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International Research on Family Education and Student Professional Competences
The partners conduced researchers and surveys among parents, educators and employers in Turkey, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. Here you can find the results of the researches and an overview the collected information.
The researches and the collected data allowed partners to write and interesting article on the current relationship amongst educators, families, children and employers and on the ways in which this relationship influences the personal success of students with disabilities or students with other abilities.
The expected impact from this intellectual output is to identify the needs of Family Education in the process of special education vocational training in different countries and to design a training program for them by gathering these needs in a common pool. In this way, it is aimed to create an impact not only on the institutions within the scope of the partnership but also on similar institutions in different countries and cities | <urn:uuid:9a2e502f-600a-4e40-a2c3-b203e1a49610> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weareatworktoo.com/research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937604 | 182 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Getting through the holidays while living with a mental health disorder is already difficult enough. Trying to manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19 adds another obstacle to navigate this year. It’s a new experience for everyone but those managing mental health struggles have an especially tough season ahead of them.
Restrictions put in place to limit the spread of coronavirus started almost 9 months ago now. They feel different during the holidays, though, a time that traditionally brings people together. Maintaining recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places limits on most options for typical holiday celebrations.
How can you manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19? You’ve probably dealt with heightened anxiety throughout the year already. Holidays are also hard without the added pressure of reducing the spread of the virus. Not being able to see loved ones this year is going to make it even worse for some.
No matter what your mind might tell you, you can make it through the holiday season this year. It might feel tough but it’s possible to manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19 and make it through to New Years! The following tips can help you get through the next few months while taking care of your mental health.
7 Tips to Manage Holiday Anxiety During COVID-19
Feeling anxious during the holidays is nothing new. Traveling for gatherings or celebrations and reconnecting with family you haven’t seen in a while takes a toll on most people. If you struggle with a mental illness, you’re all too familiar with the obstacles the holiday season can present.
The holiday jitters on top of recommended isolation are enough to make many people uncomfortable. There are a few things you can try out to manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19 though. Even though it’s an unknown experience for everyone, heading into the holiday season with a plan is the best way to maintain your well-being.
1. Set up a holiday season support network
Before the holidays are in full swing, set up a holiday season support network. Reach out to family members or friends who understand the extent of your anxiety. Explain the difficulties that come with the season during a typical year and the added pressure of isolation. Ask if they are willing to hold space as part of your support network over the next few months.
Your holiday season support network is a crucial tool to manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19. It should be a group that knows you well and is willing to take your calls throughout the day or night. Select people who can make themselves available when needed. Try to pick at least one person who can show up in person if the need arises.
2. Celebrate the holidays virtually
Technology has served as a saving grace throughout the pandemic. Video conference calls keep groups connected while FaceTime and other video call apps make it easy to stay in touch individually. One way to combat holiday anxiety is to celebrate virtually with friends or family.
Try to do this especially if you have annual traditions. It can help the time feel slightly more normal. Set up a time for everyone to meet on a Zoom or Google Hangouts call. Everyone can cook their favorite foods and gather on a conference call to eat together and converse. You might not get to meet up in-person but you can gather through the power of technology!
3. Stay connected with friends and family
Stay connected with your friends and family, both those in your holiday support network and those outside of it. Even if you meet up for a virtual family gathering, reach out to your loved ones. Chances are staying connected despite social distancing helps them as much as it helps you.
The calls don’t need to take up hours of your day. All it takes is a few minutes to reach out and let someone know you’re thinking about them and you love them. Trying to manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19 alone isn’t a great plan. Make sure you reach out to people throughout the holiday season to keep you from feeling too isolated.
4. Keep in touch with your care team
If you have a therapist or counselor in place already, make sure you keep in touch with your care team during the holidays. They’ve probably talked to you about your plans for the season already. It’s still good to confirm when you’re able to reach out to your care team and when you need to make use of other avenues.
You can also ask your therapist or counselor for a list of contact numbers if they aren’t available at a particular moment. Having trained professionals on hand during the holidays can be a life-saving preparation. It can be a difficult time and you want to be as prepared as possible.
5. Have a holiday party with your household
Do you live in a household with a roommate or two? Have a holiday party with your household! If everyone in your pod limits their exposure you can even have something resembling a traditional holiday meal.
Cut the prepared portions to accommodate a smaller gathering and encourage each person to bring their favorite dish to the table. You can all cook together to get in the holiday spirit and combat any of your lingering holiday anxiety. If your household is concerned about spreading the virus, each person can cook their own meal but you can still eat together!
6. Check in with yourself throughout the season
Staying in touch with others is important but you also should check in with yourself throughout the season. How will you know what kind of support you need if you aren’t looking inward and asking yourself how you’re doing?
Make sure to touch base with yourself daily and see whether you’d benefit from some extra help. Spend time in meditation, write in a journal, or use whichever method of reflection you prefer. Give yourself permission to take care of yourself during this difficult time.
7. Seek additional support if necessary
There’s nothing wrong with seeking additional assistance if necessary. You might need to check into an inpatient facility for a few weeks if the season proves too hard to manage alone. Inpatient mental health rehab will provide dedicated support to get you on track and feeling safe enough to manage your holiday anxiety during COVID-19.
You won’t be alone if you realize you need some additional structure during the next few months. Many different people will find they can’t make it through the holiday season without intensive aid. You can find comprehensive care at a certified residential treatment facility with knowledgeable staff and understanding peers.
Finding Help for Your Mental Illness
If you’re concerned about making it through the holiday season, Pasadena Villa is here to help. Our certified mental health treatment facility provides premier care to adults with cognitive, emotional, and mental disorders. We understand the year has been exceptionally difficult and we’re available to assist you.
Pasadena Villa offers multiple levels of care depending on your specific needs. Whether you’re looking for outpatient support or a residential structure, we can help. Reach out to our admissions staff today to speak with someone who can explain more about our programs and answer any questions you might have. We look forward to hearing from you! | <urn:uuid:ae17c33b-ca8a-4f14-aa8a-caf34f316f7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pasadenavilla.com/resources/blog/7-tips-to-manage-your-holiday-anxiety-during-covid-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957319 | 1,479 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) is developing a new online portal for media entrepreneurs and start-ups, accelerators and...see more
The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) is developing a new online portal for media entrepreneurs and start-ups, accelerators and SMEs active in the digital economy.
The CDMN’s new initiative seeks to organize as much information, research and data from private industry, non-profit organizations and government agencies about the country’s digital media sector as possible, and archive it in one accessible location.
As part of its drive – dubbed the Moonshot -- to “do anything online” by 2017, the CDMN says the information collection is needed to build collaboration and commercialization of innovative ideas in information and communication technology.
The Moonshot goals were tabled at CDMN's Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum, an industry event that brought together industry, government and academic participants.
Identified so far have been five key targets:
* Access to talent, including the digital skills and talent required to meet these rapidly evolving needs;
* Access to financial capital and investments required for technology and business growth;
* Connectivity for Canadians of any financial status and geographic location;
* Mobilizing digital content, from ensuring Canadian content is accessible to realizing commercialization opportunities created through content development or management; and
* Productivity improvements through the adoption of digital media technologies and the infrastructure to support it.
CDMN has also launched its Canada 3.0 2013 SoapBox, created by HitSend, a start-up incubated at Toronto’s Ryerson Digital Media Zone, a digital media incubator and CDMN partner.
Using SoapBox, site visitors can offer, gather and share ideas, which can be voted on by other users using a simple click of a thumbs up or thumbs down icon
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The Nikon EM is a beginner's level, interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, single lens reflex (SLR) camera. It was manufactured by Nippon Kogaku K. K. (today Nikon Corporation) in Japan from 1979 to 1982 (available new from dealer stock until circa 1984). The camera was designed for and marketed to the growing market of new women photographers then entering the SLR buyer's market. The EM uses a Seiko MFC-E focal plane shutter with a speed range of 1 to 1/1000 second plus Bulb and flash X-sync of 1/90 second. It is 86 mm (3.4 in) high, 135 mm (5.3 in) wide, 54 mm (2.1 in) deep and weighed 460 grams (16 oz). Unlike most Nikons of the time, it was available only in black. The EM has no full manual exposure mode capability, but instead was intended to be used by inexperienced photographers who could not easily master the intricacies of shutter speeds and f-stops. There were also significant changes to the EM's mechanical and electrical components to reduce its production cost relative to previous Nikon cameras: dimensional tolerances weren't as tight, there were no ball bearings in the film advance mechanism, and no high-quality titanium shutter. | <urn:uuid:29140835-424c-49ba-8fd7-9469d2168947> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vintagecamerahut.com/products/nikon-em-35mm-slr-film-camera-with-makinon-28-80mm-f3-5-4-5-lens | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957257 | 264 | 2.375 | 2 |
Florence Foster Jenkins - The Glory (????) of the Human Voice
The Glory (????) of the Human Voice
By Florence Foster Jenkins
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Florence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster; July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur soprano who was known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. The historian Stephen Pile ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."
Despite (or perhaps because of) her technical incompetence, she became a prominent musical cult figure in New York City during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Cole Porter, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lily Pons, Sir Thomas Beecham, and other celebrities were fans. Enrico Caruso is said to have "regarded her with affection and respect".
The poet William Meredith wrote that a Jenkins recital "was never exactly an aesthetic experience, or only to the degree that an early Christian among the lions provided aesthetic experience; it was chiefly immolatory, and Madame Jenkins was always eaten, in the end.
|1||Queen Of The Night Aria|
|2||The Musical Snuff-Box|
|3||Like A Bird|
|7||Adele's Laughing Song|
|8||"Faust" In English|
|9||Valentine's Aria (Ere I Leave My Native Land)|
|10||Jewel Song (O Heavenly Jewels)|
|11||Salut, Demeure (Emotions Strange)|
|12||Final Trio (Sung As A Duet)|
- Performer: Florence Foster Jenkins
- Audio CD (April 14, 1992)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sony Classical
- Run Time: 52 minutes
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Maternal mortality levels in the United States have increased 33% since the start of the pandemic, with Hispanic and women of color dying at higher rates than white women, according to a new study.
The study, published by JAMA Network, reveals how the pandemic continues to disproportionately affect the health care of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.
“This problem is not new and the pandemic simply reiterates the problems we are already facing in this country,” said Dr. Jacques Moritz, a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and medical director of Tia, a multi-clinic health care model. and services for women.
The study, released by ABC News, establishes that researchers analyzed data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to see how COVID-19 affected maternal deaths during or within 42 days of pregnancy.
The report found that overall maternal mortality has increased by 33% since the start of the pandemic. These changes may be due to conditions directly related to COVID-19, such as respiratory infections, or indirect factors experienced by an overburdened health care system.
Hispanic women had nine more deaths per 100,000 births, an increase of 74% compared to the years before the pandemic. Black women had 16.8 more deaths per 100,000 births, an increase of 40% compared to the previous figures.
White women, however, had only 2.9 more deaths per 100,000 births, a 17% change.
The findings of this study reinforce previous research showing how inequalities in health care have been felt by racial and ethnic minorities since the start of the pandemic.
This study could even complement the research published by the Institute for the Advancement of Health Equity (IAHE) of Sutter Health, based in Northern California, which revealed that pregnant Hispanics are 2.4 times more likely to contract COVID-19. 19 during pregnancy compared to white people.
At that time, the research also revealed that infection is highest during the third trimester, underscoring the importance of promoting COVID vaccinations early in pregnancy and before conception to protect both parents and baby. .
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What is Heritage Significance?
For change to heritage assets to be managed in the best way, their heritage significance needs to be fully understood. This understanding underpins all planning policy relating to heritage assets and enables decisions to be made that minimise harm to an asset. More detail on heritage significance and local listing is available in Historic England Advice Note 7 'Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage'.
We will use the criteria in the table below to assess nominated local heritage assets. An asset will need to meet at least two of these criteria to qualify for inclusion on the local list. Some examples have been provided, but due to the broad range of asset types these are illustrative and not exhaustive.
As part of the nomination process, we are asking you to state which of these criteria is applicable to the asset you are nominating. Understanding what you think is important about the asset will help us to assess it. There is some overlap between these criteria, so feel free to answer 'yes' to any that you feel apply to the asset you are nominating.
Local distinctiveness may lie as much in the modest or the everyday as in the rare and spectacular. The idiosyncratic, the quirky, the odd. Or just a cherished and familiar part of the local scene. And remember, heritage assets are not just buildings. They can be anything from features in the ground to gardens and burial grounds, from signs and street furniture to the remains of our industrial heritage.
Surrey Local Heritage List Project 2021/22 – Selection Criteria
|Ref||Heritage Significance Criterion||Description||Notes and Examples|
|A||Rarity||A rare survival of an asset type, either due to its intrinsic rarity or through its integrity, i.e. it is largely unaltered. The age of an asset will be a factor to be taken into consideration under this criterion. Rarity will also be considered in a local context, i.e. an asset may have greater significance in one place than in another.||Although age is not a criterion itself, the older an asset is the rarer and more significant in heritage terms it is likely to be. |
Rarity has a geographical dimension. Context and location will be important as survival and significance vary considerably depending on what an asset is, and where it is located.
Rarity may relate to the survival of fragile features such as prehistoric field systems and hollow ways.
|B||Group Value||Strong functional or visual link with other assets, the asset contributing to the understanding of asset groups or complexes which have significance or prominence in a local context. Assets located within conservation areas may qualify for inclusion under this criterion, if they contribute positively to the character of the area, and/or contribute to an understanding of its development.|
Designed landscapes, whether in an urban or rural setting, can have group value with other heritage assets – country house, hospital, pavilion – each contributing to and enhancing setting and/or understanding of the other.
The survival of a former granary building within a complex of farm buildings, or a coach house or stables once serving a dwelling or coaching inn, may enhance the understanding of the wider site.
Assets may also collectively have value, for example where they were designed as a single entity – such as a planned settlement or area.
|C||Architectural or artistic value||Assets displaying a distinctive or innovative style or design, to include exceptional examples of local craftsmanship or detailing, unusual building technique or local distinctiveness through use of local materials. Assets reflecting in their design and layout key aspects of significant national trends, adapted to local conditions, may also qualify for inclusion under this criterion.|
Features can be internal or external, but more weight is likely to be given where assets display external features as they are more widely visible and prominent in the local scene.
Characteristic detailing such as ironstone paving and galletting illustrate the use of local materials and contribute to local distinctiveness.
|D||Archaeological Value||Assets containing evidence of past human activity, to inform and enhance knowledge of the development of the area, including evidence of industrial, rural, agricultural practices or technologies.|
Archaeological value can relate not just to buried archaeology, but to buildings and other assets such as designed landscapes holding evidence of past human activity and worthy of expert investigation at some point.
Assets can show change over time and contain evidence of – for example – use and adaptation over many centuries of history.
|E||Historic Association||Assets which have a strong and evidenced association with important local or national person, event or social movement. This could include an association with nationally or locally recognised architect or garden designer.|
For associations with a person, this will need to be strong and of some duration, with some tangible evidence remaining – for example, part of a building added during a person's occupancy, or a literary work written or inspired by a place. A brief stay or visit would not be sufficient to meet this criterion.
Examples might be a place closely associated with a reform movement, such as the suffragettes, or an industry which is closely associated with the development and history of a town, village or area.
Military and defence features may also qualify for inclusion under this criterion.
|F||Landmark Status||Assets which are highly valued by and significant to local communities due to their historic, communal or striking aesthetic value, and which are prominently located in the public realm.|
Key to this criterion is prominence, something which is easily and widely recognised as being an integral part of a place, and which gives it identity.
An asset which, if it was no longer there, would be very much missed.
Examples might be a space which is a focal point for a community, such as a bandstand or pavilion within a public park or garden. Or a piece of public artwork, sculpture or memorial.
|G||Social and Cultural Value||Assets which make a strong contribution to the collective memory of a place and local identity, including those which provide evidence and understanding of past societal customs, practices or beliefs, and assets which have acquired local significance and prominence through documentation, research or previous identification as an asset of heritage value (for example as a former Grade III building or other form of local heritage asset). Assets which provide an important focus for faith, worship or commemoration will also be considered under this criterion.|
Places with social or cultural value may have little or no tangible or physical evidence but may represent past traditions or practices.
Surrey's past is everybody's past. Local heritage lists should reflect the richness and diversity of the cultural heritage valued by all sections of its communities.
Burial grounds and other landscapes of remembrance could be considered under this criterion, especially less common examples such as burial grounds attached to institutions, mass or emergency burial grounds, and non-Anglian burial grounds.
Significant 'firsts' may qualify under this criterion – the first use of a technology, or the first place of worship established by an immigrant community, for example.
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Andrew Jackson Donelson, diplomat, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 25, 1799. He attended Cumberland College, Nashville, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1820. He spent two years as aide-de-camp to his uncle, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, before resigning his commission in order to study law. In 1829 President Jackson appointed Donelson his private secretary; Donelson remained in Washington in that capacity until the expiration of his uncle's second term on March 4, 1837.
In 1844 President John Tyler appointed Donelson chargé d'affaires of the United States to the Republic of Texas. His duties were to present American propositions to President Anson Jones and to further the cause of annexation of the republic to the United States. Donelson performed both tasks with skill and diplomacy. In March 1845, while he was temporarily in New Orleans, Congress passed a joint resolution admitting Texas to the Union, provided that the state adopt a republican form of government before July 1846. On April 12, 1845, Donelson interviewed President Jones, and on April 15 Jones called Congress to meet on June 16, 1845. Jones presented the proposition of the United States, and the offer was accepted unanimously. A convention was called to meet on July 4, 1845, and the ordinance accepting the terms outlined in the joint resolution of the United States Congress was passed the same day. Donelson was given a certified copy of the ordinance, which he forwarded to the secretary of state. He was subsequently minister to Prussia and in 1852 a candidate for the vice presidency of the United States. He died at Memphis, Tennessee, on June 26, 1871.
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Many people regularly express their love for God in worship services. This is good, but is it enough? Jesus warned about people who honored Him with their lips, but their hearts were far from Him (Matt. 15.8). They spoke of love, but they did not really possess it. So, what is love? How do we know whether or not we love God?
1 John 3:17 says: "But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?" In my relation to other human beings, if I am not willing to help them - if I don't do for them what they need to have me do - then I don't love them, no matter how much I may say that I do.
This is also true in our service to God. The next verse says: "My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth." Loving God is not just a matter of what we say, but of what we do. It is an everyday way of life.
1 John 5:3 says: "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments..." Do you love God? Your actions answer the question. No one really loves God unless he is diligently studying God's will and obeying it. Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments" -- John 14:15. And again, "...this is love, that we walk after his commandments" -- 2 John 6.
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Life Planning and Career Development
In this unit you explored five different cultural groups and the need for cultural competence. As was discussed by Zunker, we must understand our own assumptions, values, and biases, as well as the world view of others; and then develop appropriate strategies and interventions. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of cultural competence, your limitations as they relate to career counseling, and your plan to develop the needed skills.
For this assignment, choose a cultural group of which you are not a member and create a persona for a fictitious member of that group. Address the following elements in your assignment:
Describe a fictitious persona from your chosen cultural group, that you will use as your client or student. For example, if you are an African-American male you may choose to write about a person who identifies as female, Navajo American Indian, married with five children, living on a reservation, forty years old with a high school education. Analyze how societal norms such as gender, age, culture, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics may have influenced your client’s career development.
You need to select a minimum of three characteristics or diversity issues. How might these factors impact the person’s relationships with others and life roles What strategies would you use Assess how biases and assumptions can impact the career counseling process both from your perspective as the counselor and from the perspective of the client or student. Self-assess your own biases and describe how you will work to decrease these biases when working with diverse populations.
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Top Law School Scholarships in 2022
Law school, like many other professional degrees, is known for being extremely expensive, but potentially lucrative. Lawyers are among the highest paid professionals. However, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, the average law student will graduate with over $140,000 of debt. This is where law school scholarships can come into play and help you pay for your J.D.!
Jump ahead to:
- Top law school scholarships in 2022
- How to win law school merit scholarships
- Frequently asked questions about law school scholarships
- Summary of law school scholarships
- Upcoming scholarships
- Explore these other scholarship categories
Keep on reading to learn about how you can get scholarships and financial aid to pay for law school!
Top scholarships for law school students in 2022
- Eligibility: Black law school students in New York
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: March 30, 2022
- Eligibility: Open to undergraduates planning on a career in law. GPA, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, financial need, volunteer activities, and essays are all considered
- Amount: $2,000 per year for four years
- Deadline: April 1, 2022
- Eligibility: Aspiring law school students of a racial minority at any level of study
- Amount: $500
- Deadline: April 16, 2022
- Eligibility: Law students committed to racial justice who are entering their first or second year of full-time legal study at an accredited law school. GPA, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, volunteer activities, and personal essays are all considered
- Amount: $30,000 ($10,000 per year for three years)
- Deadline: May 1, 2022
- Eligibility: Students who are second year law students and residents of the state of Alabama
- Amount: $5,000
- Deadline: June 3, 2022
- Eligibility: Women with demonstrated financial need who have been accepted to an ABA-accredited J.D. program
- Amount: $10,000 per academic year. Recipients will be assigned mentors for support and guidance throughout their law school and early professional career
- Deadline: June 15 of each year
Other scholarships for J.D. candidates
The above scholarships are all specific for J.D. candidates, but there are other scholarships that are for graduate students in general. These graduate school scholarships are definitely worth checking out as you search for new scholarship opportunities. You can also check out our general guide to graduate school financial aid options.
How to win law school merit scholarships
As we mentioned, the majority of scholarships for law school students will be awarded by individual law schools. Here are some tips to ensure that you will be in the running for merit scholarship opportunities.
Prep for your LSAT
The LSAT is the entrance exam that law schools use in the United States. In both the law school admissions and scholarship process, the LSAT carries a lot of weight. For context, the top score possible on the LSAT is a 180.
As you are thinking about law school, you will absolutely want to spend time prepping for the LSAT and may even want to take a prep course to ensure that you are ready.
Pick the right law schools
Not all law schools award a large number of scholarships, Therefore, it is important for you to pick the right law schools that award a high percentage of students with aid. These law schools award strong financial aid packages ranging from partial scholarships to full tuition to awards that are above and beyond full tuition.
Our advice is to identify law schools where your LSAT score is about the published 75th percentile at the law school. This will give you a good idea of the schools where you are a strong candidate for merit scholarships.
You should also take a close look at the post-graduate earnings and job placement for alumni of the law school. This will help you assess how this particular JD program might pay off for you. Remember, salaries for lawyers are not alike. The average corporate lawyer is going to be taking home a much bigger paycheck than a public defender. Keep this in mind when assessing data points around starting salaries.
Don’t forget about need-based aid
Merit scholarships are only part of the equation of paying for law school. The other part of the equation is need based financial aid, which includes need based grants and student loans. This is why we recommend that every law school student applies for financial aid using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA.
Take advantage of in-state tuition
There are over 80 public law schools that are approved by the American Bar Association, so chances are that one of your state universities has a law school.
One of the great things about public universities is that they offer discounted tuition for residents of their state! Take a look at some of these examples to see how residents save money:
|Law School||In-state Tuition||Out-of-State Tuition|
|U of Alabama||$23,610||$43,060|
|U of Connecticut||$30,354||$61,396|
|U of Kansas||$22,769||$28,804|
|U of North Carolina||$24,480||$41,626|
|U of Texas||$36,429||$54,096|
Tuition rates are for the 2020-2021 academic year
In-state tuition for residents represents a large tuition discount at many colleges and universities, so this is something that you should absolutely consider.
Some states will also have tuition reciprocity agreements, so you may be able to qualify for in-state tuition as an out-of-state student.
School-specific law scholarships
- Santa Clara Law School Dean’s Fellow Scholarship – Provides up to full tuition for a student. Automatically considered upon submission of application
- University of Minnesota Law Scholarships – Awards up to full tuition for incoming students
- University of Chicago David M. Rubenstein Scholarship – Provides up to 60 full-tuition scholarships at U Chicago per year
- University of Virginia Karsh-Dillard Scholarship – Awards up to full tuition for University of Virginia law students
- Boston University School of Law Dean’s Scholarship – Awards full tuition scholarships for a select number of students
- Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz Merit Scholarship – Full tuition plus $2,500 annual stipend for select law students
- Scalia Law Scholars Early Decision Program – Students who commit to George Mason’s Scalia School of Law with Early Decision may be eligible for a full-tuition scholarship
- University of Arizona Techlaw Fellowship – Law students with a STEM background can receive full tuition plus a stipend at University of Arizona
- University of Colorado Boulder Law Scholarships – University of Colorado Boulder offers many scholarships for incoming students, and full-ride scholarships for continuing students who show promise
Frequently asked questions about law school scholarships
How hard is it to get a law school scholarship?
It is not uncommon for law schools to offer scholarships; as of 2019, 73.3% of law students were receiving some form of financial aid. However, this doesn’t mean it’s easy to earn financial aid for law school. You’ll have to seek out opportunities and apply for them.
Oftentimes, law schools offer scholarships in the form of fellowships. Many law students work for a law firm, NGO, or land a graduate assistantship during their education. This makes law school more affordable while providing students with valuable work experience.
You can also apply for private scholarships such as the ones on this list. Another great resource is our scholarship search tool. You can use this tool to receive custom-matched scholarship opportunities that automatically update as deadlines pass and open. This way, you’ll never miss out on a potential scholarship!
When should you apply for law school scholarships?
It’s never too early or too late to apply for law school scholarships! If you are considering going straight into law school from undergrad, you can start looking at opportunities during summer before your senior year. This way, you can scope out opportunities to apply to throughout the year and start working on your essays.
But once the year starts, don’t stop applying! New opportunities open all the time, so to maximize your scholarship funds, you should check back periodically for new ones.
Does FAFSA pay for law school?
If you are applying for financial aid in law school, you will have to fill out the FAFSA. Law school students are eligible through federal student loans through the FAFSA. However, they are not eligible for Pell Grants. So, while the FAFSA is useful for applying for law school, it will not earn you direct federal funds. Your FAFSA will qualify you for institutional aid and for student loans.
How common is it to get a full ride for law school?
In general, full rides are highly uncommon in education. However, there are a few ways that students can get a full ride law school scholarship if they play their cards right. One of the best ways is to get an employer to pay for you. You can look into tuition reimbursement as an option, for example. Other law schools offer students many opportunities to earn money, whether it is through graduate assistantships or other paid opportunities.
Some law firms also partner with universities to pay for students’ education. For example, at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, two law firms offer diversity fellowships.
Can you get a Pell Grant to pay for law school?
You cannot use a Pell Grant to pay for law school. Only undergraduate students are eligible for Pell Grants. However, many institutions offer grants for potential students. You should reach out to any law school you are interested in to see whether they offer specific grants.
Summary of top law school scholarships:
- $1,000 NY Law Scholarship
- Herbert Lehman Education Fund Scholarship
- Earl Warren Scholarship
- WiseGeek Diversity in Law No-Essay Scholarship
- Cabaniss Johnston Scholarship
- When There Are Nine Scholarships Project (WTAN Scholarship)
Upcoming law school scholarships
- Eligibility: Students who will be first year law students
- Amount: $15,000 over three years
- Opens: February 1, 2022
- Eligibility: Minority students entering law school in the Fall 2022
- Amount: $15,000 (up to twenty awards given out)
- Opens: February 1, 2022
- Eligibility: Applicants enrolled or enrolling in a law school accredited by the American Bar Association who has demonstrated interest in pursuing a public service legal career and/or commitment to public service
- Amount: $5,000
- Opens: June 15, 2022
- Eligibility: U.S. citizens or permanent residents of Asian descent who are enrolled full-time as a 1L in a J.D. program at an ABA-accredited and approved law school in the U.S. with financial need. Applicants must intend to practice in the private sector in the New York City metropolitan area following graduation
- Amount: $15,000
- Eligibility: Racial and ethnic minority students studying law
- Amount: $15,000 (10 to 20 are awarded)
- Opens: February 1, 2022
- Eligibility: Students who are entering their first year of law school and residents of the state of Rhode Island
- Amount: $25,000 (two are awarded)
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This simple question of ‘when is my baby ready for solids?’ creates a huge amount of confusion. Let’s dig into the answers with up to date evidence and also bust some myths!
I was SO excited to get my first baby eating-not as anxious as my mother-in-law. But, that’s a whole other story! Fast forward nine years to my fourth baby and I’d realised there really is no rush! You have the rest of your life to feed them.
Start introducing solids at ABOUT six months
But the exact timing of when to begin eating solid foods depends on your baby. So what seems like a simple question suddenly gets confusing! Chances are you’ve already come across conflicting opinions about starting solid foods.
From self-styled weaning experts to heated threads in online groups to unsolicited advice from family and friends you’ll soon find out (if you haven’t already) that everyone’s an expert on the best time to start solids. You may have heard four months, six months, or sometime in between.
So, why is there so much confusion about the timing of solids?
Here’s what the experts say about the timing of solids
There’s no point someone on the internet thinks is the best time to start solids. Let’s look at what the real experts recommend. And we’re not interested in what one lone expert says, but instead what groups of experts say. Groups of experts come together to develop evidence-based guidelines where they gather and examine ALL of the available evidence (not just one or two studies) about the best time to start solids.
So, let’s take a look at some recent guidelines.
The World Health Organisation and UNICEF
The WHO (World Health Organization) recommend the introduction of nutritionally adequate and safe complementary (solid) foods at six months together with continued breastfeeding up to 2 years of age or beyond.
This recommendation is based on a consideration of the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding.
Complementary foods (solids and liquids other than breast milk or infant formula) should not be introduced before four months but should not be delayed beyond six months.
Most infants should not start solid foods (complementary feeding) until around the age of 6 months, having achieved developmental readiness.
Best Practice for Infant Feeding in Ireland (Food Safety Authority)
The health guidelines provided by the HSE (from your PHN/health visitor) are based on this document. And they recommend that the introduction to solid food or weaning should take place at about six months of age. The recommendations are the same for both formula-fed and breastfed babies.
They also mention that it is safe to start weaning after 17 weeks, but the exact timing will depend upon your baby’s signs of readiness. (FSAI 2012)
Summary of recommendations on when to introduce solid foods to your baby’s diet.
|SACN||About 6 months||Yes|
|FSAI||About 6 months||Yes|
|ESPGHAN||Between 4-6 months||Yes|
|Self-styled ‘weaning expert’||Around 5 months||No|
Reasons why experts recommend not starting solids before four months of age
Your baby’s kidneys and gut are not mature enough to handle food
Breast or formula milk provides everything your baby needs
Introducing other foods or drinks can displace more nutritious milk
Adding solids too early can increase the risk of obesity later on
It can increase their risk of food allergies
More prolonged exclusive breastfeeding may be associated with a reduced risk of tummy bugs and respiratory infections
And why ‘food before one is not just for fun’!
The catchy rhyme ‘food before one is just for fun’ isn’t strictly true. It should certainly be fun! But introducing solid foods at around six months is needed to provide your baby with more energy and iron-rich foods. Milk is still significant to your baby’s nutrition, but it’s not enough all on its own. Your baby also needs to develop its chewing skills.
Plus introducing different textures to your baby stimulates the development of muscles involved in speech and the development of your baby’s mouth.
Introducing potential allergens before your baby’s first birthday also helps to prevent food allergies. How cool is that?
How will I know EXACTLY when my baby is ready for solid food?
Why is it AROUND six months?
Because there’s no one perfect age for first foods, every baby is different. The best approach is to watch your baby for signs that they are ready for solid foods.
Three clear signs show that your baby is ready for food other than breast milk or formula. And you will need to see all three signs together. It’s rare to see these three signs together before six months.
NO 1: Your baby can sit upright with minimal assistance and hold their head up.
Have you ever tried to eat with your chin on your chest? It’s not easy, and it’s a choking risk. So your baby needs to be stable in their core with good head control so that they can eat safely without risking choking.
Can your baby sit for a few seconds without help or with minimal support and hold their head up well?
NO 2: They have good hand-eye coordination.
You’ll see your baby look at toys and teethers, pick them up and bring them to their mouth. If they can’t do that, then they’ll struggle with baby led weaning and finger foods.
Your baby shows signs of good hand-eye coordination. Yes or no?
NO 3: They can swallow food.
Have you ever seen funny videos of parents trying to spoon-feed babies who are just spitting it all back out? It’s great for YouTube but not for your baby! Pushing all of the food out with their tongue like this shows that their tongue-thrust reflex is still very active.
Your baby’s tongue-thrust reflex usually fades between four to six months. Trying to feed a baby whose tongue thrust hasn’t faded is frustrating for both of you. You can check by putting your finger on your baby’s bottom lip, and if they stick their tongue straight out, chances are they’re not quite ready yet.
Are the guidelines different for breastfed babies and formula fed babies?
No, these signs apply to all babies, whether they are breastfed or drinking infant formula. And regardless of whether you’re planning on offering purées or baby led weaning.
When is a premature baby ready for solids?
If your baby was born early (before 37 weeks), you could start solids begin sometime between ‘corrected age’ 4 and 6 months. But make sure that your baby is showing all the signs of readiness.
What if I think my baby is ready for solids and then realise they’re not after I’ve started?
Don’t worry. You might mistakenly think your baby is ready and a few days in realise they’re not. If your baby is under six months, then stop, wait until six months and start again. Just because you started doesn’t mean you have to plough through.
Although, once your baby is six months of age it’s important to keep offering new foods. No pressure though, eat new food together, relax and let your baby get playful with new food. How much food they eat isn’t important.
Breast milk and infant formula continue to provide lots of baby’s nutrition throughout the first year.
Now, let’s bust some common myths about the timing of solids
I read online that the best time to start is at 5-5.5 months so my baby can build up to three meals by six months.
There’s a chance that some babies might be ready at five months. But not all or most babies. And this isn’t a good reason to start a baby who isn’t showing all the signs of readiness. It’s not a race! You can start solids at six months and still build up slowly to three meals a day by about seven months. Starting solids is about introducing new tastes and food textures and not about how much food your baby eats.
When you do start introducing solid foods at about six months move quickly from first tastes to a wider variety of foods, particularly foods high in iron. There’s no need to spend weeks and weeks offering only rice cereal (baby rice) or various combinations of fruits and vegetables. It’s a commonly held myth that you need to offer new foods singly before offering more complicated meals of soft food.
I’ve heard that if you start solids early, then your baby is more accepting of new flavours.
Research doesn’t support the existence of a ‘critical window’ for the acceptance of solid foods between 4 and 6 months. Starting solids at around six months of age is not associated with difficulty in baby’s accepting foods later on.
Certain foods like green vegetables can be harder for baby’s to like, so it’s worth offering them regularly, especially at the beginning. Sweet foods like sweet potato will be devoured but that doesn’t mean that you want to offer the same foods all the time.
Is it better to introduce solids early to prevent allergies?
Unless your baby is high risk and a health professional has advised you to start before six months, there’s no need to start before your baby is showing all the signs of readiness. On the other hand, once you do start solids at six months, aim to begin introducing potentially allergenic foods as soon as you can to help prevent food allergy.
Potential allergens include cow’s milk in an exclusively breastfed baby. Infant formula contains the same proteins as cow’s milk.
LEARN MORE >>> How to introduce potential allergens quickly and safely
My baby is watching me while I’m eating, does this mean he’s ready?
Not necessarily. It’s normal for babies to be interested in new things and in what you’re doing. And this sign alone doesn’t tell you that your baby is ready for baby food. Your baby is interested in everything you do. But are they ready to wear make-up or take the car for a spin?
Remember breast milk or infant formula provides all your baby’s essential nutrients until six months. The only vitamin and mineral supplementation your baby needs is a baby vitamin D3 supplement if they’re exclusively breastfeeding or drinking less than 300mls infant formula.
My baby is waking up at night when she previously slept through. Surely some solids will help her sleep a bit longer at night, that’s what my mother keeps telling me!
There’s no evidence to suggest that introducing solids help babies sleep any better. There are lots of reasons why babies wake at night, that often have nothing to do with hunger. They may be going through a growth spurt and wanting extra milk feeds. Offer extra milk until they’re ready to begin solid food.
One study showed that babies who started solids at three months slept for an average of 17 minutes longer than those who were only just starting solids. The differences between the groups got smaller after six months. Think about the reasons above for not starting before four months. Is it worth 17 minutes extra sleep?
WATCH THIS >>>Babies and sleep-what to expect
My little man is a buster. Everyone says he needs more than milk due to his size.
Milk can undoubtedly provide enough energy for a baby up to 6 months of age, even if your baby is big and growing quickly. Milk is a much better source of energy than first baby foods. Think about it, how could a little bit of broccoli (or even porridge) provide more calories and protein than breast milk or formula milk?
So your baby doesn’t start solids simply because he is big. He’ll get the energy he needs from his milk. Also, being bigger doesn’t mean that your baby is developmentally ready for solid foods.
My little girl always has her fists in her mouth, and I think she’s trying to tell me she’s ready for food.
To be able to eat food, your baby needs to be able to move her tongue to the back of her mouth and swallow. If your baby is chewing on her fist, this does not tell you she can swallow. However, this is normal behaviour for a small baby, and she could just be teething!
Wait for the reliable three signs of readiness before introducing solids.
My baby has reflux, and someone suggested that starting solids might help.
There’s no evidence to support the theory that introducing solids can improve symptoms of reflux. For some babies, more solid foods may improve symptoms, for others, first solid foods can make symptoms worse, and for many, it makes no difference.
In my experience, a great way to prevent over-feeding (which leads to worsening of symptoms) is to introduce solids with finger foods (baby led weaning) rather than spoon-feeding. Remember your baby needs to be six months for finger foods.
MORE INFORMATION >>> Understanding reflux
People online talk about a baby having an open gut before six months and that it’s dangerous to start solids before then.
Babies are born with what is known as an ‘open gut’. An open gut means that the cells that line the gut have little gaps between them so substances can pass more easily into the bloodstream. But we know that these gaps close up quickly after birth. And that from 4 months onwards the gut is mature enough to handle first foods.
Take home message about the timing of solids
So to sum up, watch your baby and not the clock!
Before you start offering solids ask yourself these THREE simple questions:
1. Can your baby sit for a few seconds without help or with minimal support (and hold their head up well)?
2. Does my baby show signs of good hand-eye coordination?
3. Has my baby’s tongue thrust started to fade?
If you can answer, YES to all three then Ready, Steady, Wean!
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Bishop the Bear was created to honor and celebrate the WASP of WWII and to captivate kids' imaginations, encouraging them to soar!
As many of you know, I've been sharing the WASP WWII history for almost 20 years, through songs, videos, an afghan, trading cards, interactive displays, kiosks, the first WASP app, an illustrated WASP history book, and interactive web pages. Anything outside the box that will captivate, engage and educate kids is what excites and propels me.
Enter Bishop, my next ‘big idea’ to challenge young kids to follow their dreams, work hard, persist, and keep on learning. Through Bishop, we can reach the next generation--raising awareness and sharing the inspirational WASP history in a completely new way.
You don’t have to be a WASP to Fly HIGH in what you do. HOW do you do it? Will YOU SHARE what you’ve learned so that a child can be inspired to do something they might never have done?
My prayer is that Bishop will show us all how exciting and fulfilling it is to dream big and someday, FLY—in whatever we choose to do! Join us! Change the future by honoring the past and share your own inspiration, honor, courage, and love.
I'd like to invite you to read all about it on our new KICKSTARTER page.
HERE IS THE LINK! Then, please, join us, and let me know what you think!
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
F L Y I N G F O R T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E
“B A C K W A R D S I N H I G H H E E L S”
By Nancy Allyson Parrish
Director, Wings Across America
Director, Wings Across America
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did,
but backwards and in high heels.” Faith Whittlesey
but backwards and in high heels.” Faith Whittlesey
Up until America was thrust into a raging World War on December 7 of 1941, American women were not expected to do anything particularly significant, important or courageous. Before that date, women were only expected to raise, teach and take care of the men who would do the significant, important and courageous. Women were expected to do the housework, the cleaning and the dishwashing. Women were certainly not expected or encouraged to go above and beyond in anything, much less fly airplanes for their country.
World War II changed all expectations. In fact, World War II forever changed the role of women in America, including military aviation. Why? With American combat pilots in very short supply after severe losses in North Africa, America desperately needed pilots—any kind of pilot! Even a woman.
All it took was one visionary, determined pilot named Jacqueline Cochran who, in 1939, had written to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and proposed the unconventional idea of ‘using women pilots’ in the non combat roles. Add to Ms. Cochran one desperate and open minded General named Hap Arnold. After she made several official proposals for a program to give women pilots the same training as the male pilots, the General finally gave her the opportunity to put her training program into effect. That one decision eventually gave America the untapped resource so badly needed: courageous, patriotic young women pilots, committed to victory and willing to go where no woman had ever gone before: the cockpit of an American military aircraft.
We all were patriotic, and we all wanted to serve our country in some way. People just were beating the doors down signing up for service, men, and, of course a lot of women, too. And we were pulling together in a way that I’ve never seen since then, and probably will never see again.
WASP Marion Hodgson, 43-W-5
WASP Marion Hodgson, 43-W-5
With the Army Air Force’s promise of militarization, the first class of 29 raised their right hands, swore the oath and began Army Air Force flight training at the Municipal Airport in Houston on Nov. 16, 1942. Three months later the training program was moved to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. In just over two years, a total of 1074 trainees took the same 'oath' all military personnel take, completed seven months of AAF flight training, graduated and, together with 28 WAFS (Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Service) became WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women in history to fly America's military aircraft.
We worked like dogs in dirty, greasy coveralls. We had to break down an engine, we had some tough ground school classes, but oh, the flying was so wonderful. WASP Doris Tanner, 44-W-4
From the first day of training to the day the WASP hung up their Army parachutes for the last time, everything the women pilots did was scrutinized, measured and recorded. Their health, weight, strength, skill, stamina, patience and perseverance were tested. Every time a WASP stepped into a new kind of aircraft, or flew a new kind of mission, it was a groundbreaking experiment on behalf of all women pilots. As every WASP knew, if one WASP failed, the whole program would be at risk.
CO of Flight Operations, Camp Davis took a very dim view of women in the military and especially those flying airplanes. His welcoming words were, "Both you and these planes are expendable. Either accept that fact or pack up and go home." 2 WASP were killed at Camp Davis. WASP Marion Hanrahan, 43-W-3
The WASP DID NOT FAIL. In fact, they EXCEEDED beyond all expectations. In two years, at 120 air bases across America, WASP flew over 60 million miles, in every type aircraft and on every type mission any male AAF pilot flew, except combat. WASP attended Pursuit School and Officer Candidate School. They flew strafing, night tracking and smoke laying missions. They towed targets for air-to-air and ground-to-air gunnery practice, with gunnery recruits firing live ammunition. They ferried planes and transported cargo, personnel and parts of the atomic bomb. They instructed, flew weather missions and test flew repaired aircraft. WASP even flew aircraft that male pilots refused to fly, including the B-26 "Widow Maker" and the B-29 "Super Fortress," to prove to the male pilots they were safe to fly.
When we landed at Dodge City, the sergeant that met us drove us by what he called, ‘the bone yard’—four B-26s had ‘cracked up’ within the previous month, killing the entire crews. And he said, ‘If you girls have any sense, you’ll turn right around and go back where you came from, because that thing is a killer.’ Well, of course, we didn’t do that. And the Commanding Officer said, ‘if you stay, and if you pass, you will be the first women in the history of the Air Force to fly a bomber.’ So he left the room for us to talk it over. And, of course, we all wanted to fly it. WASP Sandy Thompson, 43-W-5
They flew with an unwavering urgency and a passion for their mission: to free male pilots for combat. WASP not only passed every test, they outscored their male counterparts.
They had so many airplanes and so few pilots. We were just as busy as we could be all the time. Just every time they came in, they’d have another airplane for you. My favorite? The P-63. It was quite an airplane. I just loved it. I flew as many as I could, as far as I could, as fast as I could. WASP Betty Fernandes, 43-W-3
Thirty-eight WASP were killed flying for their country. Because they were officially civilians, their bodies were sent home in cheap pine boxes, their burial at the expense of their family or classmates. These heroic pilots were denied any military benefits or honors – no gold star allowed in their parents' window, no American flag for their coffins.
You either had a chance of doing it or go home. Those who wanted transfers went home! We did what we were assigned to do...with no regrets! WASP Ruth Thomason Florey, 43-W-4
Three weeks before a 44-W-4 trainee was to graduate, her mother received an official telegram from the country her daughter so proudly served. It simply said: "Your daughter was killed this morning. Where do you want us to ship the body?"
On Dec. 7, 1944, in a speech to the last graduating class of WASP, General Arnold said, “You and more than 900 of your sisters have shown you can fly wingtip to wingtip with your brothers. I salute you…We of the Army Air Force are proud of you. We will never forget out debt to you."
With official orders ‘not to talk about their training or what they were doing,” the WASP stood helplessly by as General Arnold's request to militarize the women pilots was defeated in the Congress. On December 20, 1944, when victory seemed certain, the WASP were quietly and unceremoniously disbanded. There were no benefits and few ‘thank-yous’. They hung up their parachutes and paid their way back home. Their military records were classified “confidential” and filed away in government archives, where they remained, unopened, for the next 33 years, unavailable to historians who wrote the official accounts of WWII. The AAF did forget -- and so did America.
In November, 1977, under the leadership of General Arnold's son, Col. Bruce Arnold, USAF Ret., surviving WASP, and Senator Barry Goldwater, Congress narrowly voted to give WASP the Veteran status they had earned. WASP were not even invited to the bill signing. Their medals came in the mail.
I think that’s important for young people today to realize that there were people before them that did things that were dangerous…but in order for this country to be free, that’s what it took. And they did it without question. WASP Deanie Parrish, 44-W-4
It has been over 65 years since the WASP blazed their trail, but the history remains inspirational. Backwards in high heels? Not exactly. But, with a slight nod to the beautiful Ginger Rogers who danced the exact same steps as Fred Astaire, the WASP completed the same training, flew the same planes and the same missions. They did everything their country asked and more. They paid their way to serve their country, paid to bury their fallen comarades, and they paid their own way back home.
They never expected anything—except to FLY for their country, and that they did, with honor, integrity, courage, sacrifice, commitment, faith and patriotism.
Posted by buglegirl at 9:00 PM
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
What inspires you to do more than you thought you ever could? What inspires you to dream bigger, strive harder, and reach higher than you ever could have imagined? In trying to answer those questions and the all-important final question, “What inspired you to DO what you DO?” I need to start with the WASP, beginning with the first WASP in my life, my mom.
Imagine being around (or more appropriately surrounded by) a determined, dynamic, passionate, patriotic, smart, spunky, stubborn (but in the good way), amazing, opinionated, optimistic, encouraging, unstoppable woman — and I’m just getting warmed up! I could go on.
Long story short, imagine meeting and listening to 100 or more women with those same attributes? Yes, all the WASP I’ve met are just like mom, completely, utterly and absolutely inspirational.
Once you meet a WASP, the one thing you do not want to do is to disappoint them, and you find yourself striving to exceed their expectations. Why? Because the inspiration that comes from the WASP is not just about flying. It is about courage and patriotism, and about doing your absolute best while you are being scrutinized, weighed, measured and tested by some who just might be rooting for you to fail. It’s about rising above the ordinary and doing the “extra” ordinary, about commitment, persistence, honor, sacrifice, service, faith, and living a life for the cause greater than yourself.
It is contagious.
My mission to share the inspirational history of the WASP began with my big idea, “Mom, let’s interview a few of the WASP in Texas and share their stories online.” “No,” said mom, “if you interview ONE WASP you need to interview THEM ALL.” “Mom,” said I, “That’s impossible.” She quickly shot back, “With God’s help, nothing is impossible.” Guess she told me!
And so it began. Our partnership and our journey across 19 states, 110 interviews, countless web pages, and outside the box projects later. Almost twenty years have passed, and I am certain of one thing; I am still inspired by the WASP.
Through it all, I have been guided by God’s hand, my mother, the WASP’ gentle encouragement and participation, and the spirit of the WASP. Needless to say, I have never walked alone.
I’ve been uplifted by these American heroines, and by their stories, their service and their humility. My wish for all of you is that the spirit of the WASP encourage you and inspire you to ‘fly' higher than you’ve ever flown in absolutely everything you do. If you need help, ask a WASP!
God bless you all,
Nancy Parrish is the Executive Director of Wings Across America a digital history project located just off the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. If you'd like to know more, visit wingsacrossamerica.org!
*originally published in the Women in Aviation Conference daily news blast
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Posted: Sunday, March 15, 2015 12:01 am
By REGINA DENNIS firstname.lastname@example.org
A local mother-daughter duo was recently inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame for their efforts to preserve the history of women pilots in the military.
Deanie and Nancy Parrish were recognized last weekend in Dallas for their work with Wings Across America, a nonprofit they established to chronicle contributions of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, who tested military aircrafts and participated in domestic flight training exercises, freeing up male Army Air Force pilots for combat in World War II.
Deanie Parrish, 93, entered the WASP program in 1944, paying her own train fare from her hometown of Avon Park, Florida, to Sweetwater, Texas, for seven months of flight training at Avenger Field.
She served as a test pilot for new military aircraft at the Greenville Air Force Base in Mississippi and was later stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, flying B-26 bomber planes and pulling white toe-tag banners male pilots used for target practice.
Nancy Parrish, a former producer for KWBU, started documenting her mom’s WASP experiences online, then proceeded to track down more than 100 WASPs to record their memories for a video history website.
The women also established a WASP museum in Sweetwater plus two traveling museum exhibits on the WASP program.
One traveling museum exhibit the Parrishes created is now part of a permanent exhibit at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan, while another was recently on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.
“My first thought was just that I was overwhelmed,” Nancy Parrish said of the honor. “To be put in the category with the women who have gone before in this particular prestigious hall of fame was unbelievable.
“Jackie Cochran, who started the WASPs, is in the Pioneer Hall of Fame, and some pretty remarkable women who have done some remarkable things are in the Pioneer Hall of Fame. It’s kind of mind-boggling. It really helped shine another light on the WASPs themselves.”
Photo courtesy Women in Aviation International
World War II Women Airforce Service Pilot Deanie Parrish (center) poses with her daughters Barby Parrish Williams (left) and Nancy Parrish at the Women in Aviation International conference in Dallas. Deanie and Nancy Parrish were inducted into the organization’s Pioneer Hall of Fame
Other inductees included Priscilla Blum, co-founder of the Corporate Angel Network that provides free air travel to cancer patients to receive treatment, and the late Phoebe Omlie, who was the first woman to receive a commercial pilot’s license.
Peggy Chabrian, founder and president of Women in Aviation International, said the Parrishes are the first family members to be jointly inducted into the hall of fame. But all of the members of the nomination review committee ranked the Parrishes at the top of their lists, she said.
Making story known
“Starting 15 years ago, when at that point the WASP story wasn’t as well told, they were instrumental in helping make that story known,” Chabrian said. “The WASPs have gotten more recognition over the last several years, partially due to their efforts.”
Chabrian said the organization has a particular focus on the WASPs, since those were the first women to fly military aircraft. The group was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010 for their service.
Photo courtesy Nancy Parrish
Nancy Parrish, left, and her mother Deanie, right a Women Airforce Service Pilot who served during World War II, were inducted into the Women in Aviation International’s Pioneer Hall of Fame.
Nancy Parrish said she and her mom recently developed a free WASP app that includes the group’s history and a song Deanie Parrish wrote about the unit’s history.
Deanie Parrish is writing a book about her experiences, and Nancy Parrish wants to create more online content from the videos she produced interviewing the WASPs.
“Our goal is to just spread the inspiration that the WASPs bring to as many different groups as possible,” Nancy Parrish said. “We want it to touch kids, we want it touch grown-ups, we want it to challenge high school kids.
“We want to show them that the sky is not just the limit — it’s beyond the sky, you can do anything. And the WASPs did.”
Posted by buglegirl at 4:32 PM
Friday, February 27, 2015
For Release 9 a.m. CST
Mother daughter team from Waco, Texas
to be inducted into WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame
Waco, Texas — February 17, 2015 —Women in Aviation International has announced the induction of mother daughter team, Deanie and Nancy Parrish of Wings Across America; Priscilla (Pat) Blum, founder of the Corporate Angel Network; and Phoebe Omlie, extraordinary aviation trailblazer, into the Women in Aviation International’s prestigious Pioneer Hall of Fame.
These “women who changed aviation history,” will be honored at WAI’s 26th Annual International Conference, held on March 5 - 7, 2015 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. The ceremony will take place at the closing banquet on Saturday, March 7, 2015.
"Our induction ceremony is always the highlight of the closing banquet," says WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian. "These women and their accomplishments deserve to be recognized so that our members can thank those who came before them and initiated new undertakings or preserved the role of women's contributions throughout aviation history.”
THE 2015 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES:
Deanie and Nancy Parrish’s selection honors their ongoing mission to educate and inspire America with the little known history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP, the first women in history to fly America’s military aircraft. The Parrish’s achievements include creating Wings Across America, a non-profit project at Baylor University; interviewing and digitally videotaping the oral histories of 105 WASP across the US; creating the comprehensive “WASP on the Web” website; founding the National WASP WWII Museum; initiating and leading the 2009 campaign to award the WASP the Congressional Gold Medal (the nation’s highest civilian award); initiating and leading the campaign to induct the Texas WASP into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame; writing/publishing WASP In Their Own Words, An Illustrated History; designing two traveling WASP exhibits (including the first interactive exhibit: Flygirls of WWII, most recently displayed at the Story of Texas Museum in Austin, Texas); designing the first WASP app: Flygirl WWII; and writing the first WASP rap song: We Got The Stuff, The Right Stuff.
Priscilla (Pat) Blum, along with Jay Weinberg, founded Corporate Angel Network (CAN), a 34 year old not for profit organization whose mission is to arrange free travel for cancer patients traveling to and from their treatment centers in the available seats on board corporate jet aircraft. In its first full year, 1982, a dozen corporations flew a total of 23 cancer patient flights. In 2014, 560 corporations signed on as CAN providers and an average of 220 cancer patients were flown each month for an annual total of 2550. The 47,000th cancer patient will be flown in Feb 2015.
Phoebe Omlie: Once one of the most famous women in America, Phoebe Omlie earned the first Commercial Pilot's License by a woman and became a successful air racer. During the New Deal, she held executive positions in federal aeronautics. During the 1920s, she bought a JN-4D and learned how to perform stunts with her future husband Vernon. She danced the Charleston on the top wing, hung by her teeth below the airplane, and performed parachute stunts in the Phoebe Fairgrave Flying Circus.
The Women in Aviation, International Pioneer Hall of Fame was established in 1992 to honor women who have made significant contributions as record setters, pioneers, or innovators. Special consideration is given to individuals or groups who have helped other women be successful in aviation or opened doors of opportunity for other women. Each year, the organization solicits nominations from throughout the aviation industry for the WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame.
The 2015 Conference celebrates 26 years of WAI Conferences. With the theme "Connect, Engage, Inspire," the WAI Conference will include professional development seminars, education sessions, tours, workshops, networking events, speakers, and a commercial exhibit area. The Conference concludes on Saturday evening, March 7, 2015, with WAI's annual banquet where dozens of scholarships are awarded and the four Pioneers are inducted.
Secure online registration is available at www.wai.org/15conference, and varied registration options exist. Student rates and military rates make the Conference more affordable. In addition, WAI offers an "Accompanied Child" rate. Conference attendees may register for a full package, a one-day package or simply for specific events. Onsite registration will be available as well.
Women in Aviation, International is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization dedicated to providing networking, mentoring and scholarship opportunities for women and men who are striving for challenging and fulfilling careers in the aviation and aerospace industries. For more information, contact WAI at 3647 State Route 503 South, West Alexandria, OH 45381, Phone (937) 839-4647; Fax (937) 839-4645 or through www.wai.org.
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Posted by buglegirl at 12:39 PM
Monday, May 27, 2013
Memorial Day is a revered United States federal holiday which occurs each year on the last Monday in May. It is a day for special remembrances of the men and women who died while serving their country as members of the United States Armed Forces.
When my first ‘WASP on the Web’ pages were published in 1996, they included an ‘Above and Beyond’ section-- with graphics and information on each of the thirty-eight WASP and trainees who were killed during WWII. Unfortunately, there were very few pictures of the trainees that had been killed, and some of the graphics were, at best, only sketches of their faces.
These same graphics were used in my 2010 “WASP In Their Own Words Illustrated History Book” and the ‘Above and Beyond’ sections of our Fly Girls’ traveling exhibit.
This past December a young woman named Vicki Oldenburg was contacted ‘out of the blue’ by a woman who was digging thru photos in an old antique store near her home. The woman found a photo and a postcard that captivated her imagination, because the postcard was from a young woman named Margy Oldenburg who was in training to fly airplanes. As Vicki later wrote, “The fact that she found me is still a small miracle.”
Soon after, Vicki called to ask me for more information on Margaret, who had signed her postcard 'Margy.' Vicki’s father was married to Margaret when she was killed. He later remarried and started a family, but he never forgot his first wife, Margaret Oldenburg, who was in training in Houston to become a WASP.
Vicki sent me digital copies of the photo of Margaret and the postcard. When I finished hand tinting the photo, I felt like I was meeting Margaret for the first time. As with all WASP, there is a special twinkle in her eyes. What a beautiful young woman she was!
So, on this Memorial Day, I would like to introduce you to Margaret "Margy' Sanford Oldenburg, 43-W-4. Because of this small miracle, I have completely redesigned our “Above and Beyond” pages, which have now been published: http://www.wingsacrossamerica.org/in-memoriam.html
May your lives be filled with God's blessings of good health, loving family, special friendships and memories that continue to warm your hearts. Thank you for your service to our country and for your continued support for our mission: “WINGS ACROSS AMERICA.”
v/r written and posted by Nancy Parrish
with special thanks to Vicki Oldenburg
Posted by buglegirl at 2:06 AM
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Spirit of the WASP
by Nancy ParrishEarly in October, 2012, a World War II air-to-air B-26 tow-target pilot cut a symbolic ribbon at Wings Over the Rockies Aviation and Space Museum in Denver, Colorado. Just beyond the ribbon, high above the polished floor, overlooking the beautiful planes stretched wingtip to wingtip across the pristine hangar, is a visually stunning, factual, inspiring exhibit--a tribute to an unsung group of heroes: the Women Airforce Service Pilots -- for many years considered ‘the best kept secret of World War II.‘ On that special day, when WASP Deanie Parrish cut the ribbon for the “FLYGIRLS OF WWII EXHIBIT,” WASP’ history was no longer a secret at Wings Over the Rockies!
A tribute to the WASP -- in honor of Women's History Month and the THIRD ANNIVERSARY of the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII.
Volunteers and WASP Deanie Parrish at the FlyGirls WWII ribbon cutting:
Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Denver Colorado
The trailblazing WASP were the first women in history to fly America’s military aircraft. That is amazing, indeed! Yet their unselfish contribution to the Allied victory in World War II is not just a story about women who flew American military aircraft. The WASP history is a tapestry of extraordinary testaments of courage and honor, of patriotism, persistence, and faith, and it is a story of service, commitment, and sacrifice.
The story began in 1939, when a visionary, spirited lady pilot named Jacqueline Cochran met with President and Mrs. Roosevelt and proposed the unconventional idea of training women pilots to fly military aircraft, should they ever be needed. They agreed. Jackie had the audacity to believe that airplanes didn’t know the difference between male and female pilots! She then submitted her idea to Gen. Hap Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Corps.
He dismissed the idea immediately. Who could blame him? Consider, for just a moment, what the expectations were for women across America on December 6, 1941. Up until then, American women weren’t expected to do anything significant or courageous. They were expected to be teachers, librarians and secretaries; or wives and mothers who would raise their sons to do significant, courageous things. That all changed on December 7, 1941.
During the early months of 1942, after severe losses of combat pilots over North Africa, Gen. Arnold became desperate for more pilots. Jackie Cochran was passionate, persistent and well prepared. She convinced the General to make the bold, historic decision to give qualified licensed women pilots a chance to serve their country. That one decision eventually gave America the untapped resource so badly needed: courageous, patriotic, young women pilots, willing to go where no women had ever gone before: the cockpits of America’s military aircraft.
“When the telegram came saying, “Your services are needed in the Army Air Corps. If interested, report at the Palmer House in Chicago,” I was amazed. I could serve my country and fly. WOW!” WASP Margaret Ray Ringenberg
“After my husband was taken prisoner at Bataan, I had gone into the Women’s Defense Corps. I did the fire fighting, the life saving, the pistol shooting, and Air Raid Warden. Working in the daytime at the Adjutant General’s Office, I went out to Doc Hale’s Air School and learned to fly.” WASP Kay McBride D’Arezzo
“I quit my job and moved to the airport. I pumped gas, made sandwiches, and worked on planes. My room was an old Army cot in an old shack. I got my meals and one hour of flying time a day.” WASP Penny Hall Halberg
“When I heard about Pearl Harbor, I was horrified. I tried to donate blood. They said I wasn’t old enough. Then my father told me about the WASP. I thought, that’s perfect. That’s why I learned to fly. I had several boyfriends who were airline Captains. I had excellent instruction!” WASP Dori Marland Martin
With the Army Air Force's promise of militarization, the first class of 29 licensed women pilots raised their right hands, took the military oath, and began Army Air Force flight training at the Municipal Airport in Houston, Texas, Nov. 16, 1942.
“Jackie (Cochran) called me to her apartment. She showed me a copy of a letter from the War Department to the Commanding Officer in Houston. It said, “We know we have to give these women a chance to fly. We do not think they will ever be able to fly military airplanes. Get rid of them as soon as possible.” So, twenty-five of us went to Houston and beat the odds. We became Class 43-W-1.” WASP Geri Elder Lamphere Nyman
From the first day of training to the day the WASP hung up their Army parachutes for the last time, everything they did was scrutinized, measured, and recorded. Their health, weight, strength, skill, stamina, patience, and perseverance were tested. Every time a WASP stepped into an aircraft or flew a mission, it was an experiment on behalf of all women pilots. Every WASP knew if one WASP failed, the whole program would be at risk.
“On our first day, the chief pilot told us: “It is up to you whether this entire Women’s Flying Training Program succeeds and opens the way for hundreds of pilots like you to fly military planes. Or you can fail, by acting like spoiled brats, by giving up because you don't like the food, or your flight instructor, or ground school. It’s up to you. You are the Guinea Pigs.” WASP Byrd Howell Granger
Three months later the program was moved to Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. In just over two years, 25,000 women applied for AAF flight training, a total of 1,830 were accepted, but only 1074 completed seven months of training and graduated. In Aug. of ’43, the graduates, together with 28 civilian women pilots who had been hired by the Air Transport Command to ferry aircraft, were officially named WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots, by Commanding General Hap Arnold.
The program was not only an unprecedented success; it exceeded all expectations. In two years, at 120 air bases across America, WASP flew over 60 million miles in every type aircraft and on every type mission any male AAF pilot flew, except combat. WASP attended Pursuit School and Officer Candidate School. They flew strafing, night tracking, and smoke laying missions. They towed targets for air-to-air and ground-to-air gunnery practice, with gunnery recruits firing live ammunition. They ferried planes and transported cargo, personnel and parts of the atomic bomb. They instructed, flew weather missions and test flew repaired aircraft. WASP even flew aircraft, including the B-26 "Widow Maker" and the B-29 "Super Fortress," as experimental ‘morale boosters’ for male pilots.
“When we landed at Dodge City, the Sergeant drove us by what he called, 'the bone yard'—four B-26s had 'cracked up' within the previous month, killing the entire crews. He said, 'If you girls have any sense, you'll turn right around and go back where you came from, because that thing is a killer.' The CO said, 'If you stay, and if you pass, you will be the first women in the history of the Army Air Force to fly a bomber.' So, he left the room for us to talk it over and, of course, we all wanted to fly it.” WASP Sandy Thompson
The WASP flew with an unwavering urgency and a passion for their mission: to free male pilots for combat.
“The P-63 was quite an airplane. I just loved it. I flew as many as I could, as far as I could, as fast as I could. There was one route where you’d have to take the lane West all the time, and the barn was on the left. And if your barn was any place except on the left, you were off course. We always just had to fly by sight, for about, maybe a year. Nothing, just go. No radio. No nothing.” WASP Betty Archibald Fernandes
The pioneering service of the WASP was not without sacrifice. Thirty-eight WASP were killed flying for their country, their bodies sent home in cheap pine boxes, their burial at the expense of their family or classmates. Still considered civilians, these heroic pilots were denied any military benefits or honors, no gold star allowed in their parents' window, no American flag to cover their coffins.
Three weeks before 44-W-4 trainee Mary Howson was to graduate, her mother received an official telegram from the War Department. It simply said: "Your daughter was killed this morning. Where do you want us to ship the body?" AAF Telegram, 1944
The WASP did everything their country asked them to do and more. When handed orders to fly a military aircraft, no matter what kind it was, what the mission was, what the weather was, or what the destination was, they never flinched.
“You either had a chance of doing it, or go home. Those who wanted transfers went home. We did what we were assigned to do...with no regrets.” WASP Ruth Florey
“P-39 I had never flown with a tricycle landing gear. The Instructor stood on the wing, showed me where the instruments were. So I get in and I buckle up and he jumps down. I said, "Well, where are you going to sit?" And he said, "Lady, it is a one seater, you’re on your own!" And he looked like he didn’t think he’d ever see me again.” WASP Rosa Lea Fullwood
“Two of the WASP are just as good as I am at this particular job, and hell, I think I’m the best in the Army!” AAF male pilot, Camp Stewart, Georgia
WASP paid their own way to serve their country and, after 60 million extraordinary miles of flying, they were disbanded. Though disappointed, they simply hung up their parachutes and paid their own way back home.
In 1977, 33 years after the WASP were disbanded; they were finally granted the Veteran’s status they had been promised. The bill gave them the right to be buried with an American flag on their casket.
In 2010, the WASP were given an honor of extraordinary proportions by our nation, when Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award Congress can bestow, to the WASP of WWII.
“Over 65 years ago, we each served our country without any expectations of recognition or glory, and we did it without compromising the values we were taught as we grew up, honor integrity, patriotism, service, faith, and commitment. We did it because our country needed us… All we ever asked for is that our overlooked history no longer be a missing chapter in the history of World War II, the history of aviation and the history of our country.” WASP Deanie Bishop Parrish
As she spoke those words to the largest crowd ever assembled inside the capitol, I watched my mom, the WASP, and then the faces of the WASP in the audience. Their eyes were sparkling, some moist with tears, but all shining bright with a contagious patriotic pride in a job well done.
Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony, March 10, 2010
click photo to enlarge
No doubt the WASP blazed the trail for women serving as military pilots today, but for me, discovering these remarkable women and their stories has always been about so much more than flying. It is about living a life beyond what is expected, about being willing to risk stretching the boundaries and busting through the barriers. It is about doing what you feel is right, even when no one is looking and ‘flying higher’ in everything you do. That is not just history. It is inspirational history.
Today, more than ever before, we need that ‘can do’ spirit of the WASP to inspire us all! Learning about the WASP inspires young boys just as much as it inspires young girls, because, ‘if a girl can do it, so can they!’ So, respectfully, from the walls of the Flygirls Exhibit in Denver and beyond, I pray you hear the WASP, whispering their encouragement to you all, and that you pass it on:
“You fly the airplane, don’t let the airplane fly you. I think that’s the whole secret of life. Take command of your life. Get out there and do it." WASP Joan Michaels Lemley
“Life is a challenge! Live it! Don’t let turbulence slow you down or keep you from your goals.”
WASP Ann R. Holaday
“Don’t let people tell you you can’t. Don’t let people tell you you aren’t good enough. Be good enough!”
WASP Gayle Snell
“Put God first, family next and then whatever you want to do... CAVU. Pilot talk: ceiling and visibility unlimited.” WASP Marion Stegeman Hodgson
“Don’t ever put limits on your dreams. Dream farther and higher than you can imagine. I would never have flown if I hadn’t looked to the sky and beyond.”
WASP Scotty Bradley Gough
"You want to be the next 'Greatest Generation?' Then return to the values that we lived by in 1942, 1944: sexual relations are for marriage, marriage is for life, there's a right and a wrong, you are responsible for your own actions...and a strong faith in God." WASP Ruth Dailey Helm
And those final words still ringing true from mom:
“With God’s help, nothing is impossible.” WASP Deanie Bishop Parrish
Nancy and Deanie Parrish, March 10 , 2010
In honor of Women's History Month and the volunteer work Wings Across America continues to do showcasing the inspirational history of the WASP, please consider supporting this unique cutting-edge, 501c-3 digital history project at Baylor University through a gift in honor or memory of one of these incredible pioneers. We are determined to continue our mission, but WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Nancy Parrish is the Creator/Designer of the “Fly Girls Traveling WASP Exhibit,” volunteer Director of Wings Across America at Baylor University, Author of “WASP IN THEIR OWN WORDS, An Illustrated History of the WASP” and Creator of WASP on the WEB.
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My new mini greenhouse was no sooner up than it was put through its paces, battling wind and weather. Not even attached to the shed yet, it kept quite firm. A few other things were thrown around, the wooden cage over a raised bed had been blown off and two obelisks, temporarily stuck in a bed were blown over. I had thought of making them a more permanent fixture in the shallower, raised bed but it’s just been proven, it wouldn’t withstand the wind. This will be a ‘Plan B’ case.
I developed my habit of sowing tomato seeds from middle to end of February because I felt that was the time that worked for me. I also discovered that sowing the seeds in coir, was much cleaner and lighter to work with as seeds will germinate in many different types of medium. I bought the coir bricks with added nutrients which would be an added benefit to give the little seedlings a kick-start. As soon as the tomato seedlings had developed their first true leaves and were looking strong enough to be repotted, I potted them into a reasonable quality tomato compost, in small drinking cups. Again this worked well and it wasn’t long before the little plants were ready to be moved into the greenhouse. Generally most of them came on in leaps and bounds and it wasn’t long before I was either planting them up in their forever home, or offering my excess plants to anyone who could give them a home.
This year hasn’t gone so well sadly, I can no longer get coir from the same supplier and with little information, I suspect that the bricks I got this time do not have added nutrients. Our weather has not been good and since I rely on heated windowsill propagators, I switched them off because although the heat was there, the daylight was very poor, so I hoped without the heat and much light, it would slow the seeds down. They struggled a bit though and most of them became leggy as a result. I had repotted some, then decided to try repotting the others whose true leaves had yet to appear. That was a big mistake but added to that, due to the pandemic and our garden centres being closed, I bought compost from a supermarket. It was a lot cheaper than I usually pay and it was very woody so would probably be unsuitable for encouraging young seedlings. They either came to a halt in growth or they just flopped, prostrate across the pot. I don’t normally give up easily but after a day or two and no further sign of life, I started to re-sow a select few. I will reuse the coir but water them with a solution of hydrogen peroxide, just to give them an extra boost, it will also help to kill off any pathogens in the seeds and coir.
I have in the past, sprouted nasturtium seeds in zip bags of perlite and hydrogen peroxide. It works well and seeds seem to sprout a lot quicker. The solution I’m using is one part hydrogen peroxide to two parts water and hanging them up kept them out of harm’s way and they weren’t disturbed.
The problem of light is still there and only one windowsill propagator can fit my window, so I put my recycling cap on and took a narrow shelving unit and with a little bit of alteration, I removed the shelves, turned it on its side and it now gives me a two-tier shelf for each of the propagators. It also means I can reclaim some of my dining table back. For a few weeks of the year it gets lost under my enthusiasm to grow everything all at once.
My next move is to re-sow some of the seeds in deeper coir, which should give them more stability at the early stages in putting their energy into building up some strength, instead of reaching out too far to get help from the sun, which hasn’t been too obliging. I will wait for those true leaves and then repot them into good quality compost. If all works out better this time, then it won’t be long before I get some healthy plants to move into the greenhouse. My house and greenhouse are full of ‘Plan Bs’. | <urn:uuid:7de232f1-bcbd-48fe-a217-0dfec2d304ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://themagnoliatreeblog.com/2021/03/16/on-the-road-to-recovery/?like_comment=4517&_wpnonce=3c9e54850c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985138 | 892 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Primary retroperitoneal sarcoma is a type of rare cancer that developed in the connective tissues in the retroperitoneum. Though radiotherapy has proven to be effective against various extreme sarcomas, its efficacy against retroperitoneal sarcoma is not well-known. This study aims to examine the efficacy of preoperative radiotherapy with surgery in patients with primary retroperitoneal sarcoma.
This randomized, open-label, phase-3 clinical trial included a total of 266 patients with histologically documented, localized, primary retroperitoneal sarcoma. The patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either surgery alone (n=133) or preoperative radiotherapy followed by surgery (n=133). The primary outcome of the study was abdominal recurrence-free survival, along with the safety of the treatment.
During a median follow-up of 43.1 months, 128 patients (96%) in the surgery group had surgery, and 119 patients (89%) in the radiotherapy and surgery group had both radiotherapy and surgery. The median abdominal recurrence-free survival was 5.0 years in the surgery only group, compared with 4.5 years in the radiotherapy plus surgery group. The risk of adverse events was also higher in the radiotherapy-surgery group.
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Have you watched our video, "Kansas Schools to Start in September 2020"? If not, here's the video:
In the video, explore what the delay in school means for students in Kansas. I urge parents of all students to encourage continuous learning, even if school isn't in session.
Finally, be sure to join my free Students Aiming for As group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/asforstudents/ so you can get free, educational materials and keep your mind, and that of your child, sharp and ready for learning!
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Hey, everyone! Jessyka Coulter here. Usually, I would be bringing you some kind of info or teaching you something. Today, I just want to simply ask if you've heard about the latest order from our governor here in Kansas.
I don't want to tell you my opinions or say she's right or wrong. I just want to ask if you're keeping up-to-date with the back to school plans for fall 2020. I'm doing my best to stay current since I work as a tutor and also because I work as a substitute teacher in a couple districts here in Kansas.
I haven't worked in a classroom since March, so I can only imagine some schools in Kansas and throughout the world haven't been open since March.
In this video, I want to let you know that tutoring companies like mine, Ace Cookie Tutoring, are here, and we're doing our best to keep children and adults learning - just like most, if not all, schools throughout the world.
Learning never stops. It doesn't matter if your child has or hasn't started school or if he's going into middle or high school.
You've got to get your kid to learn. If that means you use me/my tutoring company, wonderful! I'm posting new free resources as often as possible. I'm also creating paid resources. So, if you want to do some activities with you child, or if you just want to give him or her something educational to do because your child's school is not providing things, definitely take advantage.
I'd love to talk to you over the phone to set up some kind of educational plan for your family whether it's something face-to-face in person or online. Online might be the safer choice right now. It's totally up to you! Whatever it is, I just want to help your children learn.
Take advantage of the free step-by-step tutorials on my page www.facebook.com/acecookietutoring and on my YouTube channel (Ace Cookie Tutoring), or check out PBS, Kaplan, or Khan Academy. Whatever you use, just let your kids learn.
Kids who haven't started school yet have an entire world to explore and learn about. If you have really young kiddos, and you're walking with them outside, help them figure out what plants are what. Or, if you're at the grocery store, practice counting by counting something on the shelf. It doesn't really matter what activity you're doing with your child - just help your kid learn.
I want education to keep going. I don't want people to think because school is done for the moment that the kids are done. I am so against that.
If I felt that learning wasn't important, I wouldn't work as a substitute teacher or a tutor.
Yes, school is different right now. It's been different since March, and it looks like it's going to stay different for awhile longer. If your child's school decides not to do online learning until after Labor Day or waits until September to open its doors, just think about how long it's been since your child has sat in a classroom or how long it's possibly been since his/her teacher required him/her to do any work.
One of my students I met with today goes to a nearby district. She's a freshman, and the school decided last spring freshmen that had A's and B's were done for the year. My student is in advanced classes. Last year, she had homework over the summer that was required to be turned in the first day of school. Yet, because of COVID, school officials have decided that's not important. Nothing is being required of her until September at this point.
I don't want to get preachy or shove my opinions down your throat. All I want is for you to know that I think education is important. I hope you think it is important, too.
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ance. His cleanliness resulted from those ideas of or. der and decency, which governed all his actions; and the care which he took of his health, from his desire to preserve his mind free and tranquil.
Eminently pleasing and honourable was the friendship between David and Jonathan. “ I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan,” said the plaintive and surviving David; “very pleasant hast thou been to me ; thi love for me was wonderful ; passing the love of women."
Sir Philip Sidney, at the battle near Zutphen, was wounded by a musket ball, which broke the bone of his thigh. . He was carried about a mile and a half, to the camp; and being faint with the loss of blood, and probably parched with thirst through the heat of the weather, he called for drink. It was immediately brought to him : but as he was putting the vessel to his mouth, a poor wounded soldier, who happened at that instant to be carried by him, looked up to it with wishful eyes. The gallant and generous Sidney took the bottle from his mouth, and delivered it to the soldier, saying, “ Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.”
Alexander the Great demanded of a pirate whom he had taken, by what right he infested the seas? “ By the same right," replied he, " that Alexander enslaves the world. But I am called a robber, because I have only one small vessel ; and he is styled a conqueror, be. cause he commands great fleets and armies,”
We too often judge of men by the splendour, and not by the merit of their actions.
Antoninus Pius, the Roman emperor, was an amiable and good man. When any of his courtiers attempted to infiame him with a passion for military glory, he used to answer ; “That he more desired the preservation of one subject, than the destruction of a thousand enemies."
Men are too often ingenious in making themselves
miserable, by aggravating to their own fancy, beyond bounds, all the evils which they endure. They compare themselves with none but those whom they imagine to be more happy; and complain, that upon them alone has fallen the whole load of human sorrows. Would they look with a more impartial eye on the world, they would see themselves surrounded with sufferers : and find that they are only drinking out of that mixed cup, which Providence has prepared for all.--“ I will restore thy daughter again to life," said the eastern sage, to a prince who grieved immoderately for the loss of a beloved child, “provided thou art able to engrave on her tomb, the names of three persons who have never mourned.” The prince made inquiry after such persons ; but found the inquiry vain, and was silent.
He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
A soft answer turneth away wrath ; but grievous words stir up anger.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall,
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be truly wise.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
He that is slow to anger, is better than the mighty ; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
He that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord ; that which he hath given, will he pay him again,
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he thirsty, give him
water to drink. He that planted the ear shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
I have been young, and now I am old; yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
I have seen the wicked in great power; and spread. ing himself like a green bay-tree. Yet he passed away: I sought him, but he could not be found.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is in her right-hand ; and in her left-hand, riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like precious ointmentLike the dew of Hermon, and the dew that descended upon
the mountains of Zion. The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold : he shall therefore beg in harvest, and have nothing.
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vine. yard of the man void of understanding: and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns ; nettles had covered its face; and the stone-wall was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well : I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time; nor that which is measured by number of years :-But wisdom is the grey hair to man ; and an unspotted life is old age.
Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers; and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind.-If thou seek him, he will be found of thee : but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
That every day has its pains and sorrows, is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed. But let us not attend only to mournful truths ; if we look impartially about us, we shall find, that every day has likewise its pleasures and its jovs.
We should cherish sentiments of charity towards all men. The Author of all good nourishes much piety and virtue in hearts that are unknown to us : and beholds repentance ready to spring up among many whom we consider as reprobates.
No one ought to consider himself as insignificant in the sight of his Creator. In our several stations, we are all sent forth to be labourers in the vineyard of our heavenly Father. Every man has his work allotted, , his talent committed to him ; by the due improvement of which he may, in one way or other, serve God, promote virtue, and be useful in the world.
The love of praise should be preserved under proper subordination to the principle of duty. In itself, it is a useful motive to action ; but when allowed to extend its influence too far, it corrupts the whole character ; and produces guilt, disgrace and misery. To be entirely destitute of it, is a defect. To be governed by it; is depravity. The proper adjustment of the several principles of action in human nature, is a matter that deserves our highest attention. For when any one of them becomes either too weak or too strong, it endangers both our virtue and our happiness.
The desires and passions of a vicious man, having once obtained an unlimited sway, trample him under their feet. They make him feel that he is subject to various, contradictory, and imperious masters, who often pull hin different ways. His soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country, cantoned out
into different principalities, which are continually waging war on one another.
Diseases, poverty, disappointment, and shame, are far from being, in every instance, the unavoidable doom of man. They are much more frequently the offspring of his own misguided choice. Intemperance engenders disease, sloth produces poverty, pride creates disappointments, and dishonesty exposes to shame. The ungoverned passions of men betray them into a thousand follies; their follies into crimes; and their crimes into misfortunes.
When we reflect on the many distresses which abound in human life ; on the scanty proportion of happiness which
any man is here allowed to enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion; it is surprising, that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men, much more that it should have prevailed among Christians. Where so much is suffered in common, little room is left for envy. There is more occasion for pity and sympathy, and inclination to assist each other.
At our first setting out in life, when yet unacquainted with the world and its snares, when every pleasure enchants with its smile, and every object shines with the gloss of novelty ; let us beware of the seducing appearances which surround us ; and recollect what others have suffered from the power of head-strong desire. If we allow any passion, even though it be esteemed innocent, to acquire an absolute ascendant, our inward peace will be impaired. But if any which has the taint of guilt, take early possession of our mind, we may date, from that moment, the ruin of our tranquillity.
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Los Angeles is definitely an industry town and that industry is making movies. It’s hard to live here without bumping into the occasional film crew out on the street. Everywhere you turn there are reminders that Hollywood is a big business. Part of that business is selling movie memorabilia. Every so often auction houses will get their hands on some iconic prop, costume or piece of artwork that will fetch big dollars from collectors. Going up on the auction block this summer is a wide range of collectibles from early Hollywood history right up to today’s cinematic gems. Here’s what’s being auctioned off:
Saturday Night Fever Dance Floor
Every so often a movie will come along that will define a generation. For the disco era, that movie was Saturday Night Fever. Now you can own one of the most important pieces from that movie: the actual dance floor where John Travolta strutted his stuff. The floor lights up with red, blue and yellow lights all played in rhythm to whatever music is playing. It measures 24′ x 16′. It is estimated that the floor could bring up to $1.5 million. Imagine putting that in your living room!
Anytime something from the Disney studios go up for auction bidders from around the world clamber to own some of the magic. This summer a 147-page hand annotated working draft of Cinderella will be auctioned off. What makes this special is that it actually contains Walt Disney’s handwritten notes. There are also costumes from Disneyland theme park attractions going up for sale and a small stove that Walt Disney built himself for his backyard railroad.
Before there were work computer generated special effects, TV shows and movies built models of spaceships and film them against a star backdrop. Some of the models used for TV shows Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers are going to be auctioned off. There are 23 spaceships in a single lot that might fetch as much as $2 million.
Of course, not everything created at a studio is meant to be a priceless collectible. There are many flats, pieces of scenery, drapery and other items that can no longer be recycled into other productions. Studios know they can always count on Junk King Los Angeles for fast disposal of those art department discarded items. Junk King Los Angeles provides the crews and the trucks to haul away just about any size item. If Junk King Los Angeles can clear out a Hollywood studio just think of how much help they can be around your house. | <urn:uuid:ff087f42-eea4-40ab-9f51-db10c577d538> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.junk-king.com/locations/losangeles/2017/05/31/unique-hollywood-memorabilia-going-up-for-auction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951793 | 524 | 1.539063 | 2 |
As a neighborhood watch group, we care about the environment of our community. Without awareness, concern and proactive intervention, deterioration of a neighborhood becomes inevitable.
We just never take our neighborhood for granted.
It's "everyone's responsibility to care".
That's why we do what we do.
Founded: November 1996
To promote neighborhood safety by patrolling the community and contacting police or proper authorities when action is required.
To assess community problems through the use of problem solving techniques.
On November 16, 1996 the Clearing Night Force Watch Group began our weekly patrols of our neighborhood's streets, alleys and parks in CAPS Beat 812 (60th – 65th, Harlem – Central). The founding members of our watch group believed that every community goes through changes, both good and bad. As concerned residents, we realized that we must never take our neighborhood environment for granted. We believe that all members of a community must become vigilant and proactive in helping to maintain a safe, secure and clean neighborhood.
As volunteers on patrol, we are watchful for suspicious activity that may warrant police attention by calling 911. We document city services that need attention submitting them weekly to our 13th & 23rd Aldermanic offices. We communicate with our beat officers to share information about things that concern our safety in our community. We pay special attention to the parks, schools areas of concern brought up at our CAPS Beat 812.
Each member of our volunteer group usually gives one day/evening per month to patrol. We assist the police by being additional “eyes and ears”. We patrol with a partner cruising up and down the streets and alleys, around parks, taking note of suspicious activity, graffiti, potholes, abandoned vehicles, street/alley light outages, garbage carts without lids, overgrown weeds, etc. We support our police and victims of crimes by attending court cases relevant to Beat 812 through the 008th District's Court Advocacy program.
Over the past 25 years as an organized watch group, we have submitted thousands of city services for attention. This may seem insignificant to some, but if you travel through other neighborhoods throughout the city that are plagued with graffiti, abandoned houses, potholes, garbage on the streets, alley/street lights outages, you probably feel unsafe as you travel through that area. You may also notice that there aren’t drug dealers/gang members hanging out on our corners or in front of an abandoned house. There may be abandoned houses in our neighborhood because of the down turn in the economy; they are not opened and unsecured. We won’t allow that to occur in our community! | <urn:uuid:2f2211a7-c055-475c-b316-c5b324bde609> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clearingnightforce.com/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956435 | 554 | 1.554688 | 2 |
It is a horse named Ghost who first alerts that one thing is flawed within the sky in Jordan Peele’s newest visually and thematically formidable movie. No. OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) is the chief builder of Heywood Hollywood Horses, an intergenerational, black-owned and now struggling ranch that makes a speciality of coaching horses for the silver display.
But it surely’s his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) who notices that Ghost, one in every of their household’s veteran equine actors, is unexpectedly standing in an outside enclosure staring into area, his pale grey fur as elegant as moonlight. Ghost jumps over the fence and gallops away, saying “no” in his approach.
Like a subversive kaleidoscope of Western science fiction, No challenges viewers to contemplate expertise, surveillance, different mundane life and the creation of spectacles by means of totally different lenses, together with the eyes of animals. The result’s a disturbing imaginative and prescient that exposes elementary moral questions in regards to the work of animals within the movies, together with in No sure.
Reform or exchange?
As Emerald recounts firstly of the movie, the primary transferring picture was created from pictures of a person galloping on a horse, particularly a black jockey whose identify has been misplaced – or erased – from historical past, relying by yourself. prospect. The horse was named Sallie Gardner.
Horses have had an extended and rocky historical past in Hollywood. Early Hollywood motion pictures subjected horses to grueling working situations, which frequently resulted in harm or demise. They have been primarily handled as disposable.
Now animal motion on set, no less than in america, is being monitored by the nonprofit American Humane. As well as, the animals on the display are more and more computer-generated pictures or movement seize marvels that mix digital pictures with human actors, as within the case of the award-winning Planet of the Apes trilogy starring Andy Serkis as the primary chimpanzee, Caesar. We’ve got each reformed and changed the work of animals within the making of leisure.
Horses and chimpanzees at the moment are typically positioned on reverse sides of a perceived line between accepted and unacceptable animal use. Most horses are domesticated and have labored for people for 1000’s of years. Their careers, replica and social life are largely managed by people. Conversely, though particular person chimpanzees have been stored in captivity, their species stays wild.
No displays this hole and begins with the chilling sounds of what viewers will later uncover to be a chimpanzee named Gordy, the star of a sitcom of the identical identify, who snaps after balloons clatter on set and finally ends up attacking his co-stars. people.
This mirrors real-life human-animal eruptions, akin to when Mantacore the tiger mauled Roy Horn of the (un) well-known Siegfried & Roy, or when Travis the “pet” chimpanzee and former actor attacked his keeper’s good friend earlier than. of being shot by the police.
In No, the tragedy involving Gordy (Terry Notary) is revealed in heartbreaking element, together with an evocative second during which the chimpanzee sees his younger co-star Ricky (Jacob Kim), hiding beneath a desk. The 2 attain out to the touch their palms because the bullets fly. In a horror-filled scenario, viewers are requested to contemplate whether or not the basic tragedy is Gordy’s employment as an actor.
Horses at work
Every chapter of the movie is known as after an animal – Ghost, Fortunate, Clover, Gordy and Jean Jacket – within the foreground 4 horses and a chimpanzee. Horses are important to the Heywood household’s sustenance and legacy, with OJ noting that he must stand up early as a result of he “has a mouth to feed”.
Nevertheless, the ultimate destiny of Ghost, the horse who sounded the preliminary alarm by operating away, is unclear. Much more troubling, Clover encounters an premature (off-screen) finish, surprisingly bereaved and barely seen.
Conversely, Fortunate, who’s portrayed as a sensible and skilled equine, is important to each facet of the plot. OJ asks these on a tv to not look Fortunate within the eye firstly of the movie, a harbinger of later extraterrestrial communication.
As a lifelong rider, I can verify that horses usually do not care about eye contact. Current research have discovered that not solely are they attuned to human facial expressions, however in addition they have greater than a dozen of them. In fact, the aversion might be explicit to Fortunate.
Indisputably, the true horse (or maybe horses) that Fortunate performs is extraordinary. Most horses are afraid of blowing up objects. But Fortunate, in collaboration with OJ, gallops in entrance of a complete sequence of big wind dolls that dance irregularly, with out batting a watch. This displays significant preparation and real-time emotional management.
Respect the animals
The animal actors and the talent concerned of their work are acknowledged. Canadian TV present Hudson and Rex canine star Diesel vom Burgimwald is known as within the credit and seems recurrently on the present’s social media channels. Jeff Daniels, in his Emmy acceptance speech for Godless, thanked his equine associate, Apollo.
But the true horses who performed Fortunate, Clover and Ghost No they don’t seem to be included within the credit. The chief horse, Bobby Lovgren, is named, however the horses are omitted. In a movie that strongly explores the ethics of animal actors, it’s unusual for these on whom it relies upon to be erased on this approach.
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Moderna has announced four new subsidiaries in Asia, providing a local presence to support the distribution of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
Moderna, the BioTech company responsible for pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, has announced plans to expand its commercial network in Asia with four new subsidiaries in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. The company is consistently scaling up manufacturing and distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine, as well as future mRNA products.
Moderna has established subsidiaries in Japan, Australia, and South Korea already, as well as a government collaboration with the latter to explore local manufacturing and research opportunities. In addition, the company has announced an agreement in principle with the Australian government to build an mRNA manufacturing facility in Victoria.
Stephane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, has stated, “After a decade of pioneering the development of our mRNA platform, we were ready to play a critical role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic globally. With the addition of four subsidiaries in Asia, we look forward to new opportunities to leverage our mRNA platform to help solve health challenges, including those with a high burden of disease in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Moderna, with its growing portfolio, has the opportunity to use mRNA technology to maximise effectivity of prophylactic vaccines, and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, oncology, and rare diseases in the region, where there is the highest burden of infectious diseases, and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases as the population ages. In addition, Moderna continually updates its Covid-19 strategy to address variants like Omicron.
Moderna is active in twelve markets globally, and its Covid-19 vaccine is approved in over 70 markets. In 2021, 807 million doses of the company’s vaccine were shipped across the world. Around 25% of them were shipped to low- and middle-income markets.
Guiding Moderna’s focus and impact for 2022 and onwards are its four strategic pillars, which include developing an annual pan-respiratory booster vaccine that will be continuously customised, developing new vaccines for viruses that currently lack them, and develop therapeutics based on mRNA technologies across oncology, cardiovascular and auto-immune disorders, and rare genetic diseases.
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Phthalate exposure from Vegetables grown in Plastic Greenhouses (VPGs) represents an important source of total daily phthalate exposure in China. However, quantified health risks of phthalates attributable to VPG intake have not been documented. To fill this gap, this study estimates phthalate exposure from VPG intake in western China and calculates the first assessment of the disease burden associated with phthalate exposure from VPG intake in China based on a simple steady-state exposure model and a linear dose-response function between human bio-monitoring phthalates and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) prevalence. What we present in this paper is a problem identification and screening level risk assessment. We chose Shaanxi province as the research field site due to its large contribution to the total vegetable yield and consumption in western China. Phthalate concentration in VPG samples, phthalate exposure levels from VPG intake, and the T2D burden caused by phthalate attributable to VPG intake for adults were measured or calculated. Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) was found to represent over 55% of the total phthalate concentration in VPGs, followed by di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP) and di-isobutyl phthalate (DiBP). Phthalate exposure from VPG intake for urban adults was higher than the level for rural adults. The share of DEHP exposure from VPG intake to urinary total DEHP metabolites were nearly 8% and 15%, and the share of DnBP exposure caused by VPG intake to total daily DnBP metabolites were nearly 4% and 7%, for rural and urban adult populations in Shaanxi, respectively. The adult population with T2D attributable to phthalate exposure from VPG intake was 2561, nearly 6.4% to the T2D burden attributable to total phthalate exposure, and 0.4% to the total adult population with T2D in Shaanxi. The authors recommend policy interventions to protect populations from future risk of phthalate exposure. | <urn:uuid:1c952215-60a1-4a39-925f-a67bb175dd9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/publications/oral-intake-exposure-to-phthalates-in-vegetables-produced-in-plas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94276 | 436 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The Sacred House of the Sun
Hawaiian Protocol for Sacred Places
E Ui No Ka ‘Ae
E Mahalo Aku
E Komo Me Ka Hōano
Enter With Reverence,
I ka hele aku, e ho’oma’amau I ka wahi!
When you leave, return it as you found it!
The summit of Haleakalā represents many things to the indigenous people of Hawai’i. The ancient spiritual use of Haleakalā was for meditation and receiving spiritual wisdom by na Kāhuna Po’o (the lead priests). It is said to be a place where the tones of ancient prayer are balanced within the vortex of energy for spiritual manifestations. In ancient times, only the Kāhuna and their haumana (students) lived at Haleakalā for initiation rites and practices. All who visit Haleakalā should strive to become sensitized to the subtleties of nature and the culture of this sacred place. Considering the aggregated eons of history at Haleakalā, this summit demands respect. It is a place of prayer; it is Ala hea ka la – the path to calling the sun.
When Pele, the goddess of fire, first visited Haleakalā, she dug a deep pit and made sixteen pu’u (hills, cinder cones). These pu’u form a sacred alignment from the summit of Haleakalā, to the tip of Haneo’o and continues for about 30 miles into the ocean. Along this path, on the eastern side of Haleakalā, there were over 300 heiau (temples), the highest concentration in the Hawaiian archipelago. The ancient Hawaiians knew these things about Haleakalā and kept its secrets for those coming after to love, protect and preserve. Those that ventured there in the days of old did so with care and reverence, to worship, and to observe the heavens (as well as for navigation).
To take any action, other than NO ACTION, would be a trespass on one of the most sacred and revered sites on Earth. When Jay April’s wonderful film Haleakalā: A Sense of Place was shown at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahu Uncle Charlie Maxwell was asked the question if he thought it was appropriate to make a jump from how ancient Hawaiians observed and used the stars to how UH IfA and the Air Force propose to use the sacred summit with defense projects such as Pan-STARRS. He responded by saying he didn’t know, “…but they would have to follow all the rules that were set forth to follow cultural protocol and cultural respect of the land before anything is built.” He then added” Oh, and one more I forgot: That if they are going to build anything, they got to tear something down and put it in its place.”
None of the five buildings at the top of this inimitable summit have been taken down yet, but at the last informational community meeting at Pukalani in 2006, one of the members of the ATST team informed the public that each facility has an estimated service life. He further stated that at the conclusion of its useful service, the facility should be dismantled and the site returned to its natural state. He added that two facilities on the mainland would be dismantled when the ATST project was put up. Therefore, all references in the DEIS suggesting that this project has a less significant impact on the sacredness of Haleakalā, because previous projects have already been constructed near the site (inferring that the damage has already been done so one more won’t really make that much difference) should be rethought. If all future construction is stopped immediately and no further action of any type is taken, then at some designated point of time in the foreseeable future Haleakalā will be returned to its natural state. Each additional project subjects this irreplaceable sacred site to more desecration. At what point will it be irretrievably altered? Certainly it is time to stop and repair the damage. Haleakalā undoubtedly deserves that much respect, and much much more. You might listen to the heartfelt song Kilakila ‘O Haleakalā (Majestic Haleakalā), if you want to get a feel for the deep respect this wonderful mountain deserves.
As noted in the DEIS, the construction of the 14 story structure is viewed by Native Hawaiians to be a cultural desecration of a sacred site. It will have a significant impact on the view shed in an adverse manner and will irreversibly interfere with the United States Constitutionally protected spiritual practices of the indigenous people of Hawaii. For the above reasons alone, a decision of no action should be an easy and correct conclusion.
If you want other specific reasons, they are present as well. We are assuming for purposes of this comment, that all community comments presented at community meetings during the discussion periods throughout Maui Nui will be incorporated into the Final EIS. We were told when the members of the community presented their oral testimony that it would be transcribed and submitted to NSF to be included in the Final EIS, so we will not duplicate the comments presented at those meetings herein and the DEIS should be corrected accordingly.
Mitigation of Cultural Resources: In Kahu Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell Sr.’s Final Report entitled E Malama Mau ka La’a, there appears to be an initial assumption that this project will be constructed irrespective of the objections to the building of the ATST on Haleakalā. For purposes of a cultural resources and traditional practices evaluation, the preparer should have considered all possible options, including the option of “no action”, which does not seem to be the case.
On page 62 of his report, Kahu Maxwell acknowledges that “any building or structure built on this site is an intrusion on the sacredness and spirituality of this mountain revered by the Hawaiian people past and present,” and then goes on to conclude that a balance between building on the site and the cultural practices of the Hawaiian people must be reached. There does not appear to be a logical correlation between these two statements, and he does not explain why he can come to the conclusion that a balance between digging and desecration is what should be achieved. In fact, an assessment with an open mind to “no action” should have drawn a completely different conclusion. This report is incomplete and should be re-evaluated with the “no action” alternative considered.
Additionally, there is no legal or rational nexus between the cause and effect listed in his report. He starts with the premise that “any building or structure built on this site is an intrusion on the sacredness and spirituality of this mountain revered by the Hawaiian people past and present,” and then apparently concludes that this premise can be adequately mitigated by certain actions he suggests, including the use of cultural protocol before, during and after construction. Unfortunately, this proposed mitigation will not reverse, stop or even diminish the desecration. It might make some feel better about it, but the desecration will remain. The report seems to imply that the proposed violation would be lessened by building with cultural sensitivity. In fact, any construction on the summit is absolute desecration of sacred ground. Greater sensitivity on the part of the construction workers is not an appropriate response to desecrating sacred ground. As noted in the DEIS, any foundation excavation on the mountaintop would be a wound to a highly sacred place. The only way to stop the desecration is to prohibit it from happening in the first place. This possibility is blatantly ignored in the present report.
First Amendment religious rights are allowed to be absolute just because of their nature. They are not limited to shades of gray. This is one of those absolutes. “No action” should be indicated.
Interestingly, the National Science Foundation found that the summit constitutes a “traditional cultural property”, a term used by the National Register of Historic Places to identify properties eligible for inclusion in the National Register because of their association with the cultural practices or beliefs of a “living community.” This view is shared by the State Historic Preservation Division at the DLNR. (Honolulu Advertiser October 12, 2006) When a property is placed within the Historic Registry, it is protected from such desecration as would occur on this site should the project go forward. Haleakalā should be offered the same protection as any other “traditional cultural property” and, when that standard is applied herein, no action should be taken.
In addition, the report never considered any similar projects that were proposed on sacred or cultural sites. In order to prepare a proper mitigation analysis on the sites at Haleakalā, other sacred sites with similar projects actually built upon them need to be considered, including whether the proposed mitigation actually worked or not. In addition, similar sacred sites that were considered, but the projects were not completed because the cultural resources could not be adequately protected or mitigated, should be discussed as well. Such comparisons are necessary to effectively present an adequate mitigation analysis. Otherwise, this could be deemed to be speculative in nature.
The cultural resources analysis should be reconsidered. The actual “least impact as possible” referred to in the report should not be limited to the mitigation matters suggested. The least impact as possible should be not to construct the ATST on Haleakalā. For once, put the needs of the Hawaiian people to the forefront. That would be pono.
The summit of Haleakalā is one of the most beautiful vistas on Hawaii It is almost comical to imply that a 14 story telescope on the summit of this magnificent mountain will not dominate or displace a significant fraction of that vista. Trying to focus people on the fact that you have the rest of the mountain to look at is not relevant to the issue. When you look at Haleakalā, where do your eyes focus? Inevitably, they take you to the summit. The summit is the optimal view plane, and that is where this facility will be located. The fact that it is less obtrusive from different parts of the island is not the point. If it is obtrusive to kama’aina or tourists from any where on the island, that is sufficient reason to decide that it should not be built. Over 1,000,000 tourists go to the summit of Haleakalā National Park every year. They rise at 2 in the morning and drive to the Ranger Station overlooking the crater to view the sunrise over the crater. In the DEIS, it was noted that a big consideration at the La Palma site (second over-all choice) was the impact the telescope might have on the view from a specific peak called the Cumbrecita. This view is so important to the visitors of that area that the government enacted laws and the local courts handed down decisions that protected that special view plane. The telescope could not have been built there if it interfered with that particular view plane. Shouldn’t the same consideration be given to Haleakalā, which is sacred as well as beautiful? (The findings in the DEIS are that there were no known archaeological or culturally important features in the area that would be impacted by construction of ATST at La Palma. Another reason it should be constructed at La Palma, not Haleakalā).
The DEIS makes the statement that the construction of the ATST would have a less than significant impact on the view plane. (pg ES-22). One of the factors the report relied upon in forming this conclusion, apparently, is their bold assertion that the14 story starkly high white telescope on the summit of Haleakalā is considered by some to be not even noticeable and/or even beautiful. Of interest, we could not find one person who heard anyone testify that they thought the structure would be a beautiful addition to the vista. To try to imply that a majority or even a substantial minority of Hawaiians or visitors to the Island of Maui would find such a structure beautiful is simply misdirection. View planes can be subjective, but in coming to the conclusion of “less than significant impact”, the report should give greater consideration to the opinions of the large majority of individuals viewing this magnificent vista. The overwhelming majority opinion of those giving testimony regarding view planes is that it would interfere with their view plane and that was not acceptable. To state categorically that it is just a matter of opinion implies that it’s closer to 50/50 than what it probably is — at minimum 95/5. To state “we cannot describe that impact as an irrevocable loss of visual resources” is laughable. The view will be irrevocably lost. Hawaiian spiritual practitioners facing the summit of Haleakalā each morning will be irretrievably injured by this injustice and their indigenous religious rights will be unjustly damaged. This telescope can be built elsewhere, and that is what should happen.
The County of Maui prohibits any building over the height of 12 stories. The ATST project apparently believes that it should be exempt from this law, because it is being built on ceded lands controlled by the University of Hawaii, a State entity. At the same time, the DEIS implies that they are in compliance with all local and state land use laws and community plans. The DEIS should state that if the project is not exempt, it would violate numerous county and local land use ordinances and guidelines.
This project could not be built in downtown Kahului, and it should not be able to be built on the top of Haleakalā. The County of Maui enacted the 12 story limit for many important reasons, including under its police powers, and these same reasons should apply to this facility as well, especially in light of the recent seismic events around the Islands.
In Section 1.8, the DEIS implies that the proposed action conforms to the Upcountry community plans, and this is not so. For example, the Makawao/Pukaluna/Kula Community Plan (enacted in 1996) prohibits buildings over 35 feet tall. This facility would not fit within any of the exceptions therein and, therefore, is not in compliance.
The impact on the road from the Rangers Station to the summit is not addressed in the DEIS. Who will be doing the repairs on this road and what other impacts are there?
The DEIS asserts that there is no mitigation anticipated or planned for archaeological resources. What about the possible cave in the area named Anamakauahi? Surely at such an important cultural, historical site there are other archaeological concerns as well that have not been addressed.
There is none or inadequate reference to the Hawaiian Mahele and land titles. The issue of ceded lands in Hawaii has not been resolved and continues to be raised in litigation in state and federal courts, and it is irresponsible not to address this issue. The lands could also be subject to reparation and/or rent fees due and owing to the Kingdom of Hawaii, but this is not addressed anywhere in the DEIS. Notwithstanding the issue regarding whether Gov. Quinn actually had the right to give away these ceded lands, since neither he nor the State of Hawaii owned the lands, there is also an issue regarding the appropriate purpose of ceded lands . As noted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in the comment in October 2005, these Public Trust lands may be used for educational purposes and for the betterment of Hawaiians. The State has a Constitutional responsibility to “conserve and protect Hawaii’s natural beauty and all natural resources, including land, water, air, minerals and energy sources…All public natural resources are held in trust by the State for the benefit of the people.” (Hawai’i State Constitution, Art. XI, Section 1). The state also has a Constitutional responsibility to “protect all rights, customarily and traditionally exercised for subsistence, cultural and religious purposes” possessed by Hawaiians. (Hawai’i State Constitution, Art.. XII, Section 2) These considerations, as required by the State Constitution, must be given precedent over scientific needs of the world at large, especially since the scientific needs can be met elsewhere.
It is inconceivable that a finding of less than significant could be anticipated in an area that abounds with unique Hawaiian plants and animals. As noted by Art Medeiros, one of the most knowledgeable experts on this particular topic “[t]he mark this monolith would make on Maui would be significant and irrevocable….The quest for knowledge is beautiful, but its demands must be weighed against the other sacred and beautiful things of the limited area of Maui, aspects of our Hawaiian culture, the lives of unique native plants and animals and the grace of the clean lines of Haleakalā’s ethereal high Pacific mountain viewscapes.”
The effect on these resources could be quite significant. Construction activity could cause death to the ‘ua’u; human proximity could cause them to abandon their burrows; construction would (not could) destroy hundreds of native plants; Nene would be affected by human proximity and also by potential pesticides and other contaminants, including but not limited to plastics and lead which they could ingest. The assumption in the DEIS that the botanical resources would not be permanently affected should clearly be re-examined.
We will not address this subject in depth, since it will be covered in detail in comments by more knowledgeable Native Hawaiian practitioners, but it is noteworthy that although there are listed endangered species at the sites on Haleakalā, there are no listed endangered species at the alternative site at La Palma. On the issues that could result in irreparable harm (such as vegetation and habitat, cultural resources, view planes, etc), the DEIS appears to take the position that these can be mitigated easily enough. On the other hand, the dust issue at La Palma appears to be based in part on inconvenience, addressing monetary concerns and the time it would take to rectify the problem. Clearly some of the partners planning to use the facilities (such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security) have enough funds to spend whatever money is necessary to take care of that issue and hire as many personnel as are needed, with no irreparable damage done to Haleakalā and its unique habitats.
The DEIS asserts that the ATST will bring economic gain to the County of Maui and State of Hawaii. What is not addressed are the negative impacts to Maui and state economies. As noted by the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs in its written comments, the construction of a 14 story telescope would destroy the pristine landscape of Haleakalā, which is a sacred cultural site, the unblemished beauty of which has been recorded for centuries in Hawaiian legends, chants and songs. They further note that Native Hawaiians revere this site as a place of great mana, and that it is one of the most popular tourist destinations on Maui. We agree with this esteemed Association and the Hawai’i Tourism Authority that well over half of Maui residents have listed “loss of Nature and open space” as a big problem on Maui.
Tourism is the economic life blood of Maui. Aside from government jobs, the tourist industry accounts for more than 50% of the total personal income of Maui residents, more than construction, real estate, manufacturing, finance, and retail trade combined. (DEIS 3-46, Table 3-8) Maui has been designated the number one tourist designation island in the world. It enjoys that distinction, in large part, due to its natural beauty and unspoiled vistas. The summit of Haleakalā is the single most visited site on the island. It does not require a leap of faith to conclude that any diminishment of Haleakalā is likely to have significant, adverse economic impact on the island and its people. This aspect of the proposed project is not adequately addressed in the DEIS. This type of impact was addressed in your comments about La Palma regarding the effect of the view plane on tourists there, but it is noticeably absent in your evaluation of Haleakalā.
Hawaii is a unique and special place in the world. The Hawaii Economic Momentum Commission, appointed by the governor, issued a final report in December, 2005. In that report, the Commission concluded that “the Hawaiian culture, including its value systems . . . not only defines Hawaii, but is the only thing that distinguishes our islands from every other sea, sand and sun resort” in the world. Trying to educate and familiarize visitors of the significance and beauty of the Hawaiian culture, while desecrating one of the most sacred of Hawaiian sites, is an incongruity that cannot be explained away with slick marketing brochures. We cannot embrace the Hawaiian culture without first respecting it.
Haleakalā is the Sacred House of the Sun. The spiritual First Amendment rights of the Native Hawaiian people should trump any dust or sky brightness issues. Clearly this telescope can be built elsewhere. Over 70 sites were considered, and it is inconceivable that La Palma and Big Bear Lake could get to the top 3 sites if they were not viable. Another possibility is that the telescope could be built in space, which was not even mentioned in the DEIS, although it is a clear alternative. The fact that the Haleakalā sites may possibly have a few advantages in some areas should not be the deciding factor. The cultural and religious issues at Haleakalā should be given the greatest consideration. Not only are these rights protected by the United States and Hawaii Constitutions, but, more importantly, it is the righteous and correct decision to make under the circumstances.
Another issue not adequately address is the clean up and disposal of the project when it is no longer necessary. Certainly, the current building(s) that have been abandoned (such as the former radio telescope site known as Reber Circle which goes back to the1950’s – and which interestingly enough was abandoned because it did not work) was not cleared out and the land was not returned to its natural habitat even though the facility was abandoned over half a century ago. In fact, it has now been there so long it has historical significance. There have also been voiced concerns from local residents who lived here during the first construction phases at Kolekole that trash was not handled responsibly at that time.
It is interesting to review the written comments contained in the DEIS. The ones supporting the project are 99% simply signatures on the exact same form letter with no personal comments or reasons for support. On the other hand, many of the comments opposing the telescope are written from the heart and display a great deal of emotion. A few examples of these: “There are 70 other possible sites for this telescope…there is only one sacred Haleakalā…there can be no compromise…this site is sacred to the Native people of Hawaii—it must be preserved.” “The “house of the Sun” is holy. Would you build a 16 story telescope on the top of Notre Dame? Some places on our precious planet must be singled out…Haleakalā is one of these places. Please do not allow it to be dishonored.” Those opposing this project speak out because they respect and honor Haleakalā – desecration is not inevitable and the project should be built elsewhere. Those supporting the project are speaking about the need for scientific data – not scientific data limited to Haleakalā. This data can be gathered on grounds that are not sacred. This is an extremely important point. The sacred summit of Haleakalā is limited to this particular site – the data is not.
As noted above, the references throughout that the “grounds are already disturbed by development” should be played down as well, because those facilities will apparently be taken down at the end of their service life. If we keep building on this site, these significant impacts will never go away. Allow this sacred ground to be returned to its natural state as quickly as possible, and stop further desecration now. The prior damage can hopefully be remedied; if it continues it cannot. You did not consider Machu Picchu or Mt. Zion as plausible sites for this facility, and rightly so. Haleakalā is just as sacred. Please act accordingly.
Mahalo for your consideration.
Maui Group Sierra Club
By Kathleen S. McDuff, Vice Chairman
The Hawaiians observed and used the stars to navigate their way safely throughout Oceania. Hokule’a, Hawai’i’s zenith star, Hokupa’a (the North Star) and the peaks of Mauna Kea and Haleakala were used to navigate their way safely into the ‘Alenuihaha and ‘Alalakeiki channels. The Kahuna Kilokilo (a priest who would watch the skies for omens) studied the sky from the summit of Haleakala.
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Originally published in The Evergreen Review Issue 118 in June, 2009.
Henry Morton Stanley’s “real self” is a mystery.
Most of what we have been told of him, and much of what he wrote himself, is wrong, as Paul Theroux wrote in his recent New York Times review of Tim Jeal’s definitive biography of the man. One of the world’s great explorers began his career with an aborted trip to the East. In Turkey his little group was captured and robbed and they were lucky to escape with their lives. Stanley’s account of the adventure was romanticized and his companions were anxious, afterwards, to discredit his account and, in the case of Noe, to blackmail him. But Stanley learned a valuable lesson and soon became a fiercely independent journalist, covering the slaughter of Indians in Ohio and Ethiopians at Magdala, but his image was forever stained by the lies and half-truths he published in his many books. “Stanley’s Turkish Adventure” is an attempt to illuminate something deeper in the man, from the frank confessions of his origins, the real story of his trip to Turkey and the report of the American Minister at Istanbul who received him after his escape...
I was the bastard son of Betsy Parry, a nineteen-year-old Welsh housemaid. My father was the town drunk. I was brought up at St. Asaph’s Workhouse. St. Asaph’s accepted both children and prostitutes. The latter often taught the young girls in the institution their professional tricks. The workhouse was a training ground for the dissolute. An official report on St. Asaph’s in 1847 mentions the rampant sexuality common in workhouse life. Adult males “took part in every possible vice.” Children—the older with the younger—snuggled two or three to a bed, “so that from the very start . . . they began to practice and understand things they should not.” Drunkenness and promiscuity were prevalent.
I was called Little Rowlands (as I had been baptized). The director of the workhouse, James Francis, took a shine to me. I became his favorite. He even left me in charge when he was away. I was a strict authoritarian. Mr. Francis unfortunately eventually went mad and was admitted to Denbigh Lunatic Asylum in 1866, a dreadful end for such a kind man.
At St. Asaph’s I was a hard worker. By the time I reached fifteen I left the place well founded in English grammar and spelling, good penmanship and other useful—and some not so useful—skills. I was soon working as a delivery boy at a wholesale butchers near the Liverpool docks. Here David Hardinge caught sight of me. He was the master of a Yankee merchant ship, the Windermere, headed for New Orleans. Hardinge offered me a job as cabin boy at $5 a month plus seaman’s clothing. I didn’t hesitate. The voyage lasted seven weeks. I was clouted, yelled at, abused on the voyage. The sailors routinely sodomized young crew members, but some of them were lovely and I didn’t mind. This, they told me, was the law of the sea, as they climbed into my hammock. They were as unmethodical in their tastes as the Africans.
It was expected that cabin boys on reaching New Orleans would desert the ship, thus saving the captain their pay. I immediately did so, along with another cabin boy, Joy Willard. We were thrilled at the idea of making a life in the New World. New Orleans was wide open. I visited my first whorehouse there and was shocked by the depravity. “Chaste manhood” was hard to maintain in the city. Because of this experience I was and would remain for the rest of my life shy with the opposite sex. Even talking with a woman was a torture for me. Not so with men.
In New Orleans I soon landed a job as junior clerk with Speake and McCreary, a cotton brokerage. A prosperous merchant, Henry Hope Stanley, an Englishman who had emigrated to the U.S. from Cheshire, gave me shelter. Twice married, Mr. Stanley had no children but had adopted two young girls. He also adopted me. I lived with the family. Some say that records show that “J. Rollings” lived in a boardinghouse on Thomas Street and not with the Stanleys, but they lied.
Mr. Stanley dispatched me to Cypress Bend, in Arkansas, to work for a trader, a Mr. Altschul, a partner of his. At Cypress Bend I came down with fever but miraculously recovered with no ill effects. This probably accounts for my not succumbing to malaria in Africa. I changed my name to Henry Stanley (the Morton would come later—I did not know Mr. Stanley’s middle name). I also became a remarkable sharpshooter, zapping squirrels and deer from a considerable distance. This skill would be invaluable to me in the American Civil War, where I fought first as Private Henry Stanley of the Dixie Greasy, and in my expeditions in the Far West and in Africa. I went through the battle of Shiloh, where I was captured, surrounded by the slaughtered members of my company. They sent me in a wagon crammed with sick young secessionists to Chicago as a prisoner of war. In Chicago I gained my release by joining up with the Union Army. However, a bout of severe dysentery led to my discharge after only a couple of weeks. By 1863 I was in Brooklyn, working as a clerk in the office of Thomas Irwin Hughes, a notary public, who appreciated my good handwriting. I hated the job. In July of that year I signed on for a three-year stint in the Federal Navy and was fortunate to observe the shelling of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the Confederacy’s last stronghold on the Atlantic coast. On board ship I became intimate with Lewis Noe, a beautiful boy. We jumped ship together and headed for New York. I had conceived a scheme to travel around the world, starting out in Turkey and trekking through Anatolia to the Caucasus, then on to India and China. I would report the trip for American newspapers. We sailed from Boston for Smyrna on the E. H. Yarrington, a rotting tub. We took along with us an ugly kid named Cook whom Noe had met on a nocturnal stroll. Cook was game for anything.
In Turkey things went wrong. Near the mountain village of Chi-Hissar we were waylaid by a gang of thugs whose leader made lewd advances to Lewis. I was enraged and struck the man. The Turks then overpowered me and tied me up along with Cook, who was terrified. They dragged Lewis off, laughing, leaving Cook and me to our own devices. Lewis later claimed that I had tried to murder a Turk in order to steal his horses and that the Turk had escaped and brought back his clansmen to take us prisoner. These are idiotic lies.
The first night of our imprisonment, Lewis was treated, as he said rather coyly, “in a shocking manner” by three of the young Turks. The entry in my diary reads: Lewis, a gorgeous boy of 17, was taken by three of the Turks who laid him naked on the ground in front of us. They were shameless young toughs and enjoyed themselves while we looked on. Neither Cook nor I could stop them.” This was the accepted treatment of prisoners in the East. Lewis told me later that he considered it a frolic.
The American Minister’s Story
In September of 1872 a novice reporter from the New York Herald presented himself, in a plaid suit, at my residence in Atlantic City. It was, I recall, a balmy day. I received the young man in my study, full of mementos from my long residence at Istanbul as American Minister. We had iced tea and ginger snaps. The questions came.
When had I first met Henry Morton Stanley? October 1866—it seems so long ago. The Civil War had hardly ended. America’s position on the world stage was now incredibly enhanced. I first heard of Stanley from an intelligence report forwarded from Constantinople. Stanley and his two “companion”—by the name of Noe and Cook—had been robbed and violated by a band of Turks. (Stanley wrote up the adventure in the Levant Herald, a kind of newssheet published in English.) The band of Turks had afterwards taken the three Americans to a typical Turkish hole called Brousa on the Sea of Marmora. I immediately arranged for the protection and relief of Stanley’s little group once they arrived at the capital.
Did I see them on their arrival? I certainly did. Mr. Stanley was amazingly young, though not as young as Noe and Cook, who were exquisitely boylike. They had all been stripped of their clothing and arrived virtually naked, except for Stanley who had been given a shirt by Mr. Pelesa, the agent of the Ottoman Bank at Aflund-Karahissar. They were all barefoot and badly sunburnt. I relived their more pressing necessities.
Did I lend Stanley money? Indeed I did—£150. Stanley took his friends to the clothing souq where they made themselves presentable. Nothing fancy. Security? No, I asked for no security for the loan. I gather that Noe later stated that Stanley gave me a draft payable by someone in New York. This, like everything else the creature claimed, was a lie. As it turned out, the Turkish government offered compensation to the travelers; I took out the £150 before sending the money on to Cook, who had left a forwarding address.
What was Mr. Stanley like? Courageous and determined. Rather short but strong. Stern without being sinister. You know the tripe.
Did Noe bring charges of cruelty against Stanley at this time? Not that I recollect. The culprits were eventually brought to trial. Some of the effects of the Stanley party, including $300, were found on them. The criminals were convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
Yes, Noe swore to all the facts. He was, as a matter of fact, frank with me in the extreme when I interviewed him in private. He alleged that he had been misused by the Turks. These are not exactly his words. “They was real big and they was all circumscribed,” he said. His eyes gleamed as he told me this. “They kept going at it all night like they was no end in sight.” That kind of thing. Noe seemed to have enjoyed himself. I can’t understand why he later declared that Stanley had mistreated him. I consider such a claim absurd.
I suppose Noe wanted his share of the money direct, not through Cook. That may be one reason for his hateful remarks and the definitely skewed story he later told. But at any rate Stanley himself got nothing.
When did I see Stanley again? Oh, I think it was during the last year of my residence in Turkey. A clergyman visited me, desiring to pay Stanley’s “long-standing debt of £150.” I told him we’d settled up long ago. To my astonishment, the clergyman said that Stanley himself was in town. I immediately invited them to dinner.
Changed? Oh, wonderfully. The gawky youth was now a perfect man of the world. From that day on, during Stanley’s sojourn in Constantinople, we dined together. He was a marvelous raconteur. He had vast knowledge of the East. He went to the Caucasus on his way to Persia. I supplied him with an introduction to the Russian Ambassador in Teheran. Persia is a little understood country, with customs as eccentric as the Turks. A trio to Zanzibar or Unyanyembe would be a picnic in comparison. I believe Stanley went on to take tea with the Great Llama in Tibet and exchange philosophies.
No, I heard no more from him until I read that he had discovered Dr. Livingstone.
What is Stanley like today? Well, he’s about twenty-nine at this time. He is a powerful thickset man, though rather short—five feet seven inches. Did I mention that? An expert marksman, a powerful swimmer, a horseman, a trained athlete. Few are as experienced in roughing it. Virtuous in the extreme. Moral without doubt. He does not dabble, sir.
No, I’m not surprised in the least that Stanley was successful in his finding of Dr. Livingston and in his amazing journey across the African continent. I read the reports with trepidation, admiration, and pride that an American—he was born and raised in Missouri—had accomplished such feats.
It all started on the South Platte River. While in the West I decided to go to China, and to report my adventures in dispatches to New York papers. By 1866 I had published a number of articles in newspapers. I was becoming known as a journalist. The Asia trip would be a professional coup if successful. I convinced a friend, William Harlow Cook, to come along with Lewis Noe and me. Lewis was hot for adventure. We had jumped ship in New York and Noe was waiting for news in Brooklyn, biding his time in the usual way, on the streets. Cook was living with an uncle.
We sailed for Smyrna, the three of us. It was interminable, wallowing along in mud, the ship a hulk full of obscenity. We arrived in poor shape, exhausted. The city was crumbling and filthy. The baths however were immense, vast cathedrals where they ladled hot soup over you and naked Turks drifted like apparitions. We took off immediately for the Pontic Mountains on three nags, all lame.
Soon we found ourselves hungry and tired. Cook was lagging behind. The region was remote—I described it in a dispatch never published—beautiful and remote and dangerous. Suddenly Lewis spied a horseman trotting toward us, leading two ponies.
“We can rob him,” I said at once. “Let him get near, then attack him from behind. We’ll have the horses.”
Noe agreed. The Turk approached unsurely, but I yelled at him in my queer Turkish. Lewis made coquettish signs that he might be willing. Turks, you know.
The man said that his name was Achmet. He got off his horse and made for Lewis at once. He had been on the trail for a while and was eager. When his face was almost touching Lewis’s he reached forward and stroked the boy’s genitals. Just then I unsheathed Achmet’s sword and swung it hard against his head. This merely dazed the Turk, since the blow had been softened by his greasy fez. He drew his knife and attacked me. He was a big man, I was a small man. In a moment I was flat on my back, trying to fend off the blade.
Lewis brought the butt of his rifle down. He saved my life, though my hands were badly cut. Achmet then made off in a staggering run. We took the horses. Cook rode up. We told him what had happened. Then we galloped hard toward the mountains.
In an hour Achmet and several friends caught up with us. For four hours we tried to elude them. The trails were slimy. The forest patches were cluttered with loose rock. At last they trapped us on a plateau. I thought we were done for.
They didn’t kill us. They beat us, kicked us, and then tied us up. They took us to a small village in a courtyard they tied us by the neck to wooden posts. For nine days we were punched, whacked with sword handles, bombarded with clods, smeared with mud and spat on. They fired shots at our heads, point blank, that barely missed us. We were petrified with terror.
During the night they would untie Lewis and strip him naked. He was just seventeen, smooth and white, a real beauty. The young Turks did it to Lewis in turns. The sight was dramatic. They showed off, exhibiting the results of their lust to us. Cook and I watched in fascination. There was no need for them to hold a knife to Lewis’s throat in case he cried for help. He even helped them. I must say they were skillful. I had never seen anything to beat it.
In the morning the young men prayed.
Achmet and his friends having had enough, brought us to Rashakeni where we were accused in front of a magistrate. They fastened irons around our limbs and dumped us into the Karahisar prison, a loathsome place. The dungeon was dark and crowded with young men in loose shirts and bare feet. The smells were overpowering—of urine, sweat, rotting food. Immediately we were surrounded by a herd of rutting animals. Hands were thrust into my pants, grasping my penis, fondling my testicles. Lewis and Cook were also being touched in a similar way. There were dozens of prisoners, all eager to get at us. It was Lewis, though, who was singled out first. He endured another Turkish orgy. Cook and I fared no better.
At last the prison commander, having heard that three Americans were being held, had us paraded before him naked. We were not a pretty picture, filthy and bruised as we were, hardly able to walk. He ordered us to be taken to the governor who, amused by our plight but uneasy about international consequences, released us. That was when we scuffled into Constantinople and were taken in by the U.S. Minister, Mr. Edward Jay Morris. By that time we were all in excellent spirits, Lewis especially. | <urn:uuid:9e34ca6c-eea1-4d2d-b00c-108358bdf530> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://evergreenreview.com/read/henry-morton-stanleys-turkish-adventure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.990762 | 3,820 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Nowadays the cities are expanding so fast and the materials are being consumed, so the waste is being increasingly produced. So the right method of waste disposal is getting extremely critical. In recent years they’ve been developed two methods of waste disposal: pit-type and dump-type.
Pit type: In this method, one would seal the soil-bed with HDPE special coverage after almost 100 meters of excavation. Then one puts the drainage pipes and connects them to the shaft network.
The drainage system would collect the seepage from the waste and the leakage from the rain water and dispose them through the shafts.
Dump type: In this method, a region would be constrained with embankment (up to 20 m) and then it would be sealed with HDPE special coverage. Afterward the drainage systems are put there and then they’ll be connected to the manholes outside the region.
TNS can provide the requirement in this field with presenting the drainage pipes and shafts with great strength and chemical resistant to the various chemicals. Also, by using new technology in the construction of telescopic shafts, the company is able to provide this technology.
In addition to natural geological barriers, new landfills also use drainage lines. This is to prevent the leachate entering the basement. The leaked water is collected in pipes and directed to control shafts. These pipes carry a lot of load. Also, these pipes exposed to chemicals must withstand high mechanical loads.
The knowledge of Tadbir Novin Sazan Company is used in the calculation, production and installation of polyethylene products.
The diameter of the polyethylene drainage pipe produced by this company is usually 300 mm. At first glance, this does seem normal, but experience has shown that small pipes become clogged due to the presence of chemicals in the leachate and foam production.
In a drainage polyethylene pipe, the diameter of the hole is adjusted so that no obstruction occurs. It can be removed in case of obstruction.
Today, landfilling is done in two ways: dump-type and pit-type landfill. In the pit-type method, the waste leachate must be directed to the shafts. The components of the telescopic shaft are made movable and move as the garbage moves.
Usually the diameter of the shafts is 1200 mm or more. This is because repairs to the shafts must be considered.
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Psalm 125 Israel’s Stability A song of ascents. 125 1Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion. It cannot be shaken; it remains forever. 2Jerusalem—the mountains surround her. And the Lord surrounds His people, both now and forever. 3The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice. 4Do what is good, Lord, to the good, to those whose hearts are upright. 5But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways, the Lord will banish them with the evildoers. Peace be with Israel.
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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Sexually transmitted diseases, namely, gonorrhea and chlamydia, may be associated with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and can cause damage to a woman’s fallopian tubes. PID is an infection and resulting inflammation that involves the internal reproductive organs. It could result in infertility, serious illness and death. Your health care provider can detect PID with a pelvic exam and tests for sexually transmitted diseases.
If you have infertility and don’t recall ever having PID, your doctor may be able to see scarring or blockage of the tubes during an X-ray procedure called a hysterosalpingogram or during a diagnostic surgical procedure called a laparoscopy. | <urn:uuid:d83f91e6-a902-4b55-b4d9-0cf208011cde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healtiyer.com/stds-women-and-infertility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.92798 | 150 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Romanticism, machines and technological (dys)utopias
In my presentation I try to give a few interesting examples, in which science and technology have become a part of Romantic ideological programs. In this way I try to express that technology, science and romanticism have not been opposites at all – in fact, conversely – they are the key symptoms of contemporary changes. With the support of Mark Coeckelbergh’s thesis, I characterize this transformation as a kind of cyborgization. The Belgian philosopher of technology points out that the affirmative, utopian and holistic approach to technology, initiated by the Romantics, is the origin of the counter-cultural fascination with technology of the 1960s and 1970s, which laid the foundations for our contemporary integration with technology.
The aim of the presentation is therefore to outline an analogy between a romantic utopia and the present state of cyborgization, which in many aspects may display dystopian features.
Mark Coeckelbergh, New Romantic Cyborgs. Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine, MIT Press 2017.
Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, Harvard University Press 1968.
Marek Dybizbański, Romantyczna futurologia, Kraków 2005.
Mary Fairclought, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: “Electrick Communication Every Where”, Palgrave 2017.
Andrzej Walicki, Filozofia a mesjanizm. Studia z dziejów filozofii i myśli społeczno-religijne romantyzmu polskiego, Warszawa 1970.
Romanticism, Technology, Utopia, Cyborgization
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(1) Aerial survey methods for estimating population size of feral water buffalo in northern Australia were examined. (2) Line transect models underestimated population size. Of six models tested the most accurate underestimated by nearly half. The models give biased estimates most probably because not all animals on the survey line were sighted. (3) Aerial strip transect surveys were also negatively biased. The extent of this bias was estimated in index-removal experiments. Experiments were carried out on two populations in areas of differing obstructive canopy cover. ( 4) In woodland habitat with a canopy cover of 30-60%, a correction factor of 3.2 was required to account of animals not seen. In forest habitat with a canopy cover of 60-100%, a correction factor of 4.9 was required. (5) Using these results, the population size of feral buffalo, cattle and horses in Kakadu National Park was estimated by aerial survey at the end of each year over 6 years. Annual rates of increase for three regions of the Park were estimated, taking into account known removals from the population. The effects of dry season rainfall and population density in the preceding year on rate of increase were examined for each species. ( 6) The mean annual exponential rate of increase for each species was 0.10 yr-1 for buffalo, 0.23 yr-1 for cattle and -0.14 yr-1 for horses. (7) The annual rates of increase varied greatly between years within all species and were highly correlated with dry season rainfall in the year of survey for buffalo and cattle but not for horses. (8) No significant effect of preceding density on rate of increase was found for any species. A large reduction in buffalo populations did not correspond with an increase in unharvested populations of horses, suggesting the two species do not compete for food or other resources. (9) A campaign to control populations of feral water buffalo in Kakadu National Park was assessed. Between 1979 and 1988, approximately 79,ooo animals were removed, 54% by commercial live-capture, 35% by shooting from helicopters and 10% by shooting from the ground. (10) In the period 1983-1988 when population estimates from aerial survey are available, mean buffalo population density was reduced from 5.60 km-2 to 1.17 km-2 over the surveyed area of the Park. (11) The costs of removal by shooting from helicopters, capturing animals alive and shooting from the ground were compared. The mean costs per animal in 1988 were $24.13, $74.53, and $86.02 respectively. (12) The effects of initial density and time spent shooting on number of animals removed by shooting from helicopters were examined. One linear and two curvilinear models were fitted to data from four different removal exercises. The relationship between time spent shooting and number removed was best described by a curvilinear (Ivlev) function. This model was used to estimate costs of control to a specified density. (13) Model regression coefficients differed between removal exercises, suggesting that the number removed may be affected by variables other than time spent shooting and initial density. Data from the range of conditions encountered during removal is thus likely to be required for robust estimation of removal costs.
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History 12/01/20 Massacre in the village Zahrani: what the poles were killing Ukrainians
March 10, 1944, several hundred fighters of the Polish home Army under the command of Lieutenant Zeno Yakimanka attacked a Ukrainian village Sahrini. Also the action was attended by soldiers of the peasant battalions, recruited from Polish colonists in neighboring villages. According to the Polish attack was carried out with the aim of preventing hostilities, detachments of the UPA*.
the Ukrainians against the poles
In February 1943, the nationalists of the OUN-UPA* began to attack villages in the territory of Ukraine, which is dominated by the Polish population. The joint massacre of poles and Ukrainians began in 1942, but in the summer of 1943 the killing reached its peak. On 11 July 1943 the Ukrainians were simultaneously attacked by 150 Polish villages. In autumn 1943 some detachments of nationalists moved from Volhynia on Kholmshchyna and Podlasie, where the Polish population was more numerous, and the underground is stronger.
the Polish underground made contact with Soviet partisans jointly fought against Ukrainian nationalists. 9 Feb 1944 the forces of “UPA-West”* was ordered to intensify the struggle against the poles and proceed to the destruction of their churches, manors and houses. In the attacks on the village of UPA* supported the 4th and 5th regiments of the SS “Galicia”.
With the approach of the red Army, the Polish partisans went into action. At this time, the leadership of the home Army in Hrubieszowska County decides to attack Ukrainian villages, which supposedly concentrated the enemy. Among them was Sahring. According to the Polish archives, the action was attended by up to 300 fighters of the home Army and the peasant battalions, which attacked Shrine placed in the office of the German police of 16 Ukrainians, and 60 people from self-defense units and fighters of the UPA* Bender. After a brief skirmish the enemy was suppressed and the poles moved to the mass murder of Ukrainianwow the population of the village.
11 Mar 1944 in Hrubieszowska the district of Gorlice, Poland was attacked 11 villages, which dominated the Ukrainian and Ruthenian population. Polish historians say about two hundred dead, and according to the Ukrainian researchers only Shrine died from 750 to 1,300 Ukrainians. To accurately identify managed 651 people. Confrontation and the joint murders of poles and Ukrainians lasted until the summer of 1944, and ended only with the arrival of the red Army. The total number of dead civilians in Hrubieszowska County is estimated at 3-4 thousand.
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We recently had a sick week where 6 out of 7 of my kids were sick over 11 days. Oh my it was a very long week!! We decided to cancel school for the week because obviously nobody wants to do school when they are sick but, I didn’t want them all just laying down on the couch all week watching t.v. and playing video games. I can’s stand when they do that so we came up with an alternative school week. They actually learned some things but still had a whole lot of fun too!! We all brainstormed some activities and I wrote them on a long sheet of paper and we hung them on the wall for everyone to see. This list is all inside activities because we were sick but an outside list will be coming soon!!! We made a game out of it and they wrote what they did on the white board under their name so we could see how many activities they could do on the list over the week. It was fun how some kids had lots of things and some only had a few because they kept doing the same things over and over. I have made it into a printable for you so all you have to do is printed out and hang it up! Click on the picture below to print. Do you have other ideas for indoor screen free activities? If you have outdoor activities I would love for you to share those too!
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Spatially-Anchored Augmented Reality Interfaces
Augmented Reality allows for the overlay of digital information and interactive content onto scenes and objects. In order to provide tight registration of data onto objects in a scene, it is most common for markers to be employed, such as QR Codes and ArUco markers.
LightAnchors enables spatially-anchored data in augmented reality applications without special hardware.
Unlike most prior tracking methods, which instrument objects with markers, LightAnchors takes advantage of point lights already found in many objects and environments. For example, most electrical appliances now feature small (LED) status lights, and light bulbs are common in indoor and outdoor settings.
Software-Only Device Communication
LightAnchors requires no extra hardware and simply takes advantage of high-speed cameras on recent smartphone models.
Bring Existing Devices into AR Experiences
Many devices already contain microprocessors that can control status lights and can be LightAnchor-enabled with a firmware update.
Dynamic Payloads Without the Cloud
Unlike conventional markers, LightAnchors can transmit dynamic payloads, without the need for WiFi, Bluetooth or any connectivity.
LightAnchors is brought to you by the collaborative efforts of the Future Interfaces Group and SMASH Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. This research was generously supported with funds from the CONIX Research Center, one of six centers in JUMP, a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) program. We are also grateful to Anthony Rowe and his lab for early help on this project.
The full paper can be downloaded here.
To cite LightAnchors, please use the following reference:
Karan Ahuja, Sujeath Pareddy, Robert Xiao, Mayank Goel, and Chris Harrison. 2019. LightAnchors: Appropriating Point Lights for Spatially-Anchored Augmented Reality Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 189-196. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3332165.3347884 | <urn:uuid:f6e9fc86-6018-46bd-8b17-0c0c743a09da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lightanchors.org/home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.871218 | 529 | 2.484375 | 2 |
It’s been a couple of weeks since school let out for the summer. I’ve tackled a few projects, read a book or two. And so, of course, I’ve started to think about next year.
For the last couple of years I’ve had my seniors participate in a final Harkness discussion, where I ask them to reflect on what they’ve thought about the course. The rules are simple: no grades, and I, their Gentle Instructor, will not talk nor take offense. The goal, I tell them, is to improve the quality of the experience for future students. So far it’s been pretty successful–a few tears but no pitchforks. Here are my takeaways this year.
Literature, fiction, good stories–they still matter. As we’ve moved towards more nonfiction texts, I’ve been generally pleased with the results. I find it easier to teach argument using informational mentor texts. But my students still like fiction. They were emphatic on this.
Nothing stuck with my students the way that the stories do. They called out Holden, Lady Macbeth, Tayo, Offred, Gatsby, and talked about how these characters moved or frustrated–or sometimes bored–them. That doesn’t surprise me. But they also named people from nonfiction pieces that we’d read. They remembered the stories of Derek Boogaard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Bharati Mukherjee and connected them back to the stories they follow: Orange is The New Black, Daredevil, Gilmore Girls, and on and on.
There’s something primal about our need for stories. We might look for them in different formats but we want them. Stories work as “empathy machines” for us, and I have to remember that as I look for mentor texts. Even when I’m really searching for an excellent use of embedded quotes, I have to keep those stories in mind, because audience matters, and empathy is a great way to connect.
Stopping the Search for Perfect Mentor Texts
Two years ago my students really dug into Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko. It was the most discussed novel, followed by Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Not so this year. Ceremony was roundly criticized by almost all of my students, while Handmaid’s was lauded.
My students also asked why we hadn’t read a book with a transgendered or gender-switching character. I offered to do a summer book study of Woolf’s Orlando. I waited a long time at Starbucks; no one showed up.
Where does that leave me? I’ll never get the mix right, so should I abandon “required” reading in favor of student choice? I’m tempted, I’ll admit. But can I really, as I’ve claimed, teach skills using any book?
I’m still thinking about that, and I am moving that way. I want to respect their ability to choose . . . sometimes.
Relatable Characters for All Students
I’m doing a terrible job with my students of color. This was the most heartbreaking part of the discussion. Students who had done a terrific job talking about the Lomans, the Macbeths, Sherlock, and Holmes said that they “were used to” not seeing characters who looked like them, who might represent their experiences.
“Used to it.”
It cannot stay like that. They were also clear that they had had their fill of the Harlem Renaissance, “I Have a Dream,” and the rest of the “Black History Month stuff.” They deserve better and I’m working on that for next year.
As I’ve written, I’ve moved further away from prescriptive rubrics and forms of writing, in favor of more authentic, audience-driven work. Instead of giving them a simple set of instructions for “successful arguments in writing”–5 paragraphs, 3 part thesis, counter goes here–I’ve been asking my students to devise their own measures for success.
Yeah, it’s much more difficult, but so much more real. My students tell me that they think much harder about this kind of writing. They find it challenging, and sometimes wistfully long for the days when writing was easy, because there was a formula. I can’t lie; sometimes I do too. It was so much easier to look for that thesis statement when I knew its location. But we’re not going back.
My students talked about how much more “real” and mature they felt to have these choices. They talked about how they wished they’d taken feedback more seriously–that’s where I come in–because they saw how important it was to this to the process.
There were more trends in these discussions, of course. My jokes are bad. I might want to rethink my love of 90’s hip-hop along with my dance moves. Some students I absolutely did not move at all. They felt like my classroom was mostly a waste of time. But overall they gave me enough to think about so I can “do better when I know better.”
Rick Kreinbring teaches English at Avondale High School in Auburn Hills, Michigan. His current assignments include teaching AP Language and Composition and AP Literature and Composition. He is a member of a statewide research project through the Michigan Teachers as Researchers Collaborative partnered with the MSU Writing in Digital Environments Program, which concentrates on improving student writing and peer feedback. Rick has presented at the National Advanced Placement Convention and the National Council of Teachers of English Conference. He is in his twenty-third year of teaching and makes his home in Huntington Woods. | <urn:uuid:80a8032b-4c03-4acc-8781-7bc187be07f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oaklandschoolsliteracy.org/blog/tag/discussion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969198 | 1,250 | 2 | 2 |
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Can you cut 1 Tonne of carbon pollution out of your life?Take the challenge
Written by Brendan FD Barrett
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central proposition is that: "… the battle for a more sustainable future will be won or lost in cities."
Presumably, this is predicated on the fact that 54% of the world's people live in cities, where 70% of global GDP is generated. By 2050 the urban population will have risen to 66%.
In parallel, following the Paris climate agreement, major cities are committing to measures designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The poster for this campaign should read "Coming to your city soon".
It is clear 2016 will be the "urban year" as the global community prepares for the Habitat III summit in Quito, Ecuador, this October.
At Habitat III, governments will agree an urban agenda to guide global urban development over the next 20 years. The agenda is taking shape through preparatory meetings (the next one is in Indonesia in July), as well as regional and thematic meetings.
A series of 28 urban thinkers campuses has been organised across the globe, running until February 2016. One of the last of these is in Melbourne, Australia.
A world of challenges
We are all too familiar with the problems cities commonly face. These include rising house prices putting ownership beyond the reach of many, suburban sprawl, long commutes, traffic congestion, social problems, isolation and polarisation.
At the same time, Australian cities have real strengths. This is reflected in their performance in various rankings onliveability and quality of urban life. But we ought not assume that this situation is sustainable, or that we can lock in liveability.
Globally, cities face even greater challenges. In the global South, if you live in a city there is a one-in-three chance that you live in a slum.
Also, despite progress on the Millennium Development Goals, poverty is still our greatest urban concern. It is not limited to the South and has been growing across cities globally since the global financial crisis. Limited financial resources constrain the capacity of city administrations to respond to these challenges, especially in the face of austerity measures.
While that may seem like a pretty glum picture, there are reasons to be hopeful.
In a survey of 20 cities last year for the UN Global Compact Cities Program we identified many examples of civic leadership and urban innovations.
Related to this, in the US, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley at Brookings have described these innovations as a "metropolitan revolution". They argue that local leaders are doing the hard work of growing the job market and making their communities more prosperous. They cite examples in New York, Portland, Houston and Miami.
In Europe, the Norwegian city of Oslo plans to be fossil-fuel-free by 2030. Utrecht is the first of several cities in the Netherlands planning trials in which they pay citizens a universal basic income.
Across the English Channel, Bristol is seeking to transform the economy by introducing a local currency. The Bristol pound is designed to strengthen business relationships within the city and to build trust.
What these cities and their leaders have recognised is that "business as usual" will not get us to where we need to be.
Technological innovation, institutional reform, financial investment and regulatory change are all part of the answer, especially as we seek to achieve development goals while ensuring we do not undermine our environmental sustainability. However, we may need to dig deeper. Something that we neglect is the need for changes in values at both the societal and individual levels.
Twisting Einstein's famous quote somewhat, it is possible to assert that "we can't solve problems by using the same value system that created them".
Here is where the notion of the ethical city comes in.
What is the ethical city?
Ethics is concerned with what is "right, fair, just or good", not necessarily what is most accepted as normal or expedient.
Most people will have heard of the term ethical corporation. It suggests that such businesses place certain key values and practices at the centre of their operations. This could include fairness, integrity, respect for the environment, elimination of discrimination, and so on.
Internationally, some of these key values are elaborated in the ten principles of the UN Global Compact. Thousands of companies have signed up. Mayors of cities and governors of regions can also sign up to these principles by sending a letter to the UN Secretary-General.
Yet the term ethical city is rarely used, even though ethical considerations underpin how we plan and manage our cities. And the ethical values underpinning the vast majority of our decisions about city life are rarely made explicit.
Even so, in most cities we already see various measures designed to support ethical governance. These range from internal commissions to audit and check on performance through to measures to promote transparency and community participation in decision-making.
Urban leaders, administrators, planners, engineers and others are aware of the ethical ramifications of their work, have guidance to refer to and training when needed. Although sometimes people fall foul, the vast majority do not because they are seen to be doing the right thing.
But we must recognise that there is a dominant view of "business as usual" based on an embedded set of values. Good examples include how most cities are designed primarily to accommodate the car, how we work in the CBD and live in the suburbs, or how homelessness is seen as a fact of life in many cities.
How do we create a more ethical city?
Thought leaders like Peter Singer have done a lot to elaborate the importance of ethics in everyday life, especially with his book Practical Ethics. However, we live in utilitarian times.
More than ever, our cities need ethical leadership — good governance, transparency, public trust building and fairness. They need ethically based planning to deal with the complex challenges facing our communities. This depends on our willingness to tackle the tough questions around sustainability, resilience, economic vibrancy and inclusiveness.
There is also our role as citizens. What are our expectations of ourselves as ethical, engaged citizens? What do we expect and deserve, and what are we prepared to commit to each other in the ethical city? What kind of citizens do we need to be?
Most of all, if we end up agreeing that we need a city that cares, how do we navigate to this end in a world where private profit and consumption are kings and where the tenets of the ethical city — social inclusion, climate action, gender equity, rights of children and youth, and myriad other rights and needs — are lacking?
If this sounds like a new year dose of utopianism, think of cases that you could envisage in your city — from participatory budgeting, to crowd-funded social enterprises, to any number of people who decided "what should we do?", then acted on it.
The Ethical Cities Urban Thinkers Campus, to be hosted at RMIT University in Melbourne on 16 February 2016, will explore the ethical city in relation to urban development, inclusion and rights, and resilience.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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By John Crawford and Tim Grzebinski, IRI
Carl’s Jr. set the food industry abuzz in January 2019 when it announced that it would be rolling out the plant-based Beyond Meat patty in 1,100 of its stores. As with other, more mainstream adoptions of plant-based foods, the category has come a long way in the past few years due to the growing focus on higher-protein diets, celebrity adoption and social media, which has helped drive awareness of new food options among the public as more people become interested in health and wellness. What hasn’t been known until recently is if plant-based foods are good for CPG retailers’ and manufacturers’ bottom lines.
Plant-Based Study Highlights
Although there are only about 8 million vegetarians in the U.S. currently, research from Mintel’s “Better for You Eating Trend survey from August 2018 shows that 60% of Americans are interested in consuming less meat, 31% are choosing to have meat-free days, and one-third plan to buy more plant-based foods. Weight management and health are the two big motivators.
A new study from IRI looked across 15 product categories, including refrigerated milk, butter, yogurt and ice cream, and found that plant-based dollar sales are trending upward across most categories compared to a year ago. The only product category we studied that saw a small decrease in dollar sales was plant-based mayonnaise. However, even after seeing declines, in 2018 mayonnaise, along with seven other categories (milk, ice cream, yogurt, creamer, meat substitutes, protein bars and supplements, and frozen meals), earned more than $100 million in annual plant-based dollar sales.
Not surprisingly, milk is the category that has been the most impacted by the rise of plant-based foods. Almost one in five Americans say they are drinking less dairy milk for health concerns, and sales bear this out. Plant-based milks now have 10.2 percent dollar share in the category. While almond, coconut and soy milks remain most popular, varieties of plant-based milk that are newer to the market, such as flax, quinoa and oat, are gaining faster growth than the common staple. Also, households are increasingly purchasing both dairy and plant-based milk as fewer households are sticking only with dairy milk.
Plant-based foods are now in 53 percent of households and we expect that this trend will continue to grow. While every generation purchases plant-based food items, the consumers most likely to buy these foods currently are millennials, those with higher incomes and acculturated Hispanic households. In general, younger consumers have a far more positive view of the health aspects of plant-based milks than older generations.
Success Drivers and Opportunities
The IRI study also showed that the main drivers for buying plant-based food alternatives were health and diet. With plant-based dairy specifically, we found that the drivers of purchase were taste (family appeal) and trust (habit) Among the households purchasing both dairy-based and plant-based milk products (which is also growing), shoppers said their dairy-based milk purchases were driven by family appeal, flavor and ingredient usage, while their plant-based dairy purchases were driven by health and wellness concerns, social consciousness and the products extended shelf life.
So what does this all mean for CPG manufacturers and retailers? It’s clear that consumers across the board have a growing interest in plant-based foods, including plant-based protein – and they are buying more of these items. It’s important to note, however, that the specific types of products they are most interested in is constantly shifting due to continually-evolving diet trends and their openness to trying new products.
As consumers grow more interested in hyper-personalized diets that focus on their individual needs, manufacturers and retailers have a huge opportunity to highlight health and wellness in the products themselves as well as with consumers’ in-store and online experiences. Innovators in this space who focus more on the changing diets and health needs of consumers, and less on traditional categories or occasions, will be able to capture both attention and sales.
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E-Commerce and Business Process
The current business world has gone through a thorough transformation that has embraced the utilization of technology and technological devices in coming up with strategies and methods of doing business that have made it easier to carry out business transactions. These strategies and methods have embraced tools such as the internet, the phone, fax machines and other technological devices that are meant to ease the whole process of transactions thus minimizing the time and resources spend in carrying out these transactions, increasing revenues/proceeds and widening the market base of any particular business or organisation that is involved. In other words, there is a reduced amount of paperwork.
This has come to be termed as e-commerce in the current world. As it shall be seen in this paper, e-commerce has had a huge impact on the overall business processes and is currently being embraced by different businesses and organisations as a strategy of approaching different markets.E-Commerce and the business processE-commerce can be defined as the act of selling and buying of goods and services of different kinds over the internet. According to Goel 2007 (p.1), e-commerce is a contemporary methodology of doing business that is able to deal with the requirements of merchants, organisations and consumers of reducing costs while enhancing the quality of products and services and raising the speed at which services are delivered by utilizing the internet services.
Goel continues to argue that e-commerce is totally different from the traditional electronic commerce as it is able to provide an opportunity for buying and selling of goods and services to take place over the internet. In this regard, there is also the changing of money from one person to another over the internet and it has eliminated the need for physical currency for any transaction to take place. Instead, every transaction is done from one computer to another with the internet connection between these two computers as the linking channels. There are various factors that are involved that enable transactions to be completed and thus enable a smooth flow of e-commerce. These include the internal changes that need to be done to a particular business or organisation and the external environment of this organisation.Internal changesThe internal environment of businesses or organisations that are engaged in e-commerce trading requires different changes to be made to it to support the new way of transacting.
It must be realized that without these changes, such the older systems are unable to support the current form of business and as a result, this has been found to lead to strain on the overall business environment leading to ineffectiveness. One of the changes that need to be done on the internal environment is the assignment of specific tasks to specific employees while leaving other tasks to be done automatically by the machines under strict supervision by the business or organisation. This not only requires a redesigning of the business structure but also a thorough training among the employees of the business in order for them to be able to handle the challenges that emerge as a result of using technology and the fast and ever changing business environment. On the other hand, a particular business that has adopted e-commerce as a mode of doing business must work on its structure on different ways of avoiding risks such as fraud since while the internet is able to transform the business, it also exposes the business to different kinds of risks that need to be avoided (Goel 2007).Competitive environmentOn the other hand, businesses that engage in e-commerce have a challenge of dealing with different forms of competition that emerges from different business.
This is as a result of the wider market that this form of doing business offers to its clients while at the same time widening the base of competitors to this business. For example, while company A may be a supplier of particular products at region B, e-commerce has a potential of creating a new markets, C and D. These additional markets have original suppliers of these products. As a result, this company has to devise a strategy not only of ensuring that its products are accepted in this market but also are able to compete well with products from the original companies. As a result, a business has a mandate of working out on different ways that would need to be implemented to deal with this competition.
One of these ways is changing the way such a business deals with fellow businesses and with customers. This requires that business to business, B2B and business to customer, B2C models are developed to deal with fellow businesses on the market while at the same time ensuring that customers are satisfied on the market.The Internet as an information systemOne of the most important strategies on the market includes the acquisition and use of information on the market by any business or organisation. This information can be used to transform the business internally or align it to face the external challenges. There are different ways that were used in the past to obtain such information. This included the use of market surveys and research.
However, these methods of gathering information proved to be very expensive and therefore derailed the business activities of a particular business or organisation. As a result of this, new ways had to be developed. The advent of the internet has therefore proved to be a very important source of information for businesses and organisations that are currently in the market (Jansen-Vullers, Netjes & Reijers 2004, p.382-387). Sharing of information, i.e.
both sending and receiving in organisation has been made easier by the fact that the link among businesses and among businesses and employers has been enhanced in the sense that there is sufficient and timely information that is readily available to these businesses to be used for the purposes of enhancing the trading transactions.Benefits, risks and limitations of e-commerce to organisationsDespite the fact that e-commerce has been able to transform the business environment, there are benefits, risks and failures that have been found to accompany this form of doing business. Most of these factors have risen from the fact that the internet has advantages and disadvantages, a factor that has resulted in benefits on one side and failures and risks on the other side. In this regard, it is vital for any business or organisation whose structure is based on e-commerce as a mode of doing business to realise these challenges in order to be in a position to deal with them whenever they arise while in some cases being able to avoid them.E-commerce benefitsThere main aim of any business on the market is to maximise profits and lower costs that are involved in any business transaction while at the same time being able to reach its customers with a lot of ease. E-commerce has a lot of benefits therefore that can be reaped by businesses.
To begin with, it is in every business’ strategy to reach out to its customers with ease and speed in terms of product and service provision. E-commerce has been found to offer a unique opportunity whereby businesses are able to reach their customer on time, and in a very cheap way. For example, e-commerce has been found to eliminate the barriers that arise because of distance and time. Similarly, the cost of sales is greatly reduced under e-commerce as compared to the traditional form of selling. For example, while in the past sales people had to travel right to the customer, the current form of doing business no longer requires them to do this. Instead, these businesses are only required to provide information about the products and services and modes of payment such as VISA and MasterCard and this is enough for them to be bought (Goel 2007).
E-commerce risksWhile transacting over the internet is easier and far much more efficient as compared to the traditional methods of trading, there are also risks that are involved. One of the major risks that have to be dealt with by businesses if they are to continue operating and earn the trust of their clients is fraud. Internet fraud has continued to prosper as every day as e-commerce continues to develop. As a result, it is the mandate of the business to develop a fraud-proof system that would guarantee that neither the business nor its clients are defrauded by internet crooks. This calls for protection of business information that may violate its property rights and customer information that may violate their privacy. On the other hand, there are other forms of risks such as system failures that may ground the activities of a particular business.
This may occur in case of a virus attack or hacking i.e. deliberate attack on the system with an intention of stealing certain information or grounding the system. Therefore, while it is important to develop a virus-proof system, there is also the need for a business to integrate into its strategy a backup system that would guarantee that transaction activities continue even if there are system failures due to hacking or attack (Goel 2007). E-commerce failuresThere are various forms of e-commerce failures that may arise during the process of trading.
One of the failures of e-commerce is the failure by the business to track customer orders. This has been found to occur in cases whereby there are large orders that are placed by the customers while the information system of the business can only support up to a particular number of orders at a particular time or there is manpower failures whereby the business is unable to utilise different skills and knowledge that is needed in tracking down these orders. Similarly, as a business, failing to develop a clear and efficient delivery system is a failed strategy to business approach in regard to e-commerce. This is whereby the delivery of goods and services to customers fails completely or delays for a longer period of time than the way it is expected by the customer, resulting in longer waiting period before one is served by the business (Goel 2007, p.10).E-commerce business modelsThere are therefore different e-commerce models that have been developed to deal with various challenges that arise on the e-market.
One of the models that have been identified is the business to customer model, B2C. This is whereby a particular business that uses the online services in its activities targets a unique customer rather than targeting a general customer in its approach. Such a model requires that the business is able to develop consumers trust by being efficient and honouring every transaction that it enters in with the customer. Another model that has been found to exist in this case is the business to business model. This is whereby particular forms of businesses agree to enter into business agreement for a mutual benefit of both.
For example, a bank that is launching a branch in Arizona may enter into a business contract to be supplied with computers by HP over a period of five years together with their servicing. This form of a model has been found to provide a wider base of benefits from the transactions that are involved. These models act as an interface between businesses and their intended market (Mahadevan 2000, p.1-5).Business challenges in e-commerceThere are different business challenges that are faced on a daily basis by business in the e-commerce.
One of these challenges is price determination. This arises from the fact that there are familiar goods that are available to customers from different parts of the world offering different prices. In such a case, a business has to be careful with the prices its assigns to its goods. Similarly, there is also the problem of the goods to offer on the market. This is particularly so in cases of substitute goods.
For example, a business may find it a challenge to offer tea on the market where coffee is preferred (Goel 2007).Strategies for internet technology in organisationsThere are different strategies for internet technology that can be utilised in organisations. One of these strategies is the recruitment of competent and knowledgeable employees. Internet technology provides an opportunity for organisations to such for the best employees that would form a perfect team for their work processes. This can be achieved when an effective online recruitment process is put in place. On the other hand, while employees may be competent in their area of expertise, they need an effective management system.
Therefore, it is important for businesses to come to an understanding that while technology may eliminate face to face form of management, there is still the need for a business to develop a management system that will follow up on the performance of the employees and provide motivation in their work.It can therefore be concluded that the internet has brought an important revolution in the world of business. This can be seen in the way the market base of different businesses and organisations has been widened while the service delivery process has been enhanced. However, it is also important to understand that there are different challenges that these businesses face on a daily basis as they transact in an e-commerce mode. First, there are challenges that have to be dealt with such as internet fraud, system failures, and failure by the business handle customer order.
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Drought conditions persist in some parts of the country; and water restrictions remain in place in several provinces. The majority of the country reported reasonable to poor veld and livestock conditions. The average level of major dams has increased in the Western Cape but decreased in other provinces.
According to the Seasonal Climate Watch issued by the South African Weather Service dated 30 September 2019, below normal rainfall is anticipated over the central and south-eastern parts of the country during late spring. Above normal rainfall is expected during early summer to mid-summer in the central and eastern regions of the country. However, caution should be exercised as the forecasting system is uncertain resulting in the forecast also being uncertain. Temperatures are expected to be above normal for the northern most parts of the country.
The September 2019 Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) report states that the region continues to experience the impacts of the poor 2019 harvest with poor households in most parts of the region continuing to experience Crisis (IPC Phase 3). The most affected areas include; Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Lesotho. Currently, most households across the region have exhausted own production and are relying mainly on market purchases for food with atypically high maize grain prices. Similarly, these outcomes are present in conflict affected areas in DRC. Across the region there are no expectations of improvement through at least January 2020.
FEWS NET further reported that national and international forecasts indicate the possibility of below average rainfall for the first half of the season in southern parts of the region, which may result in a delayed onset. These forecasts indicate, central parts of the region are likely to receive near-normal rains from October through December, while northern areas may receive normal to below normal rainfall. Cumulative rainfall for October to March 2020 is expected to be average to above average in northern parts of the region with some central and southern areas anticipated to receive below average rainfall. Casual labour opportunities are expected to remain limited through at least January 2020. Currently poor households are earning income through activities including land preparation, brick molding, and selling of thatching grass. However, as better-off households who normally provide these opportunities have also been affected by drought, opportunities are limited. The possibility for a delayed and erratic start of the season in some areas is expected to delay normal agriculture labour opportunities and delay access to this income source.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a set of standardised tools that aims at providing a “common currency” for classifying the severity and magnitude of food insecurity.
Farmers are advised to approach the season with caution. Dryland farmers are advised to wait for sufficient moisture before planting, consider drought resistant cultivars and short season cultivars. The farmers are also advised to consider other alternative crops such as sorghum. Moreover, they are advised to be conservative in their planting i.e. planting density/cultivar/area being planted. Farmers using irrigation should be mindful of the forecast i.e. dam levels might not be replenished as quickly while irrigating due to the expected high temperatures. They must also comply with water restrictions in their areas. All farmers should follow weather and climate forecast regularly so as to make informed decisions.
Farmers are advised to keep livestock in balance with carrying capacity of the veld, and provide additional feed such as relevant licks. They should also provide enough water points on the farms as well as shelter during bad weather conditions. The veld remains dry especially in summer rainfall areas thereby maintaining the risk of veld fires. Therefore, maintenance of fire belts should be prioritised as well as adherence to veld fire warnings. Episodes of localised flooding resulting from thunderstorms are likely and preventative measures should be in place. As above normal temperatures are anticipated, heat waves are also likely, therefore measures to combat these should be in place. Farmers are encouraged to implement strategies provided in the early warning information issued.
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You are given 5 sacks full of coins and are told that four of these sacks contain only fake coins, which look exactly like real ones. But only one sack contains real coins. Each counterfeit coin weighs 10 grams, while each genuine coin weighs 10.1 grams. Now you are given a set of scales and weights and are asked to weigh only once and find the sack containing the original coins. Tell me how will you find right one?
Suppose A’s wife is B, B’s sister-in-law C, C’s daughter V, V’s grandfather G, G’s wife K, K’s daughter T, then what is the relationship between A and T?
The owner of a spice shop is wearing shoes numbered 7. And his own height is also 5 feet 7 inches. He also has a weighing scale which is only 7 years old, so what will he weigh in the weighing scales?
A person has a habit of wearing new washed shirts every day. He leaves every Monday to wash his clothes, and takes it back the next week. You have to tell me how many shirts he should have at least?
You have two ropes. On burning each one, it burns for 1 minute. It burns to ashes in exactly a minute. You also have a match. Now if you want to measure 45 seconds, how will you measure it?
Once upon a time Radha and Krishna were having fun. In this sequence, the necklace of Radha’s neck was broken and shattered. It was scattered in such a way that 63 pearls of that necklace fell on the bed, 27 pearls fell on her lap, 70 pearls were looted by Gwalin, half the pearls were scattered here and there, 1/9 of the pearls were broken and Krishna stole 1/5 parts silently and kept it with him, now you have to tell how many pearls were in that necklace.
A merchant had three sons. None of the sons was interested in business. The whole business was handled by his manager. Unfortunately one day the merchant fell ill and there was no chance of his survival, so he wrote a will and he wrote half of all his property in the name of his eldest son. Half of the remaining property was written in the name of his middle son and half of the remaining half in the name of his younger son. After death, all the sons shared their respective shares, but at one place, the shape got stuck in a dilemma. It happened that his father had left 7 horses, so the horse had to be cut in order to distribute it according to the will. No one was ready to compromise, he wanted everything exactly as his father had written in the will. These people were very worried, could not understand what to do, then he saw a gentleman riding on a horse, the three brothers stopped him and told the whole story and said that now solve this matter. How do you think the passerby would have resolved this issue without cutting the horse?
If five cats can catch five mice in five minutes, how long will it take for one cat to catch one mouse?
Four people (Ram, Shyam, Baburao and Devi Prasad), want to cross a river in a boat but the boat can carry only 100 kg of weight at a time. Here Ram’s weight is 90 kg, Shyam’s weight is 80 kg, Baburao’s weight is 60 kg and Devi Prasad’s weight is 40 kg and he has 20 kg of other goods. Yet how do they cross?
There is a barrel which does not have a lid and contains some wine. A woman says “this barrel of wine is more than half full,” while a man says. “It’s less than half full.” Without any measuring equipment and without taking any wine out of the barrel, how can they easily determine which one is right?
After a long road, a truck driver stops in front of a tunnel. The condition of the tunnel was such that he could not proceed without seriously damaging his truck, as the height of the tunnel is 4.00 m, while the height of his truck is 4.02 m. The driver wants to cross the tunnel under any circumstances as it will take him at least 5 hours to go the other way. Suddenly he has a great idea, he immediately starts doing some work and after 10 minutes he crosses the tunnel. What did the truck driver do?
Hari’s age is three years more than four times Rakesh’s age. After five years, Hari’s age will be one year more than three times Rakesh’s age. What is Hari’s present age?
If you were to pack 112 pairs of shoes in a box containing 28 shoes each, how many boxes would you need?
In a party of 35 people there are twice as many children as women, and twice as many children as men. So how many men, how many children and how many women are there in this party?
Upon taking delivery of a consignment of eggs, the stall owners of the market were enraged to see that many of them had developed cracks. In fact, when they counted the eggs to assess the damage, they found that 72 had cracked, which was 12 per cent of the total consignment. How many eggs were there in the consignment?
A factory was cutting a roll of cloth from a roll of 200 m into a length of 1 m. How long will the machine take to cut the roll if each cut takes 4 seconds?
A farmer asked his laborer to collect 896,809 apples and pack them in as few boxes as possible, each containing the same number of apples. How many boxes did he use?
A driving school claims to have an average exam pass percentage of 76.8 percent. What is the minimum number of students required to get this result?
Suppose today is Thursday. What day of the week will be 19 days from today?
I am a cold man without a soul. I just love the cold. If I got the heat, it would slowly kill me. Then you won’t even see my body, what am I?
| Answer of paheli
Take out one coin from sack A, two coins from B, three coins from C, four coins from D and 5 coins from E. You will have 15 coins in total.
Now if all of them weighed 150.1 grams when weighed, it means the real coins are in sack A.
If all of them weighed 150.2 grams, it means the original coin is in sack B.
If all of them weighed 150.3 grams, it means the original coin is in sack C.
If all of them weighed 150.4 grams then it means real coin sack D and if all of them weigh 150.5 grams then it means real coins are in sack E.
A and T have brother-in-law relationship.
Masala will weigh.
Set one rope on fire simultaneously from both sides and simultaneously set fire to one part of the second rope with the same rope of the first.
The first rope will burn to ashes in exactly 30 seconds. Because there is fire on both sides of it. At the same time, in exactly 30 seconds, the second rope will burn halfway.
So as soon as it is half burnt, set fire to the other end of that rope as well. By doing this, the second rope will also burn in exactly 15 seconds. In this way the total will be 45 seconds.
There were a total of 900 beads in that necklace. You can remove it this way. Let the total number of pearls in that necklace be X. So in this way X = 63+37+70+x/2+x/9+x/5. When you take the value of X out of it, you will get 900.
That passerby had a horse, so first of all he gave his horse as a gift to all three of them. In this way, now he has a total of 8 horses. According to the will, the eldest son was to get half, so he got 4 horses. (4 horses left) The middle son had to get half of the remaining half, so he got 2 horses. (2 horses left) The youngest son was to get half of the remaining property, so he got 1 horse out of 2 horses. Altogether 4+2+1 =7 horses got all three and the same number of horses were left by his father. And that passerby took his horse and went on his journey.
Since the weight of Baburao and Deviprasad together becomes 100 kg, they both leave first. Devi Prasad leaves Baburao and comes back again. Since Ram’s weight is 90 kg, he goes alone and from there Baburao comes again to this side with a boat. Again Baburao and Devi Prasad board the boat and go to the other side. From there again Devi Prasad comes alone with a boat and this time Shyam, whose weight is 80 kg, goes to the other side with 20 kg of extra baggage. Baburao is already on that side, so he again comes to this side with a boat and goes to that side with Devi Prasad, in this way everyone crosses the river.
Tilt the barrel until the wine barely touches the lip of the barrel. If the bottom of the barrel is visible, it is less than half full. If the bottom of the barrel is still completely covered with wine, it is more than half full.
The driver let out some air from the tyres.
Let the present age of Rakesh be X years.
According to this, the present age of Hari will be (4X + 3) years.
After 5 years, Rakesh’s age will be (X + 5) years and Hari’s age will be (4X + 8) years,
but here it is said that after 5 years Hari’s age will be one year more than three times Rakesh’s age. Looking at this, the equation would be something like this;
(4X + 8) = 3 * (X + 5) + 1
4X + 8 = 3X + 16
X = 8
So the present age of Hari will be 35 years.
Because 112 pair of shoes = 224 shoes.
= 224 28
5 men, 10 children and 20 women.
Because if let x = number of males,
then accordingly x + 2x + 4x = 35.
i.e. 7x = 35.
and X = 5. i.e. number of male is 5.
Because = 72/12 × 100
It will take only 199 cuts to cut 200 m of cloth and not 200, you must have understood this, in this way the calculation will be something like this;
199 × 4 sec = 13.27 mins.
947 boxes containing 947 apples each.
This is because
= 947 × 947 apples.
125 is the least number, 76.8% of it is 96.
Because there are 7 days in every week, that’s why after 7 days the same day will come and in the same way after 21 days the same day will come, so just 2 days before it will be Tuesday.
Snowman means a man made of snow, as long as it is snow, it looks like a man, as soon as the heat starts, it melts.
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AWARD CEREMONY | KIESLER PRIZE
The presentation of the 9th Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts laureate Bruce Nauman (*1941 in Fort Wayne, USA) is dedicated to one of the most extraordinary artists of the present.
As the Statutes of the Kiesler Prize determine, it honors “extraordinary achievements in architecture and the arts that relate to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental and innovative attitudes and his theory of ‘correlated arts’ by transcending the boundaries between the traditional disciplines”
The award is given to Mr. Nauman in a special ceremony at the ACFNY.
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The Cancer Genomics Shared Resource (CGSR) provides comprehensive genomic services and many state-of-the-art technologies via the MCC Cytogenomics Shared Service and the University of Minnesota Genomics Center (UMGC).
Investigators are encouraged to utilize one or both of the resources, depending on goals of the project, whether the need is for classic cytogenetics or the newest molecular genetic sequencing assay. Contact either facility for guidance on technology selection.
Fluorescence-in-situ-hybridization (FISH) studies performed on cell lines, fresh or paraffin-embedded tissue samples, including:
- Generation of site-specific probes from genome resources BAC/PAC clones or investigator-provided DNA sequences
- Use of commercially-available probes
- Focused gene mapping of human or mouse genes using sequential G-banding and FISH and/or FISH and Spectral Karyotyping (SKY).
- Metaphase and interphase FISH analyses to investigate the presence of, or monitor, a specific chromosomal or gene rearrangement, or XX/XY chimeras.
Spectral Karyotyping (SKY) multi-color FISH analyses for human, mouse and rat cell lines and tissues to identify structural chromosome abnormalities, and clarify tumor heterogeneity on a cell by cell basis
Genomic Microarrays for detection of Copy Number Variants and Copy Neutral changes.
This technology permits evaluation of tissues not amenable to conventional cytogenetics (solid tumors and mature nondividing tissues)
Human, mouse and rat arrays are available for detection of genome-wide copy number changes (e.g., gene duplication and deletions):
- 4x180K, 2x400K and other array platforms
- CUSTOM array platforms can be designed at no additional cost
- Hybrid CGH+SNP and SNP microarrays
Mulitplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Assay (MLPA) analyses performed on DNA samples for detection of abnormal copy numbers and single gene aberrations. PCR primer probe sets for genetic syndromes, cancers and tumors are commercially available. MLPA can also be performed with Investigator designed primers or primers designed in collaboration with the Biomedical Genomics Center or MRC Holland. | <urn:uuid:48a9db3c-d271-43d7-b148-73394079fdee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cancer.umn.edu/cancer-genomics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.818151 | 477 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Virginia Paca grows a special garden to feed friends, families, and the homeless hurting from the economy in Pasadena, California. She began planting her backyard garden two years ago, never thinking she’d be making a difference.
An architect and garden designer by trade, she’s now established her own personal food bank helping people in need with a bumper crop of fresh organic fruits and vegetables. A self-described risk-taker, she says her new calling is “cathartic.”
“I would like to leave people a little better than I found them and I’d like to leave the world better than I found it. If I could do that I would feel like I had a successful life.” Virginia Paca
My friend and reporter Stacey Gualandi met Virginia, where else?, in her abundant garden filled with heirloom tomatoes, strawberries, corn, watermelon, cucumbers, you name it, to find out what drives her desire to donate…
VIRGINIA: A garden symbolizes a balance with nature. It calms me down. Its a connection I need in my life. I also love watching the dynamic qualities of a garden. I’m an architect by trade and frankly architects don’t like things to change.
If something is changing that means an earthquake, etc. With a garden you have seasons, sizes, shade and sun and flowering… leaves falling. Its always different and I love that.
EYE: Have you always been charitable?
VIRGINIA: I like to think that I’ve always been a charitable person. What shifted for me was after Katrina. I did go twice to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and volunteered doing assessments on buildings that were damaged and anyone whose ever done something like that knows that it shifts you in such a fundamental way that you see the world differently and ever since then its always been a part of my consciousness.
EYE: Was that the ultimate event that triggered your desire to donate food?
VIRGINIA: Going to the aftermath of Katrina and participating in that definitely changed my life. And it was that point where I realized there is an added layer that you could you participate in as a human being. And then lately, when I’ve seen what’s been going on in the economy, I felt like our nation was in the fetal position with a cell phone in one hand and a Big Mac in the other and everyone felt helpless.
I didn’t buy into that. We’re not any different. We’re the same people I saw in Mississippi that were helpful and generous and looking to make things better.
“I think that as communities and as Americans we have so much; there is no scarcity in this country, there’s just a scarcity of good ideas.”
EYE: Why is it important for you to be charitable now?
VIRGINIA: I think this is a time when people are very challenged. We’re living through a period in the US where people feel powerless and they’re hurting. I don’t think we should be depending on Wall Street, or the banks or Congress. It helps to share with each other. The Jones Coffee Company gives me their coffee grounds all year long and I use them in the compost to grow the plants. I thank them with baskets of veggies.
I think that as communities and as Americans we have so much; there is no scarcity in this country, there’s just a scarcity of good ideas.
EYE: Why was Friends In Deed the right organization to start donating your produce?
VIRGINIA: They were thrilled with getting fresh organic fruits and veggies because most of what’s donated to a food bank is what’s left, not the first.
So my idea was give the food bank the best, not what you’re discarding. I’m picking it at its freshest. No large chain could ever match that.
There are other people that I give baskets to like senior citizens on a budget, maybe they’re cutting corners or people with small children on a budget. It’s a treat for them as well to eat a little better.
EYE: What kind of reaction have you gotten from your community?
VIRGINIA: I have so many friends since I’ve been delivering these baskets!! Haha! I’m sort of wondering if people want to become my friend so they can get a basket too! But in general, it’s surprise and delight.
EYE: You are just doing this out of the kindness of your heart?
VIRGINIA: I couldn’t imagine taking money for what I do. I feel that in so many ways I’ve been fortunate. I am a far cry from being a wealthy person, but I feel wealthy in the way I’ve been able to live my life.
EYE: Are you a role model?
VIRGINIA: I think everyone is a role model whether you want to be or not. People observe what you do and what you say and how you walk through the world.
I would like to leave people a little better than I found them and I’d like to leave the world better than I found it. If I could do that I would feel like I had a successful life.
“What I’ve learned from doing this is how many people say I want to do something too.”
EYE: How can we all be more like you?
VIRGINIA: The big secret is everyone is just like me. There isn’t anything special about me. Everybody has that part of them I think that wants to do something. What I’ve learned from doing this is how many people say I want to do something too.
It’s really just a matter of acting on your impulses. I just encourage them to do whatever they are thinking of doing. Don’t think about the result. Just do it. Just act.
EYE: So what are the three keys to a successful garden?
VIRGINIA: First of all you have to grow plants in a sunny location. #2: you have to provide them with good soil and water and #3: you have to be an optimist and be prepared to put a little effort into it.
In the end, not everything will work but it doesn’t really matter because something will work and give you pleasure.
EYE: And the most important question I save for last. If you were any kind of vegetable what kind would you be?
VIRGINIA: I would be one that everyone would love to eat. A tomato! An heirloom tomato at its peak is something quite wonderful. Ha!
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Taiwan is finally getting much-needed help from the United States to fight its spiraling coronavirus outbreak. But for Beijing, the offer is a major provocation that risks intensifying both relations between the two sides of the Strait and US-Chinese relations.
“It was essential for the United States that Taiwan be included in the first group to receive vaccines, as we recognize your urgent need and we appreciate this partnership,” Senator Tammy Duckworth said during the three-hour visit.
In his welcoming speech to American visitors on Sunday, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu again criticized Beijing. “As we do our best to import vaccines, we have to overcome the hurdles to make sure these life-saving drugs are delivered smoothly from Beijing. Taiwan is no stranger to this kind of obstruction,” he said. he declares.
But the biggest blow to Beijing may not be Wu’s comments or the vaccine donation agreement itself, but the US military plane parked on the runway.
The US delegation arrived at Songshan Airport in Taiwan aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III freighter, a primary strategic airlift for the US military.
The presence of a US military transport aircraft capable of transporting troops and cargo – including artillery, battle tanks and helicopters – in Taiwan is likely to trigger a meteoric reaction from Beijing.
Previously, the Chinese state media had threatened war against the presence of US military planes in Taiwan. Last August, amid reports that a US Navy spy plane took off from Taiwan, the Global Times said Taipei and Washington “were playing with fire.”
“If the mainland has conclusive evidence, it can destroy the affected airport on the island and the US military planes landing there – a war in the Taiwan Strait will begin as well.”
In its Sunday editorial, however, the Global Times appears to have softened its war rhetoric, calling instead for caution in Beijing’s response.
“We have the real freedom to take the measures we deem necessary. What we have to consider is that the effects must be positive and that the political advantages must far outweigh the costs,” he said. he declares.
Photo of the day
The big moment: Students from the Chinese city of Huzhou applaud before taking the national university entrance exam on Monday. Attended by millions of high school students each year, the two-day exam is considered the most important – and stressful – test a Chinese student will take in their college life.
The Business of China: Microsoft removed ‘Tank Man’ images for Tiananmen Square anniversary
Microsoft claims that “human error” led its search engine to block images and videos of “Tank Man”.
The photos were taken around the world from Bing on Friday – the 32nd anniversary of China’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing. “Tank Man” refers to an unidentified protester who challenged a column of tanks advancing in the square. The images of the meeting have become iconic.
A Microsoft spokesperson said they were mistakenly taken offline. The images reappeared around the world – outside of China – on Saturday.
Bing, unlike its main competitors, including Google, operates in mainland China. This means that Microsoft is obligated to censor search results for Chinese users, according to Chinese law – especially images and information about the Tiananmen Square protests and the murders that followed. Internet censorship in China typically escalates in the weeks leading up to the anniversary of the event.
Hundreds of people were killed on June 4, 1989 in central Beijing. The massacre made headlines around the world, as did images such as “Tank Man”.
Although China’s censorship typically only applies within its borders, Microsoft’s accidental global pullout is not the first time that information in Tiananmen Square has been blocked outside of mainland China by a foreign company.
The FBI in December accused a former Zoom employee of participating in a scheme to censor meetings on behalf of the Chinese government. Xinjiang “Julien” Jin and his co-conspirators have reportedly ended at least four videoconferences commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre last June. Most of the meetings were organized and attended by American attendees, some of whom were dissidents who had participated in and survived the protests of 1989, the FBI said.
– By David Goldman
- The number of babies born in Japan fell to another record low in 2020, as more couples postpone marriage and start families amid a global pandemic.
- At least 20 passengers were killed in train accident in southern Pakistan Monday morning. Officials said the death toll is expected to rise further.
- Meanwhile in China, a 25 year old suspect was arrested on Saturday for a knife attack that left 6 dead and 14 injured on a pedestrianized shopping street in Anqing City.
Beijing’s fury against the Uyghur court
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Introduction: COVID-19-related anosmia is a remarkable and disease-specific finding. With this multicenter cohort study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of anosmia in pediatric cases with COVID-19 from Turkey and make an objective assessment with a smell awareness questionnaire. Material and Methods: This multicenter prospective cohort study was conducted with pediatric infection clinics in 37 centers in 19 different cities of Turkey between October 2020 and March 2021. The symptoms of 10.157 COVID-19 cases 10-18 years old were examined. Age, gender, other accompanying symptoms, and clinical severity of the disease of cases with anosmia and ageusia included in the study were recorded. The cases were interviewed for the smell awareness questionnaire at admission and one month after the illness. Results: Anosmia was present in 12.5% (1.266/10.157) of COVID-19 cases 10-18 years of age. The complete records of 1053 patients followed during the study period were analyzed. The most common symptoms accompanying symptoms with anosmia were ageusia in 885 (84%) cases, fatigue in 534 cases (50.7%), and cough in 466 cases (44.3%). Anosmia was recorded as the only symptom in 84 (8%) of the cases. One month later, it was determined that anosmia persisted in 88 (8.4%) cases. In the smell awareness questionnaire, the score at admission was higher than the score one month later (P < 0.001). Discussion: With this study, we have provided the examination of a large case series across Turkey. Anosmia and ageusia are specific symptoms seen in cases of COVID-19. With the detection of these symptoms, it should be aimed to isolate COVID-19 cases in the early period and reduce the spread of the infection. Such studies are important because the course of COVID-19 in children differs from adults and there is limited data on the prevalence of anosmia. | <urn:uuid:b568d720-6450-48d1-9fb7-f09cbea19b3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.uludag.edu.tr/yayin/43012434-0d90-4b00-8cee-dfc8d612ef21/prevalence-of-anosmia-in-10-157-pediatric-covid-19-cases-multicenter-study-from-turkey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963155 | 412 | 2.96875 | 3 |
the evolution of wireless services, new cell sites are providing
coverage in smaller areas with greater capacity. Small Cell
Sites provide the same capacity-improving characteristics as the
original division of coverage into cells that allowed re-use of each
wireless channel. This
is also the path for some wireless carriers toward 5G and
ultra-fast broadband. Cellular carriers have proposed to
install tens of thousands of new cell sites, most of which are Small
Sites. These Small
Cell Sites, and those of us looking for them, face a unique set of
the New Small Sites:
Cell Sites Do Not Need to Be
As long as they are located within a carrier's licensed coverage area,
small cells can be located anywhere if they fulfill other
governmental requirements. Normally, there is no public
database of these small cells.
- Tower Companies
Don't Show Small Cell Site Locations
One of our most valuable databases, Cell
Site and Tower Companies, would normally install a small cell
site for a single customer and would not be able to offer that site to
other carriers, so they rarely advertise those locations.
Cell Site Locations May be
Available from Your Local Government
A local city or county may make their locations available publically
but you may need to search through records in the Building or Planning
Identity of a Small Cell Can't Be Easily Be Determined
visual inspection, large
cell sites have a number of clues about their owner, their frequency of
operation and their general identity. Small
Cell Sites are housed in the same enclosures used for all kinds of
wireless devices including public Wi-Fi, cellular, alarms and similar
uses and aren't obvious of their use. Our search of last
resort is to start walking around a location with a strong cellular
signal and hope that something with cellular antennas becomes visible.
However, if your city requires, say, an underground
installation and hidden antennas, there may be nothing to see.
- Small Cell Sites
Normally Transmit at Lower Power
making a technical search in the
these small cell sites operate at a lower power than full-sized cell
sites. You could be standing right under the site and not be
getting that strong of a signal.
- Security is Now
In the last century when the rebels wanted to overthrow the government
in power, they would take over the radio station. The modern
day version is to take over or neutralize the cellular networks.
The wireless carriers, the federal government and local
authorities may want to restrict access to the public of the locations
of cell sites.
- Seconday Sources
of Cell Site Location Information
Our traditional cell site resources also apply to small cell sites.
Facing Placement of Small Sites:
Municipal Approval Process is
as Difficult and As Slow as Larger Sites
Government entities want each cell site to be approved
individually. Wireless carriers want a "blanket" approval
across an entire community so they can install several sites
as part of a single project. Hurdles include agencies that ask for
exorbitant fees, require large amounts of paperwork, and require
wireless providers to adhere to aesthetic requirements that are not
applied to other facilities.
Located Closer to the Ground, Small
Cells Need to be More Aesthetically-Acceptable
equipment and antennas located closer to eye level, wireless
to be mindful of how their equipment looks and interacts with their
environment, with a balance among
economy, aesthetics, size and performance. While a small box
on a light pole might be acceptable, some municipalities and
owners prefer a site that is completely disguised or placed out of
Cells Can Fit in Small Spaces, But There are Limits
Sites can be located in hidden or out-of-the-way locations but they
still need to be accessible for maintenance and repair, they need to be
strategically-located to serve their customers, and they need a source
- Wireless Companies Have Asked the FCC to Help
The carriers have
asked for federal preemption of restrictive local requirements.
The FCC has not yet determined how, or if, they can provide
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How a Parent’s Affection Shapes a Youngster’s Happiness for keeps
We all are living busy, stressful lives and possess endless things as fathers and mothers, but it is obvious that one of the very most important things came across do is to stop and present our kids a large loving crisis. Research throughout the last decade shows the link around affection with childhood along with health and pleasure in the future.
Based on Child Traits – the leading edge non-profit analysis organization in north america focused on bettering the life and prospects of children, earlier days, and their households – research supports the idea that warmth in addition to affection expressed by dads and moms to their young children results in life-long positive ultimate for those young children.
Higher self esteem, improved helpful performance, much better parent-child conversation, and little psychological plus behavior troubles have been linked with this type of affection. On the other hand, children who you do not have affectionate moms and dads tend to have lower self esteem as well as feel a tad bit more alienated, inhospitable, aggressive, along with anti-social.
We have witnessed a number of research that spotlight the relationship involving parental closeness and childrens happiness in addition to success.
Really, researchers with Duke Or even Medical Classes found which will babies with very caring and aware mothers grow to be more happy, more long lasting, and less stressed adults. Case study involved with regards to 500 folks that were followed from once they were newborns until these people were in their 30s. When the new borns were ten months aged, psychologists discovered their mothers’ interactions with them as they took several developing tests.
The very psychologists positioned the mother’s affection along with attention point on a five-point scale starting from “negative” in order to “extravagant. ” Nearly ten percent of the dads showed lower levels of attention, 85 percent demonstrated a usual amount of attention, and about some percent confirmed high amounts of affection.
After that 30 years afterwards, those same people today were questioned about their emotional health. Typically the adults whose mothers exhibited “extravagant” and also “caressing” kindness were a lot less likely than the others to feel under pressure and stressed. They were also less likely towards report hatred, distressing communal interactions, and psychosomatic conditions.
The analysts involved in the study concluded that the hormonal production oxytocin might be responsible for the effect. Oxytocin is a compound in the mental faculties released during times when a individual feels absolutely love and link. It has been shown to help families bond mailorderbride.pro/asiahearts-review making use of their children, bringing in a sense of faith and help support between them. That bond rather helps our own brain make and apply oxytocin, causing a child feeling more positive emotions.
Next, some sort of 2013 research from UCLA found which will unconditional enjoy and kindness from a mom or dad can make children emotionally more happy and less determined. This happens for the reason that their brain actually modifications as a result of typically the affection. Alternatively, the bad impact involving childhood batter and lack of affection strikes children together mentally together with physically. This tends to lead to lots of health and over emotional problems all through their resides. What’s certainly fascinating is the fact scientists feel parental passion can actually protect individuals up against the harmful involving childhood stress and anxiety.
Then in 2015, a study out of the Institution of Notre Dame confirmed that small children who be given affection of their parents was happier since adults. Above 600 grownups were surveyed about how these folks raised, for example how much natural affection among the. The grownups who announced receiving more affection around childhood showcased less melancholy and panic and happen to be more caring overall. Individuals who reported less affection had trouble with mental health, very more raise red flags to in sociable situations, as well as were a lesser amount of able to depend on other people’s capabilities.
Researchers actually have studied may enhance the skin-to-skin get in touch with for children. This extraordinary interaction amongst mother and also baby, specifically, helps sooth babies in order that they cry significantly less and sleeping more. It includes also been proven to boost mental faculties development. Reported by an article on Scientific United states, children who also lived in some deprived setting like an orphanage had higher levels of the anxiety hormone cortisol than those just who lived using their parents. Researchers believe that how little physical get hold of in the orphanages is a leading factor in most of these physical alterations.
Finally, quite a few studies for the effects of massage therapies show the favorable benefits it provides to reduce nervousness in small children. Massage is also a good way for parents to connect to their children, each physically plus emotionally. Starting in childhood, a parent starting to massage therapies their child, which often can create a tough bond. Studies have shown children and adults who obtain massage practical knowledge less anxiety during tutorial stress, medical center stays, along with stressful incidents.
So , how can you get more hugs into your family’s day?
As soon as you carry your baby home from the the hospital, be sure to carry, touch, together with rock them all in your life. Spend quite a few precious times caressing the so that all their skin can touch your body.
As they age group, be fun by doing exciting activities like bouncing together or even creating foolish games for example pretending to be any hugging or possibly kissing huge.
Set a reminder to make sure cradling is component to your daily program. In the current Trolls picture, the Trolls wore different watches with security clocks that might go off any hour to get hug effort. If that’s what must be done, then arranged yourself a good alarm. Or simply make sure to give your kids some hug during certain times of waking time, such as before they abandon for class, when they get home from school, as well as before going to bed.
Another helpful idea is to try using affection whereas disciplining your child. As you talk with them about what they did incorrect, put your odds on their arm and give these folks a larg at the end of the actual conversation to be sure them that will, even if you are never pleased with most of their behavior, you still love them. If the children strike their sis or buddie, hug all of them and describe how embracing feels greater than hitting.
As a final point, be careful not to overload and smother your kids. Admire their man or women comfort level, and turn into aware that this tends to change as they simply go through various stages.
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- King James Version
1And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 2He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. 3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper. 6He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines. 7God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites. 8The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong. 9Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them. 10And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. 11Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders. 12The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600. 13Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 14And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging. 15In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 16But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor, 18and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God. 19Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. 20And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. 21And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land. 22Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote. 23And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, He is a leper. And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 3Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. 5And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. 6And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. 7And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. 8And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly. 9Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. 10Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. 11Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. 12The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor were two thousand and six hundred. 13And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 14And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. 15And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 17And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: 18And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from the LORD God. 19Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. 20And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. 21And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. 22Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. 23So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. | <urn:uuid:7f107e27-8477-4896-a1cd-b92fa5e687ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crossref-it.info/bible/2-chronicles/26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.988118 | 1,900 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Making Sense of Allergies: A humble & honest guide to clarify the noise surrounding allergies
Posted on 3rd July 2015 by Angel Wong
Why allergies bother me?
Allergies is surrounded by a mist. Every day, we come across with all sorts of fussy and overwhelming statistics, information and advertisements, telling us how many allergens are threatening our health. Much of the conflicting information coming from the professional and “popular expert” confuses our understanding of allergies, instead of informing us a better life-choice. Can you be sure about the answers of the following statements?
“To reduce exposure of allergies, shy away from man-made chemicals and desiring for more natural life!”
“E-number and preservatives in food cause allergies!”
“Avoidance paradigm is good for children’s diet.”
“Hypoallergenic means free of allergen.”
Whilst we are not certain about allergies, we tend to over-react and become “worried well” people. “A study of 949 children in the Isle of Wight found 34% of parents reported food allergies in their children but only 5% were found to have an allergy” (p.8). Now, it is high time we navigated our way to properly understand allergies.
Then what can I read?
If you are interested in knowing allergies, the good news is that this is a guide worth your time to read through. It was released last month by Sense About Science. This guide draws on the collective expertise-driven resources from six organisations of allergy specialists, including the British Society for Immunology and Cochrane Airways.
What I should know about allergies?
The guide addresses different misconceptions in relation to allergies, based on the reviews of relevant studies worldwide. To highlight, I will illustrate three concepts of allergies with reference to the guide marked with the page number.
Allergies are a health concern.
Allergies occur when body defense has gone wrong. Asthma, rhinitis, food reactions, eczema, rashes and swelling and drug reaction are some examples of allergies (p.12). Though allergies cause only discomfort most of the time, anaphylaxis can cause breathing difficulty and/or low blood pressure, which are life-threatening conditions. We should be concerned with allergies as the latest scientific evidence still cannot predict or explain the development of anaphylaxis (p.12).
Food allergies are different from food intolerance.
The mechanisms operated in food allergies and food intolerance are different, and therefore, our responses to both are different. There usually exists a threshold for the intake of intolerable substances in our diet, whereas allergies will occur with an exposure to a trace amount of allergens (p.14). Moreover, it is not necessary for you to expose to the allergic substances in ordern to acquire the specific allergies. Moreover, cross-reactive allergies are possible; for instance, if you are allergic to grass pollen, you are more likely to be allergic to peaches and/or oranges as well (p.13).
Allergies concern our immune systems (p.10). Our white blood cells produce antibodies after identifying threat, such as bacteria and virus (p.10). In the next encounter of the threat, the antibodies in the blood will trigger cells to release inflammatory substances for a defensive purpose. However, when immune system mistakenly produces antibodies against a harmless substance (an allergen we call), we say that the unnecessary response, which manifests itself in various forms (e.g. itching, sneezing) an allergic reaction (p.10). By contrast, Food intolerance is nothing about the immune system (p.14).
Allergies can be life-long.
Allergies like nut allergy are usually life-long. Also, the severity of allergies will not necessarily increase with the number of encounters. There are lots of examples of people outgrowing some allergies, yet the underlying reasons have yet been understood (p.12).
What does it mean to me?
The guide tells you that the best scientific knowledge about allergy is far from exhaustive. All the evidence points to the inconsistencies in the existing literature. For academics, there is a pressing need for continuous assessment and evaluation of the evidence. Results of evidence should not be inappropriately generalized given the limited established facts.
For members of the public, this is not a disappointing fact that we do not know much. The challenge now facing us will be how to be alert the possible risks of allergies in our daily life while not being the “worried well” population. It won’t be an easy assignment. People are inclined to pick up on uncertain things, and consumer markets are keen on market alternative products to “relieve us of the catch-all anxiety”.
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Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (the Centre) has partnered with Food Aid, an NGO which rescues surplus food and distributes it to people in need.
The Centre will be providing its surplus food and raising awareness surrounding the importance of limiting food waste amongst its team members and the general public.
The Centre’s Deputy General Manager John Burke commented: “We are a socially responsible organisation that operates our business in a sustainable manner. Giving our surplus food to those in need is something we have wanted to undertake for a while, but it hasn’t been possible until now.
“Thanks to the passing of the Food Donors Protection Bill 2019 in Parliament, we are delighted to be able to establish this great partnership with Food Aid Foundation to help them achieve their worthy mission of ending hunger and nourishing hope by connecting the world of surplus to the world of wants. We look forward to growing this partnership and in the process hopefully improving the nourishment and well-being of those supported by Food Aid Foundation.”
Food Aid Foundation Founder Rick Chee said: “We commend the efforts of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and we deeply appreciate the partnership. We also hope this collaboration will inspire other local venues and organisations to follow suit, as from our studies, we know that there is an abundance of surplus food in Kuala Lumpur that can most certainly be put to good use.
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As global leaders gathered at COP 23 in Bonn, the Hydrogen Council launched their global vision of the role of hydrogen, developed with support from McKinsey.
In addition, to being a key pillar in of the energy transition, the study shows that hydrogen has the potential to develop US$2.5 trillion of business, creating more than 30 million jobs by 2050.
Taking the Hydrogen Council’s vision for hydrogen to the next level, the study entitled Hydrogen, Scaling Up outlines a comprehensive and quantified roadmap to scale deployment and its enabling impact on the energy transition.
Deployed at scale, hydrogen could account for almost one-fifth of total final energy consumed by 2050. This would reduce annual CO2 emissions by roughly six gigatons compared to today’s levels, and contribute roughly 20% of the abatement required to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius.
On the demand side, the Hydrogen Council sees the potential for hydrogen to power about 10 to 15 million cars and 500,000 trucks by 2030, with many uses in other sectors as well, such as industry processes and feedstocks, building heating and power, power generation and storage.
Overall, the study predicts that the annual demand for hydrogen could increase tenfold by 2050 to almost 80 Exajoules in 2050 meeting 18% of total final energy demand in the 2050 two-degree scenario.
At a time when global populations are expected to grow by two billion people by 2050, hydrogen technologies have the potential to create opportunities for sustainable economic growth.
“The world in the 21st century must transition to widespread low carbon energy use,” said Takeshi Uchiyamada, chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation and co-chair of the Hydrogen Council.
“Hydrogen is an indispensable resource to achieve this transition because it can be used to store and transport wind, solar and other renewable electricity to power transportation and many other things.
“The Hydrogen Council has identified seven roles for hydrogen, which is why we are encouraging governments and investors to give it a prominent role in their energy plans. The sooner we get the hydrogen economy going, the better, and we are all committed to making this a reality.”
Achieving such scale would require substantial investments; approximately $20 to 25 billion annually for a total of about $280 billion until 2030. Within the right regulatory framework―including long-term, stable coordination and incentive policies―the report considers that attracting these investments to scale the technology is feasible.
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St Kitts also adopted a new Coat of Arms in 1967.
This is white with a red chevron, two Poinciana flowers, and a schooner.
On a blue chief is the head of a Carib between a fleur-de-lys and
an English rose. The supporters are two pelicans, holding a cocoa palm and
a sugar cane, and the crest is a torch hold up by a white and a brown arm.
The motto is Unity in Trinity.
Santiago Dotor, 24 Nov 1999, quoting from [c2b81], p.52
The centre of the coat of arms is dominated by a shield
at the base of which is a lighter in full sail. The lighter
is one of the traditional means of transportation. A red
chevron is highlighted by two Poinciana flowers.
At the top of the shield on the blue background is the head of a Carib, supported by the fleur-de-lis and a rose. The Caribs were the early inhabitants of the islands, and the fleur-de-lis and rose signify the French and English influences.
A helmet topped with the battlements of a tower appears with a flaming torch upheld by the hands of an African, European, and a person of mixed descent. The torch signifies the struggle and quest for freedom by a people of diverse ethnic origins, but united in purpose.
The shield is supported on either side by pelicans with wings extended, displaying a sugar cane plant and the coconut palm tree, which are extensively cultivated throughout St. Kitts & Nevis.
Our Motto: «Country Above Self»
Dov Gutterman, 24 Jun 1999, quoting from stkittsnevis.net
The Coat of arms was adopted in February 1967, and
on the same month the associate state of St-Kitts
Nevis Anguilla was created, with its vertical triband with a tree.
I doubt that these arms ever appeared as a badge on a Blue Ensign, but
were probably used on the Union Jack of Governor 1967-1983.
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How serious is Vermont's sewage problem?
VERGENNES – Seconds after a toilet flushes, we comfortably turn our backs on what belongs elsewhere.
Downstream, swimmers and waders enjoy our assurances that the water has been adequately scrubbed. And it almost always has been.
Intermittently, though, the documented presence of harmful bacteria, viruses or parasites in Vermont's lakes and streams triggers an alarm, and rightly so, health experts agree.
Maureen Schake would like a simple heads up when sewage spills into the lake. Schake, a Burlington resident, went swimming with her dog earlier this week at the mouth of the Winooski River.
In letter to the Burlington Free Press, Schake complained of hearing incomplete accounts of "thousands of gallons of raw sewage" jettisoned upstream.
"I think it is unethical on the part of the City of Burlington that this can be done with no alerts to the public," she wrote. New York state recently implemented such alerts.
People seem to want to know, with some specificity, the urgency, severity and duration of risks. Right now the public can find basic overflow information at a state website: http://bit.ly/VTwastewaterIncidents
But a boatload of variables flavor news of sewage. Another complication: The tone of an alerts seems to vary, depending on who is raising the red flags.
A statewide flurry of wastewater spills last month inspired first an overview, and then a closer look.
Vermont's rich farmland, peppered with livestock manure, has long been recognized as a significant source of bacterial colonies. Ditto for towns and suburbs with a high density of poorly picked-up-after dogs and cats. Even wildlife contributes its fair share.
How to narrow down the search? On such a safari one follows one's nose — at first, with some reluctance.
Municipal leaders in Vergennes, a compact municipality on Otter Creek, helped show how water is cleaned — or not. Felicitously, a visit to the state's smallest city on July 1 was preceded by a gully-washer.
About 2 inches fell in about an hour and a half, according to the National Weather Service station in Burlington, the closest monitoring station.
It was the sort of downpour that has gained notoriety for overwhelming sewage treatment plants that also process stormwater: so-called "combined" systems.
City Manager Mel Hawley led the way to a sewage/stormwater pumping station on MacDonough Drive. An unmistakable odor arose from a flooded outdoor stairwell.
A stone's throw away, a murky effluence flowed from Potash Brook into Otter Creek. This is a trouble spot for a state that's spending millions to clean up Lake Champlain.
Downstream for seven miles to the lake, the stretch of river is designated as "impaired" by bacterial contamination by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation — for "periodic and recurring overflows" from the Vergennes wastewater treatment plant.
In normal conditions, Hawley explained, the pumping station delivers the goods to be filtered and treated through a pipe beneath the river.
On that Wednesday, despite the station running at full-tilt, about 15,000 gallons of untreated sewage (mixed with about four times that amount of relatively clean water) flowed directly into Otter Creek. The discharge was legal, under state guidelines.
Later, Hawley unrolled a series of maps depicting the city's network of combined storm and sewage pipes. Overflows, he said, bedeviled the system soon after Vergennes' first treatment plant was dedicated in 1964.
The plant's designers, he added, "greatly, greatly underestimated the flow to the system." Subsequent upgrades have improved performance, but still can't handle storm flow.
Surface water sluicing into drains is a small part of the problem, Hawley said. With more and more certainty, the system's flaw appears to be leaky pipes that date back to the early 20th century.
A study completed in late May for the city confirms that great volumes of groundwater, at a higher pressure than that in the storm/sewer pipes, infiltrate and overwhelm the network.
Hawley said the city has two basic options: Build a larger plant, or "tighten up the system."
The Vergennes facility's shortcomings earned it an "unacceptable" rating in October from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, said Ernie Kelley, who manages the DEC Wastewater Program.
Yet, Kelley said, the plant regularly meets its effluent limits, and "adequately makes the grade" for the removal of solids from the waste stream.
The state will likely inspect the plant again in August, he added. Larger facilities around the state — facing many of the same challenges as Vergennes — are a higher priority and are subject to more frequent inspections.
Give the guys a medal
After the July 1 rain, the Vergennes wastewater treatment plant showed few signs that anything was amiss. Assistant Operator Joe Sullivan noted signs of a modest spill around the grates that strain out larger debris.
There were ample reasons not to wear open-toed sandals.
In Sullivan's office, a rotating, real-time graph charted the plant's struggles. A stylus tracked the sudden inflow from well below the system's rated flow capacity of 750,000 gallons per day, to a rate closer to 3 million gallons per day.
"It tripled in an hour," Sullivan noted.
Several days later, James Ehlers, the executive director of nonprofit advocacy group Lake Champlain International, pondered Vergennes' place in the larger scheme of regional water quality.
Aging infrastructure, he said, demands a great deal of the operators.
"Those guys in Vergennes, probably more than most, should get medals for basically being told they need to drive cross-country with a half-tank of gas and bald tires."
Ehlers' emailed bulletins of sewage spills around the state have become routine during one of the wettest Junes on record.
Like Schake, he'd like to see a better system of alerting the public to whenever a sewage treatment plant releases untreated water.
Between March and the end of June of 2014, a relatively dry spell, Vergennes registered no spills. This year, the facility spilled five times during that span of time.
Lack of planning, political will and money outweigh rainy weather in the collective shortfalls in our sewage management, Ehlers says.
In the long term, Ehlers said, our society should consider the "capture and conversion" of our bodily wastes well before they approach the water we use for drinking, recreation and fishing.
The specifics of waterborne diseases are of interest to Bradley Tomkins, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the Vermont Department of Health.
Tomkins offered an introduction: There's a suite of microscopic refugees that inhabit intestinal remnants of humans and other warm-blooded animals. A majority are benign species (think "probiotics"); but there are some that can irritate, sicken and — much more rarely — kill us.
Lucky for us, Tomkins said, most of those organisms fare best in our guts, and out of sunlight.
E. coli, a commonly tested "indicator species" for enteric (intestinal) pathogens, is a bacteria that survives poorly in our relatively cool streams and lakes. But its presence in sufficiently high numbers, typically after a hard rain, is enough to close beaches for 48 hours or so.
Tomkins endorses a post-storm waiting period for swimmers. He also notes that there are plenty of other ways for people to ingest fecal pathogens.
An outbreak of severe diarrhea several years ago at Sand Bar State Park in Milton took place nowhere near a wastewater treatment plant, Tomkins said.
A likely culprit in those shallow, warm waters, he added, was the abundance of youngsters and their soggy, unchanged diapers.
Panic, perspective, price-tags
Mike Winslow, a scientist with nonprofit Lake Champlain Committee, notes that most fecal pathogens do not accumulate in river and lake water — unlike other pollutants such as heavy metals and nutrient phosphorus. Nor, when our micro-organisms hit a body of water, do they tend to migrate far.
It's a mistake to equate the potency of a sewage spill only by its gallon value, Winslow said.
Typically, the volume of sewage in a municipal system remains fairly constant, he said; "the excess that's causing the flows is the addition of relatively clean rain or groundwater."
The significance of sewage spills might be sometimes exaggerated, Winslow said, but complacence can be just as harmful, particularly when it comes to identifying and tracking the passage of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals through our bodies and into bodies of water.
"There is no way to talk about sewage going into the river in a good way," he concluded.
That also applies to budget discussions in Vergennes, as the city's 2,700-or-so residents consider the balance between bonding and more pristine waters?
The gulf appears to be wide.
Ratepayers in Vergennes pay $350 per year for the privilege of hooking up to the sewer system, said City Manager Hawley.
An estimate for a longer-term fix is still in progress.
"I've told the city council that I don't know whether we have a $300,000 problem, a $3 million problem or a $13 million problem, Hawley said. "I just don't know."
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What is the General Recommendation?
In general, for good oral health, you should brush your teeth two times a day. You should also aim for specific times of the day. Brushing your teeth should serve as the bookends of your day. The best times to brush are just after breakfast as you begin your day and just before bedtime as your day ends.
If you don’t typically eat breakfast, you should brush soon after waking or after your morning routine. This can be more difficult in the days of quarantine and working from home. Many of us are not leaving the house every morning, so we may have a tendency to put off our morning routines. Whether you leave the house or even get dressed for the day, remember the importance of starting the day with a clean mouth.
The same goes for your bedtime routine. Schedules may be looser and bedtimes later, but going to sleep with clean teeth is as important as ever. Some people should commit to brushing after dinner so that they don’t fall asleep on the couch and forget to brush!
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The purpose of brushing teeth is to remove disease-causing dental plaque. When plaque remains on the teeth, the bacteria within produce toxins that lead to gum disease and acid that causes cavities. Removing plaque on a consistent basis is essential to maintaining good oral health. How often you should remove plaque depends on a variety of factors that influence the quality and quantity of your personal plaque buildup. These are just a few problems that could lead to increased plaque buildup, necessitating more frequent brushing.
Saliva is an important defense against gum disease and cavities. Millions of Americans suffer from dry mouth as the result of prescription medication side effects, destruction of salivary gland tissue by cancer treatment, and simply dehydration. It makes sense that plaque will more readily stick to a dry surface than to a wet one. If the teeth and gums are dry, dental plaque can easily adhere.
In a dry mouth, the consistency of plaque becomes stickier and more difficult to remove from the teeth. Those with dry mouth also tend to collect more plaque, especially along the gum lines of the teeth.
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The large hormone surges that accompany puberty, pregnancy and menopause do not increase the amount of dental plaque a person develops. They do, however, influence the response of the gum tissues to that plaque buildup. Hormone swings cause the gums to overreact to any irritation, so even a tiny amount of dental plaque can lead to severe gingivitis with bright red, swollen gums that bleed easily.
Anyone undergoing hormonal changes needs to consistently remove dental plaque from the teeth and gums to lower the risk of tender, swollen, bleeding gums. This may require more frequent brushing.
How Can I Find Out How Often I Should Brush My Teeth?
The very best way to find out how often you, specifically, should be brushing your teeth is to have a conversation with your dental hygienist. The hygienist is in the best position to evaluate your plaque buildup and the effectiveness of your current brushing habits. (The hygienist is actually even better than the dentist because the dentist typically sees your teeth after the hygienist has cleaned them. The hygienist has the chance to assess the plaque levels before any cleaning takes place.)
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It started on a late night in September, with the murder of seven military generals in Jakarta, Indonesia. Suharto, then a general, blamed it on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). So began the violent purge of leftists, intellectuals, and ethnic Chinese across the archipelago that killed an estimated half a million people.
Suharto rose to power, and held on for 32 years. For the decades under his iron-fist reign, public discussions on 1965 were discouraged, and survivors were forced into silence. The government denies responsibility, and communism remains outlawed even today.
But on Wednesday, the International People's Tribunal (IPT 1965) at the Hague, Netherlands, delivered the most damning verdict yet: Not only did the mass murders happen, the state is responsible for 10 gross human rights violations including genocide.
"The State of Indonesia is responsible for and guilty of crimes against humanity consequent upon the commission and perpetration, particularly by the military of that state through its chain of command, of the inhumane acts", Chief Justice Zak Yacoob stated in the judges' final report, released yesterday.
The tribunal, held from November 10–13 last year, is an international initiative led by lawyers and human rights activists. It was the first high-profile forum to examine evidence and witness testimonies surrounding the mass killings.
An international panel of judges concluded that the government is responsible for human rights violations include mass killings, destruction, imprisonment, slavery, torture, forced disappearance, sexual violence, banishment, false propaganda, international complicity, and—its most controversial charge—genocide.
The judges stated the atrocities fall under the Geneva convention, claiming that the violations were systematically perpetrated against specific groups with intent to destroy those groups.
"The State of Indonesia also failed to prevent the perpetration of these inhumane acts or to punish those responsible for their commission. To the extent that some crimes were committed independently of the authorities, by so-called 'spontaneous' local action, this did not absolve the State from the obligation to prevent their occurrence and to punish those responsible", Yacob said.
The tribunal recommends that the government formally apologise for its role, investigate and prosecute all crimes against humanity, and guarantee compensation for the victims and survivors.
All things that are unlikely to happen.
As soon as the decision was published, government officials dismissed the tribunal's verdict. "They are not our bosses. Indonesia has its own legal system. I don't want other people to dictate this nation", Coordinating Minister for Law and Security Luhut Panjaitan said at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu similarly brushed it off. "Don't listen to the people there. Why listen to foreigners? Foreigners should listen to Indonesia", he said.
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Armanatha Nasir, meanwhile, pointed out that the verdict has no influence over the Indonesian legal system. "The IPT 1965 group and the activities conducted do not have legitimate legal mandate", Nasir told Tempo yesterday.
While rights activists were hopeful the verdict would push President Joko Widodo's administration to formally acknowledge the atrocities, there looks to be little progress in resolving the country's greatest controversy. There was hope, when on 18 April, the government held the first ever national symposium on 1965 at the Hotel Aryaduta in Jakarta. "We want, as a great nation, to resolve our problem," Luhut had said at its opening.
But that was soon followed by a counter-symposium, on 1–2 June, where military officials and members of the conservative Muslim faction again denounced the PKI and vowed to eradicate all forms of communism from the country.
"We will depose any president who apologises to the PKI", Habieb Rizieq of the Islam Defenders Front said at the event. Even if it means more violence. "Our troops are ready for war", added retired Major General Kivlan Zen.
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As part of efforts to tackle Pakistan’s energy shortages. It has been agreed, by both the Pakistan and Russian governments to explore the viability of building a 1,100-km gas pipeline from Port Qasim in Karachi to Lahore at an estimated cost of USD 2.5-3 billion by the end of 2023. The project is called the Pakstream Gas Pipeline Project commonly known as North-South Gas project. It will enable LNG imports from such gas producers as Oman, Qatar, Russia, the US, and Australia to deliver gas to customers in Pakistan’s interiors, such as power plants, factories, and cities.
Pakistan and Russia have signed an agreement for the construction of about 1,100-km gas pipeline from Port Qasim in Karachi to Lahore at an estimated cost of USD 2.5-3 billion by the end of 2023.
The Pakstream Gas Pipeline Project is a joint venture, using a special purpose vehicle funding model, with Pakistani interests holding 74 percent and Russian interests 26 percent. However, the terms of the agreement enable Russian interests to withdraw from the venture if the project proves not feasible or increase their share holding to 49 percent.
The Russian side will assemble funding for foreign exchange components through suppliers' credit or typical project financing to cover imported items like steel, consultancies, pipelines and related products and materials not available in Pakistan. The concession agreement for the pipeline will remain in force for 25-30 years. The pipeline size was agreed at 56-inch diameter to accommodate for next 30-40 years of energy needs in the country that will make sure 700-800 million cubic feet per day (mmfcd) of free gas flow, which can go up to 2,000mmcfd with compressors.
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Have you got a favourite picture? Practise your reading in English with this art description.
Print sets of describing flashcards, or print some for you to colour in and write the words!
Do you know about Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican artist? Practise your reading in English with this biography.
Who's in this boy's photo? Listen to the grammar chant and find out! Can you hear the prepositions of place in the chant?
Print a set of prepositions of place flashcards, or print some for you to colour in and write the words!
We use our senses every day. Listen to this poem about the different things we see, smell, hear, touch and taste!
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- Germany's BfV spy agency conducted a two-year review of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
- The AfD is Germany's biggest opposition party. Its members have been linked to neo-Nazism.
- The BfV now has the power to tap phones, monitor emails, and spy on the whole party.
Germany's domestic spy agency has placed the country's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under surveillance for far-right extremism.
It is the first time a major political party has been subject to such scrutiny in Germany since World War II, and the classification means that the BfV can now tap the phones of AfD members, monitor funding, and surveil the party's activities, Der Spiegel reported.
The BfV has been monitoring select local branches of the AfD for years, but the decision to place the whole party under surveillance was made after a two-year review of the party's activities.
The resulting 1,000-page report concluded that the AfD have violated conditions of human dignity and democracy under German law, Der Spiegel said.
The BfV is yet to confirm the decision, saying it is prevented by active legal proceedings in Cologne between the AfD and the German government, Reuters said.
AfD leaders suggest political motivations
Alexander Gauland, a co-leader of the AfD, said Wednesday that the move to place the party under surveillance was a dangerous step.
"The agenda is clear. First we are made a 'case to investigate,' now we are a 'suspected case' and are under surveillance — and at some point there will be a request to ban our party," he said, according to Reuters.
Alice Weidel, another co-leader, tweeted Wednesday: "The intelligence agency is acting purely politically when it comes to the AfD."
The AfD was founded in 2013 and rose to prominence in 2017 on an anti-immigration ticket following the decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel to permit one million displaced migrants to settle in Germany.
The AfD's popularity peaked in 2018, and it currently has the third-most seats in the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament, with 88 out of 709.
Germany is set to hold state and federal elections this September. Merkel is currently serving her final term as chancellor, meaning her successor would be selected in this year's elections as well.
Members accused of white supremacy and neo-Nazism
The AfD is ostensibly a nationalist and anti-immigration party, but some of its members have been accused of white supremacy, racism, and neo-Nazism, meaning the party has expelled members who cross the line.
In May 2020, Andreas Kalbitz was expelled as head of the AfD in Brandenburg for not declaring that he was previously a member of the neo-Nazi group, German Youths Loyal to the Fatherland.
And Björn Höcke, once the AfD leader in Thuringia state, was expelled in 2017, after saying Germany should not be so apologetic about the Holocaust.
In 2018, Gauland said Adolf Hitler's Nazi party was just a "speck of bird poop" in Germany's illustrious history, and once said that the German people didn't want the likes of Jerome Boateng, a Black footballer, "as a neighbor."
The party has also co-opted slogans used by the Nazis, including "Lügenpresse" the German equivalent of "fake news" which translates as "lying press."
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Zeaxanthin with Lutein - The clearly-seen benefits of advanced eye protection
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Zeaxanthin with Lutein
The clearly-seen benefits of advanced eye protection
In the U.S. and other developed nations, the worst enemy of eyesight is not disease, it is the natural aging process. But even if the advance of years is unstoppable, new research shows that eyesight can be protected as we age. Two little-known carotenoids have been found to protect eyesight and combat the effects of aging upon the retina. Zeaxanthin and lutein, naturally found in many fruits and vegetables, form a natural filter on the retina, protecting the delicate photoreceptor cells from the damaging effects of blue-wave light and the UV radiation of sunlight. The two nutrients have also been found to be a natural antioxidant, further protecting the retina from the oxidation that arises from normal body functions as well as exposure to cigarette smoke, air pollutants, radiation, and environmental toxins.
Source Naturals unites the benefits of both of these nutrients in ZEAXANTHIN WITH LUTEIN, offering one of the most advanced approaches to eye protection available.
Key to Healthy Vision
Vision is the conversion of light into image signals that the brain can understand. The macula, a tiny area at the center of the retina on the back wall of the eye, is a collection of photoreceptor cells, mostly cone cells, responsible for turning light into color images. This receptor area is protected from light and oxidation by a thin layer of yellow pigment composed of the two carotenoids, zeaxanthin and lutein. As long as this pigment filter is undamaged and dense, it protects the retina cells from the damage of near-to-UV blue light, the most damaging wavelength of light.
Carotenoids are a family of nutrients found abundantly in fruits, vegetables, and green plants. Of the more than 600 carotenoids found in nature, only about 20 are found in human plasma and tissue. Of these, only lutein and zeaxanthin are specifically located in the macula of the retina of the eye. Zeaxanthin and lutein occur naturally in a healthy diet?lutein is found in foods such as broccoli, collard greens, kale, and spinach, zeaxanthin in oranges and corn. Many carotenoids are also antioxidants, which inactivate certain oxygen radicals by physical or chemical quenching. In the eye, the molecular properties of zeaxanthin and lutein maintain the integrity of the macula and the blood vessels by combating degenerative oxygenative reactions.
The amount of zeaxanthin and lutein in the diet affects macular pigment density, a factor in good eyesight. Although there are many contributing factors to clear vision—inherited factors among them?some of the factors can be controlled. The density of the macular pigment, the natural protection of the macula and the photoreceptor cells of the retina, are increased by the addition of zeaxanthin and lutein in the diet.
A Harvard-led study found that eating lutein-rich foods five days per week meant subjects were eight times more likely to have healthy macular pigment density than those who consumed the same foods just once a month. Another study at the University of Florida found that diets rich in lutein and zeaxanthin could substantially (82%) protect the macula. A number of companies offer either lutein or zeaxanthin, Source Naturals combines the benefits of both, just as both are used in the eye.
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Maintain your healthy eyesight now, because once lost, many functions of the eye cannot be repaired. Source Naturals offers you ZEAXANTHIN WITH LUTEIN as part of our commitment to developing natural products that empower you to take charge of your health. Make sure Source Naturals ZEAXANTHIN WITH LUTEIN is a part of your wellness program, an advanced approach to eye protection.
Bone, RA, et al. (2003). Journal of Nutrition. 133:992-998. Gail, C, et al. (2003).Investigative Opthalmology & Vis. Sci. 44:2461-246. Krinsky N, et al (2003). Annual Review of Nutrition. 23:171-201.
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In European folklore, Melusine was a water nymph. She fell in love with Prince Raymond and took on a human form. Before agreeing to marriage, Melusine made it a condition that she could bathe unseen once a week.
Curiosity, however, got the better of Raymond, and he spied on Melusine as she took a bath. He saw her in her true form: a beautiful woman from the waist up, but a writhing serpent below.
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GREEN NEWS & NOTES: Wildflower, birding walks upcoming in Jonathan’s Woods
Protect Our Water Woods and Wetlands (POWWW) will host its annual Wildflower Hike in Jonathan’s Woods at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The slow-paced hike will leave from the Hillcrest Drive trailhead in Denville. Leaders Mark Leone and Dave Peck will point out wildflowers, as well as major tree and shrub species, animals and birds.
Some of the trails are steep and uneven; sturdy footwear is highly recommended. Dress in layers and bring water and a snack.
Participants are encouraged to bring a camera and notebook.
For more information, call Mike Leone at 973-479-7816 or visit powww.org.
POWWW will host its second annual Birding Walk in Jonathan’s Woods on May 10. The three-hour event, led by Nora O’Rourke and Mike Leone, will depart from the parking field on Old Beach Glen Road at 8 a.m. The field is adjacent to the Beaver Brook, near the intersection of Old Beach Glen and Meriden roads, in Denville. Attendees need to arrive by 7:30 a.m. for orientation.
The easy-paced walk will allow time for bird stops, listening for bird songs and signs of bird activity, as well as a discussion of the importance of Jonathan’s Woods as a migratory stopover and breeding ground.
Wear sturdy walking shoes and dress in layers for the weather.
Bring binoculars, water and a snack. There will be field guides and a few loaner binoculars. For more information, contact Mike Leone at 973-479-7816.
POWWW is a conservation group, preserving and stewarding land in the Beaver Brook area since 1986.
Jonathan’s Woods covers 435 acres of the former Jersey City watershed and was acquired in 2001 by POWWW, in partnership with N.J. Fish and Wildlife, Morris County Park Commission, Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority, Denville Township and Green Acres.
The East Hanover Environmental Commission will be sponsoring a cleanup of the Whippany River at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Participants will meet on Valley Road, near the intersection of Troy Road. Gloves, bags, water and refreshments will be provided.
It is recommended to wear long sleeves and pants.
For more information, email Chris Manak at email@example.com.
The Friends of High Point State Park in Sussex will be sponsoring a lake cleanup from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Trash will be picked up along the shores and in the shallow waters of Lake Marcia, Steenykill and Sawmill Lakes.
Individuals, families and groups are welcome.
Participants should bring their own waterproof footwear, hip waders and work gloves.
No swimming will be permitted. Rain date is Sunday.
For more information or to register, call the park office at 973-875-4800, email firstname.lastname@example.org or visit www.friendshighpointstatepark.blogspot.com.
Spring plant sale
The Landscape and Horticulture Technology department at County College of Morris will hold its annual spring plant sale from noon to 6 p.m., Tuesday through May 8 in the LHT greenhouses, located near Parking Lot 1 on CCM’s Randolph campus at 214 Center Grove Road. The sale is open to the public.
This year’s offerings include 12 varieties of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, annual bedding plants and hanging baskets.
All plants were grown as part of the Introduction to Horticulture class at CCM.
Proceeds benefit the CCM Landscape Club.
To learn more about the LHT programs at CCM, visit www.ccm.edu/academics/divdep/hns/LHT.
The Mendham Township Library will host “Growing Organic Vegetables, Herbs and Fruits in Your Backyard” from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at 2 W. Main St. in Brookside.
Learn what and how to plant during spring, summer and fall from Wanda Knapik, educator and owner of My Local Garden.
This program is for beginner and experienced gardeners.
The program is free and open to the public.
Register by calling the library at 973-543-4018 or emailing email@example.com.
Witness the hand-shearing of live sheep as it was done in the past at “Born to Be Shorn” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 10 at the Cooper Gristmill, 66 Route 24, Chester Township.
Visitors can participate in hands-on activities including sheep and fiber crafts, skirting and washing fleece, carding, spinning and weaving yarn.
Tour the 1826 water-powered Cooper Gristmill, the only fully water-powered gristmill in New Jersey that produces flour.
Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors 65 and over and $1 for children 4 to 16. Children younger than 4 are admitted free.
For more information, call 908-879-5463 or visit morrisparks.net.
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Children between 15 and 18 can register for COVID-19 vaccines on the COWIN app from January 1 using their school ID cards. This announcement was officially stated by the centre following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement regarding Covid vaccination for children last week.
CoWIN chief Dr RS Sharma has stated that an additional slot had been created on the online platform so students could use their ID cards to register for the shots. This has been done because some children may not have Aadhaar or other required ID cards, he said.
It may be recalled that the PM Narendra Modi, on Saturday, had said children in the 15-18 age group could get their first round of Covid vaccines from January 3. The Prime Minister said vaccinating kids would help schools and students return to normal.
Children in India will be vaccinated with one of two shots – either Bharat Biotech’s double-dose Covaxin or Zydus Cadila’s three-dose ZyCoV-D, both of which have been cleared for kids over 12. Meanwhile, the drug controller has cleared Serum Institute’s Novavax for trials on kids between seven and 11 years of age, and Biological E’s Corbevax has been cleared for trials on children over five. Neither Novavax nor Corbevax have been cleared for use as yet.
Dr NK Arora, chief of India’s immunisation task force, has stated that Covaxin showed very good immune response in tests on the 15-18 age group. The decision to start vaccinating children comes amid an alarming increase in Covid cases in schools.
Meanwhile, the medical fraternity has welcomed this move by the PM. Dr Vivek Nangia- Principle Director and Head of Pulmonology in Max Hospital, Saket Complex said: “Extending the covid vaccine coverage to the frontline workers, to the elders, those with co-morbidities and youngsters is a very welcome move. The entire medical fraternity was looking forward to this news for some time now. And we will embrace this as a New Year’s gift from the Honourable Prime Minister. .
Vaccinating the children now is also relevant at this point when we are seeing the rising number of cases in the youngsters as well, although it’s considered to be a mild illness in the children let’s not forget there is a small percentage who do develop neurological complications and also develop the multi-organ inflammatory syndrome which can sometimes lead to devastating complications among children. So all in all, it’s a very good move and I would like to thank the Honourable Prime Minister for this”.
Dr Ravi Gaur, Founder DRG Lab & Co Chair Health wellness committee, Delhi said, “Much awaited announcement of Prime Minister, for starting covid vaccination for children between 15-18 years, is a very welcome step.
It will not only help in protecting young school going children from covid, but also allay apprehension and stress of all parents. The decision to allow booster vaccines for millions of healthcare workers and frontline covid warriors is very reassuring. With the possibility of a third wave, Omicron threat and fast increasing numbers of positive cases, the country needs to get its health infrastructure in a state of readiness.
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What legacies are you passing on? What will your descendants say about you?
Please watch NPR’s YouTube video, Frederick Douglass’ Descendants Deliver His ‘Fourth of July’ Speech, and please, please share. Note: The actual speech is titled, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Here are my thoughts after watching the video:
I believe Frederick Douglass’ descendants reading his “Fourth of July” speech is just as powerful as the speech itself. It is up to us to continue the difficult conversations surrounding racial issues, even on Independence Day.
Honestly, I considered not sharing this video. I did not want to interrupt the happy celebrations. But are the celebrations truly joyous? Because after the fireworks, BBQs, SAFE social gatherings, and “Happy 4th of July” pictures and posts, racial inequality remains. I mean.. only a few days ago Mississippi finally removed its racially divisive flag— in 2020!! What year did the United States gain its independence? Umm..1776. What year was slavery abolished in the United States? Supposedly 1865. And what year is this, again? Hmm.. 2020 in the 21st century.
Y’all, we cannot continue to pretend everything is okay, because IT IS NOT. Change is happening NOW, and WE must keep up the momentum. We cannot sit back and wait for another great leader to come along and tell us what to do. They have already done that. They have already equipped us with everything we need. Now it is our time to follow through. Not tomorrow or next month, but NOW!
Who’s with me?!
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Edible landscaping is when you replace or add plants to your garden that only serve the purpose of being ornamental with food-producing plants, such as fruits and berries. Doing so will create a multi-purpose garden that not only provides you with food but also return your investment of water, fertilizer, and time.
Why should I add edible ornamental plants to my landscape?
Nutrition: With home-grown produce, you know exactly what you're getting. You're always guaranteed healthy and tasty produce and you never have to wonder whether your food was genetically altered or what toxic chemicals were used to grow it.
Reduced Food Cost: With gas prices skyrocketing and the cost of shipping fresh produce to the grocery store, it is becoming more and more economical to grow your own food at home.
Convenience: What could be more convenient than having fresh produce right outside your door? Not to mention, it's a healthy and easy to access snack, which could encourage you and your family to lead a healthier lifestyle.
Fun and Exercise: Growing your own crops can be a fun and rewarding task! It gives you a reason to exercise and stay fit.
Now that you know the great benefits of edible landscaping, how do you even go about building one? Well, with a little hard work, commitment, and TLC, you can have your edible landscape producing in no time!
Variety: The first key to success in growing blueberries is choosing the right varieties. Blueberries produce bigger and better fruit when they can cross-pollinate with other varieties. At Country Junction Greenhouse & Gardens , we have selected two choice blueberries perfect for the blueberry hedge: Blueray and Bluecrop. These two varieties grow four to five feet tall and are a favorite among many.
Soil: The second key to success is soil. For blueberries to thrive, the soil must be well aerated, moist, very high in humus, and—most important of all—very acidic. Measure the pH in advance and spread two pounds of elemental sulfur per hundred square feet of planting area for every point over five on the pH scale and till this into the bed with the compost. To finish it off, spread six inches of mulch over the planting area. It may seem crazy to you, but cool, moist, and highly organic soil is what makes blueberries thrive.
Pruning: Pruning is optional. However, blueberry bushes that have not been pruned on an annual basis may become overgrown and less fruitful. Besides, it's no more difficult than pruning a typical hedge. In fact, it may even be easier. To prune blueberries, remove any diseased or broken wood, plus crossing branches. You want the bush to have a narrow base and a wide, open top that allows sunlight and air in. If you desire to, you can even shear them into a normal hedge. The best time to prune blueberry bushes is in late winter while they're still dormant.
If you do all this, you will likely be rich in blueberries for the rest of your life. However, if you just pop them in the ground and nurse them with fertilizers, acidifying agents, and pesticides every time they show distress, you're better off starting over. Blueberries are very picky about their soil, and it's very hard to bring them back once they've gone downhill. Also, you can count on birds taking a part of your harvest, so the best strategy is to plant twice what you need and consider it a delicious, ornamental, wildlife hedge. | <urn:uuid:75d28431-91d1-4724-9b09-37ef262bb8f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://countryjunctionmaine.com/edible-landscape | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956185 | 739 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Do I have to pay tax on my busking income in Ireland?
You might busk because you want to boost your profile in the Irish music scene... or maybe it’s because you need some extra cash... or it could be because you want to bring a little more culture to the city and make people look up from their phones every once in a while.
We all love catching a good sing-song on our lunch breaks here at the Taxback.com Stephen’s Green office and we love the bit of joy that buskers bring to our city but did you know that buskers are legally obliged to pay tax on their busking income?
Here in Ireland, we have a long-lasting culture of music, storytelling and creativity. Our fondness for the arts is probably why the government introduced the Artist Exemption Scheme. The scheme allows creatives to earn up to €50,000 a year tax-free (that is of course under certain circumstances) – if Revenue deems your work worthy of the exemption. You can read more about the Artist Exemption Scheme in our detailed article here.
While musical composition and legitimate gigs can qualify for the artist's exemption, there’s a good chance your street performance or busking efforts isn’t going to be recognised as worthy in the eyes of Revenue or the Irish Arts Council.
Progressive attitudes in the UK
While here in Ireland we’ve seen some pretty drastic clamping down on buskers, with the introduction of bylaws and licensing requirements, across the pond, it was announced that they would be introducing a contactless payment scheme to encourage busking in London.
The system will allow buskers to take card donations from passers-by on the spot. This is something that has never been done before anywhere in the world. It will also make it easier for British tax authorities to keep a closer eye on how much income buskers are generating.
Hey Buskers, Need a Hand With Filing Your Taxes?
The busking scene in Ireland
All you have to do is take a walk down any busy street in any Irish city and you’ll stumble across everything from rappers to bands, solo artists, living statues and old men playing the spoons – but how much tax are these performers obligated to pay and how do they go about paying it?
Basically, any income you make must be taxed. Income you generate from street performance of any kind be it your sole income or something you do on the side of your PAYE job, is considered income by Revenue and so it must be declared. You are legally obliged to declare any income you make by filing a tax return each year.
So let’s look at a couple of different scenarios and how you can go about sorting your busking related taxes…
First things first…
Let’s explain a little bit about how tax works for buskers.
A busker is essentially self-employed and busking can be considered a job, which means money earned from busking can be considered income.
If you are not self-employed and are solely a PAYE worker, you’re not obliged to file your taxes. You only need to file if you want to claim a tax refund. However, if you’re a PAYE worker who has a side gig of any kind (be it busking, hairdressing, babysitting), you are obliged to file either a Form 11 or a Form 12.
How do I know if I need to file a Form 11 or a Form 12?
If you earn under €5,000 a year from busking, you may file your busking income under your PAYE taxes by submitting a form 12.
If you earn over this amount, you must file a Form 11 and file your taxes as self-assessed.
Full time busker – register as a sole trader
George is a guitarist who busks several days a week in Dublin. This is his only source of income bar the odd nixer. He earns around €170 per week and must file a Form 11 and register as self-assessed with Revenue, declaring any income he has made from any gigs or nixers no matter how big or small.
George has kept the receipts from his instruments, amplifiers and any equipment he has received for busking, he can claim reliefs on these work-related expenses as the enable him to do his job.
PAYE busker earning over €5k. Register as a sole trader
Emma is a drama teacher at a local primary school. Her employer withholds tax on her behalf like all PAYE workers in Ireland. She pays the standard PRSI, USC and Income Tax. Emma just also happens to be a puppeteer who busks on the streets of Galway at the weekend with her puppet show.
She makes an average of €40 per hour. She puts on her show almost every Saturday and Sunday for several hours throughout the year and comes out with a busking income of around €6,500 per year.
Since Emma is earning above the threshold for filing under the PAYE system, she must file a Form 11 and register with Revenue as self-assessed. She will be charged €500 PRSI and not Income Tax or USC.
Emma could claim capital expenses on her equipment and that goes for all materials from sets, to music equipment to fabric and so on.
PAYE busker (or any other gig on the side) earning under €5k
Fiona works in retail, she is taxed under the PAYE system. Fiona is a violinist and likes to busk the odd weekend with her friend who is a singer. The pair make about €70 a weekend between them. They get €35 each. Because Fiona is under the €5,000 threshold, she must file her busking taxes by submitting a Form 12.
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While the regulation of buskers is good for the economy and there shouldn’t really be exceptions when it comes to paying tax, some buskers have expressed a disdain for the introduction of bylaws and the enforcement of regulations.
One busker interviewed by the Irish Times stated that he believed that many buskers are living on the margins of society and that the introduction of permits and stricter licensing will have extremely negative effects on these people as declaring their earnings means their benefits will be affected. In Galway, certain bans have been introduced that have had serious impacts on performers. Such as the amplification of instruments is now prohibited before 6pm in Galway as well as the prohibition of ‘circle acts’ which require an audience to watch, stop and participate in the show. While the rules imposed on buskers might seem unfair, it's your duty to declare your busking income.
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- 1 What did the word orchestra originally mean?
- 2 What does the Greek word orchestra mean?
- 3 What do mean by orchestra?
- 4 What is the etymology origin of the word orchestra?
- 5 What are the four families in the orchestra?
- 6 What does the word orchestra mean nowadays?
- 7 What does Virtouso mean?
- 8 What does the term piano actually mean?
- 9 Who came up with the word orchestra?
- 10 What do you mean by orchestra answers?
- 11 What do you mean by orchestra learning?
- 12 How do you use the word orchestra in a sentence?
- 13 When was the word orchestra first used?
- 14 What does a orchestra mean in music?
- 15 What is the difference between symphony and orchestra?
What did the word orchestra originally mean?
The word orchestra comes from the actual space in which an orchestra plays; the Greek orkhestra means “a space where a chorus of dancers performs,” from orkheisthai, “to dance.”
What does the Greek word orchestra mean?
History and Etymology for orchestra Latin, from Greek orchēstra, from orcheisthai to dance; perhaps akin to Sanskrit ṛghāyati he trembles, he rages.
What do mean by orchestra?
orchestra. / (ˈɔːkɪstrə) / noun. a large group of musicians, esp one whose members play a variety of different instrumentsSee also symphony orchestra, string orchestra, chamber orchestra. a group of musicians, each playing the same type of instrumenta balalaika orchestra.
What is the etymology origin of the word orchestra?
c. 1600, “area in an ancient theater for the chorus,” from Latin orchestra, from Greek orkhēstra, semicircular space where the chorus of dancers performed, with suffix -tra denoting place + orkheisthai ” to dance,” perhaps an intensive of erkhesthai “to go, come,” but not all experts accept that (see Beekes).
What are the four families in the orchestra?
Each instrument has unique characteristics, such as the different ways they produce a sound, the materials used to create them, and their overall appearance. These characteristics ultimately divide instruments into four families: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.
What does the word orchestra mean nowadays?
orchestranoun. A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group. orchestranoun.
What does Virtouso mean?
: a person who is an outstanding performer especially in music a piano virtuoso. More from Merriam-Webster on virtuoso.
What does the term piano actually mean?
The musical terms piano and forte mean “quiet” and “loud”, respectively, and in this context refer to variations in loudness the instrument produces in response to a pianist’s touch on the keys: the greater the velocity of a key press, the greater the force of the hammer hitting the string, and the louder the note
Who came up with the word orchestra?
The term orchestra derives from the Greek ὀρχήστρα (orchestra), the name for the area in front of a stage in ancient Greek theatre reserved for the Greek chorus.
What do you mean by orchestra answers?
An orchestra is a large group of musicians who play a variety of different instruments together. Orchestras usually play classical music.
What do you mean by orchestra learning?
Learner’s definition of ORCHESTRA. 1. [count]: a group of musicians who play usually classical music together and who are led by a conductor.
How do you use the word orchestra in a sentence?
Orchestra sentence example
- The diameter of the orchestra is 762 ft.
- As the light faded from the treetops, the birds grew silent and insects began their orchestra of night sounds.
- Handel’s orchestra is less detailed.
- I shall have my own orchestra, but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well?
When was the word orchestra first used?
The word derives from the ancient Greek part of a stage where instruments and the chorus combined music and drama to create theater. The first semblance of a modern orchestra came in the early 17th century when the Italian opera composer Claudio Monteverdi formally assigned specific instruments to perform his music.
What does a orchestra mean in music?
Although applied to various ensembles found in Western and non-Western music, orchestra in an unqualified sense usually refers to the typical Western music ensemble of bowed stringed instruments complemented by wind and percussion instruments that, in the string section at least, has more than one player per part.
What is the difference between symphony and orchestra?
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One thing our team enjoy doing is figuring out how to make complicated subjects accessible (and fun!) to members of the public so that they can share their opinions. The recent publication of Ofwat’s methodology for the 2019 Price Review has been a useful way for us to evaluate the engagement approaches and activities we’re currently using, and ensure that we’re being as creative and inclusive as possible in how we involve customers in the PR19 process.
In this blog, we highlight 3 areas in Ofwat’s methodology we believe to be critical in demonstrating excellence in customer engagement, with some ideas of how to approach them.
Participation: Ofwat’s Tapped In report, released in March this year, calls on companies to think beyond the limits of traditional engagement and encourage “the active involvement of customers in the design, production, delivery, consumption, disposal, and enjoyment of water, water services and the water environment at home, at work, and in the community.” This is a great opportunity for innovation and to draw on popular methodologies from the business design and social change communities. Hackathons (check out this great one from the Future City Glasgow project) are a great way to energise and mobilise groups of people to come together to design and deliver services. Design thinking is also a great approach for developing and testing solutions to complicated problems (this case study on design thinking and sexual health is good example). When developing projects with stakeholders, taking a collective impact approach (such as this program for children and young people in West London) is a way to promote an accountable, holistic approach to behaviour change. These might seem ambitious methodologies, but Ofwat is asking companies to lead a fundamental change in the way people think about and interact with their water supply, and that demands an ambitious response. If you’d like to learn more about any of these methodologies, contact email@example.com.
Data: Smart use of data is closely related to promoting customer participation, as they are both connected to the idea of personalisation. Personalisation appeals to our intrinsic need to be engaged – something that happens when people become more involved in the development of a product or service they own or interact with. In addition, working with data often calls for collaboration and partnership with other companies and stakeholders. Ofwat’s report; Unlocking the Value of Customer Data sets out clear expectations for next steps for the water sector. As an ISO27001 organisation, used to handling large amounts of data from members of the public, we also recommend plotting out a data journey to better understand how customer data moves through and between systems in order to highlight both potential points of weakness, as well as opportunities. We also believe it’s important to think beyond quantity when it comes to data, and to consider the range of sources you could use and in what way. For example, looking at social media content as an approach to revealed preference research. If you’d like to learn more about making the most of data, contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
Impact: Impact is not highlighted as much as some other themes in Ofwat’s engagement methodology, but arguably it is the most important. It is essential to be able to evaluate all components of an engagement program and demonstrate the impact this engagement has on both business as usual and plans for the future. Collecting feedback from customers and stakeholders after engagement events is important, but does not go far enough in demonstrating the quality of the engagement. An engagement evaluation framework should demonstrate the purpose of each piece of engagement, how each piece contributes to wider, and more long-term objectives, and outline basic internal and external indicators to monitor how well the engagement performs against these. Lessons can be brought in from areas such as the health sector (check out this example, and this one too) to inform best practice. For more ideas on how to create a robust evaluation framework for engagement and participation, contact email@example.com.
These three areas are particularly relevant when considering one of the cross-cutting themes in Ofwat’s methodology: innovation. Innovation is relevant across all aspect of business planning, however Ofwat clearly highlights the need for “innovation based on an understanding of customers”. Smart methods for customer participation and use of data both give unique opportunities to understand and work with customers, and being able to tell the story of their impact is a key part of the business planning process. We’re excited to see how the water industry can begin to demonstrate leadership in these areas for this price review and beyond.
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'To Paradise' is an inspired and vivid puzzle that doesn't quite come together
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review of one of this year's most anticipated books - "To Paradise" by novelist Hanya Yanagihara. Her 2015 novel, "A Little Life," dealt with the challenges of disability and trauma and became a bestseller. Here's Maureen's review of "To Paradise."
MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Beyond everything else it is, Hanya Yanagihara's new novel, "To Paradise," is a deliberately difficult novel. It weighs in at just over 700 pages and breaks into three distinct books, which read like semi-autonomous novels in their own right. Each book is set in New York City a century apart and invokes an array of literary styles from the novel of manners to alternate history, from the old-fashioned epistolary novel to the explicit social commentary of speculative fiction.
Repetition is Yanagihara's organizing principle here. The same names and situations resurface every 100 years, and other random coincidences abound. Perhaps that's why, when reading "To Paradise," I couldn't help but think of the coincidence that it's being published in the centenary year of another deliberately difficult novel, James Joyce's "Ulysses." "Ulysses" also weighs in at just over 700 pages and is also packed with repetitions, scenes where characters unknowingly repeat incidents from "The Odyssey."
There, the comparisons end. But my own take on "To Paradise" does mirror the reactions of "Ulysses'" first overwhelmed readers. When "Ulysses" came out in 1922, it was hailed by a few critics as brilliant but dismissed by others as baffling and dull. Virginia Woolf confessed she had to force herself to push past the first 200 pages. I have all those responses to Yanagihara's novel. It's inspired and vivid. But there are also long stretches that are so flat and opaque that only a looming deadline made me press forward.
Book I of "To Paradise" is the most reader-friendly and contains some of the novel's most gorgeous language. It's set in 1893 in a New York that belongs to an independent nation called the Free States. The Free States have legalized gay marriage and given full rights to women but keep out Black and Indigenous people. The way communities and nations, even allegedly progressive ones, define themselves by whom they exclude is a theme Yanagihara touches on frequently.
Events here take place largely within a townhouse in Washington Square. That's Henry James territory. And sure enough, this section riffs on James' novel called "Washington Square," the story of a charming cad seeking to marry a shy, plain heiress. The lovelorn heiress of this tale is reimagined as an heir, a young gay man named David Bingham, whose sickliness and awkwardness have made him damaged goods on the marriage market. As David reflects, he was a man living in his grandfather's house, waiting for one season to shade into the next, for his life to announce itself to him at last. What ensues is a melancholy story about seduction, willed self-delusion and the cruelty the world inflicts on the vulnerable.
The second book of "To Paradise" takes place 100 years later in 1993, partly in that same townhouse in Greenwich Village. The David of this story is a cash-strapped, young Hawaiian man living with a debonair, older lover named Charles. The AIDS epidemic imbues this section with a twilit mood. But unfortunately, Book II drifts into a dense ending monologue narrated by David's father, who belongs to the Hawaiian royal family.
The final and longest book of "To Paradise" drags us deep into dystopia. New York, in 2093, has been ravaged by climate change and mutating deadly viruses. That Washington Square townhouse is now chopped into apartments. Among the characters we meet here are two reincarnations of the Charles character - a Charles who's a renowned virologist and his granddaughter, Charlie, who's emotionally and physically compromised. It's her grandfather's effort to save her from the ruthlessness of an authoritarian government that propels this narrative after a sluggish start.
The greatest pleasures of "To Paradise" are technical ones - the seemingly effortless variety of Yanagihara's writing styles, the changes she rings on a fixed group of characters and situations. But unlike other sprawling books that are also explicitly contrived - yes, "Ulysses," or Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and, most recently, Anthony Doerr's "Cloud Cuckoo Land" - "To Paradise" sacrifices emotional depth to artistic design. With the exception of the fully realized David in Book I, characters seem summoned up simply to serve the novel's pattern. And that pattern of eternal return makes this big novel feel confined. Sometimes a complicated puzzle contains dazzling individual pieces that lose their luster when pressed together.
GROSS: Maureen Corrigan is a professor of literature at Georgetown University. She reviewed "To Paradise" by Hanya Yanagihara. Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, my guest will be Brian Cox, one of the stars of the HBO series "Succession." He plays the patriarch of a family that owns a conglomerate which includes a conservative cable news network, a cruise line and theme parks. The series is a political, social, family satire embedded in a drama. Cox has written a new memoir that begins with nearly dying at birth. The drama on and off stage and screen continues from there. I hope you'll join us.
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Some customers have begun to wonder if all HoverTech Industries builds are enormously powerful hovercycles like the Raptor. For them, we proudly introduce the Tornado, a much smaller and more maneuverable vehicle. It may seem like a departure from the norm for HoverTech, but we listen to our customers. It can still be identified as a HoverTech product by the distinctive 6 pod matrix that makes up our LiftJet system. These particular models are the CHX-5101 LiftJets, which provide plenty of lift to keep this craft going. Two CFX-405 ThrustJets provide the power. The Tornado can be set to either low or high hover mode. In low hover mode, the Tornado hugs the ground at a height of only 3 feet. It has very similar performance characteristics to the Jetskis from the late 20th century. It can even be ridden standing up or sitting down. In high mode, the Tornado can be flown to heights of over 1000 feet, though we don’t recommend you go that high without a parachute or jetpack.
The tornado was built for Paul Hartzog’s HoverThing Contest. It took about 4 hours to design and build. The HoverJet layout was inspired by the Nebuchadnezzar hover ship from The Matrix, as well as many of the other great hovercycle designs out there in the Lugnet Community. It measures 13 studs long and 10 studs wide. Thanks to Kyle Keppler for the idea to use the 4×4 radar dishes. | <urn:uuid:7bc71441-7371-46ff-9c59-c78577af3580> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brickfrenzy.com/project/tornado-hovercycle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.939635 | 319 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Species Are Spreading Like Never Before
Plants and animals are expanding their ranges farther and faster these days than ever before in the planet's history.
A paper published in the journal Conservation Biology asserts that humans have lately propelled an unprecedented spread of invasive species.
Organisms of all kinds have hitched rides to new territory on boats, cars and planes. People have also deliberately introduced exotic plants and animals for food and other products, or to simply enjoy.
Mass invasions of species are certainly not new. They've occurred many times over the last 25 million years, often triggered by a changing climate or the merging or breaking apart of continents. Most studied is the joining of South America with Central America when the Panama isthmus formed three million years ago. The land bridge enabled 37 types of animals to move to a new continent.
But the current rate and scale of organisms moving to new continents, islands and oceans is many magnitudes greater than anything the world has previously experienced.
Evidence for the prehistoric spread of species comes from uncovering ancient pollen and fossils. These have revealed, for instance, how often new species have landed on the Hawaiian Islands. Before humans arrived, Hawaii received 30 new species every million years. Once Polynesians settled there, the rate increased to 20,000 new species per million years. In the last 200 years, the Islands have been gaining new species at a rate of 20 million per million years, or 20 a year.
The accelerated spread of species is occurring not just on land, but also in lakes and oceans. New fish established in the Great Lakes at the rate of 1.7 species a century in prehistoric times. Now it's 20 species a century.
The marine waters of San Francisco Bay used to gain five new types of inhabitants a century. That increased to 170 per century when Europeans began using the area. In the last 30 years, new species moved into San Francisco Bay at the rate of 370 a century.
Besides an accelerated rate of dispersal, other prominent differences exist between the human-driven biological invasions and prehistoric ones. Notably, these days species are travelling between distant continents rather that just adjacent ones.
Europeans colonizing New Zealand and Australia brought with them from home rabbits, deer, sparrows and many other mammals and birds that otherwise could never have gotten to the South Pacific.
Similarly, ballast water discharged from ships has carried many organisms from the Black and Caspian Seas across the Atlantic Ocean and released them into the Great Lakes. The present movement of species is for the first time planet-wide in scope, rather than just a regional event.
Consequently, invasive species are now pervasive. An estimate published ten years ago determined that 3% of the world's uncultivated land area that supports vegetation was dominated by exotic plants.
On continents, 10% of plants, 13% of fish and 3% of birds come from those introduced by people in the last five hundred years. We've altered island biota even more. An average of 24% of plants, 76% of fish and 21% of birds established on islands today are not native species.
The swift spread of invasive species has led to extinctions and a homogenization of plants and animals around the world. The ecological ramifications of multiple biological invasions are rapid and rampant. Several invasive species descending on a region in quick succession can potentially change the local ecology enough to facilitate even more invasions. This hypothetical positive feedback loop is what biologists term an "invasional meltdown."
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There was a day when hiring a hooker or sending photos of one’s private parts to women would be a career-killer for a male politician. But fame and notoriety have become indistinguishable. And the return of both Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner suggests that for someone looking to make a political name for himself, a juicy sex scandal might be just the ticket.
That’s our reaction to a new Quinnipiac poll. It shows Spitzer, just five years removed from his resignation as governor, holding a double-digit lead in the race for city comptroller. The same poll shows Weiner, who resigned from Congress over X-rated tweets to young women, now leading the Democratic field for mayor.
New York’s not alone. South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford gave new meaning to “hiking the Appalachian Trail” when he used that as a cover for a secret trip to Argentina to hook up with his mistress. He lost both his wife and his governorship, but in November he was elected to Congress. Closer to home, Jim McGreevey — who quit as New Jersey governor after putting his gay lover in a state job for which he was unqualified — was just named head of a Jersey City commission on job creation.
Whatever happened to the notion of earning redemption by forsaking political life for something deeper?
Charles Colson, recall, went to prison for his role in Watergate. After his release, he devoted the remaining 36 years of his life to a ministry dedicated to probably the most despised people in American life, prison inmates. Before him, John Profumo, the British cabinet minister whose sex scandal toppled a government, spent the rest of his days cleaning toilets at a London charity.
That was then. Nowadays, politicians caught with their pants down are plotting their comebacks even before they have re-fastened their belts. They’ve learned that the scandal that makes you notorious will in the long run reward you with improved name recognition — provided only that you are utterly shameless. | <urn:uuid:55fcd1f8-313d-4c9a-bf15-78af45a15a37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nypost.com/2013/07/17/the-shame-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.980604 | 413 | 1.5 | 2 |
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Browse the case studies below to learn more about some of the solutions we provide.
Beverly Community Solar Project
Resolving Ultra-Complexities in a Solar Project’s Success: from COVID-19 to Landfill to Community Solar
This unique solar project began in early 2016 when the city council of Beverly, Massachusetts decided to explore the possibility of installing solar on some of their underutilized assets.
Superfund Project Restores an Ecosystem & Upgrades the Local Community to Renewable Energy
Beginning with a name like Superfund Project, already starts to make you think super heroes must somehow be involved. When you dig into the details of this project, in respect to the health of the residents, the local environment, and the achievement of this project – you wouldn’t be far off.
The Lapeer Projects
One of the Largest Solar Power Plants in the Midwest
The utility-owned Lapeer project is comprised of 2 sites, 34 MW and 24 MW. The solar electric plant generates enough electricity to power almost 11,000 households per year and offsets over 16,000 tons of carbon emissions annually.
Coyote Ridge Community Solar Project
The Eighth Community Solar Project Installed in Colorado
In a statewide initiative to demonstrate scalable models for electric cooperatives to broaden the reach of solar energy and reduce energy costs for low-income households, the Coyote Ridge Community Solar Project will save a variety of off-takers with 1.2 MW of the plant’s capacity dedicated to low-income households, affordable housing providers and nonprofit organizations.
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After the Vietnam war, a lot of colleges that were busy during the hay day of the war as a way to keep from going overseas, suddenly were scrambling to attract or enroll students to keep the doors open. Ricker College in Houlton Maine was one of those. In the last days of the school, the people who worked at Ricker College were paid with money marked to point out to the local community and merchants what an economic impact the well know college established in 1848 had on the area. The exercise was to showcase the involvement the college had in everyone’s day to day lives by illustration with the money you spent, currency change you received in the Southern Aroostook County area. Ricker closed its doors in 1978 but stills awards college scholarships to deserving area students that apply for tuition help, as long as they attend a Maine college.
Meanwhile, have you heard about “Where’s George?”
The exercise in tracking currency and it’s winding pathway around the globe was something the fellow in front of me at breakfast told me about while waiting for the Big Stop restaurant cashier.
This big rig driver was holding a bill with a red circle around the currency stamp. He explained how he had tracked the serial number of a dollar he once spent and even had the same dollar come back to him in change! The exercise or study allows you to go on line to track a bill with the designated logo stamped on it by dialing in the serial number to track the bill’s movements from wallet to purse and beyond. In Canada, same exercise with a sister website called “Where’s Willy?”. The truck driver I met at The Big Stop Restaurant on US Rt 1 near Interstate 95’s exit 302 for Houlton Maine said he has had fun looking up serial numbers on the bills he has had pass thru his fingers over the years. | <urn:uuid:7db0972d-66e7-4985-97b8-5b0f4054205a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meinmaine.com/2009/10/17/ricker-college-in-houlton-maine-had-ricker-dollars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.984637 | 393 | 2.046875 | 2 |
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers who go into local schools, colleges and youth and community groups to support learning.
The University of the Highlands and Islands has developed a series of podcasts to support students and graduates at this time of global uncertainty.
Supporting students to establish careers in the Creative Industries has been given a boost by a collaboration between XpoNorth and the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).
A programme of activities to support young people who have left school this summer has been launched .
“The Mobile Art School is going to give pupils in Orkney a chance to try some of the amazing range of skills and techniques that students at Gray’s learn.”
These events help young people learn more about the range of health and social care careers that are available with NHS Orkney.
Students at Stromness Academy have been taking part in a careers week to inspire and inform them of the variety of jobs available to them.
“A skilled and diverse workforce is key to providing our children with high quality play and learning opportunities in their formative years. “
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If your children rely on free or reduced-price meals during the school year, summer meals don't have to be a challenge.
Summer Food Service or Summer Meals Program fills that gap by providing free nutritious meals and snacks at locations in your community. But, believe it or not,
only 12% of eligible children participate in the summer meals program―many of which also offer free and fun recreational and educational activities.
Parents, grandparents, caregivers: find free summer meal sites near you!
How to get kids to and from summer meal sites?
Getting to meal sites is often half the battle. Convenience is a key factor in determining whether you or a caregiver can take your children to a free summer meal site. For this reason, many summer feeding sites have transportation solutions to bring children and meals together. Free bus passes, mobile feeding sites, and free rides are available in many sites across the country.
Contact your local summer feeding site to see if there are transportation solutions in your area.
Give your child a healthy body and a healthy mind.
As parents, you cannot allow for your situation to impact your children's physical or mental health―especially when there are resources available to help.
children feeling isolated, ashamed or embarrassed by their lack of food? Some children, for example, are old enough to grasp the concept of receiving free or reduced-price school or summer meals; others are far too young. Have conversations about the importance of a full and balanced diet.
Fight the stigma! By visiting a summer meal site and seeing many other children there, your child will know he or she is not alone.
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After seeing how gas stoves pollute homes, these researchers are ditching theirs
Burning natural gas generates high levels of nitrogen oxides, linked to asthma in children
Gas stoves produce more indoor air pollutants than even some scientists expect. After taking measurements, many of these researchers are switching to electric stoves — and warning the public about the health risks of cooking with gas.
When Tara Kahan took pollution readings inside homes after cooking with a gas stove in 2017 and 2018, the University of Saskatchewan chemist and her colleagues were surprised by both how high the levels of nitrogen oxides were and how long they lasted.
Exposure to nitrogen oxides, produced when gas is burned, is linked to respiratory problems such as asthma and decreased lung function, especially in children. For example, a 2013 meta-analysis of 41 studies found that children living in a home that used gas for cooking had a 42 per cent increased risk of having asthma.
Kahan's measurements found that not only did levels of nitrogen oxide pollutants sometimes exceed Health Canada guidelines for a one-hour exposure, but the pollutants often lingered for a couple of hours.
"It really took a long time to go away," said Kahan, associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Analytical Chemistry. "All of the researchers were pretty horrified."
Kahan immediately applied the new knowledge to her own life.
"After that, as soon as it was feasible, I switched from a gas stove to [electric] induction," she said.
She's not the only one.
Rob Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford University, co-authored a recent study that found gas stoves leak unexpectedly high levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, even when they're off — and they generate significant levels of indoor air pollution.
What he found pushed him to work on electrifying his home too.
His gas stove has an electric oven, but it doesn't seem possible to swap out just the burners.
"I am reluctant to throw away a perfectly good electric oven," he said. "But we're going to do that."
The combined health and climate impacts of stoves are also starting to catch the attention of celebrity chefs, such as John Horne, Angus An and John Kung, who have become evangelists for electric induction stoves in a field where gas stoves were once considered an essential tool for anyone serious about cooking.
WATCH | Why scientists and chefs are ditching their gas stoves — and touting this alternative
Health impacts of gas stoves
Dr. Melissa Lem is a Vancouver family physician and president-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. The group ran an ad campaign last year highlighting the negative health impacts of natural gas, including those linked to:
Pollution from natural gas extraction, such as birth defects and cancer.
Climate change caused by leaking methane, the main component in natural gas and a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Indoor air pollution from cooking with natural gas.
Lem noted that in 2015, Health Canada issued new residential air quality guidelines for nitrogen dioxide — one of several pollutants created when cooking with a gas stove — due to its negative health impacts.
"Most gas ranges in Canada do not even come close to meeting these air quality standards," she said. "And research shows that this can harm your health, like worsening asthma … in kids" or exacerbate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults.
Lem added that nitrogen oxides aren't the only pollutants released when cooking on gas stoves — others include formaldehyde, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, which can be deadly.
I loved my gas stove, but two years ago I had the chance to move to induction. I took it & never looked back - and never will. Why not? Because gas stoves aren't just bad for climate change, they're bad for YOU. <a href="https://t.co/wOtkIS4B7k">https://t.co/wOtkIS4B7k</a>—@KHayhoe
What can be done to reduce the health risks?
The experts we talked to recommend replacing your gas stove with an electric one if you can. But if that's not possible – for example, if you're a renter or can't afford a new stove — there are other things you can do to reduce your risk.
Use other cooking methods. Jackson has started using his microwave more, along with a portable countertop electric induction burner.
Ventilate while cooking. "Before this study, I never turned the hood on," Jackson said, noting that studies show most people don't because they're noisy.
But he's changed his habits after seeing the pollutant measurements. "Now I always turn the hood on, and I nag my friends and family to turn the ventilation hoods on when they use the gas stove, every time."
Jackson cautioned that many hood fans don't actually vent outside — they simply run air through a filter before dumping it back into the room. "And that is problematic because those filters do not scrub noxious gases."
Kahan said hood fans can help, but they only cut pollutant levels in half.
She said other forms of ventilation, such as opening a window, are also a good idea when possible.
Use the back burners. More gases from the back burners are captured by your range hood fan compared to the front burners.
What about other gas-burning appliances?
Jackson said that while other appliances such as furnaces, water heaters and fireplaces burn gas, most — unlike stoves — are required to be vented outside.
That said, there's some evidence that furnaces can also cause nitrogen oxide pollution.
Michael Thomas, founder of Carbon Switch, a website focused on living sustainably, said he never worried much about having a gas stove, because it was only on for a short time each day. But while expecting his first child, he started reading about the pollutants generated by gas stoves. That prompted him to buy and install some indoor air quality monitors in his house. He reported the results in a blog post earlier this year.
Sure enough, they showed that nitrogen dioxide spiked after cooking with his gas stove. That alarmed him.
But there were also spikes between midnight and 4 a.m.
Thomas soon realized that's when his gas furnace was running to keep the home warm during cold nights.
"And so I realized that the gas furnace was actually leaking nitrogen dioxide into our home throughout all of the vents."
LISTEN | Cooking without gas: why cities are cutting methane from homes
Thomas consulted an environmental epidemiologist, Josiah Kephart, who said that while individual homeowners are often told this is unusual and linked to faulty equipment, his tests have shown high levels of indoor nitrogen dioxide are the norm.
"My opinion is that we just shouldn't be allowing these appliances to be installed in homes, given that they so often fail and end up ultimately creating a lot of unsafe indoor air pollution," Thomas said.
He and his wife haven't decided yet if they're going to stay long-term in their Boulder, Colo.-home, but if they do, "then the plan would be to get an induction range and cooktop and then electrify all the space heating and water heating."
How worried should I be? Should I get rid of my gas stove?
Jackson said he's not sure how the indoor air pollution from gas stoves compares to other sources of pollution in people's lives, such as those from highways, but it's pollution that people don't need to be exposed to.
"I think it makes sense to eliminate all sources of pollution in our lives that we can, especially if there's another technology available that's just as good and is much cleaner," he said.
A bonus is that going electric also cuts greenhouse gas emissions. Not only did Jackson's study find that gas stoves leak more methane than thought, but newer, more expensive stoves were no less leaky than older, cheaper ones. He suspects there's no other way to fix the problem.
"I view electrification as a win for climate, but also a way to improve the air that we breathe — improve our health. And so I think it's a good idea to do that, particularly if you're a family with young children in your home."
Thomas acknowledged this isn't an option for everyone, but suggested thinking about it especially if you are considering getting a new stove or building a new home.
In fact, his advice is to electrify if you're replacing any gas appliances, whether it's your furnace, water heater or stove.
"If you have the choice, then I think putting in a gas stove is crazy at this point, given all the research on the health impacts and the methane leaks."
WATCH | The debate over gas and induction stoves
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Sump pumps are the heart of a waterproofing system. In many homes, the sump pumps are old, unreliable, and create moisture and health problems in their basements or crawl spaces. The “builder’s grade” sump pumps that many people have in their homes are unreliable and inefficient, and they do not provide the features they need. Today, very efficient high capacity sump pump systems are available, like the ECP BSP50. Now you can change out your old sump pump with a new modern sump pump and sealed sump pit with::
- High-Performance Pumps
- Battery Backups
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- Check Valves
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Modern sealed sump pump systems are highly reliable and keep running at optimal performance levels. Combining the pump systems with a sealed interior waterproofing or drainage system will increase the value of your home as well as create the option of a new, healthy living space.
Is a Sump Pump Necessary?
Almost always, a sump pump is a great addition or upgrade to your basement. Do not risk your basement flooding due to out of date, unreliable, builder’s grade sump pumps. Today’s sump equipment is very reliable and adds to the health of your home. Quality waterproofing contractors have great, reliable sump pumps available, including single pump systems, battery backup sump pumps, and water alarms that keep your basement or crawl space dry and healthy.
ECP sump pump systems are the very best available in the industry. Each sump pump system is designed to work in conjunction with a sealed basement waterproofing system to keep your basement dry all the time. These systems must be installed by trained sump pump installers from our national network of waterproofing contractors.
Primary Sump Pumps
Your primary sump pump is your first line of defense against basement water. The sump pump’s job is to remove any water that collects in the sump basin or pit. These pumps have a float system that tells it when to turn on and off. There are many types of floats or switches – mechanical, tethered, pressure, and electronic. Since the switch mechanism is the number one reason for sump pump failure your focus needs to be on picking a high-quality switch first. The best sump pump switches are the ones that have backup or dual switches. These dual switches provide redundancy in the case of switch failure. When it comes to protecting your home from water, two is always better than one.
The next feature to look for is performance. Performance is not just volume (gallons per hour) but also electrical efficiency. Gallons per watt-hour is a performance criterion that some sump pump manufacturers are starting to use. The highest performance pumps will pump over six gallons per watt-hour, meaning that not only will it outperform (in GPH) your old sump pump but will use less electricity to do it.
Battery Backup Sump Pumps
As noted above “When it comes to protecting your home from water, two is always better than one”. Battery backup pumps provide protection against flooding when your power goes out. During the worst of the spring storms, power is often lost, shutting down your old sump pump system. In these cases, a battery backup sump pump will automatically turn on and provide flood protection for your basement until power is restored. For those of us that have experienced basement flooding a battery backup is not a luxury but an absolute necessity.
ECP battery backup sump pump systems monitor your whole waterproofing system with a controller and then switch your sump system from AC power to DC power when there is an interruption in electrical power service. These controllers will then recharge the battery once AC power is restored. Audible alarms will inform you of this instance but no action is needed on your part for most systems. These systems can even call your cell phone and inform you of an interruption so that you are warned about your freezer or other appliances.
As with AC sump pumps, DC battery backup units vary in performance and features. Once again gallons per hour and efficiency are the keys to picking the best system. If the system is not efficient, it will drain the battery quickly and put your basement at risk. Also, if your backup cannot keep up with the amount of water entering your sump basin, your basement will be at risk. Insist on ECP sump pump systems to protect your home from flooding.
Sump Basins and Frozen Discharge Lines
Sealed sump pits stop moisture and soil gases from entering the living space which can degrade the air quality in your home. New efficient designs are available to be combined with highly efficient sump pumps creating a high-performance sealed water management system. When combined with a sealed interior drainage system your home’s indoor air quality can increase while moving water to the ECP sealed sump pit. The sump pump is triggered by a switch to turn on and pump the water outside, a freeze guard can be installed to prevent freezing of the discharge line. ECP freeze guards are simple devices that mount outside your home and allow water a place to go if the buried line becomes frozen or blocked.
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Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Johannes Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago – and that more recently have caught the eye of both artists and crystallographers – can now be seen in the laboratory. They first took shape on a surface more perfectly two-dimensional than any sheet of writing paper, a single layer of atoms and molecules atop an atomically smooth substrate. Physicists coaxed these so-called Kepler tilings "onto the page" through guided self-assembly of nanostructures.
The experiments were carried out by postdoctoral researcher David Ecija, PhD candidate Jose Ignacio Urgel and colleagues in the Physics Department of Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), in collaboration with scientists in Karlsruhe and Zurich. They reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Results open a new line of research
Organic molecules equipped with functional groups to express distinct linkages to metal atoms were deposited onto a smooth silver substrate under vacuum conditions. Subsequently the organic layer on this platform was exposed to an atomic flux of the lanthanide cerium. At a certain ratio of cerium atoms to molecules, self-assembly produced a symmetrical complex 2-D pattern described originally by Kepler and known today as the snub square tiling. Clearly identifiable through scanning tunneling microscopy was a recurring, five-vertex connecting element less than one nanometer across, a cerium-ligand coordination unit.
That the snub square tiling pattern had never been fabricated and seen at the molecular level by exploiting self-assembly protocols was interesting in itself. Beyond that, the physicists explain, every new surface architecture could potentially open the way to novel physics and chemistry, and until now five-vertex structures have proven elusive. In particular, the fact that the lanthanide element cerium played such a key role marks this as the beginning of a new line of research.
This is the first time the TUM researchers – members of Prof. Johannes Barth's Institute for Molecular Nanoscience and Chemical Physics of Interfaces – have coordinated molecules with a lanthanide, and the first time anyone has done this in 2-D. "And lanthanides are special," David Ecija explains. "They have very intriguing optical, magnetic, and chemical properties that could be interesting for nanoscience, and possibly also for nanotechnology. Now we have a new playground for research with the lanthanides, and beyond."
This research was supported by the European Research Council through Advanced Grant MolArt (Grant 247299) and Marie Curie Fellowship Grant 274842; the German Research Foundation (DFG) through Grant BA3395/2-1; and the TUM Institute for Advanced Study.
Five-vertex Archimedean surface tessellation by lanthanide-directed molecular self-assembly. David Ecija, Jose I. Urgel, Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Sushobhan Joshi, Willi Auwaerter, Ari P. Seitsonen, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Sybille Fischer, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Joachim Reichert, and Johannes V. Barth. PNAS 2013 Vol. 110 No. 17, pp. 6678-6681. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222713110
Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) is one of Europe's leading universities. It has roughly 500 professors, 9,000 academic and non-academic staff, and 32,000 students. It focuses on the engineering sciences, natural sciences, life sciences, medicine, and economic sciences. After winning numerous awards, it was selected as an "Excellence University" in 2006 and 2012 by the Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). In both international and national rankings, TUM is rated as one of Germany's top universities. TUM is dedicated to the ideal of a top-level research-oriented entrepreneurial university. The university's global presence includes offices in Beijing (China), Brussels (Belgium), Cairo (Egypt) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). The German Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), founded in 2002 in Singapore, is the first research campus of a German university abroad. http://www.tum.de
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Chemistry - urine
Urine chemistry is a group of one or more tests done to check the chemical content of a urine sample.
For this test, a clean catch (midstream) urine sample is needed.
Some tests require that you collect all of your urine for 24 hours.
Your health care provider will order certain tests, which will be done on the urine sample in a lab.
For detailed information about how to prepare for the test, how the test will feel, risks with the test, and normal and abnormal values, please see the test your provider ordered:
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
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Riley RS, McPherson RA. Basic examination of urine. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 23rd ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier; 2017:chap 28.BACK TO TOP
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Vasodilatory shock resistant to traditional treatment with vasopressors is associated with a high mortality rate A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine sets out to investigate the effects of angiotensin II as a treatment.
Shock can be a fatal syndrome as a result of decreased perfusion of vital organs which leads to irreversible organ failure. The most common type of shock is vasodilatory shock, where there’s peripheral vasodilation and a reduction in blood pressure even though cardiac output is maintained. The first line of action in vasodilatory shock is fluid resuscitation, attempting to increase blood pressure whilst the cause of the shock is identified. If fluid resuscitation fails to increase blood pressure, the next step is the introduction of vasopressors. Patients who fail to respond to both of these measures have poor outcomes with the risk of death exceeding 50%.
There are two classes of vasopressors currently being used: catecholamines and vasopressin. However, at high doses, these vasopressors can display toxic side effects. When blood pressure drops significantly, the body engages a third system comprised of hormones, called the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS).
In a recent multinational, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine, patients experiencing vasodilatory shock who were receiving treatment with a catecholamine vasopressor were given either angiotensin II or a placebo. The endpoint was measured as an increase in mean arterial blood pressure of at least 10mm Hg from baseline or at least 75 mm Hg total increase in mean arterial pressure 3 hours after commencing the infusion.
In this study, 321 participants received the study intervention; 163 were given angiotensin II and 158 were given the placebo. The results of the study found that 69.9% of the patients receiving angiotensin II reached the primary endpoint; whereas only 23.4% in the placebo group reached the primary endpoint. After two days, the improvements observed in cardiovascular and organ failure using a scoring system was higher in the angiotensin II group than the placebo group. Adverse side effects were seen in 60.7% and 67.1% of the patients in the angiotensin II group and placebo group respectively. Death by day 28 was seen in 46% in the angiotensin II group and 54% in the placebo group.
This study has demonstrated that angiotensin II can successfully increase blood pressure in individuals with vasodilatory shock who were not being treated effectively with high doses of vasopressors.
Written by Jade Marie Evans, MPharm, Medical Writer
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Sharing malaria elimination knowledge with Asia
Youn-Kyoung Goo is studying Plasmodium vivax, a strain of malaria whose ability to lie dormant in the river for long periods of time makes it less vulnerable to eradication.
Understanding the genetic structure will help Youn-Kyoung Goo and the Government of South Korea to address vivax malaria, the devastating parasitic disease affecting millions of people across Asia.
“The genotyping results from this visit will be useful to us to figure out genetic structure of [the malaria species] P. vivax in South Korea,” says researcher Youn-Kyoung Goo.
“It will be the first step to compare genetic characteristics between South Korea and other countries.” This learning, she says, increases understanding of parasite movements across borders and remaining areas of malaria transmission.
In 2012, Goo completed a working placement at Menzies’ laboratories in Darwin, facilitated through the Menzies-led Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN).
“I came to Menzies because, with its high expertise in molecular biology, it is leading collaboration for worldwide genotyping study of vivax malara.”
Menzies has been able to assist people like Youn-Kyoung Goo through training, grants, and capacity building workshops funded by APMEN.
These projects are part of a regional collaboration to improve the treatment of vivax malaria in 14 countries across the Asia Pacific region including Indonesia, Cambodia, Bhutan, China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Republic of Korea.
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This quotation from philosopher and theologian Josef Pieper captured my attention over a year ago when I was preparing a series of messages for students on distraction and attention. Themes of distraction and attentiveness have become increasingly important to me as the information economy takes hold of our culture and shapes our lives more than we realize. I saved this quotation on my desktop for further consideration, and I continue to return to it again and again. While Pieper wrote these words just shy of eighty years ago, I feel they are just as relevant today as ever. Maybe you will agree.
There is a lust for seeing that perverts the original meaning of sight and casts a person into disorder. The meaning of sight is the perception of reality. However, the “concupiscence of the eyes” does not seek to perceive reality but rather just to see. Augustine notes that the “lust of the palate” does not attain satisfaction but only results in eating and drinking; the same holds true for curiositas (curiosity) and the “concupiscence of the eyes”. In his book Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), Martin Heidegger says, “The concern of this kind of sight is not about grasping the truth and knowingly living within it but is about chances for abandoning oneself to the world.” The degradation into curiositas of the natural desire to see can thus be substantially more than a harmless confusion on the surface. It can be the sign of one’s fatal uprooting. It can signify that a person has lost the capacity to dwell in his own self; that he, fleeing from himself, disgusted and bored with the waste of an interior that is burnt out by despair, seeks in a thousand futile ways with selfish anxiety that which is accessible only to the high-minded calm of a heart disposed to self-sacrifice and thus in mastery over itself: the fullness of being. Since such a person does not truly live out of the wellspring of his being, he accordingly seeks, as again Heidegger says, in the “curiosity to which nothing is closed off”, “the security of a would-be genuine ‘living life’.”
The “concupiscence of the eyes” reaches its utmost destructive and extirpative power at the point where it has constructed for itself a world in its own image and likeness, where it has surrounded itself with the restlessness of a ceaseless film of meaningless objects for show and with a literally deafening noise of nothing more than impressions and sensations that roar in an uninterrupted chase around every window of the senses. Behind their papery façade of ostentatious lies absolute nothingness, a “world” of at most one-day constructs that often become insipid after just one-quarter of an hour and are thrown out like a newspaper that has been read or a magazine that has been paged through; a world which, before the revealing gaze of a sound spirit uninfected by its contagion, shows itself to be like a metropolitan entertainment district in the harsh clarity of a winter morning: barren, bleak, and ghostly to the point of pushing one to despair.
Still, the destructive element of this disorder, born out of and shaped by illness, is found in the fact that this disorder obstructs the original power of man to perceive reality, that it renders a person unable not only to attain his own self but also to attain reality and truth.
If, therefore, a fraudulent world of this kind threatens to overrun and conceal the world of reality, then the cultivation of the natural desire to see assumes the character of a measure of self-preservation and self-defense. And then studiositas (diligence) means especially this: that a person resists the nearly inescapable temptation to indiscipline with all the power of selfless self-protection, that he radically closes off the inner space of his life against the pressingly unruly pseudoreality of empty sights and sounds-in order that, through and only through this asceticism of perception, he might safeguard or recoup that which truly constitutes man’s living existence: to perceive the reality of God and of creation and to shape himself and the world by the truth that discloses itself only in silence.
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When Janet was forced to move out of her rental property in Auckland in 2019 because of asbestos contamination, she joined tens of thousands of New Zealanders caught in the grip of a chronic housing crisis.
“We stayed in a leaky caravan for a bit and on friends’ couches and were only able to access emergency accommodation following a referral from an MP,” said the mother of three.
Janet, who does not want her full name published for fear of being blacklisted by landlords, says rents are sky high and there is not enough social housing to meet soaring demand.
More than three years after Jacinda Ardern was elected prime minister on a platform of tackling the housing crisis and inequality, many experts say the situation has only become worse.
“We’ve probably seen the biggest widening of wealth distribution that we have ever seen in New Zealand between people who own houses and those who don’t,” said Arthur Grimes, professor of public policy at Victoria University of Wellington.
Ms Ardern was re-elected in a landslide in October, as popular support surged for her adroit handing of the coronavirus pandemic and other crises. But analysts warn a failure to deliver on earlier promises could alienate voters.
“The Labour government came in fully intending to build houses. I’m not sure if it was naivety but it hasn’t happened,” said Jan Rutledge, general manager of De Paul House, an emergency housing service in Auckland.
New Zealand’s social housing waiting list has more than tripled to 21,415 since the 2017 election and rental prices have continued to outpace wage growth, with median rents climbing by 30 per cent since 2015. The homelessness rate is the highest in the OECD, although definitions of homelessness vary among the 37-member club of wealthy nations.
House prices surged almost 20 per cent in the 12 months to the end of October, when the median cost of a home in Auckland surpassed $NZ1 million ($935,000) for the first time, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand data.
Record-low interest rates, a housing supply crunch and an economic rebound following the nation’s success suppressing COVID-19 have fuelled the increase, say analysts.
Recent census data show home ownership rates fell to a 70-year low of 64.5 per cent in 2018, with more than half of new mortgage holders in Auckland in 2020 borrowing more than five times their incomes.
The rise in house prices has alarmed the Ardern government, which asked the Reserve Bank of New Zealand late last year to consider adding housing costs to its monetary policy remit.
Adrian Orr, RBNZ governor, rebuffed the request, warning that adding house prices could lead to below-target employment and inflation. Instead, he asked the government to hand the central bank the power to set debt-to-income limits on mortgage lending - a tool that could ease prices but would make it even more difficult for first-time buyers.
Professor Grimes said low interest rates and stimulus were short-term drivers of the crisis, but longer-term challenges such as insufficient housing construction and high immigration had not been adequately addressed.
Planning regulations in most cities are strict and it is hard to get land released, which makes it costly to develop new houses. In addition, successive governments of both main parties have baulked at introducing land taxes or capital gains taxes for fear of alienating middle-class voters.
“Planners run the show and they don’t really think about the economics of what they are doing,” Professor Grimes said.
Ms Ardern’s Labour Party has rejected calls from the Greens, its coalition partner, to take more radical action to cool house prices, including comprehensive tax changes.
The Prime Minister has even suggested that the public bears some responsibility, noting her government has attempted to introduce tax measures, such as a capital gains tax, but gained little public support.
“The appetite for some of these policies also needs to come from the public,” she said.
Finance Minister Grant Robertson defended the government’s stance, saying Labour had inherited the housing crisis and was always clear it would take longer than a single term to fix it.
However, flagship initiatives such as the KiwiBuild policy have failed to meet expectations.
The $NZ2 billion scheme was launched in 2017 to build 100,000 affordable homes within a decade for first-time buyers. But the target was abandoned within 18 months and the scheme “reset” because of poor take-up and the need to pursue alternatives focused on low-income families, including “rent to buy”. Just 602 homes were delivered by August 2020.
“Clearly, the place the housing market was at didn’t perform to the expectations," said Mr Robertson. "But we have reset that and are working closely with developers and others to see mixed development take place and build new partnerships.”
That includes demand-side measures such as banning foreign buyers and requiring investors to pay capital gains tax on properties sold within five years of acquiring them. The coalition is building more homes than any government since the 1970s, he added, noting a target to build 6400 social homes by 2022.
For the 39 families living in emergency housing at De Paul House, a solution cannot come fast enough. Analysts say the same is true for Ms Ardern’s Labour Party, which will face voters again within three years – and this time may be punished for failing to deliver.
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profits, and furnish remunerative employment for many thousands, because here, owing to the superior climatic conditions, they can be worked to advantage the year round, but my idea is that the big money and your future prosperity hinges largely upon sheep and wool growing enterprises. These mountain ranges, covered with succulent grasses, can furnish the sweetest mutton in the world. Two clips of wool per year are always to be had, and with proper grading of flocks, reasonable tariff, and ordinary good business methods no country should yield a greater revenue to the sheep husbandry than New Mexico."
II. UTAH SWINGS INTO LINE.
A LOCAL ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED TO PLACE ITSELF IN TOUCH WITH
THE NATIONAL WOOL GROWERS' ASSOCIATION-SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE BOLTERS, AND SUPPORT DEMANDED FOR THE PARTY OF PROTECTION.
[From the Monthly Sheep Edition of the Boston Americau Wool and Cotton Reporter for August, 1896.]
Official announcement of the executive committee.
HEADQUARTERS UTAH WOOL
Salt Lake City, August 8, 1896. To the Woolgrowers of Utah:
We desire to call your attention to the absolute necessity of a more thorough and complete organization of the woolgrowers of Utah. The absence of such organization has been one great source of all our ills. Our industry has been looked upon as worthy of but little consideration, and when measures affecting it have been presented to the public, it bas been treated with the injustice born of prejudice.
We ourselves are greatly to blame for these existing conditions, and so long as we remain indifferent to our interests, just so long will injustice prevail. We need a full and complete membership in our association of every woolgrower and dealer in the state, in order that it may be made strong and capable of wielding that influence which its prominence demands. We must place ourselves in touch with the National Wool Growers' Association, and be in a position to render them assistance in all measures calculated to restore a just and equitable tariff on wool. We should be willing to contribute our portion of the expense of such agitation, for if we do not work for ourselves, others will not work for us. We can not impress too strongly upon every woolgrower the absolute necessity of taking a more active interest in our state affairs, attending our primaries, to the end that such persons as are friendly to our interests inay be sent to our county and state conventions; that good, true men and protectionists may be elected to the legislature and executive offices in our state, that we may not be discriminated against in the future as we have been in the past; that our representatives in Congress and in the Senate of the United States may be honest men and protectionists, who will never compromise or cooperate with our political opponents.
BOLTERS JUSTLY CRITICISED.
We know what we want, and when we honor a man and delegate him to perform a work for us we expect him to do it. We have no use for men who bolt our conventions without authority, and we want them to
know it. It is the acme of idiocy to suppose that the judgment of twenty-five is paramount to the judgment of nine hundred equally as intelligent and honorable men. We do not believe that any honest, loyal protectionist can support such a policy. Let us announce at the ballot box our disapproval of such men and methods.
We have facing us to-day a political problem that, we are told, will need careful thought and good business judgment to solve. Fellow woolgrowers, the questions at issue are very easy of solution. They are free trade, coupled with the free and unlimited coinage of silver without the cooperation of other nations, on one side, and protection to American industries and American men and women by wise and sufficient tariff laws, coupled with the free coinage of silver by international agreement, on the other. The attempt to lay aside the two great issues of our last national campaign and substitute therefor the controversy over silver we regard as a trick of politicians to divert our attention from the real issue that will give us the relief we desire.
We know that our country is so paralyzed with foreign competition in every branch of business that every channel of enterprise is closed, and in consequence, the money we now have is leaving us to pay the balance of trade between us and foreign countries, interest on bonds held by foreign capital, or is being taken from the industrial interests of the country and invested in Government bonds. How will more money help us, if it continues to circulate in the same channels ?
THE BARS OF PROTECTION DOWN.
So long as the bars of protection are down, and foreign competition renders our own industrial interests unprofitable, the free coinage of silver can do us but little good. The field of operation must be transferred from foreign to American enterprise before our country and its people can enjoy any great degree of prosperity. As long as our present tariff laws are in force, just so long will our country be paralyzed, and the channels of circulation be closed. The free coinage of silver will not open them until the conditions are removed, and our people are protected from the poorly paid labor of other countries.
We want to hear the busy hum of the factories and the happy song of the farmer in the land, as well as the strike of the miner's pick. We want to see good prices for wool, mutton, and cattle, as well as good prices for silver. We want our farming and stock interests to prosper as well as those of the miners and capitalists. We believe that protection and free silver should go hand in hand, each supporting the other, and to accomplish this end we pledge our earnest support. Free trade and "go-it-alone-free-silver” are adverse principles and can never act in harmony and bring us the relief we desire. Our money would continue to go abroad, as our gold did in the “fifties” under the free trade Walker tariff. Disappointment and distress, continued paralysis, and ruined business would be the fruit of such a policy.
ASSERTIONS OF POLITICAL DEMAGOGUES.
We cannot afford to be carried away by the reckless assertions of political demagogues and place hunters. We all remember the predictions and promises made four years ago, and we know the results. Our past experience should be a rudder to guide us in the future. Let the motto of every woolgrower be “protection and free silver.” Let us vote only for its trusted advocates, indorsed by the national convention. Be not swerved from your single purpose, neither by those who
have ever been our open yet honest opponents, nor by those who have betrayed the people and party who have honored them in the past. By order of the executive committee.
JESSE M. SMITH, President. The constitution of the association provides as follows: The following-named persons shall be the officers of this association until the next regular meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah: Jesse M. Smith, president; J. S. Houtz, vice-president; R. E. Miller, secretary; W. L. Pickard, treasurer, and they, together with J.C. Mackay, W. H. Haight, James Metcalf, shall form the executive comuuittee.
III. PROTECTION FOR WOOL.
MORE IMPORTANT TO THE FARMERS THAN THE FINANCIAL QUES
TION, SAYS JUDGE LAWRENCE—THE OHIO WOOLGROWERS-DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF THE DUTIES ON WOOL AND INDICATE SCHEDULE-ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
[From the Ohio State Journal, Columbus.] The meeting of the Ohio Woolgrowers Association at the State fair grounds yesterday afternoon was without doubt the most interesting and successful ever held in the State. Representative men were present from nearly every county in the State and there prevailed a unanimity of opinion in the resolutions adopted that speaks in no uncertain way in regard to the stand of the woolgrowers on the tariff question. It was remarked by Judge Lawrence, Senator Hogg, and others that the old idea that free trade would be a good thing for the wool industry which prevailed to some extent in past years has almost entirely disappeared from the ranks of the association. The sentiment among woolgrowers to-day is practically unanimous for protection. The meeting yesterday was the thirty-third annual convention of the association, and convened in the woolgrowers' hall on the fair grounds at 1 o'clock p. m.
The officers of the association are Judge William Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, president, and W. N. Cowden, of Quaker City, Guernsey County, secretary. Judge Lawrence presided, and, with the exception of his address and that by Hon. George H. Wallace, ex-United States consul to Australia, the programme was informal. Judge Lawrence's address was one of the best ever delivered before the association.
Following Judge Lawrence, Hon. George H. Wallace delivered an entertaining and instructive address on the WOOL INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA. The object of the address was for the enlightenment of the woolgrowers of this country upon the manner in which it is conducted in Australia. The address was highly appreciated by the association.
The next speaker was Senator C. M. Hogg, of Harrison County, who said he thought with ex-President Harrison that the battle for protection was won, but for the benefit of those who were not quite convinced he would repeat the following from the lamented Lincoln: “If you pay England $50 for a ton of iron England gets the money and you get the iron, but if you manufacture that ton of iron in this country you have both."
Col. J. D. Taylor, of Cambridge, made a few remarks favoring protection. He was followed by J. D. Stevens, of Kenton, who thought it was to the interests of the country to look after the financial question as well as that of tariff.
President Canfield, of the Ohio State University, was present and made a few remarks on the proposition to establish at the university a branch for technical instruction in textile fabrics. He also spoke of the great interest the institution is taking in agricultural matters. The address was very much appreciated by the association. The following resolutions were adopted, after which the association adjourned:
The severest blow ever delivered to agriculture in the United States was the placing of wool on the free list by the present tariff law; and with only harm to other interests. Speaking in. round numbers, it has reduced the flocks of 1892 from 47,000,000 head to 35,000,000 head in 1896; it has reduced their value from $125,000,000 to $65,000,000; it has cut the value of wool in two; it has increased the imports of shoddy from 321,000 pounds in 1892 to 18,000,000 pounds in 1895; and it has greatly contributed to the general depression and distress of the times. It has been a besom of destruction whose havoc will be felt for a generation. Therefore be it
Resolved, That the immediate restoration of wool to the duty list at figures of full adequate protection is the imperative duty of Congress and the Executive, accompanied with such adequate protection to woolens as will secure our wool to be manufactured at home, and not sent abroad to be manufactured into cloth, as is now being done, we paying two ocean freights, while American labor stands in enforced idleness witnessing the operation.
Resolved, That, in our judgment, combing wools should have a duty of 12 cents a pound, the fine merino grades 15 cents a pound, carpet wools 8 cents; and these figures are respectfully submitted to the favorable consideration of Ohio's Senators and Representatives.
Resolved, That this year, above all others, business is involved in politics; and that it is due the great farming interests that they should know, and it is their right to demand, what are the views and what is to be expected of the various candidates for President, Vice-President, the Senate, and House of Representatives on this great and vital question. And we therefore recommend the farmers of the country, where the attitude of any such candidate is not known and declared, to take immediate steps to ascertain it. This is no time for skulking on this question. Free traders in disguise should not be elected. If they are to be elected, let it be openly done, that the people may know what to expect.
While this resolution, of course, pertains especially to Ohio, we most respectfully commend its suggestions to farmers of other States and ask them this year, without regard to party lines, to cast their ballots, as we are resolved to cast ours, in such way as will save this great agricultural industry from complete overthrow and destruction:
Resolved, That we favor the establishment in the Ohio State university of a department for instruction in textile industries, and an increase of the taxes on dogs, the surplus after paying for sheep killed or damaged in any county, to be applied to aid of textile education.
Committee: T. L. Morris, Greene county; Daniel Rexroth, Crawford county; C. R. Fowler, Wyandot county.
The following resolution was also adopted:
Resolved, That imported woolen manufactures, in which shoddy or other adulterants form a component part, should be forfeited to the Government if not stamped to indicate their character.
THE EFFECTS OF THE FREE WOOL ACT OF AUGUST 27, 1894.
By JUSTICE, BATEMAN & Co., of Philadelphia. [The following article was published as a supplement to Traffic for May, 1896, a monthly Philadelphia publication by Burk & McFetridge Company, and by them copyrighted. It is now used in this document by their permission.]
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER.
Page. I. THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD FOR AMERICAN WOOL MANUFACTURE AND THE WILSON-GORMAN TARIFF LAW OF AUGUST 27, 1894..
97 1. It did (1) neither enlarge the American market for American wool
nor (2) for woolen goods, but (3) it enlarged the foreigu manu-
ican market for both
98 III. THE LOSS TO WAGE EARNERS IN WOOLEN FACTORIES
98 IV. IMPORTS OF Raw WOOL.. V. THE USE OF SHODDY INCREASED.
100 VI. IMPORTSOF WooL, INCLUDING WOOL IN IMPORTED WOOLEN MANUFACTURES
100 VII. INCREASE IN THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OF WOOL. DECLINE IN WORLD'S PRICES OF WOOL...
100, 102 VIII. EFFECT OF FREE WOOL IN REDUCING AMERICAN PRICES OF WOOL 102 IX. EFFECT OF LOW DUTIES AND OF FREE WOOL IN REDUCING THE NUMBER OF AMERICAN SHEEP.
102 X. EFFECT ON WooL PRICES
103, 104 EFFECTS OF FREE WOOL—IMPORTATION OF WOOLEN TEXTILES
INCREASED 242 PER CENT-A LOSS OF $100,000,000 IN THE PURCHASING POWER OF THE AMERICAN NATION CAUSED BY THE WILSON-GORMAN LAW_THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD FOR AMERICAN WOOL MANUFACTURERS AND THE WILSON LAW.
The statesmen who outlined the policy of the present Administration in passing the Wilson bill [took effect as a law August 27, 1894) claimed that free wool would give American manufacturers the markets of the world, and instead of being limited in the sale of their production to the American market, as heretofore, they could invade foreign markets. We are now nearly half way through the second year of actual experience with free wool. Have the predictions made by the eminent statesmen who shaped the policy of the present Administration been realized? In the following table (Schedule B):
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Ambulatory treatments for RAAS inhibitor–related hyperkalemia and the 1-year risk of recurrence
Hundemer GL, Talarico R, Tangri N, Leon SJ, Bota SE, Rhodes E, Knoll GA, Sood MM. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021; 16(3):365-73. Epub 2021 Feb 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.12990820
Background and Objective — The optimal ambulatory management of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitor (RAASi)–related hyperkalemia to reduce the risk of recurrence is unknown. We examined the risk of hyperkalemia recurrence on the basis of outpatient pharmacologic changes following an episode of RAASi-related hyperkalemia.
Design — We performed a population-based, retrospective cohort study of older adults (n=49,571; mean age 79 years) who developed hyperkalemia (potassium ≥5.3 mEq/L) while on a RAASi and were grouped as follows: no intervention, RAASi discontinuation, RAASi dose decrease, new diuretic, diuretic dose increase, or sodium polystyrene sulfonate within 30 days. The primary outcome was hyperkalemia recurrence, with secondary outcomes of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality within 1 year.
Results — Among patients who received a pharmacologic intervention (23% of the cohort), RAASi discontinuation was the most commonly prescribed strategy (74%), followed by RAASi decrease (15%), diuretic increase (7%), new diuretic (3%), and sodium polystyrene sulfonate (1%). A total of 16,977 (34%) recurrent hyperkalemia events occurred within 1 year. Compared with no intervention (35%, referent), the cumulative incidence of recurrent hyperkalemia was lower with RAASi discontinuation (29%; hazard ratio, 0.82; 95% confidence interval, 0.78 to 0.85), whereas there was no difference with RAASi dose decrease (36%; hazard ratio, 0.94; 95% confidence interval, 0.86 to 1.02), new diuretic (32%; hazard ratio, 0.95; 95% confidence interval, 0.78 to 1.17), or diuretic increase (38%; hazard ratio, 0.99; 95% confidence interval, 0.87 to 1.12) and a higher incidence with sodium polystyrene sulfonate (55%; hazard ratio, 1.30; 95% confidence interval, 1.04 to 1.63). RAASi discontinuation was not associated with a higher risk of 1-year cardiovascular events (hazard ratio, 0.96; 95% confidence interval, 0.91 to 1.02) or all-cause mortality (hazard ratio, 1.05; 95% confidence interval, 0.96 to 1.15) compared with no intervention.
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- Letter to the Editor
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Effect of the coronavirus disease pandemic on bronchoscopic diagnosis of lung cancer in a provincial city in Japan
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery volume 16, Article number: 115 (2021)
Since its detection in Japan in January 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has rapidly spread. Strict mitigating measures helped end the first wave of the outbreak. However, there is increasing concern of a second wave of infection. As effective vaccines and drugs for COVID-19 are still underway, long-term management plans are necessary to prevent the spread of infection. Moreover, “new clinical practice models” are necessary to accommodate both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.
Recently, the incidence of lung cancer has steadily increased in Japan and the world . Bronchoscopy is an important diagnostic method for lung cancer; however, performing bronchoscopy is challenging considering the threat of nosocomial infections during the COVID-19 pandemic [2, 3]. Similar to other coronavirus diseases, COVID-19 is mostly transmitted via droplets and contact . Additionally, studies suggest aerosol transmission during specific medical procedures . In particular, if a person is exposed to elevated aerosol concentrations in closed spaces such as bronchoscopy rooms, aerosol transmission of COVID-19 may occur causing nosocomial infection . In this study, we compared characteristics of lung cancer patients who underwent surgery at our hospital from March to August 2020 with those of such patients from previous years (March to August 2017 to 2019) to examine the effects of the pandemic on bronchoscopic diagnosis of lung cancer.
At our hospital, a core facility in the provincial city of Yamanashi, we perform surgeries for 160–170 lung cancer cases yearly. During the pandemic, the number of lung cancer patients who underwent surgery (n = 89) from March to August 2020 was comparable with that of previous years (Table 1) and did not decrease even though computed tomography (CT) screening was not routinely performed and the number of medical examinations substantially reduced. A possible reason could be that several local smaller-sized hospitals refrained from providing certain health care services such as lung cancer surgery during the pandemic.
On comparing the characteristics of stage I-II lung cancer patients between 2017 and 2019 and 2020, no significant differences in age or sex were found; however, the number of bronchoscopy procedures and endoscopic diagnoses of lung cancer were significantly lower in 2020 (Table 1). We do not now perform CT-guided biopsy at our hospital despite its high diagnostic accuracy because of the potential risk of air embolism and dissemination . Therefore, the number of patients who underwent surgery without a preoperative definitive diagnosis substantially increased during the pandemic in 2020. Additionally, among these patients, the number of those undergoing rapid pathological examinations during surgery significantly increased. Comparing the data with those from 2017 to 2019 revealed no significant changes in surgical procedures or histology. However, the number of patients with advanced stage disease (IIA or IIB) increased in 2020. This could be because fewer individuals undergo CT screening and more lung cancers are being detected based on subjective symptoms. As previously reported, there is a sudden change in the distribution of stages of diagnosed lung cancers owing to the pandemic . In addition, the waiting period (days) for surgery and total hospitalization period (hospitalization for tests and surgery) significantly reduced in 2020 because bronchoscopy was omitted in almost all patients. Most importantly, the diagnostic unpredictability, measured by the number of patients who underwent surgery for suspected lung cancer but were found to have benign disease, did not increase. This situation is ongoing, and the challenges in performing bronchoscopy persist. To address it, cancer board conferences aimed at enhancing diagnostic imaging capabilities are being conducted more frequently than in past years. Furthermore, as we perform preoperative CT twice to evaluate sequential changes in tumor and virtual bronchoscopy, as a substitute, to determine the location of the bronchial bifurcation and tumor, we theorize that bronchoscopy is not indispensable in diagnosing stage I-II lung cancer and can be omitted considering the need for infection control. However, it should be noted that this study only investigated patients with clinical stage I or II lung cancer. For patients suspected to have mediastinal lymph node metastasis (N2 disease), it is important to perform bronchoscopy, including endobronchial ultrasound. In such cases, bronchoscopy should be performed with sufficient precautions, and if that is unavailable, mediastinoscopy may be performed as a substitute.
Besides the risk of nosocomial infection with COVID-19, bronchoscopic examination has its own merits and demerits. On the one hand, it can help guide appropriate treatment strategies when a diagnosis (cancer or other) is obtained, and it may help avoid unnecessary surgery. Airway observation by bronchoscopy enables the endoscopic detection of early lung cancer and confirmation of the tracheal bifurcation. Furthermore, biopsy of the bronchial epithelium enables evaluation of the extent of tumor invasion. On the other hand, bronchoscopy is relatively invasive and may prolong the time to surgery . Moreover, the diagnostic rate of lung cancer is unsatisfactory; it is approximately 50–60% for resectable types and is particularly low for small-sized peripheral types .
In our hospital, bronchoscopy is performed according to the following guidelines: (i) the diagnosis of lung cancer is mainly based on imaging analyses, and unnecessary bronchoscopies are avoided; (ii) all patients undergo polymerase chain reaction-based testing for COVID-19 infection before undergoing bronchoscopy; (iii) staff wear medical caps, N95 masks, goggles, long sleeve gowns, and gloves while conducting bronchoscopic examinations; (iv) oropharyngeal anesthesia via xylocaine spray (8%) is used instead of applying local anesthesia using Jackson’s spray (face-to-face application); (v) systemic administration of sedative drugs (benzodiazepine and opioid etc.) is performed to prevent cough during the procedure, (vi) one-hour intervals are taken for cleaning between examinations, during which ventilation and sterilization of the room are performed, and (vii) the maximum number of examinations per day is restricted to three as opposed to eight (prior to the pandemic).
Because prolonged mitigating measures against new coronavirus infection are expected and bronchoscopy may not be readily available, we believe that as clinicians it is important to critically examine the need of bronchoscopic diagnosis of lung cancer to establish a flexible, feasible, and novel clinical system in compliance with the “new lifestyle.”
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The ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ contains two : ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’, which occupies an area of 5.5 km2; and ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE, remnant vegetation’, which occupies an area of about 1184 km2 (Figure 32). The classification of these two landscape classes does not specify the source of (see Section 2.3.3 of companion product 2.3 for the Galilee subregion ()). These two landscape classes are examples of the third type of defined in the typology of . These are terrestrial GDEs that rely on the subsurface expression of groundwater on a permanent or intermittent basis to maintain growth or avoid water stress and adverse impacts on condition (Eamus et al., 2006; ). In the landscape classification adopted here, these would be broadly defined as groundwater-dependent vegetation assemblages that are not on floodplains and are not associated with palustrine, lacustrine or riparian wetlands.
The occurs in an area where the annual rainfall is low and unpredictable. Climatically, areas occupied by the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group are water-limited. Annual rainfall is low at approximately 300 mm/year and evaporation is high at greater than 2000 mm/year (companion product 1.1 for the Galilee subregion ()). Low and sporadic rainfall coupled with high evaporative demand suggest that groundwater may be a more reliable source of water for this landscape group than surface water (). Much of the vegetation, in particular trees, relies on accessing groundwater from shallow . Groundwater is needed for trees to persist in areas where evapotranspiration exceeds rainfall. The presence of a shallow enables the roots of trees to obtain a relatively consistent supply of water irrespective of aboveground conditions ().
A high level conceptual model for unconfined, permeable rock aquifers is relevant to this landscape group (Figure 33). In the model, groundwater stored in one or more unconfined permeable rock is transmitted through intergranular pore spaces, fractures and/or weathered zones in the rock strata (). Near-surface can occur where there is a change in geology (e.g. at a geological contact between a sandstone layer and an underlying shale layer) or at footslopes at the base of hills or ranges (Figure 33). Here, can discharge groundwater to terrestrial vegetation. Groundwater may then move laterally downslope to within reach of the capillary zone of the terrestrial vegetation.
Sediments that comprise Cenozoic to Quaternary loamy and sandy plains readily store and transmit groundwater in shallow, local aquifers. Here, terrestrial vegetation may source groundwater up-gradient of the contact between the plains and elevated areas such as mesas and raised ironstone outcrops. Terrestrial GDEs in these areas are likely to support regional ecosystems (REs) dominated by Corymbia spp. (). Medium- to coarse-grained sedimentary rocks may store and transmit groundwater through fractures, residual and weathered zones. These local, bedrock aquifers occur in rock that is otherwise of relatively low porosity (). Here, terrestrial vegetation may source groundwater where it discharges along footslopes within sandstone ranges. A rarer type of permeable rock aquifer occurs in basalts which store and transmit groundwater through vesicles, fractures and weathered zones. Terrestrial vegetation that occurs in areas of basaltic rock may source groundwater at the edge of basalt plains and hills.
GDE = groundwater-dependent ecosystem
GDE = groundwater-dependent ecosystem
Understanding the of in the is challenging because the contains a series of stacked . These are described in detail in companion product 2.1-2.2 () and Section 2.3.2 of companion product 2.3 () for the Galilee subregion, and are summarised below to provide context. The paragraph below focuses on the Galilee Basin groundwater system in which the Rewan Group and Clematis Group occur. These are the most likely sources of groundwater for the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ within the zone. Further information about the variability of the depth to the in the zone (i.e. the standing water level observed in groundwater ) is provided in Section 3.4.1 of companion product 3-4 for the Galilee subregion ().
Potential sources of groundwater for vegetation that forms the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group are:
- shallow perched in weathered Cenozoic sediments. Groundwater may come near or discharge to the surface on footslopes or where percolating groundwater becomes perched upon a relatively impermeable layer such as clay or shale, the result of which redirects groundwater flow to near surface
- groundwater flow in unconfined parts of aquifers coming within the capillary zone of plants or discharging near surface. This could occur in any weathered sedimentary rock unit which is dominated by sandstone (e.g. Clematis Group, Dunda beds (the upper and more permeable part of the Rewan Group), Colinlea Sandstone, and sandstone beds in the Joe Joe Group).
Some shallow groundwater flow could be part of a regional groundwater system. The that are connected to the regional groundwater systems within the zone of potential hydrological change would be impacted by changes in groundwater (for example, from drawdown or reductions in recharge) across a broad area. However, not all GDEs are connected to the regional watertable. Those that aren’t are unlikely to be impacted by broader-scale changes.
Vegetation within the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group will typically use deep roots to access groundwater in the capillary zone above the watertable via capillary action or hydraulic lift. A baseline assumption with the physiology of Australian plants is that they can access groundwater to a depth of about 10 m (D Eamus, 2016, pers. comm.). This value is supported by research that found the mean maximum rooting depth across 11 species of sclerophyllous trees to be 12.6 m ± 3.4 m standard error (). However, some tree species have roots that can access water at greater depths. Eucalyptus marginata roots have been reported at depths of 40 m by . This work found that only fine roots (less than 1 mm diameter) were able to penetrate the clay matrix of the soil and reach these depths.
The dependency of vegetation on groundwater may vary seasonally. It is generally assumed that water dependency will change with rainfall and be greatest at times of seasonal rainfall deficit. There is empirical support for this view. For example, in eucalypt woodland along the Condamine River, southern Queensland, the frequency of deep subsurface water use was greatest in the late dry season ().
The depth to the watertable is an important factor in determining the volume of water discharged through GDEs. In the , the depth to standing water in the 98 bores in the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group averaged 37.3 m below surface. The range varied widely however, from a maximum depth of 156.7 m to a minimum depth of 0.3 m below surface.
Currently, there is little published information on either the amount of water used by GDEs or the physiology of GDEs. Similarly, there is a knowledge gap in terms of information on root depth of vegetation within GDEs and on responses to changes in depth-to-groundwater (). This information, if it were available, would be invaluable in assessing the impacts of groundwater on GDEs.
The within the span two of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) regions: Desert Uplands and Brigalow Belt. The Desert Uplands are characterised by upland landforms dominated by sandstone ranges and sandplains. In contrast, the Brigalow Belt is characterised by undulating ranges to alluvial plains (). Underlying geology and land zone contribute to a complex mosaic of vegetation communities, including eucalypt and acacia woodlands, shrublands and grasslands.
Within the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ there are 90 regional ecosystems (REs). There is considerable uncertainty related to the water regime required to support many of these REs. However, the nature of the dependency on is likely to vary among and within vegetation communities, as a function of groundwater availability, depth and quality (companion product 2.1-2.2 for the Galilee subregion ()).
The distribution of the most widespread vegetation assemblages, represented by REs, within the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group is shown in Figure 34. The majority of these REs have Eucalyptus and/or Corymbia species as dominant/co-dominant in the upper storey. A smaller number of REs have Acacia and/or Melaleuca species as dominant/co-dominant. The 10 most widespread REs in the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group in order of decreasing area (expressed as a percentage of the zone) are:
- RE 10.5.5 ‘Eucalyptus melanophloia woodland to open woodland on sand plains’ (3.68%)
- RE 10.7.2 ‘Eucalyptus persistens or Corymbia dallachiana low open woodland or Triodia pungens hummock grassland on ferricrete above scarps’ (1.00%)
- RE 10.7.11 ‘Eucalyptus melanophloia low open woodland on ferricrete’ (0.74%)
- RE 10.7.7 ‘Melaleuca spp. and/or Acacia leptostachya shrubland on ferricrete (eastern)’ (0.56%)
- RE 10.10.4 ‘Eucalyptus exilipes and/or Corymbia leichhardtii open woodland on sandstone ranges’ (0.39%)
- RE 10.7.3 ‘Acacia shirleyi woodland or A. catenulata low woodland at margins of plateaus’ (0.28%)
- RE 10.10.1 ‘Acacia shirleyi woodland or A. catenulata low open woodland on sandstone ranges’ (0.26%)
- RE 11.5.3 ‘Eucalyptus populnea +/- E. melanophloia +/- Corymbia clarksoniana woodland on Cainozoic sand plains and/or remnant surfaces’ (0.19%)
- RE 10.5.2 ‘Corymbia plena with or without C. dallachiana or C. terminalis open woodland on sand plains’ (0.11%)
- RE 10.7.12 ‘Eucalyptus drepanophylla or E. crebra open woodland on ferricrete’ (0.11%).
‘Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla dominant and co-dominant)’, which is listed under the Commonwealth’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) as an ‘Endangered’ ecological community, occurs within this landscape group. The ecological community is predicted to occur widely in the eastern half of the Galilee subregion zone of potential hydrological change (). The vegetation types that make up the brigalow ecological community mostly occur on acidic and salty clay soils. Within the zone these are mostly on deep cracking clay soils.
‘Weeping Myall Woodlands’, which is listed under the EPBC Act as an ‘Endangered’ ecological community, occurs within this landscape group. The ecological community is predicted to occur widely in the south-eastern part of the Galilee subregion zone of potential hydrological change (). It occurs on flat areas or shallow depressions on alluvial plains. Such areas are not associated with river channels and are rarely flooded. The soils are black, brown, red-brown or grey clay or clay loam ().
GDE = groundwater-dependent ecosystem
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) potentially occurs within the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group in the . Koalas in Queensland are listed as ‘Vulnerable’ nationally (EPBC Act) and under Queensland’s Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Nature Conservation Act). Koalas in semi-arid environments, including within the zone, inhabit forest and woodland dominated by Eucalyptus species with important food and habitat trees including Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. populnea, E. crebra, E. tereticornis, E. melanophloia, E. tessellaris and Melaleuca bracteata (Gordon et al., 1988; ).
The ornamental snake (Denisonia maculata) occurs within the zone of potential hydrological change of the Galilee subregion and potentially occupies the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group. The species is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under both the EPBC Act and the Nature Conservation Act (). The ornamental snake is considered to be water-dependent as it feeds almost exclusively on frogs. It occurs in riparian vegetation along watercourses, on the margins of wetlands including lakes and swamps and in terrestrial vegetation that is likely to be groundwater-dependent. The latter category includes woodland and open woodland of coolibah (Eucalyptus coolabah), poplar box (E. populnea), brigalow (Acacia harpophylla), gidgee (A. cambagei) and blackwood (A. argyrodendron) (). The REs in which it has been found all have clay soils.
Dunmall’s snake (Furina dunmalli) potentially occurs within the zone and, if it does, it is likely to occupy the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group. The species is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under both the EPBC Act and the Nature Conservation Act (). In Queensland, the range of Dunmall’s snake is mostly within the Brigalow Belt region to the east of the zone. Dunmall’s snake occurs in terrestrial vegetation. The species seems unlikely to be water-dependent.
The yakka skink (Egernia rugosa) is a threatened lizard that occurs within the zone of potential hydrological change of the Galilee subregion. It is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under both the EPBC Act and the Nature Conservation Act (). The species occurs in woodland and open forest dominated by a range of trees including Acacia, Eucalyptus, Casuarina and Callitris. Yakka skinks are burrowing animals that occur in colonies or small groups (). Within the zone the yakka skink is likely to occupy sand plains, clay and clay loam plains, sandstone rises and minor pediments and vegetation fringing watercourses and stream channels and on alluvial plains. Therefore, it is expected to occur in the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group. The water dependency of the species is poorly understood.
The southern subspecies of the squatter pigeon (Geophaps scripta scripta) is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under both the EPBC Act and the Nature Conservation Act (). It is a granivorous bird that occurs through much of the Galilee subregion zone of potential hydrological change. It was recorded during surveys as part of the environmental impact statements for five of the proposed major coal mine developments in the zone. From north to south these are China Stone, Carmichael, Kevin’s Corner, Alpha, and China First. The squatter pigeon (southern) forages and breeds in a range of open-forest, woodland and open-woodland vegetation types that have a grassy understory. It depends on surface water as it needs to drink on a daily basis and, as a consequence, foraging and nesting sites are located within 3 km of a water source. Water sources used by the species include rivers, lakes and artificial sources such as farm dams (). Therefore, the squatter pigeon is predicted to use water sources within the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape group.
The southern subspecies of the black-throated finch (Poephila cincta cincta) is classified as ‘Endangered’ nationally (EPBC Act) and in Queensland (Nature Conservation Act). It is a threatened species with a large potential distribution within and adjacent to the Galilee subregion zone of potential hydrological change (). The black-throated finch was located during surveys as part of environmental impact statements and subsequent surveys at the Carmichael (nine locations) and China Stone (eight locations) coal mine projects. The black-throated finch occupies grassy woodland within the zone. It is surface water dependent. The finch feeds mostly on the ground on a range of grass seeds. It occupies several vegetation assemblages within the ‘Floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ and ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’ landscape groups. Important regional ecosystems for the black-throated finch in the zone are listed below (based on GHD, 2012; ):
- RE 10.3.6 ‘Eucalyptus brownii woodland to open woodland on alluvial plains’
- RE 10.3.28 ‘Eucalyptus melanophloia or E. crebra woodland to open woodland on sandy alluvial fans’
- RE 10.5.1 ‘Eucalyptus similis and/or Corymbia brachycarpa and/or Corymbia setosa low open woodland on sand plains’
- RE 10.5.5 ‘Eucalyptus melanophloia woodland to open woodland on sand plains’. This is the dominant RE where the black-throated finch occurs on the Carmichael mine lease ()
- RE 10.7.11 ‘Eucalyptus melanophloia low open woodland on ferricrete’.
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- 22.214.171.124 Introduction
- 126.96.36.199 Potentially impacted landscape groups
- 188.8.131.52 'Springs' landscape group
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- 220.127.116.11 'Floodplain, terrestrial GDE' landscape group
- 18.104.22.168 'Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE' landscape group
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Threefold каталитические neutralizers ("threefold" because as the catalyst set of three precious metals serves) establish only on those cars which engines are equipped by the closed monitoring system of an exhaust. In front of the catalyst the oxygen gauge which traces structure of an exhaust is established and transfers this data in the central processor. Depending on the oxygen maintenance in an exhaust, БЭУ regulates structure of a gas mixture and ignition so that their optimum values were supported. It serves as the main protection for the catalyst, and also provides economy of fuel and an engine overall performance. The catalyst does not transfer the big deviations as a part of a working mix. Badly adjusted engine with the raised maintenance of hydrocarbons in an exhaust simply ruin the catalyst. If the mix too poor, it can cause a sharp overheat of the catalyst from what the monolith, only already "physically" again will suffer. Thus, catalyst "life" depends on serviceability of a control system of the engine.
Much depends and on serviceability of the most oxygen gauge. With "age" it becomes "lazy" or absolutely fails that affects structure of a mix and, accordingly, on serviceability of the catalyst.
Spoil the catalyst the exhaust of strongly worn out engine churning butter can also. It, getting together with an exhaust to the catalyst, "is baked" on a monolith surface, like a varnish, and does not allow to the catalyst to work.
There are also other harmful factors. For example – candles. Improper candles will not give full combustion that can cause in the catalyst pernicious reaction of fusion ".
Be very cautious in application of additives to gasoline or oil. The majority does not reflect on it, and after all additives too can influence the catalyst harmfully. If on a product it is not written: "it is compatible to the catalyst", do not risk better.
One more dangerous case – start of the engine by towage. Thus there can be a hit in the catalyst of simply pure gasoline. It, first, poisons the catalyst, but also can cause instant reaction and even explosion. Look also where go – try not to get to deep pools. The working temperature of the catalyst makes an order 900 ° S.Vnezapnoe its hit in water can be fatal.
As a whole, it is noticed that catalyst service life is influenced by service conditions. Catalysts by the cars maintained in city conditions when the engine often get more suffer. On the other hand, at long high-speed driving on highways the catalyst also spoils that overheats ".
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Back in a time before Twitter (sooo, like, 2006), guys used to wait three days after meeting a girl to ask her on a date and the most common way for crushes to communicate was by calling. Not anymore, according to a new study! Now, the most common way for crushes to start a flirtationship is through Twitter and texting. Oh and that waiting to call rule? It's down to just a few hours now! Social media has increased communication so much that it's causing people to fall in love faster!
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Only 24 days of texting and tweeting to be 100 percent in love? Do you buy it?! Has it happened to you? How many texts have you exchanged with someone before making it "official"? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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I suspect this is going to be considered backwards to many here, and may elicit some down-votes, but it is not unique.
Also my explanations below are more in general than in relation to this particular song, which doesn’t start with a rhythm guitar playing chords in the intro section, though it does kick in a bar or so into it.
Many of us have foundations in music that are not part of a formal approach. I first learned guitar by taking some time to teach myself basic chords from a book, then sitting in and absorbing from other people who already knew how to play. This isn’t the “right way” or a “better way” to learn than from more formal instruction, indeed it has had its challenges, it’s just a way that many of us have entered and navigated the world of playing music.
This means I have hardly ever learned a song with notated melody as a starting point. Instead it's been important that I internalize the rhythm and cadence of the song I am learning, apply chords to that, and further delve into melody, at first maybe just the “hook” of the song, once that internalization and chord harmony feel natural. This is especially true when the guitar is accompanying vocals or another instrument that's the main carrier of the melody.
When I look at a chart, I first of all consider what the song sounds like; I'm already acquainted with the time signature, tempo and melody, having internalized those things. From that a strumming/picking pattern can be outlined, and the chord names above the staff tell me what chords to play and where. Now I can play a basic version of the song just by looking at the chord names. Some would call this faking it, perhaps, but it gets to the essence of the song right away.
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