
Soldier: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (LOL) I said if there is oneㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (LOL).. There is noneㅋㅋㅋㅋ (LOL)
Muggle 2: Got you… so sad.
Muggle 3: Is there anybody who looks like that at your base?
(Note: Another curious muggle asks his soldier friend)
Soldier: No, I should just go to that base.
Another’s Soldier?: You are staying with THAT person?!
Soldier: Of course!ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (LOL) (Note: A very proud soldier)
Another collection of eyewitness accounts of PFC Kim Jaejoong by fellow soldiers
Soldier 1: Why don’t you try to be friends with him?
Soldier 2: My heart flutters (when I see him) that I can’t event talk to him.. ㅠㅠ (Tears or crying)
Soldier 2: My heart was pounding even more wildly after looking at the tattoos on his back…
Soldier 3: Treat soldier Kim Jaejoong like a rock.. Don’t waver even if you see him everyday… ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (LOL) Can’t hold back any longer, I should get his autograph too
(Note: A soldier tried to contain himself but fails)
Soldier 4: He is at Gyeryong Troop now and he worked out at our troop’s facility yesterday. | <urn:uuid:7888060f-a2ad-4a00-812e-9491ddd77869> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jyj3.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/trans-150915-another-collection-of-eyewitness-accounts-of-pfc-kim-jaejoong-by-fellow-soldiers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.894603 | 756 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The SP20R is 20-W photovoltaic power source capable of recharging batteries. It has an on-board voltage regulator, and a 6.1 m (20 ft) cable with stripped and tinned leads that connect directly to a user-supplied deep-cycle battery.
The SP20R is often used for system configurations that have higher-than-average power requirements, or in higher elevation and latitude locations. It allows unattended operation of systems in remote locations, far from AC electrical sources.Read More
The SP20R includes mounting hardware consisting of the the pn 17492 U-bolt and Matching Nuts. The pn 17492 U-bolt provides a 2.125" (5.398 cm) space between the U-bolt legs. This hardware allows the solar panel to be mounted to a 0.75" to 1.5" IPS pipe (1" to 2" OD).
Please note that the SP20R has a 2-mA continuous current drain (meaning that it consumes a small amount of power from the connected battery at night).
|-NOTE-||Solar panel characteristics assume 1 kW m-2 illumination and 25°C solar panel temperature. Individual panels may vary up to 10%. The output panel voltage increases as the panel temperature decreases.|
|Maximum Peak Power||20 W|
|Current at Peak||1.19 A|
|Maximum Allowable Wind Gust Speed||
|Voltage at Peak||16.8 V|
|Current Drain||2 mA (continuous)|
|Guaranteed Minimum Peak Power||18 W|
|On-board Regulator Included||Yes|
|Dimensions||50.0 x 42.2 x 5.1 cm (19.7 x 16.6 x 2 in.)|
|Weight||6.2 kg (13.6 lb)|
The solar panel includes an onboard regulator for direct connection to a user-supplied flooded battery.
The SP20R-L is compatible with user-supplied, flooded, 12 Vdc batteries, such as deep-cycle marine or RV batteries. | <urn:uuid:3d20813d-3b61-4e48-8550-be6e16b1835d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.campbellsci.com/sp20r | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.863906 | 464 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The following is an excerpt from a book called Villa-Lobos, Visto da plateia e na intimidade (Villa-Lobos seen on stage and intimately). This book was written and self-published in the early 1970s by Luiz Guimarães (aided by other family members), younger brother of Lucilia Villa-Lobos. Lucilia married Heitor Villa-lobos in 1912, and he left her in 1935. Upon their marriage, Heitor moved into Lucilia's mother's house, and the younger brothers lived with Heitor and Lucilia following the death of their mother. The brothers were very close to Heitor VIlla-Lobos throughout his life. They were upset that biographies of Villa-Lobos largely omitted their sister, and wanted to set the record straight. The book is filled with documentation of concerts (in which Lucilia performed) and many other valuable historical materials. There is a short section in which Luiz writes his reminiscences of life with Villa-Lobos, together with two short segments written by Lucilia, from a memoir in manuscript. As far as I know, that manuscript has not yet come to light. In any case, despite some quirks of writing style, this is an invaluable, intimate account of Villa-Lobos the man, written by someone who spent years with his early in his life. The book is rather hard to come by, and has not been translated to my knowledge. (Translation by Fred Sturm)
Lucilia Guimarães Villa-Lobos:
“It was on All Saints Day (11/1/1912) that we received a visit from Villa-Lobos. Brought by a friend of my parents, Arthur Alves, the motive was that we were going to hear a young man who played the guitar very well.
We lived then, my mother and six brothers and sisters, in a large house on Rua Haddock (Vila Itala), today Rua Domicio da Gama.
I had finished my course in piano at the National Institute for Music (today the National School for Music) and taught piano at Sacre-Coeur College, as well as having some private students, in piano and solfege.
The musical evening went very well, extremely pleasant, and for us the guitar under the hands of Villa-Lobos was a success.
After his exhibition, Villa-Lobos expressed the desire to hear the pianist, and so I played some pieces by Chopin, a performance that seemed to me to have made a good impression, in technique and in interpretation.
Villa-Lobos, however, felt embarrassed, perhaps even inferior, for at that time the guitar was not a salon instrument of real music, but a vulgar instrument for serenades and choros.
Suddenly, as if overcoming a depression, he declared that his real instrument was the cello, and that he would like to arrange a meeting in our house so that we could hear him at his cello..
A new meeting was set, and it was arranged that he would send the piano parts in advance so that I could practice them and accompany him on the next Saturday.
On that day the audition was repeated, now with Villa-Lobos on cello. Other meetings followed. The repeated contacts, artistic affinity, and a natural and increasing attraction, culminated in our engagement. On November 12, 1913 we were married. I continued teaching, and Villa playing, by day at the Colombo Confeitaria, and by night at the Assirio, a restaurant located in the municipal theater.
We continued living with my family, at that time in a house at Rua Fonseca Teles no. 7, in São Cristovão.
In spite of the difficulties we experienced, Villa (so we called him) began to compose his first works, with energy, and, as he did not play the piano yet, it was I who gave the first partial performances.”
“The relationship of Villa-Lobos with Lucilia’s brothers was more than simply cordial – it was one of collaboration, moral support, and fraternal friendship.
We must state that there was always a certain indifference on the part of Villa-Lobos’ brothers and sisters concerning his artistic career, and a much more active dialogue with his brothers’-in-law, which the facts will demonstrate, and will to a certain extent explain.
His youngest brother (Othon) for example, with whom he lived as a bachelor, died very young, meanwhile sharing little with Villa-Lobos. Furthermore, he distanced himself after he got married, because he disapproved of his marriage, not only because of his young age (19 years) as for the social condition of his wife.
There was another circumstance that impeded an identification between the two: Othon was only interested in sports, football and boxing. He had no intellectual, or more specifically, musical inclination. From this you shouldn’t conclude that Villa-Lobos didn’t respect him. On the contrary, he treated him, at times, even paternally.
Of his sisters, though one of them had studied the violin a little, you couldn’t say that they had demonstrated a love of music. The other had a serious auditory insufficiency, in spite of which she dedicated herself to private teaching.
Only one of his nieces, daughter of his sister Berta (Lulucha), studied piano, and with Lucilia, and was prepared by her for the course of Theory and Solfege at the National Institute for Music, now the National School for Music.
On the occasion of the final exam, however, Lucilia had to help her a great deal, so that she could succeed and wouldn’t compromise the name of Villa-Lobos, then already becoming known.
She married young, however, and lived far from Rio, in São Paulo first, later in Belo Horizonte. She only took part in one of his concerts, as a member of the choir.
Lucilia’s brothers, brought up in a musical environment from childhood, for their mother could play the piano with a certain flair as an experienced amateur, playing four hands with Lucilia – they were inclined to be interested in the music of Villa-Lobos, and listened with attention to his explanations.
And there was much that the layman’s ears of Lucilia’s brothers accepted with pleasure. Villa-Lobos educated us in his art.
We did not know Villa-Lobos’ father who, as is stated in the biographies of the Maestro, was also a cellist, though an amateur, as his son said.
Thus, as Villa-Lobos lived more together with Lucilia’s brothers, it was natural that considerable affinity should develop among them. As the oldest brother, J. G. (Juca familiarly), was, like Villa-Lobos, a good player of billiards, the two shared many contests at that pastime. A very close relationship grew between the two, so that you might even call them compadres. But there was another detail: Juca played the piano by ear, and played well, mostly the waltzes “chorosas” of Anacleto de Medeiros, one or two compositions by Lucilia’s mother, polkas and “Schottisches.” When he created an effect, Villa-Lobos asked him to repeat it and tried to reproduce it. It was something like a “trinado” used by some of the choros pianists of the old guard. Ernesto Nazareth and Sinhô used them a lot.
Notices of his first concerts were written, for the most part, by Lucilia’s brothers. The collection of income as well as the selling of tickets was also done by them. One of us (L. G.) got the “prize” of a voyage, as his secretary, during the Week of Modern Art in São Paulo.
It was a great opportunity. We were then 16 years old. We didn’t know the great capital, and had never been guests in any hotel. It was an enlightening experience for us. We stayed, with the married couple, in Hotel d’Oeste, on Largo de S. Bento.
Our functions (L. G.) however, we have the humility to confess it, were those of an errand boy. In reality there was nothing that could be connected with the pompous name of secretary.
We carried messages about changes of rehearsal times, notes to newspapers; we transported, for example, an instrument, or “parts” for particular musicians. We remember various of these errands, including going to the home of Guiomar Novães, then on Avenida Angélica. We confess, also, that in spite of the insistence of Villa-Lobos, the great cellist Alfredo Gomes never permitted one of us (L. G.) to transport his cello.
And there was the service of listening!
We never understood how Villa-Lobos, with his determined, revolutionary, independent spirit, with his “postcards to posterity,” would ask, with curiosity mixed with anxiety and irony, our opinion on the concerts and the comments we heard, coming from the audience.
When Villa-Lobos left, in 1927, for the second time to Europe, this time in company with his wife Lucilia Guimaraes Villa-Lobos, he assumed the responsibility of writing a series of articles, which would be published in “O Pais.” We had (L. G.) not only the responsibility for the house (Rua Didima no. 10) but also for editing his writing and taking them to the offices of the newspaper. Villa-Lobos, however, only sent two works, for his busy artistic activity in Paris didn’t allow him to pursue this task.
How Villa-Lobos Composed
Villa-Lobos believed firmly in his creative power. Within his mind were works ready to be written, of which he had already spoken and announced, before really being composed.
We will explain further: We saw Villa-Lobos announce and have printed programs of concerts in which were included works of which there only existed a theme, a sketch on a piece of music paper. A few days before the concert, Villa-Lobos sent to the performers parts for their rehearsal, written out by himself.
Lucilia shared with us her concern. She worried a great deal, and feared, even, that he would lack the inspiration or time, but Villa-Lobos completed his creation with surprising security. We remember, on this subject, one of the most emotional examples.
We will refer to the return to Brazil, in 1919, of Epitácio Pessôa, Embassador of Brazil to the Conference at The Hague.
Various homages to the great Brazilian statesman, called then Ambassador of Peace, were prepared, and among them was included a symphonic concert at the Municipal Theater.
As the war of 1914/1918 had ended with the victory of the allies, a suggestive symphonic trilogy was programmed, whose literary description was assigned to Escragnole Doria.
The themes were “War,” Victory,” and “Peace,” and the government commissioned Villa-Lobos, Francisco Otaviano and Francisco Braga, respectively, to compose them.
Already time was short. It was necessary to set to work.
Days passed, and Villa-Lobos did not begin the work. Lucilia’s anxiety increased and was communicated to all of us. Her appeals, made from fear, had no effect. She tried to dissuade him from going to movies, which sometimes was not limited to one (he would leave one cinema and enter another), so as to see him working on the commitment which was approaching, but Villa-Lobos retorted “that he knew what he was doing and she shouldn’t worry because everything would be done in time; besides, everything was done, it was just a matter of putting it down on paper.” And it was.
Whether because of the affinity of his impetuous temperament with the theme (War) he was given, or because of his genius, out of the trilogy the part that made the theater applaud with enthusiasm was “War.”
The applause of those present reached a climax when, after a lot of “back and forth,” Villa-Lobos brought back in reminiscence a marriage of the themes of the Marseilles and the National Anthem.
After lunch and after supper, Villa-Lobos went to the piano, invariably, with his cigar in his mouth, and played for hours at a time
We sensed when something was about to “stick,” to be set down on the musical staff, because then, for days on end, the same melodies would be repeated, the same effects, and then, either during the morning or into the night, came the phase of fixation. For the neighbors, as for ourselves, it was unnerving to hear the moment of “writing,” for there was an interminable repetition of notes, of chords, and of phrases.
It is much slower and painful to pass from the brain and the piano to the musical score than to give literary form to creation formed by words. We might say, with apology for the irreverence, that it is even exasperating.
Often we, who had a “good ear,” would whistle without wanting to that which Villa-Lobos was writing, bothering him and hearing one of those “yells” that we should stop it. Various times Villa-Lobos said to Lucilia, “These boys have a ruined ear, they confuse me. Imagine that I have still not finished writing, and they already whistle what I am composing.” In parentheses we must, for the good of the truth, confess that we cannot certify those exact words. It isn’t possible for us to repeat them precisely “ipsis verbi.”
The capacity for abstraction of Villa-Lobos, however, was extraordinary, so much so that he “worked” and paid attention to everything that was said, without the least interference. That fact has already been emphasized by many testimonials.
He himself recounted that he composed, many times, when he played in the Newspaper Theaters (S. Pedro and Republica), during the performance, both in the orchestral pauses and during the dialogue and entr’actes.
He referred, specifically, more than once, to have done this while writing the Prelude to the fourth act of Izaht.
Villa-Lobos’ frugality, his health, and his love for children
With that intense creative activity, working through the night until dawn, the morning meal of Villa-Lobos was only a cup of coffee, sometimes two or three cafézinhos until he got up. Then he worked, and had lunch later. Villa-Lobos lunched and dined on rice, fried potatoes, beef, and salad. For years and years this was his menu. He never snacked, but drank various cafézinhos that had to be good and strong, “the color of iodine,” as Lucilia and we ourselves classified it. He did not like alcoholic beverages, in spite of having been a Bohemian, though from time to time he drank a dark beer. (The "Bohemian" of earlier times wasn’t on the basis of drinking, as it seems. It was the chôro, seresta, and desafio, “dry.”) Villa-Lobos was, positively, a sober person. His health was enviable.
We never heard him complain of a headache, flu, and, as far as we knew, he never had a serious illness for many years. We remember, however, that he suffered from a parasite (athlete’s foot?) that troubled him a great deal. During the Week of Modern Art he had to appear in slippers, which provoked laughter and taunts from the gallery. . .
Soon after rising, still in his bedroom, he would wash his feet with a solution of water and creoline (it had to be “Cruzwaldina” brand) for that problem. He used this treatment for many years.
We remember that in April, 1926, Villa-Lobos was admitted to the Pedro Ernesto House of Health for a small surgical intervention, just as one of us (A. G.) left Rio to begin, in the interior of Brazil, his career as doctor. Until then we had never seen Villa-Lobos need medical care.
During the so-called “Spanish Flu” of 1918, everyone in the house was confined to bed by the epidemic that assaulted Brazil – Villa-Lobos came through untouched. On one of those tragic days, when all the food in the house had been eaten, Villa-Lobos went out in search of a chicken, and only returned late in the morning carrying an old rooster. . . Waiting for this rooster to cook was an ordeal, but was also amusing for the victims of the Spanish Flu.
However annoyed he might be, however irritated or irate Villa-Lobos might become, at home or at a rehearsal, the arrival of a child, a niece or nephew, a godchild, would in general transfigure him immediately. He was all tenderness and humility!
There was a phase in which, living together, one of us (L. G.) already with a six month old daughter, Villa-Lobos interrupted his intense labor, in the middle of the night, at the least cry of the little girl, and came to find her in our room, staying with her until she slept again. This was repeated almost every night. Lucilia complained of the harm to both, and that the parents must not like it, but Villa-Lobos said that he wouldn’t stop doing it, because “she” was “his.”
Many participants in the Orfeão of Professors must remember one of his goddaughters who stayed, at his request, on the stage during rehearsals, and the transfiguration of Villa-Lobos, after such yelling, so much impatience, anguish, the mistakes of the rehearsal, when, the work being done, he took her on his lap and forgot, totally, what had taken place. Many times he showed her music on the piano. It was the overflowing of his love for children.
To his nieces Kylzota, Nylza, Russinha and Igarita he dedicated one of his compositions to each. To his niece and goddaughter Laiz-eni, who was called “Candonguinha,” he dedicated a piece. His pieces about children are innumerable. Not having children, Villa-Lobos had a profound sentiment of paternity for all children.
Azevedo, Villa-Lobos’ only guitar student
Senhor Azevedo, whose first name we never knew and who was Villa-Lobos’ only student, was an extremely timid young man who had an admiration, almost veneration, for his teacher. He was the brother of twins, pianists, Carolina and Ingracia de Azevedo.
His lessons were given, psychologically, at the most inappropriate hour, in the morning. Villa-Lobos did not rise early, except with great sacrifice. A few details:
Lucilia, going out, would recommend, “Call Villa, take him coffee, and remind him that today is the lesson of Sr. Azevedo.” All this was done by one of us.
After five to ten minutes had passed, we would open the door and verify that Villa-Lobos had gone back to sleep. Azevedo arrives. A new entrance into the bedroom, and Villa-Lobos ordered, “Tell him to begin, that I am listening.” There would follow shouts, “Begin again;” “Wrong;” “No, for the love of God.” “Boy, please go away, return tomorrow, later we will see!”
Other times, he left his bed and came to the room where his student was. We had the impression that something was going to happen, but Azevedo didn’t speak to him, didn’t respond, packed his cello and bow in the case and, silent, humiliated and sorry to have perturbed the Maestro, left with an expression of having caused pain.
It is curious that Villa-Lobos never knew how to dismiss the student: on the contrary, he always praised him, especially his tuning and beautiful tone.
Carlos, Arnaldo Guinle, and Villa-Lobos
The silence or only fleeting reference made to the names of Carlos and Arnaldo Guinle, which should be written thus: CARLOS AND ARNALDO GUINLE (or in even larger letters) – the fraternal, moral and material support, of true friends of Villa-Lobos the Man and Villa-Lobos the Artist – is a phenomenon without any plausible explanation. Carlos Guinle had a decisive influence on the first foreign (French) editions of the works of Villa-Lobos (Publisher Max Eschig, 1923). They helped him, materially, in many eventualities. They supported him from his first concerts, in his first voyages to Europe, they helped him tremendously, and even gave him (Arnaldo Guinle), in his second stay in Paris, his furnished apartment, with all comforts, even having a grand piano, making possible for Villa-Lobos to have greater contact with Darius Milhaud, Stravinsky, Prokofieff, Rubenstein, Edgard Varése, Florent Schmidt, Maurice Raskin, Tomas Téran, and others, who frequented his apartment on Place Saint Michel.
This was a time (1927/28) in which Villa-Lobos could show his compositions, but unlike what happened on his first voyage, he wasn’t alone, but returned to Paris with his wife, Lucilia Guimarães Villa-Lobos, who performed his compositions and occupied herself with domestic activities. [footnote: The feijoadas referred to in contributions to Presença de Villa-Lobos, 1961, were made by Lucilia, obviously. First, because at that time they couldn’t give themselves the luxury of having a cook in Paris, and second because it would be quite a phenomenon for a Frenchwoman to prepare a feijoada…
[Lucilia told us that Villa-Lobos created serious problems, wanting to act in Paris as he did in Rio. It was common for him to arrive at Rua Didima for supper with 3, 4, sometimes 5 friends. The bustle was tremendous and Lucilia and the maid busied themselves in an improvisation of quick dishes. In Paris, when Villa-Lobos insisted that they should stay for dinner, many of the artists went out and bought their “beef,” their “soup in a box,” accustomed as they were to the European way of life. Villa-Lobos, however, was very put out with this.]
There appeared or visited at his apartment many Brazilians as well. (Iberê Gomes Grosso, Elsie Houston, João Souza Lima, Oscar Borghet, Cândido Botelho, and many others).
His stay this time was for around three years, which made possible the inclusion of his works in various concerts, thanks to two great artists and friend and his first interpreters in Europe, Vera Janacopulos and Arthur Rubenstein.
Let us return, however, to Arnaldo Guinle. As we referred in an earlier passage, the inclusion of the name of Arnaldo Guinle in the list of people to whom were destined tickets for Villa-Lobos’ concerts was not only constant and unwavering, but special, for he bought a substantial number of them.
On his return to Brazil, after his second stay in Paris, Villa-Lobos brought three friends – Tomas Téran and wife (he a Spaniard and a great pianist, who later moved to Brazil, and his wife Maria Tereza, a Cuban) and Maurice Raskin, Belgian violinist and little more than an adolescent at the time. These artists were guests at the old Palace Hotel, I believe for months, at the expense of the Guinles (proprietors of the most famous hotel of the epoch), as a favor to Villa-Lobos.
The cited artists took part in various concerts in Rio and in São Paulo, and participated, in addition, in the expedition into the interior of São Paulo, a page not sufficiently covered and which had epic passages. We have already tried to emphasize it in earlier pages.
In the period of the government of President Epitacio Pessôa there was approved and sanctioned a project of the deputy for the state of Pará, Arthur Lemos, whose son, Iberê, pianist and developing composer, was a great friend and admirer of Villa-Lobos. Just an admirer, no: admirer and assiduous frequenter of Rua Didima no.10, where sometimes he spent entire days on end. He just didn’t sleep there. . .
But let us return to the project. It was intended that there should be granted to Villa-Lobos a sum of 40 Contos de Reis so that the composer, in concerts in the principle capitals of Europe, could exhibit his own works. Villa-Lobos would be a sort of musical ambassador of Brazil (with 40 contos . . .)
The grant, as you can imagine, was already much too little for such an enterprise. An aggravating circumstance was added to this: Villa-Lobos only received 20 contos, the rest being reserved for a second payment.
We arrive at the government of Arthur Bernardes, and Villa-Lobos did not succeed in receiving the remains of the grant conceded him by Congress.
He resolved, then to put into execution a method to augment the help of the government: to put on 3 or 4 symphonic concerts in the Municipal Theater, whose receipts would make the voyage possible.
Villa-Lobos had not yet shown his production of sacred music. This, then, would be the genre of music to constitute the first program. Aside from the economic disaster, for the payment to the orchestra musicians (repeated rehearsals, janitors, light, etc.) was not covered by the small income, and the attendance was minimal. The sacred works received a cold reception from the critics. There were those who insinuated that they were somewhat profane.
An impasse was created: on the one hand, Villa-Lobos needed to fulfill the mission given him by Congress, although he had not been paid the entire sum granted; on the other hand, the money received had been spent on concerts whose income was not enough to cover expenses.
It was then that a group of friends and admirers, from Rio and São Paulo, decided to underwrite Villa-Lobos’ stay in Europe, which they did for more than one year. At their head, in Rio, Carlos Guinle and Arnaldo Guinle, Maurice Gudin and Mme. Santos Lobo; in São Paulo Councilor Antonio Prado, Sra. Olivia Penteado and others, who don’t come to our memory, and whose omission is unintentional, and we hope will be pardoned. And thus Villa-Lobos, in 1923, took the French steamship Groix to Europe for the first time, in search of confirmation by the critics of the Old World of his artistic talent.
Lucilia, his wife, did not accompany him on this first voyage, obviously – the resources Villa-Lobos had available were not sufficient to support both. She went, however, on the second voyage, as has been said earlier.
Over time, Villa-Lobos sent his letters, giving an account of what he was achieving, showing his compositions to those who were recognized internationally as bearers of authority and of great critical sense.
On that occasion he had Souza Lima as a great friend. From one of his letters we remember that he referred to Stravinsky’s inaccessibility.
In Paris Villa-Lobos lived this time (1924) for more than a year at Place Saint Michel, 11. Arnaldo Guinle confirms that this was at his sole expense. He returned to that place on his second voyage (1927), now accompanied by his wife Lucilia Guimarães Villa-Lobos, and stayed there three years.
Villa-Lobos’ first concerts in Rio de Janeiro
We will recount now how tickets were sold for Villa-Lobos’ concerts. The tickets, rectangular cardboard, were distributed by two brothers of Lucilia (L.G and O. G.). A list of friends, admirers, colleagues or even acquaintances of Villa-Lobos was made. To some were destined, sometimes, ten tickets, in the hope that they would pass them to acquaintances or, depending on their means, would pay for all of them. When the concert was over, usually a week later, we would return to receive payment for the tickets.
Some paid. Others “didn’t know” if they had received them. Others said they would only pay for their own and their wife’s and returned the rest. We should note that on the ticket was a notice, “any ticket not returned by the evening of the concert must be paid for.”
If, however, we chose to make that argument, we received in exchange words that were sometimes harsh. The number of complimentary tickets was equal to or greater than that of the paid ones. The income, never large, didn’t cover the expenses of the hall (usually that of the Jornal do Comercio).
Villa-Lobos, nevertheless, with his stiff inner fiber, maintained his trajectory to glory.
Rua Didimo no. 10
There was, and still exists, a neighborhood consisting of houses on top of one another, within the bounds of the streets of the Invalids, Ubaldino do Amaral, Henrique Valadares and Senado, within which was located Rua Didimo, which extended from Rua do Senado to Avenida Henrique Valadares. Although in the center of the city, in the vicinity of the Police Headquarters, the Brazilian Red Cross, and near the central Fire Station, this street is little known.
The neighborhood belonged to a company (Saneamento Predial do Rio de Janeiro), has the name of Vila Rui Barbosa, and consists of two principle streets (Rua Didima and Rua Central) and three cross streets (“Bem-te-vi,” “Chiquita,” and Adélia.
We will focus in detail on the house at Rua Didima no. 10, first because Villa-Lobos lived there from 1919 to 1935, achieved the rising state of his immense glory, and composed there most intensely; and second, from there he departed on his two voyages to the old world, first alone and second with Lucilia.
Iberê Lemos, whose father worked on the presentation in Congress of the bill granting resources to Villa-Lobos for his voyage to Europe, visited the house frequently.
Frequent visitors included Graça Aranha, Ronaldo de Carvalho, Dante Milano, Mauricio Gudin (great surgeon, inventor of the aseptic room, still existing in the Beneficencia Portuguesa, where he was member of the medical team, and whom we saw playing the guitar on many occasions), Manuel Bandeira, Renato de Almeida (author of Pequena Historia da Música Brasileira, and inseparable companion of Ronaldo de Carvalho), Jayme Ovale, Di Cavalcanti, and many others.
He was introduced to Ronaldo de Carvalho by Mme. Santos Lobo, then the “duchess of elegancy,” in her mansion in Santa Teresa.
His contact with Graça Aranha was facilitated by D. Olívia Penteado, in São Paulo. Catulo da Paixão Cearence also came there many nights, reciting his poems, interrupted, by himself, in various passages, by a “beeauutiful,” very personal.
It might appear to some to be “Cabotinismo,” but for us was very sincere, and perhaps a verbal quirk – beeauutiful! They were friends from the times of the serestas. We don’t think Catulo could understand the Villa-Lobos of this phase of his artistic and creative life. Nor could Villa-Lobos.
From his works, Villa-Lobos “made use of” Rasga o Coração, extremely popular, which Villa-Lobos put together with an indigenous theme, with a felicitous effect, and made a beautiful work for mixed choir, premiered in the Lirico Theater. While the first voices sang Rasga o Coração, the rest repeated a theme with indigenous words. The effect was of extraordinary beauty!
It is evident that there is only a “reminiscence” of the popular theme, and, I am sure, Catulo could only gain from this. However, after his death (Catulo’s), there was a lawsuit against Villa-Lobos, which, as is obvious, could only come out favorably for him – and for good reason.
We don’t contest the version of Villa-Lobos going very early to the Palace Hotel, with some musicians to demonstrate his compositions to Arthur Rubenstein. The information source would have been Villa-Lobos himself or the great Polish pianist. We don’t believe there is any other worthy of trust. But we remember perfectly the coming of Rubenstein to Rua Didima no. 10, an occasion in which Lucilia, as was natural, very nervous, making many mistakes, having to execute some pieces that needed practice, Villa-Lobos insisting and not letting her beg off, burst into tears. Rubenstein, who evidently understood the intransigence of the genius, and the causes of the mistakes, tried at times to calm Villa-Lobos, as well as justifying the errors, given the circumstances (his presence was enough), and the pianistic difficulties of the pieces performed.
Either politely or sincerely, he said that the pieces really required considerable virtuosity, and that the pianist had much merit and an extraordinary touch.
Afterward, Rubenstein sat at the piano and played pieces that, “if he could” (his own words) he would perform in his concerts, pieces little known by classical, romantic and modern composers. Piano recitals were (or still are) veritable “proving matches”, and they create myths of the “best” in interpretations of Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.
Rubenstein played with the impetuosity and force to break strings (as in Triana, Navarra, Fire Dance, etc.) and raise the public to delirium, and, on this occasion, not to let the neighborhood sleep!
It was full morning and neighboring windows opened and voices of protest were heard, but Rubenstein didn’t notice. He seemed transported for a long time. A neighbor in front, old, a painter – portraitist of little merit – S. Raso, yelled from his window a “chega” that irritated Villa-Lobos Profoundly.
Let us return to Vila Rui Barbosa. Various musicians lived in the neighborhood. Almost across from Villa-Lobos’ house a violinist, who tortured Villa-Lobos when he passed to the score paper his composition made always at the piano; a piece called Passaro. On the house to the side, upstairs, there were three musicians, two violinists (Tiberio and Alfredo Canceli) and maestro Lago, father of the popular composer and great artist of radio and television, Mario Lago.
In parentheses we will add that Mario Lago, then student at Pedro II, was a piano student of Lucilia. There were also, at no. 29 of Rua Didima, another violinist. Senhor Caldas Barbosa, whose daughter Adalgisa Barbosa, very talented, completed the course of piano and helped the maestro, making copies of his music, as well as playing pieces of Villa-Lobos, particularly Alma Brasileira, before it was finished.
There was a time (1935/36) when Villa-Lobos composed, wrote at a machine, and used amateur and professional copyists.
At Rua Didimo no. 10 were also many applicants and employees, when Villa-Lobos directed SEMA. We remember one of them, who was accompanied by a brother, an ensign at the Military College. Villa-Lobos, overly busy and in a bad humor, didn’t want to see him, it being necessary for Lucilia to interfere, having pity on the candidate, who not only seemed needy but also brought a recommendation from a great interpreter of Villa-Lobos, Paulina d’Ambrosio.
And he succeeded in being copyist!
On one of the side streets of Vila Rui Barbosa, behind Rua Didimo, lived the counter-bassist Alfredo Monteiro, friend of Villa-Lobos. One of his sons today is a violinist. There was also the today professor of piano and canto orfeônico, Juriti de Souza Farias, then studying at the National Institute for Music with Professor Gôes.
Not very far, in the boundaries of the neighborhood on Avenida Henrique Valadares no. 19 upstairs, lived the cellist Newton Pádua, friend and interpreter of Villa-Lobos at first, then composer as well. Newton Pádua was a sympathetic figure, very simple, always smiling, and died many years later.
On that occasion there frequented the house of Newton Pádua Otaviano Gonçalves, pianist, laureate of the National School of Music and composer. We, with the irreverence of young boys, (L. G. and O. G.) referred to Otaviano as “the first and only.”
Let us explain ourselves: Otaviano Gonçalves took all the courses of the old National Institute of Music with distinction – piano, solfege, harmony, counterpoint, composition, and I don’t know if conducting as well – all with distinction and first prize.
As it seems to us, besides being a friend of Newton Pádua and, with the violinist Carlos Frederico de Almeida, forming the trio Beethoven, which gave a series of concerts, Otaviano Gonçalves had a romance with one of Newton Pádua’s sisters, whom he married later.
Although not musicians, there were two more important neighbors – one at no. 10 itself, upstairs – Lopes Trovão, a republican tribune; and a diplomat, friend of Ronald de Carvalho, Jorge Lattuf.
On his return, in 1930, from his first voyage to Europe, made with Lucilia, Villa-Lobos brought with him the Spanish pianist Téran and his wife, and the Belgium violinist and concert artist Maurice Raskin, very young at that time.
Maurice Raskin, with Téran, were hosted in the Palace Hotel, for some time, thanks to the contribution of two of the best friends of Villa-Lobos at that time, friends who are not always acknowledged, or when they are, not given the proper emphasis or without the capital letters to which they have the right – CARLOS AND ARNALDO GUINLE.
Tuhu and “O Harmonia”
If it is true that we are capable of, from context, arriving easily at the true name in most cases, and in various languages, there are cases in which one finds not the least relationship between them.
That was what occurred with Villa-Lobos, known only in the intimacy of his family as Tuhú. Lucilia and her brothers never called him that.
We never heard an explanation, whether from his mother Don Noêmia, or from his siblings, Othon, Bertha and Carmelita, for such a odd name, though with a childlike character from its repeated sounds.
One couldn’t say the same about his other nickname, “O Harmonia.” Floriano de Lemos tells us about it in his article on “Music in Brazil,” published in Correio da Manha (1925).
He says, “As for Villa-Lobos, I consider him predestined, a great scholar (estudioso), who is considered crazy by many people, because there are still too little means to understand his formidable musical organization. I knew him 20 years ago, in our Republic of students on Rua Buarque de Macêdo, when, at that time, he made such profound speeches on the Divine Arts that we called him, in jest, “O Harmonia.”
Dona Noemia Monteiro Villa-Lobos
Villa-Lobos’ mother was an extraordinary woman. Very short in stature (she didn’t reach 1.5 meters) with a frail-looking complexion, she had, however, an amazing capacity for work, and an enviable energy and fiber. She never allowed herself to be beaten by the difficulties of life. She confronted them courageously and with dignity, although she was forced, in addition to domestic chores, to work outside the home (Confeitaria Colombo) and to do things that were not in keeping with her social position. There is a circumstance that increases her moral value – she had all the comforts when Villa-Lobos’ father was still alive.
She confronted the vicissitudes, which were neither small nor few, with high spirit. The pension left by Raul Villa-Lobos, however, was not enough to educate her children. There were some friends who always helped, notably Dona Celestina Masson, later the widow of Alvaro Ramos.
Her friendship for Lucilia, she always said, was the same that she had for her own children. She wasn’t a common mother-in-law, she was a second mother.
In the little squabbles that took place between the couple, evidently a normal fact of life in married life, she always took the side of Lucilia.
Sometimes, in those “summer storms” of Villa-Lobos, she didn’t stand by, nor was she intimidated, which impressed us and caused us worry, by the manner in which she defended her. Lucilia was always timid and sensible, a temperament entirely different from that of D. Noemia. D. Noemia had, nevertheless, a great pride, we might even say she idolized, Villa-Lobos.
In spite of her age, she divided her activities between the house of the oldest daughter, in Cascadura, and that of her son, at Rua Didimo no. 10. When Villa-Lobos went to Europe (second voyage) in company with Lucilia, D. Noemia and one of us (L. G.) remained there until the return of both, at Rua Didimo.
She loved us (L.G.) like a son, although, by virtue of our stature, she would call one of us (L. G.) “my husband,” which caused shock to strangers.
She had an extraordinary inventive capacity. She did everything that constitutes what are called “domestic chores.” She did good to everyone – she was selfless!
Her level of education, however, was only very basic, but compensated by an intelligence out of the ordinary. She did not have an artistic, or more specifically musical, inclination, it must be said. She was, however, a great mother, a great woman, and an extraordinary human figure, in our opinion. In these lines we wish to render her a debt of gratitude for what she did for Lucilia, and eternal happiness.
Villa-Lobos’ Artistic Intransigence
Villa-Lobos had a genuine horror for the mediocre (influenced by reading the book, The Mediocre Man by José Ingenieros, that he had on the shelf?) and was irritated above all by the “amateur.”
On various occasions he was sought – generally by women bringing their children – so that he should listen to them play and give his opinion on their supposed “geniuses” they had brought into the world.
The nervousness, loquacity, and the undisguised expression of pride by the mothers, under the cover of false humility and respect for the Maestro, contrasted with the counterfeit expression and the coolness of Villa-Lobos.
At first, perhaps from the impact of the unexpected, or from the fact that classical pieces were being performed, he listened to them, and to the end. Almost always they were false prodigies, “mediocrities,” who, giving the lie to the aphorism, “deceived the intuition of the mother’s heart.”
Later, however, the candidates not only came in greater numbers, but to exhibit themselves playing his own compositions. By this means they supposed, naturally, that they would receive a more benevolent judgment, in exchange for their homage. But . . .
Given the pianistic, technical and interpretive difficulties, it was predictable that his irritation increased. And increased. And more – it was uncontrollable!
Various times, then, we heard, after the escorts stated why they had come, Villa-Lobos make the following question: “Senhora, I will have great pleasure in hearing your son (or daughter) play; but I am very busy, full of things to do. I need to work, to compose, and for this reason I would like to know if your son (or daughter) intends to dedicate to an artistic career, to become a professional concert artist. Because . . .”
In general Mother interrupted him, and promptly, without the initial humility, responded that “no,” that (making the father the villain) for her “yes” but the father didn’t consent.
This was the greatest affront for him!
Villa-Lobos, then, already very irritated and in spite of the supplicant and pacifying look from Lucilia, responded, “Then, senhora, I am sorry, I am an artist, I dedicate my entire life to Art, that is sacred for me, and I am not interested in listening to ‘amateurs.’”
In parentheses we must say that truthfully nearly 90% of the people who study music (some even completing the courses at the National School of Music), do so today either from “dilettantism” or obliged by their parents.
It happened that in that epoch, more than today, the artist was, for the bourgeois or the “nouveau-riche,” an inferior class, socially and perhaps even morally.
And thus Villa-Lobos, from his explosive temperament, his reason for being and living, and his genius, developed a true hatred of the amateur. To such a point that, although solicitous, loving, and adoring toward children, not even with them was he compromising, in matters of art. And in general it was children who were exhibited. Many times adolescents, obviously.
The intransigence of Villa-Lobos with the amateur went far, very far even. And when D. Noemia, who had no musical education, compared him with his own father, Villa-Lobos responded, a little irritated, “Mother, for the love of God don’t compare me with my father. I am an artist, a creator, a composer. My father was an amateur!”
Not only the amateur was the object of his ire, but also the vulgar and the Cabotino. With respect to ‘vulgarity,” we will transcribe a bit of an interview given by Villa-Lobos to “A Noite” on 11/9/1922: “I feel that way, what can I say, my friend? In my makeup, my manner of being, or my mania (as many people judge me), I detest vulgarity, although I know that in the future I will be a simple figure of the past, a point of reference in history, perhaps a precursor of a school, or even nothing at all…”
Soon after his marriage, Villa-Lobos brought to our house (Rua Fonseca Teles, 7) a dog of large size and great beauty called Blanche. She was of the Danish breed, and very affectionate (the present of an ex-lover). At first timidly, and later, becoming attached to the dog, we played with her and provoked her in turn. Being short and young (7 to 9 years), the youngest of Lucilia’s brothers (L. G. and O. G.) rode Blanche like a horse. We got on her back, grabbed her ears with our hands like reins, and rode around the interior of the house. But one day the roof caved in!
I don’t know whether because of the heat, by the proximity of estrus, or dinnertime, Blanche refused to walk and we forced her. We beat her, the result being a bite in the face, bleeding and a bruise. A little later came the fear, in everyone, that the dog might have rabies. It was necessary for the dog to leave the house, which, obviously, would annoy and sadden Villa-Lobos.
We all feared that he would not agree, and it was with great anxiety that we awaited his return, with Blanche isolated in the basement. It was not easy to convince him of the necessity, during a period of observation, that Blanche should go to the house of Dona Noemia (Villa-Lobos’ mother).
And so, sorrowfully and under duress, Villa-Lobos took away his, and now our, Blanche, who left muzzled. Poor Blanche, she wasn’t at fault, and all that happened was that it gave us a lesson.
A little time passed, and with the death of Lucilia’s mother (our mother), we moved to a house belonging to a cousin of Villa-Lobos, off of Avenida Campista (Rua D. Maria). We don’t remember the exact date of the return of Blanche. But when we lived at Rua Visconde de Paranaguá no. 11, she was again with us. And we continued to be friends. Blanche died at Rua Didimo no. 10, after about two months of torpor. At first, she couldn’t move herself, because here hind legs were paralyzed, then she couldn’t even get up.
Villa-Lobos sometimes went to look at her, from the window that overlooked a small paved area. He avoided doing so, however. He didn’t go near her, but he always asked how she was doing. When, one day, on his return home we told him she had died, he didn’t want to see her, but wanted to know where we would take her. He wouldn’t allow that she should be left in the street (formerly the garbage men would take any dead animals found in the street). In the morning, we (L. G. and O.G) took Blanche to some vacant land near the Red Cross, and buried her there. At that time the place was known as the “Senate Barrier” and there were no buildings, but at least four football fields. There lies Blanche with our memories and a piece of Villa-Lobos.
Cigar, Cane, Tom Mix Hat, and Blue Shirt
For many years Villa-Lobos was never without one of these inseparable companions, cigar, cane, and wide-rimmed hat (a la Tom Mix). In moments of temporary prosperity, the cigar was of high quality. He would say, a mixture of authority and anxiety, “Bring me a Cuba Gold cigar, quickly!”
Other times, not so well off but resigned, having few “mil réis,” he would content himself with 2 or 3 “palhaços.” Before smoking the first ones, it seemed to us that the operations he carried out obeyed a veritable ceremony.
The cane was also his invariable companion. Concerning that, we remember that one day, on a morning when he woke in a bad humor, he told Lucas, as he called Lucilia, a “history” about his arrest, in the area of Arcos. It seems that an imperious necessity obliged him to an act considered as tantamount to shame, and he was invited to appear at the district court.
He was in one of his phases of economic difficulties, and, not having at the moment the amount needed to pay the fine, had to leave the cane as a guarantee. On the next morning, however, he ransomed it. His separation from his cane seems to have pained him more than the truculence of the police.
Arcos, at that time, was a sort of Deodoro station, identified easily, even by the blind, by the characteristic odor. Nevertheless, Villa-Lobos suffered a humiliation. Things . . .
The wide brimmed hat we believe was influenced by the “far west” films that he liked so much, and one of the actors most in vogue, when he began to use one, was the old Tom Mix. It is clear that there was a time in which it was in fashion, but Villa-Lobos, with his extremely forward-looking spirit, paradoxically continued, like an arch conservative, to wear his Tom Mix hat for years and years.
The fascination that blue exercised over Villa-Lobos was impressive. It wasn’t, however, just any blue, but a particular shade, called Royal Blue.
There was a long time when all his shirts were blue. But what a blue!
Villa-Lobos and Pastimes – cinema (westerns or serious) and billiards
Many times, after one or two hours of improvisation, Lucilia reminded him that it was getting late to go out, to go to the movies (because she had to give classes the next morning), and then Villa-Lobos, after more than 15 minutes, got up and got ready, as if he had a serious or social obligation. No! It was just a serial (the mysteries of New York, with Pearl White) or a western (Tom Mix or William Farnum). Sometimes he went out of one cinema and entered another. On his return, however, he began his work until dawn.
Along with his favorite diversions, already cited, like cinema, and flying giant kites he made himself, Villa-Lobos above all appreciated a game of French billiards, a game he played with extraordinary ability, like a true champion.
Various times, in company with his brothers-in-law, he went out after dinner to play a game.
Maninha, as she was called by her youngest brothers (O. G., L. G. and D. G.), whom she raised and educated, or Lucas (as Villa-Lobos called her), was delighted, because then she was almost certain he would return home early in company with her brothers. (When he went out alone, he would often meet a friend and stay out until all hours of the night).
As was said above, he was a real champion, and there was almost always a large and enthusiastic audience to see him play, applauding his beautiful, perfect, and carefully planned shots. All this made him very happy, and pleased his great and undisguised vanity.
Villa-Lobos and “Sinhô” (José Barbosa da Silva)
In 1925 one of Lucilia’s brothers (A. G.), who lived with her, completed his course in medicine. We thought of having a party that would be also an opportunity for giving him his degree ring. By the initiative of a brother-in-law (J. C. F. L.) who had bought a Victrola and had been holding parties in his own house, a dance was planned for Rua Didimo no. 10. All was agreed upon with great animation. What was missing, however, was very important: the consent of Villa-Lobos.
How would he react to the projected party, when they were even thinking of having a dance? Nothing of the like had ever happened in our house. That room was almost sacred. There, Villa-Lobos composed; there, many rehearsal were held; there, great personalities were received; there, great artists played (Rubenstein, Fructuoso Lima Viana, Paulina d’Ambrosio, Maurice Raskin, Tomaz Téran, Alfredo Gomes, Iberê Gomes Grosso, etc., etc.) The walls of that room were impregnated with classical music! It would be a profanation!
The day approached, and we waited for a propitious moment to ask Villa-Lobos his consent for the party, without having the courage to do so. We feared he wouldn’t approve. But what was our relief, our happiness, when he agreed, fully. The preparations were concluded, the day arrived.
The guests arrived, and the dance began. Villa-Lobos, however, wasn’t home. Because of this, in the midst of the bustle, there was still an enormous tension in our spirits.
But behold, in the midst of the party, Villa-Lobos arrived. His expression was animated, and to our surprise, he came accompanied by some friends, among them the poet Guillherme de Almeida, Sinhô, Maurice Gudin and Dante Milano. In a few minutes, however, we experienced and heard what we never thought could happen: at first, Sinhô, alone, began to play some maxixes and chôros (samba at that time wasn’t in style as much as it is today). Not much time passed, however, and Villa-Lobos joined Sinhô and, four hands, making variations and pianistic acrobatics, made up the most famous “duo of chôrões” in the world.
Villa-Lobos was happy and seemed to recall his youth, his past among the seresteiros and bohemians of the old days!
Villa-Lobos and kites or “papagaios”
“Like every artist,” said Lucilia herself, “Villa-Lobos had a certain simplicity, childishness, contrasting with his intransigent attitude in matters of music and artistic creation.
“On our vacation, in 1928, we went to the interior of France (Chateaus-Lussack). We brought with us the Spanish pianist Tomaz Téran and his wife (Maria Teresa). We were guests in an old hotel, and the proprietor gave it to us empty, with total liberty. Villa-Lobos decided to make a “papagaio” to fly in a nearby field, and so after lunch we went. This time he made a “frigate,” and, not content with this first attempt, he proceeded with the fabrication of “papagaios,” flying, later, an “airplane,” a “star,” and finally a “fish,” that measured three meters!
“We continued our walks in the country after lunch, and each of us (I, Téran and Maria Teresa) had to fly the “papagaio” so that he could see the effect.
The last, however, the “papagaio-fish,” because of its size and consequent force, almost caused an accident. Villa didn’t have the strength to keep it in the air, and both he and Téran were lifted and carried a ways.
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3 edition of And where shall I be? found in the catalog.
And where shall I be?
P. D. Rommaynne
Includes bibliographies and index.
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Tools for Community Health Workers to Ensure Availability of Medicines for Maternal and Child Health
Tools for community health workers to ensure availability of medicines for maternal and child health
Eight years ago, Betty Achilla was selected by her community to be a volunteer community health worker. She is currently serving 31 households in the Abim district in Northeastern Uganda. Betty is one of more than 60,000 volunteer community health workers in Uganda who play a vital role in extending maternal and child health services to hard-to-reach communities.
As a community health worker, Betty was trained in the basics of diagnosing and dispensing medicines to treat common childhood illnesses such as malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia and to identify danger signs in children and refer them to nearby health centers. To do her work, Betty must have an adequate and consistent supply of malaria rapid diagnostic tests, antimalarial medicines, oral rehydration solution, zinc, and antibiotics.
In 2016, a national assessment showed that stock-outs were frequent and a common cause of service disruption in community health programs. No national guidelines existed, and no coordinated national planning and monitoring of community-level commodities was in place. Programs and partners used their own approaches to training, supervising, delivering, managing, and reporting on community health commodities.
Based on the assessment findings, the USAID-funded Uganda Health Supply Chain program worked with the Ministry of Health and other partners to streamline and strengthen the management of and accountability for medicines and health supplies in community health programs.
Standardized supply chain training materials, procedures, and tools were developed for use across all community health programs. These tools—a consumption log, magic calculator, dispensed and stock balances, request summary, and product issue log—ensure that community health workers routinely capture the information needed to plan, quantify, order, deliver, and track supplies.
Prior to national rollout, a one-year pilot test of the tools and training materials was conducted from May 2017 to June 2018 by the Ministry of Health and several partners involved in community-based family planning and integrated community case management programs in Abim, Kayunga, Kiruhura, Mubende, and Ntoroko districts. The pilot involved 539 community health workers, 52 health facility staff, 28 district health teams, and 18 national trainers. Community health workers were trained to use the tools and improve their skills in ordering, tracking, and storing medicines:
“Using the consumption log, I can now track medicines for reporting. My work has been made easy and I know the quantities of medicines in my medicines box,” said Betty.
The new tools have also made the job of health officials easier:
“Before introducing the tools, there were no clear ways of tracking consumption of community level medicines. We can now track medicine consumption and disease patterns,” said Dr. Anthony Okengo, the District Health Officer. “ The tools are helping in planning how much supplies to give to the community health workers, which will improve availability of medicines and ensure a healthy and happier community.”
The results of the pilot program showed that most community health workers, many with low education levels, can correctly complete the consumption log (82%) and regularly carry out good management practices such as monthly physical counts of medicines (75%). The tools provide information required to make evidence-based decisions at the facility, district, and national levels to ensure continuous availability of medicines to meet client needs. This has contributed to commodity security for maternal and child health commodities in the community.
Based on the findings of the pilot, the Ministry of Health scaled up the use of the tools and procedures across the country. Community health workers in two districts supported by Save the Children were trained and are currently using the standardized tools. In 2019, UNICEF, the Global Fund, the Malaria Consortium, the USAID/UK AID-funded Malaria Action Program for Districts, PATH, FHI 360, and others used the tools to reach 52 of the 70 districts that implement integrated community case management, reaching about 50,000 community health workers.
The community supply chain tools have been used in different contexts beyond just community case management, including a community-based family planning program that uses drug shops as access points for community health workers to resupply injectable contraceptives. The Ministry of Health used the tools to distribute and monitor personal protective equipment beyond the health facility during the 2019 Ebola epidemic response in Kasese district. The usability of these tools and training in different contexts has made their scale up sustainable. | <urn:uuid:8f01d81f-6093-46f4-957c-8b6284a83606> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msh.org/story/tools-for-community-health-workers-to-ensure-availability-of-medicines-for/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954653 | 922 | 2.6875 | 3 |
New World Poetics|
God and money, love and beauty, slavery and freedom, war and death, nation and empire: The themes of early American poetry will carry us from London coffeehouses to Quaker meetinghouses, from Massachusetts drawing rooms to Jamaican slave-whipping rooms. Our texts will range from pristine salon couplets to mud-bespattered street ballads, from sweetest love poems to bitterest satire. Digging deeply into the English-language poetry written, read, and circulated after the first English settlement in North America, we will trace the sometimes secret connections between history and poetic form, and we will listen to what these links can tell us about poetry and politics, life and literature in our own time. Our poets ignored false divisions between art and society, and so will we.
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Verse of all kinds, from songs and dirty-joke poems to minor epics and grand elegies. Poets will include (among many others): Phillis Wheatley, James Grainger, Samson Occom, Emily Dickinson, Jupiter Hammon, Anne Hecht, Walt Whitman, Susannah Wright, Edward Taylor, Joel Barlow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Annis Stockton, Herman Melville, and Philip Freneau.
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Short weekly memos; two medium-length papers; two short exams; one in-class presentation.
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Field trip to Special Collections.This course fulfills the English Department's Literary History II requirement; research option to fulfill requirement for the English major honors thesis. This course also contributes to the English major Theory and Literary Forms concentration.
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Tod E. Kurt put together a nice Boarduino demonstration, connecting the device to the Wii Nunchuck and using it to control the position of a servo. As you rotate the device, the servo continuously adjusts its position to point straight up.
The Boarduino’s small footprint made me want to see how small of a device I could whip up in an hour from some fairly complex components. So I decided to see how small the combination of a Boarduino, a Wii Nunchuck, and a hobby servo motor could be. Here’s a little video of the result.
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We all know about the sock thief.
We wash our socks, we dry our socks, and we fold and clump our socks.
But there’s always one sock, alone, on the outside of the clumps, destined to rest in the back of the sock drawer until we can no longer stand to look at it and toss it in the trash.
Where has the sock’s mate gone? In the folds of the dryer? Stuck in the wall crevice of the washer?
More likely, there is a sock thief among us, traveling house to house, state to state. I imagine the sock thief shacks up with the tooth fairy and they travel together, socks and teeth their only methods of payment, but no one will accept anything other than hard earned cash.
It’s difficult to trade socks for cash, and I wonder if there are sock scavengers who dive into trash bins in dumpsters and in landfills to find the lone socks that have been tossed away. These scavengers arrange meetings with the Sock Thief to try and pair the socks, and once they find a pair one of them walks away with feet now protected, while the other keeps searching.
The Sock Thief will never grow tired of stealing socks from dryers and washers, because the Sock Thief needs to make a living.
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Ski and Snowboard Safety Gear for Kids
Most children love the outdoors in the winter, and Switzerland is ideal for winter sports and fun activities. Winter outdoor activities important in the deepening of children's mental and and physical development, find out why here.
Sledging, ice-skating, ice-hockey, skiing and snowboarding to name the most popular ones. Winter sports are fun and safe when children and adults are wearing the right safety gear.
Safety gear can be pivotal in making the sport experience fun and safe, and must be upgraded regularly depending on the frequency of usage and rate of growth.
Now let's talk about the gear everyone should have:
A hard shell helmet is an essential part of the ski safety gear because it protects the head from injuries. Find one that will fit your child’s head perfectly and make sure you have secured all the straps in the right way.
The instinctive reaction to a fall is to stretch out your hands to break the fall, so our wrist often takes the brunt of the force. Wrist injuries are very common among skiers and snowboarders and a wrist guard will offer some protection keeping your wrist rigid in the case of a fall, and taking some of the impact.
Falling on your back while skiing can be really painful and sometimes dangerous. Back shields or back protectors nowadays are designed with multi density foam that is softer on the inside and stiffer on the outside to help absorb some energy from a crash. They usually come with adjustable straps to fit a child while growing up.
These are very popular especially for children who learn how to snowboard. They can prevent bumps and bruises on your child’s hips, thighs and bum area making the falling more fun and less painful.
When skiing you should also protect your hands from cold weather and sharp edges often found on skis and snowboards. Make sure your child’s gloves are waterproof, breathable, warm enough and that they fit properly so that your child can hold the skis properly and their wrist isn’t exposing.
Goggles are also a must have accessory for skiing. Find goggles that are compatible with your kid’s helmet, and prefer a pair with a silicone coating which will ensure they remain in place. The lens should have UVA and UVB protection and an anti-fog coating plus peripheral vision technology is also great because it allows your child to see more.
Children’s skin is sensitive to the winter sun and although it is cold outside your children could easily get sunburned. This is why you should always apply sunscreen before going outside to ski and have it with you all day to reapply when needed.
When going on any kind of fun athletic activity with your children, safety should be the number one thing on your list. Don’t forget about safety rules and select ski gear to suit your child.
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Why Everybody Is Dead Mistaken About Education for Preschool and just why You Need To Look At This Document
Early youth is an important phase of life in regards to a kid’s physical, intellectual, psychological and social enhancement. Children find lots of helpful resources that might assist them excel in college. We can provide help when it is for your children at home or for your preschool classroom. Preschool is usually referred to as absolute many crucial grade.
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The Montessori educator is always to blame for keeping six important components of the youngster’s learning atmosphere. Instructors make use of individual young ones, little teams, as well as the group that is entire different times during the period of the afternoon. Once they will find the best resources, they can be much more effective within the class room. They notice that youngsters’ variable backgrounds and experiences imply that they just do not discover the exact same things as well into the way that is same. Kindergarten instructors will inform you directly away, Hays states, there are various additional advantages of preschool. They could get assistance from instructor associate to handle class room behavior. Becoming A head begin teacher provides you a chance to make a big change when you look at the everyday lives of young kids who would like a lot of guidance and attention.
Education in Israel starts at an age that is really young purchase to provide kiddies with an augmented mind begin, specially when it comes down to socialization and language development. It really is tough in an attempt to create a curriculum, to make certain that’s the key reason why i must say i take pleasure in the online preschool since it does just take a lot of the stress away from me personally, she explained. Our curriculum is currently utilized in over 21 states for the nation. Be effective, a year that is early curriculum ought to be very very very carefully structured. What exactly is universal, nonetheless, is some kind of training or training must serve as a preschool teacher, aside from the environment.
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On 11 June, a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona refused to convict the immigration activist Scott Warren on felony charges that could have sent him to prison for twenty years. What had Warren done to merit such extreme punishment? In January 2018, he committed the unconscionable act of offering food, water, and lodging to two migrants who had crossed the US-Mexico border without authorization.
Warren is a member of the group No More Deaths, an organization founded in 2004 to stop the epidemic of migrant fatalities occurring in Arizona’s unforgiving Sonoran desert. Their work is constant, necessary, and honorable. After all, more than 7,000 people have perished crossing the US-Mexico border, according to US government statistics, though the actual number is almost certainly much higher. Over a third of those deaths are in the Arizona desert.
But the work of No More Deaths is now under threat. While most Americans are aware that Trump has increased border enforcement since coming into office, fewer probably realize that migrants are not the only ones targeted by his administration. New guidelines issued by the then attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in 2017 order prosecutors to prioritize “any case involving the unlawful transportation or harboring of aliens”.
With Warren’s arrest, the Trump administration is putting humanitarianism itself on trial. (A hearing on 2 July will determine if Warren’s case proceeds.) That the jury deadlocked in this case is a small sign of hope for those of us who hold on to the basic, though essential, notion of our shared humanity. Make no mistake about it, however. Warren’s trial is yet another example of that specific kind of nastiness that is coming to define our age – one that venerates political borders over human life at almost any cost. Ours is an era when cruelty masquerades as policy and compassion is increasingly viewed as a crime.
Nor is this solely an American phenomenon. All over the western world, governments are militarizing their borders, ratcheting up immigration enforcement, and prosecuting humanitarian workers. The British volunteer Tom Ciotkowski is currently on trial in France, facing up to five years in prison on assault and contempt charges. Last summer, Ciotkowski was filming French police checking the IDs of volunteers distributing food to refugees and migrants in Calais. When he observed a police officer pushing and kicking another volunteer, Ciotkowski complained, only to be pushed himself and then arrested. Amnesty International has taken up his case.
Then there’s the case of the German boat captain Pia Klemp, currently facing criminal charges in Italy. Klemp is reported to have assisted in the rescue of more than 1,000 people in the burial waters known as the Mediterranean (where more than 18,000 people have died in the sea since 2014). Anti-migrant sentiment was already high in Italy, but with the rise of rightwing populists such as Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, the crackdown on migrants and humanitarian actors has expanded. Klemp faces up to 20 years in prison for assisting illegal immigration. More than 111,000 people have signed a petition demanding her release.
Today’s criminalization of humanitarian assistance is sustained, widespread, and growing. A recent study by openDemocracy discovered that “more than 250 people across 14 countries have been arrested, charged, or investigated under a range of laws over the last five years for supporting migrants”. The study found that there had been a dramatic increase in this harassment over the last 18 months and that it had targeted such figures as “a priest nominated for the Nobel peace prize, a football player, firefighters, rural farmers, ex-soldiers, pensioners, a university professor and several local politicians”.
The cases make for painful, if sometimes ridiculous, reading. The Swiss pastor Norbert Valley was arrested in the middle of a church service for sheltering a Togolese man who had just been denied asylum. A high-profile couple in Denmark were convicted of the crime of “harboring” for giving a Syrian migrant family a lift and taking them home for coffee and biscuits. A French mountain guide was charged last year with aiding and abetting illegal immigration after he rescued a Nigerian woman about to give birth in the snow and drove her to the hospital. He got lucky after prosecutors later dropped the charges, citing “humanitarian immunity”. She delivered her baby that night.
Populists and nationalists will malign these humanitarian volunteers as witting or unwitting helpers of human traffickers, but that’s simply not true. There is not a shred of solid evidence to substantiate such a claim.
The real danger lies not in the humanitarianism but in its criminalization. In both Europe and the United States, discourses about dangerous migrant hordes invading our civilized lands abound. The migrants, we’re told, pose a fundamental threat to our values, to who we are.
But when our leaders make compassion itself a crime, just what set of values do they think they’re protecting? Who needs an invader when we can destroy ourselves, perfectly well, one trial of a humanitarian volunteer at a time.
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The Physic Garden paths have been relaid, and the garden is once again open to the public.
The Physic Garden lies within the grounds of the former Hitchin Museum at Paynes Park, Hitchin. It is maintained by volunteers. It is divided into four sections: Household; the William Ransom border; External Ailments; Internal Ailments.
Some of the plants in the garden are toxic, do not touch or consume any of them. They can cause allergic reactions, irritate the skin and eyes or make people sick. Please supervise children when visiting.
There are red warning signs in the garden reminding visitors not to touch any of the plants.
- Further information
- Hitchin festival, annual Vi Lewis memorial talk
- Hitchin’s herbal past
- The apothecary
- The vicar
- The herb doctor
- The peripatetic physician
- William Ransom & Son
- Perks & Llewellyn
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Since mid-July, the capital, like other territories in France, has experienced an early autumn caused by repeated heat waves and drought.
A month ahead of schedule, the plane and chestnut trees are the first hardwoods to lose their leaves.
At the foot of a chestnut tree in the park with rarefied and withered leaves, Tim Peiger, 28, lumberjack for the Department of Green Spaces and the Environment (Deve) in Paris, grimaces: "he took a lot".
"The foliage should be very green. The branches fall back with the weight of the leaves. And when the leaves fall, there is no more photosynthesis, the wood is no longer nourished, it dries up and forms dead wood", diagnoses Mr Peiger.
However, this spectacular phenomenon linked to the drought remains without gravity at this stage, according to the city's experts.
"These trees are far from being stupid, even if they panic everyone, they simply put themselves in survival mode", getting rid of their greenery to save their reserves, assures Béatrice Rizzo, in charge of the Trees and wood expertise unit at Dev.
If the weather conditions are favorable, these trees dried in the summer "can restart a shoot" before autumn, assures Ms. Rizzo who sees nothing abnormal in this and celebrates their "resilience".
But other pathologies, linked to extreme heat, worry the patron saint of Parisian trees.
Like "sunburn", these sunburns on the bark, which dig a wound in the wood and will facilitate its parasitization, threatening the tree in the long term.
"It's new and it's linked to the climate", underlines the expert.
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When the "great gardener" of Napoleon III's Paris, Adolphe Alphand, tackled the parks and gardens of Paris in the 1860s, creating almost ex nihilo the Bois de Boulogne, de Vincennes, the Buttes-Chaumont and the main Green "alignments" of the avenues, indigenous species are essential, in particular the plane tree reputed to be both robust and shady.
"It's a very resistant species, which resists drought well and then it's emblematic of the city of Paris", says the young lumberjack from Buttes-Chaumont about the plane tree which makes up 38% of street plantations and borders for example the Champs-Elysées.
Between the periods 1873-1902 and 2000-2019, the average temperature of the capital measured at the Parc Montsouris station increased by 2.3° against 1° worldwide, according to the Paris Climate Agency.
The climate of Paris is changing, but the trees of Alphand, the city's iconic heritage, will remain as long as they last.
The municipality has nevertheless equipped itself with tools to introduce new species more suited to this warming among the 170,000 plantations planned for the next few years.
So-called Mediterranean species, such as hackberry from Provence and even pine, are beginning to be favored in Paris.
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In these new climatic conditions, the gardeners of Paris have also adapted their maintenance routine.
Despite the water restrictions "there is no longer a place that we do not water", explains Irène Henriques, the head of municipal gardeners at Buttes-Chaumont. His team is thus finalizing on an application the programming of automatic watering at night, recommended by the Town Hall.
The practice of "size" has also been changed. "We prune less but more regularly to keep more branches", informs the gardener.
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Surveillance, at the foot and at the top, to identify burns and branches ready to give way is reinforced.
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25 Sep Models of Growth
In this note we will study
- Dependency theories
- Neoclassical Growth Model.
- Endogenous Growth Model.
- An a little on alternative model to sustainable development.
- Dependency Theories.
- During the 1970s, the international dependency theories viewed developing countries as beset by institutional, political and economical rigidities. Developing countries were caught up in a dependence and dominance relationship with developed nations.
- The neocolonial dependence model is basically a Marxist approach. It says that underdevelopment is due to the historical evolution of a highly unequal international capitalist system of rich country-poor country relationships. Developed nations are intentionally exploitative or unintentionally neglectful towards developing countries. Underdevelopment is thus externally induced. Developing countries are destined to be the sweatshops of the rich nations (through their multinationals for example) and depend on developed nations for manufacturing goods that are high-value-added. Many developing countries were forced to become exporters of primary commodities by their colonial masters. Many of these countries still depend on primary commodities after independence. However, with average prices of primary commodities falling substantially (by half in many cases) since 1950s, dependence on primary commodities export is impoverishing to these countries. The economies of Zambia and Nigeria had been negatively affected by falling prices for their commodities exports. However, countries like Thailand and Malaysia who used to depend heavily on tin, rubber and palm oil are able to diversified into manufacturing exports. These countries went on to develop strong manufacturing sector.
- False-paradigm Model says that underdevelopment is due to faulty and inappropriate advice provided by well-meaning but often uninformed, biased, and ethnocentric international (often western) expert advisers to developing countries. Here, IMF and World Banks took a lot of blame from the advocators of this model. Joseph Stiglitz in Making Globalization Works and Jeffrey Sachs in The End of Poverty documented some cases where inappropriate advices were given by expert advisers from developed countries to developing nations.
Box 1. An Case of Misdirection.Eucalyptus is a fast growing tree in favorable conditions and its wood has good commercial value. Encouraged by international advisers, this tree was introduced to many parts of India indiscriminately in the 1970s. In Bangalore, a dry zone, yields were only 20% of the projected figure by the government. In Western Ghats, eucalyptus plantations were taken up on a large scale by clear-felling of excellent rainforest. Unfortunately, these eucalyptus trees were attack by fungus called pink disease and rendered the plantation useless. The losers in this case were the local Indian farmers and environmental quality of India.If the advice of these international advisers were helpful they usually benefit the urban elites. Some economists argue that loans provided to developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s contribute to debt crisis in some developing countries in the 1980s.
- Dualistic-development Thesis. This thesis recognizes the existence and persistence of increasing divergences between rich and poor nations, and between rich and poor people at various levels. The urban elites in developing countries will remain rich and become richer. The wealth of these elite will not trickle down to the rest of the society. According to the World Bank, the average for the richest twenty countries in the world was 15 times the average for the poorest twenty countries in 1960, and in 2000 it is 30 times — twice as high.
However, case studies of Taiwan, South Korea, China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong demonstrated that higher income levels can be accompanied by falling and not rising inequality. The inverted Kuznet Curve shows that as income per capita continues to increase inequality of income can be reduced.
- Basically, dependency theories highlight the need for major new policies to eradicate poverty, to provide more diversified employment opportunities, and to reduce income inequalities. The Marxist approach to growth would recommend nationalization of industries that are controlled by foreign companies (especially those from the western colonists and multinationals ) and implement state-run production to reduce foreign controls on local economy.
- Dependency theories offer little explanation for economic growth and sustainable development. They tell us little on how to obtain economic growth.
- The actual economic experience of developing countries that pursued nationalization and introduced state-run production had been mostly negative. Nationalized companies were usually badly managed. Consequently, the operations were inefficient and productivity fell. Falling output led to falling export earnings. This was bad news for growth.
- Neoclassical Growth Model.
- Neoclassical Growth Model owed its origin to Robert Solow (in 1956) and Trevor Swan (in 1956). The neoclassical growth model says that grow due to increased capital stock as in Harrod-Domar Model can only be temporary because capital is subjected to diminishing marginal returns. The economy can achieve a higher long-run growth path only with a grow in labor supply, labor productivity or capital productivity. Variation in growth rate is explained by difference in the rate of technological change which affects labor and capital productivity. Advances in technology however is independent of the rate of investment, that is technology is exogenous to the model.
- In the 1980s, Reaganomics and Thatcherism were the buzzwords. These policies recommended small government with little government intervention in the market, reduced distortions in the market, promoted free markets, encouraged competition and regarded multinationals in favorable lights.
- Underdevelopment is seen as the product of poor resource allocation, incorrect pricing policies and too much state interventions that cause market distortion.
- The answer is promotion of free markets and laissez-faire economics through privatization and deregulation.
- Governments should also have market-friendly approaches to address externality problems. Governments should invest in physical and social infrastructure, health care facilities, education and provide suitable climate for private enterprises. Governments should also be friendly towards multinationals and attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as this policy brings injection into the economy.
- Economic growth does not means development. Policies that promote economic growth may benefit the rich in the expense of the poor and the environmental qualities (more environmental degradation). A smaller government could also mean less social facilities for the poor.
- South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and China do not have genuine free market economies but are economic success stories. In fact, governments in these countries play active roles in directing their respective economies.
- Solow-Swan Model suggests that low capital to labor ratio in developing countries means that the rate of return on investment is high but this is not supported by historical data.
- The residual in Solow-Swan Model which is attributed to technology only explains 50% of historical growth in developed nations. There is much room for improvement in this model.
- Endogenous Growth Model.
- This model is called Endogenous growth model because it makes technology a part of the model and not as a residual as in Solow-Swan Model. This model tries to explain the rate of technological change.
- Persistent economic growth is determined by the system governing the production process as technology is now part of the model. Economic growth is a natural consequence of long run equilibrium.
- The model allows potentially increasing return to scale from higher level of capital investment, especially investment that has positive externalities. Capital is expanded to encompass human capital .
- Human productivity could increase due to higher skill attainment and learning-by-doing. The latter suggests that experience allows a worker to have higher productivity.
- Human capital can be encouraged through education and skill-training programmers.
- The rate of technological change can increase due to higher investment in R&D. R&D may also confer positive externality to knowledge-intensive industries.
- Protection of intellectual property rights is important because this legal monopoly gives incentive to carry out R&D.
- The model implies an active role for government to promote human capital formation (through education, better access to health care, and better nutrition) and encourage knowledge-intensive industries. To achieve the latter, some government even took the trouble to pick future industrial winners. Japan in the past promoted chemical and heavy-industry. More recently it promoted biochemical industry. Malaysia, for example, established a whole new town called Cyberjaya to attract knowledge-intensive industries and R&D into the country.
- Developing countries cannot take full advantage from the recommendation of this model that is based on neoclassical principles of efficient free market because of poor infrastructure, inadequate institutional structures, and imperfect capital and good markets. Many developing countries, for instance, do not have adequate protection for intelligent property rights and insurance markets that encourage entrepreneurship.
- The model fails to explain why low-income countries where capital is scarce have low rates of factory capacity utilization.
- Alternative sustainable development model.
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Dr. Seuss wasn’t thinking of me when he wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Charles Dickens would not have asked me to play Scrooge in his story. In spite of what you may read later . . . remember that! I’m not anti-Christmas, nor do I brandish the overused bumper sticker, “Put Christ Back into Christmas.” Our family has a tree every year. We exchange presents, play Christmas music, sing carols, enjoy the festivities, and even wish a few people “Merry Christmas.” Believe me—I have no bone to pick with the yuletide season, unless it’s off the turkey.
But you’ll have to agree, the season is not without its unique problems and temptations. Our lovely land of plenty drifts dangerously near insanity three or four weeks every year, and it is to that issue I’d like to address. According to the United States Census Bureau, over the past few years:
- Americans spent 30.5 billion dollars at retail stores during the Christmas season.
- Americans spent 39 billion dollars for Christmas gifts over the Internet.
- More than 493 million dollars were spent on Christmas trees.
- The United States imported nearly 594 million dollars worth of Christmas tree ornaments from China.
- A total of 3.4 billion bucks worth of dolls, toys, and games was shipped from manufacturers to retailers.
- Twenty billion pieces of mail passed through the U. S. Postal Service between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- Some have gone so far as to permanently associate their cities and towns with Christmas, with names such as North Pole, Alaska; Santa Claus, Indiana; and if you’re into reindeer, there’s the village of Rudolph, Wisconsin and the town of Dasher, Georgia.1
Those are the facts. They have been documented.
With all this Christmas commotion, there’s a “cosmic lure” that draws many like a magnet. Emotions, unpredictable and undisciplined, begin to run wild. Nostalgia mixed with eleven months of guilt can prompt purchases that are illogical and extravagant. Neighborhood pressure can cause houses to be strung with thousands of lights. Television advertising, Christmas bank accounts, and special “wish books” only increase the pull of the magnet that inevitably ends with the sound of the cash register or the hollow snap of the credit card.
I remind you . . . I’m not against the basic idea of Christmas or the beauty of the scenery. My plea is for common sense and balance; that’s all. We Christians need to be alert to the dangers . . . then think through a strategy that allows us to combat each one. I’ll mention only four.
1. Doctrinal Danger . . . substituting the temporal for the eternal.
A couple of Scriptures give needed counsel here: “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world . . . be transformed” (Romans 12:2 NIV)! “Keep seeking the things above, where Christ is. . . . Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth” (Colossians 3:1–2).
It’s important that we rivet into our heads exactly what we’re celebrating. It is our Savior’s arrival, not Santa’s. The significance of giving presents is to be directly related to God’s presenting us the gift of His Son—and our kiddos need that reminder year in and year out.
2. Personal Danger . . . impressing but not imparting.
We represent the King. We are His chosen ambassadors, doing His business “in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2). Then let’s represent Him this season! People are wide-open to the gospel these days. Forget about trying to impress others by what you buy. Spend more time imparting what you already possess.
3. Economical Danger . . . spending more than you have.
Before every purchase, think. Ask yourself some direct, penetrating questions: “Is this within my budget?” “Is it appropriate?” “Is it really saying what I want it to say?” Gifts you make are often much more appreciated and much less expensive than those you buy. Stretching the dollar usually involves planning ahead. A safe rule to follow is this: if you don’t have the cash—don’t buy it. For example, my wife and I decided years ago that Christmas cards had to go. No offense, now. That’s just an illustration of something God spoke to us about. We found cutting out Christmas cards saved us many dollars and gobs of time.
4. Psychological Danger . . . getting built up for the letdown.
One of the most effective maneuvers of the world system is to create a false sense of excitement. The Christian can get “high” very easily on the crest of Christmas. The afterglow can be a dangerous, depressing experience. Guard yourself. Keep a firm hand on the controls of your mind and emotions. Don’t be deceived. Enjoy the 25th . . . but not at the expense of the 26th. If you stay occupied with the Person, you’ll seldom have to fight off the plague. Make Hebrews 12:3 your aim—“consider Him”; just think about Him.
Enjoy the holidays now. Have a wonderful time on Christmas . . . and on New Year’s Day. Just think, this could be our last, so let’s make it our best.
- “Facts for Features: The 2008 Holiday Season,” U. S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/012876.html, accessed September 30, 2009.
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Q. What happens if the house falls on the top and we can’t get out?
A. All of our shelters have ball-bearing sliding doors which allow you to roll the lids open easily instead of lifting them against debris. And in most applications, the shelters are covered and protected by a vehicle, except for two feet on the end to slide the door back. Also, The shelters are registered after installation so the emergency personnel know who has them and where you are located. Lastly, we include an 16,000lbs hydraulic jack to aid with escape in case debris is blocking the entrance.
Q. How do you breathe?
A. All of our flush-mounted models now come with our exclusive, battery operated forced-air ventilation. On our standard lid models there is an inch air gap all the way. Our shelters meet and exceed FEMA’s requirements for ventilation. In fact they have about 8 to 10 times more than required.
Q. Does the installation of your shelters harm the foundation?
A. Safe Shelters storm shelters have been installed in up to 800 homes per year since 1999 with no issue of structural damage to foundation . Our process is certified by a structural engineer to be sound.
Q. How long does it take to install?
A. Unless we hit some rock or something else that might cause a delay, it normally takes only one day.
Q. Does it make a lot of dust to install it when you jackhammer our slab?
A. There is some dust, but we do our best to minimize it. We use a water saw to cut the slabs with very minimal dust. There is some dust when mixing and applying concrete, but even then, we work to minimize the amount of dust created. We only use jackhammers if we encounter large rock below the slab.
Q. I am very claustrophobic. I don’t think I can go down into a small hole in the ground and close that door.
A. With our new forced air ventilation claustrophobia should be greatly helped or eliminated, however there are several ways to overcome most of that. First of all, be the last person in and leave the door open until you hear a tornado coming. You won’t have a problem shutting it for a few minutes. Most people feel better if they are in charge of the door. Generally speaking, people are only in their shelter about 15 minutes anyway and remember to tell your neighbors that you have a shelter and make sure you have registered it with the local authorities. We also offer a 16,000 lb. escape jack to lift any debris off of the top.
Q. Does the job leave a mess for us to clean up?
A. We train our crews to try to leave your garage cleaner than they found it and we want you to be happy with the results.
Q. Do I have to move my car out of the garage to get into my shelter?
A. No. The shelters are covered and protected by a vehicle, except for two feet on the end to slide the door back. This way you don’t have to worry about moving a vehicle when you might not have time to.
Q. Is there electrical power in these units?
A. No. But we do include a battery powered ventilator and light. We also include a battery operated weather radio with every installation. We also have a battery powered backup solution which you can add to your purchase. These battery backup units give about 1.5 hours of AC power continuously running a laptop or similar device, or they can be used to charge batteries, cell phones, or other handheld devices in the event of a longer term power outage.
Q. What are the units made out of?
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Poroshenko says Putin's Crimea trip dangerous provocation
KYIV. March 14 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko once again called on the international community not to recognize the Russian presidential election in Crimea and condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to visit the territory before the election.
"This is a dangerous provocation, where Russian President Vladimir Putin, right before the elections, is intentionally going to the occupied territory and visiting Simferopol and Sevastopol today. This is exactly why it is important for the entire world to assume a unified position and not recognize the Russian presidential election in the territory of occupied Crimea," Poroshenko said at a press conference given with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Poroshenko also thanked Austria for its decision not to recognize the results of the election and not to dispatch monitors to Crimea.
"We will pay particular attention to making sure that the world does not recognize this election in the occupied territory, that there are no monitors there, and that those immediately involved in the organization of this so-called election are held accountable, including by imposing sanctions on these individuals," he said.
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Nationwide bus campaign takes cheeky dig at Boris Johnson’s Brexit battlecry
AN alternative bus warning of the cost of Brexit to the UK economy is to visit Glasgow and Edinburgh this weekend, in a cheeky nod to Brexiteer Boris Johnson’s campaign bus which suggested an NHS boost of £350m per week if the UK voted to leave the EU.
The bus is a creation of the ‘Is it worth it?’ campaign and was funded by around 670 individuals across the country at a cost of £24 each, and events have been organised by 20 grassroots groups, according to campaigners. The bus slogan warns that a leaked government report looking at the estimated costs of Brexit show that a worst-case hard Brexit scenario could cost the economy £2,000m – commonly known as £2b – per week.
The government said the report was at a “preliminary” stage when it was leaked in January and refused to publish its analysis in full, but Brexit critics argue that a departure from the single market will inevitably cost the UK large sums of money.
Vanessa Glynn, chair of the European Movement in Scotland, said: “Together with the Young European Movement, we are delighted to host the bus in Scotland.
“Our country stands to lose significantly more than other parts of the UK and Brexit will cause misery to so many Scots – both those whose families have been here for generations and those who have recently decide to make Scotland their home and have already contributed so much to our economy and culture.”
In Scotland, a Scottish Government study last month warned that a hard ‘no deal’ Brexit could leave Scotland’s economy £12.7bn a year worse off by 2030.
The campaign bus will visit Glasgow and Edinburgh on Saturday (24 February) as part of an eight-day tour visiting 33 locations in the UK.
Speakers in Edinburgh will include Joanna Cherry MP, joint Leader of Edinburgh Council Cammy Day, and Juuso Jarviniemi, president of the Young European Movement. Meanwhilre, David Martin MEP, Patrick Harvie MSP and Jarviniemi will speak in Glasgow.
You can see the bus at St Giles on Edinburgh’s High Street from 10.30am-11.30am, and at Glasgow University’s Memorial Gate from 1.30pm-2.30pm.
Picture courtesy of Is it worth it?
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July 11, 2016 – Dimension Data, the global ICT organization processing and analyzing the data coming from the next-generation tracking devices under the Tour de France rider’s saddles has released a summary of the data the company processed and analyzed for the first nine stages.
Dimension Data/Yuzuru Sunada
In the first nine stages, Dimension Data’s technical team in the mobile big data truck travelling at Le Tour have processed data of 59.70 million records, and have rolled out 5,400 meters of cabling to date.
During the first nine stages there were four sprint finishes. While Mark Cavendish of Team Dimension Data won three of them, that didn’t make him the fastest man on the road. Marcel Kittel (EQS)
recorded the high speed of 74.27 km/h on stage 6.
The longest time that the riders were in the saddle was 05h 59’ 54’’ on stage 3. During stages 7, 8, and 9 in the Pyrenees, the riders climbed 9,000 meters which is higher than Mount Everest, with the slowest average speed on a single climb ranging from 13.6 km/h to 15.8 km/h.
Other statistics include:
162.5 km (stage 7) – shortest distance travelled in one day
237.5 km (stage 4) – longest distance travelled in one day
196.6 km – average distance travelled each day
44.35 km/h – highest average speed on a stage (stage 1)
Race leader, Chris Froome, had an average speed of 39.67 km/h during the first nine stages
Dimension Data said the rider data processed in its hybrid cloud solution is using over 100 virtual servers leveraging 300 unique cloud services that are delivered at 99.999% availability. Another technology highlight is 198 rider in 22 teams generate 42,000 spatial points and 75 million geospatial points.
Adam Foster, Dimension Data’s Group Executive, Sports Practice said, “The new next-generation tracking devices under the rider’s saddles have increased the data capture coverage range ten-fold: from 100 meters in 2015 to 1,000 meters this year. This means we can tell richer and more enhanced stories as they happen, giving viewers, the media, cycling fans and race commentators deeper insights into some aspects of the sport that weren’t available until now.” | <urn:uuid:ea89685a-82e1-4178-a550-0ae206db45a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prod.pelotonmagazine.com/magazine/dimension-data-next-generation-tour-de-france-data-summary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.925699 | 519 | 1.5 | 2 |
All of Northwest Housing Alternatives’ affordable housing properties have a Resident Services Coordinator who is available to link residents to community resources and organize community events which encourage engagement and support among neighbors.
The foundation of Resident Services is eviction prevention and housing stability services. All households are provided with information about lease compliance, tenant rights and responsibilities, and referrals to community supports which help them maintain their housing stability.
For properties which house seniors, Resident Services focuses on health and wellness and community connections in order to keep households living independently and avoid social isolation.
For properties which house families and individuals, Resident Services focuses on employment and education opportunities, youth development, and asset building. Our Individual Development Account (IDA) allows households to save for homeownership, post-secondary education, retirement savings, or vehicle purchase.
Resident Services (RS) coordinates community building activities and outcomes-driven programs to ensure that residents will increase their ability to maintain their housing, remain connected to employment and education opportunities, and participate in asset building opportunities. RS also coordinates recreational activities to promote social engagement and encourage social support and networking among residents and to cultivate resident leadership.
Resident Advisory Council
In order for programs to be effective and impactful, it is critical that participants be involved in the design, review, and continual updates to those programs.
To achieve maximum impact and incorporate this participant feedback, Northwest Housing Alternatives has a Resident Advisory Council which is an advisory group to NHA’s Board of Directors. Meeting on a quarterly basis, the Resident Advisory Council reviews organizational processes and provides feedback and guidance to NHA’s Board of Directors which helps us to design effective, responsive, and relevant programs for our communities. | <urn:uuid:86e08f70-3da9-4fba-bf05-87851233dcfa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nwhousing.org/resident-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944726 | 342 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Archived Seminar: Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging, Therapeutics
Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar presented by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
About This Seminar
The communication between the brain, immune and vascular systems is a key contributor to the onset and progression of neurological diseases. Dr. Akassoglou’s research has uncovered the blood clotting factor fibrinogen as a driver of neuroinflammation, as common thread in a wide range of neurologic diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases. Her lab developed cutting-edge imaging tools to study the neurovascular interface and discovered a role for fibrin in microglia-mediated oxidative stress-dependent spine elimination and novel fibrin-targeting immunotherapy to protect the brain from pathogenic neuroinflammation. Recent advances in functional single-cell transcriptional profiling of neurotoxic innate immunity (Tox-Seq) allowed the development of the oxidative stress cell atlas at the neurovascular interface. These findings could be a common thread for the understanding of the etiology, mechanisms of progression, and the development of new treatments for neurologic diseases with neuroimmune and cerebrovascular dysfunction.
This is a free event hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and co-sponsored by the institute's Center for Neurobiology Research and the Center for Glial Biology in Health, Disease, and Cancer. The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Pioneers in Biomedical Research Program offers the expertise of a range of scientists who are exploring frontiers in biomedical research. These seminars are open to Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic faculty, students, and staff.
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Opening a bank account is sometimes complicated when you’ve just moved to Scotland but it is essential to have one if you want a job.
Conditions to open a bank account in Scotland
To open a bank account, you need to go to a bank office. Opening a current account is free. You will get a debit card.
Depending on the branch, you will be asked for one or many supporting documents. For example, Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland sometimes accept to open a currrent account only with your passport (that may change after Brexit).
Other banks will ask extra documents such as a proof of residence (usually your letting agreement), your local payslips, your NIN (National Insurance Number)…
Opening a bank account in Scotland without supporting documents
You may need to open your bank account even before getting your first payslip or finding accommodation.
How do you open a bank account without a proof of residence or a payslip?
You have two options:
- Finding a bank which accepts to open a current account with only your proof of identity, such as mentioned above,
- Searching for online banking.
Online banking option
Before your arrival, you can subscribe with an online bank (or neobank). It’s a good option if you wish to stay in Scotland for a short amount of time and also if you travel a lot.
Bank cards from these banks allow you to pay and withdraw cash with no fee wherever in the world and whatever the currency, and also to transfer money abroad for competitive prices!
These banks are available via mobile apps where you can easily open and manage your account.
Monzo is based in the UK.
N26 is based in Germany.
Transferwise is a British online platform which allows money transfers abroad without paying expensive banking fees. Transferwise uses exchange rate in real time.
Cash withdrawals in Scotland
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Criteria for embryo classification
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Types of embryos
At Instituto Bernabeu, we categorise embryos in accordance the Association for the Study of Reproductive Biology (ASEBIR) criteria established in 2007 and updated in 2015. Based on this information, there are generally four different categories of embryos:
- Category A: an optimum quality embryo which has the best chance of implanting.
- Category B: a good quality embryo which is very likely to implant.
- Category C: an embryo that is not great quality and which is unlikely to implant.
- Category D: a poor quality embryo which is very unlikely to implant.
Assessment according to embryonic development stage
It is important to point out that embryos are graded into one of these four categories on the day transfer takes place. However, during development prior to this point, they are also assessed daily and different aspects of their morphology are analysed. This is taken into account when they are categorised:
Embryo on day 1
On day 1, fertilisation is assessed between 16 and 22 hours following insemination. When there are two pronuclei and two polar bodies, then they are called embryos. Initial embryo division is assessed between 25 and 27 hours.
Embryo on day 2 – 3
Days 2 and 3 take into account aspects such as the number of cells, the number of nuclei in each cell, symmetry, the extent of fragmentation, the presence of vacuoles and the appearance of the zona pellucida. The ideal number of cells on day 2 is 4, and on day 3 the ideal number of cells is 8.
Embryo on day 4
The embryo begins to turn into a blastocyst on day 4 and it develops from a state in which the cells can be observed individually into a compact mass known as the morula. On this day of embryo development, observation takes into account any increases in the number of cells in the embryo and how compact they are and if all the cells are included or if some have been left out.
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Embryo on day 5 – 6
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How to Make a Heritage Scrapbook
How to make a heritage scrapbook... It's not that different from any other scrapbook, but you may have to do a little more research for your journaling, so let's start there.
How to make a heritage scrapbook (Journaling)
The easiest thing to do is start with yourself, your parents and each set of grandparents, and then ask yourself (and them) the following questions:
#1 - Who... What is this person's full formal name (first, middle, last [maiden])?
If you are researching a female, be sure to get her maiden name if she is/was married, as all records prior to her marriage will be under her maiden name.
You also want to determine whether this individual is a "Jr., III, etc.", as that could be a determining factor when reviewing certain records.
Other questions to ask...
Who are they in relation to you (uncle, great-grandfather, etc.) and what side (maternal or paternal) are they on?
Do they have any nicknames (e.g., they always go by Bill even though their name is William).
Is this relative named after anyone in particular? If so, you could make a layout featuring the person and the individual they are named after.
#2 - When...
When was this person born and when did they die (if deceased)?
When were they baptized?
When did they get married?
If this person is part of the first generation in the country, when did they arrive?
#3 - Where...
Where was this person born?
Where did they die and where are they buried (if deceased)?
Where did they get married?
Where did they get baptized?
Did they ever live in other towns/countries?
The one thing to keep in mind is that you get as much detail as possible about the location. Not just the city and state, but the county (parish) and country. For specific events (marriage, baptism, etc.), make sure to get the church and/or cemetery name. For cemetery records, some people go to the extent of getting the exact plot location.
As you can see, these are very similar to the "Five W's" that you can help build the framework and journaling for your heritage scrapbook.
How to make a heritage scrapbook (Layouts)
Now, to complete your heritage scrapbook, you will combine the answers to these questions with the photos of your ancestors.
In order to make things manageable, take the first page or two of your heritage scrapbook and replicate the portion of the family tree that you will be covering (and how it connects to the others).
The 12" x 12" sketch below is an example of a page that you might use for your Mom and Dad or any other couple. The two primary pictures are your parents, the pictures in the upper corners are their parents (your grandparents) and the pictures on the lower portion of the sketch are you and any siblings.
NOTE: If you have a lot of brothers and sisters you may want to incorporate some sort of flip book into the layout, so you don't sacrifice space for information about the person in an attempt to capture the entire family.
For each person, you can also include any type of information that you want – hair color, eye color, likes/dislikes, etc.
How to make a heritage scrapbook (Colors)
A lot of people will stick with blacks, tans and browns when working on heritage scrapbooks because it "fits" the theme - they want their scrapbook to look like an old book.
You can obviously take this approach or you can get more creative and modern approach by using vibrant colors (especially if you are using solely black and white pictures).
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So you’ve decided that you want to get in on the action and start crawling the web: Congratulations! A website crawler can benefit your business in a lot of different ways, so it makes sense to take advantage of the technology that’s out there.
However, before you can start gathering data by crawling and scraping your way through the web, you need to make an important decision.
Will you build your own website crawler, or will you buy an existing web scraping tool?
Each of these two options comes with its own pros and cons. Knowing the benefits of each option helps you decide which best fits your specific business needs and resources. So let’s find out what’s best for you. Ready?
How To Build A Web Crawler?
Let’s start by explaining how you actually build a web crawler because this will determine your final decision on whether to simply buy or just DIY.
Building a (basic) web crawler is not as difficult as you might think. At least, that is, if you know a bit about developing and programming.
In essence, creating a web crawler comes down to four essential steps:
- Determine the URLs that need crawling. You can do this by creating a URL pool.
- Send an HTTP GET request to each URL to fetch the content of that page
- Parse the fetched content. This organizes the content by creating a tree structure of the fetched webpages, which helps the bot (your web crawler) navigate its way through all the collected content.
- Use Python library for searching the parse tree.
To do this you need to write a script using a programming language. A common programming language that is often used for building web scrapers is Python. This is because Python is often considered to be a lot easier to use than other languages like PHP or Java.
To make it even easier, the Python library already contains chunks of code and open-source web scraper modules. This web-crawling framework is called Scrapy and is completely free to use. Another relevant Python library you might find helpful is Beautiful Soup.
Now if you are a developer, the above-described process probably won’t seem too difficult. But this is only the basis…
The problem with building your own web crawler isn’t in creating it, it’s in creating a comprehensive web crawler and then further scaling and maintaining it. This can take a lot of time and effort, and resources you or your team might not have.
And that is why many companies decide to have someone create (and manage) a web crawler for them instead.
Web Crawler Tools And Companies
For many companies, this makes it a no-brainer: Why put valuable time, effort, and resources into building it yourself when you can pay a tool to do all the work for you?
And especially if you run a relatively small business, it will simply save you time and money.
Most of these web scraper tools (like SERPMaster and its APIs, e.g. Google news api) allow you to simply add the URLs you want to scrape data from and their bot does the rest. They provide intuitive and easy-to-use dashboards where you can go through the imported and parsed data and export whatever you need in formats like CSV.
Depending on the tool, you can get a dedicated account manager helping you select and analyze the right data for you, making some of these tools a true one-click solution.
These web crawler tools often offer a free version in which you can try out their product, but which only gets you a limited number of web pages to crawl or datasets to export. For full functionality, you have to pay.
Web Crawler: Build Vs. Buy
You can build a web crawler relatively easily yourself. And depending on your business needs, this might be a good solution for you.
But to actually build and maintain a stable and comprehensive web crawler that you can easily keep scaling, you are looking at potentially months of full-time work to get the project done.
If you run a large enterprise you most likely have the resources to allocate a dedicated employee (or more than one) to do this. But if you are a company of five, such an investment is too big; and just not feasible.
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For those who love the look of granite or marble but are concerned about its maintenance, quartz may be the stone of choice.
Quartz is the most common mineral on earth and is present in nearly every geological environment and is a component of nearly every rock type and exists in an impressive range of varieties and colors. Quartz ranks 7.0 on Moh’s Hardness Scale, which is used to measure the scratch resistance of a material. Only the diamond (at 10), topaz and sapphire (at 9) are harder than quartz.
Engineered stone surfaces combine the hardness and durability of quartz with the exceptional low maintenance qualities of man-made materials. Quartz slabs are formed by a vibro-compacting process which combines 93% quartz crystal with 7% resin and pigments. Slabs are free of fissures and cracks and are impervious to hazards such stains from cooking oils and grease, or etching from acids in common household products such as hairspray and other toiletries. Quartz does not have to be sealed and cleaning it is simple. Most quartz slabs are uniform in pattern and color and are available in the thickness 2cm or 3cm, though we recommend the latter. The fabrication process of engineered stone is identical to that of natural stone.
Most manufacturers of quartz offer a 10 or 15 year residential and commercial warranty.
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Granite is a 100% natural stone.
It is the most common rock and is millions of years old. It is formed by volcanic activity and the extremely high temperatures yield a very hard, resistant stone made of crystalized minerals.
Granite and marble is quarried all over the world – Brazil, India, Italy, Norway, Egypt and Africa, to name a few, but this information has no effect on the price or quality of the stone.
Granite boasts hardness second only to diamonds, therefore it is extremely scratch, stain, and heat resistant. It is virtually scratch proof – utensils, keys, even cutting directly on the countertop won’t scratch the granite. It is also fire proof and will not burn. Inclusions and fissures are normal and will not affect the function of the granite. Since it is a natural material it is subject to variation in color and pattern. No two granite pieces are alike, making each piece one of a kind.
Most granite used for countertops is polished to a high gloss finish but a honed (matte-like), leathered, brushed, and flamed finish is also available. Finger prints, metal marks, and other signs of daily living are more apparent on honed material, especially the darker colors. Granite is also suitable for use on fireplace surrounds and outdoor applications.
Granite is available in hundreds of colors and patterns from simple whites and greys to wild multi-color mixtures. Its beauty cannot be duplicated.
Read our natural stone care tips for information about granite care
Marble (limestone, travertine, onyx) is a much softer and more porous rock than granite. It begins as sediment, which solidifies into stone over millions of years. It has less resistance to stains and scratches, and because its main component is calcium, it is highly reactive to acids, which will etch the stone and leave dull markings.
Marble is a softer stone than granite but not as soft as soapstone. It is a favorite for bath vanities and because of the cool-to-the-touch, nonstick surface marble also makes a great preparation area for baking centers in the kitchen. Marble may also be used as a kitchen countertop but it requires special maintenance and care.
The most common surface finishes for marble are a polished or honed (matte-like) finish. A polished surface will protect the surface by sealing open pores and making it less porous than a honed finish. A honed finish, however, will not show etching as much as a polished surface.
Marble is an elegant stone available in a variety of colors from pure whites to earth tones to blacks with unique veining in each.
Read our natural stone care tips to learn about marble maintenance.
Soapstone (also known as steatite) is a metamorphic rock. The material is used for countertops, sinks, masonry heaters, flooring, and other architectural applications. Soapstone is composed of several minerals, the main component being talc. Although soapstone is softer than most other natural minerals, it is very dense (non-porous); more so than marble, slate, limestone and even granite. Since soapstone is impenetrable, it will not stain - no liquid will penetrate its surface. It is unaffected by acids in foods and chemicals.
Soapstone in its initial state only comes in shades of grey, but after oiling the colors range from dark green to charcoal black. Soapstone has a rustic, yet rich look, which makes it versatile enough to fit a traditional or contemporary home.
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As Landfills Pile-Up with Face masks, we Face a Looming Environmental Crisis
Once confined to hospitals, dental offices, and other specialized settings, face masks have become an everyday essential around the world in the wake of 2020’s coronavirus pandemic. In many countries, in fact, it is now a legal requirement to sport a face covering in public spaces – a measure implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 and reduce disease fatality rates.
An unfortunate consequence of this is that billions of disposable face masks are regularly finding their way into landfill sites or even into our seas.
According to recent research by the Guardian, conservationists in the Mediterranean are very concerned about the astronomical number of face masks now floating in our oceans. The average lifespan of a standard disposable face mask is a shocking 450 years, spelling very bad news for oceans already full to the brim with marine debris.
So, what are the possible consequences of face masks becoming the ‘new normal’, and what can be done to protect both people and the planet from their adverse effects?
Discarded face masks present a serious biohazard.
First things first, it is important to point out that masks not disposed of safely could (paradoxically) contribute to the spread of coronavirus. This is because SARS-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for COVID-19 – has been shown to survive on surgical masks for up to seven days. In this way, litter pickers, waste collectors, or unsuspecting members of the public could be exposed to the virus if they come into close contact with a discarded mask.
Animals are also at significant risk from rogue masks found on the streets or elsewhere. As well as presenting a choking hazard, plastic can wreak havoc with animals’ stomachs when ingested, causing blockages, pain, and malnourishment. Smaller animals could also end up entangled in face mask loops, something which presents a risk to life.
On a wider scale, plant-life may be adversely affected by discarded face masks as plastic waste can impede the healthy growth of plants and destroy ecosystems. As a consequence, the food chain may be affected, allowing chemicals and nasty bacteria to invade the bodies of animals and sometimes even humans.
Finally, thanks to a lack of guidance or public information about how to safely dispose of masks, fears are growing about uncontrolled dumping or incineration. Burning plastics can release seriously harmful toxins into the air, compounding the effects of a health crisis more serious than many others in living memory.
So, what can be done?
While the widespread use of face masks presents serious logistical problems, the aforementioned issues are not unavoidable. According to a recent study published by The Pew Charitable Trusts in collaboration with sustainability organization Systemiq, addressing the issues surrounding plastic waste should be well within our grasp.
Worryingly, forecasts laid out in the study suggest that the amount of plastic dumped into the ocean every year could triple from 11 to 29 million tons by 2040. However, simply by altering business practices, regulating certain areas of the economy, and encouraging consumers to make better, more eco-friendly decisions, the amount of plastic pollution we produce could be slashed by around 80%. Recommendations made by the report include redesigning packaging and products to make them recyclable, optimizing waste collection practices, and investing in waste disposal initiatives in poorer countries.
Of course, one of the most important factors in improving the current situation surrounding face mask waste is international co-operation. Global trade policies have a major role to play in curbing pollution levels as they can improve the ways in which masks are manufactured, distributed, used, and disposed of across the world. While nationwide policies can go some way to making a difference, global cooperation and consensus on the problems at stake represent the only ways to ensure that the problem is adequately addressed.
Currently, environmental think tanks and sustainability organizations are encouraging governments to promote plastic substitutes that are biodegradable, non-toxic, reusable, or recyclable. As well as solving existential environmental problems, such changes could provide new jobs around the world and lead to a large-scale revolution in consumption habits.
How you can make a difference?
No single person is going to solve the plastic pollution crisis on their own. However, there are simple changes you can make to reduce your impact on the environment. Remember: if everyone in the world (particularly in the global north) adopted sustainable practices, we could significantly lighten the plastic burden on the world’s oceans.
If you find yourself using and disposing of several face masks a week, it may be time to rethink your consumption practices. Don’t worry – we’re not suggesting you go maskless. Wearing a mask has been shown to have some effect on curbing COVID-19 infections and is a good way to protect the people around you. However, we are suggesting that you ditch harmful plastic masks for a sustainable and reusable model.
How we can help?
Our face masks are made using three nylon and cotton layers as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), providing excellent levels of protection while saving the environment from plastic pollution.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that disposable masks are more protective, despite their medicalized and professional appearance. Our luxury face masks offer as much protection as you need in an everyday environment, as well as providing you with maximum levels of comfort. All of our products are made in Italy and are crafted using ECONYL® regenerated nylon, a unique product offering both style and functionality. Our masks also come with filters to aid easy breathing – great for those who find mask-wearing difficult. What’s more, they are very easy to wash and can simply be added to your usual laundry load.
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March 1st, 2012 was unofficially set as Learning Styles ‘Awareness’ Day. This day was organized with the intent of sharing research and information about what Learning Styles are, and more importantly are not, and how they are being out into practice. There are a number of practitioners who apply learning styles theories in ways that research shows no benefit. The goal of Learning Styles ‘Awareness’ Day was to have multiple voices speaking on the same topic at the same time, so that the message is amplified and heard by more people.
For more information about #LearningStyles ‘Awareness’ Day, check out these posts that set the stage for the day:
One of my favorite resources to share about Learning Styles is this video from Daniel Willingham. I like to share it for a few key reasons:
- It’s short – under 7 minutes
- It speaks about learning styles in simple, non-technical terms
- It’s research-based
The primary article I point people to is a recent one, Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners? by Guy Wallace. I like this post because it shares thoughts from leaders in the industry on why the learning styles ‘myth’ is a problem, and more importantly, explores why so many learning professionals continue to design for learning styles despite the research showing it’s lack of impact. It’s a must read.
Another post that I like – not only for it’s research but for it’s brazenness – is Learning Styles Instructional-Design Challenge by Will Thalheimer. This post shares a challenge with the world: Prove that taking learning styles into account in designing instruction can produce meaningful learning benefits… and win $1,000. The post doesn’t go deeply into the research, but the criteria associated with the challenge – and the fact that to date no one has one the prize – provide great examples of the lack of impact provided by using learning styles in instructional design. He’s held that challenge each year since 2006. The prize remains unclaimed.
My own contribution to the discussion, My #LearningStyles Awakening, is less about my conclusions about learning styles and more about the journey I took to reach it. This, in a way, was my main goal for #LearningStyles ‘Awareness’ Day. To reach people who, like me, were just unaware of the vast amounts of research available, and help them see learning styles through a more research-based lens.
A number of people participated in the discussions and sharing on Twitter and LinkedIn. I thank each of them for helping in this effort to build greater awareness within our profession. This post collects the resources shared regarding Learning Styles. I will continue to add resources to this post as I encounter them, so feel free to add more via the comments and I will add them within the post.
The Myth of Learning Styles by Cedar Riener and Daniel Willingham
Once upon a time there were 7 billion #LearningStyles by Dan Steer
Foo Foo About: Designing Instruction for Learning Styles Differences by Guy Wallace
#LearningStyles Awareness Day – Catering to Interaction Preferences Instead by Judy Unrein
ISPI 2000 Conf – 99 Seconds YouTube video from Rob Foshay
Think You’re An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It’s Unlikely by Patti Neighmond
Debunking the Myth – There Is No Such Thing As “Learning Styles” by Guy Wallace / Sigmund Tobias
Evidence-Based Training: Debunking the Myth of Learning Styles by Steve Nguyen
Learning Styles Reviewed by Association for Psychological Science AND FOUND WANTING by Will Thalheimer
Memes and Myths by Owen Ferguson
#LearningStyles Awareness Day review by Clark Quinn
Learning Styles by Clark Quinn
Learning Styles, Brain-Based Learning, and Daniel Willingham by Clark Quinn
Rethinking Learning Styles by Clark Quinn
Situated Learning Styles by Clark Quinn
I take on CLO Magazine who take on some Myths by Alan Montague
Learning Styles Library Diigo list from Christy Tucker
Amazing learning styles research by Donald Clark
Learning Styles and Pedagogy in Post-16 Learning: A Systematic and Critical Review by Frank Coffield, David Moseley, Elaine Hall and Kathryn Ecclesto (Free Download)
Learning styles: Worth our time? by Cathy Moore
Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence by Harold Pashler, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork
Revisiting Learning Styles by Christy Tucker
#LearningStyles Awareness day Storify by Anne-Laure Thomas
And last but not least, you can always count on The Onion to get a message across in a sarcastic and humourous way: Parents Of Nasal Learners Demand Odor-Based Curriculum | <urn:uuid:2bf96737-6f9d-448f-af93-9b0be2e73bfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://davidkelly.me/2012/03/learningstyles-awareness-day-collected-resources/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.914064 | 1,025 | 2.15625 | 2 |
- ISBN: 0486411087, 9780486411088
- Page count: 0
- Published: 1999-12-23
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Dover Publications
Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf with flavorful authenticity.
In the story, the gentleman narrator, Humphrey Van Weyden, is pitted against an amoral sea captain, Wolf Larsen, in a clash of idealism with materialism. The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the sea by Larsen's seal-hunting vessel, the Ghost. Pressed into service as a cabin boy by the ruthless captain, Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a brutal shipboard drama. Larsen's increasingly violent abuse of the crew fuels a mounting tension that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation.
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[September 25, 2013] If employees enjoy coming to work and customers are pleased with your product and services, then you have a positive organizational culture. A positive, healthy culture is the basis for improving your organization’s competitive edge.
The most senior executive leaders have the responsibility to drive their organizational culture in a positive direction. While this is done in several ways, for example through a well developed strategy, leaders must be careful to closely observe and manage it.
While it is generally agreed that a positive organizational culture is best to achieve the organization’s mission and leader vision, consensus on “how” to achieve it varies dramatically. The fact that so many cultures do not fully achieve their mission and vision means that there must be some significant obstacles.
The two most significant obstacles to a positive organizational culture are lack of leader knowledge and difficulty in implementation of workable methodologies.
Many agree that the lack of knowledge is the least problematic. By the time senior leaders reach their positions, typically they have gained the right stuff to ensure some level of workable methods of a successful organizational culture.
It is difficult to implement certain methods to achieve a positive culture because it requires dedicated resources and a strong senior executive leader and leader teams.
So it is execution less than know-how that prevents us from achieving a positive culture. But first, the know-how … the things that are indicative of a good organizational culture:
- Increase employee motivation and passion.
- Decrease workplace stress.
- Develop team building and collaboration.
- Build employee resilience and professionalism.
- Teach communication skills.
- Develop conflict resolution systems.
- Encourage openness and respect for others.
- Teach and encourage the Right Values.
Execution. The main variable that helps ensure a positive culture is a team of senior executive leaders that have the will, knowledge, and resources (time, people, dollars). It is the “will” that is often lacking. The focus in many senior leaders is often short-term, while a positive culture, of course, demands a long-term approach.
Organizational cultures take time to influence and this means senior leaders must focus over an long period when short term demands are hard to ignore and must be balanced. This is why senior leaders must be aware that urgent issues (short term gain) are to be managed so they do not overcome the important (long term organization health).
Being able to be successful with shorter term organizational gains, while managing long-term culture is difficult, but achievable in any organization. Making positive changes1to an existing organization is achievable with the right senior leader.
Only a top-down approach can work. The most senior leader must be fully committed or organizational health will suffer.
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It Doesn't Agree with Me...
It’s a common phrase we hear from folks as they age. Unfortunately, this common cliché can deflect the cause of an intolerance to food when the problem may in fact be a shortage of digestive enzymes.
Whether it’s corn, beans, onions, or any member of the cruciferous group of foods that includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, or cauliflower, narrowing your range of fibre- and nutrient-rich foods due to digestive concerns can compromise many aspects of your health. Indeed, even the avoidance of spices such as curry, black pepper, ginger, and chili due to acid reflux (heartburn) can deny your health of many digestive, metabolic, and inflammatory benefits… not to mention flavour.
Gas, bloating, reflux, IBS, and irregularity can all be signs of a digestive-enzyme shortage. Fortunately, supplementation can help.
Pancreatic insufficiency (often age-related) is a common cause of incomplete digestion. The pancreas is the most critical digestive organ, with the production in excess of a litre per day of enzymes that specialize in the breakdown of proteins (protease), carbohydrates (amylase), and fats (lipase). Supplementation with pancreatic enzymes of animal origin duplicates our own production of this trio of enzymes, which is an excellent therapeutic option for digestive support.
Here’s an overview of several other compounds to look for in a comprehensive digestive aid:
- Betaine hydrochloride is essential to bolster the amount of hydrochloric acid within the stomach to initiate protein digestion and neutralize harmful bacteria.
- Pepsin A is a proteolytic enzyme that works synergistically with stomach acids to initiate protein breakdown.
- Ox bile amplifies the liver’s supply of bile for natural assistance breaking down stubborn fats that can lead to bloating and discomfort.
- Papain—sourced from papaya fruit—assists in the breakdown and assimilation of stubborn proteins that, left undigested, can contribute to inflammation and food intolerances.
The importance of eating a broad range of food correlates with a diverse probiotic population within our digestive tract. Addressing digestive challenges with supplementation can deliver benefits that are more far-reaching than averting a sore stomach, gas, or bloating. It can elevate long-term nutrient status, immune performance, energy levels, and—last but not least—looking forward to culinary adventures that can truly enhance your quality of life. | <urn:uuid:fba55028-a3ca-4940-97ff-da31371f640f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newrootsherbal.com/en/blog/health/it-doesnt-agree-with-me | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.908049 | 521 | 2.546875 | 3 |
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan has an advantage promoting smart cities, while the public and private sectors should work together to push ahead with digitalization and smart city renewal in the post-COVID-19 era, said Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) this week.
At a side event for the online Smart City Summit and Expo on Tuesday (Sept. 8), Taipei City officials and leaders of local ICT companies exchanged ideas about social distancing rules and smart city initiatives, which can help minimize direct contact and the spread of the virus. Experts agreed digital transformation is not an option but a necessity, while suggesting the nationwide 5G network, AI, big data, and other new technologies can power the smart cities of the future.
"Beyond COVID-19 lies a new normal and new opportunities," said Ko. "The city government has been proactively promoting digital public services and smart integrated payment platforms. At the same time it has been building up big data centers for years and creating a digital ecosystem, allowing the city to respond to crises quickly and adapting to post-pandemic life in a less painful way."
"The outbreak will change business as usual forever," he concluded.
Taipei’s Department of Information Technology Commissioner Lu Hsin-ke (呂新科) elaborated by saying the agency has integrated data collected from various city government offices into a system that was built before the pandemic. Pay.taipei, for example, is an online platform implemented to fast-track payment services such as utility bills and parking tickets.
"With the system, during the pandemic, the city government can quickly allocate medical resources to places in need, including the distribution of surgical masks to drug stores and other approved outlets under the national real-name mask rationing system," he added.
Participants also shared innovative ideas to boost the city's digital infrastructure and services, including dispatching medical prescriptions and drugs via drones.
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360° degree photos have been getting popular lately with Facebook being a big promoter of the feature. 360° photos were first introduced by Google on Android as Photo Sphere back in year 2012 with Android 4.2, and Google+ was the first social media platform to adopt it. However, the feature is only getting popular now as more users are coming across 360 photos on Facebook and other popular social networks.
Google added the Photo Sphere to its Google camera app, which is widely available through Play Store for many Android devices out there. OEMs also have this feature built-in to their customized camera apps under different names such as 360° photo, 360° panorama photo, Surround shot, etc.
Thankfully, almost all Android devices of today are capable of taking 360 photos. In case you don’t find the option in your phone’s camera app, then just download the Google Camera app from Play Store to take 360 photos on your phone too.
How 360° photos work?
When you take a 360 photo on your phone, what you basically do is take photos of your surroundings in such a manner that all views are covered. Your phone’s camera app will guide you through the spots where you have to take pictures, and once all spots are covered, all of the pictures you took are stitched together into one single 360° photo. Amazing, isn’t it?
The process of taking a 360 photo might sound like a bit of a hassle, but in reality it’s much easier. Let us show you how to do it on your Android phone.
How to take 360° photo on any Android phone with Google Camera app
Like we said earlier, the Google Camera app let’s you take 360° photos on any Android phone. It comes installed on all Google phones from the Nexus, Pixel and Android One series. For other devices, you can just download and install the Google Camera app from Play Store to start clicking 360° photos.
- Open Google Camera app on your device. Get it from here → Play Store link.
- Tap the hamburger menu on top left, or just slide-in from left to bring up the Camera modes screen.
- Select Photo Sphere from the available options.
- You’ll now get a screen with instruction to keep dot inside the circle, just do it once and you’ll understand how tis works.
└ Complete all dots around you as shown in the camera.
- Once done, the app will begin stitching all the photos together and within a couple of minutes you’ll have your 360° photo ready.
How to take 360° photo on Samsung phones
The camera app on Samsung devices have support for 360° photos built-in. Follow the instructions below to take 360° photo on Samsung devices:
- Open the Camera app on your Samsung Device.
- Select Mode and select Surround shot.
└ If it’s not available, select Download from the list and install Surround shot from Samsung store.
- Place target point in the center of the circle and your camera will automatically capture a picture. Repeat this step for other points until all points are captured. A small globe icon at the top left corner indicates the remaining and captured points.
- Select Done when all points are captured.
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Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.
Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the nacheinander. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o’er his base, fell through the nebeneinander ineluctably. I am getting on nicely in the dark. My ash sword hangs at my side. Tap with it: they do. My two feet in his boots are at the ends of his legs, nebeneinander. Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand? Crush, crack, crick, crick. Wild sea money. Dominie Deasy kens them a’.
Won’t you come to Sandymount,
Madeline the mare?
Rhythm begins, you see. I hear. Acatalectic tetrameter of iambs marching. No, agallop: deline the mare.
Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.
They came down the steps from Leahy’s terrace prudently, Frauenzimmer: and down the shelving shore flabbily, their splayed feet sinking in the silted sand. Like me, like Algy, coming down to our mighty mother. Number one swung lourdily her midwife’s bag, the other’s gamp poked in the beach. From the liberties, out for the day. Mrs Florence MacCabe, relict of the late Patk MacCabe, deeply lamented, of Bride Street. One of her sisterhood lugged me squealing into life. Creation from nothing. What has she in the bag? A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool. The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh. That is why mystic monks. Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos. Hello! Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville. Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one.
Spouse and helpmate of Adam Kadmon: Heva, naked Eve. She had no navel. Gaze. Belly without blemish, bulging big, a buckler of taut vellum, no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to everlasting. Womb of sin.
Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghostwoman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler’s will. From before the ages He willed me and now may not will me away or ever. A lex eterna stays about Him. Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial? Where is poor dear Arius to try conclusions? Warring his life long on the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. Illstarred heresiarch! In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia. With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne, widower of a widowed see, with upstiffed omophorion, with clotted hinderparts.
Airs romped around him, nipping and eager airs. They are coming, waves. The whitemaned seahorses, champing, brightwindbridled, the steeds of Mananaan.
I mustn’t forget his letter for the press. And after? The Ship, half twelve. By the way go easy with that money like a good young imbecile. Yes, I must.
His pace slackened. Here. Am I going to Aunt Sara’s or not? My consubstantial father’s voice. Did you see anything of your artist brother Stephen lately? No? Sure he’s not down in Strasburg terrace with his aunt Sally? Couldn’t he fly a bit higher than that, eh? And and and and tell us, Stephen, how is uncle Si? O weeping God, the things I married into! De boys up in de hayloft. The drunken little costdrawer and his brother, the cornet player. Highly respectable gondoliers! And skeweyed Walter sirring his father, no less. Sir. Yes, sir. No, sir. Jesus wept: and no wonder, by Christ!
I pull the wheezy bell of their shuttered cottage: and wait. They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.
— It’s Stephen, sir.
— Let him in. Let Stephen in.
A bolt drawn back and Walter welcomes me.
— We thought you were someone else.
In his broad bed nuncle Richie, pillowed and blanketed, extends over the hillock of his knees a sturdy forearm. Cleanchested. He has washed the upper moiety.
— Morrow, nephew. Sit down and take a walk.
He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of Master Goff and Master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of Duces Tecum. A bogoak frame over his bald head: Wilde’s Requiescat. The drone of his misleading whistle brings Walter back.
— Yes, sir?
— Malt for Richie and Stephen, tell mother. Where is she?
— Bathing Crissie, sir.
Papa’s little bedpal. Lump of love.
— No, uncle Richie...
— Call me Richie. Damn your lithia water. It lowers. Whusky!
— Uncle Richie, really...
— Sit down or by the law Harry I’ll knock you down.
Walter squints vainly for a chair.
— He has nothing to sit down on, sir.
— He has nowhere to put it, you mug. Bring in our Chippendale chair. Would you like a bite of something? None of your damned lawdeedaw airs here. The rich of a rasher fried with a herring? Sure? So much the better. We have nothing in the house but backache pills.
He drones bars of Ferrando’s aria de sortita. The grandest number, Stephen, in the whole opera. Listen.
His tuneful whistle sounds again, finely shaded, with rushes of the air, his fists bigdrumming on his padded knees.
This wind is sweeter.
Houses of decay, mine, his and all. You told the Clongowes gentry you had an uncle a judge and an uncle a general in the army. Come out of them, Stephen. Beauty is not there. Nor in the stagnant bay of Marsh’s library where you read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas. For whom? The hundredheaded rabble of the cathedral close. A hater of his kind ran from them to the wood of madness, his mane foaming in the moon, his eyeballs stars. Houyhnhnm, horsenostrilled. The oval equine faces, Temple, Buck Mulligan, Foxy Campbell, Lanternjaws. Abbas father, furious dean, what offence laid fire to their brains? Paff! Descende, calve, ut ne amplius decalveris. A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace (descende!) clutching a monstrance, basiliskeyed. Get down, bald poll! A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altar’s horns, the snorted Latin of jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the fat of kidneys of wheat.
And at the same instant perhaps a priest round the corner is elevating it. Dringdring! And two streets off another locking it into a pyx. Dringadring! And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own cheek. Dringdring! Down, up, forward, back. Dan Occam thought of that, invincible doctor. A misty English morning the imp hypostasis tickled his brain. Bringing his host down and kneeling he heard twine with his second bell the first bell in the transept (he is lifting his) and, rising, heard (now I am lifting) their two bells (he is kneeling) twang in diphthong.
Cousin Stephen, you will never be a saint. Isle of saints. You were awfully holy, weren’t you? You prayed to the Blessed Virgin that you might not have a red nose. You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street. O si, certo! Sell your soul for that, do, dyed rags pinned round a squaw. More tell me, more still! On the top of the Howth tram alone crying to the rain: naked women! naked women! What about that, eh?
What about what? What else were they invented for?
Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. Hurray for the Goddamned idiot! Hray! No-one saw: tell no-one. Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria? Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara. Pico della Mirandola like. Ay, very like a whale. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...
The grainy sand had gone from under his feet. His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada. Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man’s ashes. He coasted them, walking warily. A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough. A sentinel: isle of dreadful thirst. Broken hoops on the shore; at the land a maze of dark cunning nets; farther away chalkscrawled backdoors and on the higher beach a dryingline with two crucified shirts. Ringsend: wigwams of brown steersmen and master mariners. Human shells.
He halted. I have passed the way to aunt Sara’s. Am I not going there? Seems not. No-one about. He turned northeast and crossed the firmer sand towards the Pigeonhouse.
— Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?
— C’est le pigeon, Joseph.
Patrice, home on furlough, lapped warm milk with me in the bar MacMahon. Son of the wild goose, Kevin Egan of Paris. My father’s a bird, he lapped the sweet lait chaud with pink young tongue, plump bunny’s face. Lap, lapin. He hopes to win in the gros lots. About the nature of women he read in Michelet. But he must send me La Vie de Jésus by M. Léo Taxil. Lent it to his friend.
— C’est tordant, vous savez. Moi, je suis socialiste. Je ne crois pas en l’existence de Dieu. Faut pas le dire à mon père.
— Il croit?
— Mon père, oui.
Schluss. He laps.
My Latin quarter hat. God, we simply must dress the character. I want puce gloves. You were a student, weren’t you? Of what in the other devil’s name? Paysayenn. P.C.N, you know: physiques, chimiques et naturelles. Aha. Eating your groatsworth of mou en civet, fleshpots of Egypt, elbowed by belching cabmen. Just say in the most natural tone: when I was in Paris, boul’ Mich’, I used to. Yes, used to carry punched tickets to prove an alibi if they arrested you for murder somewhere. Justice. On the night of the seventeenth of February 1904 the prisoner was seen by two witnesses. Other fellow did it: other me. Hat, tie, overcoat, nose. Lui, c’est moi. You seem to have enjoyed yourself.
Proudly walking. Whom were you trying to walk like? Forget: a dispossessed. With mother’s money order, eight shillings, the banging door of the post office slammed in your face by the usher. Hunger toothache. Encore deux minutes. Look clock. Must get. Fermé. Hired dog! Shoot him to bloody bits with a bang shotgun, bits man spattered walls all brass buttons. Bits all khrrrrklak in place clack back. Not hurt? O, that’s all right. Shake hands. See what I meant, see? O, that’s all right. Shake a shake. O, that’s all only all right.
You were going to do wonders, what? Missionary to Europe after fiery Columbanus. Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven spilt from their pintpots, loudlatinlaughing: Euge! Euge! Pretending to speak broken English as you dragged your valise, porter threepence, across the slimy pier at Newhaven. Comment? Rich booty you brought back: Le Tutu, five tattered numbers of Pantalon Blanc et Culotte Rouge, a blue French telegram, curiosity to show:
— Nother dying come home father.
The aunt thinks you killed your mother. That’s why she won’t.
Then here’s a health to Mulligan’s aunt
And I’ll tell you the reason why.
She always kept things decent in
The Hannigan famileye.
His feet marched in sudden proud rhythm over the sand furrows, along by the boulders of the south wall. He stared at them proudly, piled stone mammoth skulls. Gold light on sea, on sand, on boulders. The sun is there, the slender trees, the lemon houses.
Paris rawly waking, crude sunlight on her lemon streets. Moist pith of farls of bread, the froggreen wormwood, her matin incense, court the air. Belluomo rises from the bed of his wife’s lover’s wife, the kerchiefed housewife is astir, a saucer of acetic acid in her hands. In Rodot’s Yvonne and Madeleine newmake their tumbled beauties, shattering with gold teeth chaussons of pastry, their mouths yellowed with the pus of flan breton. Faces of Paris men go by, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores.
Noon slumbers. Kevin Egan rolls gunpowder cigarettes through fingers smeared with printer’s ink, sipping his green fairy as Patrice his white. About us gobblers fork spiced beans down their gullets. Un demi setier! A jet of coffee steam from the burnished caldron. She serves me at his beck. Il est irlandais. Hollandais? Non fromage. Deux irlandais, nous, Irlande, vous savez? Ah oui! She thought you wanted a cheese hollandais. Your postprandial, do you know that word? Postprandial. There was a fellow I knew once in Barcelona, queer fellow, used to call it his postprandial. Well: slainte! Around the slabbed tables the tangle of wined breaths and grumbling gorges. His breath hangs over our saucestained plates, the green fairy’s fang thrusting between his lips. Of Ireland, the Dalcassians, of hopes, conspiracies, of Arthur Griffith now, AE pimander, good shepherd of men. To yoke me as his yokefellow, our crimes our common cause. You’re your father’s son. I know the voice. His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets. M. Drumont, famous journalist, Drumont, know what he called queen Victoria? Old hag with the yellow teeth. Vieille ogresse with the dents jaunes. Maud Gonne, beautiful woman, La Patrie, M. Millevoye, Félix Faure, know how he died? Licentious men. The froeken, bonne à tout faire, who rubs male nakedness in the bath at Upsala. Moi faire, she said, tous les messieurs. Not this monsieur, I said. Most licentious custom. Bath a most private thing. I wouldn’t let my brother, not even my own brother, most lascivious thing. Green eyes, I see you. Fang, I feel. Lascivious people.
The blue fuse burns deadly between hands and burns clear. Loose tobacco shreds catch fire: a flame and acrid smoke light our corner. Raw facebones under his peep of day boy’s hat. How the head centre got away, authentic version. Got up as a young bride, man, veil, orangeblossoms, drove out the road to Malahide. Did, faith. Of lost leaders, the betrayed, wild escapes. Disguises, clutched at, gone, not here.
Spurned lover. I was a strapping young gossoon at that time, I tell you, I’ll show you my likeness one day. I was, faith. Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog. Shattered glass and toppling masonry. In gay Paree he hides, Egan of Paris, unsought by any save by me. Making his day’s stations, the dingy printingcase, his three taverns, the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d’Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone. Loveless, landless, wifeless. She is quite nicey comfy without her outcast man, madame in rue Gît-le-Coeur, canary and two buck lodgers. Peachy cheeks, a zebra skirt, frisky as a young thing’s. Spurned and undespairing. Tell Pat you saw me, won’t you? I wanted to get poor Pat a job one time. Mon fils, soldier of France. I taught him to sing. The boys of Kilkenny are stout roaring blades. Know that old lay? I taught Patrice that. Old Kilkenny: saint Canice, Strongbow’s castle on the Nore. Goes like this. O, O. He takes me, Napper Tandy, by the hand.
O, O the boys of
Weak wasting hand on mine. They have forgotten Kevin Egan, not he them. Remembering thee, O Sion.
He had come nearer the edge of the sea and wet sand slapped his boots. The new air greeted him, harping in wild nerves, wind of wild air of seeds of brightness. Here, I am not walking out to the Kish lightship, am I? He stood suddenly, his feet beginning to sink slowly in the quaking soil. Turn back.
Turning, he scanned the shore south, his feet sinking again slowly in new sockets. The cold domed room of the tower waits. Through the barbicans the shafts of light are moving ever, slowly ever as my feet are sinking, creeping duskward over the dial floor. Blue dusk, nightfall, deep blue night. In the darkness of the dome they wait, their pushedback chairs, my obelisk valise, around a board of abandoned platters. Who to clear it? He has the key. I will not sleep there when this night comes. A shut door of a silent tower entombing their blind bodies, the panthersahib and his pointer. Call: no answer. He lifted his feet up from the suck and turned back by the mole of boulders. Take all, keep all. My soul walks with me, form of forms. So in the moon’s midwatches I pace the path above the rocks, in sable silvered, hearing Elsinore’s tempting flood.
The flood is following me. I can watch it flow past from here. Get back then by the Poolbeg road to the strand there. He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.
A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack. Before him the gunwale of a boat, sunk in sand. Un coche ensablé Louis Veuillot called Gautier’s prose. These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here. And these, the stoneheaps of dead builders, a warren of weasel rats. Hide gold there. Try it. You have some. Sands and stones. Heavy of the past. Sir Lout’s toys. Mind you don’t get one bang on the ear. I’m the bloody well gigant rolls all them bloody well boulders, bones for my steppingstones. Feefawfum. I zmellz de bloodz odz an Iridzman.
A point, live dog, grew into sight running across the sweep of sand. Lord, is he going to attack me? Respect his liberty. You will not be master of others or their slave. I have my stick. Sit tight. From farther away, walking shoreward across from the crested tide, figures, two. The two maries. They have tucked it safe mong the bulrushes. Peekaboo. I see you. No, the dog. He is running back to them. Who?
Galleys of the Lochlanns ran here to beach, in quest of prey, their bloodbeaked prows riding low on a molten pewter surf. Dane vikings, torcs of tomahawks aglitter on their breasts when Malachi wore the collar of gold. A school of turlehide whales stranded in hot noon, spouting, hobbling in the shallows. Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat. Famine, plague and slaughters. Their blood is in me, their lusts my waves. I moved among them on the frozen Liffey, that I, a changeling, among the spluttering resin fires. I spoke to no-one: none to me.
The dog’s bark ran towards him, stopped, ran back. Dog of my enemy. I just simply stood pale, silent, bayed about. Terribilia meditans. A primrose doublet, fortune’s knave, smiled on my fear. For that are you pining, the bark of their applause? Pretenders: live their lives. The Bruce’s brother, Thomas Fitzgerald, silken knight, Perkin Warbeck, York’s false scion, in breeches of silk of whiterose ivory, wonder of a day, and Lambert Simnel, with a tail of nans and sutlers, a scullion crowned. All kings’ sons. Paradise of pretenders then and now. He saved men from drowning and you shake at a cur’s yelping. But the courtiers who mocked Guido in Or san Michele were in their own house. House of... We don’t want any of your medieval abstrusiosities. Would you do what he did? A boat would be near, a lifebuoy. Natürlich, put there for you. Would you or would you not? The man that was drowned nine days ago off Maiden’s rock. They are waiting for him now. The truth, spit it out. I would want to. I would try. I am not a strong swimmer. Water cold soft. When I put my face into it in the basin at Clongowes. Can’t see! Who’s behind me? Out quickly, quickly! Do you see the tide flowing quickly in on all sides, sheeting the lows of sands quickly, shell cocoacoloured? If I had land under my feet. I want his life still to be his, mine to be mine. A drowning man. His human eyes scream to me out of horror of his death. I... With him together down... I could not save her. Waters: bitter death: lost.
A woman and a man. I see her skirties. Pinned up, I bet.
Their dog ambled about a bank of dwindling sand, trotting, sniffing on all sides. Looking for something lost in a past life. Suddenly he made off like a bounding hare, ears flung back, chasing the shadow of a lowskimming gull. The man’s shrieked whistle struck his limp ears. He turned, bounded back, came nearer, trotted on twinkling shanks. On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper, unattired. At the lacefringe of the tide he halted with stiff forehoofs, seawardpointed ears. His snout lifted barked at the wavenoise, herds of seamorse. They serpented towards his feet, curling, unfurling many crests, every ninth, breaking, plashing, from far, from farther out, waves and waves.
Cocklepickers. They waded a little way in the water and, stooping, soused their bags and, lifting them again, waded out. The dog yelped running to them, reared up and pawed them, dropping on all fours, again reared up at them with mute bearish fawning. Unheeded he kept by them as they came towards the drier sand, a rag of wolf’s tongue redpanting from his jaws. His speckled body ambled ahead of them and then loped off at a calf’s gallop. The carcass lay on his path. He stopped, sniffed, stalked round it, brother, nosing closer, went round it, sniffing rapidly like a dog all over the dead dog’s bedraggled fell. Dogskull, dogsniff, eyes on the ground, moves to one great goal. Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody’s body.
— Tatters! Out of that, you mongrel!
The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight. He slunk back in a curve. Doesn’t see me. Along by the edge of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock and from under a cocked hindleg pissed against it. He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock. The simple pleasures of the poor. His hindpaws then scattered sand: then his forepaws dabbled and delved. Something he buried there, his grandmother. He rooted in the sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the air, scraped up the sand again with a fury of his claws, soon ceasing, a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach, vulturing the dead.
After he woke me up last night same dream or was it? Wait. Open hallway. Street of harlots. Remember. Haroun al Raschid. I am almosting it. That man led me, spoke. I was not afraid. The melon he had he held against my face. Smiled: creamfruit smell. That was the rule, said. In. Come. Red carpet spread. You will see who.
Shouldering their bags they trudged, the red Egyptians. His blued feet out of turnedup trousers slapped the clammy sand, a dull brick muffler strangling his unshaven neck. With woman steps she followed: the ruffian and his strolling mort. Spoils slung at her back. Loose sand and shellgrit crusted her bare feet. About her windraw face hair trailed. Behind her lord his helpmate, bing awast to Romeville. When night hides her body’s flaws calling under her brown shawl from an archway where dogs have mired. Her fancyman is treating two Royal Dublins in O’Loughlin’s of Blackpitts. Buss her, wap in rogues’ rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell! A shefiend’s whiteness under her rancid rags. Fumbally’s lane that night: the tanyard smells.
White thy fambles, red thy gan
And thy quarrons dainty is.
Couch a hogshead with me then.
In the darkmans clip and kiss.
Morose delectation Aquinas tunbelly calls this, frate porcospino. Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is. Language no whit worse than his. Monkwords, marybeads jabber on their girdles: roguewords, tough nuggets patter in their pockets.
A side-eye at my Hamlet hat. If I were suddenly naked here as I sit? I am not. Across the sands of all the world, followed by the sun’s flaming sword, to the west, trekking to evening lands. She trudges, schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load. A tide westering, moondrawn, in her wake. Tides, myriadislanded, within her, blood not mine, oinopa ponton, a winedark sea. Behold the handmaid of the moon. In sleep the wet sign calls her hour, bids her rise. Bridebed, childbed, bed of death, ghostcandled. Omnis caro ad te veniet. He comes, pale vampire, through storm his eyes, his bat sails bloodying the sea, mouth to her mouth’s kiss.
Here. Put a pin in that chap, will you? My tablets. Mouth to her kiss. No. Must be two of em. Glue em well. Mouth to her mouth’s kiss.
His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air: mouth to her womb. Oomb, allwombing tomb. His mouth moulded issuing breath, unspeeched: ooeeehah: roar of cataractic planets, globed, blazing, roaring wayawayawayawayaway. Paper. The banknotes, blast them. Old Deasy’s letter. Here. Thanking you for hospitality tear the blank end off. Turning his back to the sun he bent over far to a table of rock and scribbled words. That’s twice I forgot to take slips from the library counter.
His shadow lay over the rocks as he bent, ending. Why not endless till the farthest star? Darkly they are there behind this light, darkness shining in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds. Me sits there with his augur’s rod of ash, in borrowed sandals, by day beside a livid sea, unbeheld, in violet night walking beneath a reign of uncouth stars. I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back. Endless, would it be mine, form of my form? Who watches me here? Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field. Somewhere to someone in your flutiest voice. The good bishop of Cloyne took the veil of the temple out of his shovel hat: veil of space with coloured emblems hatched on its field. Hold hard. Coloured on a flat: yes, that’s right. Flat I see, then think distance, near, far, flat I see, east, back. Ah, see now! Falls back suddenly, frozen in stereoscope. Click does the trick. You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls do you not think? Flutier. Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she? The virgin at Hodges Figgis’ window on Monday looking in for one of the alphabet books you were going to write. Keen glance you gave her. Wrist through the braided jess of her sunshade. She lives in Leeson park with a grief and kickshaws, a lady of letters. Talk that to someone else, Stevie: a pickmeup. Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and yellow stockings, darned with lumpy wool. Talk about apple dumplings, piuttosto. Where are your wits?
Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.
He lay back at full stretch over the sharp rocks, cramming the scribbled note and pencil into a pocket, his hat tilted down on his eyes. That is Kevin Egan’s movement I made nodding for his nap, sabbath sleep. Et vidit Deus. Et erant valde bona. Hlo! Bonjour. Welcome as the flowers in May. Under its leaf he watched through peacocktwittering lashes the southing sun. I am caught in this burning scene. Pan’s hour, the faunal noon. Among gumheavy serpentplants, milkoozing fruits, where on the tawny waters leaves lie wide. Pain is far.
And no more turn aside and brood.
His gaze brooded on his broadtoed boots, a buck’s castoffs, nebeneinander: He counted the creases of rucked leather wherein another’s foot had nested warm. The foot that beat the ground in tripudium, foot I dislove. But you were delighted when Esther Osvalt’s shoe went on you: girl I knew in Paris. Tiens, quel petit pied! Staunch friend, a brother soul: Wilde’s love that dare not speak its name. He now will leave me. And the blame? As I am. As I am. All or not at all.
In long lassoes from the Cock lake the water flowed full, covering greengoldenly lagoons of sand, rising, flowing. My ashplant will float away. I shall wait. No, they will pass on, passing chafing against the low rocks, swirling, passing. Better get this job over quick. Listen: a fourworded wavespeech: seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos. Vehement breath of waters amid seasnakes, rearing horses, rocks. In cups of rocks it slops: flop, slop, slap: bounded in barrels. And, spent, its speech ceases. It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.
Under the upswelling tide he saw the writhing weeds lift languidly and sway reluctant arms, hising up their petticoats, in whispering water swaying and upturning coy silver fronds. Day by day: night by night: lifted, flooded and let fall. Lord, they are weary: and, whispered to, they sigh. Saint Ambrose heard it, sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times, diebus ac noctibus iniurias patiens ingemiscit. To no end gathered: vainly then released, forthflowing, wending back: loom of the moon. Weary too in sight of lovers, lascivious men, a naked woman shining in her courts, she draws a toil of waters.
Five fathoms out there. Full fathom five thy father lies. At one he said. Found drowned. High water at Dublin bar. Driving before it a loose drift of rubble, fanshoals of fishes, silly shells. A corpse rising saltwhite from the undertow, bobbing landward, a pace a pace a porpoise. There he is. Hook it quick. Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. We have him. Easy now.
Bag of corpsegas sopping in foul brine. A quiver of minnows, fat of a spongy titbit, flash through the slits of his buttoned trouserfly. God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain. Dead breaths I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead. Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun.
A seachange this, brown eyes saltblue. Seadeath, mildest of all deaths known to man. Old Father Ocean. Prix de Paris: beware of imitations. Just you give it a fair trial. We enjoyed ourselves immensely.
Come. I thirst. Clouding over. No black clouds anywhere, are there? Thunderstorm. Allbright he falls, proud lightning of the intellect, Lucifer, dico, qui nescit occasum. No. My cockle hat and staff and his my sandal shoon. Where? To evening lands. Evening will find itself.
He took the hilt of his ashplant, lunging with it softly, dallying still. Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me. All days make their end. By the way next when is it? Tuesday will be the longest day. Of all the glad new year, mother, the rum tum tiddledy tum. Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet. Già. For the old hag with the yellow teeth. And Monsieur Drumont, gentleman journalist. Già. My teeth are very bad. Why, I wonder? Feel. That one is going too. Shells. Ought I go to a dentist, I wonder, with that money? That one. This. Toothless Kinch, the superman. Why is that, I wonder, or does it mean something perhaps?
My handkerchief. He threw it. I remember. Did I not take it up?
His hand groped vainly in his pockets. No, I didn’t. Better buy one.
He laid the dry snot picked from his nostril on a ledge of rock, carefully. For the rest let look who will.
Behind. Perhaps there is someone.
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80 percent of Brown University students vote for reparations to descendants of enslaved people
More than 80 percent of Brown University students voted in support of reparations for descendants of slaves affiliated with the school and its founders, the latest move by members of the university to acknowledge its history with the slave trade.
The Friday vote, organized by the Undergraduate Council of Students, included two referendums on reparations, one calling for the university to identify the descendants of enslaved Africans affiliated with the university and the Brown family, and the other arguing that Brown should provide reparations to those descendants.
According to NBC News, more than 2,000 of Brown’s 7,000 undergraduate students participated in the vote, with 89 percent supporting the first referendum, and 85 percent backing the second.
The referendums called for reparations in a variety of forms. According to a Facebook post from the Council of Students, reparations for identified individuals could include preferential admission to descendants of slaves applying to the university, direct funds for the descendants and “further recognition of the slave trade and how it interfaces with their lives.”
For descendant communities, the student group said reparations could take the form of targeted investment, community engagement programs, recruitment efforts at local high schools with large Black populations, building partnerships with other universities near communities with slavery descendants, as well as increased scholarships and attention to these communities.
The council president, Jason Carroll, who is a descendant of slaves on both sides of his family, told CNN that the vote was prompted by a “renewed attention of anti-Blackness here in the U.S.”
“We have a whole new direction as a nation, a whole new understanding of Black advocacy,” Carroll explained. “I think before this past summer saying you support Black Lives Matter was honestly somewhat controversial.”
“It wasn’t until the murder of Mr. [George] Floyd and the protests last summer that it became something that was mainstream enough that universities like Brown would say it,” he added.
Carroll said that he hopes the vote will put pressure on the university to direct tangible action in support of slave descendants.
“The university gets to make up its own mind when it comes to the student body… but what’s important is getting the word out that the vast majority of students did approve of something,” he told CNN. “The ball is in the university’s court now.”
The Ivy League school in Providence, R.I., has in recent years taken a number of steps to publicly recognize its ties to slavery, including in a 2006 report that established that members of the school’s namesake Brown family took several trips to Africa to purchase slaves and bring them back to the U.S.
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Until recently, long-term smell and flavor loss was a subject that was mostly ignored. Without a gold-standard therapy, physicians’ have had little to discuss with prospective patients. Patients have simply had to learn how to manage a new normal; a life without the enjoyment of food or drink, the smell of fresh air, the smell of your partner-in-life, or the acuity to determine safe food from that which is tainted.
In the US alone, over 15 million patients1 have long-term smell loss. This does not include the multitude of neurodegenerative conditions where it is a factor. For example, 95% of Parkinson’s patients share this affliction, often the first indicator of the disease. Nor does it include the more than two-thirds of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy who report sensory perception changes, some of which can be permanent. While patients lose their sense of smell due to many different circumstances, around 30% of the population is due to allergic rhinitis, 25% due to upper respiratory viral infections such as the flu (post-viral), and 12% due to traumatic brain injury2 – according to pre-2020 surveys. When the tallies are in, it is now expected that COVID-19 will make post-viral smell loss the number one cause of long-term smell and flavor loss.
“A number of years ago, I contracted the flu.” – Rick Geoffrion
“A number of years ago, in the pre-COVID days, I contracted the flu,” begins Rick Geoffrion, Co-Founder, President & CEO of Cyrano Therapeutics. “I experienced a 102 fever, shake, and shivers. It was pretty intense, but it only lasted a couple of days. A reasonably common flu experience.” After feeling better, Geoffrion resumed his routine, went to work, and on his first day back went to lunch. There, he ordered a chicken sandwich. Geoffrion continues, “I realized when I bit into it that I couldn’t taste it, all I could do was feel it. I knew something was wrong.”
“I realized that I couldn’t taste it. I knew something was wrong.” – Rick Geoffrion
After an appointment with Geoffrion’s primary care physician and then with a key opinion-leading otolaryngologist, he was told there was no treatment available for smell and flavor loss. “I just remember walking out of the doctor’s office and thinking to myself, wow, could it be that I will never fully experience food and drink for the rest of my life? When you lose your sense of smell, you lose 80-90% of what you perceive as taste. Technically, you haven’t lost taste, you have lost the ability to detect flavor in food. Without smell, wine will taste just like water and proteins like beef, chicken, or fish are reduced to texture.” says Geoffrion.
“I remember walking out of the doctor’s office thinking, wow, could it be that I will never fully experience food and drink for the rest of my life?” – Rick Geoffrion
Inspired by this personal experience to find a solution, Geoffrion traveled to Washington DC, intent on meeting Robert I. Henkin, MD, PhD, a former NIH scientist and Director of The Taste and Smell Clinic. Henkin diagnosed Geoffrion and confirmed his fear; he had lost approximately 99% of his ability to sense smell and flavor. “If you put gasoline under my nose, I could tell you something was present, but not what it was,” clarifies Geoffrion, “however I had still retained a trace amount of smell function. So, Dr. Henkin thought that there could be an opportunity for treatment and recovery.” This modicum of hope was the catalyst for a partnership that would lead to the formation of Cyrano Therapeutics.
“If you put gasoline under my nose, I could tell you something was present, but not what it was.” – Rick Geoffrion
Henkin followed his diagnosis by prescribing an oral drug, theophylline. Originally prescribed for conditions such as asthma and COPD, oral theophylline has been largely abandoned with the development of more targeted drugs that carry fewer side effects. Typical side effects associated with oral theophylline therapy include insomnia, jitteriness, heart palpitations, and an elevated heart rate. Henkin had prescribed oral theophylline to more than 4,000 patients over the years with moderate success – around 50% of patients recovered a portion of their smell/flavor function. However, significant outcomes were clearly limited by the side effects. Many patients could not tolerate the amount of systemic drug required to get to the therapeutic window. Geoffrion was prescribed the oral drug and used it habitually for nearly 3 years. “My smell and flavor were improving significantly and that was exciting, but side effects that included an elevated heart rate led me to doubt whether I should continue to take the drug over the long-term,” admits Geoffrion.
“My smell and flavor were improving significantly and that was exciting, but side effects led me to doubt whether I should continue to take the drug.” – Rick Geoffrion
After approaching Henkin with this dilemma, Henkin disclosed that many patients have had the same experience and that he was on his way to a potential solution. Henkin had been working on a theophylline nasal spray that would deliver the drug directly to the olfactory region, bypassing the systemic circulation and allowing the dose to be reduced by 1000x. Recognizing the magnitude of the unmet need and the opportunity to deliver a more practical solution, Geoffrion leveraged his more than three decades in healthcare technology to partner with Henkin. The duo went on to found Cyrano Therapeutics, a company that could shepherd the novel nasal spray through a formal regulatory path to approval.
Cyrano’s patented formulation is administered daily, at-home, via a simple intranasal spray, directly to the patient’s nasal mucosa and olfactory receptors. Geoffrion explains that “the likely mechanism of action is the stimulation of olfactory transduction. So, you may need to take the drug for the rest of your life to keep that effect going.” The expectation is that receptor/sensory neurons will repopulate, be stimulated and then synapse, allowing the brain to process odorants again.
“The likely mechanism of action is the stimulation of olfactory transduction.” – Rick Geoffrion
In November 2020, Cyrano closed on a $12.8M round led by Remiges Ventures and Lumira Ventures, with the participation of additional investors. The proceeds are currently being used to complete the prerequisite non-clinical research before initiating a formal randomized trial early next year.
In that trial, Geoffrion intends to utilize a digital strategy to maximize patient enrollment. “What we’ll do is create attention and awareness in the geographies where our clinical sites are located to drive interest from patients who potentially may qualify for the trial,” explains Geoffrion. “This unmet clinical need is tailor-made for social media. The inability to smell odors and detect flavor in food can be easily communicated and understood through social media and, therefore, attention and awareness of the clinical condition and our clinical trial can be created quite efficiently.”
“Having experienced smell and flavor loss first-hand, I know how devastating it can be to lose it and how joyful it can be to recover it.” – Rick Geoffrion
Reflecting on his own experience with loss of smell and flavor, Geoffrion stated that, “For this company, I am a missionary not a mercenary. Having experienced smell and flavor loss first-hand, effectively losing 2 out of the 5 senses we have as human beings, I know how devastating it can be to lose it and how joyful it can be to recover it. I am on a mission to spread that joy to others.”
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The sky is thick with smoke in central Washington, as the state's largest wildfire in recorded history leaves a charred trail of burned homes and blackened trees.
The Carlton Complex Fire began as four separate fires that were triggered by lightning on July 14. Hot and windy weather helped the fire spread, forcing an estimated 1,000 people to evacuate the area. As of today (July 24), the fire is spread over 390 square miles (1,010 square kilometers), or about one-third the size of Rhode Island, said Paul Gibbs, a spokesman for the fire crews battling the wildfire.
Video production company Chelan HD sent out a drone to record aerial footage of the burned landscape. The video features incredible views of the scorched foundations of a house and the smoldering tracks of a railroad. The drone even recorded a family of deer walking through the remains of a forest that the fire had burned to the ground. [See drone cam video of the Washington state wildfire]
Firefighters from across the country — even as far away as Florida — have contained 52 percent of the fire, up from 16 percent the day before, Gibbs told Live Science.
Nearly 3,000 people, including 59 fire crews, 212 engines, 13 bulldozers and five helicopters, are working to battle the blaze. "It's the number one [fire] priority in the nation," Gibbs said.
So far, only one death has been reported from the wildfire. A man died of a heart attack from hauling water and digging a fire line to protect his house, the Associated Press reported.
Yesterday (July 23), President Barack Obama announced that Washington could access aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for areas affected by wildfires, according to a statement released by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Carlton Complex Fire is not the only blaze in the state, or even in the Pacific Northwest. A total of 22 fires are burning in Washington and Oregon, reports the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, which monitors wildfires and manages efforts to stop them.
High and dry temperatures are partially responsible for the number of blazes. It's possible that extreme dry or wet years due to climate change are affecting the western United States, said Jason Funk, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonpartisan and nonprofit group headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that informs policymakers about scientific research.
"Those extremely dry years can contribute to conditions where forest fires take off," Funk told Live Science.
Since 1970, temperatures across the West Coast have increased by 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius), Funk said. Higher temperatures are, in turn, partially linked to wildfire seasons that can last seven instead of five months. Fires that start later in the season usually encounter drier conditions, raising the likelihood that they will spread quickly and be more intense than blazes that occur earlier in the season, he added.
"Lots of scientific evidence points to the fact that wildfires have become bigger as [the] climate gets warmer overall," Funk said.
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In most healthy relationships, it’s common for one member to need more displays of affection and affection than the other. This shouldn’t be a problem, and in fact, it is normal and perfectly predictable that there are asymmetries in such a relationship: each individual is unique.
However, as with any psychological phenomenon, if this need for psychological support and displays of affection is taken to the extreme, problems arise. In such cases, often what is called emotional dependence occursOne of the most common problems among those who decide to undergo therapy. Let’s see what it is and what can be done to overcome this problem.
What is emotional addiction?
Emotional dependence is an excessive pathological need for affection, affection and constant availability that some people feel for someone with whom they have established an emotional bond, usually their romantic partners, going so far as to harm both their relationship and their social life and their own well-being in the medium and long term .
Moreover, emotional dependence is not characterized by being accompanied by a high level of nonconformity when choosing who to establish a relationship with. On the contrary: even if the person feels frustrated and dissatisfied because they are not getting all the emotional support they need, the awareness that this problem exists makes people fear even more the possibility of a breakup. Thus, those who suffer from emotional dependence put the person they depend on above other very important aspects of their life.
On another side, emotional dependence should not be confused with what is called “psychological dependence”, Term used to designate cases of dependence. Those who have developed this type of pathology feel the need to satisfy their urges to consume a drug or perform a certain action over and over again. However, emotional dependence is expressed in more subtle ways. Not so much by repeated exposure to a very specific and easily recognizable type of experience (smoking, consuming pills …), but by creating situations in which the fear that the other person will leave us or stop relying on us. is reduced to us.
Emotional addiction relies on more abstract thoughts than psychological addiction, and more so, of a much less individualistic character.
These are the most common causes of emotional addiction. In practice, they often overlap, seeking to influence others.
1. Low self-esteem
Low self-esteem is a tendency to have negative self-esteem, And in this case, a feeling of inferiority compared to the other member of the couple.
2. Fears based on traumatic experiences
This problem can be made easier by a history of abuse, as well as a lack of affection and affection on the part of the person’s parents. This is called a condition of insecurity.
3. Lack of social skills
Social skills deficits they are often associated with the fear of loneliness, Make the person believe that they will not have new opportunities to have a close relationship with someone.
4. External pressures
Expectations of all kinds, and even gender roles, can contribute to a person creating and feeling that their purpose is to be with their partner and to do whatever they can to keep them close. sides.
How to detect it? Traffic signs
These are several signs that help identify cases of emotional addiction.
1. Normalization of humiliations
People who are emotionally dependent on their partner can contact idealize them to the point of tolerating abusive situations, Humiliations or abuse of power on their part.
2. Problems of jealousy
too much the appearance of unjustified jealousy is frequent. However, these usually do not result in attempts to control the other person, but rather more discreet means of expressing discomfort: for example, a passive-aggressive attitude.
3. Weakening of other social ties
People who have developed an emotional addiction they stop spending time and effort cultivating friendships that are on the fringes of that relationshipSince they put the other person first and try to please him or her on commitments that have nothing to do with them.
4. Feeling of emptiness and helplessness
Emotional addiction this can be understood as a way of trying to fill a void with the presence of the other person; this points out to those who develop this psychological phenomenon that without this relationship their life would have no meaning, and that they are therefore very vulnerable because their capacity to be happy becomes fundamentally dependent on this individual.
5. Onset of anxiety and stress
The frequent feeling of running the risk of losing this relationship causes the appearance of anxiety problems, with various associated symptoms: irritability, sleep disturbances, concentration problems, etc.
Tips on how to handle it
The best and most recommended way to deal with emotional addiction is to consult a psychologist; there are many helpful psychotherapy resources to help you better manage your emotions and personal relationships. However, apart from that, there are also some simple tips that can help you with this problem. They are as follows.
1. make sure you are not going through an abusive situation
First of all, make sure that what is happening to you does not constitute abuse. If attacks of a physical or psychological nature occur repeatedly, it is important break this relationship as soon as possible and not try to fix it: In such cases, your safety and well-being come first.
2. Detect recurring situations where you give in too much
Over the course of a week, write in a small notebook all the times you feel like in the previous hours you gave in too much for fear of losing that person. When you get to the seventh day, look at what you’ve written.
3. Make sure you maintain an active and varied social life
If you become more and more isolated due to emotional dependence, you will become more and more dependent on that person; it’s a vicious cycle that you don’t care to feed. To avoid this, set a minimum of monthly or weekly hours to use while interacting face-to-face with friends and other people who are important to you.
4. Start personal projects
Devote part of your time to something that is only relevant to you and that it brings you satisfaction through short and long term goals is a good way to take your own perspective on life, not just related to what the other is doing or thinking.
5. Practice assertiveness
Get used to defending your interests and point of view in relationships with that person, it will help you stop assuming that you will continue to play a leadership role in all interactions with you, and it will also show you that nothing bad is happening to disagree with certain things.
6. Go to psychotherapy
If a few weeks go by and you notice that nothing changes, or if you feel very bad and need help as soon as possible, contact psychotherapy professionals. Emotional addiction can be treated with the help of psychological therapy. In this process, the professional detects the personal and contextual causes of the addiction and creates an emotional and behavioral “training” plan to gain autonomy and strengthen self-esteem.
Fr wake psychologists We offer individualized psychotherapy and couples therapy or family therapy services both online by video call and in person at our centers in Madrid, Getafe, Leganés and Móstoles. We welcome people of all ages. Contact us to find out how to better manage your emotions and adopt psychologically healthy habits.
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- 1 Can my 3 month old be cutting teeth?
- 2 Can a 2 month old be teething?
- 3 How do you know when a baby is teething?
- 4 How soon can a baby start cutting teeth?
- 5 Can my 3 month old watch TV?
- 6 Can a 4 month old teeth?
- 7 Why is my 2 month old chewing his hands?
- 8 Can a 2 month old drink water?
- 9 Why is my 2 month old drooling so much?
- 10 What Colour is teething poo?
- 11 How long does it take for tooth to break through gums?
- 12 What helps a teething baby sleep?
- 13 Can a 1 month old cut teeth?
- 14 Is late teething a sign of intelligence?
- 15 How do you survive a teething baby?
Can my 3 month old be cutting teeth?
Can your baby be teething at 3 months old? While most infants get their first teeth between 4 and 6 months old, it’s still perfectly normal for teeth to erupt sooner. In fact, although rare, babies can actually be born with teeth! It’s not unusual for teething symptoms to begin at 3 months old.
Can a 2 month old be teething?
Teething refers to the process of new teeth rising or erupting through the gums. Teething can begin in infants as young as 2 months of age, even though the first tooth usually does not appear until about 6 months of age. Some dentists have noted a family pattern of “early,” “average,” or “late” teethers.
How do you know when a baby is teething?
During the teething period there are symptoms that include irritability, disrupted sleep, swelling or inflammation of the gums, drooling, loss of appetite, rash around the mouth, mild temperature, diarrhea, increased biting and gum-rubbing and even ear-rubbing.
How soon can a baby start cutting teeth?
Around 3 months of age, babies will begin exploring the world with their mouth and have increased saliva and start to put their hands in their mouth. Many parents question whether or not this means that their baby is teething, but a first tooth usually appears around 6 months old.
Can my 3 month old watch TV?
A: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under the age of two should not watch any television. While many parents have some idea that television viewing is not good, most parents are not aware of the negative effects television can have on young children, especially when heard as background noise.
Can a 4 month old teeth?
Though it’s likely that teething may begin between 6 and 12 months, the first tooth may appear as early as 3 or 4 months or as late as 14 months. Some babies might even be slightly outside of this range on either side. Genetics may play a role in the timing.
Why is my 2 month old chewing his hands?
In the newborn months, a baby who sucks their hand may be trying to tell you they’re hungry. Think about it: Every time they suck on a bottle or nipple, they get food! It’s a natural sucking instinct, similar to rooting, meant to clue you in that it’s time for another feeding.
Can a 2 month old drink water?
It’s best not to give your baby water before 6 months. At this newborn stage, breast milk or formula meets every nutritional need for health and development. Plus, you don’t want to fill up your baby on water, since she might not be hungry for feedings.
Why is my 2 month old drooling so much?
While it’s true that drooling is very common for children around 2-3 months old, and typically lasts until a child reaches 12-15 months-s (roughly the same age that teething begins) drooling merely means your baby’s salivary glands are starting to fire up after not being needed as much when eating easy-to-digest milk.
What Colour is teething poo?
The smell isn’t unpleasant. Think of yogurt. Formula fed babies have poop that is a camel to brown color, thicker in consistency, and not particularly aromatic.
How long does it take for tooth to break through gums?
Teething takes about eight days, which includes four days before and three days after the tooth comes through the gum. (You may see a blue-grey bubble on the gum where the tooth is about to appear. This is called an eruption cyst and will usually go away without treatment.)
What helps a teething baby sleep?
9 Ways to Help a Teething Baby Sleep
- When teething starts.
- How to tell if it’s teething pain causing nighttime trouble.
- Give a gum massage.
- Offer a cooling treat.
- Become your baby’s chew toy.
- Apply some pressure.
- Wipe and repeat.
- Try a little white noise.
Can a 1 month old cut teeth?
Some babies aren’t born with teeth, but get them shortly after birth. Generally seen within the first month of life, teeth that emerge soon after birth are called neonatal teeth.
Is late teething a sign of intelligence?
A lot of people consider late teething a sign of intelligence, but this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. Sometimes, children with a high IQ are early bloomers, while at other times, they’re late bloomers. Your baby’s teeth coming in late can cause you to worry.
How do you survive a teething baby?
What You Can Do to Ease The Pain (5 Steps)
- Gum Massage. The teeth don’t simply erupt; they twist and shift their way into the gums, sounds pretty uncomfortable!
- Ice, Ice, Baby. Look for teething rings that you can chill or freeze.
- Catching ZZZ’s Regularly.
- Skin Protection.
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Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Ovalentaria/misc
(Various families in series Ovalentaria) > Pomacentridae
(Damselfishes) > Pomacentrinae
Etymology: Chrysiptera: Greek, chrysos = golden + Greek, pteron = fin, wing (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bleeker.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Marine; brackish; reef-associated; non-migratory; depth range 1 - 16 m (Ref. 7247). Tropical; 19°N - 12°S
Western Central Pacific: Borneo, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, and Palau.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9710)
Adults are found among live corals of sheltered lagoon and inshore reefs (Ref. 1602). Feed on zooplankton (Ref. 1602). They occur solitary or in pairs (Ref. 48636). Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205). Eggs are demersal and adhere to the substrate (Ref. 205). Males guard and aerate the eggs (Ref. 205). Diurnal species (Ref. 113699).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205). Eggs are demersal and adhere to the substrate (Ref. 205). Males guard and aerate the eggs (Ref. 205).
Allen, G.R., 1991. Damselfishes of the world. Mergus Publishers, Melle, Germany. 271 p. (Ref. 7247)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 125652)
Threat to humans
ReferencesAquacultureAquaculture profileStrainsGeneticsAllele frequenciesHeritabilityDiseasesProcessingNutrientsMass conversion
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969
): 28.4 - 29.4, mean 28.9 °C (based on 918 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805
= 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02089 (0.00997 - 0.04380), b=3.00 (2.83 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Subfamily-BS (Ref. 93245
Trophic level (Ref. 69278
): 2.7 ±0.31 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179
): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153
): Low vulnerability (10 of 100) .
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649
): (0 of 100) .
Nutrients (Ref. 124155
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Download the wrong bird
According to the Trademark Office in Singapore, the trademarks are similar in that they both depict “a small flying bird with detailed features”. The fact that both brands are used for an app increases the chance of confusion, says the Trademark Office. Before you know it, you might download the wrong bird.
Nieuwe variation for Twitter
According to the Trademark Office it is noteworthy that the widespread recognition of the Twitter logo actually reduces the risk of confusion. However, the Office continues to argue that as Twitter has used variations of the bird in the past, the public might think this is a new version of Twitter.
Sparrow attacks hummingbird
I find it a bit too far fetched to say that the public will confuse these birds. True, they are both small birds, but it’s like a sparrow attacking a hummingbird. Added to that, the hummingbird flies in the other direction.
I have to make a side note here, though, because in this case, Twitter did not base its argument on trademark registration in colour (blue) but a black and white registration of the Twitter bird, without a colour claim. So the birds may show more likeness. But even then, I still think it’s a sparrow versus a hummingbird! | <urn:uuid:2136d247-e52f-46e0-a0b4-2f8ed7bab882> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chiever.nl/en/blog-en/twitter-doesnt-tolerate-birds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.943562 | 276 | 1.796875 | 2 |
As is the case with movie actresses, opportunities decrease when female opera singers reach a certain age. There are only so many chances to be the Countess in Tchaikovsky’s "Queen of Spades," for example. So when the much-beloved mezzo Frederica von Stade retired from the opera stage in February 2011 at age 65, with a final outing as Mrs. De Rocher, the show-stealing featured part that Jake Heggie wrote for her in "Dead Man Walking" (2000), her many fans assumed that was the end. It wasn’t. Ms. von Stade is back, this time at center stage in "A Coffin in Egypt," a one-act chamber opera written for her by Ricky Ian Gordon. The work had its premiere at the Houston Grand Opera in March, went on to Beverly Hills and is now at Opera Philadelphia.
Working with librettist Leonard Foglia, Mr. Gordon based the opera on Horton Foote’s play of the same name. It’s a ferocious character study. Myrtle Bledsoe, age 90, living in the tiny backwater town of Egypt, Texas, looks back on her life, and for the most part, it isn’t pretty. In 1900, at 19, a beautiful, much-pursued city girl, she married a rich farmer, but the promise of that beginning was never fulfilled. Her husband, Hunter, cheated on her openly, first with a black prostitute, and later with a 17-year-old high-school girl whose father he shot and killed. His crime went unpunished, and Hunter and Myrtle’s nephew, assuming he would be similarly immune, murdered his own father. Even Myrtle’s daughters were no comfort to her; they blamed her for Hunter’s tomcatting ways.
It’s an 80-minute solo showpiece, spoken and sung, for Ms. von Stade. Four actors play small walk-on roles in Myrtle’s memories and a quartet of black gospel singers punctuate her reminiscences, but the mezzo carries the show. On the surface her Myrtle is an elegant, white-haired lady in a red silk caftan, but underneath she seethes with resentment and bitterness. Time veers forward and backward; she tells stories, and then tells them again, with more detail. We hear about Myrtle’s attempts at escape—her travels to Paris, where she learned to paint; to Algiers, where a sheik fell in love with her; to New York, where a producer wanted to put her on the stage—but we always come back to Texas and the ugly prison of her real life.
Mr. Gordon’s accessible, well-made score is carefully constructed for his leading lady’s vocal and dramatic strengths, taking advantage of her expressive low and middle ranges and giving her the opportunity to show different sides of Myrtle. The strongest sections are extended lyrical arias exploring Myrtle’s happy memories—an elegiac paean to the fields of Texas wildflowers that she first saw in the brief halcyon days early in her marriage; a wistful, Sondheim-esque song of lost opportunity, "There was a moment when I could have. . . ." Her rage is more told than shown, however; the vocal writing isn’t edgy enough to make the outbursts of anger a truly dramatic contrast with the happier reminiscences.
The use of the gospel quartet is an intriguing dramatic device: The black singers, certainly as trapped in their own historical situation as Myrtle is in hers, take refuge in religion. However, Mr. Gordon’s music for them lacks the ecstatic fervor of real gospel, though Veronica Chapman-Smith, Julie-Ann Green, Taiwan Norris and Frank Mitchell sang it with feeling. The orchestrations for the small, nine-member instrumental ensemble, ably led by Timothy Myers, are skillfully and colorfully calibrated to support and echo the singers rather than compete with them.
Mr. Foglia also directed the show, using the actors David Matranga, Carolyn Johnson, Kate Bianco and Ben Sheaffer as foils for his leading lady without taking the focus off her. Riccardo Hernández designed the attractive set, with its undulating back wall showing a cotton field, and costumes (very everyday, except for Ms. von Stade’s luxurious red caftan); Brian Nason designed the autumnal lighting. But it was Ms. von Stade’s evening, and she held the stage with complete authority. Although her Southern accent came and went, you felt Myrtle’s age in the hesitation of her walk, her aloofness in the carriage of her head and shoulders, and her awakening to the possibilities of life in her first genuine smile ("I learned I was fun"). Even the saccharine ending—in which Myrtle wonders if she’s lived so long, and outlived everyone else, so that she could finally forgive herself—was believable. Some performers don’t need to retire. | <urn:uuid:869b216c-7c67-432f-81d6-bf43d2adb307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rickyiangordon.com/press/works-reviews/a-coffin-in-egypt-wall-street-journal-9-june-2014/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.9595 | 1,078 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Egad! The wicked dragon has yet again laid siege to the Kingdom of Lingua yet again. And once more the dragon has stolen the king’s treasure and made off with it to a tower. It’s time that you, intrepid hero, put a stop to their thievery once and for all. Enter the Dragon’s Tower and use your combined skills as master of the parts of speech. Defeat the dragon and this retro-styled RPG kingdom will be forever grateful of your services.
Enter the dragon’s tower and pick up coins that litter its floor.
Face the perils of the tower using your knowledge.
Confront and fefeat the dragon.
Play Parts of Speech Quest Final Review Game Online
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Parts of Speech Quest Final Review Game for Kids Game Play Instructions
How to Play
Explore the tower and face the challenges within. Use your combined skills in the parts of speech to vanquish the evil dragon once and for all.
Starting the Game
Select the green and white play button to load the welcome screen.
On the welcome screen, choose from 2 game modes to begin:
New Game: This starts you at the very beginning. Choose this if you are a first-time player or want to start over for any reason.
Continue: This option lets you pick up where you last left off.
Whenever you start a new game, you must pick a character from the selection screen.
Every game begins with a cutscene slideshow on the game’s lore. Select the Next button on the lower right corner to skip each slide.
Your web browser automatically saves your game progress.
There are 2 ways to move around:
Press the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Left click on where you want to go with your mouse.
Using your mouse, left click to select the answers of your choice.
Tap the screen with your fingers and use them as a mouse.
The character selection screen opens up whenever you start a new game.
Choose from among 9 different characters to play as.
Fay the Fairy’s help text appears as pop-ups on the screen. They play each time you begin a new game.
You can access these controls on the menu at the center right of the screen.
Fay button: Select this to open up Fay’s help texts again.
Sound button: Use this to turn the game’s audio on and off.
Coin counter: Keep track of the coins you pick up. There are 40 coins throughout this game.
Explore the dragon’s tower and confront its challenges.
Collect all the coins.
The evil dragon awaits in his lair. Defeat him and banish him forever.
Enter the dragon’s lair (nouns and verbs)
Answer the dragon’s minion to enter the tower.
Determine whether his words are nouns or verbs.
You must make 5 correct answers in a row to enter.
Hint: Nouns refer to objects or ideas. Verbs refer to actions.
Switches (adjectives and adverbs)
Flip the switches in the correct order. Identify whether the words on the switches are adjectives or adverbs.
Adjectives flip switches up whereas adverbs flip them down.
If you don’t flip them all correctly, you must start over from the beginning.
Hint: Not every word that ends with a -ly is an adverb.
Create a path (conjunctions and interjections)
To cross the chasm, identify whether each word show is a conjunction or interjection.
A correct answer extends your path while wrong answer leaves you where you are.
Keep answering until you reach the other side.
Hint: Interjections represent emotions and tend to resemble written-out sound effects.
Stepping stones (various word types)
Answer each question by stepping on the stone with the correct answer. Choose from 3 stones.
The questions will ask which words are a specific part of speech.
Every correct answer you make moves you forward.
Make one wrong answer, and you fall down. From there, you must start the challenge all over again.
Face the dragon
Intimidate the evil dragon by identifying all the parts of speech in a sentence.
Select a label for the parts of speech from the bottom center of the screen and put them below each word.
Articles (a, the) do not need to be labeled.
You can only move to the next question when you’ve labeled all the words correctly.
Answer all 5 to vanquish the dragon.
Explore each section thoroughly before entering any major area to collect all the coins. You cannot backtrack in this game.
Students learning about word classifications should like this game.
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Welcome to #NotAnAd, where we post enthusiastically and without reservation about things we’re obsessed with from the world of food.
I’m a firm believer that sweets, especially pastries, are straight trash and a waste of everyone’s time.
There is, however, one exception, and that’s Runeberg’s torte, invented in my hometown of Porvoo, Finland. It’s not much to look at: It’s basically a cylindrical-shaped pastry, a noble cousin of muffins if you will, with a dot of raspberry jam and some icing on top. The real secret, however, is what lies within. Chopped almonds provide texture and deep nutty flavors. A dash of rum or arrack gives a delightfully boozy element and contributes to the heavenly mouthfeel of the pastry—if it’s done correctly. Too moist and you might as well drink the entire bottle while you’re at it. Too dry, it feels like someone is force-feeding you cat litter.
But when the balance of ingredients is just right, the slightly spongy interior manages to be dense but delicate, while the crust is crumbly yet remarkably firm. The raspberry jam on top might seem like a distraction at first, but it provides a lovely touch of brightness to the overall experience.
The torte is named after Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland’s national poet (related: Finland has a national poet—in addition to writing the words for the Finnish national anthem, he’s best known for a poem called “The Moose Hunters”), who lived in Porvoo in the 1800s. The story has it that Mr. Runeberg, like a fucking legend, enjoyed this very pastry with a glass of punsch every morning. Nothing like meeting the day with a double dose of liqueur, amirite?
Runeberg’s wife, Fredrika, is often credited as the creator of the torte, because a recipe for it can be found in one of her book from the 1850s. However, another prevailing theory is that a local baker named Lars Henrik Astenius invented it—and that the name comes from the the poet’s renowned gusto for the dessert. Which, what a legacy.
These days, Runeberg’s torte is prepared all around Finland but only for a limited time. They start popping up in January and reach sugar-rushed climax today, February 5, Runeberg Day.
Some torte lovers like to save themselves in the ramp-up to have their first Runeberg’s torte of the year on the actual Runeberg Day. I don’t get that. It’s a pastry, not tantric sex. Some fundamentalists also think that it’s not a proper Runeberg’s torte unless it’s made in Porvoo. I don’t believe that shit, either. It is, however, definitely Porvoo’s gift to the rest of Finland, and Finland's gift to the rest of the world. It should be treated as the national treasure it truly is—but only if it’s made right, otherwise don’t bother. | <urn:uuid:24a7782e-88d1-4b3f-8bde-c9bc679c0cfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xn8ja/this-cylindrical-pastry-is-finlands-national-treasure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.925043 | 688 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Solidarity Outlasts 'Right to Work' in Indiana Shipyard
Plenty of union officers are justifiably worried about how many members will quit their unions if Congress or the Supreme Court imposes “right to work” conditions on the whole country.
But when right to work hit Indiana in 2012, it didn’t have much impact at the Jeffboat shipyard in Jeffersonville. “I believe we only have one person that’s dropped out,” said Teamsters Local 89 Business Agent Jeff Cooper. That’s one out of 700.
The Jeffboat story might reassure you—because their secrets to maintaining membership aren’t expensive or complicated. The union has a deep bench of stewards who seek out and address workplace problems. Because members strike when necessary, they’ve won good wages and health insurance that make the value of the union contract self-evident. And they’re systematic about asking new hires to join.
The shipyard stretches a mile and a half along a riverfront. It’s a tough place to work—hot in the summer, cold in the winter, wet when it rains. Much of the work is done in confined spaces.
And it’s dangerous. Chief Steward Ronnie Waiz, nearing retirement after 48 years on the job, can rattle off the exact date and time of each workplace fatality. Two men fell to their deaths in 2010; one was crushed in 2011.
“They’re very painful even to talk about,” he said. “I feel responsible for every employee in this yard.”
Especially since those tragedies, safety is a main union focus. Local 89’s 33 stewards join area safety meetings and walk around to “talk it up,” Waiz says: “They ask people if they have problems, and try to solve their problems. If they can’t get them fixed with their supervisor, it moves to the next level. If they can’t work it out, it goes to me.”
SIGN THEM UP
Local 89 has negotiated the right to spend 30-45 minutes orienting all new hires—with the boss out of the room. It’s usually Waiz who makes the presentation.
“Ninety percent of them are first-time union people,” he says. So he starts from square one, explaining how the contract works, how much dues are, who will be your steward, and what you get out of union membership. He asks each one to sign a card and authorize dues checkoff.
“If you don’t join the union, I still have to represent you,” he tells new hires, “but it would be to your benefit to join, because [otherwise] you don’t get to vote on contracts, you don’t get to enter the union hall. I think it’s the best thing for you and your family.”
During strikes, Jeffboat’s attorneys have encouraged a handful of members to drop out and cross the picket lines. But Waiz, who never gives up on his co-workers, has won them back afterwards.
One who crossed in 2010 did it because his wife was pregnant and needed the insurance. “I said, ‘You should have come to me. I could have helped you get insurance,’” Waiz said. “He said, ‘I didn’t think of that.’ But he has since come in, and he is a strong union member.”
YOU’VE GOT TO FIGHT
Several strikes, including a wildcat, have forced Jeffboat to respect workers’ power. In 2006 the company tried to decertify the union.
But after that failed, Jeffboat “decided they wanted to get along,” Cooper said. The parties negotiated a contract in 2007 with a big pay increase. On day-to-day matters, management got easier to deal with.
Still, workers went on strike again in 2010. Jeffboat wanted to raise their share of health care costs from 10 percent to 20. After a five-week strike, “they ended up coming to us and saying, ‘Okay, fine, you’re right. We’ll give it to you,’” Waiz said.
Members still pay 10 percent. “We’ve got the best insurance in southern Indiana for a company our size,” Waiz said. “At Ford Motor and GE, they wish they had ours.
“Sometimes you’ve got to stand up and fight for what you think’s best.” That’s what makes workers loyal to their union.
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The Section of Human Expert services is partnering with partnering with northeastern Pennsylvania county officials to advertise that can enable people facing eviction or reduction of utilities.
On Thursday, DHS Secretary Teresa Miller was joined by a panel representing companies and govt workplaces across Lackawanna, Pike, Luzerne, Wyoming and Susquehanna counties to go over the Unexpected emergency Rental Support Application, which launched in March with a mission to fight intense fiscal setbacks and housing crises thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Miller mentioned that whilst the pandemic has adversely affected just about absolutely everyone, those that fall at or around the poverty line in Pennsylvania have been adversely impacted. Of individual curiosity are communities of coloration, which have witnessed higher rates of an infection, severe disease, loss of life, and economic impacts that incorporate problem having to pay rent and trying to keep up to date on utilities.
According to the secretary, about 3 quarters of the Black and Latinx persons who responded to a survey for a Pennsylvania Utility Regulation Venture and Community Authorized Expert services report stated that they experienced fallen driving on rent or home finance loan payments considering the fact that March, and a 3rd of Black respondents stated that they have been formally or informally evicted considering the fact that the pandemic started, even with point out and federal eviction moratoriums.
More research from The Housing Initiative at Penn found that in Philadelphia, the pandemic has produced smaller sized landlords who take care of much less houses significantly more susceptible to economical complications as well.
Miller observed that though the details targeted on Philadelphia, the summary could be applied to smaller landlords throughout the commonwealth – if individuals persons could not carry on to function their rental qualities, it in the long run hurts the renters as very well.
“According to the Penn report, scaled-down house owners are usually prepared to make more concessions all over evictions, forgive a part of back hire, enter reimbursement agreements, and engage in rent aid courses than owners of much more models,” Miller claimed. “Without smaller landlords running in the market place, tenants have fewer and likely considerably less accommodating alternatives.”
The Crisis Rental Aid Plan
In February, the DHS was designated as the agency with the accountability to oversee the administration of the $569 million allotted to the Unexpected emergency Rental Guidance Software. In addition, $287 million went straight to some of the state’s greatest counties, together with some in the northeast. All explained to, the commonwealth acquired about $847 million to aid each renters and landlords make it by the dire situation brought on by the pandemic.
“If ever there was a time for a robust safety internet, this is it. Which is wherever the Emergency Rental Support Plan comes in. ERAP is a new security net application accessible to people at chance of eviction or decline of utility assistance in each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties,” Miller reported. “It’s developed to straight profit tenants, and indirectly, advantage landlords. Allow me be really clear: this plan is a massive deal. It has the possible to stabilize the life of hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians in vulnerable housing circumstances, and present a substantially-needed infusion of income to the household rental sector.”
Miller famous that those people searching to use for assistance by way of ERAP should fit three standards: 1 or a lot more folks within just the household must have competent for unemployment added benefits, experienced a decrease in earnings, had amplified house expenditures, or encounter other fiscal hardship linked to the pandemic 1 or additional of the domestic residents need to display a threat of experiencing homelessness or housing instability and lastly, the residence has an income at or down below 80% of spot median earnings, which differs by county.
Pennsylvania citizens can pay a visit to the COMPASS web page, the place they can either apply immediately for ERAP, or be directed to one more web-site if the county they reside in has proven its individual software approach.
“The northeast area of Pennsylvania is a microcosm of the rest of the point out in that there are some counties employing COMPASS for purposes, and some counties that created their individual software procedure,” Miller mentioned. “Counties in the northeast location that are working with the COMPASS application include Bradford, Monroe, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming. In the northeast area, counties using their own approach consist of Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne and Pike counties.”
Inhabitants will need not fear about acquiring authorization or consent from their landlords in purchase to utilize for the software, and Miller famous that apart from in incredibly restricted scenarios, they do not even involve their cooperation. On the other hand, landlords can be involved in the process and use on behalf of their tenants.
“Regardless of who applies, if the tenant is qualified, the two the tenant and the landlord benefit,” Miller explained.
Homes could be qualified for up to 12 or additional months of help covering past-due or even future payments, and the amount of money of the expenses does not preclude eligibility.
In some situations, applicants can even acquire foreseeable future support as very long as they can self-attest that without having the system, the would close up in a dire housing condition. Utility costs normally demand a past-owing equilibrium, but can be applied for again a few months following the original application. In some scenarios – together with predictable expenditures like quarterly water, sewer or trash support payments – may possibly be capable to be included likely ahead.
How ERAP is assisting NEPA
Just a tiny in excess of a month due to the fact the start of ERAP, quite a few northeast counties are have by now produced main strides in the mission to assist northeastern Pennsylvania residents temperature the economical storm brought about by COVID-19.
Lackawanna County began accepting plan applications on March 4, and has doled out about $600,000 in rental help thus significantly, Housing Means Coordinator Eileen Wilson claimed. The county’s web page, www.lackawannacounty.org, will “walk applicants through the original inquiries to establish irrespective of whether or not they are qualified for the application, and then wander them as a result of the application method.”
The county has also partnered with United Neighborhood Centers of Northeast PA, Catholic Social Services of the Dioceses of Scranton and the Scranton/Lackawanna Human Growth Authority to supply assistance for men and women who are unable to implement online. At the exact time, these applying for rental or utility support can be assessed for added expert services as properly.
County officers have partnered with 211 for individuals who have thoughts about their programs, like adhere to ups just after applying.
“We’ve been given roughly 300 purposes thus considerably, but we know that there are additional renters in the county who want support, so we are hoping that everyone who potentially would be suitable does apply,” Wilson claimed.
Robert Ruiz, Govt Director of Human Solutions in Pike County, claimed that the rental and utility support applications are “a actually essential project” for people and landlords alike. Their procedure went live on March 8, and can be accessed by using pikerenthelp.com, or pikeforward.com/rentalassistance.
“It is a cellular-pleasant internet site as nicely for the programs, so members can in fact utilize on line with their cell cell phone or tablet, add their lease and all their information that is demanded of them via their digicam process, and just do a fast snapshot and we can get that in serious time,” Ruiz mentioned.
So considerably, Pike has taken in about 80 programs and disbursed around $240,000. Ruiz observed that they are also doing the job to help with utility payments, “which have been a fantastic component of this system as perfectly.”
Pike has also partnered with Blue Ridge Cable, and is supplying to fork out customers’ online service fees as properly, though other offer company – cellphone and cable – will not be provided in the program.
Jennifer Warabak, Director of Preparing for the Fee on Financial Chance, which is administering ERAP for Luzerne and Wyoming, claimed that the method released in people counties on March 8.
In Luzerne County, people can stop by www.ceopeoplehelpingpeople.org to apply, and in Wyoming, they can implement by way of the COMPASS web site.
As of Thursday, Luzerne and Wyoming counties have acquired 742 and 24 purposes respectively, with about $1.3 million and $24,000 in rental and utility payments disbursed so significantly.
“We are just genuinely encouraging people today in both of those counties to make contact with us to start off this software procedure. The funds is obtainable, and we know there are hundreds of people of both equally of these counties that are in have to have, and we have built the method as easy and as versatile as feasible. So ideally, our numbers go on and we continue to the income out to the neighborhood, in the two communities, to aid with economic recovery.”
Edlyn Flannery, assistant to the government director of Trehab – which has partnered with the Susquehanna Housing Authority on ERAP administration for Susquehanna County – pointed out that acquiring new work or even sustaining the very same fork out rate and hours from just before the pandemic is specifically hard for quite a few residents.
“So this plan is best for our county and the state of Pennsylvania’s counties. The ERAP application will help county inhabitants conquer the extended-time period results of the pandemic by furnishing the chance for renters to turn out to be recent with their hire and utilities,” Flannery explained.
Flannery inspired landlords to reach out to their tenants and direct them to Trehab and the Housing Authority if they are having difficulties with their rent or utility payments. As for every the Susquehanna County Commissioners, Trehab will service the area to the west of Interstate 81, even though the Susquehanna County Housing Authority will help with people who live east of the interstate.
Individuals who have access to a computer system can utilize on the COMPASS web-site or by traveling to www.treehab.org and www.susqcohra.com, Flannery claimed, and other people can phone Trehab at 1-800-982-4045, and the Susquehanna County Housing Authority is 570-278-5401, for even further assistance.
Miller emphasized that all those who demand assistance to stay clear of eviction or utility shutoffs really should implement as quickly as achievable, because though $847 million can go a lengthy way, the method is functioning on a first-appear, to start with-served basis, and the DHS and their partners “don’t’ want to go away money unspent when we know there is most likely an incredible need to have throughout Pennsylvania.”
“The individuals who have borne the brunt of this pandemic deserve to see a light-weight at the conclude of this tunnel,” Miller claimed.
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Essential Medical Health Insurance Ways To Help You Save Time And Money
Lots of people agree it is sometimes complicated to not carry medical health insurance. It might be daunting to pick an insurance policy which covers everything that you need however remains affordable. The advice in this article will assist you to find insurance that fits your needs.
When thinking about health care insurance via your employer, examine your loved ones’ health and your own health. You may be attracted to buy insurance having a lower premium if none people have health concerns. This could be enticing, however, if health concerns arise you might be set for some trouble.
Ask your employer about any existing employee wellness program. Increasingly more companies are starting to supply incentives to employees who agree to get a health and lifestyle assessment. Registering for exercise and fitness programs will save you cash on your insurance fees and in many cases lessen your company’s payments for insurance.
When time for open enrollment occurs, you need to reevaluate your health insurance coverage. Because something worked for yourself previously, it could not work now, particularly if you have different healthcare needs. Open enrollment can even be the perfect time to alter vision and dental coverage if this is provided.
Re-assess your prescription coverage annually. Some insurance companies will change the kind of medication they cover or perhaps the pharmacies where you may get your prescriptions at. It is very important be familiar with these sorts of changes when you are considering re-enrollment. When your daily meds are dropped by the health insurer, then start the seek out a whole new plan immediately.
You may get catastrophic insurance as opposed to comprehensive to spend less suboxone detox Catastrophic coverage is made for emergency visits and hospitalization, while comprehensive coverage help pay the price of doctors visits, prescriptions and mental medical.
Generic drugs will always help you save money whatever the sort of medical health insurance coverage you possess. Studies confirm that no real drop-off in quality occurs when you visit a generic brand. Only in the few cases where there is absolutely no generic in case you choose the name brand.
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Catastrophic insurance is ideal for those who cannot get regular insurance, but need coverage for sudden injuries, illnesses or accidents. These kinds of coverage is also good to enhance a comprehensive medical plan as extra coverage when there are actually extreme circumstances.
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Believers Must Respond With Prayer And Action To Help Heal A Wounded Nation | Opinion
The anarchy that erupted in the streets of Washington DC and in particular on the United States Capitol yesterday January 6 is a dark stain in our nation’s history.
When people defend their leaders or their political goals, there is never a justification for committing acts of violence. The deep divisions in our nation right now are traumatizing tens of millions of people. As people of faith, we must provide the necessary response through prayer and action, necessary to heal a wounded nation. The events at the United States Capitol have claimed lives. Is there no balm in Gilead?
In his “Letter from Birmingham Prison, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. wrote:
“In a real sense, all life is interdependent. All men (women) are caught in an inevitable web of reciprocity, bound in one garment of fate.
Our destiny as Americans is not separate from the rest of the world; in fact, we are simply a part of the human tapestry of God in which the lives and experiences of all are sacred. Dr. King also stated in this seminal letter, written to the clergy of Alabama, “whatever directly affects one, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I should be until you are what you should be, and you can never be what you should be until I am what I should be.
As a nation we can never be all that we are called to be unless we are willing to live the credo that all men and women are created equal and that we are “endowed with certain rights.” inalienable, foremost among which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “
Our call forces us to speak the truth to power, galvanize a movement for justice, and challenge our nation and its leaders to pursue the nature of our best angels.
January 6 was not our best day as a nation, but my prayer is that today and the next day we all rise to the challenge of creating a beloved community.
On behalf of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and its member churches, I side with justice and peace. Violence is never an answer in resolving our disputes. Aristotle was right to say that we are social beings. In our associations, however, we must learn the importance of mutual respect and the affirmation of the dignity of all people.
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CHAIRPERSON: Heather Kent
ENTRY DEADLINE: Teams MUST pre-register with Chairperson by October 1st
CHALLENGE DESIGN AND BUILD TIME: Saturday, November 11, 2017 10:00AM – 11:30AM
DEMONSTRATION AND JUDGING: 11:30AM – 12:30PM
AWARDS PROGRAM: Saturday, November 11, 2017 2:00PM – 3:30PM
2017 THEME: Civil Engineering (Bridge Building)
RULES & REGULATIONS
1. Contest open to 4-H members only.
2. Three teams may enter per county as selected by that county’s Extension representative.
3. Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Divisions will be judged separately.
4. Teams are limited to four (4) participants, but must have a minimum of three (3) participants.
5. Team check in will start at 9:30AM on Saturday, November 11th at the back of Bldg. #3.
6. Theme: Civil Engineering (Bridge Building)
7. Each age division will be given a challenge and a supply kit to engineer a bridge out of everyday objects. Challenges will not be released until 10:00AM.
8. In order to prepare for this contest, coaches should use the study guide to prepare teams. Teams should be familiar with the following three things: the history of bridges, three main bridge types (beam, arch and suspension) and the natural forces of tension and compression which are common to all bridges and structures. The study guide contains background information, examples, and activities for coaches to use to prepare their teams.
9. Teams will be asked to demonstrate their bridge in front of the judges and audience, and then give reasons. Reasons should include the following information: Which base bridge design did you choose, and why did you feel it was best for the situation? Which modifications did you make and why? How did your team work together to design and build the bridge? What is your prediction for how well your bridge will perform and why?
10. Adults will not be able to assist members with the design or building of their bridge.
11. All tools and supplies will be provided.
12. What to bring:
a. A copy of your 4-H participation form for each youth and adult.
b. Your teamwork and engineering skills – this is your chance to showcase your creativity, innovation, and collaboration skills!
c. A great 4-H attitude- this is a fun contest to test your skills, learn what other 4-Hers are doing, and show off all of your hard work. Come ready to have fun and learn!
13. Scoring – each challenge will have its own scoring rubric and will be available when the challenges are released. Teams will be judged based on how well their bridge design meets the design criteria, as well as their creativity, innovation and teamwork. Trophies, rosettes and premiums will be awarded to the 1-3rd place teams in each age division.
DIVISION A – JUNIOR DIVISION Any 4-H’er who reaches his/her 8th birthday by September 1st of the current 4-H year and has not passed his/her 10th birthday by September 1st of the current 4-H year.
DIVISION B –INTERMEDIATE DIVISION Any 4-H’er who reaches his /her 11th birthday by September 1st of the current 4-H year and has not passed his/her 13th birthday by September 1st of the current 4-H year.
DIVISION C – SENIOR DIVISION Any 4-H’er who reaches his/her 13th birthday prior to September 1st of the current 4-H year and has not passed his/her 19th birthday or graduated from high school prior to September 1st of the current 4-H year.
CLASS 1 : 4-H STEM Challenge Engineering Team
1st Place Team – $40.00 & Trophy
2nd Place Team – $32.00 & Rosette
3rd Place Team – $24.00 & Rosette
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You can change your default Google account by signing out of all your Google accounts, and then signing back into the one you want as your default. The first Google account you sign back into will be set as your default until you log out of them all again.
How do I change the default Google account on my Android?
Open your phone’s Settings. Scroll down and tap on Google. Tap on the little right arrow beside your Google account, and select Manage accounts on this device option from the pop-up menu. It will show all the added accounts on your phone.
How do I change the default email account in Gmail?
In your Gmail inbox screen, select Settings (gear icon). Select See All Settings. Select Accounts and Import. In the Send mail as section, choose the email you want to use as your default address and select Make Default.
How do I change my default email?
Select File > Account Settings > Account Settings. From the list of accounts on the Email tab, select the account you want to use as the default account. Select Set as Default > Close.
Why can’t I change my Google account email?
Within Google, it’s not possible to change your email address ” therefore you need to create a new one. To create a new email address, you need to set up a new Gmail account: Step 1.
How do I change my primary email on Gmail app?
Step 1: Check if you can change it. On your Android phone or tablet, open your device’s Settings app Google. Manage your Google Account. At the top, tap Personal info. Step 2: Change it. Next to your email address, select Edit . Enter the new email address for your account.
What is a default account for email?
The default or catch-all address is the one to which all e-mails, addressed to a non-available or mistakenly entered email account at your domain name are routed to.
What does it mean to have a default account?
Defaulting on a loan means you’ve stopped making payments as agreed. How delinquent an account must become to be considered in default depends on the lender and the type of account.
How do I change my default email on my Android?
Go to Google settings from within your phone’s Settings or by opening the Google Settings app. Go to Accounts & privacy. Select Google Account > choose the email to replace your current primary account. The selected email becomes the primary email account on the selected Android device.
Can I change my Gmail address but keep the same account?
You can’t change your username or the actual email address. You can only change the name associated with the account. If people have you saved as something else in their contacts, that’s the name they’ll see. Your “new name” will only show up in emails you send to them.
Can I change my email address without creating a new account?
Most email services do not allow you to change your existing email address. In order to change your email address, you’ll need to create a new account. You can use the same email service you’ve been using, or you can take this opportunity to switch to a service that better meets your needs.
How do I change my default Google Account on my iPhone?
Open the Settings app. Select Mail. At the very bottom, select Default Account. Select the Gmail account you want to use from the drop-down menu. The first Gmail account that you added will be listed simply as Gmail.
What happens if we default?
It would greatly impact the economy and people in the U.S. A default would increase interest rates, which could then increase prices and contribute to inflation. The stock market would also suffer, as U.S. investments would not be seen as safe as they once were, especially if the U.S. credit rating was downgraded.
Can default be removed?
Once a default is recorded on your credit profile, you can’t have it removed before the six years are up (unless it’s an error). However, there are several things that can reduce its negative impact: Repayment. Try and pay off what you owe as soon as possible.
How do I change my default Gmail account in Chrome?
Make Gmail the default email program when you click email links in Chrome Browser. Settings. Go to the Privacy and security section. At the top, make sure Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols (recommended) is turned on.
What is the default email app on Android?
The Gmail app is Google’s new default email app that is pre-installed on many Android devices.
Can I merge two Gmail accounts?
It isn’t currently possible to merge separate Google Accounts. However, if you’d like to transfer your data from one account to another, this may be done on a per product basis. Or, to start using a new product, you don’t have to create another Google Account.
How do I get my emails from my old email address?
Log in to your old email address. Go to the POP/Forwarding area of your email. Log in to your new email address and go to the POP/Forwarding area (again, most likely found in the settings area). Find the receive mail option.
Why can’t I change my default Google account?
Can I change the default Google account without logging out of all accounts? Unfortunately, there is no way to change your default Google account or Gmail account without signing out of all profiles. The first profile you log into is the only way to select the default Gmail account.
Which country has the most debt?
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With Apple's new iPhone 8 and X Introducing Wireless Charging, more Apple patents have been fulfilled
Today the Korean News site Etnews reports on Apples Wireless charging today stating that markets such as parts and accessories that have to do with wireless charging will start to expand rapidly as Apple has decided to introduce wireless charging to its new iPhone. Although Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics introduced wireless charging to their smartphones prior to Apple, it did not become overly popular. However because Apple has many loyal Apple users and has huge influence on industries, it is expected that its decision to apply wireless charging will trigger expansion of technologies related to wireless charging. In addition, it is likely that the outlook of wireless charging technologies that have been competing to become the standard in related markets will now start to change. Market research company IHS estimates that wireless charging markets will start to surge this year and that shipment of transmitting modules will be 325 million this year due to Apple's decision to implement this technology.
By Apple finally introducing Wireless Charging last week for iPhones, a host of Apple patents were fulfilled. Apple currently has 23 wireless charging patents on file. Which exact patents were used in phase one is unknown but it's another win for Apple's IP. Below is one patent published in 2015 for an inductive charging pad and an interesting one that is an overview of where Apple could be taking wireless charging.
In another wireless charging patent we see that Apple may bring it to MacBooks in the future so that users could recharge their Apple Watch or iPhone.
Apple has also shown that they're working on a wireless charging iPhone case for the future.
Now that the iPhone 8 and X are wirelessly charged, Apple has also patented a special new Apple Store display table supporting these phones. When such a table will make it's debut is still unknown.
In the end, the South Korean news site got it right. Apple will make the wireless supply chain happy because of the volumes that Apple will bring to the table and unlike Samsung, Apple will extend their wireless technology in custom ways. Instead of just being applied to a a mere charging pad, Apple is working to integrate it in the iMac, the MacBook, a charging case, an in-store display table and more. Apple adds value to products and Apple fans will see more innovation from Apple on the wireless charging front in the future. For instance, the charging iPhone case will use millimeter wave technology that Apple has already sought a license for using this technology. Apple also filed a patent in Europe for millimeter wave Yagi antennas for future use in iDevices and beyond.
Last week a major segment of Apple's intellectual property came to light and fulfilled many patents.
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Benefits of Siwak ( miswak )
Modern medicine emphasized the usefulness of Siwak ( miswak ), indicating its great benefits for oral health to the extent that led some to extract its components and use it as a toothpaste. Siwak ( miswak ) is usually uprooted from widely spread desert trees in so many regions, but the best of all is the tree existing in the Arabian peninsula known as the Arak tree (Salvadora persica arak, Galenia asiatica, meswak, peelu, pīlu, Salvadora indica, or toothbrush tree, mustard tree, mustard bush).
It is a spread long life green tree, with tender and intertwined branches that reach up to ten meters in height or more. Its roots are long, extending under the ground. They are usually extracted and cut to into small rods for use as tooth-sticks (Siwak / Miswak ). Siwak ( Miswak ) is very practical and can be used any time due to the fact that it does not require toothpaste because the Arak sap works as a toothpaste. This act is a definite Sunna of our prophet (PBUH), as he had said: “Siwak is the purity of mouth and satisfaction of Allah”. It is also a Sunna of ablution where he (PBUH) had also said:”Were it not I might over-burden the believers, I would have ordered them to use siwak at every time of ablution” Furthermore, the fibers of Siwak ( Miswak ) are extremely effective in removing tooth sinter, and activate the gum and exactly like the regular toothbrush, it is also capable of cleaning inner surfaces due to its streamline shape and strength. At the same time, the World Health Organization also encouraged people to use tooth stick as one of the oral hygiene methods due to the fact that it is a natural tooth brush available for everybody and self-producing high-quality toothpaste better than all other expensive types of toothpastes. The latest achievement in Siwak (Miswak ) research activities is the manufacturing of some tooth formulas extracted from Siwak (Miswak ) such as toothpastes, and mouthwash solutions that stands as a great practical advance to utilize Siwak (Miswak ) effective properties, noting that mouth is always containing many germs that continuously attack teeth and fed by the remaining of food among teeth. By analyzing the contents of Siwak (Miswak ), it was evident that Siwak (Miswak ) has properties that stop the growth of germs in the mouth. Siwak (Miswak ) rod also contains Vitamin C that is necessary for plaque prevention. Many scientific research has been conducted on Siwak (Miswak ) by researchers from USA, Europe, KSA, India and Pakistan. The outcome of three researches ensured that Siwak ( Miswak ) sap contains natural elements that fight bacteria, the major cause of dental caries and gum disease. People who are using Siwak (Miswak ) are less exposed to dental caries and gum disease than those who are not using Siwak (Miswak ). Also, some Siwak (Miswak ) properties are comparable to the well- known mouthwash, Listerine. Siwak (Miswak ) sap also contains fluoride that is highly important for oral and dental health, as well as other components that help in protecting the enamel layer, remove dental sinter and coloring, prevent gum bleeding and reduce susceptibility to oral cancer. | <urn:uuid:9eba65d5-9177-4113-95fd-810109d35c72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://siwak.net/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950575 | 759 | 2.75 | 3 |
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2. If the switch of the power tool cannot be turned on or off, the power tool cannot be used. Power tools that cannot be controlled by a switch are dangerous and must be repaired.
3. Remove the plug from the power supply or remove the battery case from the power supply before making any adjustment, replacing accessories or storing power tools. This protective measure will reduce the risk of sudden start of power tools.
4. Always keep cutting tools sharp and clean. Do not use cutting tools with cracks, chipped edges or blunted edges, which may cause damage to power tools and personal safety.
5. Use power tools, accessories and tool cutters in strict accordance with the operation instructions and the special type requirements of the power tools to be used, considering the operating conditions and operations. Using power tools for operations that do not comply with requirements can be hazardous.
6. When connecting the power supply, ensure that the voltage of the power supply is the same as that marked on the tool nameplate. When the power supply voltage is higher than the applicable voltage of the tool, it will cause serious accidents to the user and damage to the tool itself. If you cannot determine the voltage of the power supply, do not plug in casually, need to inform a professional electrician for confirmation.
7. Avoid small talk at work. Distractions can make you lose control.
8. Use proper force when operating power tools. Proper progress control, excessive or excessive force will not improve work efficiency, but will damage the tool and the tool itself.
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- Two yoga teachers debunk 12 myths about yoga. They explain ways pregnant people can safely practice.
- They also debunk the idea that yoga is a religion and isn't a way to convert people to Hinduism.
- They even mention how you don't have to be flexible to do yoga. It's something everyone can do.
Following is a transcript of the video.
Tejal Patel: "You shouldn't do yoga if you're pregnant."
Jesal Parikh: Ugh. Really?
Parikh: "Yoga is a religion."
Parikh: Ooh, this is a controversial one.
Patel: "You have to be flexible to do yoga."
Patel: Eh. Can we just, like, rip that up, throw it away, and never remember that was ever said, ever again?
Patel: My name is Tejal Patel. My pronouns are she, her, and hers. I am a yoga teacher, I'm a community organizer, and I'm a podcaster. I started learning about yoga my whole life, and I've been teaching for about seven or eight years.
Parikh: Hi, my name is Jesal Parikh. My pronouns are she, her, and hers, and I'm a yoga teacher, a podcaster, and an industry disruptor. I've been doing yoga since I was a kid, but I started teaching about 10 years ago.
Patel: Yoga is an ancient living tradition, and it's also a spiritual practice.
Parikh: But it's become a fitness program and a fad.
Patel: We're trying to change that by dispelling some myths about what people think is yoga and what yoga really is.
Parikh: "Yoga is just exercise."
This is the biggest myth of them all, I think, for sure. This is the change that's come with time and translation over to the Western hemisphere. It's definitely not just an exercise, it's a spiritual practice with ancient traditions. It's an eight-limb path.
Patel: Yoga can include breath work. It can include learning how to meditate. It can include being better towards yourself, being better towards others. There's so many things that yoga practice can teach us that calling it "just exercise" is a huge disservice to the actual practice, the culture it came from, and to you as a person practicing yoga.
Parikh: "This pose is Adho Mukha Shvanasana (Downward-Facing Dog)."
Patel: So, many people know this pose translated to be Downward-Facing Dog Pose, but you can also translate this pose to be Mountain Pose. You can explore so many different lineages in yoga. And when you do that, you'll find that different poses or poses that look the same have different names depending on the lineage. And that's kind of the beauty of yoga.
Patel: "You should try to keep your back straight."
Parikh: I see this cue given all the time in Seated Forward Fold, so Paschimottanasana. I see it given in Uttanasana, Standing Forward Fold. I also sometimes hear it in Downward-Facing Dog as well. Unless you have an acute back injury that prevents you from rounding your back, I would say try it both ways. Try it with a straight spine and a rounded back, because both skills are valuable. The straight spine is often equated to the hip hinge, which a lot of people don't necessarily understand how to do in their body. It allows you to use some of your inner core muscles to stabilize, and that's a good thing, but it's also a really good thing to learn how to use flexion in your spine and also start to load that over time so that when you do bend over to pick up your groceries and your back is rounded, you don't throw out your back. The only unsafe movement or alignment for your body is the one you're not prepared for.
Patel: "Your shin should be parallel to the mat in Kapotasana (Pigeon Pose)."
You can take this pose in any variation, in any way that feels OK for you. When I cue this pose, I offer as many props as possible, and you know what? You don't have to lay forward in this pose. You don't have to turn, you don't have to backbend. You can do what feels right to you.
Parikh: What is this pose supposed to accomplish? For some people, that might mean finding some flexibility in their hips, and for others, it's more of a spiritual, deeper practice, in which case it doesn't really matter what the pose looks like.
Parikh: "You should twist as far as you can in Parivrtta Utkatasana (Revolved Chair Pose)."
You're not gonna reach nirvana just by twisting as far as you can. This pose, in the way that it's cued, going into the twist as much as you can is definitely not going to be appropriate for people who are experiencing SI joint pain or for pregnant women, but for everyone else, it's OK. It's just a matter of, you know, what's their history with their spine?
Patel: This is a really complex pose. Asking someone to do a more complex pose that has a lot of different actions to it, for the hips, for the spine, stabilizing in the legs, you're going to want to know what those students are working with. And generally in flow classes, you don't get all that information before you start. So what I would say to teachers is to be cautious about how you cue this pose, give all the options you can, give everyone the out if they need it, and also create some space for people to come in and out of this shape if they need it.
"When your legs are straight (in a pose), your knees should be locked."
Parikh: You can lock your knees. It's more muscularly engaging to not lock your knees and to keep them a little bit bent, but for those people who lack strength, maybe, in a pose and need to rely a little bit more on their joint position, locking the knees can really make the pose a little bit easier for them.
Patel: I hear this cue given a lot when people are being asked to forward fold. And I would say in that pose in particular, definitely micro bend or just go ahead and really bend your knees.
Parikh: It's just a better idea to start with bent knee and then see how it feels if you want to move towards a straighter leg.
"You should keep your knees stacked over your ankles."
Parikh: Ah! I loathe this cue so much! It's one that's given for "safety reasons," which, there's a really backward logic to this.
Patel: I find it puts people back into the mindset of doing something perfectly or poorly, with nothing in between, and when, really, everything in between is where you want to be, in the exploration of it. Some poses you hear this cue used a little bit too often, in my opinion, are any of the standing poses, like Warrior II, Side Angle Pose, revolved variations of any of those poses. I think we can definitely move into more exploration within these poses and in more mobility and more testing things out, because that's what we do in real life anyway. Like, when we walk up the stairs, we're not conscious of keeping our knee stacked over the ankle, are we?
Parikh: Yeah, and if we look at pictures of other yoga masters doing this pose, their knee goes way past the ankle, so I don't know where this cue came from or why, but it's just wiggled its way into the yoga industry.
Patel: "You shouldn't do yoga if you're pregnant."
Parikh: There's a whole genre called prenatal yoga filled with great low-impact asana, poses, that you can do if you're pregnant.
Patel: I think this myth might be around because in certain elements of a yoga practice, you can hold your breath for some of the breath work, or pranayama, practices, and in prenatal, it's kind of advised not to hold your breath.
Parikh: So, poses to avoid might be deep spinal twists, laying flat on your back, inversions, any breath retention that is vigorous or too aggressive.
Patel: Poses that might feel really nice could be Cat and Cow, in the way that your spine can move. It could be a wide-legged forward fold. Also supporting yourself with a wall, supporting yourself with props in poses, squatting, because that helps you prepare for labor and delivery. Also being in Tabletop and just circling and swaying your hips. Loud breathing, exhalations and sighs. You can, if you want to, ask someone in the medical field whether starting a yoga practice during your pregnancy is a good idea. Maybe some things you haven't tried before in your yoga practice you might not want to implement while you're pregnant.
Patel: "You have to be flexible to do yoga." Eh. Can we just, like, rip that up, throw it away, never remember that?
Parikh: This myth comes from the idea that yoga is just a bunch of poses and that it's just a fitness practice, when the reality is you can do yoga every day without doing a single pose ever.
Patel: It's also assuming that you did some prep work to start your yoga practice. Yoga is the entry point. And I think it just prevents people from thinking that yoga is for them, when the reality is yoga is for everybody. You can start at any point, at any age, and you can keep going, no matter what your flexibility level is.
Patel: "Sukhasana, aka The Easy Pose, is easy."
Parikh: Definitely not an easy pose, definitely misnamed pose, I think in many people's opinions.
Patel: People use their bodies really differently. They might be sitting on the floor to eat, they might be squatting to sweep, and, culturally, we just don't do that as much. So I recommend a lot of support and a lot of preparation before attempting this pose.
Parikh: "The more advanced the pose, the better it is for you."
Patel: You might see on Instagram, all over the place, "handstand yogis," quote, unquote. All they're doing is very strong, muscularly focused posturing. If that's your cup of tea, great. But it doesn't make you a more advanced yogi. Sorry to burst the bubble on that.
Parikh: The most advanced yoga pose is sitting quietly and meditating. So if you can manage to block out your thoughts and focus inward and just breathe and sit without anything going through your mind, that, I think, is like, all hail to you if you can do that.
Parikh: "Yoga is a religion." Ooh, this is a controversial one, with lots of opinions out there. Yoga itself is not a religion, but it is a spiritual practice.
Patel: Everyone wants to know if yoga is Hindu or not. And the answer is yes and no.
Parikh: Hinduism and yoga are both rooted in the Vedas. And so the relationship between the two is that they both have a Vedic lineage.
Patel: And, yes, modern-day Hinduism includes yoga, but modern-day Hinduism is also very different from Vedic Hinduism. It has evolved. And so has yoga. Yoga exists both within Hinduism and outside of it. Basically, it's both Hindu and non-Hindu.
Parikh: So if you're not choosing to be Hindu, you can still respect the culture from where this comes from, which is the Vedic culture, which is the Indian culture.
Patel: Just because you're chanting "om" or sitting in a cross-legged seated position, that doesn't make you Hindu. I think to be a good yoga teacher, there has to be relationship building with the community that you're giving the yoga practices to. And I also think to be a good yoga teacher, you have to remember that yoga is a rich cultural tradition and a spiritual practice. Learning about the practices that come from South Asia can look like taking classes with teachers who are South Asian. It can look like starting to diversify your yoga bookshelf by seeking out authors that have South Asian heritage or backgrounds. It could start to look like thinking about the music you might play. If you play music as a teacher in your yoga classes, can you start to diversify your playlist? We have a lot of options, and we'd love for you to take us up on the workshop to learn more. | <urn:uuid:972f29ec-6773-4473-b7c8-74b4f977e81a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessinsider.com/yoga-instructors-debunk-most-common-yoga-myths-poses-mistakes-2021-6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972454 | 2,703 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The sixth miracle of the cross:
THE WONDER OF RECONCILIATION
Through the Blood of Jesus You are Reconciled with God the Father
The Hebrew word for ‘reconciliation’ means that you offer something as a replacement to someone whom you owe, in order to cancel the debt. You and I were not able to fix the broken relationship with God ourselves. Because God loved us He took the initiative to reconcile us to Himself. He sent His Son to restore the relationship between us and Him. That Jesus was made sin, was the price which had to be paid in order to free us from the power of sin and death. This exchange took place at the Cross. This was not something that happened without God, but it was desired by Him:
“… God has shown us how much He loves us – it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us! By His blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by Him from God’s anger! We were God’s enemies, but He made us His friends through the death of His Son. Now that we are God’s friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ’s life! But that is not all; we rejoice because of what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has now made us God’s friends’75.
Father in heaven,
Thank you for the wonder of reconciliation. I thank you that Jesus took the animosity and the judgement upon Himself, so that I may come to you freely and my call myself your child. Help me to understand what Jesus endured for me, so that I may never become indifferent or weak. | <urn:uuid:79f236b2-9b18-4d9b-890a-b40bd8ead159> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.the7wonders.eu/wonder-6/through-the-blood-of-jesus-you-are-reconciled-with-god-the-father/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985834 | 364 | 1.90625 | 2 |
When members go to their preferred gym or other fitness facility to workout, they usually have the choice to work out by themselves, with a trainer, or in a group/class setting. When you walk into a gym, you will notice that everyone is focused on their workout and in their own world. Some have headphones on, others may be sitting in a lounge area taking a break, and many others talking to each other or standing in a group while they workout.
Despite all of this socialization, it should go without saying that there are a lot of unwritten rules regarding talking to others while they are exercising, as the gym is often a place for “Me” time. Many people come to the gym to get their daily exercises in without distraction and then leave. While you must be respectful and be able to tell when someone doesn’t want to talk, remember that it is okay to go to the gym to socialize. Just be sure to socialize appropriately.
Inviting a friend to go to the gym with you can provide many benefits for the both of you and still allow you to have some socialization. By going with someone you know, you can rest assured that you can have welcomed small-talk in-between workout sets.
Your friends know you the best, so they will understand if you want to talk about how you just performed or during a quick water break. As an added bonus, your workout buddy may also motivate you to work out harder and push you when you are not feeling a particular exercise.
When talking to each other, remember to do so quietly!
Group exercise classes will guarantee you get your socializing done in an effective way at the gym. Group classes and their instructors always have their own unique vibe to get members excited about being at the gym, and many instructors encourage members to get to know each other.
While you may not be talking to the people in the class as you work out, being in the same room and is still a great way to effectively socialize. Plus, it is always courteous to the instructor to not casually talk one-on-one while they are teaching to avoid distractions.
In many fitness facilities there is even more do to in-between workouts. Nowadays it is getting more common to see cafés and lounge areas in the gym where people can hangout before or after a workout.
If your gym or club offers amenities like a café, a juice or smoothie bar or just a lounge with a few comfy couches and some tables and chairs, you can definitely get a chance to interact with other members this way. Taking a few minutes out of your visit to go to the designated lounging area is probably one of the best ways to meet new people and not interrupt anyone’s workout. Waiting to talk to someone when neither of you is exercising is for the best. Trying to talk to someone while they are exercising can be distracting, and even dangerous—especially if they are trying to concentrate on exercises like weights.
While many agree that the gym is not the place to have a social hour, socializing at the gym can provide a variety of benefits. For example, more motivation to complete a workout is most a huge benefit, but interacting with other members can help increase competitiveness, encourage you to workout longer, and lead to better mental health. You could even meet a new workout partner! | <urn:uuid:66acc76b-1bbf-4306-b525-fe9aa209e235> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://truefitness.com/resources/effective-ways-to-socialize-at-the-gym-without-interrupting-others-workouts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.975868 | 691 | 1.804688 | 2 |
New International Version
1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah:
In the month of Kislev(A) in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,(B) 2 Hanani,(C) one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant(D) that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.
3 They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.(E)”
“Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God,(H) who keeps his covenant of love(I) with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(J) the prayer(K) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(L) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you. 7 We have acted very wickedly(M) toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.
8 “Remember(N) the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter(O) you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather(P) them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’(Q)
10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.(R) 11 Lord, let your ear be attentive(S) to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor(T) in the presence of this man.”
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Easy English is designed as an introduction to the basics, or for students who only require an overview of the language to begin with. If you would like to progress further, you can move on to (or start with) the general English classes and begin to learn about writing, grammar and structure in more depth, and progressively build your skills and knowledge level by level (beginner to advanced) within a more formal language course.
Easy Language Courses at PLC SchoolThe aim is to introduce the basics from the very beginning, along with vocabulary and social conversation for common subjects for beginners.
This course is also useful if you would like to revise your English language and learn new vocabulary in a relaxed and easy environment. If you are an adult student and haven't been in a learning situation for a while, this course can also be a gentle way to ease yourself back into the classroom.
You may not understand all of the structure to begin with, but you can learn by listening and repeating example language. This provides useful everyday language right away. Structure is gradually introduced in an easy and understandable way. You can learn new words and sentences for particular situations such as greeting people, buying things, going to the movies, getting around, and much more.
Writing and pronunciation are introduced right from the start. You can learn how to write and say each new word, and a few example sentences are explored to practice your new vocabulary. Structure is introduced at various points, but is not linked to other lessons directly, so missing a class is not a such a problem, and you can join an existing group at any point.
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Ephesians 6:4 (ESV) Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
In a somewhat intense discussion with one church leader I recently made a statement that was met with shock and denial. In the context of conceding to the “bigger must be better mentality,” and with little or no focus on biblical accountability I said, “It appears some Church leaders are more concerned with butts in the seat and dollars in the plate.” If we truly love God and the people we serve then shouldn't we be concerned with true biblical discipleship? Are we in fact doing things in the Church by God’s design? About three years ago I read “Pagan Christianity” by Frank Viola and George Barna which challenged my own thinking about how we “do church” today.
I wasn't raised in a Christian home, and so when I entered the ministry I assumed a lot of the way we do things in the Church to be biblical. I don’t believe those I looked to in the early years meant to mislead me or anyone else. I do believe, however, these leaders simply followed the patterns others before them had followed.
Through the modern era we have systematically separated the family within the Church by age and preference. In order to experience a greater sense of “worship” we place our children in “Children’s Church,” and our youth in a “Youth” program. We've developed a mentality which is destructive to the family and Church by adopting the belief; “Our youth are the future of the Church.” The reality is that children and youth who have accepted Christ are part of the Church today.
The Scriptures indicate a family integrated form of worship, yet the Church seems to have taken a different direction. In order to be seeker sensitive and “family-friendly” we've incorporated many worldly customs in order to draw a crowd rather than equip the Church to carry out one of Her first missions – biblical education in the home.
I think we've placed our youth in a precarious position by providing separate worship experiences, meeting places, times, and event driven activities which appeal to a more secular mindset. By segregating our young people from their parents we've created an atmosphere which is more destructive than helpful. The Church has taken a position of leading our children that does not rightly belong to her. The greatest teachers a child should have are Christian parents and in particular Christian fathers.
How was I wrong? I was wrong because at one time I supported the bigger is better and multi-program ideas without giving them much thought.
The video below is entitled, “Divided the Movie”, and is fifty-four minutes long. I highly encourage you to watch this video, or simply listen to it while you surf the web. I truly believe you’ll find it beneficial and eye-opening. | <urn:uuid:7b0dd816-2f4d-46d4-a2d3-1ab79301299c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rod-west.net/just-thinking/archives/08-2013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968411 | 624 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Youngstown State University’s Department of Human Ecology will be hosting a panel discussion on obesity 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 3, in Room 3112 of Cushwa Hall on the YSU campus.
Human ecology seniors will conduct the panel and speak on the rise of obesity as a worldwide concern. Topics include the major causes, consequences and possible solutions of obesity, with the goal of increasing awareness and education on what can be done to help fight the problem.
Following the panel presentation, the audience will be able to participate in the discussion. The event is open to the public.
Student panelists include: Grace Cornell, a family and consumer sciences education major; Andrea Verde and Jack Wilkins, dietetics students; and Michael Crawford, a hospitality management major.
These students, as well as other human ecology seniors, will be hosting a series of panel discussions like this one throughout the rest of the spring semester. Future presentations will center on human trafficking, Internet privacy, child abuse prevention and more.
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As part of a series of regional and EU-national workshops, at this event we will discuss the current greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios commonly proposed for India. An extensive and open discussion, with climate and energy stakeholders from India, will focus upon the feasibility, opportunities and barriers that stem from these mitigation pathways.
The workshop series are run by the Paris Reinforce consortium within which Bruegel is participating. The project is a 3-year Horizon 2020 (European Commission) funded research programme. The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the potential greenhouse gas emission mitigation pathways required in order to globally conform to the targets of the Paris Agreement.
The scientific analysis of the project is performed using a suite of sophisticated energy-economic models. In order to produce relevant and informed analysis, the project devotes significant resources to incorporating stakeholder feedback into the assumptions underpinning modelling activities and scenarios.
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Siddiqui, Abdur Rahman
Siddiqui, Abdur Rahman (1887-1953) politician, acting governor of East Bengal. He was appointed acting governor of East Bengal during the leave period of governor Malik Firoz Khan Noon from 25 July to 10 November 1952.
A front ranking leader of the Muslim League, Abdur Rahman Siddiqui was graduated from the Aligarh University and received higher education from England. He was the president of the student organization of the Aligarh University. After graduation, he became the managing editor of the journal Comrade edited by Moulana Muhammad Ali and published from Kolkata. He participated in the khilafat movement, and joined the medical team as a volunteer that was sent to Turkey under the leadership of Dr. Ansari during the Balkan war. Abdur Rahman Siddiqui was a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1937-46 and was elected a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly in 1946. The Daily Morning News was published from Kolkata at his initiative. He was the editor of the paper from 1942 to 1948. Siddiqui was elected Mayor of Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1940. Abdur Rahman Siddiqui was one of the organizers of the Eastern Federal Insurance Company. He was a specialist on Middle East issues and was one of the central leaders of the Pakistan movement. He died in 1953. [Abu Jafar] | <urn:uuid:100aeffa-5433-408e-a367-ffa7724e328a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siddiqui,_Abdur_Rahman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.987744 | 294 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The first-of-its-kind tunnel is part of a massive civil engineering project designed to protect the Bay Area's water supply during an earthquake.
Last July, a 600-foot long digging machine started tearing through mud and muck. Today the $10 million machine has tunneled two miles from Menlo Park heading towards Newark.
The project is currently ahead of schedule. The tunneling machine has been moving twice as fast as expected. On an average day, that's about a hundred feet of sand and dirt removed from beneath the Bay.
With underground work you never know what you're going to come across, said Bob Mues, the project's construction manager. "We don't think there will be any old ships down there so we'll be in pretty good shape," he added.
The new tunnel will replace old pipes built in 1925 and 1936. Engineers say the old pipes won't survive a major earthquake. A failure would jeopardize the water supply for millions of people from the East Bay to San Francisco. But the Bay Tunnel is designed to withstand a big quake on either the San Andreas or Hayward faults.
The money for the tunnel is part of a $4.6 billion bond measure passed by voters in 2002 to fund a massive overhaul of the Hetch Hetchy Water System. The network of tunnels, pipes, dams and reservoirs delivers water 167 miles from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to the Crystal Springs Reservoir along I-280 in San Mateo County.
When complete, the Bay Tunnel will be the longest ever built under the Bay. The tunnel is scheduled to be completed by 2015 and will cost roughly $313 million.
"This is actually a mined tunnel under the Bay, and we're under a hundred foot of water so it's a submarine-type tunnel, and it's five miles across the Bay with no shafts, no place to stop," Mues said.
While the TransbayTube for BART was made of a series of pre-constructed tunnels that rest on the bottom of the Bay, the new tunnel is actually carved out of the earth.
A series of conveyor belts and ladders move the mud to dry land overhead, making the job very dirty and dangerous for workers.
Five-thousand-pound slabs of concrete swing overhead. Each of the pieces will be rolled into the tunnel and bolted together, five feet at a time, as the tunneling machine moves forward.
"The whole machine works kind of like a submarine," said Ed Whitman, an engineer working on the project. There's a decompression chamber just in case workers experience the "bends." Still, the crew chalks it up to just another day's work.
"It doesn't really matter what it is like on the surface. When you are in the tunnel, you can't see the ground. It's a very safe tunneling method," said Whitman.
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The Look Out Discovery Centre has an array of activities to keep families busy this summer.
Visitors can enjoy the new space ranger workshops, inspired by the new Disney and Pixar film Lightyear, and find out the answers to some big questions about space, undergo some space ranger training, and launch their own rocket.
As well as the workshops, The Look Out Discovery Centre boasts a multi-story science exhibition with interactive activities and fun for the whole family. Send a hot air balloon skyward, have a go at creating an electrical circuit, play with boats in the indoor stream and meet a whole range of wild insects, amphibians and reptiles.
Cllr John Harrison, Executive Member for Culture, Delivery and Public Protection, said:
“Although schools are closed for the summer, learning doesn’t have to stop and it can still be fun, especially at The Look Out Discovery Centre.
“The science exhibition, always a family favourite, has so many exciting activities and challenges for the whole family to solve.
“Visitors can then treat themselves to refreshments from the Woodlarks Café, enjoy some play time in the park and get some fresh air and exercise with a walk around Swinley Forest.”
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YTH Curriculum: During our youth group time on Wednesday Nights, we work through an interactive video series called Alpha. Students view the interactive video together as Jr. Hi and Sr. Hi and then they split into Gender and Grade specific small groups led by amazing volunteers from Sharptown Church. Read more about Alpha here: https://alphausa.org/about
www.cpyu.org – The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers. At a time when an already confusing youth culture is changing quickly, CPYU helps parents, youth workers, educators, and others understand teenagers and their culture so that they will be better equipped to help children and teens navigate the challenging world of adolescence. Founded in 1990 by Walt Mueller, CPYU has developed an international reputation as a voice providing cutting-edge information, resources and analysis on today’s youth culture. The mission of CPYU is to work with churches, schools, and community organizations to build stronger relationships between young people and those charged with helping them grow into healthy adulthood.
www.homeword.com – HomeWord seeks to advance the work of God in the world by educating, equipping, and encouraging parents and churches to build God-honoring families from generation to generation. “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 | <urn:uuid:9be22023-2403-4011-a097-bf0121fc93b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sharptown.org/youth-2/resources-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94752 | 312 | 2.375 | 2 |
One of the terrible aspects (among many) regarding synthetic pesticides is that they kill all insects indiscriminately. There are actually “good” insects that are beneficial to your garden, and peticides kill them along with everything else.
Although intended for kids, this fun guide shows which insects are good to have around — for all sorts of reasons, including pollination, killing destructive insects, and even destroying slugs and snails.
And, once you’ve realized that insects are worth keeping, you can assure their survival by building homes for them. This article spells out how to do just that. | <urn:uuid:b879802c-df86-407c-8d3c-bc266eefa1c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cielitolindoranch.org/wp/good-insects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969341 | 124 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The country used to be unanimous in rejecting gay marriage. But that consensus, like the polar ice sheets, is showing some cracks. Vermont recently became the fourth state to allow gays to wed, and New York will probably be next. Elsewhere, marriage remains as Miss California prefers—solely between a man and a woman.
It's at moments like this that the framers of the Constitution begin to look even wiser than usual. Somehow they anticipated that people in Massachusetts would not want to live under exactly the same laws as people in Mississippi. So they set up a system known as federalism, which allows different states to choose different policies. Thus we simultaneously uphold majority rule and minority rights.
This, at least, is how federalism is supposed to operate—letting subsets of the national population get their way in their own locales. There's only one hitch: In this case, it doesn't quite work that way.
Why not? Because of a huge imbalance created by that longtime nemesis of state sovereignty—the federal government. Under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Virginia has complete authority to deny the privileges and responsibilities of marriage to same-sex partners. But Iowa doesn't have the complete authority to grant them.
Oh, Iowa can provide recognition to gay marriages under all its laws and policies. But that's a surprisingly small part of what marriage encompasses. Under federal law, there are more than 1,100 rights and privileges that go with being a husband or wife. And none of them is available to married same-sex couples.
Under federal law, a person may transfer property to a spouse tax-free. Married couples may file their income taxes jointly. Someone whose spouse dies is assured Social Security survivor's benefits. A married person has the authority to make medical decisions for an incapacitated partner.
Or say you're an American citizen living in this country who marries a foreigner. Normally, you would be entitled to bring your beloved to this country to live permanently and become a citizen.
But if you're both of the same sex, you can forget all of the above. Even though Iowa might like to put heterosexual and homosexual married couples on the same footing, it can't, because the federal statute blocks the way.
"In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States," says DOMA, "the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."
That decree may sound reasonable: Since most Americans and most states reject same-sex marriage, federal policy should as well. But it conflicts with how the nation has handled marriage up till now, which is to leave it up to individual states to decide who may wed—and then honor those diverse choices.
Some states, for instance, allow marriages between first cousins; others forbid it. Some states allow 15-year-olds to marry with parental consent, while most set the minimum age higher.
And the feds? They have consistently observed a policy of staying the hell out. Washington doesn't tell Colorado and New York which marriages it will acknowledge. Colorado and New York tell it.
Not so with same-sex unions. Under DOMA, the federal government insists that some marriages are not marriages.
That's particularly hard to justify because the other major provision of the law bends over backward to protect state authority over matters marital. It says no state is obligated to recognize a same-sex marriage that took place somewhere else. Gays married in Vermont magically become single when they venture into New Hampshire.
This part of the law goes beyond the norm to accommodate different preferences. Usually, states are obligated to enforce contracts made in other states. Back in the segregationist years, Southern states often honored interracial marriages transacted beyond their borders even though they regarded them as "so unnatural that God and nature seem to forbid them."
Given the strong feelings about gay marriage, the local option is the best option. States that abhor the idea should be free to implement policies reflecting that sentiment. But the other side should have exactly the same prerogative: giving both heterosexual and homosexual couples access to marriage in full.
Our system, unlike Mao's China, is supposed to let a hundred flowers bloom. But for the best growth, the federal sun has to shine on all of them.
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These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2005.
- January 1
- The Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into force in the United Kingdom.
- In Germany, stage IV of the Hartz concept brought together unemployment benefits and social security benefits, despite protests.
- In Switzerland, Ruth Lüthi becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg; Heinz Albicker becomes president of the government of Schaffhausen; Anne-Catherine Lyon becomes president of the Council of State of Vaud; Brigitte Profos becomes Landammann of Zug.
- January 2 – Aníbal Acevedo Vilá takes office as governor of Puerto Rico.
- January 4 – Violence in Iraq, assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidri.
- January 5 – Adam Daniel Rotfeld is sworn in as Foreign Minister of Poland.
- January 7 – Isidore Mvouba becomes Prime Minister of West Congo.
- January 14 – Sergey Morozov is inaugurated as governor of the Ulyanovsk Oblast.
- 15 January – Mahmoud Abbas is inaugurated as President of the Palestinian Authority.
- 20 January – George W. Bush is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States of America following his 2004 election victory.
- January 24 – Yulia Tymoshenko is named Prime Minister of Ukraine.
- 30 January – The people of Iraq vote in elections to choose 275 members of the inaugural Iraqi National Assembly.
- 8 February – In Denmark, the centre-right coalition of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is returned to power in a General Election, defeating the Social Democrats under Mogens Lykketoft.
- 16 February – In the United States, the school board in Staunton, Virginia voted to continue classes in Weekday Religious Education. This was a milestone in the issue of Separation of church and state in the United States.
- 20 February – Spain approves the European Constitution in a consultative referendum, though with a low turnout of 42%.
- 4 April – Askar Akayev resigns as President of Kyrgyzstan following weeks of popular unrest.
- 24 April – Presidential elections in Togo return Faure Gnassingbe to power two months after he was installed by the military following the death of his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
- 5 May – General Election in the United Kingdom sees Tony Blair's Labour government returned to office with a reduced majority of 66.
- 18 May – Spanish parliament completes the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.
- 29 May – France rejects the European Constitution by 55% to 45% in a legally binding referendum, pitching the European Union into a crisis and dealing a serious blow to the ratification process.
- 1 June
- 10 July – Luxembourg approves the ratification of the European Constitution in a consultative referendum by 57% to 43%.
- 6 August – Conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in as president of Iran, succeeding Mohammad Khatami.
- 17 September – New Zealand holds a general election, which Helen Clark's left-wing Labour Party wins, in coalition with the Progressives Party, with confidence and supply from New Zealand First and United Future, with further support from the Green and Māori parties.
- 18 September – General Election in Germany produces an inconclusive result, with a narrow majority for the Christian Democratic Union over the governing Social Democratic Party.
- 21 September – José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, says that the European Union will probably not have a Constitution 'for two to three years' .
- 27 October – Political establishment in France is rocked by the spread of rioting among poor immigrant communities in suburbs of the major cities.
- 4 November – British Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett resigns from the Cabinet for the second time in a year, this time over allegations of improper business dealings.
- 6 November – Bob O'Connor Democrat defeats Joe Weinroth, Republican for Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 8 November – French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declares a state of emergency to allow municipal authorities to cope with the rioting across the country.
- 21 November – Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, resigns from the governing Likud party and founds his own new movement, Kadima.
- 22 November – After weeks of negotiations, Angela Merkel is sworn in as the eighth Chancellor of Germany – the first woman and the first East German to hold the post – succeeding Gerhard Schröder.
- 23 November – Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki dismisses his entire Cabinet after losing a key referendum on constitutional reform.
- 6 December – David Cameron becomes the 26th Leader of the British Conservative Party
- 15 December – Parliamentary elections are held in Iraq.
- 17 December – Evo Morales wins the presidential elections in Bolivia, ousting incumbent Eduardo Rodríguez and becoming the country's first indigenous leader.
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- January 1 – Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress (born 1924)
- January 1 – Robert Matsui, Member of the U.S. Congress from Sacramento, California (born 1941)
- January 4 – Ali al-Haidri, Governor of Baghdad
- January 10 – James Forman, American civil rights activist (born 1928)
- January 17 – Zhao Ziyang, reformist Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (born 1919)
- February 2 – Zurab Zhvania prime minister of Georgia, is suffocated in a gas leak at a friend's home
- February 6 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma President of Togo since 1967, dies of an illness
- February 14 – Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq Hariri is assassinated in Beirut in a massive car bomb explosion.
- February 24 – Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, German politician
- March 8 – Aslan Maskhadov rebel President of Chechnya is killed in battle with Russian troops
- March 28 – Howell Heflin former United States senator from Alabama
- April 2 – Pope John Paul II, Head of the Roman Catholic Church and chief of state of the Vatican City dies of heart failure
- April 6 – Rainier III Prince of Monaco since 1948, second longest-reigning head of state in the world at the time of his death
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13 September, 2021
Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar Addressed 74th session of WHO-SEARO; hosted by Nepal
Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Minister of State(MoS), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare(MoHFW) represented India and addressed the 74th session of the World Health Organization- South-East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO) through a virtual conference. The 74th session WHO SEARO was organized by Nepal from 6th to 10th September 2021. The meet also focuses on the inclusion of treating non-communicable diseases including mental health and other programmes at the primary health care level.
South-East Asia comprises one-fourth of the world’s population. The Region has been prioritizing the elimination of measles and rubella by 2023.
Address of Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar:
MoS Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar highlighted the major measures and strategies planned to build back better to achieve Universal Health Care and Sustainable Development Goals(SDG) related to health and to strengthen health system resilience for the future.
i.During the 74th session of WHO SEARO, the countries of the WHO South-East Asia region adopted a ministerial declaration that resolves to strengthen health system resilience for ensuring health security, achieve universal health coverage and achieve SDG for health.
ii.The declaration also commits to engagement with communities and making essential health services and public health programmes accessible to them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
74th session of the WHO-SEARO:
i.The Regional Committee for South-East Asia is the WHO’s governing body in the South East Asia region.
ii.It is composed of representatives from 11member states of the region as well as Associated Members.
iii.The committee meets annually to formulate policies and consider, revise and endorse new initiatives.
About World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region:
Regional Director– Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh
Headquarters– New Delhi, India
Members– 11 Member States (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste).
Om Birla Addressed the5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament 2021 in Vienna, Austria
The 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament (5WCSP) 2021 was held in Vienna, Austria from September 7-8, 2021 . The Loksabha Speaker Om Birla participated in the conference, organized by the Austrian Parliament, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations (UN).
Note- Austrian Parliament is the first national parliament in history to co-host the World Conference of Speakers of Parliament.
The Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Harivansh with Utpal Kumar Singh, Secretary-General, Lok Sabha, Dr Ajay Kumar, Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha Secretariat and Rajeev Dutta, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Speaker of Lok Sabha,other senior officers also participated.
The theme of the Conference is Parliamentary leadership for more effective multilateralism that delivers peace and sustainable development for the people and planet.
Highlights: The 5WCSP took place in two parts. First part was held in August 2020 virtually and second part in-person held in Vienna. In August, 2020 Om Birla attended the inaugural ceremony of 5WCSP. The conference will be followed by the first Global Parliamentary Summit on Counter-Terrorism to be held on September 9 in Vienna, Austria.It is jointly organized by IPU and the UN. The Conference was held 5 years once, the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament was held in 2015 in New York, United States.
About Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
i.IPU is an international organisation of national parliaments. It was established in 1889 in Paris.
ii.It works with close co-operation with the United Nation (UN), regional parliamentary organisations, international intergovernmental organisations and non-governmental organisations for the arbitration of conflict.
Headquarters- Geneva, Switzerland
Secretary General- Martin Chungong
India’s first Indigenously Designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant at BHEL R&D Centre, Hyderabad
India’s 1st Indigenously Designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant was inaugurated in Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), R&D centre at Hyderabad, Telangana.The Plant was designed with support from the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog to produce 0.25 ton per day(TPD) methanol. The project was supported by the Department of Science and Technology with a Rs 10 crore grant.
About the Plant:
i.The Plant will create 0.25 TPD Methanol from high ash Indian coal using a 1.2 TPD Fluidized bed gasifier.
ii.The methanol purity of the crude methanol produced is between 98 and 99.5 percent.
Reason for the Development:
i.Inorder to reduce the dependency on importing foreign oil & to meet the needs of India,BHEL produce the Methanol or Di Methyl Ether (DME) which can be used as an alternative liquid fuel for transportation and to power ship engines.
ii.This will also lower Green House Gas emission.
BHEL is working on Blue Hydrogen, Hydrogen CNG (H-CNG) and Green Hydrogen… we are blending hydrogen with compressed natural gas for use as a transportation fuel as well as an industrial input to refineries.
About Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) – Dr. Nalin Shinghal
Headquarter – New Delhi, Delhi
IIT Kanpur signs MoU with Indian Air Force for academic collaboration
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Indian Air Force (IAF) Signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Collaboration in the field of Academics and Research in the domain Aerospace Technology & for the establishment of the Air Vice Marshal Harjinder Singh, VSM Class I MBE, Chair of Excellence and Research Scholar Program (RSP) for Indian Air Force Officers at the IAF Headquarters, New Delhi, Delhi. The partnership will establish long term relationship for academic and research-based interactions and interchange of technical knowledge to foster knowledge development and promote breakthrough innovations in the domain of Aerospace Technology.
About the Program:
I.The Chair of Excellence will promote teaching, research and technology development in Aerospace Technologies, Aircraft Structural Integrity, Aircraft Health Monitoring, and other allied subjects in the fields of Aeronautics and Aviation.
ii.It will facilitate development of training programs for IAF personnel which will help them with dissemination of knowledge and novel ideas to innovate new technologies.It will also provide research grant to Ph.D scholars of Aerospace Engineering of IIT Kanpur working in these areas.
iii.The Program will allow the qualified serving officers from the IAF will be eligible for direct admission to Ph.D, M.Tech and eMasters Programmes at IIT Kanpur.
iv.The MoU was signed in the presence of Air Marshal Vibhas Pande AVSM VSM, Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance (AOM) and Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Director IIT Kanpur by Air Vice Marshal Rajeev Sharma, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Education) and Head of Education Branch of IAF and Prof. Jayant Kumar Singh, Dean Resources and Alumni, IIT Kanpur.
About Indian Air Force (IAF)
Air Chief Marshal – Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
Headquarter – New Delhi, Delhi
Haryana first State in Installation of Solar Pumps under PM KUSUM Scheme
Haryana has become the first state in the country to install off-grid solar pumps under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttan Mahabhiyan (PM KUSUM).So far, Haryana has installed 14,418 pumps against the sanctioned 15,000 pumps for the year 2020-21.It was announced in the concluding session of the nationwide ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ organized by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy( MNRE).
The implementation of PM KUSUM has provided an opportunity to the farmers to switch from diesel pumps to solar pumps. This move will lead towards doubling the farmers income by reducing the input cost of agriculture.
Target for Haryana
i.Under the PM KUSUM scheme, the target was to set up 20 lakh standalone solar pumps, under which, Haryana was given a target of setting up 15,000 pumps with a total cost of Rs 520 crore for the year 2020-21.
ii.The state department received more than 42,000 applications online therefore the new target has increased by setting up 22,000 pumps with a total cost of Rs 844 crore for financial year 2021-22.
About Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttan Mahabhiyan (PM KUSUM)
The PM-KUSUM scheme was launched by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to support installation of off-grid solar pumps in rural areas and reduce dependence on grid, in grid-connected areas.
Objective – to provide financial and water security and doubling farmers income
Agrarian festival ‘Nuakhai’ being celebrated in Odisha
Nuakhai, the harvest festival of Odisha is celebrated on Bhadraba Shuklapakhya Panchami tithi, the next day of Ganesh Chaturthi i.e., September, 11, 2021. It marks the consumption of the first harvested crops. It is celebrated by worshiping the Goddess Samaleshwari, the presiding deity of Western Odisha. The name is derived from ‘nua’ which means new and ‘khai’ means food. The festival is also called Nuakhai Parab or Nuakhai Bhetghat. It is a festival promoting mutual harmony and brotherhood.
Nuakhai is commonly celebrated in Sambalpur, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Bolangir, Sundergarh, Sonepur, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Boudh, and the Athmallik Sub-division of Angul.
Governor- Ganeshi Lal
Chief Minister- Naveen Patnaik
Dance forms- Ghumura Dance, Chhau dance, odissi.
India, US agree to collaborate on Emerging Fuels during US-India SCEP 2021
i.The Ministerial meeting of the United States (US)-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP) 2021 held virtually was co-chaired by Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri , Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas with the US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to launch the revamped U.S.-India SCEP.
ii.During this, both nations have agreed to expand their energy partnership by adding the emerging fuels to the list of areas of cooperation as a 5th pillar.
iii.The other four pillars of cooperation in this list are power and energy efficiency, oil and gas, renewable energy and sustainable growth.
About United States of America (USA):
Joe Biden is the 46th President of USA
US Secretary of State – Antony Blinken
No of States in USA – 50
Govt Enhanced the Scope of MTA Scheme for Agri Exports Including Dairy
The Government of India has enhanced the scope of the Transport and Marketing Assistance(TMA) for specified agriculture products schemes by including dairy products under its purview and increasing the rates of assistance.
The rates of assistance have been increased by 50% for exports by sea and 100% through the air. According to the notification of the Department of Commerce, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the revised TMA for specified agriculture products scheme for exports is effected on or after 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022. The existing scheme will remain in operation for exports effects up to March 31, 2021.
To assist Indian exporters of agricultural products to meet the increasing freight and logistics costs.
About revised TMA:
i.The diary products which were not previously covered under the TMA scheme will be eligible for assistance.
ii.Under this scheme, a certain portion of freight charges and assists market the agriculture produce.
About Ministry of Commerce and Industry:
Union Minister– Piyush Goyal(Rajya Sabha- Maharashtra)
Minister of State– Som Parkash(Constituency- Hoshiarpur, Punjab); Anupriya Patel(Constituency- Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh)
Amazon Pay ties up with Kuvera to offer wealth management service for the first time
Amazon Pay, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon in partnership with Kuvera, Investment platform will provide wealth management services to its 50 million customers across India. It is the first ever wealth management tie-up for amazon across the world. Kuvera will offer its services, products and technology knowledge to Amazon Pay users in order to facilitate investments into Mutual funds, Fixed deposits.
Additional Info: Google with Indian fintech startup Setu has recently announced that it will allow its Indian Customers to open fixed deposits through its digital payments app Google Pay.
Headquarters – Washington, United States
Director of India: Vikas Bansal
Founder & CEO: Gaurav Rastogi
Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka
US Open 2021 Final: Daniil Medvedev wins Grand Slam title, beats Novak Djokovic
US Open 2021: Daniil Medvedev won his first Grand Slam trophy on September 12, 2021, after defeating World No. 1 Novak Djokovic with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win in the 2021 US Open men’s singles final at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The match lasted for two hours and sixteen minutes. Russia’s World No.2 Medvedev ended Djokovic’s dream of sweeping the US, French, Australian Open, and Wimbledon in the same year for the first time since 1969.
With the 25-years-old Medvedev winning the US Open 2021 Grand Slam title, Djokovic lost his opportunity to join the league of legends Don Budge (1938) and Rod Laver (1962, 1969) who won all four Slams in a single season (in the same year). Instead, Djokovic became the 3rd man after Jack Crawford (1933) and Lew Hoad (1956) who won the first trio of Grand Slams in a year and made it to the US Open final.
Guinness World Records Honoured Cristiano Ronaldo as Highest Scoring Man in International Football
Guinness World Records has honoured Portugal football player Cristiano Ronaldo for becoming the highest-scoring man in International football history with his 111th goal for Portugal against Ireland in a World Cup qualifier. This marked his 180th game representing Portugal. He has surpassed the record held by Iranian footballer Ali Daei who has scored 109 goals in 149 games for Iran between 1993 and 2006. Cristiano Ronaldo achieved the feat of scoring goals for Portugal between 2003 and 2021 over a period of 18 years.
Note: Ronaldo and Daei are the only men to score more than 100 goals for their countries.
About Cristiano Ronaldo:
i.Cristiano Ronaldo, the captain of the Portugal National football team, has represented the Premier League club Manchester United and Real Madrid.
ii.He became the first player to score in five different editions of the continental tournament, taking his haul to 11 to overtake Michel Platini’s record of nine goals at Euros.
iii.With 137 goals he became the top scorer in the history of the champions league.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani resigns
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Ramniklalbhai Rupani, 65, submitted his resignation to the Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat. He succeeded Anandiben Patel and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Gujarat on 7 August 2016. The reason of his resignation was remaining unknown and next Gujarat Assembly Elections are scheduled in December 2022 to elect 182 members. He is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly representing Rajkot West. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil and state vice president Gordhan Zadafia are in the naming list of next Chief Minister of Gujarat to succeed Vijay Rupani.
Rahul Dravid Appointed as Brand Ambassador of Piramal Realty
Piramal Realty, the real estate arm of the Piramal Group, has appointed Former captain of Indian Cricket team Rahul Dravid as its brand ambassador for its portfolio of 4 residential projects and one commercial project.
The projects include Piramal Mahalaxmi (Jacob Circle), Piramal Vaikunth (Thane), Piramal Revanta (Mulund), Piramal Aranya (Byculla), and a commercial project Piramal Agastya (Kurla). As the brand ambassador of Piramal Realty, Rahul Dravid will speak with the customers of Piramal Realty with signature messages on the importance of homeownership. He will also showcase the Piramal Realty’s core values of Knowledge, Action, Care and Impact.
About Rahul Dravid:
i.Rahul Dravid, who was called the “The Wall”, was appointed as the coach of the India A Team and Under 19 cricket team.
ii.The government of India has honoured him with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan in 2004 and 2013 respectively.
iii.The Arjuna Award for Cricket was awarded to him in 1998.
About Piramal Realty:
Piramal Group is a global business conglomerate, with business interests in Pharma, Information Management, Financial Services, Glass Packaging and Real Estate.
Founder– Anand Piramal
Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded in 2012
Aziz Akhannouch Appointed as New Prime Minister of Morocco
Aziz Akhannouch, the leader of the liberal National Rally of Independents (RNI) ,is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Morocco. He was appointed by the Moroccan King Mohammed VI.
Highlights : Akhannouch’s party RNI has won the election with 50% of votes. Out of 395, 102 seats were secured by his party in the parliamentary elections. The ruling moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP) led by Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani suffered a defeat, only secured 13 seats in the parliament and later JDP leader decided to resign. RNI will form a new government in Morocco.
About Aziz Akhannouch
i.Akhannouch is one of the wealthiest people in Morocco, with an estimated wealth around $2 billion (€1.7 billion).
ii.Since 2016, he has been the leader of the RNI party, which is seen to have close ties to the royal household.
iii.Akhannouch is CEO of the Akwa Group, a Moroccan conglomerate operating mainly in the oil and gas sector. He has also served as Agriculture Minister since 2007.
Currency- Moroccan Dirham
Taliban’s Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund appointed as Acting PM of Afghanistan
Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, a leading member of the Taliban has been appointed as the acting Prime Minister(PM) of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He will head the 33-member team for an interim government of Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of Taliban and Molavi Abdul Salam Hanafi has been appointed as the deputy Prime Ministers of Afghanistan.
About Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund:
i.Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund has been the head of the Taliban’s Rehbari Shura, or leadership council, for more than 20 years.
ii.He has served as the foreign minister and deputy PM during the last Taliban rule in 1996 to 2001.
iii.He has been described by the UN sanctions list as a “political advisor” of late Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader
i.Amir Khan Muttaqi has been appointed as foreign minister of Afghanistan.
ii.Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has been appointed as deputy foreign minister
iii.Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, son of the Taliban founder Mullah Omar, has been named as the defence minister.
iv.Hidayatullah Badri appointed as acting minister of finance.
v.Fasihuddin Badakhshani has been named the chief of the army.
vi.Zabhiullah Mujahid has been given charge of the information ministry.
Acting Prime Minister– Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund
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Patriotism was one of the virtues that made Rome great. Unless many Roman citizens had believed in Horace's classic expression of patriotism;
the glory of Rome could never have been. The sacrifices of an ordinary legionnaire were probably not as great as they seem to modern eyes. Life in the ancient world was short and cheap. For most soldiers, their alternative life was almost as squalid and uncertain and far less glorious.
It is easy to understand the patriotism of a Roman at the height of the Empire. The whole world admired its superior technology, discipline and order. Yet the patriotism that preceded the glory was what really changed the world. Just as it was the patriotism of soldiers and sailors from a small island state - a much-despised renegade in Europe - that built the greatest empire the world has seen.
Patriotism is most noticeable when a nation is great. Today the word reminds us of Americans, hand on heart, singing sentimentally before "Old Glory". But that is not when it is most important. At its best, it is the glue that holds a nation together. Nor is it a primitive question of blood and soil. Polish patriotism held the nation together even when the country itself ceased - for a while - to exist.
A true football supporter trudges loyally to the match even when his team is on a decades-long losing streak. The belief that Liverpool fans have sustained for so long, for example, made this season possible. It is the patriot’s belief in his country's potential that keeps alive the possibility of its success. This may (like the faith of the football fan) be founded on past glories, but must not entirely depend on them. There would have been no past glories without preceding belief.
Nor is it a question of hatred of others. A German patriot and an English patriot can be friends, if each acknowledges the rationality of the other's belief in his country. You do not need to despise Goethe to love Shakespeare. You do not need to deny another's right to be proud of his country in order to be proud of your own. Patriotism is the national equivalent of self-esteem, and is just as much a prerequisite to (and no more a guarantee of) success.
Trust, even though often misplaced or betrayed, is the key to success in any collective endeavour. Only if you can find people you can trust (and who can trust you) do you have a chance of achieving such goals. Patriotism is simply a kind of extended trust that allows you selflessly to strive for the greater good of people you don't know. Of course, as with the common or garden variety of trust, you will often be wrong. But you will achieve nothing without it.
Nothing in this life is purely good, however. Patriotism is a kind of love, and is as liable to be perverted as all other kinds. It is also as likely to be exploited. Most threats in history were exaggerated - or even fabricated - by politicians to cement their own power. They do these wicked things because they work. If he can persuade the people to focus on a national threat, real or imagined, a politician can exploit honest patriotism. Someone who feels profoundly that he should, if necessary, die for his country is unlikely to baulk at lesser inconveniences.
Therein lies the danger. Like all powerful forces, patriotism can be turned to good or evil. All who acknowledge it in themselves must be aware of that. That electricity can kill you is no reason to forswear the use of it. It is a very good reason, however, to be aware when enjoying its benefits of its dangers.
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Today’s teenagers are blessed with more technology than ever before, boasting the latest smartphones, tablets and countless other Mission: Impossible type gadgets. The younger generation is the go-to benchmark for the latest trends and fads. They decide what’s hot and what’s not.
A recent survey conducted by an Investment bank based in New York looked to find out about teenage consumption habits and technological preferences. The Piper Jaffray study surveyed 7,200 teens conducted both in-person and online, across 41 American states.
According to the survey, Apple’s iPhone was extremely popular with two-thirds saying they own one. Whereas only 7% of the teens surveyed own a smartwatch and just 16% said they would be willing to pay a hefty $350 for the upcoming Apple Watch. These truncated figures reflect the technology’s slow adoption process which may prove to be distressing news for the Cupertino-based tech giant. Trendsetters are already expressing little interest in the company’s otherwise hotly-anticipated form of wearable technology. The price tag could be a limiting factor towards teenage sales but who knows… it’s not like they’re the ones footing the bill!
At last year’s D: All Things Digital conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook liberally admitted the challenges of persuading a young kid who has never worn a watch to embrace a smartwatch.
But it’s not all bad news for Apple; the survey also stated that 54% of teens own an iPad, compared to 16% with an Android tablet and 6% with a Kindle Fire. Beats by Dre, a part of the Beats Electronics Company that Apple recently acquired, are also growing in popularity among young people.
The bottom line is how kids take to the new device; if it becomes the next must-have trendy piece of hardware then it’ll surely do well. An analyst at Piper Jaffray projects that Apple will sell 10 million units next year when the Apple Watch goes on sale in the first quarter of 2015. | <urn:uuid:369b6d65-cfe3-4af9-b870-7e29a843bf70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thekarachiite.com/style/apple-watch-time-is-of-the-essence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.922155 | 423 | 1.648438 | 2 |
AxoSim Intern Spotlight: Meet Anthony Brooks, Jr. and Samer MirfiqNews and Blog
This summer AxoSim had the pleasure of working with YouthForce NOLA Interns Anthony Brooks, Jr. and Samer Mirfiq. YouthForce NOLA is a local Southeast Louisiana nonprofit that builds partnerships between businesses and schools to help local students have access to career pathways. While interning at AxoSim, Anthony and Samer learned about database management and how to create Standard Operating Procedures to organize lab experiments. They received firsthand experience learning about science lab procedures.
Anthony Brooks, Jr. started his freshman year of college right after his internship. “I plan to use the skills I learned at AxoSim for a future career in engineering or any other path I decide to take,” he said. Anthony said that YouthForce NOLA helped him learn time management and problem-solving skills which allowed him to successfully balance his senior year of high school and his job.
Samer Mirfiq started his senior year of high school this fall. “Throughout my time at AxoSim I learned how to adapt to situations and to find solutions to problems that came up,” Samer said. His future goal is to attend a 4-year college and obtain a degree in Business. Samer said his time with YouthForce NOLA and AxoSim has inspired him to continue his hard work and make his career dreams a reality.
“The YouthForce program was an excellent opportunity for AxoSim to support STEM career education in New Orleans and I was honored to be a part of it,” said AxoSim Lead Scientist Corey Rountree, PhD. “It was a joy to get to know Anthony and Samer while we worked on different ways to improve our scientific database system here at AxoSim. We were able to share and discuss topics touching on science, engineering, startup companies, and many others. By the end of the program, Anthony and Samer had a much better understanding of what it’s like to work in a STEM field and we at AxoSim were happy to share our experiences and learn from them as well.”
AxoSim is grateful to YouthForce NOLA, Anthony, and Samer for allowing us to participate in their internship program. The future is bright for these young men and we are excited to see what their future has in store for them. | <urn:uuid:778dc486-16ac-4ad1-8eda-a2a92c981402> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://axosim.com/axosim-intern-spotlight-meet-anthony-brooks-jr-and-samer-mirfiq/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.980916 | 504 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Jobson Figueiredo was born in Barreiros in 1948 and live his childhood and youth in Garanhuns. He study at Diocesano College, wrote in local jornal “O Monitor”, was president of cultural clubs and was a host of a radio show called “A Voz Acadêmica” at Jornal do Commercio radio. In 1963, at Leaders Workers School, he attended the course and training of Student Leaders and in 1964 was the speaker of the Diocesano College of Garanhuns. Still young, in 1965, moved to Recife to complete their secondary education. During the brazilian dictatorship, he wrote for newspapers and had a jornal column about art.
As an active campaigner, held in 1968, a simulated jury of Ernesto Che Guevara, months later, the government decrees the Institutional Act Number 5 (AI-5). He was arrested, had burned works and was persecuted. Time passed, but still got the mark of a committed work and strong behavior. He was president several times of the the AAPP - Association of Professionals Plastic Artists of Pernambuco and fought for the law of artwork in public spaces (Law suggested by mester Abelardo da Hora for the city of Recife). This law was included in the Constitution of the State of Pernambuco. Jobson was elected Vice-President of the Culture Law of the State of Pernambuco, wich participated in the drafting.
Multiple artist, worked with sales, advertising, visual programming and opened his own workshop. He worked with various materials: clay, wood, polyester resin and fiberglass, went through painting in oil paintings and acrylic, drawing, photography, made xilo and lithographs, dominated the bronze casting technique of lost wax, making his own sculptures and for other artists. He made big restorations, projects and cultural events, national and international exhibitions and publish books.
This experience with several media, earned him the maturity to his great career as an artist. Also are this people that works with Jobson Figueiredo: Severino Gomes dos Santos - responsible for the technical part of the workshops and casting; Pablo Colares - Architect and sculptor and Igor Colares – graphic designer. | <urn:uuid:0196adf2-d521-46d3-8a48-4a8b782e29fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jobsonfigueiredo.com/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.981868 | 481 | 2.015625 | 2 |
6. Collectivity and relating in general
Having addressed the various objections to the importance of collectivity, I'd like to keep my readers on board with the intention, the purpose, the aim, the motivation for all this. So, to summarise or recapitulate a little, my motivation is to envision more clearly a way of being, a way of relating – more collectively; in more collectivity – where each individual member of the collective is thriving, is able to live up to their fullness, their richness, their potential, their ikigai if you like; while the collectives, the communities, the groups of people-in-common are also thriving, and contributing their part to the greater whole, to their surrounding eco-system; and where this circles back to having the potential to support the individual members of the collective in their own thriving. This intention also shows up at the core of my slightly earlier writings about collective ikigai.
My guess is that most people would agree in seeing the attraction of a society and a culture in which individuals were supported in finding their fulfillment, while at the same time contributing effectively to the common good. How to achieve that is, of course, a complex challenge – the term ‘wicked problem’ is often used. And at a very basic level, it may be obvious that a wicked problem cannot be solved by a simple approach. I'm suggesting here that such a wicked problem cannot even be solved by the most talented individual alone. The approach, if not the solution, needs to be found in something beyond the individual.
This is where Collective Presencing starts to point the way. There, we experience things that certainly seem as if they come from beyond any one individual. They seem to be part of the emergent properties of the well connected group – the close-knit, trusting collective, to use a phrase I've used earlier. But in my view we can benefit from a more detailed understanding of possible process here, beyond something like “now sit round in a circle and the solution will emerge”. And to guide us to that more detailed understanding, I would say we can benefit from looking at the characteristics of relating in collectivity. What would we see in a culture of relating in collectivity?
The kind of qualities of an open close-knit, trusting, collective are clearly connected to how people relate together, and this leads me to focus on the aspect of relating itself. What do we see in people's relationships? How would we see people relating, when they are embedded in this kind of culture?
Here, I'd like to pick up a lead from Ria's Collective Presencing book, section 3.5.
As we focus on I and Us we expand our attention to include what is happening in the group at large. […] As we develop towards collective, shared and rotating leadership and collective wisdom, we are all required to learn this skill and competence, not just so-called leaders.
Noticing what is in the group builds on the capacity to be present to myself and in relationship with the other(s), expanding now to perceive the wider group’s field. It might start with noticing when you feel some kind of disturbance or awkwardness in the overall field. At such moments, you could offer some questions in the circle as a way of checking whether your sensing is shared or on track, and to help all participants notice what is happening: What is going on between us? What is at play at a deeper level in the group now?
Two things I'd like to pick out here. First, “what is happening in the group at large” will sometimes be about me. Maybe there is a pointer here towards a possible development or change in myself. Maybe what is happening in the collective, if it cares about me, is a subtle nudging or guidance for me. Let's not be paranoid or narcissistic here – these will only be occasional, as there are many many other things that could be happening in the group that are not about me.
Notice the second point, though. “you could offer some questions in the circle as a way of checking whether your sensing is shared or on track”. This time, that's the ‘you’, the member of the circle, not the ‘you’ who might be being guided. Here is one of the keys, in my view. The other individuals in the group check with each other, the better to know whether their intuitions, their insights, are shared or just limited by their own ego. So, in this collective guidance process, it's not one other individual, let alone an authority figure, who is interpreting for you what is going on, it is the group as a whole collective. As I've pointed out before, for me at least, guidance is much more easily accepted from a range of nudges from non-authority figures than from one central authority figure.
I'd like also to draw attention to another possible assumption here. The image drawn out in the quoted passage seems to relate to the context of a circle, but in a close-knit collective similar processes could happen asynchronously, not just together in a circle. It's like the difference between a collective Zoom call, synchronous, and a series of one-to-one conversations, asynchronous. Any one of us may get a sense of a direction that may be good for another to move in. But rather than naming that in a circle where the other person is present, we could take our musings to other people in the collective, to check whether they have a related sense, or whether it is just our own material, our own triggering, that is coming up.
We don't all have accurate insights; we don't all possess the right skills to lovingly nudge a friend in a good direction; even if we have the skills, we may not be the right person at the right time. We don't know what exactly to say. But, from the collective experience of close-knit life, the opportunity arises, and we are moved to say something, from that place of loving concern and humility. Others are, too. We are not responsible for the growth and development of our friends, but maybe we can take responsibility to say those things that come from those promptings of love and truth in our hearts, when they come.
And we can practice being open to that kind of insight, guidance, nudging, or however it lands in us, from others.
Now I'd like to point as clearly as I can to the next level of systemic complexity. I'm suggesting that we can collectively help each other: not only, in general, to develop and grow ourselves; but also to live in relationship, to embody those relationships, that allow the collective that potential in the first place. I find this really hard to keep in mind, so please accept my apologies for my lack of ability to express this. I can only hope that by throwing a few words at this I might get across something of the vision that I feel coming up through me.
I have been assuming the existence of a close-knit, trusting collective here. But it is us, ourselves, who are the people who (I hope) wish to constitute this collective, and it needs us to relate to each other in certain ways. Not the kind of traditionalist, authoritarian ways that result in a power hierarchy, but the kind of ways we see, prefigured perhaps, in Collective Presencing sessions. Can we bring that level of presence, that degree of connection, into our relationships outside the setting of a circle? This itself needs ‘embodied’ skills, competences, and by ‘embodied’ I mean practiced, self-trained, expressed in our patterns of behaviour (including speech), and imprinted (for want of a better word) in our neural circuitry, whether we are consciously aware of our responses, or have made them so automatic that they become unconscious.
This seems to me to be a plausible way of ‘boot-strapping’ such a collective. We focus first on the skills – the communication skills, you could say, prosaically – that allow us to embody that close-knit trusting collectivity at (Kegan's) 5th order, not 3rd order. That enables the collective to be that emergent entity with enough collective wisdom both to consolidate those skills of collectivity, and to go forward towards living into our lives' purposes; whatever growth and development we need to learn in order to play the roles, to contribute in the wider world, to those goals, those objecives, those visions that we hold dear in our hearts.
The link with collective ikigai is two way. The collective of which you could be a member helps you towards your personal ikigai. But also, it seems to me, one of the more urgent purposes for our being in the world at this time is to constitute and embody these collectives; to research and communicate to others how it can be done, and to help others to find those collectives in which they can truly thrive, and contribute to the thriving of others, through the thriving of the collective.
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Hickory Elementary School first-grade teacher Lauren Byrd was named 2021 Harford County Public Schools Teacher of the Year at a live virtual event last night. Here are the details provided by Harford County Public Schools:
LAUREN BYRD NAMED 2021 HARFORD COUNTY TEACHER OF THE YEAR
1st grade teacher from Hickory Elementary School to vie for state title
Lauren Byrd, 1st grade teacher at Hickory Elementary School with 17 years of teaching experience, nine in Harford County Public Schools (HCPS), was named the 2021 HCPS Teacher of the Year during a surprise announcement at the 27th Annual Harford County Teacher of the Year live event. This year, the virtual event included approximately 200 invited guests and was open to all community members to join in the celebration.
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Sean Bulson made the announcement Wednesday evening to guests from all over the county, including elected officials, school administrators, educators, students, family, friends, and community sponsors.
“This event provides an opportunity for the Harford County community to come together, to celebrate the teaching profession,” said Dr. Bulson. “We shine the spotlight on five outstanding finalists. Listening to their students share what makes them special is one of the highlights of the evening and truly a gift for each educator, as well as for each of us in attendance. Mrs. Byrd illustrates the importance building relationships and creating an environment, whether in-person or virtual, has on encouraging and supporting students. I hope you follow Mrs. Byrd’s blog on our website through the upcoming year, and I’m honored to announce Mrs. Byrd as Harford County’s 2021 Teacher of the Year.”
Mrs. Byrd began her career with HCPS in 2012 at Roye-Williams Elementary School and currently teaches at Hickory Elementary School. Mrs. Byrd holds a master’s degree from Loyola University as a reading teacher and a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Juniata College. Mrs. Byrd was nominated for Harford County’s Teacher of the Year by the Turner family.
“Mrs. Byrd can inspire her students to ‘do hard things’ because she has herself modeled this in her role as an educator, serving not only the first-grade students daily in her classroom, but providing models for new teachers, serving on committees, and writing curriculum to benefit her colleagues in Harford County Public Schools,” said nominators Carl and Martha Turner. “She should be recognized as the 2021 Harford County Teacher of the Year due to her unwavering passion in meeting the needs of the individual student and the significant impact she has on the lives of young learners.”
Enthusiastic support for her nomination came from Mr. Brad Stinar, principal of Hickory Elementary School.
“Mrs. Byrd exhibits confidence, compassion, knowledge of content, high expectations, and empathy. She is fully immersed in the school community; she wants to see her students in her neighborhood, she wants them to see her, and continuously be a part of the broader school community. This is all part of building strong relationships which foster strong academic achievement in her students. Mrs. Byrd can be found everyday standing at her classroom door, greeting the children, welcoming children into their shared classroom. She’s built a community of learners who love to be in that special space; that classroom has been transformed into a campground, tropical rainforest, the arctic tundra… whatever the space needs to inspire the 6- and 7-year-old students who are there. Every time I go into that classroom, I do not want to leave! What Mrs. Byrd is doing with her students is magical; highly effective indeed.”
As the Harford County Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Byrd received a free lease of a brand new 2021 Nissan Rogue for one year courtesy of Jones Junction; a Dell laptop; a watch from Saxon’s Diamond Centers; and a big-screen TV from NTA Life, a Horace Mann Company. In addition, she was awarded multiple gift certificates; local merchant gift cards; and ,200 from HAR-CO Credit Union, which was provided to all five finalists.
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Mrs. Byrd will now compete for the title of Maryland Teacher of the Year to represent teachers across the state as an education spokesperson.
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We anticipate the state winner will be announced at the Maryland Teacher of the Year Event in October.
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Political party that espoused traditionalist conservatism in the United States during the middle of the 19th century.
Other influential party leaders that were members of the Whigs include Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William Seward, John J. Crittenden, and John Quincy Adams.
United States third party active during the 1860 elections.
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Upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber.
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County located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
John J. Crittenden, governor of Kentucky
Home rule-class city in Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
John J. Crittenden, Kentucky governor, U.S. Congressman, senator, attorney general
Not to be confused with the similarly-named cities of Russell in Greenup Co and Russell Springs in Russell Co.
Four homes in the city still stand that were residences of future governors of Kentucky: John Breathitt, James Morehead, John J. Crittenden, and Charles S. Morehead.
Unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery.
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Head of government of Kentucky.
7 men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms—John J. Crittenden, Beriah Magoffin, John W. Stevenson, Augustus O. Stanley, Happy Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Wendell H. Ford.
Lawyer, politician, and Union general during the American Civil War.
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American lawyer and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841 under President Martin Van Buren.
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Council: Improved library services key to economic recovery
STOCKTON – It will take years for Stockton to recover from bankruptcy, but City Council members agreed Tuesday night that a vibrant library system would play a vital role in the city’s economic recovery.
Responding to public outcry, council members said the city should do whatever it can to improve library services even as Stockton struggles with post-bankruptcy economic realities likely to stretch well into the future.
The council comments came at the end of a City Hall meeting highlighted by a strong turnout of library supporters who urged Stockton officials to repair the struggling system. The shape of those reforms, however, remain to be determined.
“Literacy is really connected to our economic recovery,” Councilman Elbert Holman said. “We need to provide a clear vision as to where the library needs to go.”
The Stockton-San Joaquin Public Library system serves all of the county with the exception of Lodi and has been a casualty of Stockton’s economic hardships in the past five years.
Community members who spoke Tuesday urged the city to freeze the process for hiring a community services director who would oversee the library. The city is accepting applications through Friday for a position that has been vacant for three years.
Speakers Tuesday asked that the city halt the process and make the library its own department, as it was before bankruptcy.
Then, they said, the city should hire a new leader to oversee the library system’s recovery. The past two library directors resigned amid controversy, with Chris Freeman exiting his position under a cloud earlier this month.
Councilman Moses Zapien suggested the council hold a study session on the libraries. His colleague, Paul Canepa, compared the struggles of the library to those of the troubled but currently reforming Stockton Animal Shelter.
Mayor Anthony Silva asked city staff to propose revised organizational charts that would make the library an autonomous department.
“Right now our library needs a leader to accept the challenge of restoring our libraries,” said Ahmed Salim, one of the speakers Tuesday.
Colleen Foster, a long-retired head librarian for the city, said several vacant community-services positions make this “an opportunity” for Stockton’s libraries.
“We need a strong library led by a department head to lead the library into a bright post-bankruptcy future,” she said.
Standing outside City Hall following Tuesday’s meeting, Foster said she was pleased with what she heard from the council.
“We really appreciate that they listened and are supportive of having this conversation,” Foster said. “We really feel we have a partner in the city.”
In other council news:
• The council approved responses to two past reports of the San Joaquin County Grand Jury.
One response was to a 2012-13 report that reviewed Stockton’s financial decline. The response agrees only in part with the grand jury’s findings. The other response largely agreed with findings by the 2013-14 grand jury relating to the retention of public-safety officers in Stockton.
• A Missouri company won a nearly $700,000 contract for repair of more than 3,300 feet of corroded pipes along Ralph Avenue between Airport Way and B Street. The lowest bid by a California-based company was $500,000 higher than the winning bid, according to a staff report. Construction is expected to be finished by the end of 2014.
• The council amended the city’s Municipal Code to establish a department dedicated to Stockton’s information technology systems. The move comes more than five years after the department was eliminated as Stockton moved to slash costs during its descent into bankruptcy.
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Wm Buckley Recently Received the Following Interesting Letter from his Brother Alfred.
U. S. S. C. 128, an Italian Port, Oct. 4, 1918
Received your letter dated Sept. 2, sure glad to hear from you.
We are out on patrol, or barrage as we call it. Most of the time waiting for subs. We had a little excitement a few days ago so I have a nice little story to tell this time. Cannot tell it all but will sometime.
We left our Base No. 25 last Sunday and got here Monday P.M. We heard rumors of a raid on an Austrian base. We stayed here till Tuesday night when we left. We ran across the Adriatic and sighted the enemy base at 11 o’clock. A number of English and Italian cruisers and a fleet of destroyers came up then. I sure was glad because we were then only ten miles off shore. They started bombarding the place at 11:30. We were prowling around some British cruisers. Just about this time the Austrians began getting our range and we had some close shaves. Those big pills were dropping all around and over us. Our lookout sighted three or four periscopes making for the destroyers. We put on all speed and as we passed over them we began dropping depth bombs. We dropped six in all. The other two chasers in our unit dropped as many more. We got one sub and each of the other two got one apiece, and perhaps more. We are officially credited with three subs, with saving the British cruisers from being torpedoed, and with capturing an Austrian Hospital ship. We let her go again. The Allies destroyed half of the town, sunk all the important ships in the harbor and three or four Austrian cruisers.
Some Italian chasers ran right into the harbor and torpedoed some ships and got away again. I cannot mention our casualties but they were of no consequences compared with the damage done to the base. The air was black with airplanes. Altogether it was a most wonderful sight and one rarely seen, those battleships bombarding the beach and shells falling all around us, mines blowing up, I would not have missed it for a lifetime.
The depth charges cause an awful commotion. It shakes the engine room something fierce, the vibration being so great it stopped one of the engines. The best part of it was I didn’t get a bit nervous so I was able to appreciate it all.
Well I am satisfied now that I was in one battle and helped down a few Fritzes.
Well I wish you luck and hope you come across safely. Will close now, hoping to hear from you soon.
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Trust in a relationship is essential. It plots bridges, preserves people honest, keeps secrets, makes obligations binding, makes promises and holds an area you in someone else’s existence. The more trust that is within a romantic relationship, the more linked that romance is and the more likely that relationship will persist. And, as with any kind of bond, a lot more trust there is between two associates, the more robust that attachment becomes. Which means that a relationship with a trustworthy partner is far more likely to last.
Therefore , how do we earn trust in a marriage? You get trust since they can be responsible and develop. You must be able to communicate your preferences and needs clearly. You need to be experienced enough to wait for your spouse to be an adult enough and willing to do precisely what is necessary before you promote those needs with them. Trust cannot be given, it ought to be earned.
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Trust in a relationship is an important the main recipe for success. Without trust, relationships go sour quickly and end desperately. This is true for any kind of relationships including romantic human relationships. There are plenty of effective, happy lovers out there without any sense of trust concerns. If you want to create your marriage work without problems, you should understand how to build rely upon a romance. It really is much less difficult as it might seem.
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COME SING WITH US THIS EPIPHANY SUNDAY
Come to a church that’s refreshing, inspiring, and fun!
At Princeton United Methodist Church, we play beautiful classical and sacred music during worship, which refreshes the spirit. We also sing new or well-known hymns and “gospel and folk songs.” We pray that our music will inspire everyone, old and young, and help them find faith and hope. Here are two of my favorite hymns that we will sing at this Communion Sunday service:
“Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us” is a gospel song written by Dorothy A. Thrupp (1836). Each verse of this hymn contains a promise we have received from God and a prayer we make because of that promise. We must, therefore, live our lives as Christ’s followers with faith and in prayer.
Video: “Beams of Heaven As I Go”
“Beams of Heaven As I Go,” originally titled “Some Day,” is a congregational song written by Rev. Dr. Charles Albert Tindley, an African American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. In this hymn, he asks the oppressed to stand fast in Christ, the one who guides us through this wilderness to peace and glory. “Often referred to as “The Prince of Preachers” and “father of gospel music,” he became a minister and founded one of the largest Methodist congregations serving the African-American community on the East Coast of the United States” (Wikipedia). The historic Tindley Temple United Methodist Church in Philadelphia got its name because of Reverend Tindley.
Click here to watch the PUMC worship service, listen to the beautiful music, the children’s story time, the scripture readings, the sermon, the prayers, and the story sharing.
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The most outstanding side in the competition was West Germany whose manager, Helmut Schon, had created a new team for this Championship. It was a team which proved to be even more spectacular than the one which had recently finished third in the 1970 World Cup.
The nucleus of the team was provided by the top German clubs of the era, Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach. The creative combination of Bayern’s revolutionary attacking sweeper, Franz Beckenbauer, and Borussia playmaker Gunter Netzer, lit up the European game. The assistance of adventurous young left-back Paul Breitner and supreme marksman Gerd Müller left no doubt that the right team had earned the crown of European champions.
The first round was again played on a mini-league basis, this time featuring eight groups of four national teams each. Then it was back to the two-leg, direct elimination quarter-finals. Again the entry was a record, with 32 nations competing and only Iceland, of the UEFA membership, remaining out – literally – in the cold.
Hungary, England, the Soviet Union, Belgium and Yugoslavia each finished two points clear in their groups, Italy ended three points ahead of Austria in group six and the West Germans ran away with group eight – albeit after being held 1-1 at home by Turkey in Cologne in their first match. They dropped only one other point, being held 0-0 at home in Hamburg by Poland when it no longer mattered.
The Germans finished four points clear of a Polish side they would see plenty more of in the next few years in both Olympic Games and World Cup.
The quarter-finals matched Hungary against Romania, holders Italy against Belgium, Soviet Union against Yugoslavia in a repeat of the inaugural Final, and West Germany against England.
Here the Germans made history with their first victory at Wembley, where they overran their English hosts 3–1. It was marvellous, if belated, revenge for the 1966 World Cup Final. Nor could England complain. Beckenbauer and Netzer provided the creative magic, Breitner, Uli Hoeness and Herbert Wimmer the attacking energy, and Gerd Muller the deadly finishing. Indeed, years later many experts considered the 1972 German side to have been superior to the one which, in 1974, defeated Holland to win the World Cup
The remaining quarter-finals saw the Soviets maintain their dominance over Yugoslavia, Belgium prise loose Italy’s grip on the Henri Delaunay trophy and Hungary squeeze past Romania after a play-off in Belgrade.
Belgium hosted the finals which saw the semis split evenly between eastern and western Europe. Anderlecht’s Parc Astrid saw the Soviet Union defeat Hungary 1-0 with East German Rudi Glockner as referee. Antwerp witnessed West Germany defeat hosts Belgium 2-1. The difference in the interest aroused by the ties remains evident from the attendance figures. Almost 60,000 fans jammed into Antwerp’s Bosuil stadium; a meagre 3,000 were scattered around the Parc Astrid.
Belgium’s consolation was to finish third after they beat Hungary three days later by 2-1 in the losers’ play-off in Liege. Raoul Lambert from Brugge and Anderlecht’s great Paul Van Himst scored the winners’ goals.
Beckenbauer and his team were clear favourites to win the final in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels. The Soviet Union had rebuilt around a nucleus from the Ukraine club, Kiev Dynamo. Players such as sweeper Murtaz Khurtsilava, playmakers Viktor Kolotov and Antoly Konkov and forward Vladimir Onishenko had brought new technical skill and tactical intelligence to a team thought previously to have been highly-disciplined but pedestrian.
Even the new, improved Soviet Union, however, proved no match for this German side. Netzer dominated midfield and hit a post before two typically opportunist strikes from Müller and another from Herbert Wimmer decided the match.
The 3–0 scoreline remains the largest winning margin of any European Championship Final. It also barely reflected the manner in which West Germany dominated from start to finish. Muller finished as the tournament’s 11-goal top scorer. He scored more than twice as many goals as each of the joint runners-up – East Germany’s Hans Kreische, England’s Martin Chivers and Holland’s Cruyff and Piet Keizer who claimed five apiece. | <urn:uuid:e55a897e-47e5-4218-9345-faf506173f8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keirradnedge.com/2016/06/09/euro-history-1972/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960186 | 947 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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OTHER ISSUES IN THE VETERINARY PROFESSION
Death is a subject that our society generally does not want to talk about. There are numerous reasons for that reluctance and I believe that reticence also manifests when our favourite pet faces a terminal illness. Animals in that situation cannot talk and tell us what they want in those difficult, end of life scenarios. They can't tell us clearly when it is time to let them go and when they no longer want the endless blood work, needles or scans. They are dependent on us to make those fateful decisions to end their lives and most of us don't want to do it. It is easy for us to pretend that their life force is strong and that perhaps tomorrow they will be better. Choosing to euthanize them feels like betrayal. It's like we are playing God and none of us truly wants to end the life of the sentient being, with whom we may have shared the past 15 years of our life. Yet we have to think about what is the right thing to do for our friend and not for ourselves. If the quality of our pet's life has, by any reasonable standard, deteriorated to the point that they are suffering daily and the future holds no likelihood of relief, then in my opinion, it is time to say good bye. No one can say exactly when that time should be but an experienced veterinarian is, I feel, in the best position to advise an owner when that time has come. If they decide to defer that conversation, in my mind, they are not truly serving either the owner or the animal in question appropriately. I know the veterinarian faces the risk of owner backlash and of being considered insensitive, but if a veterinarian isn't going to raise the topic of euthanasia and the animal is obviously suffering, who should? The same discussion needs to occur when a diagnosis, that carries a terrible prognosis for a pet, is first made. In this scenario, while it may take time for an owner to come to terms with what is happening, it is important that they are not given false hopes and encouraged to pursue futile tests and procedures, when realistically all the medical evidence indicates what the outcome will be.
Suicide in the Veterinary Profession:
I do not claim to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist with any training in the field of suicide, but studies have shown that there are many contributing factors leading to the appallingly high suicide rate amongst veterinarians, compared to the general population. These high rates, which are four to six times that of the general population, extend back many decades and they are a worldwide problem in countries as far afield as Australia, Norway and the United States. Almost seventy five percent of those killing themselves work in the companion animal field and the majority are males. What are some of the factors thought to contribute to the increased rates? These are:
a) Demands of practice such as long work hours and work overload.
b) Practice management responsibilities.
c) Client expectations and complaints.
d) Knowledge of euthanasia procedures and training to view euthanasia as a normal and acceptable method to relieve suffering
e) Ever-increasing educational debt-to-income ratio.
f) Poor work-life balance
g) Access to controlled substances such as euthanasia solution and the pharmacological training to calculate a lethal dose.
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Minnesota school districts belonging to the Association of Metropolitan School Districts (AMSD), a lobbying organization, are facing a collective budget shortfall of $235.3 million for the upcoming 2022-23 school year.
That figure comes from the results of an AMSD survey taken by 45 school districts across the state.
For example, Minneapolis and Saint Paul Public Schools are facing respective shortfalls of $59.5 million and $42.8 million — approximately 43% of the combined shortfall. Only eight school districts that took the survey reported no projected shortfalls.
The AMSD survey data does not account for “one-time federal funds” and assumes no increase in state or federal funding for public schools.
The budget shortfalls may be linked to a continued decline in public school enrollment. Across all Minnesota public school districts since 2019, more than 23,000 students have been taken out of public school and enrolled in private schools, charter schools, or homeschool. Much of this trend has been driven by elementary school students, according to Minnesota Department of Education data.
In a report on the survey results, however, AMSD attributed much of the shortfall to “chronic underfunding of the special education and English learner programs and the failure of the general education formula to keep pace with inflation over the last two decades.” The report does not mention declining public school enrollment.
“Special education is under-funded by $780 million in the current fiscal year. That means that, on average, Minnesota school districts are diverting $824 per pupil from their general fund to cover the shortfall,” the report says. “Similarly, the English learner program is under-funded by more than $146 million in the current school year. Here again, school districts are covering this funding gap with funds meant for general classroom instruction.”
“As school districts are forced to use general fund revenue to cover the shortfalls in the important special education and English learner programs, the general education formula has fallen significantly behind inflation since 2003. In fact, the formula would be $798 per pupil higher if it had simply kept pace with inflation over that time span,” the report adds.
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